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NASCAR page updated with 2009 Driver Standings

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Now that NASCAR has updated their site,  my NASCAR page has been updated to show the 2009 Official and Unofficial driver standings. I have added Mark Martin’s graphics as well since he’s replaced Dale Jared as one of my top 3 active drivers. 🙂

Not sure which was more exciting, the Daytona 500 or following all the Twitter action that was occuring at the same time. One thing is for sure though, having a rain-shortened, anti-climatic race sucks. Congrats to Matt Kenseth for winning the Daytona 500. He’s cool. 🙂

Twitter Digest for 02-15-2009

My Tweets on February 15, 2009:

12:21:25 AM: ahhh “O Fortuna” from Carmina Burana | View Tweet
12:33:45 AM: Wondering if he should remove @replies from his twitter digests, one sided convos don’t make much sense.. hrmm | View Tweet
12:41:02 AM: New blog post: Twitter Digest for 02-14-2009 http://tinyurl.com/aa8uc6 | View Tweet
12:51:23 AM: hey now, those digest ones aren’t supposed to send out a tweet.. hmmm | View Tweet
01:43:59 AM: New blog post: Twitter Digest for 02-14-2009 http://tinyurl.com/aa8uc6 | View Tweet
02:57:52 AM: listening to Paul Oakenfold while doing some work on website.. | View Tweet
03:00:27 AM: may have never gotten into Electronica/Trance if not for blood bar scene in Blade.. hmm this is tweet #600 | View Tweet
03:13:33 AM: I just joined the NASCAR Fans Twitter Group http://tgr.me/g/nascar so stop by and see us. #nascar | View Tweet
05:35:28 AM: listening to “The Best of Vanessa-Mae”, really should go to bed soon though | View Tweet
05:45:09 AM: Sets alarm for 11:00am (Central) | View Tweet
10:44:19 AM: did not sleep very long, head is all stuffy.. | View Tweet
11:17:05 AM: @SoFlaEstatePlan #NASCAR isn’t for everyone, just as baseball isn’t for me.. | View Tweet
11:26:25 AM: @maddawgg2002 #XM #NASCAR Cool.. over satellite only or also online? | View Tweet
11:29:39 AM: #NASCAR Needs to go to store before the race.. ran out of cokes.. | View Tweet
12:08:39 PM: @psexypsychic #NASCAR Being a psychic, who do you think will win? 🙂 | View Tweet
12:17:01 PM: @lash9420 Dale Jr, then Tony Stewart or Mark Martin.. depends who’s survived to the end of the race #nascar | View Tweet
12:32:05 PM: You know you’ve made it as a driver in #NASCAR if a lot of people like/love you or if a lot of people dislike/hate you. 🙂 | View Tweet
12:34:26 PM: @Cormyre Technically Martin never retired, he just went to a reduced race schedule. Wallace quit driving altogether #NASCAR | View Tweet
01:19:48 PM: Got some food from Sonic and restocked on Coke, ready to watch #NASCAR Daytona 500! | View Tweet
01:21:30 PM: #NASCAR Trackpass still use that Itiva Media accelerator or whatever? | View Tweet
01:23:29 PM: @PamalaLauren I’m using Tweetgrid and searching “NASCAR”, TweetChat only sees the hashtag #nascar | View Tweet
01:24:24 PM: http://tweetgrid.com/search?q=nascar #NASCAR | View Tweet
01:27:35 PM: @EastCoastGamblr I’ve got TweetDeck following it also; however, it seems to miss some tweets others get. #nascar | View Tweet
02:14:12 PM: #nascar ASK should design site to place an “Add ASK Search” menu item to FF’s builtin search bar.. and no I will not install their toolbar | View Tweet
02:24:59 PM: #NASCAR Running out of space even with two monitors LOL | View Tweet
02:27:59 PM: Hope whoever does “gentlemen start your engines!” doesn’t do it wimpyly… so many do | View Tweet
02:30:41 PM: RaceView is launching, though I’ll watch on my 52″ HDTV #nascar | View Tweet
02:35:12 PM: Hopefully Jr’s audio works in RaceView.. #nascar | View Tweet
02:54:14 PM: Audio not working in RaceView, why am I not surprised #nascar | View Tweet
03:01:43 PM: @PamalaLauren I fixed it before, searching for my solution in the nascar forum archives #nascar | View Tweet
03:28:44 PM: I was an Earnhardt fan before Tony or Jeff Gordon wre even in nascar #nascar | View Tweet
03:44:29 PM: @donlemoncnn Watching the Daytona 500! #nascar | View Tweet
03:54:52 PM: @Armano not always, even though AMP is on the hood of Jr, I’m not gonna drink it cause it tastes bad LOL.. I did try one. #nascar | View Tweet
04:09:07 PM: @johntindale They were grandfathered in as they were there before sprint took it #nascar | View Tweet
04:15:17 PM: Go Jr!! #nascar | View Tweet
04:20:34 PM: Halfway, it’s an official race now #NASCAR | View Tweet
04:26:07 PM: The 88 is in 8th #nascar | View Tweet
04:37:05 PM: @SpectatorDad as long as he gets back on lead lap which he will, he’ll get back in it #nascar #daytona #thp | View Tweet
04:41:39 PM: Jr, Jr, Jr… ugh.. shootin himself in the foot #nascar | View Tweet
05:03:37 PM: @yungdubs Not really, each race is worth about 180 points or so if you win. 🙂 #nascar | View Tweet
05:07:51 PM: Cool, Jr. back on lead lap, lucky dog 🙂 #nascar | View Tweet
05:09:56 PM: @garymoneysmith If you don’t like #nascar, change the channel LOL.. no-one is forcing you to watch. | View Tweet
05:25:51 PM: oh, shut your piehole Vickers.. #nascar how many left-rear quarter panels has you tagged? hmmmmm | View Tweet
05:30:04 PM: @zwriter It’s Digger’s fault.. #nascar | View Tweet
05:35:34 PM: @Keleigh Seems to work. Lookin’ good 🙂 | View Tweet
05:37:19 PM: @PamalaLauren It is red flagged lap 152/200 #nascar least raceview says that | View Tweet
05:52:27 PM: Oh well. dumb rain. Kenseth won… he’s cool though. #nascar | View Tweet
06:07:08 PM: @PamalaLauren Check out Speed channel, Speed Report then NASCAR victory lane at 7 cent #nascar | View Tweet
06:16:29 PM: Now I get to wait for NASCAR to update their website so I can fix mine. | View Tweet
06:20:39 PM: Cool, they’ve got this: http://tinyurl.com/cxh97v #nascar | View Tweet
07:03:02 PM: @fire4yahweh I have Cars on DVD 🙂 | View Tweet
07:04:53 PM: @zwriter Yes, they both could have used slightly better judgment, Jr should have made sure he was clear… happens a lot though from many | View Tweet
07:11:42 PM: @matthumphreycar I think Leffler shouldn’t haven’t been penalized. That exact thing happens so much with no penalties. #nascar | View Tweet
07:13:19 PM: @matthumphreycar Either penalize them all or none of em for tapping the left-rear quater panel. #nascar | View Tweet
07:37:27 PM: Geez, TweetDeck is a memory hog, was using over 500mb of physical memory and over 600mb of VM | View Tweet
07:42:46 PM: @PamalaLauren Yeah, it seems like each App/Site has its own pros and cons for using it. | View Tweet
08:01:35 PM: Checking out Wind Tunnel w/ Dave Despain on Speed | View Tweet
08:12:04 PM: They need to get the head honcho of #NASCAR out and explain how the Leffler and Jr. situations were different. so inconsistent with rulings. | View Tweet
10:02:16 PM: @donlemoncnn good interview with Colin Powell. I respect him a lot. One of the few good decisions Bush made his first term. | View Tweet
10:05:27 PM: Corn Dog with A1 Steak Sauce is kind of tasty, LOL | View Tweet
11:16:01 PM: thinks HBO HD brightened up their version of Alien vs Predator Requiem | View Tweet
11:36:58 PM: @judywriter I went 4 months without putting anything on mine July – December | View Tweet
11:45:50 PM: @judywriter I mostly had my head buried in EverQuest II… that and just lack of motivation/desire. | View Tweet
11:49:36 PM: @jeanettejoy following all the NASCAR tweets.. inspecting tornado damage near folks house was somewhat unnerving | View Tweet
11:57:35 PM: @judywriter It’s a MMPORG: Massively-MultiPlayer Online Roleplaying Game, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MMORPG | View Tweet

