THE WEEKEND IS HERE! Please join me this Saturday! CAPFEST ’12 will be held tomorrow, April 14th at downtown Belton, Texas. You can’t miss it! The festival will be in front of the Bell County Courthouse at 101 W. Central Ave., Belton, TX 76513. Click here if you need directions or visit their event page at http://awarecentraltexas.org/capfest. 50+ vendors are expected to show up and their coming from all over Texas in...

I had a grandfathered plan, but early this year, it started notifying me about being in the top 5% of the users that uses bandwidth. My data usage was only around 2GB. Basically, what’s a supposedly unlimited plan is in effect being capped at 2GB Also, with an iPhone, I can’t even tether without paying an additional $12 and losing my supposedly “unlimited” grandfathered plan. In short, I switching to a 5GB/month plan...

      A brain fart on my part: I tried to change the PIN for my SIM card but in my A.D.D.-ness, I ended up locking the SIM card instead. Fortunately, they got the issue covered on AT&T’s support page. What’s unfortunate is the instruction provided:   How to Unblock your SIM Card You’ll need your phone in hand to unblock your SIM Card. First, enter the 8-digit PUK code, then press OK/Yes. Note: Some...

I hate social media. Yet I find myself not sleeping for virtually three days straight just thinking about it. When I got out of the Navy in 2007, a whole new world opened up to me. I was finally able to dive back into the whole web design and development again… all without the pressure of “mission critical” stuff. or having that gnawing feeling that when the next mortar/rocket hit, you’re next! THE WEB THING is all fine...

My name is Dd and I hate social media. Nothing beats a one on one realtime conversation. If I had to guess I’ll say it’s the personal investment of time and “undistracted” attention that comes from willingly choosing to inconvenience yourself just to “talk.” My friend and esteemed colleague, Harriet, reminded me this yesterday. I had just finished making a quick and almost incoherent presentation on how we...

    I volunteer at Aware Central Texas, a non-profit agency whose mission is the complete eradication of child abuse through prevention… Aware Central Texas could use a social media strategy/plan. And they needed it yesterday. Actually, more like three years ago. Sue Ellen and Harriet have been hitting the road pretty hard. (Is that...

  I pride myself in being a professional student, meaning, I will probably be in school (taking classes or what not) until the day that I die. Self-paced online courses are my favorite. It doesn’t mean I can take my time and do a little bit of work here and there. On the contrary, what I like to do is turn what’s usually an 8-week or 16-week course into a two or three day ordeal. I’m not bragging. Because if I were then...

I have been sick for the last two weeks or so. I’ve quarantined myself into seclusion with only cans after cans of Campbell’s soup and club crackers to appease my always hungry stomach. During this unwanted retreat, I only have Lex to keep me entertained whenever I get so tired of sleeping. I LOVE YOU...

  http://stevensheirlooms.com   A self-hosted WordPress installation. It’s using a custom theme based on Evolution by Elegant Themes. Inventory is very small so we opted to use Google’s Checkout Cart instead of a full blown e-commerce plugin like Shopp. The photos of the jewelries were taken by yours truly, of course, using my handy dandy point and click Kodak. The images for the slider on the homepage were manipulated...