Patrick's Blog

My Chocolate Journal in the press

2008-07-25T09:55:00.000-05:00

My chocolate review website, http://www.mychocolatejournal.com got a mention in the Miami Examiner today:

S.F. Boomers Examiner - Chocolate out of my league - Examiner.com

Finally finding RSS useful

2008-03-18T19:30:00.003-05:00

So I have know the benefits of RSS some some time, however I never felt that all those RSS aggregators our there were very user friendly or easy to remember to go back and check. It seemed like double reading your email every day.

I installed Microsoft Office 2007 on my new laptop last week and was very happy to see that RSS is now just another added folder.

Now I feel like I am getting so much more out of RSS, blogs, and social bookmarking sites! Yea for web 2.0.

Enterprise 2.0

2008-03-07T11:51:00.003-05:00

I've been spending quite a bit of time lately researching web 2.0 for the enterprise. To date, I have implemented a few new features in our company intranet including:
- people finder
- recognition
- org charts
- professional experience

So what are we missing? If you have any ideas, I would love to hear them!

Finally...

2007-07-19T14:25:00.001-05:00

OK… I finally updated my personal website. Went for a streamlined, one page site. Used a CSS template found via Google. Includes images of my past projects as well as a RSS feed based photo gallery from Google Web Albums (Picsa).

See more progress on: Redo my personal website

Goals

2007-03-08T11:58:00.001-05:00

18 pounds down, at least 12 more to go!

See more progress on: loose 30 pounds

My Chocolate Journal.com Launched

2007-03-06T16:56:00.000-05:00

After several months of work, www.mychocolatejournal.com has been launched.

I came up with the concept for a online journal to review and share chocolate back in August after we had to close down P.S. I Love You Fine Chocolates to move to Florida. I spent a couple months in back-end design while still in Colorado and then the first month living down here.

Building out the site took about two months.

I was able to get out the basic features so far. There are still a lot of other features that I would like to build when I have time in the future.

Watch blog.mychocolatejournal.com for more info.

Sunset at St Pete beach

2007-01-13T18:11:00.001-05:00

Weird sunset...

2007-01-01T17:45:00.001-05:00

On New Year's Day, Stephanie and I decided to run a few errands in the rain. It was very dark and gloomy out until the sun was about to set and the whole sky lit up in bright yellows and oranges. Very weird!

Great portfolio site

2006-12-26T16:47:00.000-05:00

I have been considering reworking my personal site (www.sikescentral.com) and my portfolio site (www.homemanagementweb.com) into a single version of the former since there is just too much junk out on SikesCentral right now.

In my browsing, I found this great site that has is only a single page. It has a great look and has some neat JavaScript for enlarging portfolio images.

http://www.tanyamerone.com

Home sweet home

2006-12-26T11:37:00.001-05:00

Disney World Holidays

2006-12-26T11:20:00.000-05:00

Photos from Walt Disney World of thier gingerbread and chocolate holiday displays.