We recently outfitted a room for working out. My neighbor was kind enough to give us their treadmill. We set up an LCD TV and bought some free weights, exercise balls, etc. Then my wife said, "The treadmill has no TV, can you do something about that".
Materials: Lack Shelf from Ikea, clip strap or belt, hammer, knife or screw driver, drill
Description: I was looking around for some junk to improvise with and found something better, an Ikea shelf that just didn't work out for an another project. The shelf seemed just big enough to hold my notebook, and appeared to be hollow.
Step1: WIth the hammer, I knocked out the back of the shelf. Inside I found that it was supported by some cardboard.
Step 2: Using a knife, I carve out about 6 to 7 inches of cardboard inside.
Step 3: Drill some holes in the side for cables. I wish I had a small power saw for a smoother cut. However, 15 small holes did the trick.
Step 4: Finally, using a nylon clip strap, I fastened the shelf to the treadmill and installed the notebook. You could use an old belt.
Today I ran on treadmill for about 30 minutes while I watched "The Who" concert on Netflix.
Update 1: I've hacked together a Posterous Sidebar Flair Hack Builder Tool here.
Notice the two pieces of "flair" in my posterous sidebar, "recent posts" and "flickr photos". Perhaps you've tried to embed some javascript in your custom posterous theme and found out that they simply don't allow it. That's probably a good thing. You can get crazy and buggy with this stuff. However, without javascript support, typical blog sidebar widgets won't work.
But... I googled some suggestions and customized them for my needs. Basically, some javascript in an iframe and you can build yourself a nice, safe sidebar widget. This is sort of how Google Gadgets on iGoogle work. I think I might eventually lose the flair, but in the meantime, I'll share how it's put together. My widget supports showing posterous posts, tweets, rss feeds, delicious feeds, and flickr photos.I built the "recent posts" widget using my posterous rss feed. The two iframes I embedded in my theme are
Update 1: I've hacked together a Posterous Sidebar Flair Builder based on this post here.
You need to set the width and length of the iframe to fit your theme's sidebar. It might require a little trial-and-error to get it right.
About the Parameters "method" parameter can be set to "posterous", "twitter", "rss", "delicious", or "flickr". "css" parameter can be set to the path of your CSS file. Otherwise it uses defaults that I like:) "style" parameter can be set to "posterous" --- this uses "posterous" default theme "header" parameter can be set to the Header text for the widget, i.e., "Recent Posts" "count" parameter is the number of items to display
parameters for "method" = "posterous" "hostname" = sub-domain of posterous blog, i.e., martinruiz for martinruiz.posterous.com "tag" = tag, i.e., "technology"
parameters for "method" = "twitter"
"username" = twitter username, i.e., martinruiz
parameters for "method" = "rss" "feedurl" = path of rss feed, i.e., http://martinruiz.posterous.com/rss.xmlparameters for "method" = "delicious" "feedurl" = path of delicious feed, i.e., http://del.icio.us/feeds/json/RuizMartin/martinruizparameter for "method" = "flickr" "username" = flickr user name, i.e., "martinruiz" "user" = flickr user id, i.e., "8335702@N03" --- note replace "@" with "%40" "layout" = "v" for vertical, "h" for horizontal --- default is "h" "size" = "s" for small, "m" for medium, "t" for thumbnail, "b" for big --- default is "m" Give me a heads up
if you use it, so I can look out for you:)
