A few years back, we decided to get an Elliptical for exercise. My experience with exercise equipment has never been good. I’ve had an exercise bike and a treadmill in the past. Other than the occasional use for their intended purposes, they seemed to mostly get used as a place to hang wet clothes to dry. Not really the best investment. Mrs. F said that this was going to be… Read More »Precor Elliptical EFX 5.23 Clicking Noise – Fixed
I bought a Zagg Universal Keyboard to work with my Samsung Galaxy s5 phone. I figured I could maybe do some better writing if I had a real keyboard to use. I’ve never been a huge fan of onscreen keyboards, but there just isn’t a good phone out these days with a physical keyboard. I’ve managed to tolerate the onscreen keyboard with the thanks of SwiftKey, the… Read More »Zagg Universal Keyboard – how I fixed my repeating letters
We had a bad storm here recently, and one of our trees lost a giant branch. I’m no arborist, but Google is my friend. I knew it was a pear tree, and after doing some reading, I’m fairly certain that the damaged tree is a Bradford Pear tree. If you do a Google search, you’ll see all sorts of information about them, most of which is negative. The reason Bradford… Read More »Storm damage to pear tree – how to repair
<Update 10/18/17> Per recent comments, it appears Amazon has changed their process and now you can no longer cancel your auto-renew in advance! Instead you can choose to be reminded three days prior to the auto-renew date. This is BS. I think there may still be a way to cancel if you are doing the prime trial – you can just click on “Do Not Continue” and it should still… Read More »How to Disable Amazon Prime Auto-Renewal
It all started with little F’er 2.2 having some diarrhea. No biggie – it happens, or so they say. Of course, it quickly turned into painful diaper rash on top of diarrhea. Still nothing I haven’t been through before. But then little F’er 2.1 started to act crabby and seemed a little warm. Then the diarrhea came from 2.1 as well. And then the painful diaper rash. And then more… Read More »Viral gastroenteritis sucks
This post is part 3 of my comments on Godaddy’s Managed WordPress hosting platform. Part 1 discusses how I wound up using GoDaddy for a wordpress site. Part 2 discusses my initial impressions, including differences from standard wordpress self-hosted accounts and initial performance thoughts. Part 3 will discuss the overall product being offered, now that it is publicly available, as well as some more experiences. First, the GoDaddy Managed WordPress… Read More »GoDaddy Managed WordPress Hosting Review – Part 3
This is a continuation from my post on how I wound up selecting GoDaddy as my first choice for a collegue’s high traffic wordpress blog. First, I did hear back from GoDaddy on any traffic limits with the Managed WordPress platform. There are no limits on any information that are served from cache, but for uncached information, they set a limit of 100 concurrent connections. As I said in the… Read More »Hosting a High Traffic WordPress Blog – GoDaddy Managed WordPress Review (Part 2)
This is my first post in trying to write-up my process of monetizing a website. Just to be clear, at this time, this blog is NOT hosted at GoDaddy, so don’t use the performance of this blog as an example of what you can expect. I got involved with GoDaddy’s Managed WordPress product because I am helping a colleague out who has a high traffic blog on WordPress.com and he… Read More »Hosting a high traffic WordPress blog – GoDaddy Managed WordPress review (Part 1)
I’ve been doing a lot of work lately with a few collegues to try to maximize income from their websites. I figured it was worth taking the time to write-up the lessons I’ve learned, as I’ve learned a lot. Some of the information you can find elsewhere, but it was not easy for me to find a lot of it. I’ve been involved in many different aspects of the website… Read More »How to Monetize a Website (with Adsense)
I’m watching How I Met your Mother, as the misses likes to watch it and I find it is a good show for me to browse the internet to, and Barney (Neil Patrick Harris) mentions how he always wanted a Lamborghini with a Jacuzzi in it. And then a few moments later he refers to it as a Lamborcuzzi and he mentions “patent pending”. I’ve noticed that in the past… Read More »Lamborcuzzi – patent pending