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Twittering with the NASCAR Nation

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During the Gatorade Duals on Thursday, the truck race Friday night, and today’s Nationwide Race, I was following and twittering with other NASCAR fans (both away and in Daytona at the race itself), journalists, and even a few representatives from some of the NASCAR sponsors. One of them , @matthumphreycar with the Orlando Sentinel posted about it in his NASCAR blog:  Twitter helps NASCAR fans keep pace with favorites.

As I mentioned in my other post, Latest NASCAR tweets added to NASCAR page, there are a number of ways to follow the conversation using the search features in some of the Twitter clients, such as TweetDeck, or websites such as this NASCAR Twitter group, Twitter’s own search site,  TweetGrid, or my own NASCAR page; although, I am still working out bugs as I uncover them. Following is a brief snapshot of the conversation:

I’ll do it again tomorrow during the Daytona 500. It will be interesting for sure. I wonder how many will use Twitter during those periods of, uhm, lesser excitement during some of the longer races? Go Dale Jr.!!! 🙂

Latest NASCAR tweets added to NASCAR page.

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NASCAR LogoIn addition to changing Tony Stewart’s graphics to reflect his new car number of 14 and sponsor, Office Depot, I have added a latest NASCAR tweets section to my NASCAR page using a PHP RSS parsing script I wrote. I did this more to just see if I could and educate myself more in working with Twitter’s RSS feeds. It’s the RSS feed version of this Twitter search which anyone can just view directly. There are also a few sites such as this NASCAR Twitter group site that follows NASCAR tweets. Even so, why not try something myself where I have more control? 🙂

Currently, I’ve put the tweet section within an IFrame. At the moment you have to manually refresh the list to grab new ones. I kept going back and forth between manual refreshing and automatic refreshing. I may add a form that will let you specify the refresh rate. What’s funny is that getting the RSS parsing working didn’t take that long. Getting the output to look how I wanted with some consistency between IE and Firefox took as long or longer (CSS stuff) 🙄 .

Since there is no 2009 driver standings available yet, I will have to wait until after the Daytona 500 and NASCAR creates a 2009 standings page to change mine. I have some other ideas for specific races as well, such as a specific page for each race with race results and a video playlist specific to that race. Another year of NASCAR has started. Woot! Stay tuned! 🙂

300 Added to DVD movie collection, and other updates.

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I have added the 300 2-Disc Special Edition Widescreen to my DVD movie collection. It’s an awesome movie! I have also added a NASCAR upcoming race javascript widget thingamabob to both the blog on the right side and to my NASCAR page.  Actually it’s been there for awhile now. I have also temporarily disabled additions to my guestbook and renamed the associated pages and scripts to see if I can get my guestbook off whatever list it must be on. Due the wide range of IP addresses these comment spam bots are coming from, many are probably people’s infected PCs or something.

Oh, my thoughts and prayers go out to all those affected by the bridge collapse in Minnesota. 🙁