I just finished Financial Peace Revisited by Dave Ramsey. A pretty good read with sound financial advice. I especially thought that the chapter about compounding interest was very good, although you have to remind yourself that after 40 years of saving, inflation has wiped out a good portion of your gains. It’s easy to look […]
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I’m testing out Google Analytics. I just installed it, so there’s not too much data gathered yet. It looks to be interesting, and if it proves itself I’ll post more about it.
The past several days I’ve been having severe trouble with my cell phone at my new place in Bartlesville. It’s probably been this way the entire time, I just haven’t used my phone enough to notice it until a few days ago. AT&T will flat out not keep a connection longer than 10 minutes. What […]
Starting my Internship
Posted in Personal on May 27th, 2008
Well, I’ve been at it a week now interning for ConocoPhillips in Bartlesville, OK. So far it’s been a very positive experience. I’m working in the “Commercial Unix Services” group—it’s my understanding that we’ll be working on security and maintenance scripts for the hundreds of servers they have here. I hope I can get up […]
Back From Vacation
Posted in Personal on May 17th, 2008
One thing I don’t understand about some hotels is that they feel they must charge for internet access, even though it costs more to implement the pay services than to just offer it for free. From an old (2003) article about businesses and wifi access: Now that competitors have started to offer free wired Internet […]
Thoughts on Linux/Ubuntu
Posted in On the Net, Personal, Tech, Uncategorized on May 7th, 2008
With the release of Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron a week or two ago, I thought I’d try it out. I’ve been casually playing around with Linux for quite some time. I think the first version I installed was Mandrake Linux 8.0, back in 2001. Anyways, I like to see what’s new and how much Linux […]
Steven Levitt at OSU
Posted in Personal on Apr 23rd, 2008
Today I got to see Steven Levitt (co-author of Freakonomics) speak at OSU today. His talk was very good and he didn’t give a total synopsis of the book. He talked a little bit about his next book, Superfreakonomics. I’m glad I crammed my schedule to see him, and best of all…I got my book […]
sarahmarries.brianschettler.com
Posted in Artwork, Blog, Marriage, Personal on Apr 17th, 2008
The wedding site is up! There’s lots of information about our wedding here.
Ah, I’ve recently found something that makes rmilk so much better: keyboard shortcuts. I’d always get a little frustrated when I’d have to edit a task and it’d switch to another task before I could get finished. Keyboard shortcuts will make that a lot easier. The only problem I have now is that I have […]
Crazy weather
Posted in Personal on Apr 8th, 2008
What is with this crazy weather? I was going to make homemade ice cream for lifegroup tonight but I think it may be too cold.