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Two-hours of basketball is better than zero hours of basketball. Strained my leg muscle though. Also mowed the lawn for the first time this season.

Perfect evening basketball weather.

Yes, I watch basketball and tweet about space exploration. Nerd.

Time to play some basketball.

Took a few minutes and worked on my basketball shot this afternoon.

Basketball felt great. I am still in shock that we’ve played outdoors multiple times this year and it is only March.

Basketball with people 20-years my junior.

Played some basketball this afternoon. My ankle hates me but man I love that game.

Dr. James Naismith published these original 13-rules of basketball in 1892. I especially like #5: 5. No shouldering, holding, pushing, tripping, or striking in any way the person of an opponent shall be allowed; the first infringement of this rule by any player shall count as a foul, the second shall disqualify him until the…

Basketball has been some part of my life, big or small, since I was very young. I’ve never been any good at it really, but that’s another story. As an early teen I would go to the elementary school playground in the morning and not return until it was dark. Summers came and went, meals…

Congratulations to Kobe Bryant for scoring 60 in his final NBA game, to Steph Curry for hitting over 400 3-pointers in a single season (this number is baffling), and to the Warriors for winning 73 games in a regular season. Last night was an amazing night for basketball.

I’m now on day 35 of my 60-day break from social media. I wanted to write a post on the 7th, since that would have been a calendar month since the start, but I didn’t. So, today I thought I’d jot down how this experiment has been going. To do so, I’ll answer the same questions…

Yes, I skipped the weekend. I’m going to skip all weekends likely. Here is why. And you may just have to live with that. Speaking of the weekend, this one was pretty good. On Friday, I was able to play full court basketball for the first time since I was injured. It was painful but…

The best days are filled with variety. Variety helps to break up the day and keep me moving and productive. Today started with some programming to finishing up a client project. Then, I drove to two client meetings where I was able to do a little training and a little fixing. Then, lunch watching Casey.…

I do not think it is fair to compare Apple’s WWDC keynote with Google’s I/O keynote. It should be fair. But the two simply do not compare. It should be fair because WWDC and I/O are both developer conferences. WWDC and I/O both begin by largely attended, well rehearsed, staged keynotes by top executives at…

Nilai began as a labor of love for me. For a few months I’d spend an evening or so per week tapping out some code while watching a basketball game in my home pub. It was a lot of fun to work on and experiment with. While the day job got in the way of…

This might get a little long in the tooth so you may want to top-up that beverage. Google has run me over like a freight train. Over the last few weeks I’ve been living on it instead of Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare. In fact, I made the prediction that Google could replace many of the most…

Half the distance to the goal. NFL referees usually use this term as a unit of measure for a penalty against the defense. Depending on what that goal may be, a first down or the end zone, the distance differs. In this case, it is exactly 20 pounds, and the defense is my fat. Today…

This week I rested on my laurels just a bit. I didn’t work out a single time (other than my weekly basketball routine) and I even drank a few beers. I think I have a fairly good excuse about the beer though – I went to the Eagles vs. Packers playoff game. However, that is…

It has been a frigid, snowy week here in Pennsylvania which has kept me from doing the jogging I said I wanted to do last week. But I still did great on The Diet this week. My exercise routine was very thin this week. I need to make it a goal to do something active…

I can’t believe that week one is already over and that I’m already doing the second weigh in. I don’t know if it is because I’ve done this before or just that this week was a particularly busy one – but time sure does fly. The results for this week are very, very good. The…

As reported by Danilo Campos on Twitter "Any ziplock bag you happen to find in your kitchen will waterproof your phone while allowing the screen to respond." So I gave it a whirl and it works! Neven Mrgan, who I heard this through, brought up a few great uses for this. He said "This means…

What a great week on The Diet! As I said on the Twitter I was able to get a sufficient level of fitness in this week. On Tuesday I jogged six miles (or 10K), on Wednesday I did the P90X Kenpo X routine, on Friday I fit in another 5K jog, on Saturday I did…

Yes! The Philadelphia 76ers, my favorite basketball team for better or worse, is going back to their old logo. I will be purchasing new apparel soon.

All good stories start at the beginning. This one starts on August 14th 2006 when I publicly stated my goal to run 1 mile before my wedding anniversary that year (which was about two weeks later). In that declaration I said: "Last night Chris and I went for a run, and while he had no…

I didn’t weigh in last week. On Monday I was sick and the rest of the week sort of just ran away from me. This week I was really excited to weigh in to see how I did over the last few weeks. Today I weighed in at 189 lbs. which is down three pounds…

This is where we play basketball on Mondays. Much nicer court, IMO, than the other two regular courts that we play at.

You’ve all been waiting with baited breath, I know – but at long last, here it is – my weigh in for this, our sixth week back on the diet. It has been a great week. I ate very well this week. I don’t remember missing a single meal, I ate enough calories every day,…

If I were to graph my week of activity it’d look something like the silhouette of a camel standing in the sunset. The beginning of the week started out great with a really great basketball session on Monday and Wednesday and we finished off the week strong with some basketball on Sunday evening. In between…

Well, I’ve got good news and bad news. Which would you like to hear first? Ok, I’ll give you the bad news first. The bad news is that I didn’t have a great weekend insofar as the amount of food I ate. I didn’t eat anything bad. Just a little too much. (What can I…

I’m happy to report that I did much better during this second week of the diet than I did during the second week of the diet back in June 2006 (Wow, has it been that long already?) when I gained 3 pounds. This week I’m down another four pounds and I currently weigh 199 pounds.…

The first full week of the new diet effort is over and done with. The response from this round has been great. I really like having family and friends join in on trying to get healthy. It helps me stay motivated and focused on my goals and I hope that I help others do the…

[viddler id-5c5b7c71 h-357 w-420] Random 60: Doing what you love, not what you’re good at. Favorite on Viddler. Please consider [sharing this on Twitter](http://twitter.com/home?status=Watching today’s Random 60 by @cdevroe: http://cdevroe.com/videos/r60-do-what-you-love/). Thanks. I often find myself doing things that I really like to do, even if I’m not particularly good at them. Art, for me, is…

As most of you know I have struggled with my weight ever since reaching adulthood. The reasons for my weight gain are vast but one of the more significant reasons is the fact that I work at a desk all day. That is, I sit all day. Even though I play basketball, try to jog…

I have a confession to make. I only watched the first twenty-five minutes of No Reservations – Philippines on Monday. Why? Because I was tired after playing many hours of basketball. Why else? Because I didn’t think the episode was any good. So I shut it off. Went to bed. And awoke the next morning…

Searching for the perfect card can be an arduous task. Just walking into a Hallmark, or venturing into the card-section of any store, seems daunting. There are so many cards! You stand there, looking at the upper-third of every single card to decide which one to pull out, look at the front, read it, open…

A new Knowledge Base article on the Apple Support Site, which was modified and/or added hot on the heels of my needing an iPhone replacement because of this very problem, addresses the unresponsive iPhone touchscreens. The simple article, which is basically a list of things you can try to see what is wrong with your…