I spent my Saturday afternoon at the local gun range doing some trap shooting. Everything was going great until near the end of the day when I, in the process of taking a second shot at one of the clay pigeons, accidentally let the shot gun slip slightly off of my shoulder.

Usually I would have taken the time to correct the position of the gun but being in a hurry to get the target before it came down I let the shot fly. Big mistake. I now have a baseball sized bruise on my bicep. It looks like I took a beating.

Take the time to correct the gun on your shoulder if it should slip, otherwise you could end up like me. I’ll post a picture of the damage as soon as I have a moment to do so.

Definitely an interesting read about Alex King’s and Scott Sanders’ product, FeedLounge.

The interview has some good insights into when bootstrapping and organic growth are the right thing to do.

I personally wonder if this is the way I want to go with some things that I have been planning. If I can raise the capital myself without using outside investment then there is no reason to depend on others. I think the main problem I would face would be growth, and hardware costs, kind of like Alex mentioned in the interview. Hardware, while slowly going down in price, still isn’t “cheap” and that would be the main investment that I would have to make.

That’s right, Apple Boot Camp is now in session. Though this will be included in the Leopard release of OS X you can test it now by downloading the beta.

The Google Maps API has been overhauled and has plenty of new features. Two of the coolest are custom overlays and a debugging log.

I am going to play with it some more tonight and hopefully have some examples up by tomorrow.

I have been reflecting a lot on the last four years here in school. When I graduate in a month there are things that I will just miss being around. The skipping class to eat lunch with a bunch of friends, the “dates” every week to watch a TV show, and the ability to hop in my car and be five minutes away from seeing my friends.

All of these sentimental reflections have led me to think about what would truly be my dream job.

I want to travel the world, even to places no one really wants to go, like the most impoverished areas of Africa. I want to make some kind of difference in any way I can. The only jobs that I could think of that would allow me to do those things are journalist, Peace Corps worker, or a photographer.

I have never had formal photography training but I love it. If I could do one thing, it would be to take pictures all over the world of events that are affecting the area.