Category: Featured
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My Christmas Letter 2013

This year has definitely been one to remember. So much stuff has happened, I’m not even sure where to start. Here is a link to My Christmas Letter 2012, for those that are interested. First off, I should mention that I moved to Georgetown. Last year, I was thinking about…
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Guaranteed Income Program

I recently found a very interesting discussion on Reddit about welfare programs. Someone asked if the US would save or spend more money if they cut all the current programs and changed to a flat-rate, guaranteed minimum income system, click here to read the full Reddit post. A user, by…
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Tech Kit – If I Were to Purchase Today
If I had a few thousand dollars for each gadget, and I was starting out with nothing, what would I buy? If you are looking for some technology for this fall, or are just curious about what I think the latest and greatest things are, then you’ll hopefully enjoy this…
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WordPress Products versus Services
So, there has been a small but substantial swell of frustration at Woo for changing the pricing on their themes and plugins. You can read their post here: A Sustainable WooThemes. The argument most people are making is similar to the following: You can’t increase the price of a product…
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Negativity Over Distributing Premium Plugins
Note – I work for rocketgenius specifically on their Gravity Forms product. My comments and opinions below are not those of my employer, nor do I have any inside information about company policy above and beyond what is published on their websites. There has been a huge discussion in the…
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Desktop Computer I’d Love to Buy
I have been running on just a laptop for half a year now, and while it is great for what my plans were, I definitely miss the power of a desktop, and the flexibility of Windows for socializing with my cousins (aka gaming). I have been thinking about what I…
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WordPress Plugin Pricing
Chris Lema has been writing some amazing posts about WordPress plugin pricing (WordPress Plugin Prices Are Too Low and More Thoughts on Pricing), and he has inspired others to write about the subject as well (Great Conversation On The Topic Of Plugin Prices and Setting Your WordPress Plugin Prices). Update:…
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Flickr Changes for the Better and Worse
So Flickr has rolled out some changes, and there have been some good and some bad things that have happened, and these changes will affect you more or less depending on what kind of member you are. Free Accounts The first thing you need to know is that they are…
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WordPress 10th Anniversary Blogging Project
May 27th, 2013 marks the 10 year anniversary of the release of WordPress. When WordPress came out it wasn’t long until I heard about it. By the time that 0.72 came out, I was already installing the software on my personal blog. I had heard about WordPress from Binary Bonsai,…
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Movies I’d Like to See in 2013
Like I did in 2010 (Movies I Want to Watch For the Rest of 2010), I have created a quick list of movies I would like to see in the upcoming year. Here they are, thanks to the lists developed on Dark Horizons. Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters – January…
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My Christmas Letter 2012
In the same vein as what other family members of mine do (family can check our Mark’s here: 2012 Christmas Letter), I would like to write a Christmas letter for those in my life as a way to both distill down what happened to me this year, and give some…