Michael Richard Murphy

I spotted this a week or so ago in the grocery store parking lot not far from where I mountain bike. The sight of it (almost) made me giddy like a school girl

The DropIn bus is the home away from home for a half dozen or so pro and semi-pro mountain bikers. It’s a series on Canadian TV that I got turned onto about 5 years ago. I watched the first season religiously (then available only on the Internet in the States) and even bought the DVDs. At the time they were traveling throughout Northwestern Canada searching for great spots to ride and filming themselves ripping it up. Four seasons later they’ve been all over Canada, the Western United States, and even spent a season in New Zealand.

Life happened and I got away from riding for a while. I had forgotten all about the show until I had some downtime recently and decided to watch the DVDs again. It’s a weird coincidence that a few days later I’d spot the bus in my “neighborhood”. It was even more of a surprise to go out to the mailbox and find Dylan Tremblay riding down the sidewalk toward me. We chatted for a while about the local riding and their next destination. I also checked out his new bike (in the video below). It was definitely cool to personally meet a guy whose riding I respect and whose skill level I’d like to reach.

Well, here is the new “design”. I opted to go the theme route because I find I get bored with a design by the time I’ve got it all fleshed out for Word Press. Besides, like I said, I’ve been pretty busy with paying work lately.

Over the last few weeks I’ve upgraded Word Press to implement some security updates as well as take advantage of some widgets and plug-ins available for more recent versions. The Recent Reading and My Flickr sections of the footer are new to the site.

I’ve also updated the directory structure and moved some things around a little. It’s been tested locally but please let me know (in the comments here) if you click on something that doesn’t work as expected.

As I mentioned in my previous post, Coming…soon(?), this website also has a new home with Bluehost. They came highly recommended and they offer RoR hosting so hopefully you’ find some posts about Ruby here in the near future.

Unfortunately this site has been largely neglected (in favor of paying work). But hopefully soon all that will change…

I’m trying out a new host and this will be the first domain to switch over. When it does, it will have a new (sorely needed) look. The new host supports RoR so I hope to play around with (and write about that) here.