Sorry for the lack of post recently. Kyllan and I have been extremely busy the past couple of weeks. There hasn’t been much going on for me outside of the lab. Kyllan will be in town this weekend. We were thinking about going up to the mountains, but it looks like an experiment is going to keep us in the city. Any thoughts on must see movies in theaters or on DVD? I posted a few photos form her last visit on my Flickr page.

We have a couple of new links in our friends and family section. One of Kyllan’s line sisters started a blog a few months ago: Balancing Act. Also, the Brazile family has decided to restart their blog the Brazile Brief.

Happy New Year Everyone! 2007 was a year filled with ups and downs.

We saw the blog turn 1 year old 

We saw good friends and family members succeed in their academic endeavors

We saw prayers answered again and again

We saw some awesome birthday presents

We saw good friends marry

We saw our own relationship hit the 5 year mark

and of course, we  married and had a beautiful honeymoon

We will make a post about  the amazing last few days of the year shortly. Christmas pictures are up on my flickr photostream. 2007 was a wonderful year, but Kyllan and I feel 2008 will be even better.

If you tried to come to the site the past 2 days you probably saw all sorts of wired messages. I am sure no one is interested in the technical details, so long story short, we’re back. (No, it wasn’t something I did. The former host screwed something up. The site is now being hosted by another company.) A few things are still a little wonky. I will fix those over the next few days. Since the entire site was essentially deleted from the server, I had to restore all the old post and comments from a backup I made a few weeks ago. The post about my shiny new bike and the comments about my nephew Drew one day getting a motorcycle are gone. Sorry. The site may disappear and reappear over the next 48hrs as the DNS updates. Please let me know if the site starts doing anything else weird the next few days.

It seems like just yesterday that I was working on a presentation and looking for a way to procrastinate. The result, of course, was the creation of The Cody Report. 365 days and 116 post later, here we are. We’ve shared birthdays, made big announcements,given tours,taught you little about our family, and shared loads of photos. With 479 comments, it appears that our friends and family have enjoyed joining in on the fun. The most commented on post? “Man Post,” of course. A response to a comment I received off-line (you know who you are) about kyllan’s many workout post. #2 Was the holiday movie post. This all started out as an experiment. A year later, I would say it has been a big success. This site will be here for many years to come and we hope you continue to visit.

So, anything to say about year one? Is the site design getting boring? I was thinking about making the links darker. Is there a particular event you would like us to recount? Should there be a reoccurring post, like “old photo Wednesday?” I was thinking of a “caption this photo contest, but never got around to it…

If you have never left a comment on the blog, nows your chance (you know who you are).

It’s that time of year again. The NCAA college basketball tournament is upon us and people in offices all over the country are filling out their brackets. Kyllan and I are hosting our own bracket for readers of our blog who would like to participate. No buy in, just submit a bracket (you are probably already doing one). The winner will receive a box of thin mint Girl Scout cookies in the mail. Follow the link here to submit your bracket. The password is “Report.” Remember, you have to register before the first game on Thursday, March 15.

Update: Link to the group here

Our good friends Kyle and Joscelyne “Jos” Brazile have decided to start a bolg, The Brazile Brief. They made a few post earlier, but had a few kinks and lost them. Everything is running smoothly now and I encourage you to stop by. I promise this will not be a repeat of the now defunct “Lewis Report.” The Braziles will be posting regularly on “curent events and conversations that take place in [their] home.” Fittingly, their most recent post is on the Bears win in the NFC Championship game.

Speaking of Neil, he has taken a step backward in technology and now claims to be starting a new blog, “The Neil Lewis Chronicles.” And since I am telling everyone about blogs; My not so anonymous cousin has moved her blog “This is My Heart” to “Slowly Emerging.”

You can find links to all of these blogs in the right hand sidebar under “Friends & Family”

It has been brought to my attention that my recent lack of post have lead to the blog becoming “girly.” So, now I am making a post about a few manly things. Wake Forest plays Duke tonight at 7pm E on ESPN2. How ’bout those Saints? They do this every year; Build up hope in their fans, only to collapse at the last minute. I am not believer, yet. We will see what happens this weekend. Did Kyllan tell you guys that I moved two large piles of bricks and fixed a door while I was in Dallas during Christmas? My Xbox360 is broken and will have to be sent back to Microsoft for repair. I recently bought a DVD with a THX optimizer on it. The improvement in picture quality is amazing. What are your thoughts on the iPhone? I am not impressed. No 3G, still no 16:9 ratio screen, proprietary OS with no 3rd party OS, no tactile feedback on the keys, no downloading music or syncing over wifi and price. My parents were in Detroit this week (long story, that may or may not be explained later) and had a chance to check out the auto show. Hopefully my dad will post pictures to his flickr account soon… There, I covered the man interest trifecta: Sports/ feats of strength, AV/gadgets and cars.

Neil may have abandon the Lewis Report, but he has finally decided to get a flickr account. Click Here to see photos of his son, Noah. A link to his flickr account will be added to the right hand sidebar.

A former undergrad from the lab has decided to enter the blogosphere. Now in her 2nd year of medical school, the author plans to blog about her daily experiences as a med student. The blog is med obsession, and for now, the author chooses to stay anonymous. Unlike the lewis report, with is averaging less than 1 post a month, she seems committed to updating the site frequently. I encourage you to stop by when you get a chance.

A link can be found on the right hand sidebar, under Friends & Family.

I may be making some changes to the site. Please let me know what you think of the look and if everything is working properly.

EDIT: I am having some issues. One feature, Kyllan didn’t even know we had on the last template, the other can’t be seen in Internet Explorer. (I use firefox, so should you…) Both issues deal with site navigation. You use to be able to click on the header at any time to return to the front page. Now you have to use the “home” link at the top of the image. In firefox there is extra text in the header, that I don’t want, that functions as a link. I can’t seem to fix one issue without breaking the other. (Issue fixed. I’ll save the other issue for later.) Kyllan and Kim N. gave the update a thumbs up. Let me know what you think… Back to firefox. I set most of my links to open new windows (pop). In firefox this opens a new tab in the current window. As Kyllan reminded me earlier today, most people don’t use firefox. In the future, would you prefer I make links open in your current window? Am I wasting my time even posting links? (Tab browsing is great. It allows users to open mutiple web pages inside of one window while web surfing. IE 7 will also feature tab browsing. The beta is now available, but if you didn’t know that, you probably not interested in using a beta. The beta for media player 11 is also available…