I’m not really one who does the yearly resolutions and this year is no different.
Lately I’ve been in the midst of a lot of self reflection. I guess moving across the country and starting a new life does that to a guy. So I don’t really think of the following “resolutions” as anything [...]
New Years Resolutions
27 DecMy weight loss
3 DecSince April 2008 I’ve been dieting and exercising, mostly dieting. I weighed more then I ever had before at a whopping 265 lbs. Not an ideal situation.
I decided to attempt to lose weight, not really sure how I was going to do it. I started out with the South Beach Diet which [...]
Adjusting to California
11 NovSo I’ve been a resident of California for just over three weeks now and things are going well. I have most of my IKEA furniture assembled and most of my boxes unpacked. I’ve been kind of lazy with things lately but that’s OK.
PBwiki is really great. Everyone I work with [...]
Last Day at Netconcepts
14 OctFriday was my last day at Netconcepts. It wasn’t very emotional because this has been building up for about a month now. My first phone interview with PBwiki was on September 5th, I was in CA interviewing in person September 19th and I put in my notice on September 24th. I’ve had [...]
Moving to California
25 SepSo after 27 years in southern WI, I’m moving to California.
I’ve just accepted a position with http://www.pbwiki.com as a junior developer. I start there on October 20th, so it will be a crazy couple of weeks preparing to move.
I’ve wanted to move to the bay area for quite some time, and this was finally [...]
Yahoo and the semantic web
29 AugAt Netconcepts I’ve implemented microformats in order to optimize content for search engines. An example of this would be the hCard microformat which we’re using in the Allen Edmonds store locator. If you view the source of http://www.allenedmonds.com/mens/allen-edmonds-in-brookfield.shtml and look for class=”vcard” you can examine how we’re marking up the content with classes [...]
Unboxing of my new iMac
18 JunToday my iMac arrived. This is my first Mac so I’m pretty excited. I unboxed it at work because I didn’t feel like waiting until I got home after the Drupal Meetup tonight.
Office Mushroom
16 JunIn one of our plants at work we have a strange little mushroom growing. It’s a couple inches tall and we don’t know what it is. If anyone out there is a mushroom expert I would be interested in knowing what sort of mushroom it is. Here are some pictures I’ve taken.
More Pictures From San Francisco
28 AprI’m back from San Francisco. The trip was awesome. Here are some more pictures.
First Day Visiting San Francisco
17 AprFor those of you that don’t know. I’m in San Francisco for a few days because on Saturday I’m attending Startup School at Stanford. So I took some extra days off so I could explore San Fran.
Today I got out to San Francisco without any issues. Had to get up at 3am [...]