Fudgy McFarlen

Drink Red Wine before running to lose weight

I run everyday lately because I wanted to lose some weight and lower my blood pressure.  The easiest way to keep blood pressure down and make the run more easy is to drink 1/3 of a cup of red wine before my jog. Here is the sequence:

  • drink 1/3 cup of wine to thin blood and dialate capillairys about 45 minutes before running
  • Continuously drink water during the subsequent 45 minutes. This also thins blood. 
  • Run 2.5 miles
  • do the run in the mid to late afternoon.  I do not wait till evening or I will have trouble sleeping
  • The wine will help you your muscles be more loose from the beginning. Warm up time shortened.
  • If you want to goose things up a bit you can start your day drinking water then 1/2 cup of coffee – only a little as coffee drys you out pretty badly – green tea is better.

Now you may think this is just another dumb health tip but its not.  There is something in the red wine that makes you lose fat much MUCH more effectively.  I have tried loosing weight running 6 miles without the wine and lose very little and very slowly.  Whereas when I use the wine its much easier.

I am 47 years old and was seeing 130 / 80 blood pressure with resting heart rate of 60 beats per minute before starting running again.  This is not a good set of numbers for me.  After 2 months of wine and training its 120 / 53 with 47 beats per minute.

The last time I did this was when I was 38.  I was combining it with lifting weights and it was highly effective.  The photo below is from 1999 when I was 38.   I do not know what is in red wine that makes it so effective in increasing health and fitness but whatever it is it works for me.   I wish I would have known about this from day 1 of life as I believe it probably extends life just as some scientific reports are finding.  It may be as little as helping people just stay fit. 

Red wine definitely slightly supresses my appetite. 

By Fudgy McFarlen, ago

WP SuperCache PlugIn for converting your MySQL DB based blog content to static content

WP Super Cache   – You can serve out static HTML pages instead of

  • running php
  • accessing database
  • running more php to form the HTML page

On shared servers you sometimes have trouble getting access to the shared MySQL server when its overloaded.  This way you can just rip the pages out.

Notes on Installation:

When I first looked at this I was worried the .htaccess file update would foul up my already existing .htaccess file through which I use candied URL's.  I tested it and it works fine.

By Fudgy McFarlen, ago

How to Register an OCX File

If you are receiving errors about an ocx file, registering the file may solve the problem. To register an ocx file simply follow the simple steps below.

  • 1.Locate the file using windows explorer or My Computer. Alternatively search for the filename.
  • 2.Hold down the shift key and right click on the file. Then click 'Open With…' from the menu.
  • 3.An 'Open With' dialog box should appear. Click the button 'Other…'.
  • 4.Navigate to your windows\system32 directory and select the file 'RegSvr32.exe'. Do a file search for it if you have trouble locating the exact folder. On Windows 2000 it is typically located in c:\WINNT\System32. Click Open to select the file. Then click OK on the 'Open With' dialog.
  • 5.You should see a message indicating the file was successfully registered. If you see an error message, try restarting your computer and going through the above process again.
By Fudgy McFarlen, ago

Writing a Custom Control for Visual Basic

First Phase is always looking for example code to allow untangling very poorly written explanations.

Variable Visibility

You can pass variables / objects back and forth between a Visual Basic Form and a UserControl.  This archive has source code showing you how to do this:

     Scribble.zip 

 

You can make properties for the following things: Forms, UserControls and Class Modules. Basically any element that will behave as an object.

When to use properties?

Properties are handy when you want to generalize your code: if you're changing a setting of something, it might be better to create it as a property. Especially if you might have a need to get a return value as well. The property code can then do some additional stuff, such as switching form's menu items automatically to correct value, so you don't need to do it from whereever you set the property.

Property Passing

This accesses a property of the Custom Control

Parent Form Custom Control

 

ParentForm.Caption=UserControl1.Caption  

Dim m_Caption As String

Public Property Get Caption() As String
   Caption = m_Caption
End Property

 

……..more

By Fudgy McFarlen, ago

Visual Basic Error Codes and Messages

 

Feed me only good things or I will crush kill destroy.

 

 The information in this article applies to: – Standard, Professional and Enterprise Editions of Microsoft Visual Basic, 16-bit and 32-bit, for Windows, version 4.0
 
Trappable Errors for Visual Basic 4.0
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3     Return without GoSub
5     Invalid procedure call
6     Overflow
7     Out of memory
9     Subscript out of range
10    This array is fixed or temporarily locked
11    Division by zero

…….more

By Fudgy McFarlen, ago

Google Chrome Simon – Try to remember the sequence of the colored lights and tones of your browser

         

           

Was I not supposed to see the similarity between the google chrome browser symbol and the old Simon game?    Does it help to smoke a little pot before using Google Chrome?  It certainly did with Simon.   In college I used to put the speaker to my ear and go solely by sound and worked the buttons like lightning. 

By Fudgy McFarlen, ago