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Today I turn 36. I've completed the first two rounds of my tournament (though I do hope for extra holes at the end), and I feel I'm in the lead. I've got a great wife, a great kid, and I wake up every day excited for the work I'll do.

Work has been taking a bit more time away from my family than I'd like lately, but I've got a book coming out, golf season is picking up again, we're putting together online training for 5 Simple Keys®… and I've still gotta finish submitting my Level 1 PGA stuff… maybe.

Today I'm actually gone all day, from 5am to about midnight, with Dave giving a talk on 5SK at the Southern Ohio section of the PGA's yearly teaching summit. It's a great honor, and we hope to give information that people can immediately use to help make their students better.

Beyond that, happy 36th to me. 🙂

I really like music videos that make a little "art" out of the lyrics. I like this song.

Except these parts…

:doh:

But Burke said something on the hockey analytics panel at the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference last month that I took issue with. He expressed concern that statistics couldn't measure a hockey player's perseverance. For instance, he asked, would one of his forwards retain control of the puck when Zdeno Chara, the Boston Bruins' intimidating 6'9" defenseman, was bearing down on him?

The thing is, this is something you could measure. You could watch video of all Bruins games and record how often different forwards kept control of the puck. Soon, the NHL may install motion-tracking cameras in its arenas, as other sports leagues have done, creating a record of each player's x- and y-coordinates throughout the game and making this data collection process much easier.

Oh, and FiveThirtyEight launched recently. I don't visit news sites, but I may visit that one.

What Clients Don’t Know (and Why It’s Your Fault) by Mike Monteiro – An Event Apart Austin [corrected file] from Jeffrey Zeldman on Vimeo.

Thank you, NSView!

After making a big, bold promise to wire every corner of America, the telecom giants are running away from their vow to provide nationwide broadband service by 2020. For almost 20 years, AT&T, Verizon and the other big players have collected hundreds of billions of dollars through rate increases and surcharges to finance that ambitious plan, but after wiring the high-density big cities, they now say it's too expensive to connect the rest of the country. But they'd like to keep all that money they banked for the project.

Crooks.

Telecom Giants Drag Their Feet on Broadband for the Whole Country

Michael Tsai's Roundup of iOS 7.1 news has links to a few good things:

• iOS 7.1 vs iOS 7 | Polar
• Using your lock screen wallpaper for ICE info
• A recommendation to use 744x1392 for iPhone wallpaper
• How to completely turn off parallax wallpapers on iOS 7.1

I'll admit it. My previous 1Password Master Password was one of convenience. It was between 3 and 10 letters long, and contained few special characters.

But… my new password follows some of the guidelines set forth in Toward Better Master Passwords.

Thanks. I suppose I can tolerate being annoyed a little bit more for exponentially better security.

http://pastebin.com/9M1KvZzD

There's the traceroute.

Ho hum.

I've been paying $74.99 for my high-speed Internet with TWC. It's always worked really well, and I've had it for years and years. Including when I lived in Florida (Adelphia, I believe, was my ISP down there).

Even though new users can sign up for the same level of service I have for $54.99… (don't get me started…), my cost is apparently $79.99, and I've been paying only $74.99 because I'm in on a special deal.

We pay $31/month for Verizon home phone, and since we've all got cell phones now, I was charged with either ditching the home phone or perhaps trying Time-Warner for our home phone with their VOIP deal.

On the phone, I was told my bill would go up about $4.65 to add unlimited nationwide (including Canada and Puerto Rico) calling, with Privacy Protection (no listing in the phone book, private caller ID). So I signed up.

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Goodness, I hope not. But it looks like it's going to happen: One sentence and six charts to explain why Comcast is buying Time Warner Cable.

Putt-Putt Perfection

I just realized that I've been using BBEdit for over 15 years now, and the software was already pretty old when I started using it.

Yeesh.

And I still use it, and love it.

Every day.

Only 90s Web Developers Remember This

A take-down of a take-down: Daring Fireball: From the Department of Fitting Facts to the Narrative