I have been lax in my postings but I am working on several revisions, templates and a reskin of the site.  That, plus personal commitments has kept me away.

I did want to announce that I am the proud uncle and godfather of one Victoria Madison.  She was born around 5pm.  I have never been more proud of my little brother - which is saying a lot because though I may not tell him enough, I have always been proud of him.

No random tidbit today.  Possible pictures once I get permission and my Flickr integrated.

I’m a big enough man to admit when I’m wrong. Well, sort of. Almost since I began this blog, back when it was hosted on wordpress, I have been singing the accolades of del.icio.us. Recently I had begun to expand out and see what else there is in the social bookmarking field. I had tried Blinklist and wasn’t too impressed. They imported my del.icio.us links but lost my privacy settings and the interface was not very pleasing to me.

Then I discovered ma.gnolia. I had written it off as a sort of neat little lower 2nd or higher 3rd tier entrant into the field but had heard good things about it. After signing up and using it for a week now - I’m hooked. It has a much better UI than del.icio.us or blinklist, it imported all of my links no problem, it generates your own link blog that you can claim on technorati and just overall I am really impressed. It’s designed by the smart people at Happy Cog Studios who employ one of my favorite web designers / developers / people - Jason Santa Maria. If I could half the design skill and coding expertise (along with a little Meyer knowledge) I wouldn’t be half bad.

So feel free to check out my link blog or my about me - and yes, that picture with the two people is me and my girlfriend. More on that later in the week.

Sorry I’m not better looking. Don’t judge me.

Random Tidbit: Check out the LEGO Digital Designer.

My good friend from work Jason just recently donated his kidney to a friend of his.  Didn’t ask for anything, just heard his friend needed one, got tested and gave it up.  The more I get to know him the more I like Jason.  He really is a good guy.  I’m probably going to try and jet down to see him and play (lose) a few games of magic with him.  Until then, check out his sites.  If even half of my visitors go there, well, his traffic will be bumped up one visitor.  Maybe I should ask him for a link instead…

Anyways, the sites are:

• Grinding Tapes Recording Company
• Mobile Man Boston

Get well soon Jason.

TechCrunch reported the other day that Ebay has acquired StumbleUpon.  They are definitely one of the more interesting web 2.0 social networking / bookmarking / etc sites.  I have not played around with them much but I have tried to follow them since I got listed awhile back for one of my posts and saw my two biggest traffic days.  Unfortunately, I guess my content was sparse at the time since most of them didn’t stick (thanks to the 2 that did).

If you’re not familiar with it, StumbleUpon let’s users save sites which then other users can, literally, “stumble upon.”  It’s a unique way to find good sites out there without resorting to the sometimes slanted opinion of sites like Digg and Reddit.  I heard not too long ago that they were adding features to allow users to focus on certain tags - web design, politics, etc.  That would set them apart from a feature like the del.icio.us randomizer which has much of the same functionality as the StumbleUpon I first encountered.

It will be interesting to see where Ebay, a company not really focused on this type of service, will take it.

Random Tidbit:  Two for your viewing pleasure.  Summer is upon us and theme park season is in swing - I wonder how many people will try this?  Also, remembering my younger days, this might have been a fun, if mischievous, game to play with my brother.