The last couple of years has seen a huge number of social networking websites pop up on the internet. Some of the more popular ones include Facebook, Delicious, Twitter, and Flickr.

I took the kids hiking on the North Shore yesterday. As part of my plans to get them into hiking and backpacking, I had both of them carry daypacks and I carried my pack with a stove and hot chocolate ready for brewing.

I’ve finished up a new theme for dryfly.ca, one that integrates with smugmug. I’m tying out smugmug for an online photo gallery.

Here’s a wizbang video clip of Lance Armstrong giving it to Paul Kimmage. Check it out here Lance makes Kimmage look like a fool.

This post is sort of a follow up to another post and comments about Lance Armstrong and doping in cycling. It’s a topic that has been discussed to death but even the dead can still be interesting.

I can’t say that I’m big fan of the Keynesian “let’s spend our way out of this recession.” stimulus ideas. That’s partly due to my feeling that some people spending some money isn’t going to make a whole lot of difference.

I just learned about a new application/plugin that people can use for a real snazzy way to present photo galleries. It’s called Cooliris (formerly it was PicLens).

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42E2fAWM6rA

I’ve almost finished sanding the epoxy on the outside of the hull, which makes me pretty pleased. Before I apply the varnish I will add a bit more epoxy, but I won’t add the final coat until the boat is almost finished.