NaNoWriMo - Wish me luck

Okay, it's official, I have signed up to participate in NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month). In signing up for this, I have decided to write a 50,000 word (~175 page) novel by the end of November. This means that I will have to write an average 1,667 words per day.
I think the most difficult thing will be trying to leave all of the editing till I have written everything.
During the month I will try and give updates - but please feel free to send me an email to ask how things are going.

Here is the link to the site:
http://www.nanowrimo.org/
Here is the link to my profile (word count):
http://www.nanowrimo.org/user/240190

Personal Tests Results - October 2007

Here are the results of my October 2007 personal tests:
03 - 09: 47.6% average
10 - 16: 40.6% average
17 - 23: 50.14% average

Microsoft wants your health information

Microsoft recently launched a new beta, called Health Vault. It is a place to conveniently store your health records. Now I'm not sure about you, but I don't think that I will be trusting MS with my medical information. What are your thoughts?

Personal Tests

I just had an "Oh duh!" moment. I was going to create a web page for this, then I remembered that I have a blog. I must be tired.

I recently ran into an interesting idea. It is called Personal unit tests. Follow the link for more info. I'm not sure why, but I loved the idea, and decided to shamelessly copy it for my own ends. I was keeping a daily todo list, but never provided the feedback about how I was really doing over a length of time. Following this I can make a spreadsheet and track how I'm doing over a length of time. Plus with the todo list I would be tempted to fudge things so that they would match what I wanted, rather than what I truly did; with this it is either pass-fail, yes-no. And this seems that much more geeky ^_^.
I decide that I would attempt to post the results of this daily to my Jaiku account (it's just easier). Yesterday I did a measly 39%.

Here are the tests:

01 Brush Teeth (Health)
If I brushed my teeth twice yesterday
02 Deodorant (Health)
If I put on deodorant yesterday
03 Lies (Mind)
If I told five or fewer lies yesterday
04 Meditate (Mind)
If I meditated twice during the day
05 Shower (Health)
If I showered in the morning
06 Sleep (Health)
If I got a full eight hours of sleep the night before
07 Stretch (Health)
If I stretched twice the day before
08 Check Feeds (Computer)
If I checked my feeds the day before
09 Check all notes (Other)
If I checked all my notes the day before
10 Check eMail (Computer)
If I checked my eMail the day before
11 Clean (Home)
If I worked on cleaning the house the day before
12 Journal (Mind)
If I wrote on my journal the day before
13 Budget (Home)
If we stayed on budget the month before
14 Family (Family)
If *I* contacted family members anytime the previous week
15 Trash (Home)
If I took out trash on Monday
16 Blog (Mind)
If I posted to my blog in the last seven days
17 Track weight (Health)
If I tracked my weight on Monday
18 Replace razor (Health)
If I replaced replaced my razor head on Thursday