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    Jun 20th, 2008 - Today is my birthday, so I took the day off to work on some things I've been neglecting for a while. This web page is one of the things on my list. I never seem to have any time to update my blog, so I'm just going to start using Twitter. Twitter allows me to send short updates to my web page from my cell phone, this way I can just send a text message to my site to give everyone an update on what I'm doing. I am also working on moving all of my pictures over to Picasa instead of hosting the pictures myself.
    XBOX Sep 24th, 2007 - Tonight at Midnight, Halo 3 for XBOX 360 gets released. Halo 3 is one of the most anticipated games of the year. It has broken the record for the most pre-ordered game in history, and is on target to break numerous other sales records. I'll be waiting in line tonight at the Best Buy at Bowie Town Center to get my copy. DC101 will be broadcasting live from this Best Buy and I hear they'll be giving away free goodies to those of us in line.
    Sep 22th, 2007 - I have just added an RSS feed to my page for those of you that want to subscribe to my blog (Not that it's updated much). More than anything, I'm adding the RSS Feed so that I can learn and play with the Technology. I Personally use Outlook 2007 as my RSS reader, but Internet Explorer 7 and a number of other RSS readers are available. To subscribe, simply click the RSS button here:
    Mar 09th, 2007 - We have found a new home for our boat, the "SeaEsta". In 2006 she was docked at a prime location in the Baltimore Inner Harbor. This year we have moved her a bit closer to home and she will be docked at Herrington Harbour South Marina.
    Jan 13th, 2007 - We Leave for Punta Cana, Dominican Republic on Monday. I'll try and post some pictures up while we're down there. You'll find them here Punta Cana Pics
    Jan 13th, 2007 - Say what you want about Global Warming, but 60 and 70 degree days in January are not normal! Anyway, Now that it's 2007, I finally got around to pulling all of the pictures off of my Treo and posting them to my photo gallery. They're all pretty low res, but here they are: New Years Eve, White House Tour, Misc Pics from the summer. The Misc pictures were taken in the Baltimore Inner Harbor, Chester River, and Solomon's Island.
    Dec 22nd, 2006 - In three weeks we're off to the Domincan Republic for a week. We're going to a resort in Punta Cana.. Can't wait to get away from the cold weather. (Even though it's been a pretty mild winter so far.)
    Dec 15th, 2006 - Just finished building my new home workstation. It's running the final version of Windows Vista Ultimate, which won't be out to the public for another month or so. Here's a link to the specs: New PC
    Nov 20th, 2006 - This weekend we winterized the boat. We trailered it in Camebridge, MD for the Winter. I changed the motor oil and outdrive oil, put antifreeze in the engine block, changed the plugs, fogged the engine, and washed and waxed the boat. The lease on our boat slip at the Inner Harbor in Baltimore is up this year and we are currently looking for a new location to keep the boat next year. When we find a new slip, I'll post the location.
    Oct 21nd, 2006 - Here are some pictures from Capitol Computer's yearly fishing trip.
    Oct 2nd, 2006 - BTW, Finally named the boat! Click on the pic to enlarge it. I put the lettering on last week and she had her maiden voyage as the SeaEsta this weekend. We took her up to Chestertown, MD. For those of you that don't know, Siesta is a short afternoon nap which is a common tradition in Spain.




    Sep 10th, 2006 - Haven't had any updates in quite a while. We've been spending a lot of time out on the boat and exploring the bay. This weekend Heidi and I went down to Rawlings, VA to do some scuba diving in a popular Quarry down there. Here are the Dive pictures.
    Jun 25th, 2006 - I had a party at my house yesterday to celebrate my 27th birthday. Didn't take too many pictures, but here are the pictures of the party that I did take. Heidi and I took the boat to Solomon's Island last weekend and got some good pictures of the boat from the water.
    Jun 14th, 2006 - Just got back from Florida yesterday. Heidi and I went down to visit my parents and grandmother. We got down just in time for the first tropical storm of the season, "Alberto". We had a few days of good weather, but the winds and seas were a bit much to do any diving in. Here are the Vero Beach Pics.
    May 25th, 2006 - We took the day off of work on Wednesday to go see the Blue Angel's fly over the Severn River for the Navel Accademy graduation. Here are the Blue Angels Pics.
    May 21th, 2006 - For anyone following the Volvo Ocean races, today the crew of Movistar (The sailboat from Spain) had to abondon ship as they had a problem with their keel and started taking on water. The crew safely boarded ABN AMRO TWO.
    May 7th, 2006 - Did the Bay Bridge walk today with Heidi and also watched the Volvo Ocean Race start their 6th Leg of the race from Annapolis to New York. Here are the Volvo Race Pics.
    Apr 16th, 2006 - Happy Easter! Sorry, been lazy and haven't updated in a while. What's new? Well, yesteryday Heidi and I purchased a boat. It's a 2003 Regal Commodore 2665 in great condition. We're keeping it at the Inner Harbor in Balimore this season. Click the link for pictures and more info. I'll update these pictures later on. Also hibrination season is over, and the groundhogs are back.

    My office just put out our Spring 2006 newsletter, click here to get all your tech updates. More than half of it was written by me, so tell me what you think!

