I recently bought a new computer; when I went through the options deciding what I did/didn’t want, I cut it down to the barebones. I elected not to have any software on the computer that I’d have to pay for. Below are a few terrific free alternatives to spending lots of money on software. OpenOffice.org …
I went to school for graphic design, realizing in my 3rd year that it wasn’t what I wanted to do with my life. In 2004 I graduated with a BS in Communications (with a major in Graphic Design…confusing I know). I applied for jobs and graphic design agencies, but didn’t find anywhere that wanted to …
I recently read the book “CSS Mastery: Advanced Web Standards Solutions” which I highly reccommend to anyone who uses CSS extensively. In the book it lists not just what you can do, but how to do it right. One selector that I read about in the book and implemented last week was the [att$=val] attribute …
For the past year I have struggled on and off with anxiety and mild depression (yeah, this is Joseph, and yes this is true). Being a man of deep faith, I have begged to God to take this pain away from me, this constant worry, this feeling of dread and hopelessness. The past month has …
My family unit (at this point in time) is myself, my wife, and my 16 month old daughter. In the past year we have budgeted sporatically, but as of late have gotten back on the wagon. The biggest area of controllable spending for us was restaurants. This past month, with some extra travel expendatures and …
Ryan Portnoy tweeted this video, and I had to show it on my site. It’s incredible.
Blogging is hard. Anytime I’m inspired to blog I’m not at my computer, which is discouraging. There are a lot of things I’m thinking of lately, a lot of things I want to share. But I never have the time to sit and do that. So, I’m gonna start jotting things in my journal that …
I’m a fan of the zombie genre, that’s a well known fact, so naturally I wanted to watch the Walking Dead series. Well, I don’t have AMC, so I bought it on Amazon Video On Demand. It was 10 bucks to get the whole first season (only 6 episodes), so I was excited about watching …
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Almost 4 years ago now my wife and I went to the other side of the world on a missionary journey where we posed the question: Is this where we will live the next 20 years of our lives? It was a grandiose idea. We were young and passionate and eager to be used for …
