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Heads up: in the middle of a site redesign this week. Pages might look a little funky for a bit. Bear with me. Got any feedback on the new look? Drop me a line. Thanks!

In our modern goal-driven society, it's become a pretty common thing to create a list of "things to do before you die." There are quite a few of these lists floating around the Internet these days. I've put together an index of them for reference. Might share my own list at some point.

UPDATED! Since the launch of Google Maps a few months ago, a lot of people have been inspired to create websites dedicated to exploring the world through these map. Additionally, a few innovative websites have been created which combine the mapping functionality with useful data from other sources. There seem to be so many, actually, that I decided to create my own list of them to keep track:

It's a strangely pleasant feeling having a bowl of cereal for breakfast in the morning as an adult. After years of having "breakfast bars" and similar fare, it's nice to get a good bowl of oatmeal to start the day.

I had the pleasure of dining at Nayeb's in Schaumburg this weekend. Ahu and I love having dinner at Reza's in Chicago but hardly have a chance to go there now that we live in the 'burbs. Nayeb's is as close as you get to Reza's without driving into the city.

Mountaineer Ed Viesturs became the first American to summit all 8,000+ meter peaks in the world without supplemental oxygen. It's taken 16 years but he finally pulled it off. Annapurna was his last peak, one that has taken him three attempts to conquer. There's a great story on this in the August 2005 issue of Men's Journal magazine.

I saw the new War of the Worlds last night. I had been looking forward to this movie for months, ever since the teaser trailer came out in the spring showing a crazy lightning storm blowing up houses.

The server hosting this website has moved. It used to be hosted at ServerBeach and I was paying about $120 a month for a dedicated server there. I got kind of tired of that and so I set up a dedicated server in the basement of my house. The server running this site is now more powerful than the old one but the upload speed of my home network connection is only around 384 K so the site might seem slower to you. If so, too bad, I'm saving $1000+ a year.

It's been at least 3 or 4 months since I got a new release of the Narrative CMS out there. I'm in the progress of updating it now and am still working out a few glitches.

I recently became a Flickr Pro member and am now using their excellent photo gallery service for my photo blogs RandomSnapshot.com and FearlessPhotos.com. The DNS entries are updating now. If the links don't work, you can also go here.