Wild swimming pool design... hangs off the end of the building... http://ping.fm/0dyEo

It is World Diary Week and Banned Books Week... so hide write in your diary but hide it

Exporting this week's episode of the Amateur Traveler on Immersion Travel in the USA http://ping.fm/sjkYn

Did an interview on Colorado for the Amateur Traveler on October 4th

Finished the edit of this week's Amateur Traveler, although doing audio editing is more difficult when you are moved to tears. Saturday.

I am looking for ideas on how to make the weekly Amateur Traveler newsletter more useful, interesting

Craig from Indie Travel Podcast is looking for people wanting to help write an eBook about Europe http://ping.fm/dmCu5

Reading Vagabonding http://ping.fm/huSWC

OK, am I the only one who did not know where the Faroe Islands were? http://ping.fm/uyEbU

Faroe Islands - Amateur Traveler Episode 153

Episode 153 at Amateur Traveler

The Amateur Traveler talkes to Russell about the Faroe islands. The Faroes were named by the National Geographic Traveler as one of the best island destination. Learn about this small rugged green island in the North Atlantic.

Amateur Traveler podcast - the best places to travel

Going to the Giants game tonight, I think it is cool that J.T.Snow will be given a chance to "play" so he can retire as a Giant.

I would have gotten out the Amateur Traveler much faster today if catching up on Heroes had not been a higher priority :-)

Sitting at Logan Airport getting ready to fly home. Still somewhat damp.

Drying out in a Starbucks on Newbury street waiting for my friend I am meeting for lunch

Looks like I could get home one hour earlier (11pm instead of midnight) by flying standby (probably in a middle seat)... probably not

I was planning on shooting some Boston videos today but it is a rainy day

It's National Singles Week and National Tolkien Week... not that we are trying to imply if you spend to much time talking about orcs...

I just noticed it is National One Hit Wonder Day, so raise a glass to the Oneders!

Walking through Quincy Market listening to the Travel Commons Podcast

walking around Boston in the dark listening to Marketing Over Coffee seems appropriate

quick trip to Newton to see former co-worker Bernie Bernstein at tripadvisor.com

Our sales meeting went very well, I loved when we demo LiveBar. Running off to Digitas. If I am very lucky there will be food sometime

On the T in Boston heading to a meeting with a potential customer, hope it goes as well as yesterday's meetings.

heading to dinner... finally... with Peter and my Boston engineers. Lunch was a bag of chips.

Found my EVDO... whew... at Beam interactive agency in Boston.

Ugh i think I left my EVDO card in the hotel, that would mean I will spent the day in internet withdrawal

Georgia - Amateur Traveler Episode 152

Episode 152 at Amateur Traveler

The Amateur Traveler talks to Kim Hatcher from Georgia’s State Park System about places to see in her home state. Learn about the Blue Ridge mountains, the Okefenokee swamp, rural Georgia and some of the lesser known state parks and historic sites.

Amateur Traveler podcast - the best places to travel

I just realized that according to technorati (http://www.technorati.com/blogging/state-of-the-blogosphere/) Amateur Traveler is in the top 1% of active blogs

Movie Review - Burn After Reading, shold they have done that with the script? http://ping.fm/CipSD

On the 6pm train to Boston. It is a nice new train, hard to believe it is Amtrak.

I have record 8 interviews scheduled right now for Amateur Traveler including interviews with @shel and @alexlindsay, http://ping.fm/y7jf8

heading to Boston tonight, staying at the Intercontinental

What does opera have to do with marketing? http://ping.fm/L9zV3

Traveling with my boss, you just have to know that you can't plan on him stopping for things like meals. He is a bit driven.

Tired from walking around the city at night shooting video, back at the W for bed

Done with meetings for today, now have to figure out what I can video in NYC at night or how else to amuse myself

Going to see a friend at MLB.com and get a tour

Trying to find a decent hotel room for tonight cheaper than the W where I have a reservation

Signed a Libsyn contract to host the Amateur Traveler, still working with some other contracts also since Libsyn is non-exclusive. Thx Rob!

