New Blog

Thanks to my friend The Frog who referred me to Movable Type, I now have a new blog hosted on my domain server. I've transferred all of the posts over, so it will be a seemless transition. Please update your links and bookmarks accordingly:

http://www.photoninja.net/blog/

I'm happy to say that I was able to return the favor to The Frog by discovering a "fix" she had been looking for during my install. Glad I could help!

Snowboard, Part 2

So I'm in San Diego at my brother's place (our family is celebrating Thanksgiving today) and I brought my new snowboard with me for him to check out. He says that it's probably a pretty good size for. He got the bindings all set up and told me a few things I should see about having done if it's cheap enough before we go. He just got new pants, a jacket, and goggles for his fiance for an early Christmas/Valentine's present. So she had me try on her old set. They also have an old helmet and an extra pair of gloves. They put everything together in an "extras" bag so that anyone interested in going with them can use the stuff. So it looks like the only thing I need to buy are wrist guards and maybe a thicker pair of socks and some thermals. I don't have boots, but I'm going to see if I can find a place that rents them. Other than that, I'm good to go!

How Much Do You Match Your Zodiac Sign?

Taken from Julie's Live Journal:

You are 73% Sagittarius

How much do you match your zodiac sign?

More on SBC

Apparently I'm not the only to claim SBC is evil. My post is number 3!

Another Credit

Thanks Regina, for linking to my blog! :)

Relief

Ah, the exam is over! I studied all day yesterday and crammed in as much studying as I could this morning (the exam wasn't until 1:30 in the afternoon). I sped read through the last 40 pages while in the exam site parking lot! It's hard to know for sure how I did, but I think it's quite possible that I passed. Maybe even likely. The results will be mailed by December 15th, so I only have to wait about a month to know; which is nice.

After the exam, I went to visit Danielle and Jamie. Danielle and I went out to dinner at Bennigan's, then went back to her place with take-out for Jamie, and the three of us talked until 11pm or so I think. My cheeks hurt from all the smiling and laughing! Great to see Danielle so much happier!

SpaceShipOne Calendar

SpaceShipOne Calendars are now available on the Rocketboosters site!

Recent Picture

For those of you who have been bugging me for a recent picture, here is one that was taken with Burt Rutan and Mike Massee in front of SpaceShipOne at the Rocketboosters celebration on Sunday.

Responding to Erik

Well I'm all packed up and am waiting on Mike so we can go out to eat before I head off to San Diego. So I have a little time yet before I abandon the computer. :)

Erik responded to my earlier question. Okay, I see what sitemeter is now. I use AWStats that tells me the same type of info. However, it's something Mike had to install on my domain server. For blogspot, I may indeed try out sitemeter.

Got another link to my blog. Thanks Mo!

CGAP Exam

I am sitting for the Certified Government Auditing Professional (CGAP) exam on Thursday in San Diego. So I hope to stay away from the computer until then so that I can study. I even took tomorrow off work. I may actually still stray, but I'm really going to try to remain focused so I can pass!

And Yet Another...

...link to my blog. Thanks bill! BTW, you have a link to my November Archive, which is fine...for November. But as soon as December hits, your link will be outdated. Would you mind updating it to just http://photoninja.blogspot.com/?

gmail

I have a gmail (Google email) account. It has some pretty neat features, like being able to do a google search through your own messages and being able to apply more than one label to messages. You can only get an account through invite and the invites are limited. Right now I have 6 invites available, so if anyone wants a gmail account, just let me know!

My Blog's First Reference

Neat! My blog just got its first reference here. So what is your sitemeter page, Erik? Obviously, it sounds like it tracks changes to web pages, but what is it that you use?

It's funny, I was somewhat opposed to blogging when I first learned of it. I don't actually know why since I'm such a technology / communications geek. I don't know, it just seemed like blogs would be airing too much personal stuff that ought to stay personal (mainly involving other people who may not wish to be blogged about). But then my friends starting getting blogs. At first I didn't really read them...not out of protest or anything, I just never got around to it. Once I finally did, I realized that they're not always about other people's personal business. They can just be random thoughts or intellectual debates. When stuff is personal, it's typically personal to *that* person without creating the drama of airing other people's personal business. Obviously blogs come in a variety of flavors, so there are drama filled blogs, but it finally dawned on me that they don't have to be. So here I am, with my very own blog. I'm thinking that my life must have been filled with drama back then and so that's all I could think that I would write about and just avoided it all together. I guess I never bothered to reassess that decision until recently.

I've really enjoyed reading the blogs that I frequent daily. They help me to feel more in touch with my friends since I get to read about their thoughts and various activities. And I'm really finding this blogging thing neat. Because Blogger doesn't have a simple interface where you can enter URLs to have links added to the sidebar, I had to learn how to read and edit the template. This really excited the geek in me. Learning more inspired me to redesign my website. I look forward to playing around with my website quite a bit this winter!

Update: Two references in one night! I was just checking out my friend Tim Sandefur's blog and he has added a link to his LONG list of blog links. I wonder which one truly gets credit for the "first" reference since they are both friends and reach each other's blogs regularly.

Printable Recipes

I have added printable versions of the three recipes I have up.