Ran the Warrior Dash today, and by pure luck, I managed not to maim or kill myself.

The nature of the event (obstacles, mud, water, barbed wire, junkyard metal, etc) makes it a perfect opportunity to "retire" a pair of running shoes, but all is not lost, because even though they might be ruined for the purpose of running, there's still a lot of practical use remaining. One of the cooler aspects of the event is participation in the Green Sneakers program, which aims to bring these shoes back from the brink of destruction, clean them up, and distribute them to people around the world.

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Today marks the release of Amazon's CloudPlayer, a web application that streams your own music to you via the browser or any Android device. I've been trying it out for a couple hours now, long enough to be reminded of a horrible habit I have: purging browser tabs. After unintentionally killing my music stream twice, I remembered Fluid.

Fluid is an OSX application that allows you to create individual applications that encapsulate a browser that defaults to a single URL. They run in their own memory space, can be hidden, shown and Cmd-Tab'd to like any other native application, launched from the Dock, etc.

Creating an app out of a URL is easy in Fluid, but the way that Amazon.com handles authentication requires a quick, simple preference edit in order to properly log in and get cookied.

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