I broke my arm on my bicycle. My only option was to take a bus or walk to and from the ferry to work. I walked on and off for three weeks. I am back on my bike now, so it will be more difficult to find time to walk again.
ivan opalka's Life List
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1. walk 1500 miles
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2. Find my friend in North Korea
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3. Build a deck
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4. Make 43 Things Faster
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5. reduce, reuse, recycle
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6. work 4 days with my mind; 3 days with my hands
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7. stop procrastinating
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8. travel the world
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9. Make 43 Things better
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10. exercise everyday
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11. Celebrate 4 Years of 43Things By Thanking The Robots January 1, 2009
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12. exercise regularly
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13. swim freestyle
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14. find a great designer to collaborate with
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15. teach my younger girl to ice skate
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16. Share insights about how to use 43Things to best advantage, how it can be an aid to accomplishment, not a distraction
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17. fix call failed on my iphone
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18. backpack through Europe
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19. What do you want to do with your life?
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How I did it: I have a 2001 Honda xr400. This model has no battery or electric starter. The standard OEM stator produces only 100W of electric power. I was debating to buy an after market 200W stator. That would supply enough power to all lights, but that was adding another $150 plus installation to the price. After doing some research I have decided to by a Dakar Dual Sport Kit from http://www.electrosport.com. It has a small battery build in it to ke… Read how I did it…
How I did it: Last year I was invited by my friend Daniel via his friend Dan to go and ride a dirt bike in the forest. The offer was Honda xr400 with the full protective gear. How can you resist that. Last time I was sitting on a dirt bike was 20 years ago. Due to excitement and partly due to the fear I could not sleep the night before. We went to one of the North West forests designated for off road riding. I was the first … Read how I did it…
We are in process of replacing web servers which some of them have been with us since the beginning and adding a new ones.
- 7 new servers will be put into production by the end of next week.
- adding 28G of memory for memcache
- planning to switch master db with a slave db box since it’s newer and faster
- going to re-index entries and comments tables
- changing architecture of www.43places.com, www.allconsuming.net, www.43people.com and www.listsofbests.com setup to offload traffic from master database to farm of slave servers
- planning to speed up search by doing it locally on each box rather then doing it across NFS mounted drives
- I can not forget about the code optimization in progress
Hopefully this all will contribute to speed and stability of 43T.


