Archive for the ‘Web Sites’ Category

Why The Cash Envelope System Didn’t Work for Us

Now let me preface this by saying I am a huge fan of Dave Ramsey and I see the wisdom in all of his teachings. Now that said, I readily admit I don’t follow everything he says. One area in which I don’t follow along is with the cash envelope budget system.
I think the system [...]

October 20, 2009  Tags: , , , ,   Posted in: Family, Finance, Web Sites  33 Comments

Webfaction Review

I was looking at my web stats and noticed I was getting a lot of traffic to my limited review of Webfaction. To recap, I tried out there account then decided to cancel, and they were prompt and friendly at delivering a refund.
Since that time, I have set up two Webfaction accounts. When I started [...]

May 15, 2009  Tags: , , , , ,   Posted in: Programming & Internet, Web Sites  39 Comments

Webfaction Limited Review

UPDATE: Since writing this review, I have set up two accounts with Webfaction. Check out my latest review.
I’ve seen a lot of recommendations for Webfaction for new Django developers who want an easy to use hosting solution. As you can see from previous posts that I have a VPS that I’ve set up Django on. [...]

October 29, 2008  Tags:   Posted in: Programming & Internet, Technology, Web Sites  21 Comments

Cheap Hotel Prices

A couple years ago we drove to Denver to watch the Braves play the Rockies. I found our hotel that we would stay in after the game through Hotels.com. Then my wife said there was no way she was going to drive and and only stay one night. She wanted a travel day!
So I had [...]

April 13, 2007   Posted in: Sports & Stuff, Web Sites  4 Comments

Clicky Is So Much Easier!

I wrote a post about how to hack Google Analytics to show the full path on referrer URL. Honestly, its a pain in the butt at best. I went digging around the net and came across a new stat tool that shows the full URL. It’s called Clicky and I have to say, it is [...]

March 9, 2007   Posted in: Programming & Internet, Web Sites  Comments Closed

What do Mormons, PDAs, & DVDs Have in Common?

I was looking at some web statistics this morning and I noticed that I had quite a few hits on my DVD site coming from a forum at LDS Mingle. I was intrigued (mostly because I’m LDS) so I signed up temporarily to see what the talk was about. A member there suggested visiting DVD [...]

March 5, 2007   Posted in: LDS, Movies, Web Sites  Comments Closed

Gmail Delete Shortcut Key

I love Gmail, but I find it rather annoying that they feel you never need to delete an email. It took them about 2 years to add the delete button. I don’t know why they didn’t add a shortcut key with it. Certainly, they must have had thousands of requests for it already.Well, I’m happy [...]

February 28, 2007   Posted in: Programming & Internet, Web Sites  One Comment

Local Business on the Net

There are lots of local business on the Internet. I think every business should have a home page. It’s basically like have a really cheap glorified yellow page listing – but so much more. You can share everything about your business and even automate some of your business processes.
There was one occasion where we wanted [...]

January 18, 2007   Posted in: Web Sites  Comments Closed

Web 2.0, or Star Wars Character?

I guess I just don’t keep up enough. I only scored a 28 here: www.cerado.com/web20quiz.htm
Now I supposed after the popularity of this quiz sets in, all Star Wars characters will eventually become web 2.0 sites

January 9, 2007   Posted in: Humor, Web Sites  2 Comments

I Just Want To Be Your Everything – Andy Gibb

This site lets you find the single that was number one on the day your were born. On the day I was born it was “I Just Want To Be Your Everything” by Andy Gibb. Sadly, I’ve never head of it. Luckily though, someone has posted it on YouTube so I can re-live the tune [...]

December 11, 2006   Posted in: Web Sites  One Comment