Why haven’t I updated here lately?  Well, it is mainly because I have been spending most of my spare time working on the new Linux User Group in Berkeley: BerkeleyLUG.  I have been writing my Linux oriented blogs over there, with the benefit that I am no longer boring my family and non-linux related friends.  Due to the high traffic some of those post have received, it was also important to move them off of my home server.

Not a whole lot has been going on lately in my life.  I haven’t gone dancing in awhile, but plan to start again next week for the summer.   My plans for doing a marathon in Winnipeg on Fathers have slowly evolved to doing only a 2 mile “Super Run.”  Hopefully by the end of the summer, I will be up at half marathon level again.

I won second place in the CSGF essay contest, with my essay “Saving the World One Atom at a Time.”  I will link to the article when it is published in a couple weeks.  I plan to use the money I won to buy an Android phone as soon as the new models come out.

Went fruit picking with Lisa today.  We got apricots, cherries and berries.

Hope everyone is well. 

Friday I wrote a post over at www.berkeylug.com about linux market share.  I submitted it to Digg and a couple other sites.  About 12 hours later it hit the front page.  I got over 1200 diggs and over 10,000 visitors to the page in less than 24 hours.  Pretty crazy how Digg works.  Here is my bandwidth usage for my hosting account:

Afterwards, I tried to register berkeleylug.org and found that every extension had been registered… Great.  Traffic comes with a price I guess.

I have posted some new pictures of Pittsburgh and Lisa and Lorne in Cal.

I haven’t written anything here in awhile.  I guess in that time, my sister and brother in law visisted me which was a lot of fun.  Since then, I have just pretty much been working and hanging around.  I have some interesting new projects I am working that are slightly more to do with methodology than applications, which is something I tend to enjoy more.

I have been using twitter quite a bit lately.   It is nice when you don’t feel like an entire blog entry but just want to share a couple sentences.  You can read my twitter updates by clicking the blue bird link at the top of the blog.  So, in between blog entries you might check there updates.

Well.  I changed my desktop/server OS to Ubuntu from Fedora.  I thought I had backed up my mysql databases recently, but apparently the last backup was from January.  So, I think a couple of the previous blog posts are missing.  Oh well, I haven’t written much lately anyway.  I will try to write something here tomorrow, when it is less… late.

Happy Birthday Sandy.

I posted some pics from Christmas and New Years here.

I was at Lisa’s place for Christmas and went to Florida for New Years.  It was a lot of fun.  I got my nephews Rock Band for Christmas which Braeden wanted to play continuously.