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Some of the photos from Respect 2008 can be found at MRDJ’s MySpace site, as I was there doing the photography for him.

Today, May 13th, my Comcast Cares Day video was published to YouTube after winning a video contest. It’s quite neat to have my video selected, as I had not expected to actually win.

The best part of having my video selected and published was that more people will get the chance to see the hard work that was done by the volunteers at our Cares Day site. Based on feedback we got from the tenants, it was well worth it.

While you can visit YouTube to see the video that PR posted, I’ve got a higher quality version hosted on my site that you can watch right here:

The past 30 days are going to go down as some of the best days this year. In the past 30 days I have:

• Been to the Microsoft Visitor’s Center and Employee Store
• Visited the headquarters for Valve Software
• Played a new Team Fortress 2 map before the public was able to (It’s out now)
• Got my hands on Team Fortress 2 trading cards before publicly released
• Went on the Northwestern and chatted with Captain Sig Hansen
• Played the new Deadliest Catch Alaskan Storm game
• Got a signed copy of the game’s jewel case
• Went up to the Space Needle (nothing special, but it’s been a while)
• Helped plan Comcast Cares Day for Everett Engineering
• Spent nine hours taking ~450 photos + video for Engineering’s Comcast Cares Day

If you want to view some of my photos and videos, here are my Neowin (one, two) and Comcast Cares Day photo sets.

I’m not sure if I’ll be able to do something this year that can beat all that. I’ve decided to postpone my usual vacation until further notice (don’t think I want to visit California again this year) so I can plan something different and have also begun considering about getting a new car.

I haven’t really had time to keep my blog up to date on a level that I intended, so I am going to restructure this site into three sections:

• Flickr - My flickr photos and videos will be displayed in a more prominent manner. I’ve purchased a Digital Rebel XTi, so I have been working on flexing my “photography muscles”
• Twitter - I’ve started to use twitter to publish thoughts, actions, and ideas that I have throughout the day. I find that it can work well to get something off my mind and share a bit of my life that I’d never normally write a whole blog post about.
• Blog - I will use the blog to discuss larger topics or articles that I feel writing in length about. The topic will vary from post to post, but likely still be related to something technical.

I am going to start on these changes tonight and hopefully have them published by next week. If I put it off any longer than that, it will be into May before I get a chance to do it as next week is my last peaceful week for a while. More on that at a later time.

Edit: And we’re done. Upgraded to Wordpress 2.5, installed new theme, and customized it.

I just got back from a nice vacation from work where I did nothing but relax. Now I am in for a 10-day work week until my next day off (helping to cover some days we’re short) and am not sure what my mental status will be by my next day off.

Also I am working on a new lab addition and hope to announce it soon. It’s a little different than I have done before, but is a simple project that should take no more than a day or two.

Today Apple released the iPhone SDK, which will allow developers such as myself to program native applications for the iPhone. What wasn’t given a lot of attention during the keynote held this morning was all the new opportunities for web developers.

I’ve only had the chance to watch a 20 minute video on the subject, but the new iPhone firmware upgrade coming in July will bring support for additional WebKit features like animation and iPhone specific functions like gestures

I hope on doing some more research into this tomorrow using the published SDK’s Simulator and publishing sample projects to the labs site.

Apparently there was an issue viewing videos inside of Internet Explorer. I have tracked down the issue and corrected it. My apologies to all the viewers who were unable to view any posted videos.

Today, after much work to convert my code that relied on Neowin’s backbone to help control the system, I have added my system which ties into Windows Live Custom Domains (see: Windows Live Custom Domains Is Cool) and allows you to create a custom e-mail account that is powered by Windows Live Mail.

This registration application gives you the chance to see how you can integrate Windows Live Mail into your site by giving your visitors an e-mail address that has some relation to your domain. At Neowin we provide a variety of domain name choices for members and some exclusive ones for subscribers. All of our e-mail domains have the Neowin name in them and provide recognition of our site to the users who exchange messages with these e-mail address.

If you don’t want to invest resources into running a full e-mail server but want to offer extra site service, Custom Domains is the way to go.

Feel free to give the Live Mail registration a try at the labs site: Live Mail @ blackice912 labs

Who will be the winner? Time will tell…hey, is that dust?

Not to give MySpace any more exposure than it already has, but they have published a brand new Iron Man trailer that is really worth viewing: