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Heel Hell

Every morning for the last four months since my RT, I have been waking up to really tender heels. It's so painful that I have to literally tip toe my way through my morning routine.

...I've come to realize I have a rather low tolerance for pain...

I suspect it is the unfortunate combination of my increased mass, coupled with the fact that I hadn't exercised in a long while and the "intense" running we do during RT had caused this condition - Plantar Fasciitis.

Thank goodness it only last about maybe 15 mins or so when I start walking, after which the pain just subsides and goes away.

The crappy thing about this condition is that there's very little I can do to hurry the healing process. Meds (most likely painkillers) will only help relieve the pain for a while. Steroids can help to reduce the inflammation but has side effects over the long term.

So really, that leaves me with 2 options (short of surgery);-

(1) Total Rest - Which would be great but is, of course, practically impossible;

or

(2) Lose the extra flab - which is "do'able" but also quite hard since I can't run much.

This particular situation reminds me of a scene from the Simpson's movie - where Homer is smashed by a wreaking ball between a Rock and a Hard place.

Sigh...

Wedding Bells

Not mine but D & Z's wedding on 7 June 2008. I finally managed to find some time over the weekend to edit and upload some of the photos. It was a fun wedding (the morning activities), with D being backed by a large group of brothers, and Z's 'sisters' who were also out to 'get' D & the brothers.

Isn't Technology wonderful?

I attended the Microsoft Sharepoint Forum yesterday at Suntec. And I was totally impressed by the all the new technologies that they showcased there.

I think, perhaps in 2-4 years, the work environment, in terms of how we produce, collaborate, share documents and information will be very different from what we have now. If the trends continue the way they are heading, it would really be a paperless office that we will be working in.

And who knows, perhaps in another decade or so, we will be really be totally immersed in a virtual environment ala The Matrix style. Won't that be absolutely cool? No more typing or using the mouse, just point and command the computer with normal, everyday speech.

Just a taste of what they can do with these new technologies. The Hard Rock site above shows off this thing called "Deep Zoom". The picture you see above can be seamlessly zoomed in many many times to see even more details. (See below - running left to right on each row)

Check it out: http://memorabilia.hardrock.com
By the way, you will be prompted to install this softwear called Microsoft Silverlight to see the picture. Microsoft Silverlight is a revolutionary platform for developing next generation web applications.