Andrew Underwood

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Hoo boy! I haven’t visited the blogging tree house in months. Last time I was here I forgot to take out the garbage, and now it just reeks like a simile! It occured to me that I should get some blogging done after Dreamhost decided to bill me $213 for two accounts from the future. Yes they did this for every customer, depending on what your account was. I might not be paying that much, but I am paying for this.

What have I been up to? Hmm. Well I bought another 1981 Celica Supra, with the 5-me engine, except this car was turboed way back in the 80s. This would be a very unique characteristic as I have not heard of a turboed 5-me ever before. Once the mark 2 and 3 (mkII, mkIII) came out in the later 80s, people would just swap engines from those cars into the mkI (my model) to give it more power.

Jared gave me his snow blades to try out. I went to Fernie and used them for the first half of the day, and aside from looking ridiculous they are pretty fun. However I switched back to snowboarding at noon because there was lots of deep fresh snow that wasn’t being properly exploited with the snow blades.

I went to Calgary to play some guitar in a studio called The Slaugherhouse. I guess it use to be one, our studio room was called “The Killing Floor”. I made a recording using my mp3 player and it came out great! I’ll post some clips sometime. Meanwhile, see all the pictures here.

In case you are wondering, that thing on my head is a helmet cam.

I am also looking for somewhere to live, closer to the Alberta Research Council. If you have any ideas, let me know!

It’s Alive!

If you like to read about technical things or perhaps mini-essays, you should check out my friend Aaron’s Blog. This is his second attempt at this after a long hiatus from the blogosphere. Except this time he’s hosting it on his home computer, so I hope it can stand up to the wave of crawler bots about to hit it.

New home

Now I’m all set up on my new server, which will give me way more freedom than my old home on the university’s server. I’ve got hosting on Dreamhost now. If you are looking for hosting check these guys out. It’s really full featured and you get a free domain registration with any hosting package. If you decide to get hosting with them use promo code 1618a to get $50 bucks off. They have this refferal program where if you buy hosting from them because of me they will pay me $97. I can choose to allocate some of that money ($50 in this case) to my own promotion code for you. So I’ll get $47 in the end.

Anyhoo, I’m sure you have noticed that I have a new design with different blogging software. Wordpress is what I’m using now instead of Blogger. I was unsucessful in importing all my old Blogger posts so I’m going to have to do it manually. However, this will give me the opportunity to categorize all of them.