Recently, fbCal was featured on LifeHacker. It provided for a nice bump in adoption, as seen above. Here’s to productivity apps!

Obligatory Golden Gate Bridge Photo:

Obligatory Street Car Photo:

Berkeley was really nice:

Vegan Ice Cream Shop!:

Golden Gate Park had great scenery:

Also, many of the restaurants seemed to offer burgers:

Focus Habits is is a simple way to help you regain focus on your goals by reducing your internet distractions and motivating you toward better habits.

Let me know what you think!

In setting everything up, my new workstation is trying to index a tremendous amount of information. Everything that was copied from my old laptop, everything on the external harddrive, and everything on Rachel’s computer. Spotlight can’t seem to handle it at the moment.

Apparently, 2.5 million years ago, during the time of Australopithecus Africanus, my computer was already indexed.

• Progressive Council http://www.progressivecouncil.org/
• Eco-Advocates of Central Florida http://www.ecoucf.org/
• Adam Giery (SGA Presidential Candidate) http://www.adamgiery.com/

Enjoy!

• Dennis4President.com
• YouTube Group
• Donate for Democracy

I’m really glad he’s been getting more attention in the media lately. Some of the attention has been a sort of meta-acknowledgement, where broadcasters discuss unique or interesting attributes of Dennis, rather than actually discussing his politics. I won’t go through listing them in detail, but they have in the past included: Elizabeth, height, veganism, and various pocket-sized items. I am okay with this.

This situation strongly equates in my mind to a question that I often receive: “what do you think about people that are vegetarian for [any of many non-ethical reasons to be veg goes here]?” While I wish there were more activist vegetarians out there, a vegetarian that doesn’t eat meat for nutritional reasons (for example) is eating no animals in the same capacity as an ethics-based vegetarian. With Kucinich, I believe any public discussion of him (even about his interesting background) will aid his campaign. Going one step further, a vote for Kucinich because he’s the only candidate that voted 100% against this war, is the same as a vote for Kucinich because he’s the candidate that has an appropriate plan for healthcare, human rights, and foreign policy.

“Why isn’t Kucinich a Frontrunner?” - Tucker Carlson

Note: Watch the first 3.5 minutes of this. It’s the first time I’ve ever agreed with Tucker Carlson, to my knowledge.

To see what I’m talk about, watch the guided tour on Apple’s website.

The new brushed metal Apple Wireless Keyboard shipped!
It’s been working great so far. Very responsive, very sleak!

The calendar subscriptions idea has been the most requested feature of fbCal. I’m happy to introduce it to the users!

Help me promote it, by digging it.

“Complete creation and management” of a website has three main costs.

1. Domain name registration (officially owning “somewebsitename.com” or “hilariouscatpicz.net”). This is a fixed cost, for the most part. If it’s a domain name that isn’t already taken by someone else, it’s roughly $10 to $20 per year per domain name. Also, add on a little for the person to fill out the forms and manage renewals.

2. Server hosting (having hard drive space somewhere on a server that is connected to the internet). These can vary by how much traffic (how many visitors) you will receive, how much data you must store online, and what server technology you (or, more specifically, the web developer uses). This typically starts at $8/month but can go as high as $100/month and up. Also, account for a little extra for whoever is managing this for you. For general information, I use Dreamhost for my websites.

3. Website creation (actual design and coding of your website) and updating (occasional changing of text and adding news snippets). This is the real variable cost. Some people charge a set amount per month for this. Others charge hourly (usually between friends to be fair or between businesses as “billable hours” and “bill rates”). Others charge a flat rate after negotiating and determining exactly what work is to be done (and then updating is hourly after that).

To give you an idea of the cost of a website, use the estimates above, and take a look at BobAbernethy.com. This is a website that I created and manage. I made it about 3 years ago. The initial design, formatting, setup, and coding took about 75 hours of work. Since then, I’ve done periodic updates to the site, totaling 25 hours of work. Billing at an hourly rate for work by me, $10/year for domain registration, and around $100/year for hosting. The first year’s cost was significantly more than each additional year, of course.

Basically, websites are an investment, like anything else. They don’t come for free usually. If they do come free/cheap, they are often not worth having. Your website can help or hurt your business. A website of poor quality will (in my opinion) hurt your business potential. But, of course, it is up to you. Good luck with your decision making.

Source: CNN’s Obesity Map (July 2007)

Losing weight is not as hard as you think it is. I’ve done it. It just takes being conscious of what you eat, and considering alternatives (healthier or simply not eating as much as you are currently).

Start with SELF Health and VegWeb Recipes. Or, hey, go jog to the grocery store and buy some broccoli.