Ok, so I know that I bash Apple enough. They drive me crazy from a tech company standpoint because they often copy what others have done, make it a little better, and then release it like no one has ever done it before. However, despite that I'm still a nerd at heart which means I like all forms of computing devices. I've been doing some iOS development recently and here's something I came up with if you're trying to decide if you should still support iOS 5.iOS 6 seems to have a number (197) of security fixes that were never... [Read More]

I've been filtering my internet at home for some time but it never occurred to me (much like setting up your own blog/website) that most people do not know how to do this. However, after a recent message at Southland called Stay Pure, Weece mentioned the porn problem that the United States and the world has. It occurred to me that some people might know how to filter their internet.Like most things, there is more than one way to do this filtering. I AM NOT here to tell you this is the best or only way. I'm telling you this is how I... [Read More]

We recently bought a new place of residence (and already sold the previous one thankfully). After getting our first full electric bill that equaled the bill from our other house (the new house has gas heat and the old one had electric), I decided I should look into the amount of money we're spending on lighting the house.I quickly remembered a blog post from Scott Hanselman about the cost of lighting. I downloaded his template but since I don't use Microsoft Office (because I use Google Docs) I needed to convert it to a Google Spreadsheet. After doing that I decided... [Read More]