Yazan: admin | 29 December 2008 | No Comments
Categories: Finance, Gadgets and Tech
My former employer, MPC Computers (formerly known as Zeos, Micron Computer Services, Micron Electronics, MicronPC.com, and MicronPC) announced today that Chapter 11 reorganization efforts were unsuccessful and they are letting 150 employees go effective immediately. A small handfull will be sticking around for an unknown length of time to tie up lose ends. Best wishes [...]
Yazan: admin | 27 December 2008 | No Comments
Categories: Books
I’m a big fan of Dave Ramsey and his teachings. I listen to his radio show on a daily basis, and I heard one day he has a list of books he requires all team members to read when he hires them. QBQ! The Question Behind the Question by John Miller is one such book. [...]
Yazan: admin | 26 December 2008 | 1 Comment
Categories: Family
Honestly this has been one of the more enjoyable Christmases I’ve had in a long time. In years past we’ve felt like we were being pulled in many directions. Our typical Christmas would be spending Christmas Eve at Cristi’s Mom’s house, and a rushed Christmas morning at home with the kids since we had to [...]
Yazan: admin | 25 December 2008 | No Comments
Categories: Family
From GeekOne.org! May your festivities be as enjoyable as ours.
Yazan: admin | 24 December 2008 | No Comments
Categories: Creativity, Wreck this Journal
The first activity I did when I got my copy of Wreck this Journal was to crack the spine. Gillian helped me with this one and had a blast doing it. She was so shocked that I was helping her actually do damage to a book that she was giddy. I had opened the book [...]
Yazan: admin | 22 December 2008 | No Comments
Categories: Finance
Lifehacker (among others) informed me of a deal I had to jump on. Staples ran a “today only” special today where you can buy Quickbooks Pro 2009 for $160, and get a $160 rebate. Normally this is a $200 product. I currently use the free Quickbooks Simple Start version but it is missing a couple [...]
Yazan: admin | 22 December 2008 | No Comments
Categories: Creativity, Wreck this Journal
I made an order from Amazon the other day for a Christmas gift, and was $10 short of the $25 free “super saver” shipping. I’d seen a reference to Wreck This Journal by Keri Smith and it looked interesting. Since I had some Amazon credit built up anyway, I decided to order it to put [...]
Yazan: admin | 17 December 2008 | No Comments
Categories: Software, Web
Done. As a certain office supply store slogan says… “That was easy!” I’ve also added the Google Analytics plugin so I can see how my blog is being used. The primary motivation behind this is so I can become more familiar with Analytics.
Yazan: admin | 09 December 2008 | No Comments
Categories: Finance
No, this isn’t some spam post. A while back I signed up to take some online surveys every now and then. I probably average 1-2 a month, and they average about 5 minutes each. Each survey pays some amount if you qualify, some as low as $.50 and some as much as $15. It had [...]
Yazan: admin | 03 December 2008 | No Comments
Categories: Entertainment
I’ve been a huge fan of the FX series “The Shield” since episode 1. The writer, Shawn Ryan, had an amazing idea to create a character who is corrupt beyond belief, but generally works toward the common good. This would be Vic Mackey, a detective who is corrupt enough to kill another cop in the [...]