Archive for December, 2009

the unveiling

December 30th, 2009

And we’re back! The site is live again, now with 100% wind-powered Fatcow hosting. New hosting, new theme (I think it’s a lot cleaner, don’t you? If you’re reading this through your feed reader, you should come check it out), new plans — it’s going to be a fun year.

Goal the first: I’m going to be doing Project365 with Lauren — an image a day for a whole year. No promises regarding quality :-D I will likely post all the pictures to my new Picasa account, and cross-post them between here and tumblr.

2nd Goal: Read 50 books. I first started keeping track of my books this year, and made it almost to 40, so 50 shouldn’t be a huge stretch. I had a drought in spring and early summer due to some massive life upheaval (new job halfway across the country can do that to a guy).

Goal #3: Compete at least once a month in a coding/algorithm competition, whether it’s TopCoder, Code Jam, or whatever else I might find. Even if I don’t officially participate, follow along and do the problems anyway.

Fourth Goal: Join and regularly contribute to an open-source software project. The hard part: finding one I really want to improve.

Five: Ensure that some of those books I read (and some of the feeds in my feed reader) will enrich my understanding of Catholicism and of Christianity as a whole.

And finally, 6: Play my guitar a lot more often. Lauren got me one of these for Christmas, so that should make it much easier and more fun. If I get any good, I’ll record myself and post it up here, too!

I never know how to wrap up this sort of post.

Hello world!

December 22nd, 2009

Just switched up my hosting and I’m still getting things back in order. Bear with me for a bit :-)

wave invites available

December 9th, 2009

Morning all. After a complete lack of response on Twitter and Facebook, I figured I’d post this here. I have quite a few Google Wave invites available to anybody who wants them. Drop me a comment here letting me know you want one, and be sure your email address is valid. First 15 get invites!