August 30, 2011: Luciana Moves to Solid Food

Medifast Status: Day 120, Down ~51.5lbs I am a little behind on the news but just found out that GameStop, the bigger US video game retailer, has been opening products that they sell as “new” and taking stuff out of the packaging – and doing so officially.  Talk about completely illegal and unethical.  And they …

The Need for Human Redundancy

After having worked in IT for decades you tend to accumulate anecdotes.  This is one of my favourites. I once consulted for a major “new Ivy League” university on a project involving their database server cluster used to backend their core line of business application.  The university’s library completely relied on this system and it …

August 28, 2011: Voyager

Medifast Status: Day 118, Down ~51.5lbs Another one pound down today!  It would appear that my weight loss has kicked back in again.  Yay!  I’m remaining pretty close to having lost half a pound per day for four months.  That’s pretty awesome. Today is another quiet day at home.  Nothing planned and little to do.  …

August 27, 2011: The Fifty Pound Mark

Medifast Status: Day 117, Down ~50.5lbs It was a very big relief when I weighed in this morning and discovered that I had passed the fifty pound mark on my Medifast diet!  Fifty pounds!  That sure sounds good to say.  I still have a very long way to go.  But this is a very big milestone.  This …