Fire at The Planet knocks out more than 9,000 servers and 7,500 customers. Including Entrecard and Big Crumbs

June 2, 2008

Early on Sunday morning a fire took out the power supply at The Planet data center in Houston, Texas. The forum admins state that no servers were damaged, but due to the fire they have no power. The Planet is working at this moment to restore power and restore the approx 9,000 servers and 7,500 [...]

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New Layout and New Name: The Passive Dad

June 1, 2008

I’ve been working on a new template for my blog for several days and finally have settled on one. The template came from Eblogtemplates.com and took several hours to customize and create my custom header. Most of the time was spent finding the html code within the template that needed to be customized with my [...]

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Picture editor for Entrecard, Facebook, or Myspace

May 31, 2008

I was getting frustrated trying to edit my 125×125 picture that I wanted to display for Entrecard and finally found a solution today called Picnik. Entrecard has a widget where you display your blog or website logo and advertise with it. I was using a generic card and felt that it was boring and wouldn’t [...]

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Prosper With Me new domain name The Passive Dad

May 30, 2008

I’m excited to announce that “Prosper With Me” has received a little facelift and will now be called “The Passive Dad“. It took me several weeks to research domain names and find one that fits perfectly. This blog is about passive income, budgeting, saving money, and I’m a dad. Perfect Fit! I enjoyed Prosper With [...]

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Tracking high gas prices in Bay Area. 7% in two weeks

May 30, 2008

Today I drove by the Chevron gas station and noticed a man updating the prices. He had all the numbers off the board and I couldn’t take a picture. After my errand, I drove back, and couldn’t believe it. Last week I wrote a post about this same gas station Does the current price of [...]

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