Javier Campos

In one month!

I made a little utility to prevent Windows going to sleep/hibernate while a process is executing.

I needed this since I have a programmed task on my computer to execute every night at 4:00am (the computer awakes, executes the task and idles till it goes to sleep again). The problem is that the task started taking longer than 10 minutes to execute, and that's the time I have for my computer to go to sleep while idle... this made the task go crazy and have tons of errors upon restarting in the morning.

Now with this program, the computer won't go to sleep while the task is running (but can go immediately after it).

I've made the program opensource (C#) and you can find it over at GitHub .

I'll upload the binaries soon, meanwhile, you can ask me for them.

in reference to this post...

I'M STILL CLEAN!

Some stats:

- I stopped smoking on March 28th 2011
- Haven't smoked for 239 days
- I have not smoked (at the average rythm I used to smoke when I quit) 8,365.28 cigarettes
- I have saved (at the price and brand I used to smoke) 1,568.50€
- At 6 minutes per cigarette, I would have spent 34 days, 20 hours and 30 minutes smoking
- If statistics are to be believed, I have now 65.48% less chance of dying from a heart disease than a smoker.
- Again, if statistics are to believed, I am 13.1% on my way to equal the risk of having lung cancer, to that of a person who has never smoked.

Otherwise, I feel terribly well that I stopped smoking, and thankfully (apart from the first horrible days) I don't miss it a little bit.

Seen here

Here's for today... tomorrow, we'll see! :-)

This thing is showing progress... the red route is yesterday's (~22km)... today I woke up earlier and made the orange one (~41km):

Right now I feel pretty pretty tired, but I'm happy I could even make it... just one month ago I was exhausted on the very first 10km (at the same rythm) and now I can "easily" make 40 and not throw up my lungs. Seems not smoking (2 months!), a bit healthier diet and some excercise is paying up. We'll see if I can start losing weight now! This is, of course, being the hardest part :-)

Oh, just in case you were wondering, the routes are taken unfiltered from the excellent Move Bike Computer on my HTC Desire (and of course what you are seeing is Google Earth, after exporting them to KML).

Trivia: if you can figure it out, the point on the route where the red arrow is, is where I live :-)

Trying to keep track of the progress :-)

I haven't smoked for 9 full days. That's after smoking almost 2 packs a day (avg. 35 cigarettes/day) for almost 17 years. It's being hard, but definitely not impossible, and every day seems easier than the last one... so far I've "not" smoked 315 cigarettes, and already saved almost 60€ (in less than 2 weeks!).

My breathing feels quite better, I don't cough half of what I used to, and everything seems to taste and smell better... after these 9 days, I hate thinking that I actually smelled like those who I can smell now (and didn't before). My clothes don't stink by the end of the day, and I generally feel better (except the harder withdrawal moments, which make me feel like shit... but I know that's the nicotine addiction playing games with my mind, so I just fight it over a few minutes and everything gets back to normal).

After a few attempts of quitting smoking in the past (most of which didn't last for over 12/24 hours), I was already thinking of getting pills or anything, but I decided to give it a last chance on my own... I realized something: I quit smoking everytime I finished a cigarette... it was all a matter of not lighting up another one... and so I haven't :-)

Let's hope this time I'm not stupid enough to go back to smoking... the disadvantages of smoking are way too obvious, and the advantages are far from clear to me right now.

Regards!

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