Google-Pimping my blog

As part of my blog re-organization I have been "Google-Pimping" my blog by trying to add in a variety of Google enhancements.

So far I have:

1. Integrated a Custom Search Engine which lets you search this blog and all the sites I link to
2. Set my feeds "en fuego" with FeedBurner - which allows you, dear readers, to subscribe via RSS and/or email, and allows me to see some cool stats about subscribers
3. Provided another window into my head with a Google Reader gadget that allows you to see snippets of stories I have read lately (and decided to share publicly)
   
4. Analyzed my traffic (or lack there of) with Google Analytics
5. Jazzed-up a post with an embedded slide show via Picasa
6. And I have even installed AdSense to monetize these musings (actually this is just an experiment to see how AdSense works - I don't expect to make any money off of this. ;)

What else should I try... any suggestions?

Moving forward

I ran a Marathon. I enjoyed it. But I didn't enjoy it enough to keep running that many miles on a regular basis. Don't get me wrong, I am glad I did it once, but now I am excited to be moving on to other things.

Since this blog had been called, "Another First-Time Marathon Blogger" I contemplated setting up a new blog to write about other life goals (raising kids, building a house, bicycling cross country, etc.) but instead I decided to just keep the same blog and do some re-organization.

First, I went back and labeled all the posts that have anything to do with running the marathon as "first time marathon." Second, I changed the name of the blog to "Life Goals and Other Random Nonsense..."

So if you interested in other stuff I am up to, check back here soon for more details.