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I am so happy to be able to brag about this… This site is GREEN!! We are environmentally friendly in that we are completely Carbon Neutral.

But I really can’t take any of the credit for this.  Steve Youngs dot Com is carbon neutral because the hosting provider I chose, DreamHost, is.

Looking after the environment is a Good Thing™ and we should all try to do our bit.  If you have a piece of the web out there I’d like to encourage you to find out how your host treats our planet.  It’s the only one we’ve got.

Till next time…

I’ve just installed “Snap Shots” from snap.com. The first time I saw something like this was at, I think, Livejournal.  I remember thinking, oh my god, how cool is that! I feel like one of the cool kids now.  So I hope you enjoy all the snappy goodness in any links I post.  Oh, and James, if you’re reading, I’d love to hear what TheInfopreneur says about this sort of eye-candy.

I’m reproducing below, snap.com’s “canned” intro that they recommend you give to your users/readers.  There are a number of different types of links in there to give you a nice feel for what it does.

Introducing Snap Shots from Snap.com

I just installed a nice little tool on this site called Snap Shots that enhances links with visual previews of the destination site, interactive excerpts of Wikipedia articles, MySpace profiles, IMDb profiles and Amazon products, display inline videos, RSS, MP3s, photos, stock charts and more.

Sometimes Snap Shots bring you the information you need, without your having to leave the site, while other times it lets you “look ahead,” before deciding if you want to follow a link or not.

Should you decide this is not for you, just click the Options icon in the upper right corner of the Snap Shot and opt-out.

Saying that is is my first post is not strictly true.  I’ve had a livejournal blog for a while now.  But this is my first WordPress blog post.

As yet, I’m not too sure about the sort of things you are going to find here.  At the moment, all of  my time is being taken up with trying to figure out this WordPress thingy dingy.  It is all so foreign to me.  But I’m sure that pretty soon I’ll get up to speed with it all, and then I’ll be able to let my mojo flow.  (is a “mojo” something that is flowable?)

My aim is to give YOU something positive to take with you from your visit here.  Sometimes it will be educational.  Sometimes it might make you smile (or flat out ROFL).  Sometimes it will be inspiring.  Sometimes it will just plain leave you speechless.  Actually, I hope it doesn’t leave you speechless because I’ll always want you to leave a comment or 6.

Hope you enjoy getting to know me.  Hope you enjoy your visit and that you do get something positive to take with you.

Till next time…