Kevin Tostado – The Blog!

Tonight was the 2-hour season premiere of The Amazing Race 9. They have returned to the roots of the show, and are back to the 11 teams of 2 format.

I am very happy with the teams that they chose for this race, as they are not all the ditzy model type that they’ve been flooding the show with in past seasons. In fact, one of the teams is a self-proclaimed team of nerds in love, while another is a fun-loving team of hippies from San Francisco who talked about the Amazing Race being a “substance” that they could enjoy until it ends. These two teams alone make this season worth watching.

I’ve wanted to compete on this show with my dad every since I started watching back in Season 5. However, there was the restriction that you had to be 21 up until last season’s flop, the Family Edition. I think my chance of being able to compete in this show is going out the window as I am finishing up college and soon entering the real world. Maybe I can get a job working as a cameraman…

[tags] Amazing Race, CBS, tv, reality shows, race, competition [/tags]

So I was checking through my email after rehearsal for Yellow Lights tonight, and I noticed that Measure Map had sent me an email:

“I want to share some important news with our earliest users of Measure Map.

Since its inception, my colleagues and I have seen tremendous potential for Measure Map to influence how people blog, and how they understand participation on the Web. We have always expected it to be big, and as such, our desire was to give Measure Map its start and then send it out into the world to grow and evolve into a strong, meaningful application.

Through the dedication of a fantastic team, along with your tremendous support in the form of feedback, feature requests, and overwhelmingly positive comments, have built a product that is fundamentally different from every other analytics application available today. We’re both grateful and proud…”

For those of you who don’t know, Measure Map is one of the software programs that I am using to track traffic for this site.

Generally, I’ve been very happy with how the interface is as well as the fact that this software is free. However, the software is still in an alpha version and it shows in places like the portability to different blogging software.

So it makes perfect sense to me that Google would buy Measure Map to hopefully combine elements of the Measure Map software with the Google Analytics software, which for me is not that user-friendly. I look forward to using the future beta version of this software combination!
If you want an invite for Measure Map, go to measuremap.com and sign up.

[tags] Google, Measure Map, blog, analytics, trackers [/tags]

I don’t know about you, but when I was going through my [tag]CNN[/tag] RSS feed and came across this article about a new tomb that has been found in the Valley of the Kings, I got friggin’ excited. I consider myself an Egypt nut and would love to visit the Great Pyramids and the Valley of the Kings someday.

“The tomb contains five or six mummies in intact sarcophagi from the late 18th dynasty, about the same period as Tutankhamun, but the archaeologists have not yet had the time or the access to identify them, the archaeologist added.”

To me, this is an amazing discovery and I cannot wait to find out what new mummies they find. If I had the time, I would definitely continue my work in learning how to transliterate hieroglyphs.

[tags] Egypt, mummies, Valley of the Kings[/tags]