Yet another anniversary of my time on the internet has passed. And by quite a bit.

Turns out, I have now, officially, been putting words to screen (and it’s verifiable) for just a bit over 7 years! If you were to go back through the archives here, you will find my first post, at what was windthefrog.net, happened on November 5th, 2003. Of course, I’ve been doing for a bit longer, but those were posts that were eaten by Blogger or vaporized by Greymatter when I switched over.

7 years and change. Anyone curious what that means? According to the handy dandy Wordpress Dashboard it means

• 1,428 posts contained within 41 categories
• There have been 1,927 comments made, 1,911 approved
• I’ve used 642 tags

I’m not really sure what the word count is, but figure that each of the posts that I make here is usually around 300, than means that I’ve typed out over 400,000 words. Staggering. And that’s just here.

To get the full look back, I need to include the posts from dbmini.us, which started September, 2002, those stats would look something like this.

• 2,491 posts contained within 68 categories
• There have been 3,760 comments made
• I’ve used 721 tags

Using the same math as above, but assuming an average word count of 200 per post, that gives me a grand total over the past 7 years of almost 500,000 words that I have put to screen.

And that doesn’t even count the 6,657 posts on Twitter or the 2,591 posts on Tumblr. It also doesn’t count the hundreds of posts at Motoringfile that I have my name of them, or the 658 posts at White Roof Radio. If I had to guess, that’s got to be close to 750,000 words that I have put to screen in the last 7 years (and change).

Amazing.

What a very interesting year 2009 was, at least for me. Amazingly I survived, but just barely.

Two Zero One Zero

Starting the new year with a brand new website gone live. Check it out at IntrepidCycles.com. Full Wordpress site, as you would expect, but will also include a shopping cart by the end of the week and a members-only section. Still all contained within Wordpress. Watch the Twitter for updates as they happen.

Besides that, I’m also starting 2010 the same way I started 2009. Unemployed. You might have seen it on Facebook already. It’s not that big of a deal really. They are a great company and I just wasn’t the right ‘fit’ for what they were looking for. At least I was able to get a few balls rolling for them to get them on their way. Still, highly recommend them for any of yourproperty management needs, especially if you are in Southern California.

That makes twice I had a job in 2009 and twice I lost the job. Time to knuckle down, revamp the resume and keep at it until something sticks. Oh yea, and get the MINI fixed.

I did some cool stuff for 2009. I got to go to England, which was pretty rad. Built a few websites. Got a new iMac. Started the 5th year of the show and met some great people.

Here’s hoping for a safe and prosperous new year. May she be a damned sight better than the last!

DonBurnside.com is open! What can we do for you today?

All of the video (so far) is up at WhiteRoof.tv. Here is a sample.

You can check out the photos here. Be sure to do a search at Flickr for AMVIV as there are a TON of great photos from some of the best MINI photographers in the country!

Still more audio, a W(t)F video hour and a post or two to follow.

If you’ve already seen this at dbmini, WRR or MF, no need to click through because it is exactly the same. I will say that I will be fairly sparse around here for the next week and change starting Thursday.

Can you believe this actually starts this week? Here at WRR we are getting pretty excited as you can imagine. Hopefully we’ll be able to share most of that excitement with you as well!

Before going further, do make sure you have registered for the MTTS event you are going to be attending. Besides saving $10, you will get a bag of swag for sure and the proceedes go to local charities. Win-win in my book!

Now, to keep up with all of the action.

• All photos will be on my Flickr, in the MTTS 2008 Flickr group and on Todd’s Flickr
• All videos will be posted to Whiteroof.tv for download and Vidder to watch
• Updates, as they happen, will come from Twitter, including when we broadcast live via uStream.tv
• All audio will, of course, be up on WRR for download with a player on Motoringfile.com.

To make things easier, I have set up a special RSS feed (actually it’s ATOM, but it will work in any reader) that will aggregate Twitter, Flickr, WRR and WR.tv. You can subscribe to that here.

I have already posted our possible live schedule here in case you missed it. Keep in mind that this is very tentative and is very much subject to change. This is where twitter will come in handy to keep up-to-date should things change.

Stay tuned! things are just getting warmed up!