Brandon Belew

So I finally got tired of 1and1,   and joined the cool kids over at MediaTemple.  

So far...so good!

After a brief lunch (  hit up the deli room and had a chicken sub )  and a trip back to my hotel room to drop off some stuff.   I came back and immediately ran over to the google gears booth to absorb more info.  

Out of all of the stuff here,  Google Gears is the most interesting to me.   Google Gears has so much potential,  but i'm having problems coming up with practical applications in my field.   

So as most of the people that would ever look at my site know.  I spent most of yesterday traveling to San Francisco to attend Google IO this week.   

So far,  today I checked out the keynote and boy did it get the gears in my head turning.    Out of all of it,  the stuff that interests me mostly is "Open Social" and "Google Gears".     The possibilities are endless with these tools.  

Katharyne and me went to the movies last night to see Iron Man.    I have to admit,  I was quite impressed.    

It was the first action movie where Katharyne actually enjoyed it -  it was a perfect mix of action and comedy.  

The only action movie I have ever been to where the crowd bust into laughter and applause multiple times throughout it.  

Oh and based on the previews we are going to have a couple hilarious movies coming out this summer -  The Guru and  You Don't Mess with Zohan.

On May 8,  at 5pm Katharyne and I were married.  

Yes yes I know,  what about May 23, 2009 our original date?    Well this one was just for logistical reasons -  we are still going to do the traditional ceremony / reception / honeymoon on our original planned date. 

This time around,  we got married at the Morning Sun - my jobby.  It was a pretty funny ceremony,  all day time employees in attendance.   

I will post some pictures and video on here when I get it!  

Brandon

So I went and applied for a marriage license today.  Now we get to wait 3 days,  then go back and turn in the worksheet - pay the 50$ -  and pick up the cert. 

Now... to find someone to marry us.. hmmmm 

So a few days ago I sat down and started messing with drupal again.   I took the rockford template from Gatehouse and drupalized it in little time.   

I spent quite a bit of time awhile back griping about drupal and theming, but when someone else does the design work it's actually quite easy.  

Like I said before,  I fail at design......

Now.. back to module developement - which wasn't too hard the first time I did it with drupal 5.  

So Katharyne picked out a ring today,    luckily i'll still be able to pay the bills after getting it :) 

Last night Katharyne and I decided to go to the movies and watch "Forgetting Sarah Marshall".  

Quick and dirty:

It wasn't a bad movie - if you don't want to see full frontal male nudity,  come in late, and duck out early.  

Long version:

Well,  I was planning on doing some diving today.... But for the last couple weeks I have been congested and diving while congested is a bad idea.  

Tuesday night when our dive club was doing the OW certification pool sessions I was like always helping the instructors keep an eye on the students..   being congested before getting in the pool,  I knew I would most likely spend the rest of my evening in pain.