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I went bowling this past Sunday and notched a new high score of 226. That’s me in the 3rd row…

Definitely got a little tired at the end and definitely the closest I’ll probably ever come to a perfect game.

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The migration away from Blogger.com isn’t going to be quite as seamless as I’d hoped.

You’ve been on a shopping spree before, right?  I think we all have.  You come home from the mall or clothing/sporting goods/[insert hobby of choice] store and have spent a little more than you wanted to going in.  To be honest, I haven’t been too frugal over the past couple of months.

Well, I’ve recently started saving up for a big trip happening later this year and since I keep good track of my receipts, decided maybe I should take back a few items that I know I don’t really need. Total returning spree savings… about $300.

I guess I’m not helping the economy much but at least I feel a little more fiscally responsible.

The Internet has become such a huge part of my life over the past 10 years. Working in the industry and having computer related hobbies means that a great deal of my time is spent online. Today I came across an interesting paragraph in a project kickoff doc while at work…

Generally speaking, there are many site visitors who still do not have Internet connectivity from their stores or homes. With this, there are also many site visitors who are new to using the Internet to conduct business and have viewed the process of accessing the [site] to be time consuming and/or overly complex. 

While this doesn’t necessarily surprise me to read, I still am somewhat blown away by the fact that people live their lives without a daily, if not hourly, need to access email, blogs, amazon.com, eBay, Facebook, etc.

Although that lifestyle may be seem very foreign to me, I think I’m a little jealous of it at times. As I slowly return from my self-proclaimed “Summer Vacation”, I can very much appreciate the time spent away from the “noise” of the Internet. Twitter, I don’t miss you at all.

Uh, how and why did this ad get placed at the top of the page for me?

It’s that time of year again. The 2008 NFL season starts in just over two weeks.

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Sometimes I really love all of the opportunities the Internet gives me to interact with my friends and family without exerting too much effort. Blogs, Facebook, Twitter and Flickr all allow me to communicate with a number of people that I don’t get to see or speak to directly all that often.

However sometimes all of the information generated by those wonderful tools overwhelms me. Lately, the noise has become a little too loud and I need a bit of a break. I’m considering it a summer vacation of sorts. So for the next month or two, no blog posts, no twitter and significantly reduced Facebook/Flickr time.

If you’d like to catch up with me, let’s do it the old fashioned way… via email.

After three years, dascentral.com has been redesigned! Woo-hoo!

The transfer to a new hosting provider is complete and I finally found time to take the advice I give clients nearly every day by installing a content management system. (Drupal) Not that there is a ton of content to manage here but small tweaks are still much easier to make via a CMS then by firing up an FTP application.

Note that this blog is still managed via blogger.com so that skin hasn’t changed but hopefully I’ll find some time to import my posts soon.

No TV.

No newspaper.

No cell phone.

No email.

No blogs.

No twitter.

No RSS.

No Facebook, MySpace or Linked In.

Just friends and some bocce ball… awesome.

…is how long it takes me to get out of DC from my new job in Georgetown. Tack on another 12 min drive through VA and I’m home in 15 mins. Makes my commute so much less of a hassle.

With my company looking for new office space elsewhere in the city, it will be interesting to see where we end up and what my commute looks like at that point.

Would I consider moving into DC if it puts me back in the 40 min ballpark? Yeah, I think I would.