Author Archives: Jacob Allred

2011 Goal Update (October)

By Jacob Allred | Published: November 1, 2011

This is my tenth monthly report on how I’m doing with my goals for 2011: Read the Book of Mormon again. I’ve abandoned this goal because I’ve started taking a Book of Mormon class. Earn as much from my side business as I was earning from my day job. October was another awesome month. Earnings [...]

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Boo-ing Your Neighbors

By Jacob Allred | Published: November 1, 2011
Boo-ed

For Family Home Evening on 10/3 my family decided to “boo” a few friends. I don’t know how popular this is where you live, but where I grew up in Folsom, CA, this is the thing to do in October. Pretty much everyone I knew would get boo-ed by Halloween. The premise is pretty simple: put [...]

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Recipes and U.S. copyright law

By Jacob Allred | Published: October 13, 2011

I often search for recipes online and end up at sites like Allrecipes.com. The recipes I find often have terrific reviews and star ratings. The problem, however, is that people are dumb. You see, people have a bad habit of writing reviews along the lines of: Oh my gosh this is the most amazing recipe [...]

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Yale School of Art

By Jacob Allred | Published: October 5, 2011

Recently I blogged about Yale and their intelligent use of Drupal. Today I would like to blog about Yale again. Well, a part of Yale. Specifically, the Yale University School of Art. This page is, well, let’s just say it is “unique”. Or maybe “special” would be a better description. They decided it’d be a [...]

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Pinterest needs some work

By Jacob Allred | Published: October 4, 2011

My wife convinced me to try out Pinterest. It is basically a normal bookmarking site that shows a thumbnail from the bookmarked site (not to be confused with a thumbnail of the bookmarked site). The thing that makes it so popular is that it is geared towards the kind of stuff you’d find in Martha [...]

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