Personal on Justin Carmony

How often I've blogged in the last 8 years

Mon, 09 Mar 2015 18:31:12 +0000

I’ve been going through my old blog posts and updating their output from html to markdown. One interesting thing I never realized is just how much I blogged in 2008 (my first year) to other years. So I decided to count the number of blog posts published per year:

2008: 108
2009: 45
2010: 26
2011: 43
2012: 21
2013: 14
2014: 3

While I doubt I will ever get back to my 2008 days, I wouldn’t mind a goal of 52 blog posts in a year. Once a week seems like a good amount.

Questions about the LDS Church (aka Mormons)

Fri, 13 Jul 2012 05:34:04 +0000

This is one of my rare, non-technical posts where I talk a little bit more about personal stuff. A few months ago I was talking to a really good friend of mine. The subject was politics, and we were discussing the Republican primaries for the Presidency, and it was starting to look like Romney was most likely going to win the nomination. He made a comment that stuck out to me. I can’t remember the exact quote, but he said something along the lines of “If Romney wins the nomination, I hope you guys (referring to the LDS Church) are ready for the nation media to tear through every part of your faith.”

My 2011 Recap

Sat, 31 Dec 2011 02:00:20 +0000

As I look back on 2011, its been a pretty fun year technology & work wise. While I have a few more draft posts to finish up, I thought I’d hit some highlights from the past year.

PHP

Its been a fun year with the Utah PHP Usergroup. I look forward to it each month, and if you’re in Utah, you definitely should come. We’ve had a lot of interesting talks, such as running your app in different clouds, several MySQL Forks and NoSQL stuff.

My September 11th Rememberance

Sun, 11 Sep 2011 22:22:38 +0000

There are a lot of people will be talking today about September 11th, and the last decade that has gone by. I’m not very eloquent when it comes to this stuff, but I just wanted to share a little. I was in High School, and I remember getting off the bus and people at school were talking about some plane accident. We got to first period, and our teacher began to explain what they think happened, and the possible causes. It just seemed so unreal, like my mind couldn’t really believe it was really happening. The rest of the day, the classes tried to go on like normal, but each class had updates: the second tower was hit, the first tower had collapsed, the second tower had collapsed, etc. One class just had the TV on as we watched the news. It was an odd day. I had friends back east who were concerned for their loved ones, and it still remains a somber memory.