My brother is starting up his own Skate shop in Artesia NM.  I am in the process of building him a website and helping him remodel and get everything organized.  He has plenty of merchandise and gear to get started and hopefully we can get some boards sold and make some kids happy there is a skate shop now in town.

I have been bringing up the idea with my brother about talking to the city to get our current skate park redesigned and expanded as the current skate park is quite dangerous because of the way everything is so compact.  If we can get a few kids to start a petition and ask people around the city to sign it. We can be on our way to a safer and better skate park.

I enjoy the hook-up with all the merchandise he has, and I am able to mess around with something I like.  Just trying to do something positive.

Just came across a very interesting app on the iPhone “Pageonce.”  Pageonce is an amazing web 2.0 site that enables users to bring together their entire online identity.  It enables users to connect to thousands of online services and integrate their entire web experience into one simple-to-use site.  I went ahead and registered on their website I had my account running in minutes. I went ahead and added all my bank accounts, cell phone provider, utilities, social networking sites(no facebook yet), and multiple online services. The GREAT part about the Pageonce service is that they provide an iPhone App, once you set up your account, download the app, and login once, your ready to go. Launch the app and from now on in a single click you are able to access your bank accounts, utilities,  and multiple online services,  no need to login or use mobile safari to go to each page individually, Pageonce puts all your services into one simple to use page.

Now, you might say that it’s a security risk giving Pageonce all your passwords. To me all their security validation checks out.  So as long as their are no malicious hacks going around I am going to continue using this incredible service on my iPhone.

Just finished setting up the community forums at Vensure.net, follow this link if you would like to read more regarding the goals for this project.

I also updated the site with a live chat feature that will allow site visitors to receive live support, instantly.  Also, the planned updates for next week are a Vensure blog integrated into the site and design.

OK, so maybe I’m being a little dramatic, its just that this place is so beautiful.  The skate park is small, but everything is nice and smooth…  It’s a good park to just chill and skate with a few friends, not to mention take in the view.  Just across the street is a small little lake so you can bring your pets and they’ll have a place for water and fun.  The people are really friendly and it’s not your typical suburban “sk8er” attitude, just skate.  I will be skating here much more often as I already made friends at this park.  I still would like to check out more of the parks in Denver, and I’ll post some more pictures of them and videos too.  This is the park where I will develop and improve my skating skills for the larger and better parks.  I just love the environment, weather, and people here.  Here are some better pics of the day:

On another note, I know I haven’t been updating the blog much (Not that anyone reads it) and I would really like to try and update the blog ATLEAST every 2 weeks, hopefully more though, If you guys have any ideas just drop me a line in the comments section, k thx. Have fun!

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IZArc is an incredible compression and decompression utility. It opens compressed files like:

ZIP, RAR, TAR, ISO, BIN

This is what the creator have to say about the program:

IZArc is the ultimate freeware archive utility supporting many archive formats like: 7-ZIP, A, ACE, ARC, ARJ, B64, BH, BIN, BZ2, BZA, C2D, CAB, CDI, CPIO, DEB, ENC, GCA, GZ, GZA, HA, IMG, ISO, JAR, LHA, LIB, LZH, MDF, MBF, MIM, NRG, PAK, PDI, PK3, RAR, RPM, TAR, TAZ, TBZ, TGZ, TZ, UUE, WAR, XXE, YZ1, Z, ZIP, ZOO. With a modern easy-to-use interface, IZArc provides support for most compressed and encoded files, as well as access to many powerful features and tools. It allows you to drag and drop files from and to Windows Explorer, create and extract archives directly in Windows Explorer, create multiple archives spanning disks, creating self-extracting archives, repair damaged zip archives, converting from one archive type to another, view and write comments and many more.

Ares is a FREE Peer-to-Peer (P2P) software application that is used to share music, pictures, videos, and other software.

It is a very simple, easy to use program that allows you to download music for free!  Non-copyrighted music ofcourse. Ares has a built in browser, a Library to organize your files and music, an easy to use search interface; for finding the free music you want, and built in IRC chat.  Ares also allows you to “preview” music and movies while you download, so if you don’t like what your downloading you can delete it.  Ares is very user friendly and has great features for those looking for a great P2P program.

 Ares is a must have app. Best of all it’s completely free!

Well, this is my beast of a PC.  LiquidiZed cooling on the CPU and GPU. (outdated pictures dont show the graphics card cooler)  I have an Intel Q6600 quad core, with 4 GB of Mushkin low latency ram, 2 150GB Raptors, and an extra 320 GB harddrive, the video card is an 8800GTX overclocked.  All topped off with a Thermaltake Tai-chi case.  I run Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit Edition.  Great for fraging, graphics and video editing, and any thing else you can think of.

These are the type of systems Vensure will build for you.  ONLY computers we would use.

Well, a few months ago, I decided it was time to fulfill one of my childhood goals. To get a dog I could take care of and who I would train and befriend. I told one of the kids that used to hang out at the old shop and play 360 all day that I was looking for a dog. We talked about pets for a little and then played some gears of war. I forgot about the incident, then about two weeks later the kid is at my work saying that I need to go down to the pound as quickly as possible. It was time to go home anyway and 20 minutes later we were at the pound looking at a dog that was shaky, malnourished, scared, twitchy and who howled instead of barked. Even though her appearance at this point may have turned many to-be dog owners away, not me. I told the pound lady that I wanted the dog right then. It was a Saturday, and the pound keeper was not working. So I decided, to give her a call and talk to her personally. She was not able to release the dog that day but wanted to discuss the responsibilities, and protocols for adopting a pet. I told her I would come in Monday, and we could discuss about it some more. That night I named the dog, Suki. Which is Japanese - Google it.

I passed by the pound on Sunday, there was a car. I stopped, it was the pound keeper.

After going through all the paper work in order to adopt a pet, and after talking to the pound keeper about what needed to be done. I asked her why Suki was in such a bad physical condition, as opposed to all the other dogs. (They didn’t look that bad for a pound.) She told me that they found Suki about 45 miles away on the side of the road dying of dehydration and starvation. The pound keeper told me that they believed that Suki was physically abused and abandoned by its previous owner. Now let me explain something. First of all, I was outraged. How anyone could hurt an animal like this, or any other animal for that matter, is far beyond my comprehension. If I ever meet the person, I swear….. They will have more than my words to deal with. Now, New Mexico is not the coolest of places, climate wise. A husky is fit for a colder environment, so how in the world a husky got to New Mexico is something I ponder about every now and then. It amazes me that she was able to survive in such a hot, dry environment. Either way, I knew I was heading to Denver, so I adopted her. No regrets.

Well, after a few days Suki had her shots, microchip, and a basic vet check. Not, to mention that EVERYONE at the vet knew her. (I went to the vet where the pound had taken her.) I am glad to say that Suki is doing great. All her viewable scars are gone, and she is quite healthy. Here are a few pictures,

Thanks to a few of my friends who have been dog owners for years, especially Megan. Suki can do some basic commands like Sit, Down, Stop, Come, and I have officially potty trained her. Which was WAY easier than I thought it would be. She still goes for the trash though, Grrrrr, we are working on that….