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February 24, 2006
Putting Years On My DWIDP Files
I've known for a long time that I wanted to spend the rest of my dramatically extended life with MR, but never did it seem so life-altering a decision as the moment when I realized that I was putting the years on my saved DWIDP files.
You see, every night (when I can get home from work in time, which is less and less frequently but that's a topic that need not detain us here) I create a perfectly Zoned (that's 30% protein, 40% carb, 30% fat) 629 calorie dinner for my love. I used Dr. Walford's Interactive Diet Planner to do it, and I save the file with the date, as in: MR Dinner 2-24-06.
I used to just save the dates, not the year. Now, I save the year. Because I know I will be making him dinner on this same day many, many years from now.
Now if that's not commitment (a word that Aubrey de Grey taught me how to spell!), then I don't know what is!
Posted by april at February 24, 2006 6:11 PM
Comments
Only a 2 digit year? :)
Another concern which you probably have already thought of is data portability.. what will you do if you can't run DWIDP itself? (and I presume the source code is not accessible, though I may be mistaken in that).. Perhaps DWIDP stores the user data in an XML-like format or easily parseable text format (in which case you're fine). If it uses some custom format (quite possible) then it's a much larger issue.
Anyway, data portability is a real issue.. it's why I keep using Eudora Light 3 for my email, because it stores it's mail in an industry-wide portable standard.. unlike Outlook.
Posted by: gregg m. at February 24, 2006 4:24 PM
some open source DWIDP flavour would be way cool. like, having a palm version of it too so you can always track your intake and sync it with da motherload. Best if someone put up some online version of it. imminst.org anyone? :-)
Posted by: Curious at February 26, 2006 2:21 AM
I know this has been brough up in the CR archives, but is somebody working to bring this program to Mac?
Posted by: Brandon Wright at February 27, 2006 7:09 AM