This is my first post on the new Vitanuova, which uses Leonard Richardson's NewsBruiser instead of my old scripts. Leonard not only wrote and maintains NewsBruiser but also gave me a good deal of assistance with mod_rewrite and feature questions as I was setting it up. Thanks very much, Leonard.
As I've mentioned before, I have over 75 postponed entries on various topics, and I hope to get around to posting those soon.
If you encounter any trouble with the new Vitanuova site, please let me know. Everything from the old Vitanuova should have been imported into NewsBruiser, and old links should mostly be translated and should still work.
I've been playing Dance Dance Revolution or clones for about twenty minutes a day for the past three weeks, which represents my first regular aerobic exercise since I had required physical education classes in high school. (Riana and Leonard suggest avoiding anaerobic exercise, because it might result in death.)
At home, I play PyDance (formerly PyDDR); I bought an official Dance Dance Revolution soundtrack and transcoded it to Ogg format, and combined it with PyDance-contributed step files. I've also been going by the Sony Metreon now and then and playing the official arcade version of Dance Dance Revolution. (Because I had to buy the equipment and the soundtrack, I've actually spent more money on my home DDR setup than I have at the arcade.)
I'm enjoying DDR and PyDance a lot, I'm getting better, and I'm hoping the exercise will be good for my health. It's a commonplace in recent news articles that people have lost weight and gotten in shape solely by playing DDR and similar step games on a regular basis.
As the PyDance developers suggest, I've gotten equipment from Level Six in North Carolina.
