I want to let everyone know about a new project I’ll be embarking upon in the very near future. I hope you’ll join along.

I’m currently in the process of setting up Wii Fit Project, a site where I will conduct the following experiment: “How much weight can a 35 year old designer who’s 40 pounds overweight lose just by playing Wii Fit for at least 30 minutes every night for 2 months?”

I will keep a running diary of my activity and my progress. There will be lots of pictures and video, and hopefully they will start a bit flabby and end leaner and meaner.

Set a bookmark now for wiifitproject.com and make sure to subscribe to the RSS feed. The experiment will begin as soon after May 21st (the US release date for Wii Fit) as possible. If Nintendo or any other party is willing to supply me with an advance copy of Wii Fit I will begin the project sooner.

Wish me luck.

I was noodling around during lunch with a way to express a date as a hexidecimal color value. Thought it might be an interesting way to color code the blog post titles. In the end I didn’t like the way it looked but thought I’d share the code with all of you in case you could use it for something.

   function makeHexFromDate($itemDate) {
      $hexdate = dechex($itemDate);
      $hexlength = strlen($hexdate);
         if ($hexlength < 6) {
            for ($i = 1; $i <= (6 - $hexlength); $i++) {
               $hexdate .= "0";
            }
         }
      echo "#".$hexdate;
   }

It’s not the most optimal, but then again, I did only spend an hour on it. It’s a start. If you have suggestions for improvements, I’d love to hear them.

I was rummaging through archived files last night, putting the finishing touches on my online museum of old site designs when I ran across a video file in a version of my site from the year 2000 that is most definitely a video blog (vlog) post.

I’ve talked about the fact that I was a “vlogger” years before the practice was popular, but I finally found proof of it. I also love the subject matter… smells transmitted over the Internet. I also love that the company mentioned in the video still has a presence and still believes they’ll be pumping scents down the pipe in the near future.

Anyway, check out the video and you tell me… first vlogger or not?

UPDATE: I found an even older video blog post than the one below. Well, one day older, anyway.