To everyone that has contacted me in the last couple of weeks, I get the message. I need to redesign, open up comments, and work on the feed(s). The reason for lack of new design or comments is the fact that I am graduating in about a month so things have been a little hectic.

As far as the feeds go, I have been asked to provide full text feeds as well as summaries. I still have not decided what route I want to go on these and I will probably play with a few different formats to see what works best and gets the most use.

There are a lot of things I would like to enhance in my design, including reader friendly URLs and a tagging/category based system for archives. Making the time to do these things has just been difficult. My apologies. Hopefully soon there will be a lull in the excitement and I can this stuff done.

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.

As a follow-up to this, I have found that lawmakers in Austin have asked for the busts to be reviewed.

In the article, alcohol related fatalities for the age group of 15-20 is cited as a reason for the recent crackdown. What? This age group has nothing to do with arresting people at bars. Why? Because they can’t go!!

Sometimes I really wonder…

Why are people like this guy allowed anywhere a radio station?

Baldwin has tried to show his political stance but has ended up making comments such as “Stoning Henry Hyde” and “Cheney is a terrorist”. It must be ignorance and proves why we should not allow movie/tv stars to talk about politics. Baldwin went as far as to call Sean Hannity “

Well, it has made national news, TABC is arresting people for being “drunk” in bars.

I usually would not have an issue with this but recently they seem to be crossing the line. There is a difference between arresting people who are a danger to themselves and others and arresting people who have only had a few drinks. Under current statutes TABC and police officers are allowed to make judgment calls when determining when someone is intoxicated. This means that though you may not be legally intoxicated (.08 BAC) the officers are within their jurisdiction to arrest you if

In February of 2004, I wrote about reading the book “Flags of Our Fathers” and the impact that it had on me.

From the looks of it, there will be a film based on the book. Directed by Clint Eastwood and having Barry Pepper as a lead character, gives me hope that this film will do the book justice.

Barry Pepper’s portrayal of “Jackson” in Saving Private Ryan was flawless and really pointed out the state of religion in our country at the time and how individual soldiers dealt with the carnage and death that they saw everyday.

I really do have high hopes for the movie and I don’t think it will let me down.