http://7minutemiles.com Personal Web Site of David Kingsbury, CTO of Studio 4 and owner of MN Publishing Company, St. Paul, MN USA Tue, 02 Sep 2008 05:36:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en OK, so I'm like about 20 posts behind on all my sites right now, but I thought I'd write a quick one here just to let the Google crawlers know I'm still alive... While visiting the north shore of Lake Superior this weekend, we ran into a high school (and college) ... http://7minutemiles.com/2008/09/02/cathedral-of-the-pines It's been ten years since my first (and only) fantasy football league, but the neighbors asked us to fill an opening in their league this year. We plan to set it and forget it for the most part, but here is the starting lineup (courtesy of fanball.com). http://7minutemiles.com/2008/08/22/north-dallas-under-40 Kid one and kid two made a cake and sang happy birthday to the MINI Cooper today, which I took delivery on four years ago today. Mileage is now around 55,000 miles, but it's been running great (knock on wood). Only one more year of payments, too. Oh, and by the ... http://7minutemiles.com/2008/08/18/happy-4th-birthday-mini A few years back, we bought up a bunch of ".mn" domain names at work. That extension is the country code for Mongolia, but it also works well for Minnesota-based sites. I have several domains in production now (golfing.mn, hockey.mn, run.mn, proam.mn), but we have a bunch that we don't plan ... http://7minutemiles.com/2008/08/18/mn-domain-names-for-sale Thanks to an invitation from my friend (and Tapemark Pro-Am president) Phil Callen, I had the opportunity to lead the country club lifestyle the past three days at Southview Country Club in West Saint Paul. We played an 18-hole practice round on Thursday, followed by three 9-hole matches Friday and two ... http://7minutemiles.com/2008/08/16/3rd-annual-southview-invitational I lead a pretty boring life as far as vices go. The trio pictured above are the only things keeping me from my goal of reaching my high school weight. I talked with my friend and former co-worker Jake today for tips (see this post for why Jake is an expert ... http://7minutemiles.com/2008/08/12/red-green-and-cheez-vices August means the end of summer, the Minnesota State Fair and the beginning of the school year. It's that last one that means my workdays will be getting longer soon. Here's a short list of things going on: Rebuild and upgrade the networking infrastructure in the server room and big advisory ... http://7minutemiles.com/2008/08/05/august-work-crunch Got to cross item #8 off my Things to Do Before I Die list this past weekend: Wade across the Mississippi headwaters with my kids. We spent Friday, Saturday and Sunday at Itasca State Park in northern Minnesota, staying in the wonderful Itasca Suites near Douglas Lodge. Worth every penny... We spent some ... http://7minutemiles.com/2008/08/04/itasca-state-park-weekend Yesterday I had an unexpected visitor in my office at HSRA Minnesota: the Honourable Ken Krawetz, Minister of Education for the province of Saskatchewan. Mr. Krawetz and his assistants were being hosted in Minnesota by the talented education architect Randy Fielding. They visited the School of Environmental Studies in Apple Valley ... http://7minutemiles.com/2008/07/30/saskatchewan-in-the-house The family attended a Sunday afternoon performance of Oklahoma! this weekend that was produced by the Eagan Summer Community Theatre. Colleen couldn't wait to finally hear the real Surrey with the Fringe on Top after all of those When Harry Met Sally references. The production quality of this show was quite ... http://7minutemiles.com/2008/07/28/oklahoma-at-eagan-high-school