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Monthly Archives: December 2009
The Shepherds
Yesterday at church our Primary watched Luke 2, a short video about Christ’s birth. Part of the video shows angels coming to tell shepherds of the savior’s birth. During this part of the movie I thought to myself that it was a bit random that some shepherds saw angels when Christ was born. What made [...]
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Automatic JS Broken Image Replacement
It’s a sad fact of life, but sometimes webpages have broken images. Wouldn’t it be nice if there were an easy way of automatically replacing these broken images?
for (i = 0; i < document.images.length; i++) {
var img = document.images[i];
img.onerror = function (evt) {
this.src = "broken-image.gif";
}
};
This [...]
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Updated Cost of Food Page
I’ve updated my Cost of Food page to allow you to define who is in your family. So, for example, you can say that your family has one male age 19–50, one female age 19–50, and one child age 2–3. My cost of food calculator will use USDA data to determine the average national monthly [...]
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Cost of Food for a Family of Two
Recently my wife, Becca, and I were trying to come up with numbers for our monthly food budget, but weren’t sure how much to put in. During this process, Becca found a cool page from the USDA that provides monthly estimates for how much food should cost each month based on different budgets. For example, [...]
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Quality of Life Purchases
My wife and I are tightwads frugal. We’ve managed to save a good chunk of money by cutting a lot of the “extras” out of our lives, such as frequent trips to the movies and eating out on a regular basis. Occasionally we have friends or family imply (or sometimes outright say) that we aren’t [...]
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