I have updated the freedom stats again. This was an awesome month! We had a humongous yard sale and sold a ton of junk that has been accumulating in our garage. We were selling so much stuff I think the cats thought they were next. We put all the proceeds into our snowball and were able to knockout TWO credit cards this month. We are really getting excited about paying off this debt. It is crazy how much inertia you can get when you follow this plan.
I hope to share my success with others so that I can encourage them to do the same. I know I have gotten several other people motivated to make similar changes in their lives and that is every bit as rewarding as paying off my own debt. If you have begun to change your financial life after listening to me for a few minutes, please post some comments on here. I would love to hear how you are doing.
Link to a great article on a cool forms service.
Wufoo.com
This one blows wforms out of the water. The best part is you can save the generated forms out as a standalone css/xhtml form.
In contrast to all the popular news, here is an article you probably will not see on the front page. In spite of all the garbage that the major news outlets are publishing about gloom and doom and the fall of the US economy, people are buying tons of Apple gadgets! People do not behave this way during a recession. Keep shopping folks. Just be sure that when you hear “Credit or Debit?” you say Debit!
Apple today posted revenue of $7.51 billion and a net quarterly profit of $1.05 billion, or $1.16 per diluted share, for its fiscal 2008 second quarter, which ended March 29. “We’re delighted to report 43 percent revenue growth and the strongest March quarter revenue and earnings in Apple’s history,” said Steve Jobs. During the quarter, Apple shipped 2,289,000 Mac computers (representing 51 percent unit growth and 54 percent revenue growth over the year-ago quarter), sold 10,644,000 iPods, and reported quarterly iPhone sales of 1,703,000.
The title says it all… We made some good progress this month. Have a look.
I finally figured out how to get this working so I wanted to save a copy of the article on my site in case I needed it in the future…
Continue reading ‘Using cURL with apache on windows’
I am now the Director of Network Operations for IBEC. Yay!
Same job, same responsibilities, same pay, but at least my title more accurately represents my job function. Today was a good day.
I have added a new page to the site called Photo Album. This is where I will post family photos and others. Please email me if you would like the password. I have posted 3 galleries so far, Landon’s first haircut, opening gifts, and first birthday. Stay tuned for more!
Today I stumbled across this nifty little thing called the EICAR Test File. It is a file that is completely safe, but has a virus signature that has been incorporated into most antivirus products. This means you can use it to test the effectiveness of your antivirus software. This is just a basic test of being able to identify a known signature and is not in anyway a measure of how effective your software is against new attacks or anything else. I find it particularly useful for testing email filtering.
Read more here… Eicar Test File
The newest member of my family is celebrating his first birthday a week from today. 3/15/08. Since we have been really watching where our money is going and making much better decisions with money lately, we also want to encourage this behavior in our children. It is my duty to pass on the knowledge I have gained to them so that they will not have to deal with the stupid mistakes I have and therefore will be able to bypass some of these “lessons.” Therefore, we are encouraging anyone who would like to help our children do this in the form of a monetary donation towards an education fund we have setup for the children. Small donations can be made by check or cash and we will deposit these into the accounts. Larger donations should probably be made with the advise of a tax professional to avoid tax penalties. I would like to setup ESA’s and fixed 529 plans to ensure they will be able to attend college without the burden of debt. If you would like to make a large donation with a potential tax liability, please let us know so that we can discuss the tax implications with a CPA.
Being burdened with student loan debt is no fun and I will do everything I can to be sure that is something they will never have to learn the hard way. My education cost approximately $65,000 after scholarships and grants. Lindsey’s will probably cost between $25000 and $40000 depending on her future scholarship and grant eligibility. As you can tell on our “Freedom” page, this debt is still very much a part of our lives and will continue to be for some time. I would also like to thank my mother for her contributions toward over half of my student loan debt.
