I love having this new blog… I can post about anything now which is great! Since I didn’t have this set up a few months ago, I thought I’d post it now before I forgot again.
I love trucks and off-roading. While I don’t currently have a truck, my last two vehicles were Ford trucks. I had a 2000 F-150 SuperCab and then a 2001 F-250 Super Duty CrewCab V10! I got rid of my last truck due to the high cost of gas and it carried some baggage (long story) that I wanted to unload. I now drive a 2006 Chrysler 300C (yes, it gotta HEMI) but I really want to build up a truck again.
To satisfy my truck obsession, as part of my side business, X7 Media, we cover the CORR events when they are in town (Chula Vista International Raceway). CORR stands for Championship Off Road Racing, which is basically an off-road race event on a closed course. You know those crazy off-road machines they race down in Baja that have over 900 HP? Yeah, it’s those puppies… and they haul ass around a closed course, bash into each other and get airborne with crazy jumps. It’s so much fun to watch. Having media credentials, I get to go down to the track and be in the middle of it. By that I mean I get to be on the track itself… standing within feet of these machines. Don’t worry, Mom, it’s safe… they have specific (safe) zones for press.
Last year (2006) we (Frozone and I) covered two events. There are two this year, and the last event was June 9. Frozone did the video while I covered the still photography side of things. This is by far the best video he has cranked out for us. I did the titling and animation while he did everything else…
Another event is coming up at the end of this month and we can’t wait to do it all again!
Well I’m super stoked… the WordPress template I’m currently using worked great for my FullyConverged.com website, but for my personal blog I wanted something different. I found Chris Harrison’s blog through my RUNNER+ website (he wrote an incredible review for RUNNER+) and asked him if wouldn’t mind sharing his template with me. Initially he replied saying that he would give it some thought, so I was happy to return to his blog tonight to read that he had made the decision to make his “Effercio Blue 1.0” template available this weekend!
I’ve decided to turn my current design into a distributable theme for Wordpress. It’ll be available over the weekend after I clean up some of the rough edges.
I hope to be the first to use it, as it’s got an extremely clean look that I think will be perfect for my blog. Why don’t I just develop my own? I could, I suppose… but I have so many other projects that need more attention than my blog and I was hoping Chris would hook me up with his sooner or later. What a nice guy…
With my sister & family in town for the past week (they left on Wed) I gave another attempt at making mojitos which have been my favorite drink for the past year or so (sorry Jack & Coke!) Last time we tried, it just didn’t work out and we moved on to lemon drops or something. I gave it another shot and nailed it! Here’s the deal…
I found some great mojito recipes online but what really did the trick was this Bacardi Mojito video. I love Christian Delpech’s “mints leaves” reference:
San Diego is hot and humid, making it hard to get out and run! I had to go to Escondido to pick up an insurance claim check for our stolen Civic (actually belonged to my mother-in-law) which is now somewhere in Mexico, probably in parts. Looks like we get to go car shopping this weekend (which I detest).
My compadre, Mike, now has a pool in his Houston back yard. Excavation began on June 22nd and it’s now finished. Congrats, dude. With the heat and humidity you have, you’ll be using it a lot! Looks great!
If you like drums and rock music, then check out this drum battle called “Batala De Los Tambras” between Sully and Shannon from Godsmack. It’s amazing on so many levels. These guys have some serious stamina! Frozone, thanks for the link!
I spent the evening “pimping out” my WordPress blog scripts a bit more. I found a cool Flickr badge replacement that is not Flash (shown to the right), added in a plug-in to easily add videos to my blogs, added in my Nike+ run widget, Twitter summary, and perhaps the coolest thing ever: the ability to blog by email/phone with photos.
I first tried the Flickr WordPress integration, but it didn’t work well at all. It did post a blog, but it completely ignored my text and for some reason ended up making 3 posts instead of 1! Weird! I ended up going with a WordPress script called Postie that does the job, and does it extremely well. The only problem I ran into was I don’t have access to cron with my current Unix host, so I found a web-based cron service that was easy to set up and works great.
This means that not only can I now send messages to Twitter using SMS on my iPhone, but now I can also snap a photo and email it to my blog, along with a headline (email subject) and a description (email body). Now that is some cool stuff.
I had the opportunity to go to the Padres game last night with Frozone and his boss, Kevin. The Padres won and best of all we got to watch the game from the very plush McMillin box off the 1st base line. Free food and beer!
What happened to Fully Converged? Simply put, I couldn’t maintain all the websites and blogs I own. It got too crazy, so I found myself concentrating on one site/blog for a while, then ignoring it for a while while I worked on my other sites. I couldn’t take it any longer!
So, FullyConverged.com has blended with my personal blog to become one place where I can blog to my heart’s content about anything AND everything. So if you were following Fully Converged, please stick around and watch for my random posts on mobile technology, and enjoy my new insane banter about my other hobbies and my family.
So without further adieu, I present to you my new personal blogspace… chrisTHIS!
To satisfy my truck obsession, as part of my side business, X7 Media, we cover the CORR events when they are in town (Chula Vista International Raceway). CORR stands for Championship Off Road Racing, which is basically an off-road race event on a closed course. You know those crazy off-road machines they race down in Baja that have over 900 HP? Yeah, it’s those puppies… and they haul ass around a closed course, bash into each other and get airborne with crazy jumps. It’s so much fun to watch. Having media credentials, I get to go down to the track and be in the middle of it. By that I mean I get to be on the track itself… standing within feet of these machines. Don’t worry, Mom, it’s safe… they have specific (safe) zones for press.
