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Reading the utopi­anism of world​chang​ing​.com after watch­ing a TED talk from the founder of it, I tried cal­cu­lat­ing car­bon foot­print more accu­rately than I had pre­vi­ously. Catching up on missed blogs, I’ve got­ten myself going on dopplr a moment ago, fol­low­ing a Lessig commenter’s idea to use it to cal­cu­late car­bon for off­set dona­tions — which is a pretty cool, IMO.

I’ve been using Tasque for a cou­ple weeks now and it’s extremely use­ful for keep­ing myself orga­nized. The only down­side was the lack of instant-access to it unless I’m sit­ting in front of my lap­top. Trying to rem­edy that I signed up for RTM and got their MilkSync to work with my Crackberry, so the tasks I enter on my lap­top end up on my phone and visa-versa.

Sigh. Being impressed with sync is very ten years ago…

I was sort of on the fence about the count­ing calo­ries thing, at least until I saw the WeightBot screen­shots, which sold me on the idea: eat­ing healthy to look bet­ter and live longer? Meh. Eating healthy for the sake of a new toys? Win.

Unfortunately WeightBot is only for the iPhone, which I don’t (want to) own, so that rule that out. Instead I googled for online tools and came up with live​strong​.com, which has a “MyPlate” thing that keeps track of all this, along with “X food has N calo­ries” and such. It also has a Blackberry thing for enter­ing all that as well that’s on the “Blackberry App World”.

The upshot? App World is a gigan­tic ripoff of Apple’s App Store, and some­thing they should have had from the beginning.