    Feb 26th, 2006 - I finally got around to putting all of my logged Dives up on the internet. Here's a link to my Dive Log. Since the airline lost my luggage including my log book for 2 weeks, I figured I'd get everything digitized and backed up.
    Feb 5th, 2006 - Happy New Year! (Late) Here are the new years pics I told you about. In Jan I went to the Leg Warmers (80's cover band) concert at Ram's Head Live in Baltimore. Here are the pictures. I also finally got my hands on an XBox 360. EB Games called me up last weekend to let me know my pre-ordered 360 was in. The only game I have so far is "Call of Duty 2" (World War II game. Axis Vs. Allies) which I beat last night.
    Dec 30th, 2005 - My office has started putting out a quarterly newsletter that I have been contributing to by writing articles and Tech Tips. We just finished publishing the winter 2006 newsletter so I figured I'd post a link to our newsletter archive. I'm having a small New Years party, so I should have some pictures of that up in the next week. Happy New Year!
    Dec 24th, 2005 - Still No XBox 360, they're still in short supply everywhere. Guess I'll get one in 2006. I did get a new toy though. I spent the month of December rebuilding and re-enforcing my deck so that I could replace my old hot tub with a brand new Sundance 780 Spa. Here are some pictures of the Deck under construction and the new spa.
    Nov 22nd, 2005 - Waited in line for 8 hours at the local Best Buy this morning to NOT get an XBOX 360. Most retailers only got about 20 or so Xbox 360's for the launch. The line at Best Buy in Bowie was easily over 100 people. I'll let you know when I finally get my hands the new Xbox!
    Oct 28th, 2005 - I've been slacking off on my posts so here's a quick summery. So I went to Vegas at the beginning of the month and had a great time. You can see pictures here. In the middle of the month I went to the U2 concert at the MCI center. That was my 4th U2 concert (Second this year). The big thing on my mind now is the release of XBOX 360 on November 22nd. They are already predicting a shortage, so guess I'll be waiting in line at midnight to guarantee mine. XBox 360 Live will have a new gamer tag feature. I've already signed up for mine and will post it here.
    Oct 1st, 2005 - Right now I am packing and getting ready to go to Las Vegas. We leave tomorrow morning at 8am and are staying at the Venetian. I am bring my laptop and will be posting Pictures as I take them. To give you an update on my critter trap, I have captured 3 racoons, 2 ground hogs, and 1 squirrel. I have since spotted a 3rd groundhog and will keep that trap active. Here are some Pictures.
    Sep 13th, 2005 - I should try and get at least one entry in for the month of September. Currently I'm having problems with two groundhogs in my back yard. I have setup a trap to capture them with a video camera focused on it. This is a catch and release trap that will not hurt the groundhogs. To see the video feed click on: Critter Cam.

    NOTE: This link will probably stop working once I've caught both groundhogs. Hibernating season starts on October, so I don't have much time.

    Aug 22nd, 2005 - This weekend I went wreck diving in the St. Lawrence River in Ontario, Canada. Here are some of the pictures I took. I hope to get some of the underwater pictures up later on. The drive was about 7 1/2 hours, but well worth it for the wreck and drift dives I did. You can find more info here on the dive shop and sites I dove.
    Aug 15th, 2005 - This weekend I went diving at Lake Rawlings in southern Virginia. I helped certify a group of Advanced Open Water Divers (one of them being Heidi). Unfortunately I didn't take any pictures, but you can check out my Scuba Profile. Next week I'll be diving in Canada.
    Jul 24th, 2005 - I spent the day sailing on the Chesapeake Bay with Heidi and a group of friends. We chartered a 40 ft Jeanneau.
    Jul 2nd, 2005 - Today I drove to BWI Airport to reclaim my lost dive bag that USA3000 misplaced. Somewhere between my direct flight from Cancun to Baltimore, my bag ended up in Hartford, Connecticut at a South West terminal. Who knows how! On top of that, it only took 6 days to locate it. On the bright side, nothing was missing or damaged.
    Jun 26th, 2005 - Just got back from a week long vacation in Mexico. I have posted some of my Pictures here, but all of my diving pictures are in my scuba bag that the air line has lost. Other than losing ever piece of Scuba equipment I own, the trip was great.
    Jun 17th, 2005 - Wednesday night a group of us went to the Jimmy Buffett concert. at Nissan Pavilion and had a great time. Although, it's too bad it was a on a weekday this year. I didn't get many Pictures, but the ones I took are posted online.
    Jun 6th, 2005 - We're already a week into June, so I should probably update my blog now. I just got the new Treo 650 from Verizon, and I love it. I can now check e-mail and surf the web from anywhere. I highly recommend it if you're a techie. E-mail support isn't quite as good as it is on the Blackberry, but I can look past that due to all of the other cool features.
    May 23rd, 2005 - This weekend Heidi and I met up with a couple friends Philadelphia to see the U2 concert at the Wachovia Center. The concert was awesome with a lot of songs from "How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb", "Achtung Baby", and "The Joshua Tree". I have a second set of tickets to see them at the MCI Center in October. We also hung out in Philly and grabbed a couple of cheese steaks. I took a few Philly Pics, but wasn't allowed to take any at the concert.

    I also saw Star Wars Episode III on May 19th, opening day. Great movie, but it was a private showing, so I didn't get to see any of the die hard fans dressed up as Jedi and Storm Troopers.

    May 16th, 2005 - I've now updated my blog two days in a row. Don't expect this to last. I purchased a new car in February and am now just getting a chance to post the pictures online. Check it out, I got a 2005 Acura TSX.
    May 15th, 2005 - I think I'll give a go at this whole blog thing. For those of you that don't know what a blog is, see Below.

    Here's some fun stuff I have planned: Star Wars Episode III, Trip to Philadelphia to See U2, Trip to Mexico, Trip to Las Vegas, etc. This should give me some things to talk about in the coming months.

    Blog Definition: an online diary; a personal chronological log of thoughts published on a Web page.

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