Joe got his wedding pictures online… and wow, what an application… the pics are nice Joe, but the app is beautiful. Nice job!

Spent last evening up in York, ME, enjoying the fine cuisine of Wild Willy’s (I highly recommend the Bubba Burger with extra BBQ sauce), followed by Brown’s Old Fashion Ice Cream (I highly recommend the Snickers flavor) and a walk along Short Sands beach to the Nubble lighthouse. The picture on the left is looking across Short Sands beach toward a row of houses that look out over the ocean. It’s a beautiful spot… in a couple weeks you’ll be able to hear the local bands playing in the gazebo *every* night of the week…

Had a great weekend… Friday night went to the Comedy Connection in Boston to hear Kevin Pollack, Saturday night went to Club Passim to hear Christopher Williams and yesterday I hit some more balls at Billy McGolf.

Took my first swings with the new clubs on Saturday and hit 3 buckets of balls. I had no idea what I was doing, hit probably 3/4 quarters of them straight…. left. Today I discovered about 350 new muscles, all of them introducing themselves rather stiffly. I hope “Five Lessons: The Modern Fundamentals of Golf” arrives soon.

Mike (who hooked me up this week) is at the Masters right now. He doesn’t know it yet, but he’s blogging it. I’m pretty sure he has his camera with him so I’m sure we’ll see some pics soon.

My main man Mike .NET hooked me up big time today with a set of irons from Cobra, a dozen balls from Titleist and a FootJoy bag. Now I just need to learn how to play golf.

On a related note, today at MINDSEYE we announced our new Content Management product, called Element. Titleist, FootJoy.com, FootJoy.co.uk, FootJoy.com.fr, FootJoy.de, FootJoy.nu (and soon Cobra Golf and Scotty Cameron) are using the ASP version of the product. I know we’ll have more information about the product in the coming weeks, but, gosh darn it, we’re pumped!

MountainDew® LiveWire, coming to a soda fountain near you.

Spent the majority of the day at Joe and Amy’s wedding at Park Street and reception at Les Zygomates Wine Bar & Bistro. Beautiful wedding and great food. I only wish I could be on my way to Kauai for a honeymoon. The forecast in Boston called for ‘Light Ice Pellets’.

The baseball season begins today with the Angels taking on the Rangers. Catch it on ESPN.

John writes that “… blogging is almost recreational — it’s hard to point to a solid return-on-investment for the time.” I don’t work at a large enterprise so I can’t comment on ROI at the business level, but personally, blogging is great way of saving and then reusing the knowledge you gain on a daily basis (how to use rsync, getting servlets to reload…). How many times do you think to yourself “I remember doing that once, but where did I write it down?” I used to use Outlook for this, but searching your Outlook hierarchy is excruciatingly s l o w. If you have a blog, you probably wrote about it in your blog, which you can then use full text searching to retrieve in a matter of seconds. I can get my job done faster. That’s ROI. Course, the same thing applies to people that I work with. I’ll get an email from someone about JSP Coding Standards and I can point them here because I remember writing about it. Other people get their job done faster.