Enjoying some quality time with my youngest, almost 11 months old now. She loves to eat, and fortunatly for us she will eat just about anything. Here she is enjoying some chicken and rice with carrots and peas.

Edward “Eddie” Davidson, aka, the “Spam King” decided prison was just not for him, and has recently walked away from the Florence, Colorado minimum security prison camp where he was doing his time.

Davidson, was sentenced to serve 21 months, but decided to make his break without even serving 2 months.

It always amazes me when I read a story about someone “walking away” from prison. I cannot imagine being able to do that.

First, how can one just walk away from prison, even if it is a minimum security camp, and second why would you do that on a 21 month sentence. Sure that is almost 2 years, which is long time, but its got to be better than being on the run, forever. What a jackass.

Davidson was last seen in the Denver suburb of Lakewood, about 90 miles away from the camp where he was supposed to be.

Thankfully, we have a bunch of geeks out there who hate spam, with that I cannot imagine it will take long for at least one of us to spot him.

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I still enjoy torturing my body a bit.

Here are a few pics from my recent triathlon. These were taken at race #2 from the Central Florida Triathlon Series on July 20.

Race #3 is coming up next month on August 17, and I hope to take off about 4 minutes from my time, which would also put me in the running for first in my age group.

I am hoping to be able to trim one minute from each event and hopefully get my transitions down to about 45-60 seconds a piece. I am way to slow in the transitions and need some work on getting through them.

My official results were:
SWIM (.25 mile): 7:25
SWIM TO BIKE TRANSITION: 2:06
BIKE (8 miles): 24:27
BIKE TO RUN TRANSITION: 1:06
RUN (3.1 miles): 25:49
FINISH: 1:00:51

Overall I am happy with my time, but I am competitive and always want to improve.

Sure, most people think that blogging, or more specifically bloggers in general are really social people, but I tend to think that at least for some it proves to be quite the opposite. Of course a lot of this depends on whether you are talking about being social online or in the real world.

I am pretty social online, I chat throughout the day with other bloggers over Skype and Google Talk, and send more than my fair share of emails, but at times I can go days without dealing with a real person outside of my family.

While there are different styles of blogging, I will focus on what I know and what I do, tech blogging. Few will argue that its a hard field to get into, and a very competitive field once you are in.

This makes it difficult to break away from the computer, there is always that new idea that pops into your head for a post, or that new breaking topic that you want, or just feel the need to cover.

But that is the issue, there will always be that one more. Of course, when you are putting your all into succeeding its hard to make a break and say enough is enough, at least for a while.

Hence the reason I just finished writing 3 posts, and editing 3 others and am still working on this one at 10:33 on a Friday evening.

This is something I obviously still need to work on, knowing when enough is enough.

I have come to realize that this is not healthy, don’t get me wrong, I am healthy physically, but need to make an effort to break away to stay healthy mentally. Long story short, its time to take a break.

Strangely enough this post began as a recap of a recent local blogger meetup and my upcoming conference plans, that said I am going offline for a while.

Today was the first day that the new .me domains were available for sale, and things did not go as smoothly as many would have hoped. For those who may have missed it, of course if you were around Twitter at all today then I am sure you have already seen the frustration.

Many of the issues seem to have come from those attempting to register their domains with GoDaddy, but I cannot say that was the only registrar with issues. I would chalk that up to most of the people I am friends with or follow online just prefer to use them.

The .me domains were a little on the high side at $19.99 per year with a two-year minimum, but we did get some sort of discount because my order only came to $35.98 total. Of course already having the .com, .us and .tv version of my name I thought I should go ahead with the .me also. Plus I am planning to consolidate my emails and the .me will make for a cool address, I think.

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Honesty disclaimer: I think that was the most difficult post that I have written to date, and it really has me struggling with what is right and wrong. It also has me worried what may happen should I push this dream to far.

I have dreamed, worked and achieved my goal. I am now living 100% off income from blogging. Well that in addition to my wife’s income, but my income from blogging, although it could always be higher, is at the goal point that I set for myself and it is where it was when I left my 9-5 job two years back.

I will say that my income is far from a six-figure blogger, but it’s enough to give me freedom from a 9-5 office job, along with some flexibility.

Based on that I should be happy, hell I should be thrilled, but I am having seconds thoughts as to the path that I have chosen, and sometimes dream of just how easy I had it when I had a real/office job. I must also say that I am not ready to go back to that path, not yet anyway.

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Not much to really write about, I find these office tours are much better if done with video. This particular video was shot using a Flip video, so I apologize in advance for any lack of quality. If you have any questions or comments about my setup, post away below. In the meantime I hope you enjoy seeing where I spend majority of my day, and sometimes nights.

You can also check out the full version of the above image on my Flickr photostream.

While the cost is minimal, the protection that is offered is, well, priceless. In addition they also offer a lifetime warranty.

I have been using the invisibleSHIELD to protect my current iPhone display for a long time now, and have used them in the past on various iPod’s as well. They are pretty simple to apply, and with just a little time, they can be applied nicely, and without any bubbles.

By far this is my favorite way to protect the displays on my devices.

So the time has come once again for another purchase, well actually two. July 11 is coming near and I want to have the invisibleSHIELD ready for the morning I get my phone so I can apply it as soon as it comes out of the box. The full coverage shield for the iPhone 3G is $24.95 with a front only for $14.95 and a bad only for $18.95. I can understand why you would want to protect the front only, but the back only sounds a little strange to me. It is nice though to at least have the option.

But perhaps, best of all if you pre-order the invisibleSHIELD for the iPhone 3G then you will save 20%.

I have also recently purchased a Zune 80 and although the screen is pretty scratch resistant, I figure I may as well get some extra protection. Just in case. For the Zune 80 the front only screen is $11.95 and the full coverage option is $24.95.

Total price for me, $21.52 with a savings of $5.38. Well worth not having to worry about scratches.

I did go with the free shipping though, so I will have to keep my fingers crossed and hope it arrives in time. But it looks like I waited a little to late. I could have paid extra for quicker shipping, but I am feeling cheap.