I’m Back!
So… It’s been a while since my last entry. A lot has happened over the last 6 months including the fact that I am now back in Spokane, Washington. Yippeee! I will start doing at least four entries a week starting today. So stay tuned, and hopefully the stuff I post will be useful to you.
Blogging Pitfalls
I started blogging a few years back when it was the “it” thing to do. I had many great ideas and thought blogging was the future of the Internet where people would get all sorts of information from other people’s blogs. Well while blogging is still exploding all over the net and the exchange of [...]
Review Of The New Facebook
I have seen so many status update on my feed showing many people are not liking the new facebook site. I was one of the early adopters as I usually am with most technology and at first I really did not like it. But as I used it more I really grew to appreciate all the work they put into it. Here is a list of the things I really, really like about it.
Wall Street Blues
I currently reside in the “Financial District” in Downtown Manhattan. The Stock exchange is literally 4 blocks away from my apartment. I moved here back in May while my wife attends the French Culinary Institute. With my businesses all being online, I am able to work from the confinement of my apartment. Since the economy started to go south my endeavors into the great outdoors of Manhattan have also been on a decline.
Cancel Northwest Sports
18 October 2008
What is the deal with sports teams from the Northwest. I was looking up all the scores today from college football and I saw this little link on espn.com that said “Don’t forget #6 USC…” So because I have a west coast bias, I clicked on it only to see one of the most shocking [...]
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Great Charity Site
17 October 2008
My wife has been donating to this site for some time now and she and I are convinced that it is a great site for giving. The site is http://www.kiva.org/ What is Kiva? As their web site says “Kiva lets you lend to a specific entrepreneur in the developing world – empowering them to lift themselves [...]
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Gravatar – A great web application for bloggers
16 October 2008
For those who blog and like blogging or responding to blogs with comments, you will like this application called Gravatars. I found the site http://en.gravatar.com/ while researching all that I would need to make my new blog site look cool. It’s a plugin for most of the popular blog platforms like Wordpress, MovableType, Blogger, and Livejournal. [...]
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L’Ecole, The Restaurant of The French Culinary Institute
16 October 2008
Those that know me well know that I can be characterized as one of the world’s most picky eaters. If something contains more than two or three ingredients I hesitate to try it. Which leads me to today. My wife Corrinne, made a reservation for her sister and I to go to L’Ecole the restaurant of [...]
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A Little About Me
16 October 2008
Back in 1996 while going to college in Arizona, my uncle approached me about doing a web site and offering web site design services along with web hosting services. We started a little business called USA Web Services, and we offered web site design and hosting services. As the industry started to grow that year I [...]
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3G iPhone Review
15 October 2008
So I was living in New York city when the new iPhone was released. I was pretty excited about it and wanted to go out and get one right away. So I took a trip down to the 5th ave store only to find out the line was 7 hours long, and people were camping [...]
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The Last Debate
15 October 2008
Did anyone watch this debate? I sure did. I am not sure what I was expecting to get out of it, but I will have to say it was a lot more entertaining than the previous debates. It sucks that they are not having a couple more. We need to hear more from both candidates, and [...]
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