I'm baaaack!

Just got the internet working here in New Jersey so I am back! By the way I will be in New Jersey untill June then back to the Great White North to be with the folks!

Tales from the Road

My day has been filled with the smiling faces, cleanliness and joy that travel always brings! I am writing this in San Francisco airport, which is not my final destination-in fact I had not even planned on coming here until I missed my flight in Vancouver! I got off the plane and wandered aimlessly looking for my luggage do you go through customs first? Or pick up your bags first? When going through customs do you have to declare the roast beef you ate for lunch? These are questions you too may have asked yourself at one point in time. Anyway I was lucky enough to get flights to San Francisco then on to Newark at basically the same times. It was the quick and savvy work of a Untied check in guy that saved me from a fate that surely would have ended up like that movie ‘The Terminal’. Well that’s all for now I will write again at 6:30 am when I get to Newark. (I’m to cheep to use the airports Wi-Fi so I’m just going to pretend I’m posting this now).
Hi again its 8:00 am I just got here after a very long flight. I consider myself and other people consider me to be quite the movie buff, however out of all the films I see in a year only about 4 or 5 are seen at the theater the rest are rented so what a quincedence it was that Stranger then Fiction would be playing on my flight yes one of the 3 films I saw in theaters last year! I would not complain except this seems to happen every time there is an in-flight movie! I swear the airline executives just fallow me around-“Get the lawyers on the phone! Travis just went in the theater start making a deal for Stranger then Fiction!”
Despite all my complaints flying was, really a fine experience security was smooth customs was a breeze and there was very little turbulence. I’d rate it 7 out of 10.

Leaving on a Jet Plane

Today I leave for New Jersey I will be there until June. For those of you who don't know what this is; New Jersey is the 3rd oldest state (according to Wikipedia), it is the birthplace of Steven Spielberg and several other people who you may have heard of. The first and only perfect little leuge game was pitched there (Not a single hit!), it is home to some great beaches and other things! So greetings from future me in New Jersey! (PS tomorrow I will post how the air travle went).

New Styles

Sorry I was rather busy-these past 2 or 3 weeks but I did have time to do some spring cleaning on my blog. I gave it a sweet new style! More posts and um posts to come soon!

Experiment

Here are the results of my little experiment (see below post); so far I have recived no alerts from Google this leads me to believe that Google has no clue about the existence of this blog-Ironic because I use Blogger which is owned by Google. Oh well looks like-for now-I will go unnoticed.

Google Alerts

I was reading Scott Adams blog which by the way terrific. Anyway he was talking about technology that he thought was too fricken cool-an example of this type of technology given was Google Alerts. Here's what he had to say about it;
"...Google Alerts. It sends me an e-mail any time my keywords newly appear on the Internet. My keywords are “Scott Adams Dilbert.” Now, I usually have my Blackberry 8700 in my pocket. So check this out…

Any time that 11-year old Vijay sits at his Dad’s computer in Lucknow, India, and blogs about his favorite Dilbert comic, Google finds it, and sends that link directly to my left front pocket. I reach in, pull out the Blackberry, click the link, and Vijay’s blog opens. I read it, just to see what little Vijay thinks of me today...."

I decided to do a little test and see if Google alerts could find my humble blog. So I just signed up with Google Alerts and added Scott Adams to my list of key words, now I'm not 11, or living in India however I am blogging about Scott Adams, so I am hoping that some time in the near future I will get an email telling me that somebody just made a blog entry about Mr. Adam's that would make my day. I will return tomorrow with the results of my experment.

List of Members

I thought I'd make a list of the things I belong to so you can track me down when you're there! This is also my way of saying yes I have been gone for a loong time.

Nationstates; http://www.nationstates.net/travisthegreat
Digg; http://digg.com/users/bobchicken/profile
Colourlovers; http://www.colourlovers.com/lover/traviscool
Deviantart; http://traviscool.deviantart.com/

When I think of more I will call you.