I registered my blog with Technorati, and it’s a really good service. However, it does seem to have a few technical problems. Sometimes after I publish a new post, it isn’t recognized by Technorati. Just by playing around with it, I’ve discovered the following workaround. I don’t know why the following workaround works, and I’m sure some of the steps are unnecessary and/or redundant, but I do know that if I perform the following steps, my new post will show up in Technorati:

1. Click on the Update Ping button under Your Blogs. (I shouldn’t have to do this, as Blogger should automatically tell Technorati when I’ve published a new post. Just doing this step and none of the following steps will not fix the problem.)
2. Click the Home link in the upper-left corner of the page.
3. Click on your blog under Your Blogs.
4. Click on edit your profile on the Blog Info tab.
5. Click on Your Blogs under Your Account on the left side of the page.
6. Click on the Configure Blog button.
7. Click on the Save Changes button on the bottom of the page.
8. Click on the Update Ping button.

After performing these steps, my new post shows up. Hopefully, Technorati will resolve its technical issues so I don’t have to perform this workaround. I have notified their technical support, as have many others, I’m sure.

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I just heard from another One Page Studio contributor—the one and only Dima Panferov. Dima graduated from the Ohio State University with a Bachelor of Arts degree. He brings to the company extensive experience in Microsoft-platform-based software sales. His client list includes some of the largest and most well-known international companies in the world, such as Uniliver, Adidas, Rabobank, and many others. He also developed and managed the European reseller's network for more than three years at Aelita Software.

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I just got an e-mail from Alexey Korsakov at One Page Studio. Alexey contributes to One Page Studio in the areas of business identity and graphic and web design. He graduated from Saint-Petersburg State University of Culture and Arts with a degree in Media Design and has more than six years experience bringing creative ideas to businesses all around the globe. He is a freelance designer and photographer searching for inspiration in the countries of Asia. Check out his websites: www.korsakov.ru and www.idia.ru.

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I got through my twenty-miler this morning with the Premier Sports Marathoner in Training (MIT) group. Today more than ever I saw how important the training group is, because I could have never done twenty miles by myself today. I was (and still am) feeling a bit under the weather, and it was hot, but luckily not nearly as humid as last week. We were doing eight-minute miles pretty much the whole way, which is right where I want to be for my training. Next week is a fall-back week, so I'm only scheduled for twelve miles. It will be nice to have a break.

Tags: marathon, marathons, running

Tomorrow I'll run twenty miles with the Premier Sports Marathoner in Training (MIT) group. According to the Weather Channel, it will be seventy-one degrees Fahrenheit when we start, and by the time we finish, it will be about eighty degrees. That’s awfully warm for a twenty-mile run. To make matters worse, I feel the symptoms of a cold coming on. Hopefully my bee supplements from Dancing Bee Acres will kick in, and I’ll be all right. I may have to go slower than usual tomorrow, but that’s OK, because I’ve been pushing myself pretty hard lately. As of right now, I’m still very much on track for a good Columbus Marathon.

Also, the publisher in Illinois that I previously did some work for contacted me again for another project. I was glad to hear from them, because I was worried that they weren’t pleased with my work, but apparently, that wasn’t the case. Hopefully I’ll get even more work from them in the future.

Tags: marathon, marathons, Dancing Bee Acres, Columbus Marathon, running

In American Sucker, the book I’m reading now, David Denby describes the run-up of the NASDAQ to over 5000 in March of the year 2000 and its subsequent collapse. When I think back to that time, I don’t remember giving it a second thought. I was totally oblivious and indifferent to what was going on. This was more because of my own ignorance than anything else, but I’m really glad I had no interest at that time in what was happening. In the book it had a huge effect on the author, and it made him a not-so-likable character.

David Denby got to know a guy named Henry Blodget, who was an Internet stock analyst at the time. Blodget got famous for correctly predicting that Amazon’s stock would surpass $400. An interesting fact revealed in the book is that before Blodget became a stock analyst, he was an English teacher in Japan for a year and tried unsuccessfully to publish a novel based on the experience.

Tags: American Sucker, David Denby, NASDAQ, Henry Blodget, book, books

I just finished my nineteen-miler with the Premier Sports Marathoner in Training (MIT) group. Today was a tough day. It was very humid even at the start, and with about five miles to go it started to rain hard. Days like today really challenge you to keep going. Right now I'm drained, and I'm recovering with some coffee and a Clif Bar at Panera, using their free WiFi.

Also, last night I celebrated seven-and-one-half years in Columbus by seeing the movie The OH in Ohio, and I picked up the book American Sucker by David Denby at Half Price Books.

