So I have finally come into the modern world and descided to upgrade the look and feel of my site. Hopefully this will also increase the frequency with which I update it (cross your fingers). For all the newcomers (all 2 of you), I am an engineering student in New Mexico. I like computers and motorcycles. I am a php programmer and a member of the NMTA and work for Santa Fe Skies RV Park.
Yesterday was round 4 in the New Mexico Trials Assn.Competition. Dad, Tim, Willie, April, Thomas and Aurora rode in the morning. I spent that time making sure no one got hurt and coaching them through tough spots as I got a chance. They all had a good time and no one got badly hurt, just the usual bruises and scrapes.
The morning ended with dad in 4th in Intermediate, tim somewhere around 6th in Amatuer beating Willie by a couple of points putting him in 7th, Thomas 3rd in novice, April got 6th in the same class and Aurora did not finish, allowing april to finish her run rather than both of them not having enough time.
After lunch, the upper class riders went out, I rode Sportsman (the lowest of the upper class). The time was from 1:30 to 5:30, I was one of the first riders to turn in my ticket at 4:55 finishing with a score of 40 points (lower is better). At 5:30 most if not all the upper riders had come in from the 9 sections, most worn, dusty and sweating from the sunny 80+ degree weather out on the rocky mesa.
After some water and a little rest I come back to find I have won 1st place in my class, marking my first win in the class since I started back in February. It was a long and rough day, but I really had a lot of fun and I think that the rest of the crew did too.
Nine Inch Nails
Category: Music
For the Record, there are two BIG names really into the internet downloading of music. Radiohead and Nine Inch Nails.
I put radiohead first because they were first. They offered their album “In rainbows” on a pay whatever basis, the internet community took this and ran with it. Downloading for as little as the base fee (around $1) all the way up to $300. Which I bought in stores for around $11
This trend was then emulated by trent reznor of Nine Inch Nails.
Selling the 36 track acoustic album Ghosts I-IV for $5. Which I bought online.
Today Trent topped good ol radiohead by offering “Disipline” on his site 100% free.
Here is the link: http://dl.nin.com/discipline/nin
I have to say that I have been a believer in the idea of free music and free software, if you enjoy doing something, share it, don’t put limits on it, but I also understand that there are people who can’t do what they want and still affort to do it.
I endorse anyone making something for free, and giving it out for free, those who want to pay for a Cd, pay for it! No one is stopping you, I might buy it on Cd just to support the idea of getting it out there and giving the artist a good reason to keep doing it.
Grab it, like it, hate it, whatever. - I like it.
Well, I ended up moving up to Sportsman after only three events. I think I am finally at or near a class I belong. That may not be true in six months but for right now I am happy working on my skills. I took 5th in February, 5th in March, and 4th in the April event. I was 2 points away from 2nd place. By this time next year, I am hoping to be in semi-expert or expert. RIght now I am just a little sore and tired. The hardest thing is the dehydration, it is a killer out on that hot rock. My Dad placed 1st in Intermediate and April placed 2nd in Beginner. It is kinda cool that my dad already placed 1st in a class that I so recently did. I think that advising him the day before on the sections helped a lot. It can be a full time job being a Minder/Advisor.
Happy New Year!, considering that this is the first post of this year, it is the new year for capamonkeyboy.com, it is also about a year old! Well, I have been hella busy with servers and School and finding a new roommate, oh my! Over the weekend, I moved up to sportsman in trials, that means upper class, and got 4th in the last comp, I will need to work harder at my skills to be ready for semi expert and expert, but I feel that I am on the right track. I also have a new server, but I will post the details for that later.
So the last Comp went well. I moved up a class to Intermediate and got 3rd the first day and 1st the second day. I won “Best Overall” in Intermediate for the event. The best part is Dad was so impressed with my riding that he decided to buy a new bike and give me his old one. 
Well I did it. I moved up a class in my trials motorcycle riding at the latest comp. I went to the event in roswell and managed to get third place the first day. I was mad because I knew I could do better. I spent saturday afternoon practicing and managed to get down the move I had been failing at. The second day of the event I was able to win first! I even had low enough points to win best overall. I now have a third place and a first place in intermediate as well as a best overall, it is my first in intermediate so I am really happy.
This is more of an update than anything else, I am working my way through my semester at UNM, I am big on servers and networking right now as it does help the family business. I am also big on mortorcycles, namely specialty dirt bikes designed for slow speed jumps and agility, it is called trials and it is a sport at which I am good. This weekend I will be riding intermediate class and maybe (depending on my place), sportsman soon. Anyway, have a good one, later.
Well we survived the balloon fiesta, now it time to do skool, I might actually get time to homework while at the office, riiggggghhhtt. Anyway, I just put up a new page, it is a detailed description on how to build a Subwoofer box for a car. If anyone would actually like to build a box, I can offer some tips, but I think the write up that I made covers the important parts.
With the exception of Photoshop, all of these programs are available on the net. Enjoy.
Firefox
You would be amazed at how many of your pages can look normal in IE but look like crap in firefox, that is usually 30% of your views are getting looked at wrong. Get it, love, it live it.
FireBug
This little baby is an add on to firefox, it allows the user to edit the code of any page while looking at it. Ever wanted to see what a different background looks like on your myspace without actually changing it? This program is for you. You can even edit CSS and javascript. Best part is, all the changes can be copied and pasted into your actual page and saved.
FireFTP
This is another add on for firefox, It is a ftp program that comes up as another tab in firefox, this means you save ram and space.
Photoshop/Imageready
Sorry to put a non-free software on the list, but PS is a staple of attractive pages. Many fades and other great portions of websites have been done in PS. If you have linux, grab GIMP and enjoy the fun. Imageready is especially wonderful if used in conjunction with clean code, you can end up with a page that is both sleek and loads fast.
Textpad
When you have to actually read the code, this is a life saver, it provides most features associated with word in a code oriented fashion, including copy and paste and code highlighting. It does highlighing for css, php, java, js, html, perl…. you can even make your own hot tags.
If anyone else has suggestions, give me a heads up, but this is all I use and I know it it helps my productivity.