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Today, Tom Edwards sent me a link to a YouTube video of an "underground search engine rap battle" between Google and Yahoo!.  As a guy who works in technology this was one of the funniest things I'd seen in a while.  There are a series of 3 or so episodes (at the time of posting) and they are definitely worth checking out.

http://www.searchenginerapbattle.com/

This past weekend I travelled to Detroit for business.  While I was there I had the opportunity to attend the Detroit Grand Prix.  I had access to pretty much every part of the event except pit road.  I was able to watch from a trackside chalet (literally 10 feet from the track), watch from the grandstands, walked through the paddock area where the cars are taken to be worked on, etc.  Here are some pics from the weekend.

LeRoi Moore, saxophone player and a founding member of the Dave Matthews Band past away today.  Ronni and I saw DMB 3 days ago and this was the first time I learned about his ATV accident.  The reports we read sounded like he was going to be ok, so this is kind of a shock.  My thoughts and prayers are with his family and friends.

I use a program called Audacity to create the ringtone.

You can download Audacity here: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

1. Open the .MP3 in Audacity.
2. Select the part of the song you want to be your ringtone.
   1. Try to keep the selection 30 seconds or under.
3. Save it as a "NEW" file.
   1. File -> Export Selection as .mp3
4. Open iTunes and import the new file.
5. Find the song you just imported.
6. Right click on new file and choose "Convert to AAC"
7. In iTunes, find the newly created .AAC file.  Right click on file and choose "Show in windows explorer"
8. Rename the file from .m4a to .m4r
9. Import the .m4r song into iTunes
10. The song will now show up under Ringtones.
11. Drag and drop the ringtone to your iPhone.

Last night I decided to get an iPhone 3G.  So far I have to say that it is absolutely awesome.  The battery life seems to be less than desirable, but other than that I have no regrets.

I didn't spend much time sifting through pictures to find a bunch to post, but here is a quick pic of me and my nephew Kaiden.  Isn't he cute!

We are headed to Austin this weekend to see my brand new (7 weeks old) nephew Kaiden.  Not looking forward to the drive from Frisco to Austin, but I'm very excited to see the kiddo!  Pics to follow soon.

Several people have asked me for pictures of our new fence.  Here they are.  Enjoy!

Click image to view it "super sized."

This is the intial entry.  Just getting this site up and running.

Major props to Graffiti CMS for making this so super simple.