A couple of months ago I bought my sister a swimming watch which counts lengths for you. As a general rule I usually buy people things which I'd like them to have bought me and usually this unsubtle hint goes completely unnoticed. Not this time though, now I have a swimming watch as well and one which you connect to your PC and download all sorts of critical performance data.

Endomondo is a thing which lets you record the exercise you're doing, it also has a thing on the website where if you log on when someone is in the middle of running or whatever you can type things in and it shouts it to them from their phone.

It's very simple but weirdly exciting, this evening I have been shouting inane sporty trainer type things at Chris and you can see on his readout that he could hear me and was starting to run faster.

Android is great. For a while my computers have backing stuff up to each other and synchronising music between themselves using rsync so this evening I was playing with android and seeing what utilities I could get for it.