Well, I’ve officially made the plunge! As of today I have announced my resignation at UnitedHealth Group and will very soon be completely self-employed, working on your business’s projects full time under my consulting business, Stay N’ Alive Productions. If you have a project of any caliber, I am giving short-term (that could become long-term) contracts first priority, but will consider anything.

I mentioned previously about my friend Thom Allen being a Facebook developer. Well, I’ve let him have the limelight for long enough and now it’s my turn! I am a Utah Facebook Developer. I currently have 4 applications written, one with near 10,000 users and growing. I also have been doing Facebook consulting since almost the launch of the Facebook platform. I have taught classes on Facebook and am definitely your man if you need some consulting or projects based on the Facebook platform.

So if you need any work, give me a ring via the GrandCentral “Call Me” button down on the right of this page and we can work on a bid or estimate for consulting work. You can also read through this blog to understand what I know and how I can help you. Feel free to blog or Twitter about me as well! I need all the help I can get to get this off the ground!

Thom Allen inspired me to take some pictures of my blogging station. Looking at some of the others out there, mine’s not quite as simple. I guess when it comes down to it, the Mac in the middle is all I really use to blog, but everything else plays such a large part in the content of my blogs that I thought I’d include it. Some of the pictures are a bit blurry, but in them, you’ll see 3 laptops (a Linux, a MacBook, and a Windows laptop), a Windows Vista (64-bit) desktop, a Ham Radio station, a picture of my wife, an iPhone, 2 scanners, and a printer. I should have also included the Digital Rebel XT I shot the pictures with (that I forgot to turn on my flash or use a tripod obviously) as well, as that has been used in several of the posts I’ve written. For your enjoyment, here is my blog station - how many bloggers can say they have a Single Side Band Ham Radio Tranceiver as part of their set up?:

It is really sad that Google can’t add a word filter to their adsense filters. I thought I’d share the list of URLs I’m using for my competitive ad filter I use for Stay N’ Alive and Came2Pass.com. Note that not all of these urls are anti-mormon sites, and I have no issue with any of the religions listed - they just produced something that was in conflict with what I was publishing. They may have just had material that I thought either competed with came2pass.com or was at least somewhat questionable. Am I missing any that you have?:

about-mormonunderwear.info
admitoneproducts.com
adventures.org
all-underwearmormon.info
allabout-mormonunderwear.info
allmormonunderwear.info
bestringdownloads.com
cardoffers4u.com
ccvonline.com
christianconnector.com
colloidforum.com
desertparadise.com
directfromtv.com
downloadrings.com
emiusa.org
familymissionworks.org
freeringtonez.us
getitonus.com
getmusicfree-jump.com
glendaleuniversity.com
htallc.com
irr.org
lhvm.org
libertyonlinedegrees.com
mjblige.com
mormonunderwear.info
ncbc.net
nellyfurtado.com
newlifekc.com
newsgator.com/enterprise
onecommunitychurch.com
proactiv.com
ringringmobile.com
shorttermmissiontrips.com
trinitysem.edu
watchman.org

Okay, I’m really only doing this so I can beat Phil801 in Google ranks for “facebook developer utah”, but after talking to Paul Allen today it came up that I am the only result for “Facebook Developer” in Utah on LinkedIn. It is a new technology, only a month or so old, but I’m sure there are more than just me. If you are interested in consulting for your Facebook app, please contact me - I am definitely considering moving in that direction.

Speaking of Paul Allen, I have noticed he and I seem to be on the same page. I just recently looked at his blog, and while I was aware of his Facebook API Excitement, it seems we’re blogging in parallel, as he shares my excitement for Google Gears (notice I wrote mine first ).

I’ve installed a new plugin for Wordpress that will now allow you to view Stay N’ Alive from your shiny new iPhone or any Mobile Phone nonetheless. I’m very interested in feedback on how you like it!