First a caveat, as far as I know DailyMile might take a CycleMeter KML file as input.

However, if it doesn't...

It should!

That's basically all I have to say.

A little detail.

When I go for a ride, when I reach the starting point, I get out my iPhone and reset CycleMeter. When I stop to rest, I hit the Stop button. When I resume the ride I hit continue. When I'm done, I hit Done. At that point it sends me an email with a link to Google Maps that opens a KML file it generates that contains all the info about my ride.

I just signed up for DailyMile, which seems to be a Twitter-like service for people who work out. People can follow you and you can follow others. And they post information about their workouts. Like me, people who exercise systematically love these gadgets and community systems, so why not work on the connection! I mean CycleMeter already goes to the trouble to output a standard format. DailyMile should accept that as input. And off we go!

BTW, here's what the XML inside a KML file looks like

KML stands for Keyhole Markup Language.

 8/31/2010; 11:16:43 AM.   .

Got out real early today cause it's going to be another scorcher.

Even at 7:30AM it was in the 80s. But it was a great ride. 50 minutes rolling, 10.33 miles.

6-minute break at turnaround at 99th St. Little or no breeze.

The river was glassy.

PS: I joined dailymile.com. Wonder if they accept KML files as posts?

 8/31/2010; 8:36:52 AM.   .

Gruber commented on my very brief post on Apple's boycott and how even a user can see it's not working. There's no dispute. You come across lots of stuff, movie trailers, corporate fact sheets, bike route maps, even press releases -- in Flash. You or I may not like it, but the theory that Apple's lack of support for Flash would force them to convert, well that isn't working. That's all I said.

Gruber, however, reduced it to the same old boring battle-to-the-death between two titans, in which us little guys are mere spectators. Sorry but that just isn't how I view it. My perspective is that of an iPad user. I like the damned thing. But I feel like a pawn, and I don't like that.

Of course I'll get more of the usual boilerplate moral bullshit from Flash haters saying whose fault this really is. I don't care.

Maybe if (hint hint) Gruber had comments on his blog, his minions wouldn't feel the need to vent on the sites he points to? Just a thought.

 8/31/2010; 7:02:50 AM.   .