Moving things around a bit

Feb 4

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I’ve decided to change things up some with my blogging. This website, the seanwillson.com domain, is going to become the jumping point to the different online things I have going on. Trying to put everything in one place is really getting kinda messy and hard to manage.

Because of this I’m moving all of my health & fitness blogging over to my LearnFitness.com domain. I’ve owned it many years now but only really used it for health and fitness things way back in 2000. Well I’m going to be posting all of my status updates, venting, and fitness stuff over there going forward. Also, if your looking for most of my old postings on health & fitness, don’t worry they aren’t gone, I’ve already moved most of them over to their new home.

As always, if your looking for any iPhone or iPad development done you can check out NaNil. It’s a company I started with a friend and we have five applications in the iTunes AppStore with more on the way. One of our newest offerings is the FanGuide Architectural Tour Series for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Look for more posts on the NaNil blog about development of our projects and for developing on the iPhone & iPad platform.

If your looking to follow me in a more social and less structured way you can follow me on Twitter with my nerd or fitness personas. They are definitely different people with different groups of interests. I’d try to join the two but to be honest they have very different goals and friends.

As you can likely see I’ve been working on modernizing this blog as well. I will still be posting here from time to time. It’ll likely be things like Astronomy, Family, Technology, or other things not related to the other two blogs. Not all things are iPhone and Fitness right?

I hope people will take the time to check out Learn Fitness and help me grow it into a informative Health & Fitness community. Have an great day … in fact, do something today to make someone else smile. You’ll be happy you did.

Motivation x 2

Feb 4

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One of the huge motivations to my healthy lifestyle changes last year was my little girl Abby. I wanted to be there for her as she grew up. I wanted to be a role model for her, someone she could look at and learn not only how to be a good person but how to live a healthy balanced life.

I mentioned in passing in my 2009 Year End posting, but didn’t really highlight it, but I have a second huge motivation incoming. We’re expecting another addition to the family, also in March, a little baby boy. That means Motivation x 2 to reach my fitness goals.

Food for Thought

Feb 4

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It’s not important what you eat between Xmas and New Years, what’s more important is what you eat between New Years and Xmas.

random historical update

Feb 4

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it’s been quite a while since i last updated my blog. a number of things have happened to me since my last update. it’d probably be easier to just write them all down and start fresh from posting from here:

  • amy and i visited alaska for a 2~ week cruise it was a truly eye opening and amazing vacation. seeing the animals and landscapes was inspiring and spectacular. i really recommend not only cruise west as a provider but alaska as s destination cruise.
  • we had out first child, abigail willson on march 13, 2008. she arrived 4.5 weeks early but her health was great. after spending a little over a week in the nicu she came home. she’s now over 10 months old, babbles, stands, crawls like lightning, laughs all the time, and is so much fun. i never thought i’d feel so responsible, helpless, happy, etc. for someone. she lights up a room whenever she smiles. did i mention she has my eye color and the cutest cheeks?
  • i stopped doing full time computer consulting and started working at drw trading as a senior software engineer. i’m still writing software on the side however through wideasleep.
  • i released my first iphone application fairway into the itunes appstore. it’s a small virtual caddie application that helps you easily apply the pelz school of swing thought to your game. sales have been pretty good so far. i know this feature set is a niche market right now but look for future updates to expand it into new interesting areas.
  • i’ve started working on another iphone / ipod touch application and hope to release it in a few months. looks for more updates on that soon.
  • we’ve started working out hardcore again and are starting our 4th week into a new workout and nutritional lifestyle change. i really think it’s going to stick this time as we’re through the difficult first few weeks. it’s pretty much habit now which is great. we’ve been using this great little iphone application called lose it! which is free and thanks to it’s simple tracking tools and our new nutrition program i’m down over 18 pounds. i know my fitness up’s and down’s have been a large topic on this site over the years. it’s an ongoing battle to be healthy and i don’t want to stop trying to be healthy, especially now that i have to be a role model for abby.

i think that’s about it … i’m sure i missed a ton of other things but those are the highlights. i’m going to try to get into a routine posting here again. until then …

now enriched with wordpress

Feb 4

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well i’ve finally found the time to get my blog up and running. during my registrar move i decided to move my blog from movable type to wordpress. it wasn’t because of anything mt did or didn’t do … it was mostly due to the convenience of someone else maintaining my blog software. i was able to click a few buttons to get it installed, import all of my old posts, and i was up amd running. so where did i waste the rest of my weeks/months then if it was that easy? well mostly in being lazy … but also in finding a decent theme and then hacking the wordpress php code to get it to render the way i wanted. one thing i really don’t like about wordpress is that it always seems to think it knows how to format my html better than i do. if i tell it to get out of the way then damn it, get out to the way. i shouldn’t have to open php files an comment out formatting lines to get it to behave the way i’d expect when i insert breaks, lists, or paragraph tags. i hope my wordpress experience is much smoother going forward, i’ll keep you posted.

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