Category Archives: Miscellaneous

Netflix: Your parental controls break everything

Normally I’m an email kind of guy and if a site takes so many precautions to not publish any possible way to contact them except via phone, I’d just bag it altogether and choose an alternative. I actually took the … Continue reading

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Simplified Envelope Budgeting for GnuCash

OK, out of popular demand, I’ve decided to revisit this topic. My original Better Budgeting with GnuCash article is still highly relevant and worth a read for the background if you haven’t read that yet. The method I proposed in … Continue reading

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How to export 1080p HD video with iMovie 08

So I’ve been playing around with video a bit more lately. I have two different cameras that record natively at 1920×1080 (1080p). I can get my videos into iMovie just fine, but one thing that always annoyed me is that … Continue reading

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Google map with Utah Repeaters

I thought it would be helpful to visualize where all the radio repeaters are in my area. I found a lack of map information available for this sort of thing but I found readily available CSV data with the information. … Continue reading

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A review of sponsoredreviews

I’ve terminated my sponsoredreviews.com account. It was a fun experiment, and I did indeed receive some cash on the side, but it’s just not worth the time I guess. I don’t think any readers of this site are actually are … Continue reading

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Pardon my dust…

Switching hosting providers this weekend. I’m hoping to have a little bit more uptime than my old server was providing. Let me know if you see any 404 errors or stuff that I haven’t transferred over from the old server. … Continue reading

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