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there are lots of ways to enjoy the good weather in sunny northern california. my friend jon and i like to drive when the weather’s nice out and that’s exactly what we did today. we took the back roads from north oakland to san ramon and i had a blast letting loose. it was particularly sweet since i’d gone a week without my g while she was in the shop getting her rear bumper replaced from the hit and run a couple of weeks ago. good times, i plan to repeat this run again a few times in the summer with some variations…

so i was just clicking through to some of my friends’ blogs and realized that i had not logged into my xanga account for quite some time. i figured i would login, which required remembering a password from so long ago i’m surprised i could recall it. after logging in, i clicked off to my various “xanga” buddies and noticed that all the blogs except for one had basically turned stale. this got me thinking about the various breadcrumbs we leave behind in our “online lives”. some of it is desirable, and other parts are not. it’s a very different type of history than one’s personal history where you can elect to admit or omit details of your choosing. err and be cached and your online reputation may be doomed.

interestingly, some have recognized this niche concern and have started online reputation management services. thankfully, i don’t think i’ll need to enlist those services.

so i’ve taken some time off from my typical blogging habits (a few times a month) but i should be back at it now. i’ve spent some time lately working on upgrading my site to the latest version of wordpress, pulling in updated plugins and working on seamless integration between my blog, twitter and my facebook profile. the following should hopefully occur when i post here:

• twitter update on my stream
• post to wordbook plugin on my facebook profile
• facebook status updated as a result of twitter update

this is a bit of an experiment on my part to see the maturity of various platform APIs to support this type of integration. if it coincidentally increases readership of my blog, i won’t complain. i will continue to maintain some degree of anonymity as far as information available on this blog about me, but friends/contacts clicking through from facebook/linkedin/twitter will clearly know who they are reading about. i will be experimenting with apture and flowgram and posting some thoughts about these here over the next couple of weeks. they are startups that offer methods for sharing and annotating information over the web.

i’ve had a few things going on in life. katie and i have been working on getting wedding plans together, including getting most (but not all) of our save the date cards out to guests. things have been slow at work but i’m working on an interesting project that’s very bleeding edge in terms of technology on a handset. i’ve also been tracking a standards body for a project i’ve kicked off at work and this has taken me to a few destinations around the world. in the past few months i’ve been fortunate to travel to vancouver, london, beijing and paris where i’m composing this post right now. in the past 5-6 months i’ve actually had a bit of travel in addition to this with trips to hawaii, vegas, chicago and seattle. i’m looking forward to this settling down over the next couple of months, likely with just trips to seattle and chicago sprinkled in every few months.

the travel has been good as i haven’t done much travel around the world, but i’m fatiguing of being on the go every couple of weeks. there are many things that need to get done at home that i feel are being neglected. for example, i typically file my taxes in february, but this year it got pushed back to april. the travel schedule has also interfered with my health habits, so i end up eating irregularly and eating worse food in addition to not having the time or energy for gym visits. i have become better at dealing with 12-16 hours of travel at a time, typically carrying some reading material, a dvd or two, and headphones with my ipod.

something’s brewing in the pot…. i will be able to elaborate on this later =)

that’s all for now!

seems like it has been quite some time since i’ve posted anything of note here… been really busy. just upgraded my wordpress installation to the latest and greatest using the wordpress automatic upgrade plugin found here. using this plugin simplifies things significantly… no more messing around with ftp, manual backups, etc.

lots to report on between job stuff, getting married, travel, and life in general. i’ll try posting updates a bit more frequently since i’ll be activating the Flog plugin on facebook.

that’s all for now!

while this maybe not with numerous posts, i’ve been working on the back end a little bit. i’ve upgraded to wordpress 2.3 and chosen a new presentation scheme. i’m still working out some kinks here and there but so far, things seem to be pretty good. should see some more changes as time goes on