Recently, fbCal was featured on LifeHacker. It provided for a nice bump in adoption, as seen above. Here’s to productivity apps!

I made a few websites recently for UCF-related groups. Enjoy!

• Progressive Council http://www.progressivecouncil.org/
• Eco-Advocates of Central Florida http://www.ecoucf.org/
• Adam Giery (SGA Presidential Candidate) http://www.adamgiery.com/

I am moving all of my professional-related material to my new website, CSBob.com. This includes everything related to my website portfolio and my resume. Photos, weblog, and other smaller pages will stay here, on my personal website VeganBob.com. Hopefully, separating the two will give search engines a more clear idea of the content of each, and it will allow people I meet to be more easily directed to the appropriate content.

Enjoy!

I support Dennis Kucinich at this point in the election race.  I voted for him in the last primaries, and I intend to in this election as well. He is pragmatic, smart, reasonable, and logical.  He is forward and open in both speaking and thinking.  He has plans for domestic and foreign policy that will repair damage done during the current administration.  While I am still open to hearing out other candidates, it would take quite a change for any one of them to attain the same level of inspirational leadership qualities that I find with Kucinich.

• Dennis4President.com
• YouTube Group
• Donate for Democracy

I’m really glad he’s been getting more attention in the media lately. Some of the attention has been a sort of meta-acknowledgement, where broadcasters discuss unique or interesting attributes of Dennis, rather than actually discussing his politics. I won’t go through listing them in detail, but they have in the past included: Elizabeth, height, veganism, and various pocket-sized items. I am okay with this.

This situation strongly equates in my mind to a question that I often receive: “what do you think about people that are vegetarian for [any of many non-ethical reasons to be veg goes here]?” While I wish there were more activist vegetarians out there, a vegetarian that doesn’t eat meat for nutritional reasons (for example) is eating no animals in the same capacity as an ethics-based vegetarian. With Kucinich, I believe any public discussion of him (even about his interesting background) will aid his campaign. Going one step further, a vote for Kucinich because he’s the only candidate that voted 100% against this war, is the same as a vote for Kucinich because he’s the candidate that has an appropriate plan for healthcare, human rights, and foreign policy.

“Why isn’t Kucinich a Frontrunner?” - Tucker Carlson

Note: Watch the first 3.5 minutes of this. It’s the first time I’ve ever agreed with Tucker Carlson, to my knowledge.

The Simpsons Movie is out in theaters now. It’s epic that they’ve even created the movie! I’m eagerly looking forward to seeing it. Although I will not be seeing it until next week, I have gotten my fill of the promotions. Movie theater displays, the trailers/teasers, movie posters, Buzz Cola, Krusty-Os, and (of course) a couple of trips to the Orlando Kwik-E-Mart. Go visit the galleries for much more. Here are a few photos to get you started.

I don’t usually comment about software upgrades, but I must make an exception. I would like to thank the team of developers at Apple that worked on iTunes 7.3. iTunes, I feel, has always been a wonderful piece of software. However, there has been one thing about iTunes that has bothered me. Whenever I’d update my iPod, by dragging music/video to the iPod in iTunes, it would always stop (and sometimes stall iTunes completely) on dragging. The issue (albeit minor) has been fixed with the latest release of iTunes. Thanks Apple!

1. Lots of recycling. It’s impossible not to recycle in CO. As an apartment-dweller who has attempted to recycle in Orlando, this would be quite a change of pace, in a good way. [2] [3]

2. Lots of biking. On average in the cities I visited, everything is within biking distance for normal everyday needs. Work, food, groceries, and entertainment.

3. Wind and solar power. Many restaurants, businesses, and even the local governments advertise their ecological friendliness by being 100% wind powered. [2] [3]

4. Sense of humor. Everyone, including all the nice people and interesting businesses, seem to have a great sense of humor and humility.

5. Beautiful, well-recognized university campuses.

Colorado State University

University of Colorado

6. Delicious vegan, organic food. Vegan food options at every restaurant and store. There were even several specialty shops (making them not so unusual). While I’ve never had much of a problem, Colorado would certainly make shopping and dining more convenient.

7. Lively festivals. We saw the Boulder Creek Festival and the Boulder Bolder 10k. And that was only one weekend of fun! [2]

8. Great local stores and co-ops. Everywhere.

9. Four seasons of weather. I was fortunate to see Colorado during the summer. Having more seasons than “summer” and “hotter summer” would be nice change from Florida and Texas.

10. Beautiful mountain-y scenery. Pictures speak more than words in this case. [2]

In less than one month, I will be graduating. For more information, visit http://www.veganbob.com/graduation/.

There was a huge fire at Hunters Ridge Apartments tonight (my apartment complex). I hope everyone is okay. It affected buildings in the back of the complex, on the side closest to University Blvd (the northeast corner, right across from my building).

More Photos and this video here: http://www.veganbob.com/tmp/fire/

A couple of weeks ago, I made a web application called fbCal.com to take all of your friends’ birthdays information from Facebook and convert them into an iCalendar (.ics) file, for use with iCal, Sunbird, gCal, etc. Check it out, if it suits your needs! [Note: sorry for the duplicated information for those of you whom have already seen this through my Facebook messages.]