Welcome to the new face of ActiveSteve.com. Although the old website design that I had been working with was fine, I thought it was time to present a new face for my place on the web. You’ll notice that this new site boasts a number of new and interesting features. On the top, you’ll notice that you can select different background colors to suit your taste. You can also make the main text area wider or narrower, as well as select a larger font spacing for ease of reading. That’s just for starters. You’ll also see that I’ve put in a neat-o menu along the top to access sub-content areas of this site. You’ve now got an easy way to check out the other great features of this site, including my events section, a section highlighting all my race results, and links to view posts specific to racing, travels, and general posts. On the right, you can see that I’ve built a countdown timer which will always show a countdown to my next race, so that you don’t have to ask me when it is 🙂 Each racing event also has countdown timers. Finally, you’ll see that I have the ability to show banner ads on this site as well (with ability to track full statistics), and have a sponsors section. With all the race registrations and equipment needs that I’ll have in the upcoming years, I plan to look for sponsors. In the next little while, you’ll also be able to download my media kit. That’s it in a nutshell, hope you enjoy my new web design! Feel free to leave me some feedback by commenting on this post.
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Well, break out the resolutions, it’s out with 2006, and into 2007, the year of James Bond (007). To properly bid adieu to another great year, and welcome a new one into our lives, Jody and I had a bunch of our good friends over for a little New Year’s eve party. From what I can recall, a good time was had by all 🙂 We started out by having a cheese fondue and raclette with Alix, Meghan, Dave and Matt, then moved on to the main event, with people popping in and out, although most people stuck around for the duration. After all, at the stroke of midnight, what better place is there to be then at the Nanaimo Bar?? (Don’t answer that) I’d like to say a big thanks to everyone for coming out and making it a great celebration. My laziness the next day tells me things went pretty well. I only mustered up the energy to finish cleaning up the mess, which was quite minimal, and going out for a nice family walk too. Apart from that, it was video games all afternoon! Yay!
G’day folks. Well, as you can see by the picture, the first step on our basement renovation is essentially completed! Last night at 10pm, I finished building the media cabinet that is built into the wall in the rec room. A while ago Jody and I decided that this fall / winter would be the time we finally renovate the basement. We spend 80% of our time there, so we figure it will be money well spent. The master plan calls for new paint, new carpet, new couch, built in media centre for home theatre stuff, installation of laminate in bar area, and finally the piece de resistance, my new oak bar!
We’ve got the ball heavily rolling now. We ordered our carpet, ordered our couch, bought the paint, bought the bar materials, and as you can see, I’ve built the cabinet. If you’d like to see other pictures of the project, head on over to our flickr sets and check out the basement renovation shots. I’ll update it as we go along.
Howdy folks! Well, the October of relaxation just rolls along for ActiveSteve. The weekend after my nice relaxing trip to Mont Tremblant I had a few fun little plans lined up. The first such exciting plan was a Halloween shooter party on Friday night, followed by the Terri and Adam wedding on Saturday at the Beantown Ranch. Both events were a great time, and are a good prelude to my upcoming hiatus from Canada to the warm winds of New Zealand. I’ll keep the story brief this time, because frankly, I’ve been spending my work days writing, and have plenty of other things to keep me busy at the moment. However, just to keep things consistent, as always, you can check out some of
Ok, so I wasn’t really biking in Hawaii, but I sort of experienced what biking in that neck of the woods might be like. This will in fact be a different sort of post for me, because it’s actually going to be… wait for it… a product review! What?! I’m sure you’re wondering why, and fear not, your questions will all be answered, and you’ll also get to laugh at me trying to do yoga, and read about a set of cycling DVDs that are new(ish) to the market. Yup, my tireless blogging and training has finally got me some notice. I noticed a comment on my site less than 2 weeks ago asking me if I’d like to review some spinning DVDs, as I’m a cycling blogger, and the gent thought I’d be interested. What follows in the next few paragraphs will explain how I came to get those DVDs, and just what I thought of them. I had to get cracking on it, because with the nicer weather, I didn’t want to stay locked up in my basement spinning anymore, so I sacrificed a Friday night to bring you this review and the associated pictures and videos, all of which you can check out on the flickr folder I put them in. But before that, you might as well just hit the read link, since I’ve embedded the videos as well.