Thirteen of my favorite posts from 2007
In no particular order…

1. starting over - I started the blog with a clean slate in January of 07. Here’s the first post from the new blog.
2. Back to linux - I’ve been playing with Linux on and off since 2000. This time, I made room on the second disk in the laptop and installed sabayon with all the eyecandy (which reminds me, I should really give vectorlinux a try).
3. It Could Happen to You - We had a harddrive die last year and its like loosing a member of the family…
4. When Tech Support Isn’t - I had to provide my own support when my host couldn’t get my box booted…
5. WUBI!! - WUBI is a Ubuntu on Windows installer that virtually gives you ubuntu on your windows install. It was cool.
6. Tower Power - Someone was trying to put up a cell phone tower on some property across the street from our neighborhood….
7. 4th of July to Forget - Our fourth of July adventures on the high seas!
8. Blogday 07 w00t! - I listed a list of the blogs I visit on a somewhat regular basis. Check them out.
9. IWTGBTP!! - I finally got to take amy out west and she got to see the splendor of Colorado and New Mexico…
10. So Many Plates - Life is like a balancing act…
11. Three Must See Shows - Not that I’m likely to see the complete seasons this year (thanks you greedy money grubbing studios) but these three were the standouts in a season prematurely ended…
12. Playing Catch up - This one is kind of cheating. Its was the first link in the series about our trip to Disney World for Thanksgiving and has links to the other posts…
13. Make EntreCard work for you - A post about entrecard and how to make it work…

I’ve developed a free, widget ready (I think) theme for WordPress thats based of a site redesign I was working on for another site. I’ve decided not to use the design for that site and thought it appropriate to make it a cool WordPress 2.3.2 theme.

The site is a two column layout with a footer area. The header automatically pulls the tags for your posts and creates meta tags out of them. You need to EDIT the header.php file and change the commonmeta tags to something more fitting for your site:

$commonmeta = "delusions,reviews,politics,family,ramblings,bloggin,money";


Please feel free to use this theme as you feel fit, I only ask that you keep the information in the footer linking back to this site.

DEMO

Downloaded a total of 3 times

I’m not a huge college (or even pro for that matter) football fan, yet for the past several years I’ve found myself sitting high above the crowd at the Georgia Dome for the Peach (come Chick-Fli-A) bowl on New Years Eve. Its one of the “perks” of doing pyro in the Atlanta area. Indoor pyro is a totally different beast than a larger outdoor show. Often times the work is harder on the indoor than the outdoor show for a couple of reasons I won’t go in to but I’ve decided I rather prefer outdoor displays to indoor stuff.

Last year’s game was ok as Georgia was playing in the bowl game. This year was cool as I could sit there and yell go Tigers and it didn’t matter who had possession of the ball. Not to mention it but the sea of Orange that encircled the dome was amazing as well (both Auburn and Clemson have orange as their color). It was actually a good game as well and a packed house (I looked around the dome from my perch at the top and was unable to find more than a dozen empty seats at kickoff!). Going by the stats, Auburn deserved to win. They had possession longer, they threw for more yards and had more first downs than Clemson, but Clemson wasn’t going to give up with out a fight.

The game ended regulation play at 17 -17 and for the first time in the bowl’s 40 year history, it went in to over time. Clemson took the lead on field goal but Auburn answered back with a TD to win the game. It ended up being a rather exciting match and both teams were pretty evenly paired up. Its hard to not get drawn in to the excitement of the game in that atmosphere.

Anywho, my job through out the game was to sit in the upper observation booth on the Auburn (home team) endzone and fire off four shots whenever a team scored. Pretty easy and a little boring. Not to mention that I had been sitting up there since about 4:30pm that afternoon and had spent all but maybe two hours of my day up there. New Years came and went with a flourish as we heard the rockets going off outside the dome, we were too concerned with breaking down the gear (we had to pull our cables out of a mess of fiber optic cables) so we could head home. By the time my head hit the pillow at 3am, I had been going for about 21 hours solid. In the pyro business, we’re often the first in and the last out at an event. All in all it was fun but one year, I’d like to be asleep in my bed before the new year rolls in.

How’d you spend your new years eve??

Rare is it to find a good bluegrass band with an amazing sound thats light on the strings. However, The Greencards have managed to put together a sound thats fun to listen to while combining some of the coolest strings around. Listen closely to the guitar and mandolin, you’ll be taken away. Hey, can I have your tots??

• Happy new year!!! #

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