Monthly Archives: March 2010

Making a Popular Game Site

Back in late Octo­ber 2009 I cre­ated a new Flash game arcade site called Rhyta. A month in, it was barely mak­ing any money and traf­fic was dis­mal. Now, a few months later, I’m get­ting steady search engine traf­fic and I’m con­sis­tently mak­ing about $2 per day (around $750 per year). That may not sound [...]
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The Smallest Excuses

I read a post on a blog some­where awhile back that went some­thing like this: A daugh­ter vis­ited her mom’s house and was given a bunch of yummy food to take home. The food was securely placed in a plas­tic bag to make for eas­ier trans­port. When the daugh­ter got home and put the food [...]
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Saving for a Goal with SmartyPig

If you haven’t used Smar­tyPig before and are com­fort­able with online sav­ings accounts (like ING Direct), I highly rec­om­mend check­ing it out. Smar­tyPig is an online sav­ings account that cur­rently pays 2.01% APY. That rate isn’t much dif­fer­ent from most of the other online (well, nearly dou­ble ING Direct’s at the moment), but how the account [...]
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Savings Goals

Many months ago (June 2009), my wife and I set a goal for the amount of money we wanted to save. We wanted to save enough for a down pay­ment on a mod­est house by May 1, 2010. Since then our plans for that money has changed some­what, but the dol­lar amount and date of [...]
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Open Atrium

I’ve recently dis­cov­ered Open Atrium. I love it! Built on Dru­pal, this “intranet in a box” is the per­fect solu­tion for my company. These are the things I love about it: Works with­out a lot of con­fig­u­ra­tion, but is still highly con­fig­urable in case you need it to do some­thing special. Allows you to define groups and [...]
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