Below are a list of my favorite podcasts.   I am posting them in the order that Doggcatcher lists them.  I generally get in the car, tap the top one, NPR news and then continue to listen.  This generally is like my own private radio station, with pause.  I pick up on the story I was listening to where I left it.

Jeff's Podcasts, November, 2011

* A public radio station in some form... link takes you to website...

There are many more on my list but I rarely make it to them in a week.  With the change in driving that I have recently had - I doubt I will make it this far down the list on a regular basis.

Luckily someone has created an App called Airpush Detector which will find apps that are causing this update and take you to the uninstall screen for them.

If you are noticing ads in your notification bar on your Android phone, you may want to check this app out.

Luckily I had set up an automated backup off all of the DBs.  Getting this setup using the Free SQL Express isn't obvious and requires (or at least helps to have) a great app that is out there called ExpressMaint.  This lets me run a Scheduled task that automatically backs up all my databases.   Those backups are then backed up by windows backup to a USB hard drive and by Carbonite online.

These databases were easy to restore after I changed the settings on my server to have the logs be on a different drive and made sure to restore to the good drives.   

I set the my filters to

• is:unread is:important
  (show me unread items with the important flag) 
• is:unread -is:important  
  (show me unread items that DON'T have the important flag)

So now my inbox has all my unread important messages at the top (sorted by category) and all my unread, probably not as important categorized emails in the next section.

I found a jquery plugin to duplicate the functionality of the CSS call but like the CSS call it only worked on a single line.  My design spec also called for a More/Less link to be affixed to the block of text to expand it/ contract it.  The More/Less also had to support different cultures.

//ellipsis plugin http://devongovett.wordpress.com/2009/04/06/text-overflow-ellipsis-for-firefox-via-jquery/ + comments + custom mods
(function($) {
    $.fn.ellipsis = function(lines, enableUpdating, moreText, lessText) {
        return $(this).each(function() {
            var el = $(this);
            var resetDescription = function(height, originalText) {
            el.html(originalText);
            el.animate({ "height": height }, "normal", null, function() {
                el.ellipsis(true, true, moreText, lessText);
          });
            }

            if (el.css("overflow") == "hidden") {
 
                var originalText = el.html();
                var availWidth = el.width();
                var availHeight = el.height();
 
                var MoreLessTag;
                if (moreText) {
                    enableUpdating = true;
                    MoreLessTag = " <a class='MoreLessTag' href='#' >" + moreText + "</a>";
                }
                else MoreLessTag = "";
 
                var t = $(this.cloneNode(true))
                    .hide()
                    .css({
                        'position': 'absolute',
                        'overflow': 'visible',
                        'max-width': 'none',
                        'max-height': 'none'
                    });
                if (lines) t.css("height", "auto").width(availWidth);
                else t.css("width", "auto");
                el.after(t);
                t.append(" <a class='MoreLessTag' href='#' >" + lessText + "</a>");
 
                var fullHeight = t.height();
 
                var avail = (lines) ? availHeight : availWidth;
                var test = (lines) ? t.height() : t.width();
                var foundMin = false, foundMax = false;
                if (test > avail) {
                    //Binary search style trimming of the temp element to find its optimal size
                    var min = 0;
                    var max = originalText.length;
                    while (min <= max) {
                        var trimLocation = (min + max) / 2;
                        var text = originalText.substr(0, trimLocation);
                        t.html(text + "&hellip;" + MoreLessTag);
 
                        test = (lines) ? t.height() : t.width();
                        if (test > avail) {
                            if (foundMax)
                                foundMin = true;
 
                            max = trimLocation - 1;
                            if (min > max) {
                                //If we would be ending decrement the min and regenerate the text so we don't end with a
                                //slightly larger text than there is space for
                                trimLocation = (max + max - 2) / 2;
                                text = originalText.substr(0, trimLocation);
                                t.html(text + "&hellip;" + MoreLessTag);
                                break;
                            }
                        }
                        else if (test < avail) {
                            min = trimLocation + 1;
                        }
                        else {
                            if (foundMin && foundMax && ((max - min) / max < .2))
                                break;
                            foundMax = true;
                            min = trimLocation + 1;
                        }
                    }
                }
 
                el.html(t.html());
                t.remove();
 
 
                if (moreText) {
                    jQuery(".MoreLessTag", this).click(function(event) {
                        event.preventDefault();
                        el.html(originalText);
                        el.animate({ "height": fullHeight }, "normal", null, function() {
                        });
                        el.append(" <a class='MoreLessTag' href='#' >" + lessText + "</a>");
                        jQuery(".MoreLessTag", el).click(function(event) {
                            event.preventDefault();
                            resetDescription(availHeight, originalText);
 
                        });
                    });
                }
                else {
                    var replaceTags = new RegExp(/<\/?[^>]+>/gi);
                    el.attr("alt", originalText.replace(replaceTags, ''));
                    el.attr("title", originalText.replace(replaceTags, ''));
                }
 
                if (enableUpdating == true) {
                    var oldW = el.width();
                    var oldH = el.height();
                    el.one("resize", function() {
                        if (el.width() != oldW || (lines && el.height != oldH)) {
                            el.html(originalText);
                            el.ellipsis(lines, enableUpdating, moreText, lessText);
                        }
                    });
                }
            }
 
        });
    };
})(jQuery); 

The following features are added from the original:

• More/Less link with expansion
• multiple lines
• title and alt text if no more/less text is provided

This hasn't been tested extensively under different conditions.

Things I would do if I had an infinite amount of time:

• More Testing
• Ability to override the More/Less text click event

Enjoy – I hope someone finds this useful.  This was my first foray into doing a jQuery plugin.  Even though a good chunk of the code was copied, I still learned quite a bit.

Yesterday after walking my three miles in the morning (at about 3 mph). I was feeling pretty good and decided that today I would try to move up to jogging.  Although I was able to run/jog down the street, I felt a lot impact on my legs and on my body in general.  I decided that I would just try to increase the speed I was walking until I could lose more wieght and try to run again.   So I completed 2 miles this morning in just over 30 minutes and could definately feel some muscle pain/soreness in my calves shins.  So I will try to work on that speed for the next while until I feel pretty comfortable doing that for one hour or more.  

My main wish is that Squarespace was a bit more extensible.  I'd like to add my own modules.  I'd probably even plug through Java to do it if I had to.  I'd really like to overhaul the Kingdom of Atenveldt Order of Precedence and put it on a platform that runs fast and is consistantly reliable.  This weekend I plan on spending some time on the site, upgrading to the latest version of DNN and maybe working on the skin a bit.  I have had a couple of designers show interest in helping me make a skin but nothing has ever come through with it. Maybe I can bring some more life back to the DNN based Atenveldt site with a bit of TLC. (tender loving care, not the learning channel... )