Um… so how’s the new server?

We seem to be mostly cut over now, some people’s domain name servers might take a little longer but most hits are now on the new server.
Faster? Broken? Slower?
Please let us know if you notice anything anything broken or, for that matter, anything that is better.
The new server is in a data centre in Dallas [...]

We’re open to suggestions

Hi,
If you’ve got a great link, post, article, image, or whatever that’s interesting, about health and fitness and you think the SmarterFitter community would like to hear about it, we’re now taking link suggestions.
Pop over to our form and post your suggestion. We’ll start posting editorially appropriate suggestions as they come in.
Be sure to [...]

Routine maintenance

We’re going to be offline Sunday morning from 9am GMT for a couple of hours. The blog should still be available but other parts of the site will be down.
Thanks for your patience.

RSS and now email, great ways to keep up with the blog

Hi,
The best way to keep up with the SmarterFitter blog is to subscribe to our news feed in a news reader like Google Reader. If you don’t know what a news reader is, and that’s perfectly reasonable because most people don’t, then you might like to check out this short video that explains what a [...]

Blog and CSS

Monica and I spent yesterday and this morning messing about with CSS and Wordpress. The blog is the first part of the site we’ve moved over to a new unified look with unified navigation.
I’m working on a big enhancement to the Food Diary and once that’s ready to go we’ll convert the rest of the [...]

Preview of new look

Monica and I aren’t graphic designers but we’re pretty happy with the results of a couple of evenings playing about with different colours and looks for the site along with a tab based menu.
Expect this applied to the site in the next couple of weeks.
Inspiration drawn from Skype and 37 Signals.

Chain Update to Deal with October

I have just updated the chain to cope with the impending arrival of October.
You’ll now get a clean page showing the current month with  nice overview of your entire chain below. All links should still work.
Please enjoy.

Progress on the Chain

So, I’m just finishing up the look and feel on the new version of the chain. You’ll be able to move forward and back through time as well as see all of your chain in one neat view that will give you a great overview of how well you’re doing establishing your new habit or [...]

Using My Own Seinfeldian Chains

Since getting back from our trips cycling in France and then walking in Scotland I’ve been using the Chain to pick up a few daily habits.
Here are my current chains.
The annoying but essential: Floss and Electric Brush Every Day
The educational: Read Agile Web Development with Rails
The mind numbing: Read An Essay About Software
And the somewhat [...]

Smarter and Fitter

Hi! Right now SmarterFitter.com is under heavy development as I try to get more features out for July 1st. I’ll post here as I roll out new features or find interesting general smart fitness links.