Sunrise over the marina

Sunrise over the marina, originally uploaded by bl4ster.

I took this on the way to the first day of Gnomedex. This is the marina in Bremerton. And the waterway is Sinclair Inlet with Rich Passage in the distance. A lovely orange, not the red that warns the sailors of impending doom.

Personal : Comments (0) : posted Aug 24th, 2008 by blaster

Heading to Gnomedex

It’s that time of the year again, the time for Chris Pirillo’s Gnomedex Conference in Seattle, Washington. For us techno junkies it’s a must go to event. I missed last year’s due to a conflicting event that was cancelled at the last minute. Too late to get tickets, but not this year. As a moderator for Chris’ Live Chat on Wyldryde IRC network. I was asked, alright I volunteered, to help out behind the scenes with whatever Chris’ needs help with. And now, apparently, the includes moderating the comments on his blog. It’s a tedious task, but someone has to do it. (you’re welcome Kat).

I can honestly say I have not met any of the attendees or the speakers before. So I hope to met some fun people and make some friends in the tech industry.

Since I live, literally within walking distance, the travel is nearly zero. I was hoping more of the Moderators had a chance to meet up at this event, but the distance to travel for most of them is over 2000 miles. I know you will all be there in spirit.

Thanks Chris, I really appreciate this, more than you know.

News, Personal : Comments (0) : posted Aug 9th, 2008 by blaster

An explanation of the OMG

HAHA MADE YA LOOK!!!! j00′ve been blasterrolled!!!!

Personal : Comments (0) : posted Aug 7th, 2008 by blaster

The Celebration

Today we had the Celebration of Lorraine’s Life. The food was prepared by Marie and Julie. A feast for sure. The guests numbered 50, just as we thought. I cleaned the yard and snapped a few pics before the guests arrived. Notably, Lorraine’s sister, Peachie, her son Steve from Seattle, and her daughter Vicki from Arizona were here. A lot of people from the Kitsap County Courthouse were in attendance. And lots of friends. I saw some I haven’t seen for decades. All in all a good night considering.

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Outdoors, Personal : Comments (0) : posted Jul 1st, 2008 by blaster

The Eagles Part 1

Here in Bremerton, we now have an abundance of resident Bald Eagles. This one frequents the Port Washington Narrows. I tool this pic at low tide, coming back from a haircut. This one is usually down on the waters edge, waiting for a nice juicy fish to happen by. The seagulls and crows are no match for the magnificent beast.

Personal : Comments (0) : posted Jul 1st, 2008 by blaster

more plugins

I have installed some plugins recommended by the Lockergnome himself Chris Pirillo.

Also needed for the WP Touch iPhone Theme are

The Admin Drop Down Menu combined with the latest Admin Management Xtended pluins make navigating the admin area of wordpress a joy instead of the click fest wordpress users have been forced to attend. We can now edit tags and categories from the miss named post or page “manage” page. Now that wordpress has the tags on a post or page basis, I need to go ALL the way back and tag ALL of the previous posts.

HOORAY!!!

General, Personal : Comments (0) : posted Jun 14th, 2008 by blaster

plugins update

I have the latest versions of the following plugins installed and working in Wordpress 2.5.1:

The following are a fail:

Google Analytics for Wordpress, doesn’t show the code. Probably theme related.
Anarchy Media Player (AMP), kills the “kitchen sink” button and it’s buttons don’t show in the Visual Editor.

No workie no linkie. That is all.

General, News : Comments (0) : posted Jun 6th, 2008 by blaster

The Brothers

The Olympic Mountains are formed on the Olympic Peninsula in Western Washington by the Cascadia Subduction Zone. On a clear day they dominate the western view from Seattle. Some days, like this one you can just reach out and touch them. They are all that stand between the Pacific Ocean storms and the Pugetropolis.

This picture was taken from a park on the Port Washington Narrows off of Tracyton Beach Road in East Bremerton.

Outdoors, Personal : Comments (0) : posted Jun 3rd, 2008 by blaster

Computex 2008

I’ve volunteered to cover AMD’s presense at Computex 2008 on behalf of the fine people over at Lockergnome.com. I will be interviewing the AMD spokesperson(s) over the next few days. Whenever we both have time.

I’ll be taking the exam on June 4 from 10:30am to 3:00pm pdt down in Puyallup.

News, Personal : Comments (0) : posted Jun 3rd, 2008 by blaster

put yourself first

This is perhaps the best thing anyone can do to increase their sense of wellbeing and to lift the spirit. I has become clear to me in the last month or so that people that don’t do this are stressed beyond belief. Stress causes horrible weight gain, sickness, and overall dysfunction in the family unit.

Is it selfish to put one’s self first? Absolutely not.

Selfishness is keeping your entire self to yourself and not ever giving of your time to anyone. This occurs especially with people with children that do everything for their children and nothing for themselves. It’s only natural to want to do everything for the children, but to sacrifice yourself doesn’t do anyone any good. And eventually the family unit will suffer.

1) Get your spiritual house in order, whatever that may be.

2) Be one with your family, resolve any differences with the ones you love or leave them behind. This is perhaps the hardest choice many have to make. It doesn’t do any good to have stress in the family unit as it only brings everybody down.

3) Do what you love to make money. Don’t keep working at a job that stresses you out. As this will only make everyone around you stressed. It takes courage to move. If you can’t move into a job, then consider a business. Find something that’s fun that you can do and eventually the dollars will come.

Personal : Comments (0) : posted Jun 2nd, 2008 by blaster

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