Recently I designed a web site for Lura’s new business L2ideas.
L2ideas offers IT Compliance Audit advisory expertise and project management services for small and medium-size businesses. We have significant experience with SOX 404, PCI, HIPAA, GLBA, and ISO compliance across IT shared services environments in support of business needs.
The home page is a mere 11 [...]
In the early 1990s, I had some great coffee from Burundi. Then war came to that country and the coffee went away for 10 years. After 10 years the coffee quality still isn’t back to where it once was. War is not good for coffee.
Yesterday I walked past a newspaper stand and saw that Ethiopia [...]
Sunday we went to Joshua Tree National Park and hiked Ryan Mountain.
Joshua Tree National Park
Palm Springs is less than three hours from San Diego. Having never been on the famous tramway, I took a road trip there on Saturday. It was a warm day around 70 degrees at the bottom of Mount San Jacinto. At the top of the 2.5 mile ride it was quite a bit colder [...]
It’s official. On Tuesday January 2nd, I will return to the workforce. It was a fun Summer of George. I’ll be working as an ASP.NET developer for a large financial company here in San Diego.
Last year I started using SmugMug to host my photos. Prior to that I hosted my own photo galleries. In order to not exceed my allocated disk space, I trimmed each image down to a smaller size. In the days of broadband, it just makes more sense to have a dedicated media host like SmugMug [...]
Three years ago today I took my first trip outside the 48 states and went to Mexico.
Mexico - Ensenada, La Bufadora, and Las Gaviotas
In April, I hiked the Clevenger North trails in San Pasqual in the rain. I went back on Friday and completed the 6 mile hike on a nice clear day.
San Pasqual Hiking Trails (North) 2 - Dec 2006
It appears that 2006 was a good year for the popularity of my web empire. According to Alexa, my sites are becoming more popular. Either that or everyone else is becoming less popular. Either way, I’ll take it. With Alexa rankings, the lower the number, the higher the ranking. (Yahoo is #1)
INeedCoffee.com has climbed [...]
Last night I attended the snowshoeing clinic at REI. For those that haven’t been to an REI clinic, they spent an hour talking about the topic and all the wonderful gear you can buy at their store. Since the clinics are free, this is a fair trade.
For those outside of San Diego that are scratching [...]
