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Race Report – Lumberjack Days 5K

By Jake Hackl On 07/29/2010 · Leave a Comment

Lumberjack Days was last weekend in Stillwater. Stillwater is a historic town once thought to be on the outer edge of the Twin Cities metro but now considered a suburb and like my hometown of Hastings both are river communities and excellent summer spots. Back in the day Lumberjack Days meant we’d hop in a [...]

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Post calls with REST and .NET

By Jake Hackl On 07/20/2010 · Leave a Comment

Have a client application that needed to post some referral sales data to a third-party via REST. I did this a long time ago and had to do a refresher course and these were two of the better posts I used for the final implementation. With all the .NET movement towards REST and yesterday’s post [...]

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2009 Race Recap

By Jake Hackl On 07/20/2010 · Leave a Comment

Note: I’m doing some summer cleaning and found this unpublished post from October of 2009

Last week I ran in the Chicago Marathon (more on that later) and that closes the chapter on racing for 2009. Now I may dabble in a few fun runs but for the most part I’m going to focus on [...]

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Review of sleep and 2010 goals

By Jake Hackl On 07/20/2010 · Leave a Comment

So it is mid-July in 2010 and I haven’t been sleeping well, my mind has been extremely chatty late at night. I have filled that void on other nights through reading or watching season 1 of Rescue Me (which I find generally entertaining and of good quality but not in the class of Mad [...]

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Patient Money – Losing Weight the Smartphone Way, With a Nutritionist in Your Pocket – NYTimes.com

By Jake Hackl On 07/18/2010 · Leave a Comment

My wife turned me on to using LoseIt on the iPhone to track out diets and this NY Times piece writes on that use by others. Personally, I’ve found this latest take at caloric tracking incredibly simple and because of that maintainable. In the past it was easy to tire of logging a meal or [...]

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