Monthly Archives: October, 2007
Cart bike in the Boulder County Business Report
Volume 26, Issue 20 of the Boulder County Business Report (September 14-27, 2007) used my photo of Tim riding the shopping cart bike from Instructables. Kevin and i picked up a copy at their offices while driving across country. I finally have a scanner working with my laptop to be able to present it to …
The view from my windows
I have done a pretty good job of taking one photo out of the most scenic window of each of the places that i have lived for the past 12 years. From the summer of 2006-2007 this was the view out of the kitchen window of my apartment at Sheldon Jackson College. While not taken …
My first King Salmon
Way back in the summer of 1996 i went fishing with Hans vonRekowski. No – Hans took me fishing. He then gutted the fish and let me keep my “catch.” I carried it home and called a friend to help cut it up. I gave her half. Then i called more friends to come over …
Playing with fire
Here’s an old picture from my first trip to Mexico. Along the boardwalk in Puerto Vallarta.
Lost and Found
(I wrote this on Tuesday morning but the post wouldn’t show up using Flickr upload. I need to find a better way to blog from my phone.) Yesterday afternoon I did more walking around Sitka. At about 5:15 I withdrew money from the ATM while talking to Cena and remember saying “hold on” while I …
Missed alarm
(Another post not showing up that i had attached to an image.) Somehow I slept through my incredibly annoying alarm clock this morning. Fortunately the front desk called to see if I was going to make their free shuttle to the airport. It was 4:41 AM. I told them to leave without me and considered …
Win home automation merchadise
Sign up for SmartHome‘s email newsletter and you’re entered to win $500 worth of home automation merchandise. These systems allow you to control the house lighting and appliances wirelessly or with a PC. I’ve always wanted to be able to use my DVD remote control to dim the lights during a movie and then bring …
Google pagerank updated
Looks like Google updated their pagerank algorithms today. One of my weekly checks in my blog pagerank – just look at a post from any Wednesday for the last 9 months or so. Yesterday zieak.com was a pagerank 4 site. Today it is a pagerank 4 site. No improvement? In most cases that would be …
Win a winter trip to Anchorage
Enter to win a winter trip to Anchorage. This contest prize package includes Two roundtrip airline tickets to Anchorage Three nights accommodations for two Two Sets of Skate Skis, Boots, Poles and Bindings. Round-trip adventure on the Alaska Railroad for two “and more!” Having just been in Anchorage yesterday i can say that winter has …
Wednesday site stats
1350 posts – 20 new this week! 2581 comments – 19 new (much thanks to Kevin Dean and Steve Buck!) Technorati Authority: 124 (up 2) rank: 51,019 (improved 1,705) Google Page Rank: 4 Alexa: 193,731 (improved 36,068.) Page Strength: 4.5 (up .5) Feedburner subscribers: 31 (up 1) BlogTopSites: 19 (improved 110) Blog Juice: 2.3
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