Aaron Lewis - “Black”

Growing up, we all find songs that mean everything to us at the time.    Sometimes if we are lucky we keep some of these songs with us as we grow up into our adult lives.     I know that I can say without much trouble that “Pearl Jam - 10″ would be in my top 3 albums of all-time for my listening enjoyment.   On that particular album, I loved all the songs but none as much as “Black”.    It is one of my favorite songs.

You can imagine how happy I was to come across the following video of “Aaron Lewis” from Staind covering “Black” and doing it to live performance perfection.   I thought I would share as listening to this song still gives me shivers down my spine.   Love it!

Love For Wordpress

I have been an avid supporter of all things wordpress for the past 3 years.    This includes testing out development versions of the software, helping in various support forums and of course, using the product on a regular basis!    This past year I have also been involved in various things with wordpress mu as well.   I am happy to donate my time to seeing these open-source projects move forward.   It is one of the many things that I like to do as the blogging community benefits from the time and effort that people donate to these projects.

This is why I am helping in another way this month.   Andrew and James have put together a specific wpmu related plugin competition to give a price to the best plugin specific to the project.   Plugins are additions written for specific tasks and functionality to enhance the project.   These plugins help people with their blogging experience and communities, often for free.    That is what is great about this competition, as it shows appreciation for the hours of work that these people put into helping everyone else.   I donated $100 to the competition and I hope that this brings out the code writers!

Special thanks goes out to Lloyd for forwarding on some great wordpress gear to my P.O. box since no one else seems to be able to ship there!    Thanks!  (no, the writing isn’t backwards, it was from Photo Booth

Under The Lighthouse

I am still in the process of testing a great new software called “phpMotion” that is an open source version of YouTube in many ways.   It was first brought to my attention by another great WPMU site that is launching their own video service and I decided it would be great for the hundreds of videos that I have, let alone my members.    This is one of my first embeds from this site:

This is my quick recording of “Under The Lighthouse” by a great band called “Big Wreck”.

Spider-Fest

I have to share these videos that my wife was able to take the other day of some spiders around our house.    Freaky!

Half Mile Of Hell

Not sure what the hell I am talking about? This is the coined phrase that describes the “World Professional Chuckwagon Association“. It really is crazy if you haven’t seen it before. Part of the attraction of the Calgary Stampede

I had the privilege of attending the “chucks” both in Calgary and recently in Strathmore. Leaving a little early, I missed out on a couple of crazy events including the “Running of the Bulls”. This event is not for the faint at heart. It is much like the one is Spain, where people run around when they let the bulls out and try not to get hurt or hit. I wish I could embed the following video, but check out:

1. Go to http://wpca.com/video.aspx
2. Scroll down to the different locations on the flash player and make sure you are viewing “Strathmore“
3. Scroll through the videos to hit “Running of the Bulls: Day 2“

That video has a contact with a bull and one of the contestants that is just crazy.   It is around 1/2 way through the 3:33 video