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I’ve been looking forward to the Nike+iPod Sports Kit since the day it was announced. As soon as it was available i rushed out to get it. I bought the kit and the Nike+ armband together. Now the only thing that was left was the Nike+ sneakers. While the kit and the accessories were relatively easy to find, the sneakers have been hard to find. If stores have any, its the Nike+ Shox which are pretty ugly. I’ve been looking forward to the Air Max Moto’s but no one has them or has any item when they will be available. Most stores seem to think late August.

As I do workout and running is my main choice for exercise, i own a pair of Nike jet Streams which are about a year old and in great condition. I really don’t need a new pair of Nike’s but thought I would have to buy a pair of Nike+ ones for the kit to work properly. Then came along a post I seen on digg about attaching the sensor any shoe under the laces. While this was brilliant and seemed to work well in all accuracy test, the application was a little “ghetto” to me. This is when i got the bright idea to mod my own Nike’s to have a pocket under the sole and put the receiver in the shoe like the Nike+ shoes do. This way it doesn’t look like my shoes came from goodwill and the receiver will be protected from being lost, getting damaged or hit with water when running in the rain or through puddles.

My Nike Jet Streams

The Nike+iPod Sports Kit

First things first. Needed to open the box and check out the sensor. Its actually quite small and light. A little smaller than i was expecting, which is even better. Here is my Nano next to the receiver and transmitter.

Time to rip open my shoe and get this thing in. Unlaced my right shoe and pulled up the sole.

Found a nice spot under my arch to the transmitter would be someone comfortable and started cutting out a square with a utility knife. I used a pair of small needle nose pliers to tear out the foam as its pretty rubbery and wouldn’t be able to hand. After a few minutes of cutting and sizing and pulling I had a 90% perfect compartment. I could have done deeper but where i picked was the thinnest part of the sole on these shoes.

With the receiver in, not bad if i say so myself.

And here is the final project. As good as new with no cosmetic differences. There is a slight lump under my sole because I didn’t want to go any deeper with these shoes but you stop feeling it as soon as you start walking and when your running its non-existent. They are also very accurate out of the box. Was about .1 off a 1/4 mile and as soon as i calibrated the kit, its now dead on. Since I already had a iPod Nano and a set of Nike’s, i just spent the $29 which is well worth ever penny for this product if you run.

Meet Adam Scott. A few weeks ago he decided he was fed up with shopping, cooking and cleaning so decided to try and live off monkey chow for seven days. During the 7 days, he keep a blog of stats and made a video blog of the whole ordeal. Head over to The Monkey Chow Diaries to see how he made out. I just wish we would have went 30 days, that would have equally interesting and entertaining.

Monkey Chow Out.

Since I had to send back my motherboard for RMA and I probably wont get it back til next month, I probably won’t be posting much. So in the mean time, short multi-topic posts are my friend.

Based on an article on 43folders.com the other day, I picked up a Jimi Wallet myself today. I have some Before and After pics up on my Flickr. I’m liking it so far, tho I’m always checking to see if I have my wallet with me
now.

Been listening to the new Taking Back Sunday. I was really looking forward to it and i wouldn’t go as far as saying I’m disappointed but Taking Back Sunday - John Nolan + Major Label = not good. Song writing has taken a turn, even there song titles are now actually lyrics in the songs. �MakeDamnSure� is a great song, lot of TAYF in there. Only other song I’m feeling is �I’ll Let You Live�. But, its only been day one so maybe it will grow one me, who knows.

Google Calender Greasemonkey ToDo List - Nice addon til something official comes from Google themselves.

Officially switching from a Motorola MPx220 and Exchange to a Motorola RAZR and Google Mail and Google Calendar. I’ll post alot more on that later.

While looking over 43folders.com’s RSS feed, i came across this article about cleaning up your inbox. While i never thought i had “email overload”, i did have 2300 emails in my inbox and would miss some. My problem is i use Outlook and Exchange, so i get emails in Outlook, on my MPx220 and using Outlook Web Access if I’m not at my computer. So emails tend to slip through the cracks. Decided to make my inbox my next GTD project this year. Moved everything out into a DMZ folder, then sorted by sender. This way i could clean up emails i know i didnt need. Ended up deleting 591 in about 15mins, plus my inbox is empty so no where to do but downhill from here.

Starting my new lifehack, GTD lifestyle today. First area I’m going to work on is web browsing. I spent an inordinate amount of time just surfing. So today i deleted all my bookmarks and installed Foxylicious and Bloglines. Going to use Del.icio.us for my bookmarks and bloglines to keep track of them using RSS. This way I don’t have to sit and keep a vigil over everything so i don’t miss anything. Had to uninstall Firefox 1.5b2 and go back to 1.0.7 just to get half the extensions and scripts to work again. No big deal, 1.5 didn’t add anything i cant live without.