Author Archives: Jacob Allred

2011 Goal Update (December)

By Jacob Allred | Published: January 1, 2012

This is my twelfth monthly report on how I’m doing with my goals for 2011: Build a dining room table. Build a piano keyboard desk. Build something. I know what I want to build. I have the plans. I have the shopping list. But, sadly, I didn’t have/take the time to do this. Launch twelve new websites. I [...]

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New Corban Works website

By Jacob Allred | Published: December 8, 2011

I’ve been hard at work on a new project, but got temporarily distracted by the horribleness that was the Corban Works website. I’ve had a rough idea of what I wanted to do with it for quite a while, but couldn’t get myself to devote the time to it. So I finally buckled down and [...]

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2011 Goal Update (November)

By Jacob Allred | Published: December 1, 2011

This is my eleventh monthly report on how I’m doing with my goals for 2011: Build a dining room table. Build a piano keyboard desk. Build something. Still nothing. Probably not going to happen. Launch twelve new websites. Created a quick and easy text conversion tool called ASCII to Hex. It converts to/from ASCII, binary, hexadecimal, [...]

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Cheap, easy to customize PBX

By Jacob Allred | Published: November 30, 2011

I recently stumbled across an amazingly awesome set of tools: Twilio and OpenVBX. I’ll tackle each one separately. First, Twilio. This service lets you purchase local telephone numbers from almost anywhere in the country for just $1 per month, 1¢/minute inbound, and  2¢/minute outbound. This may sound like a lot, but it is actually quite [...]

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Half-birthday investment gift

By Jacob Allred | Published: November 25, 2011

My baby girl had her first half-birthday yesterday. It is crazy to think that it has been 6 months already since my first “holy cow I’m a dad” moment. Anyways, my wife and I have a lot of goals for how to raise our daughter. We want her to have the resources to go to [...]

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