This is just a quickie, but I thought this was really cool. If you’re in the Spring Hill area or with in 50mi of it you should pay attention to this and have a voice.

Rebecca Wynd
Outdoor Encounter, Director

Go to OutdoorEncounter.com and check it out. I’ll get some more info on this later and let you know what I find out.

So here it is,,, this is where I’ve been for the last few days. Slaving away till all hours of the night, brain storming and typing like a Stenographer on crack…(you know you love it)

So this is VisualComa v3.1.0 and I like it… It’s not a huge diviation from the last design, but its a little more fresh and simple. I wanted the visual focus to be more directed to the posted content. I guess that mean I should put some real content in here then… Another point of interest was to freshen things up by using a relaxing font when possible. Apple Casual is a great font, one of my favorites.

Other News

As I mentioned the other day I actually bought my own Scooter. It’s a Honda Ruckus 50cc, yes that’s the weakest cc I could have gotten apart from getting a pocket bike. but seriously who would I be kidding if I were to get a real motor cycle… I’m pretty sure I would kill myself or lay it down on my foot right in the middle of town and have to be drug out from under it. Then some old lady with saggy nylon tights would come over to see if I was O.K. and I would accidentally look up her dress… So lets just forget about getting a motor cycle. I don’t like what I’m thinking about.

What else is new…

In relation to what else I’ve been doing, mostly typing but also listening to some sweet tunes. One in particular that I got was ‘Grace Kelly‘ from Mika… I freaking love this song, and for some reason they remind me of Queen. oh and don’t ask why, but I’ve really been into the Shiny Toy Guns, weird I know…

Nuff said for now,,, I promise I’ll get some good video of the Scooter in action (biscuet), maybe even a wheely. just for you Wine… I’m building a mount on the front for my camera, so, good time are coming…

Take it easy

Perhaps you’ve seen this perhaps not… It’s one of those things that I think you will either like or just not care about.

Here’s how you will know if you will like this…

There are three 15min episodes, and there kinda cool. I liked em… I think the kicker for me was that Neil Patrick Harris is the main character. He plays the part good because he’s got such a big head…

Today I got up went to check on some things here and noticed one very important item… My stat counter just clicked 10,000…

Yes, I’m kind of a stats junky, but only in the sense that it’s good to see progress. I know I’ve never had a serious message or an over all theme (apart from just trying to have fun), but I’m not to worried about it.

Just want to say thanks for the interest, you’ve made this an actual creative outlet for me…

October 24, 2007 to July 11, 2008
Here are a few un-impresive stats I’ve gathered that I thought were interesting to me…

• 391 posts
• 65 categories
• 399 tags
• 700 comments

It’s just to bad I’m not cool enough to be taken seriously by Technorati… No worries, I’m not even a year old yet.

I like this chart… It’s cool to see things grow.

Referring Sites are at the top, I guess that means this community things is working.

Apparently I’m not quite a global commodity yet, heck I’m hardly even a national treasure.

This weeks edition of Web App Wednesday I’m going to keep it simple. Here is a nice plugin for those of you self hosted Wordpress users…

WordPress Database Backup

It’s a typical install, easy and fast. And it’s just a few clicks away from sending you an email with a .sql.gz file holding all your Database info. You can set it up to automatically back up every week, which leave you free from worrying about the big What If…

Check it out and see what you think. If you’ve got any amazing plugins that you like so much you’d recommend lets hear them.

This is probably the worst video you’ll see all day, but you must watch it like a train wreck… No its not a time laps.

No Bitching allowed, I filmed this with my PHONE.

Oh, and what is the difference between Jelly and Jam???

So this is a little bit of a change up from the normal Positive Posts here. I’m not really sure where this is going, but every time I look at this photo I remember a time when I used to be crazy-insane and supper destructive. So many memories… I wish I could plug my brain in and watch the memories on a big screen. How funny would that be.

I’m on the right…

All I can think of is that when I have kids I want them to have as much fun as I did. I can only imagine the pain that means for me and the head ache, but it’s still fun to think about.

Here’s to my family and all the insane things we did.

• Lego Mansions
• Mud Pits
• Tadpole Hunts
• Jumping Bikes and Bleeding
• Burning Stuff
• Building Tree Forts
• Digging for Quarts
• Playing Cars with HotWheels
• Six by Six’s
• GI JOE
• Scary Storms
• Bonfires
• Bebeguns
• Big Wheels
• Puddles
• this could go on and on…

I’m sure you could say the same, I hope your kids can too…

After…

I just got back from the movies… Hancock was definitely a summer flick, fun simple and probably not worth the money for the Theater, but I had good time and thats all it’s about.

I try not to get too wrapped up in movie reviews before I go see a movie. If it sucks than I’ll find out and that’s good enough for me. Usually if I want to see a movie I’ll watch it even if there is a chance that it’s going to suck. I have to prove to myself that it might have been good at one point in time.

The Resident Evil movies are good example. I have no idea why I even got interested in those movies, but I determined to watch all three. They weren’t that good, but I still watched them.

Before…

Thinking about going and seeing this movie… Anyone… Thoughts?

I know this is kinda random, but ever since I was a kid people have given me crap about the amount of mustard I put on my HotDogs…

I like HotDogs with lots of mustard. For some reason Ketchup on a HotDog makes me feel sick, but Mustard is good… I’ll take Onions and Jalepenos too, but the result of that kind of hotdog is no good for my stomach…

This is Web App Wednesday, for those who see this and are wondering… This is the one post I do a week that lets me talk about Web Apps that I’m into. More or less this weekly post keeps me from blabbing about Web stuff all the time.

This week I’m going to talk a little about WordPress, I’m absolutely in love with this platform. As a PHP, MySQL driven Content Management System, WordPress is one of the few platforms that allows us simpletons to publish web content with relative ease.

Yesterday was the 5th B-Day of WordPress so if you’re a user than slap a high five in the air for that. I think there is a lot to be said for a platform that offers itself for free. Not to mention the fact that you can self host, be hosted via WordPress.com, or if your extra ordinary you can do a Multi User WordPress thingy… I’m not sure how to explain that last one except that you’re able to host multiple blogs from one administration panel on a self hosted account. (i honestly don’t think that last line counts as techno babble)

The real reason I’m all in pansies over WordPress this week is that I finally developed a full fledged plugin that interacts with the database and offers editing. Simply create a page and type [list_badges] in the content area and blamo there you have your results.

Yipty dippty doo, right!!!? This is exciting for me simply because now I am one huge step closer to being able to offer something to the public… (although I probably wont any time soon)

Here’s the skinny,,,

My honest opinion is this. Platforms like WordPress, Blogger, Typepad, Habari, b2evolution, Moveable Type and the like are setting a new standard for the web. It’s amazing, cool, and I’m happy about it.

Also, I’d like to give a shout out to group over at and say a HUGE THANKS!!!! You’ve made the web gods happy… oh and me too…