How to find me?

I am on facebook at http://www.facebook.com/duncanjwatson
I am on twitter as DuncanWatson - see my tweets or follow me at http://twitter.com/DuncanWatson
And you already know my blog - http://duncan-brain.blogspot.com/

Blog direction

So with the election over this blog will be more about cycling and transit and less about politics. There will be political posts but not 6-9 per day.

Overall the post count will drop but I will still be posting a reasonable amount. I will be working on better photos as well, since visual imagery is so potent.

Today I am sitting on the edge of my seat as Dale is supposed to call regarding whether my bike will be ready today or not. I hope so but Dale tends to slip his schedule. He does good work so I can wait though I am very eager to get the bike. I have a ride scheduled on Sunday with SIR so I want it ASAP to test it out.

How to navigate my blog

Blogspot does a pretty good job here, the user interface is pretty intuitive but I figured it would be smart to document a few of the features I use.

1. Labels - I use labels to mark all of my posts. If you are interested in just checking out some of the topics I post on more than others use the labels. They are located on the left side of my blog. My current list of lables is Action, Ad, Blogs, comics, commuting, cycling, dogs, Finance, introduction, Politics, RNC, slideshow, transit, Trike, Video. Of these Video and Slideshow are indicators that a video or a photo slideshow are included in the post. Ad also generally means a video is present as I use that to mark Obama and McCain politcal ads. The other labels are all referring to the content. My most common topics today are Politics, Cycling, and Transit. Anything marked Finance today is about the bailout. Introduction is used to mark my first post and self-referential posts such as this one. Documentation and help basically.
   
2. Older Posts - at the bottom of the page is a link to older posts that fell off the front page, you can go back a page a time to the beginning of this blog.
3. Archives - the left panel has a spot for archives, which has a month by month list of titles. You can limit the page to posts from a given month, a given year or a particular post.
4. Subscribe to Duncan's Brain - at the bottom of the left panel is a link to my two RSS feeds that I provide. One for any comments and the other for my posts. I use Google Reader to read all of my blogs via RSS so I wanted to provide that option for any who read my site.

Hope this helps.

First Blog Entry

This is my first time blogging. Basically this will house various thoughts, pictures and videos that I find interesting and wish to save and share.

In general you will find I am a liberal minded Democrat who is concerned about the direction the US has been going in the last 8 years. Because of this many of my posts will be political, but not all. My other interests are rock climbing, cycling, recumbent trikes and software development.

Duncan