This is the book I am reading: "Wander and Lipstick: For Women Traveling to India" http://ping.fm/IMnXK

borading a flight to Phoenix then on to JFK

Planning my schedule for trip to NYC and Boston next week, with a stop in PA to see my little girl

Waiting for @calilewis and @colligan live at Cali Live http://calilive.tv

Gospel for Asia reports 100,000 Christians homeless and 20+ people dead in Hindu extremists violence in India

I'm way to cool to talk like a pirate today.... Arrrrrr you?

Hawaiian Shirt Friday - is the new thing, spread the word... because every Friday needs a luau

Interesting, United increased the second bag fee to $50 this week but Air Canada eliminated it

Determining the best places to travel to is more about figuring out who you http://bestplacestotravel.weebly.com/

When we went to dinner at Mimi's the hostess quizzed us on state capitals, wow... it's getting harder to get a table at that place :-)

Interviewed Sheryl Kayne, the author of Immersion Travel USA http://ping.fm/WJaWi

Around the world on private jet with college alumni sounds fun... $54K per person might be a bit out of my price range.

I fixed my iCal problem by deleting the program itself and restoring it from a backup. Not the only one having this problem in OS X 10.5.5

My mom did have a small breast carcinoma. Good news is that the Dr was surprised they even saw it on the mammogram. Prognosis is very good.

I see Orbitz has podcasts (planning a work trip to NYC and Boston next week), I wonder if they know that their links to iTune are broken

Microsoft Corp. moving into "next phase" of Vista ads, in which
"comedian Jerry Seinfeld will bow out for other personalities"

Best compliment I will get in some time, my best friend from highs school things Jonathan Coulton copied my style, lol

Just writing someone nicknamed AntsInMyPants on the Amateur Traveler boards, makes sense on a travel site, they can't sit still :-)

Cool, finished up this week's Amateur Traveler show on Georgia. Traveling the Saturday so I had to finish early.

My calendar just cleared up for the week... sadly that is because I seem to have lost everything in my calendar

Does anyone know would having a google search appliance make your site get hit more often from Google bots?

Used Disk Inventory X last night to find almost 15Gb of wasted space on my MacBook Pro hard drive

voting for my favorite podcasts at http://ping.fm/XqM4N

Huh, I did not know that the Faroe Islands were picked by National Geographic Traveler as their top island destination

starting an interview on the Faroe Islands for the Amateur Traveler

My contract with Mevio for Amateur Traveler has expired. I had asked for it but apparently they are letting almost all contracts expire.

Its very fun to wake up and see people talking about LiveBar http://ping.fm/RGOAU our new product at LiveWorld where I am an EVP

Finished the main audio edit for this weeks show. Need to get the show out before I go to NYC on Saturday.

TechCrunch article on LiveWorld (my employer) technology announcement http://ping.fm/WwdVC

Starting to edit this week's Amateur Traveler on Georgia, while doing work in another window, chatting with co-workers in another window...

listener quote "Where do find these guest, topics I think I'm going to listen for a few minutes, I end up listening for the entire podcast."

I remember a Business Week podcast from a year ago talking about bad mortgages were safer if you had a lot of them (simplified). Not so much

Had to reschedule the Faroe Island interview because skype was not working for us. The Faroe Islands look beautiful http://ping.fm/uBQgU

About to start an interview about the Faroe Islands

On "International Sing-Out Day" don't forget to greet your co-workers with song

Don't forget to vote for the Amateur Traveler as your favorite travel podcast in the Podcast Awards http://ping.fm/JAdLL

I really like how this photo from Crete turned out with the reflection of a church http://ping.fm/Z0mzl

Catching my breath before what may prove to be a very very busy week

Watching the Giants come from 4 runs down to take the lead on a wild pitch in the top of the 9th

Anyone interested in an Amateur Traveler meetup in New York or Boston the week of September 22nd? http://ping.fm/XCUJl

I think that worked, I think I can read all the data into Final Cut Express... now all I have to do is learn Final Cut Express

Fighting my Mac to try and import AVCHD from my Sony HD camera (Sony HDR-CX7)

Happy "International Chocolate Day", how will you celebrate?

