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Fighting Cancer with Music

  • Written by Colin
  • Posted June 18, 2010 at 7:40 am

Many of you that read my blog The few of you that read my blog may have seen that I have been helping a good friend Donna, build her website and promote her charity Fighting Cancer with Music.  She is currently promoting an event in Taylor, Texas for her friend Jenny Tepernning:

The Jenny Benefit

So if you read this and you are in that area, please head along and find out more.

What’s also cool is this allowed me to post my first blog on the awesome blog site Elephant Journal.  Waylon Lewis was kind enough to let me post about what is Donna is up to.  He has a phenomenal following of regular 30K visitors, with 170K more than visit at least once a month.  So hopefully this will help Donna out in ways that I could never have possibly done.  Thanks Waylon!

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Filed under: General Rants, Meditation, Websites, Work, Yoga

My One On One

  • Written by Colin
  • Posted January 18, 2010 at 10:12 am

Yesterday my first homer of the year went live – http://www.myoneonone.com. It is a rebuild of a friend’s yoga website, the old one was badly designed, badly built, and the client was left to do what she wanted.  Now most client’s should be left to do what they want, but within set guidelines.  This new one is clean and simple.  Never going to win design awards I grant you, but nice, clean and billion times better than it was!

The old site was built in Joomla, and the Joomla backend didn’t work at all, whatsoever! And my point is made again about open source. It breaks too easily! Ok not all open source is crap.  jQuery rocks.  And maybe I have never had a good experience with open source CMS engines – Umbreako anyone?  But what my friend had to deal with to manage her website was beyond bad.  But its dead, its gone, and long live http://www.myoneonone.com.

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New endings, old beginings

  • Written by Colin
  • Posted December 26, 2009 at 9:35 am

2009 is ending, with only 6 days to go.  At New Year, millions of people around the world will give the same old resolutions, and break them instantly.  I have done it many times before – “I’ll get fit”, “I’ll save money”, “I’ll do this”, “I’ll do that” – blah muther fucking blah!  However this time I have a reason to do all this.  A few reasons in fact.

In 2009 I fell ill, again, but this time I grabbed the illness by the balls and instead of doing what everyone else in the world seems to do, and go on drugs from your doctor to try and get over it, I went the alternative route.  I have family members that have fallen into the drugs trap and their lives become shit.  I don’t want to be that way.  I choose life.  I found yoga, I found meditation but I can’t seem to do it, and I found out that I don’t need to drink all the time to have fun.

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