jordanBommelje

We are officially a team for Tour de Cure this Jun 12th, 2011. I’d like to have as many people participate as possible. My personal page is http://tinyurl.com/67g8qto and it has a link to join our team! I’d really like to get at least 10 riders for our team. I’ll be purchasing RocRider T-shirts to wear for the ride with our new logo we’ll have in the next few weeks, so please let me know when you sign up and what size shirt you’d like!

Picked up a 2010 Cannondale Caad9-5 and it’s amazing. Once the weather gets just a little bit nicer, then I’ll try riding it around and give a review of what I think of it.

A Google Chrome CR-48. I got one of these to try out, and so far, it’s been pretty cool. I’ll use it for a little bit and post my thoughts on it.

My goal for this summer is to ride 1000+ miles. This goal can easily be achieved by riding to and from work 3 times a week. This would bring the approximate riding distance to 1250 not including any riding times other than to and from work. Adding that buffer amount would help in the event that there’s a lot of rain, or I need to take a break. I’ll be posting my updates on my forum, RocRider.com for all to follow.

A new year has begun. It’s a fresh start to some things. For the year 2011, I have a few things I’d like to accomplish. They include:

1. Stop drinking Mountain Dew – This is a tough one for me, but I’m determined. Being more healthy overall is a more generic resolution.
2. Reduce debt and clear credit card balances – This is definitely possible with enough self discipline.
3. Read more books – Any kind of books. Manuals, fiction, non-fiction… Anything.
4. Write more in my blog – I want to make this a more active site.
5. Get certified in Mac OS X Server – A very realistic goal that would be very beneficial.
6. Take more photos – I want to start doing more freelance photography; this is a good way to start.
7. Take a vacation – It’s been a very long time, but I think it’s well deserved.
8. Be more organized – Keep things clean. I need to find ways to be neat.
9. Ride my bike more – I would really like to ride to and from work 3 times a week. That’s about 25 miles each day, 75 per week. Plus any additional recreational riding.
10. Promote RocRider.com – Provide a place for other bike riders around the area to communicate and keep in touch.

And that’s my list for 2011. I’ll mark off each thing as it’s done, and come back to it in 1 year. We’ll see how I do!

I’ve been shooting with a Canon 40D for close to 2 years now (in October) and it’s been amazing. Lately, I’ve been wanting to take my photography to the next level. I’d like to start doing portraits, and other photography for people. I like capturing a moment. Up until 3 years ago, I had no interest in photography. I’ve become crazy about it! I’ve decided to move up to the 5D Mark II. In the next week, I will be ordering my camera, and will make sure to post some unboxing moments! I’m excited to do some video as well. With this upgrade, I’ll be looking to upgrade my (now) four year old 17″ MacBook Pro to something with more kick to it. I’ve been looking at Mac Pro’s for a while now, but I’m thinking I’d be better off with a 27″ iMac. I’ll be looking to clear some of my stuff out to make room for this. I’m very excited and can’t wait to continue with my photography. I’ll be adding a photography.jordanbommeje.com soon to show off any work.

Well folks, here it is. My world debut of blogging via iPad. This thing is incredible and the word press app for it is amazing as well. This is going to be a great way of blogging on the go, or when i just want to sit back and relax and not get distracted by other things. If you’ve got any questions, I’d love to try answering them. Ill also try posting some other great applications Ive come across.

Looking in to adding some additional responsibility at work. Imm going to be working on a chat script for us to use while working so we can all communicate with each other with out needed to be near each other. Found a pretty decent chat script that im ping to alter and really make my own. Very excited about this task. Ill be doing some additional server stuff, too which should be awesome! Very exciting

Looking to do some photo work soon. I’d really like to head to the zoo and take some photos. I need some better lenses! Hoping to doing relatively soon. Going to Mendon Ponds Bird Trail today. Definitely excited. It’s a beautiful day out to top it all off!

Since Ive been working on web hosting, Ive been trying to learn as much as I can about direct admin and whmcs. They are both great products, but quite a bit to learn. I was working on doing backups for users manually and searched through direct admin. Doing backups is available, but definitely need to find a good workflow for it. Whmcs has been amazing, however their iPhone app has been less than great. After a $40 purchase to turn on iWHMCS, I downloaded the app, and it crashes every time upon login. Tried on other phones, still the same issue. Im hoping there’s a fix for it soon,
Im still learning this stuff, but I’m enjoying learning it. If anyone has some good practices with the software, please feel free to email me or write a comment. Thanks!