I’m pleased to announce the launch of TrakAx.com.  TrakAx.com provides multimedia creation software for both the PC and mobile devices, and also sells professionally produced music loops called “trakPacks” to provide the musical backbone for your multimedia creations.

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This week I was approached for advice on starting and running a small business.  I get similar requests once a month or so - so I thought I would put together a blog post that I could just point people to in the future.

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When I was a kid we used to have a dune buggy, and spent may weekends at the Silver Lake Sand Dunes here in Michigan.  One of the things we used to see when we went there was one of the ‘60s-era “Amphicars” - the amphibious cars. If you haven’t ever seen one of these, here’s a link to the Amphicar Owner’s Website which has a pretty good FAQ.  To a young boy the idea of driving a car in to the water then zooming off was just pure magic.  Ever since that time I’ve always wanted to ride in one.

Today I got that chance—there was a local show of them where 5 of the cars showed up, and we were suprised to hear the owners were taking turns giving out rides.

Did we want to?  You bet!  I think I was just as excited as my two kids were.

We got a ride in a “Regatta Red” version owned by Marc of Dearborn MI - a super nice guy who patiently answered our questions about the car—which I’m sure were the same basic questions as everyone else had asked. I do have to say - that few seconds of approaching the boat launch in a car and not stopping just plain felt wrong - but also as fun as I ever imagined.

I took a few video clips and put them up on YouTube for your enjoyment:

Or, how to have summer-time fun on a 1960’s era “Snurfer” - AKA a “vintage snowboard”.  These boards were invented here in W. MI, and manufactured for a few years by Muskegon-based (at the time) Brunswick Inc.  I’ve owned this one since I was 9 or 10 years old and get it out every winter, and in the summer time bring it along on trips to the Silver Lake Sand Dunes.  The secret to sand snurfing is “don’t fall”. 

Oh - I forgot to mention.  On these old boards there are no such niceties as “bindings”...you’re literally just standing on a bunch of large staples set into the top surface of the board.

Well here’s a nice surprise - StyleGala has linked to the Building an EE Site series of tutorials.  Guess I better get busy on Chapter 3!

Edit/add: Well, a friend pointed out that it’s a “publically added” link vs. an “official” link—but the net effect is still a lot of traffic coming in from the site.