Faith is a powerful seed
After marriage, life was hard for a few years. Actually, it was several years. I made a decision when my wife became pregnant with my first daughter, that my daughter(s) would benefit from a full time mother in their early years. We were both students. I decided (yes, unilaterally) that we would both stop school, boldly announcing "We have our entire lives to make money and acquire degrees.
AWS Marketplace, a place to pick up more toys
I'm big on roll your own when it comes to application servers. I find using pre-built anything requires me to subject my planning to someone else's schedule and concepts, or just their laziness.
Exciting times and the mobile app space
It's exciting times in the mobile app space. Everyone is talking about the $1 billion dollar Instagram sell. I'll admit it makes pitching people to invest in my business is a lot easier thanks to that deal. So, Mark Zuckerberg actually did me a huge favor.
Good marketing, verse site for The Hunger Games
CapitalCouture.pn is a neat play on the TLD for Pitcairn Islands (.pn) played off as the official Capital Network TLD, subtle, with a beautifully orchestrated verse site showing us the vapid and vain world in which The Hunger Games resides.
Simple lifestyle experiment
We are mortal beings with limited resources, limited time. If you lived your life like each day was your last, you wouldn't likely accomplish much. We must plan as if we are going to be here for much more time than we're guaranteed, which isn't more than the moment we have. Death, as Steve Jobs recently expressed, crystallizes the things we want to do with our lives.
Better sleep
Sleep is a major power multiplier for mental and physical performance. My experiments revealed (anecdotally, this isn't hard science yall) that in this order I received the most powerful deep sleep from the following and best when cocktailed.
- Cold exposure
Inbound email in the cloud
Many people think there's something special or different about cloud servers and email. There's not. It works just like any other machine or virtual machine.
Live better through seven simple rules
I'm a high school drop out who married a college drop out who dropped out of college because we had our first child a little too early. I compounded our bad decisions multiple times in our early life, and we experienced poverty for much of those early years. We've slowly scaled from poverty to comfort and live now in relative comfort.
Better me, faster plan: how the fat guy stops being fat
I've been fat for nearly twenty years. I have better things to do then sit around obsessing about what I'm going to eat. But, so far a combination of slow carb diet (think that's a trademark now), a hand full of supplements, modest exercise, some interesting lifestyle changes and body hacks brought my labs within normal from the brink of biochemical disaster.
Dumb multiplied by bad
A client's client has a high profile website. He's a platinum country music artist and his store is offline. The domain expired. Dumb? Yep! So, just renew it! Nope, no can do. They're using a registration company that uses the last six digits of the credit card number used to pay the last bill as a security identifier. So, all you have to do to hijack a domain is pay for its renewal.