February 2009

Week 8/52

February 25, 2009

I’m posting this late, but I did take the picture last week, so it totally counts! This photo was taken on the beach in Ft. Lauderdale. Surprise, surprise, I used the Sigma 10-20mm f/4-5.6 for this shot. I brought it into Photoshop and created two duplicate layers (for a total of three). I desaturated the middle layer, and [...]

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I’m still alive…

February 25, 2009

I know, I know, I haven’t posted since Friday. But, in my defense, I was on vacation. And yes, I got back yesterday, but I had a lot to do – I had to go to the Bulls game with a vendor. Plus, today I had to go to work, and that took some getting used [...]

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In sunny Florida

February 20, 2009

Carrie and I arrived in Ft. Lauderdale late last night. It’s gorgeous here…sorry to all of you Chicago folks dealing with the 15 degree temps and 2-4 inches of snow!     Something strange – looking at my logs, I can see that this blog is getting hits from Joel Oleson’s blog – this got [...]

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Thursday Tech Tip – BlackBerry Twitter App Shoot-Out

February 19, 2009

UPDATED on 4/20/2009 to include ÜberTwitter As I mentioned yesterday, we’re on a Twitter kick here at Good Old Rock. I’ve spent the past two weeks evaluating different Twitter apps on the BlackBerry, and have the results of my arduous testing available to share with you today. Some notes – every client was used for [...]

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Wednesday Web Wanderings for 2/18/2009 – Twitter Edition

February 18, 2009

Apparently it is Twitter Week here at Good Old Rock (look for the Twitter Clients for BlackBerry shoot-out tomorrow in the Tech Tips). Today I’ll be focusing on websites that can add value to your twitterific experience. I will be the first to admit that this post was somewhat inspired by a similar post yesterday [...]

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Personal Updates

February 17, 2009

First of all, to get it out of the way, remember last week when I told you guys about our infertility situation? Yeah, that procedure didn’t work. So we’re moving on to IVF. Carrie just called in the prescription for her medications for this process, and they were $400! Which sounds like a lot of [...]

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RSS Recommendation – Get Rich Slowly

February 16, 2009

Blog Name: Get Rich Slowly Tagline: Personal finance that makes cents URL: http://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/ Feed URL: http://feeds.feedburner.com/getrichslowly Category: Personal Finance  Today’s feed recommendation is Get Rich Slowly, a personal finance blog authored by J.D. Roth. Focusing on real-world, applicable, and intelligent approaches to money management, Get Rich Slowly is, in my opinion, the best personal finance blog published today. And I’m not alone [...]

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