Backing up my backup drive to my new backup backup drive

The Amateur Traveler #151 - the Outer Banks off the coast of North Carolina. http://ping.fm/ZVnHf

Catching up on presentations I missed at the New Media Expo.

So nice to be done podcasting before 9am, I have the whole day ahead of me. One more week that I have not podfaded. :-)

We called my baby girl at 9pm when it became her birthday where she is (a college on the East coast)

exporting this weeks Amateur Traveler on the Outer Banks

15 minutes of podcasting, 5 minutes of Age of Mythology, 15 minutes of podcasting, 5 minutes of Age of Mythology...

Great video pointed out in this week's Marketing Over Coffee Podcast http://ping.fm/ANBhW

Wow, if you have a punctuation or capitalization error facebook will disapprove your ad

Had a great interview on Georgia for the Amateur Traveler with Kim from their state parks department, should come out on the 20th

So the Giants won their 5th in a row today starting when we finally made it to our first regular season game this year... I'm just saying

BlueHost says "This Account Has Exceeded Its CPU Quota" :-(

Queued up The Bible Study Podcast for tomorrow now editing the next Amateur Traveler on the Outer Banks

Has the Large Hadron Collider Destroyed the Earth http://ping.fm/AqNIc

My mother has a biopsy scheduled today to see if she has cancer. Your prayers are appreciated.

Using techniques learned in the 30 day challenge to try and drive traffic to the Amateur Traveler http://AmateurTraveler.com

Just heard from an Indonesian lawyer that an uncle I did not know died and left me a fortune... odd that it came in through a mailing list

Rescheduled an interview for Amateur Traveler with Shel Holtz @shel from For Immediate Release about Slovenia so he can do his homework :-)

Happy "Wonderful Weirdos Day"... you know who I mean

Ideas on the Best Places To Travel To http://ping.fm/fXYGz

We (LiveWorld) are doing a product launch at Web 2.0 http://ping.fm/Eo3hL

Just finished the first of 3 interviews scheduled this week, still have not gotten through all the requests that came in through HARO

If you can read this I wish you a happy "International Illiteracy Day"

About to start an interview about the Outer Banks for this week's Amateur Traveler

I have changed the slogan for the Amateur Traveler to:

"Amateur Traveler - The Amateur Traveler is a travel show that helps you find the best places to travel to. It includes both a weekly audio podcast and a twice monthly video podcast. It also includes travel news and resources."

Watching today's Giants game on Tivo. Boy is it fun to watch Valez run, among other things in this game.

If you are in the S.F. Bay Area then you should see The Foreigner at San Jose Rep, hillarious

Happy "National Grandparent's Day", if you still have them celebrate them (I lost my last two in 1989, both were 98 years old)

off to the Giants game

uploading a video episode of the Amateur Traveler about the Panama Canal

Tech support for my father over the phone, "do you see it says http://mail.yahoo...". A bit like a root canal without all that anesthesia.

http://ping.fm/AZzoT If I got the translation right from Spanish: ...professional platforms (Lonely Planet, Geobeats, Traveler Amateur…)

Editing this weeks Amateur Traveler show on the Bahamas

Quoted in a recent article about a trip we took 20 years ago, a babymoon - http://ping.fm/NzXN3

My ears are burning. My blog (http://chris2x.com) had a big spike in traffic but it was all direct, not a link from somewhere. Know why?

retweet: Trip Journal Greece (Santorini) http://ping.fm/1AjrB

Starting to work on Amateur Traveler episode 150 on the Bahamas

Retweet: Trip Journal - Greece (Athens) http://ping.fm/0RdN4

Worked on a video episode of the Panama Canal and did an interview for this weeks Amateur Traveler on the Bahamas. Now the day job calls.

Repost: I finally started to post my trip journal from my Summer trip - England (London, Liverpool) http://ping.fm/Nw2Xh

Who are you calling a lazy journalist? http://ping.fm/awdmT

I learned that the family friend who died ignored warning signs like "my arm is numb" for says :-(

Uh oh, I just realized I forgot to call my father on his birthday yesterday. Oops.

Finally, finally, finally, getting the trip journal from this year's vacation to ENgland and Grece ready to post

Looks like my site was hacked with some php exploit from pinoc.org