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It was my Birthday on the weekend. I took the opportunity to have some friends out to my Parents house for some swimming and BBQ. I had an awesome time with friends and family and really enjoyed our evening. I also managed to pick up some loot along the way!

I got a new pair of FootJoy golf shoes with soft spikes so I can better practice up at the golf club! And to go with them I got a snazy set of Golf Shorts to practice in

I also got some new riding gloves, and a couple Bontrager bottle holders.
A wireless bike computer to help me train for the upcoming ride to conquer cancer, and a pretty cool water bottle to boot!

I’m so lucky to have all these people supporting me in my life. I’m even more lucky to have friends that would make the trek out to my parents house for BBQ and swimming.

Thanks to everyone, who made it happen!

More updates soon on my biking progress!

Cheers,

Tarandon

I just signed up for the Ride to Conquer Cancer!

I’m going to see if I can plug-in some donation widgets for the ride as well as a tracking section to keep aware of my progress over the coming months. Lets all hope for good weather next June 11-12!

Cheers,

Tarandon

I just read an article over at fool.com which talked about the recent Neilson ratings for search on the internet in the US.  One premise in particular bothered me for its lack of insight into the numbers being presented.

There were nearly 7.8 billion searches performed in the United States last month, according to the study. That’s 2% lower than the traffic a year ago….what if Google is carving out thicker slices of a shrinking pie?

Considering that Google holds 61.9% of the market share, and their primary goal is improving search results, it stands to reason that as time progresses and Google improves search results, that people will need to make fewer searches to get what they want.  This doesn’t represent a shrinking pie, it represents an increase commodity value.  As Google becomes more and more reliable in providing results, the price they can demand for search term ads will increase because they will be the go to solution for search.

Cheers,

Tarandon

I just installed this fancy new theme called Absynthe created by Chris Wallace.  It kinda feels like the ultimate ‘Man Theme’, wood and Burgundy and old faded looking paper backgrounds for the posts.   This one will definately be sticking around for a while, as the previous notepad-chaos was a bit too much for my tastes.  This is far cleaner, and less busy.

Thanks Chris!  I hope to see more excellent (and free, cause I’m poor) themes from you in the future.

Cheers!

Tarandon

I sure as hell hope not.   Check out this article at DAILY KOS that talks about some early United States Politics you might not be aware of.

Given the War Mongering nature of the GOP in recent years I really hope history doesn’t repeat itself.

Enough said,

Cheers.