Tags: Clif Bar, Clif Bars, Panera, The OH in Ohio, American Sucker, David Denby, Half Price Books, movies, movie, books, book

The ultimate goal of many marathon runners is to qualify for the Boston Marathon. Each age group has a specific qualifying time – mine happens to be 3:15:59. At the Cincinnati Flying Pig Marathon in May, I came very close to qualifying for Boston. At the 25.2 mile mark, my time was 3:06:44. That means that I only had to run the last mile in 9:15 to qualify. Considering that my overall pace for the race was 7:35 per mile, this should have been very easy, but unfortunately, my body didn’t cooperate, and I finished in 3:18:43.

I haven’t completely decided whether I’m going to try to qualify for Boston again at the Columbus Marathon in October. I could play it safe and try to keep my streak of sub-3:30 marathons alive (all four of my marathons have been under 3:30), or I could push the envelope and try for 3:15:59 again. I probably won’t decide for sure until I line up on the starting line on October 15th.

Speaking of marathons, I’m getting ready to run nineteen miles tomorrow with the Premier Sports Marathoner in Training (MIT) group. It will be my longest run since the Cincinnati Flying Pig Marathon in May.

Tags: Boston Marathon, Cincinnati Flying Pig Marathon, Flying Pig Marathon, Columbus Marathon, marathon, marathons, running

It’s probably apparent from the entries in this blog that I read a great deal of books. Usually, after I finish reading a book I eventually sell it to a used-book store like Half Price Books. I do this so that other people can enjoy it, so that I can get a little extra cash, and because I never read the same book twice. Therefore, I really don’t have any record of the books that I’ve read over the years, although I know it’s been a lot.

However, from time to time I’ve enjoyed a book so much that I can’t bring myself to sell it. One of those books in the last year has been Slick by Daniel Price. I enjoyed this book on many levels, but mostly because of the theme that most of what you see and hear in the media is bogus. If you want to read a really fun, smart, and interesting novel, this is a good one to choose.

Also, I’ve recently begun to figure out how this blog thing works. I’m learning about things like RSS feeds and tags, and I registered my blog with Technorati. I'll add the tags book and books to this post to see if it increases my blog traffic.

This is a fall-back week, so I'm only scheduled to run twelve miles with the Premier Sports Marathoner in Training (MIT) group tomorrow. However, the next two weeks after that I'm scheduled for nineteen miles and twenty miles, respectively. In addition to running with MiT this weekend, I'll also do some cross-training on the rowing machines at LifeTime Fitness. The Columbus Marathon is only a little over nine weeks away, and right now I like where I'm at. Hopefully, I can stay on track.

On a completely different note, I've been visiting this photo blog a lot lately. It includes some really good photos of Japan, so make sure to check it out!

I've recently begun tutoring a Syrian woman in English as a Second Language (ESL). Her name is Houda (pronounced WHO-DA), and her English is already quite good. She mentioned that she had some problems getting a re-entry visa to the United States the last time she visited Syria, so for our next lesson we'll discuss this article, which was in the news recently. I found this article using Digg, which I just discovered. I'm really impressed by Digg, and I see myself using it a lot in the future.

Also, I got an e-mail from Mavis Quek, my friend and former classmate at Hawaii Loa College (now part of Hawaii Pacific University). She said she's working on the set of the TV series Smallville, and she pointed me to some pictures of her new nephew. Click here to check them out!

Today I ordered a couple TrioPacks, consisting of Pollen, Royal Jelly, and Propolis, from Dancing Bee Acres. I take 1000 Mg per day of each. Since I've been taking these products, I get sick less often and I seem to have more energy. I still get a cold now and then, but the symptoms are much less severe and they don't last as long. The US National Race Walk Team says:

Royal Jelly and Bee Pollen allows us to focus in intense training with the confidence that our bodies will recover quickly with less fatigue. Our immune system is the strongest it has been in years, which is extremely important as athletes. Thank you for your preservative and chemical free products.

If you order some of these products, make sure to request your free copy of Healing from the Hive. Also, on marathon day I'll apply plenty of Bee Venom Cream to my feet, ankles, achilles, and shins. This will help prevent inflammation and swelling, especially of my feet, which is common among marathon runners in the later miles.

I ran sixteen miles with the Premier Sports Marathoner in Training (MIT) group last Saturday, and it was hot. I'll run seventeen miles this Saturday, and it will be hotter. Also, I read an article about a former editor of Wired magazine who collapsed and died at mile twenty-four of the San Francisco Marathon last weekend. Apparently, he was a very experienced runner in great shape who was running almost exactly my marathon pace.

On a brigher note, I ordered the novel The Futurist by James P. Othmer online. It should be a good one.