RPHM Training

29 Aug 2015 By Blender Fox in Fitness & Health Tags: Fitness, Half, Half-Marathon, Health, Marathon, Royal Parks Half Marathon, Running, Training

健毅黃 was out running. He tracked 10.56 km in 1h:07m:49s.

http://app.endomondo.com/workouts/591672837/2918479

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RPHM Training

28 Aug 2015 By Blender Fox in Fitness & Health Tags: Fitness, Half, Half-Marathon, Health, Marathon, Royal Parks Half Marathon, Running, Training

With the final weeks ticking down before the run, I’m dropping the plan and concentrating on getting my endurance up. Today’s target was 9 km. Achieved that in 56 mins. Tomorrow, going to try 10 km, then Sunday, try to make it 12 km.

健毅黃 was out running. He tracked 9.35 km in 56m:52s.

http://app.endomondo.com/workouts/590914917/2918479

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Commuter Frustration #2 – Bikes

27 Aug 2015 By Blender Fox in Public Transport Tags: Public Transport, Thoughts

People who bring full sized bikes onto trains. Tolerable on rail services, as some train stations are quite far out of towns, but on underground trains where every inch of space is a premium, and valuable, a bike is worth at least three spaces…. Posted from WordPress for Android

SSH Tunnelling – X

24 Aug 2015 By Blender Fox in Linux Tags: Bash, Linux, Snippet, SSH

Snippet of code to remind myself later how to tunnel graphical apps through SSH

IP=$1 echo Opening SSH tunnel to $IP ssh -X username@$IP

Spotify just got a lot more creepy….

21 Aug 2015 By Blender Fox in Music, Technology Tags: Music, Privacy, Security, Spotify, Technology

http://www.wired.com/2015/08/cant-squat-spotifys-eerie-new-privacy-policy/

SPOTIFY RELEASED A new privacy policy that is now in effect, and it turns out that the company wants to learn a lot more about you and there’s not much you can do about it.

We encourage everyone to read the whole privacy policy before downloading the update or checking off the “Accept” box, but in case you have better things to do, here are some highlights from it.

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“With your permission, we may collect information stored on your mobile device, such as contacts, photos, or media files. Local law may require that you seek the consent of your contacts to provide their personal information to Spotify, which may use that information for the purposes specified in this Privacy Policy.” – Spotify

Like a jealous ex, Spotify wants to see (and collect) your photos and see who you’re talking to. What kind of media files Spotify will collect from you is vague, and why the company needs it is unclear, but it’s doing it regardless. Also, the fact that Spotify expects you to go through your contact list and ask everyone for their consent in sharing their data with Spotify is–what’s the word? Oh yes: it’s ridiculous.

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“You may integrate your Spotify account with Third Party Applications. If you do, we may receive similar information related to your interactions with the Service on the Third Party Application, as well as information about your publicly available activity on the Third Party Application. This includes, for example, your “Like”s and posts on Facebook.” – Spotify

It shouldn’t surprise you that if you connect your Spotify account to Facebook, Spotify will be able to see the information you post there. If this bothers you, we suggest that you log into your Spotify preferences and disconnect Spotify from your Facebook account (more information on how to do this can be found here). After all, Facebook isn’t all that necessary to use Spotify (unless, of course, you want your friends to know you’re listening to Owl City).

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“If you don’t agree with the terms of this Privacy Policy, then please don’t use the Service.” – Spotify

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I value my privacy, so I’ll stop using Spotify. Bye Spotify, I won’t miss you.

RPHM Training – Week 28, Day 1

18 Aug 2015 By Blender Fox in Fitness & Health Tags: Fitness, Half, Half-Marathon, Health, Marathon, Royal Parks Half Marathon, Running, Training

健毅黃 was out running. He tracked 6.98 km in 42m:38s.

http://app.endomondo.com/workouts/584346130/2918479

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Plan asked for 3.2km, but I’m more eager to increase my mileage right now. The Endomondo plan isn’t training my endurance (the max distance the Endomondo plan is going to do pre-race 9.90km), so I’m going to start upping my mileage bit by bit. Yesterday, I did 5k, which was 2.5 laps round my local park, then today, I did 3.5 laps around my park (which is +2 km), tomorrow, I’m aiming to do 4.5 laps, which should get me to 9km, all being well.