I’ve been busy over on the other side lately, so be sure you are following along over there. There is some very cool stuff coming in the next month and change that is MINI related and I’m pretty excited about all of it.

I’m also going to making some changes (again) to this site. No matter how hard I try, no matter how many resumes I send out, I just can’t seem to make anything happen. So it’s time to take off on my own and try to generate some income anyway possible. I need a website that reflects that.

What does that mean to you? I’m not sure yet. Of course it will be cool, but that might mean that I move my more ‘personal’ blog posts over w(t)f and keep this more technical, which I’ve already started.

Anyway, go to the MINI sites and see what’s happening. If you are in SoCal, stop by and say hi when I’m at MINI of Ontario or catch me at AMVIV with almost the entire WRR crew.

The site is actually for the business owner and will serve as a place for customers to contact her, sign up for an upcoming email newsletter, follow along at Twitter and read articles that are written by her or yours truly. You can check out the site in full by clicking the screen shot above.

2 sites down for the month, at least 1 to go that I will be telling you about next week (I hope).

So ends the self pimping for this January 9th, 2010.

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.

I have decided to go back to the “I wonder who will find me” model of personal publishing, instead of forcing it onto your screens. I’ve been pushing stuff to Twitter long enough, so you know it’s all here. Now to see if you keep coming back.

To be a little more clear, anything that I post here, on dbmini, w(t)f, Vimeo or Viddler will no longer automatically get posted to Twitter, which also no longer automatically posts to Facebook.

I will be putting everything back into Friend Feed if you want a one-stop-shopping experience for everything I share online, but that’s as far as it goes.

If you are one of my Facebook or Twitter followers and want to be able to keep up with my shit, might I recommend taking the time now to discover the absolute brilliance that is RSS and Google Reader. Everything I do has an RSS feed and it’s a great way to keep up. Bonus is that there are a ton of sites out there that also have RSS feeds, so you can easily subscribe to them to get the latest updates.

If you are one of my Twitter or Facebook followers that is tired of reading duplicate posts or seeing links from me, you won’t any longer. You’re welcome.

Finally, I will be removing FB Connect from donburnside.com and reset the Wordpress comment rules appropriately.

As always, thank you for your time.

If you are thinkin’ about doing some shopping at Amazon this weekend, a good place to start would be by clicking the banner at the top of the page (or this link). It’s only going to be there until Monday, and yes I do get a kickback. But, since you are going to be shopping anyway, why not help me out a little bit, right?

I’m not one that gets sick. I have not the time or interest in getting sick, being sick or anything else pertaining to the word sick. Honestly, I have better, more productive things to do with my time.

For example, instead of being sick, I could have finished installed php, mySQL and phpmyadmin on the dev server at work. I got it almost done, but couldn’t finish because I was about to pass out.

When I got home, a journey I barely remember completing, I did, in fact, pass out for about an hour. That is time I could have used to work on my next Wordpress project.

When I woke up, I had enough energy to prepare the evening’s meal, completely drenched in sweat, before, again, going back to sleep. Oh, I did manage to watch Castle, but that’s as much as I could handle.

Slept for 9 hours after that.

I’m feeling pretty good this morning. Enough so that I was able to make a few more tweaks here, screen shot twitter and type up this approx 200 word post.

But that’s it. I have no more time for sick. I will still stay hopped up on Advil and OJ for the day to make sure I get something done.

Oh, I would appreciate any feedback on the changes to the site if you have any. If you don’t, that’s ok too.

Starting my day, I realized that I owe you a few things. To be honest, I haven’t really felt like writing much. I’m sure a big part of that is due to my living situation right now. One of the biggest problems I have is not being able to work or write or do anything on the computer if there is someone behind me that I cannot see. I always feel like they are looking over my shoulder. I know it’s weird, but I’m also afraid of clowns, so back off a bit, k?

I am, however, trying to get back in the groove. Things are settling down a bit and I can now access the interwebs from about 30 locations in my area thanks to Verizon FIOS, which will help me to put thoughts to pixels on a few of the following things.

• Video review of the Garmin Nuvi 255w should be up sometime next week.
• Full review of the Blackberry Tour should be done before the end of this week.
• Cross platform backup software
• Cool sync tools for your phone

The last 2 in that list will be part of the next Sunday Post, hopefully coming this Sunday after I research a few more things.

Anyway, I’m getting back into it. Stay subscribed and watch out. Stuff will be coming soon!

Our own Michael B, head plumber at donburnside.com, got a promotion to Chief Petty Officer.

Congrats Michael!

That doesn’t mean you can’t criticize my work or provide feedback. On any of the items I post you are more than welcome to scrape, grab, hotlink or download any of it and post it to your site. Or link back to my stuff. Or, and this is new, friend me up at Facebook.

I have setup a new FriendFeed account and have linked up only the sites that don’t have comments (including the tumblr). I have also activated the FriendFeed app on Facebook so everything I post will go right into my news feed.

I think for now this is a pretty good solution. Of course, if you would like to add your 2-bits, go right ahead.

UPDATE: If you are a facebook user, you can login using the button on the right to post a comment as well.

If you would like to keep up, follow along at White Roof Radio. Everything will be getting posted there and at Motoringfile.

Something new this year will be the introduction of a live show (Saturday, around noon PST. Check your local listings) and a real video component. I will be taking the The Flip and the Canon. Flip video stuff you should be seeing over the weekend. Canon Video stuff will be showing up at Whiteroof.tv next week.

Have a good weekend y’all!