More Blog News and Links

Let me start by saying thanks to all who have visited my blog and flickr galleries. I had no idea what I was getting into when I started blogging (kinda on a whim) 3 months back. To date I've had over 1,900 unique visitors and over 3,500 page views on this here modest blog. One-third of each of those totals are from the last FIVE DAYS. My flickr photos have been viewed 1,490 times since starting nearly 4 months ago. Wow, I'm grateful if anybody finds things of use here. Feel free to drop me a comment if there is a focus you are visiting for.

I decided to finally register with MySpace for a page. Granted, I don't know how much I'll use it, but I've got prodesma for my page. I also registered with Dogster for my dog Kira. Gosh, what an active group those Dogster'ers is, er... are. A bunch of pup pals already? Gosh, aw shucks. Thanks all.

Okay, enough shamelessness. I've been debating whether I should link this page, because I want my content to be "consumable by all," if you get my meaning. Well, overheardinnewyork is flat out funny. Example: from the Whole Foods on 7th Ave"woman #1: Oh my god, it looks just like a peach without the fur! Woman #2: That's called a nectarine." wow.

Speaking of nectar... I went to Nectar Wine Lounge a whiles back and had a great Petite Sirah (I love Petite Sirahs and Ports). I tried to find it on their online wine list (well, you actually have to download their list, bummer), without success. Don't think they still offer it, but it was yummy. Place gets packed to the gills, and tables are about as scarce as shoelaces on a velcro wall (?huh?). It's a nice spot though in The Marina.

Speaking of drinking.... Ever wonder about the history of the margarita? Yeah, I know, I know... It's a topic I've lost sleep over for the last few weeks too. Here you go, now you should be able to take a long blink without any trouble ('specially after a few).

Isn't this quote attributed to Virginia Woolf?
"I like a martini, two at the most;
Three, I'm under the table;
Four... I'm under the host!"

Let's see, I can't figure a smooth segue into this one (uh, maybe after a few and then a few more margaritas? or martini's?)... Ever dream of becoming invisible? This blog post purports that Duke University is working on it. Hey, it could happen to you. Or maybe just to help them clinch the NCAA Championships. ha ha.

That reminds me, Wonder Woman is a film set to be in pre-production, uh... As soon as they cast the principal role. So, if you have an invisible jet... Fly on over to casting calls, just don't forget to wear your stunning bracelets. Yeah, and when you touchdown on your return flight, I've got a ummmm "doctor" I could recommend.

For all you bloggers out there, here are the deets on my current blogging toolkit:

• Pretty much I'm using Ice Rocket for blog searching, and quite happy.
• Feedburner is great for customizing feeds and syndication stuff, I also ping through them.
• Feedblitz is my choice for e-mail syndication (works great). Subscribe to my feed by e-mail using the box in the right sidebar, it's fast, safe, and easy.
• Ping-o-Matic is still my general ping'ing site.
• Blogdigger and Technorati have really fallen off, and suck at updating- so they're off my lists.
• Alexa.com (the list engine for Technorati) seems to not have me listed yet, so that's a no go.
• BlogPulse (a Nielsen subsid) also isn't up to speed it seems.
• Again, blo.gs isn't allowing searches as they fix a problem (again! again!).
• I'm registered with BlogRolling, but haven't started using it yet.
• BlogTopSites is not the easiest to navigate or search, yuck.
• Feedster seems to (sometimes) take a lot longer to update pings/blogs.
• I have yet to find a single topic that PubSub actually has any matches for, any topic. (That's very not good).
• Syndic8 flat out isn't happening, doesn't happen, won't happen.
• Blogrankings doesn't navigate too easily, so I doubt I'll be using it... ever.
• I might start using Google Analytics soon, but haven't yet.
• I'm also not yet using Digg, Furl, or del.icio.us but I'm sure that, given time, that will change.

Heck, I even tried A2B location search and had to get my GPS position from an outside map site (maporama), register, then manually input coordinates... to find out some of the 25 closest places to me are The Great American Music Hall, City Hall, the SF Archdiocese, and the SF Public Library. Gee thanks... not!

I'll need to update my blog buttons (in the sidebar) to utilize my favored search engines, tools, and blog sites. I'll get to it, um, ummmm... soon.

Okay, I am still motivated to get my oil paintings done (one close to done posted here), so off I go to get some serious hours in today. Cheers.

image credits: Dogster pic is my own original photo, wine racks from NectarWineLounge, margarita from margarita-mama's blog