002 - Logos Among Us

Once I put up this blog on my website, I realised there isn't much to my website at present. There's just a splash page that I threw up once I registered the .net domain that links to various online areas in which I exist. Naturally, it made sense to but the blog there. So, I designed a pretty logo (pictured above) for my blog to go on that page. The globe might be familiar to some - it's the same globe found in the centre of my sun-like logo found at the MyUtopia website. It's simple, it works for the time being. I might look into designing a blog template of my own in the future and incorporate it somehow. Of course, I need to change my site completely before hand. Maybe they'll work together and be nice and pretty.

I'm sure I'll figure it all out. Someday.

In other news, I made a brief appearance at my cousin's house today. I don't know how, but I I had some pasta salad whose green and red peppers tasted really good! As a child, I used to gag at the thought of eating them... I can now tolerate them, usually on pizza or if they're finely chopped. But these ones were great - they tasted nothing like green and red peppers. Karen, the woman who prepared them, gets a gold star. I couldn't do the onions, and I had some feta cheese to be polite, but the peppers impressed. That's my story.

001 - First Entry

So, I guess this is my first real entry on my first blog on my website. Maybe I'll look into actually doing something with BenjaminWood.Net over the next while to make it worthy... until then, there's this blog. I wouldn't describe myself as new to the blogosphere, seeing as for the last number of years, I've had Livejournals, and MSN Live Space (or whatever they're calling it these days), and Facebook, and podcast, and a blog over at N-Philes. What I am new to, however, is shaping a blog for a general, broad audience. I'm going to try out this new format, while still making it personal - I guess like the "big city business, small town feel" mentality.

I cannot guarantee daily updates (but I'd really love to reach for that), but I'm hoping to share many pictures (my Flickr has over 3000 from the past 4 years), thoughts, stories, videos, art, and other assorted things.

So to kick things off, I think I'll highlight a few photos that I took while biking the other day.

Approximate bike path (incomplete so that you don't know exactly where I live), about 20KM total.


Well, this one wasn't taken on a biking excursion, but it is the inside of an etch-a-sketch. Not quite what I expected.


These birds were out near the Ottawa River. They didn't seem too concerned with me, though they might have liked me better had I fed them or something.


There were ducks in the Ottawa River, dunking themselves in to feed at the same time.


The Ottawa River itself


My bike on a pedestrian overpass.


There were actually Christmas lights under the overpass. Why? How? I have no idea. Maybe someone was throwing a party? Or decided to do away with the holiday? Guess I'll never know.

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