2006 has been an action filled year for Ryan Byrd dot net. Here are a few of the highlights from this blog, a month at a time:

January: my visit to Texas, two book reviews: Black Hawk Down, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime, and a few photos taken up Provo canyon

February: Thoughts on the Mohammad cartoon controversy, Paul Rusesabagina (the hero portrayed in the film Hotel Rwanda) comes to speak, and some of my Côte d’Ivoirian Art

March: Pictures of rural Cedar City, my plan to eliminate the polygamists, free software to manage collections, Totally Awesome Computers shuts down (check out the video) and Geomag (the coolest toy ever!)

April: invented a new word “dihomograph”, started Open Willow Genealogy, a book review (Affluenza), and my lengthy thoughts on House Bill 4437

May: Conspiracy theories, and Don’t Know Much About History

June: Utah Arts Festival Photo Log, Diamonds and Death, Thoughts on Google, First Annual Utah Blogger Conference, Fun with Mentos and Diet Coke, South African Americans, the Mormon Church Experience, More Utah Rural Photography, Morning Pep Talk, and Splatter Painting

July: plot your travels on a world map, Warped Tour SLC review, Pickles on fire, Warp the President of North Korea, Why America is Different (essay), Heber City Photographs, Current Creek Photographs, Silver Lake Photographs, Pulling the plug on TV

August: Chief Polygamist captured!, Dancing and Yoga, Five Star Cancun Vacation, Dumb Jokes, Competitive Eating, Bees baseball, Minimum Wages and Nudists, Highland Fling 5k, and the Critical Defects (my indoor soccer team)

September: Two goats and a car, Machine guns, Mongolians and Logical Fallacies, Talk Like A Pirate Day, Critical Defects win a soccer game!, Paintball Adventures, Remembering 9/11, Gangrene Film Festival, Death of the Crocodile Hunter, and the beginning of Podcasting

October: Is Halloween Evil?, Green paperclip adventure and ToyShare, the power of Makeup, Getting Down with the Hare Krishnas, TeamBuilders (an MLM) sucks, a Utah Blight: in condemnation of MLMs, Photos of Big Cottonwood Canyon, and the Indoor soccer donnybrook

November: essay on higher education– a CBA, no longer homeless, robbing armored cars, Foreign Animal Onomatopoeia, four wheeling in the desert, and the soda vs pop breakdown

December: puttin stuff in blenders, my birthday bash, more problems with google (an essay), ringside at ultimate fighting, Liberal quiz, Why vegetarians are weird, MLMs stink, the Hundred Dollar Business Blog Carnival, and Christmas Wishes

Anglo Saxon Characters from Liam’s Pictures