For the past week, my wife and I have been enjoying showing our daughter around Banff and Calgary.

We've taken our 14 month old for her first visit to the zoo, her first swim in a pool, her first (and second and third) ice cream at Cows and her first gondolla ride.

It's been fun, and I've also been using the time to draw up ideas. Ideas for some new sites, ideas for existing sites and ideas for where to put my focus for the next half of 2009.

Once we get home, I'll have some more updates about these ideas, but suffice it to say they should be fun.

I'm a geek, and I've always been a fan of the comics and the old cartoons. So I was happy to see this trailer show up.

Enjoy.

Sorry for the lack of updates this past week. The wife and I were gone for a few days to Vancouver and then we were getting ready for Kaitlyn's first birthday.

Hard to believe she's a year old already. Time does fly which I'm sure every new parent discovers when the first birthday rolls around.

Today, I launched the new design of this blog.

It's been in the works for the past month and a half.Trying to get all the various ideas together in one place.

I started off with a theme I bought from themeforest, and moved from there to change it to have the look and feel I was most comfortable with.

The end result is one I'm pretty pleased with.

Lately, I've started adding some recipes to this blog. This is because I've always had cooking sites, and wanted to add some more exclusive recipes to my personal blog that aren't anywhere else.

These recipes that will be showing up on here are some of my more favourite recipes that I have picked up over the years and put to good use.

Ok, so today I started to redo the theme that this blog is using, it definetly lends itself nicely to what I want to do here, and with a few more tweaks, will be right where I want it.

Some things I've done to the theme, was the original twitter feed to the right was javascript based, so I changed it to use PHP and added a caching method to it so that it only updates every hour.

Ok, so I haven't made any new posts since the first of September, it's been a pretty busy month between work, projects and getting things ready to take Kaitlyn on her first trip to Newfoundland next week.

Both ActivityPipe.com and DBStract have been seeing a lot of traffic lately, which is good. A few people making use of the ActivityPipe plugin to display their Activity Streams via wordpress. And for DBStract, lots of people are finding uses for collecting data online.

Working to finish off aslifeis this week before we take our trip. And working out the plan for a new project tracking site that is built off some scripts I implemented a while back for doing project management for myself. But more about that project as time goes.

Been hard at work on my newest project lately at ActivityPipe.com, it's a site that lets you build your own activity streams.

You add your various links to it, and it creates a new little activity stream, you can see an example of it here.

There's still more to do, and the end result will be a wordpress plugin, as well as a couple other plugins for some other sites, but it's coming together pretty nicely.