My latest addictions

In the process of trying to do two good things (lose weight and learn Ruby), I have picked up two new addictions:

SparkPeople: On on line diet resource http://www.sparkpeople.com/myspark/loginpage.asp?whereFrom=nutrition.asp . I am using it to track what I eat and when I exercise. However they give you points for doing things like reading articles and posting to their newsgroups. Oh for the love of points!

43 Things: A list : http://www.43things.com/. This application is built on Ruby (maybe even Ruby on Rails). It is a community way to make a list of things you want to do with your life and find others who are doing it, have done it. Kind of cool, kind of lame.

My hope is that sparkpeople sticks (at least until I lose 20 pounds) and 43Things fade.

We will see,
G