Snow Day Randomness

Hi gang.  Welcome to a special snow day edition of the blog.  My goal for today is to share with you a few odds and ends and then try to stay warm...

The DC area got about 10-20 inches of additional snow since I took these photos. They're calling it the DC Snowpocalypse... and it truly is crazy around here. The federal government has been shut down all week. That's the most consecutive days of closure in U.S. history.

As an interesting side note, today's blog entry was written entirely using the dictation capabilities of Windows 7.  I'm extremely impressed at how accurate it takes dictation and I'm looking forward to being able to sit here and talk my way through these blog entries in the future.  One final thing to mention I didn't have to buy any special software and I'm currently using the Microsoft LifeChat LX-3000 headset in microphone combo – which was under thirty bucks.  Pretty cool if you asked me.

onOne Discount

The folks at onOne Software have given me a permanent discount code to pass on to my readers which entitles you to a 20% discount on their software.  Not only is this a great deal on a great product, but by supporting onOne you're also helping support this blog.  The coupon code is: TJP10

Twitter

The Twitter contest is going strong and at this point we have 259 followers. Thanks to everyone who has participated so far, and if you haven't, now would be a great time to follow us for a chance to win a gift certificate to B&H Photo.  The next gift certificate we're giving away is for 50 dollars once we reach 300 followers.  You can find out more details by clicking here.

Start to Finish – TJM Media Group

We're still looking for feedback from viewers about what you'd like to see in the next episode of Start to Finish.  While you're at it if you have any feedback about the first episode we released would like to hear that as well.  You can e-mail your feedback to: start2finish@tjmmediagroup.com

Speaking of Start to Finish, you can now subscribe to the podcast in iTunes, here.