I am a big fan of the Dave Ramsey plan and I follow the blog of one of his employees Chris Thomas ( on a side note while you are over there check out his Which Wich? escapade). Today Chris posted this video of a guy doing some sort of crazy dance to a Dave Ramsey call.

you pretty much have to see it to believe it

Link here

I love Gmail, it is THE best email application out there both web and desktop and it just keeps getting better and better. It is that time of the year when our 401(k) plan sends out a document talking about the Safe Harbor matches for the next year. Well our HR lady emails us out a PDF from the plan administrators and instead of downloading it I decide to click the “View and HTML ” Link.

I notice that some of the text is a little garbled but that is usually true with the PDF conversion because there can be images and all kinds of stuff in the PDF. I decided to switch over and download it so I can print it off in the native format. To my amazement this was actually a scanned document that was just an image converted to PDF. yeah no text whatsoever.

What this means is that Gmail is doing an OCR on the paper and displaying it. That is AMAZING that they go to that lengths to make your user experience better.

I <3 Gmail!

TeraTech is announcing that Fusebox 5.5 Final will be released on 12/1. This is great news and I have loved the NOXML option that FB5.5 is offering. I suggest that you go download it first thing Sunday morning!

I always think back to the days when Sandra Bullock stumbled on an icon on The Net and all hell breaks loose. Hollywood has never gotten the Internet right… until now.

Looks as if Twitter has made it on to CSI and they are using ACTUAL screens. Way to go CSI!

Source [Mashable]

So I was looking at my FeedBurner stats and I noticed that an RSS Reader called “ColdFusion” was subscribed… which makes me think I am being agregatted somewhere.

Now I just need to get all Sherlock Holmes and figure out where!

I don’t know but I used to love 60 Minutes… but now I just get angry at it. They are up to their old tricks again with an installment this last Sunday called “High Tech Heist”. It is scaretactic-reporting at its best worst. It is suppose to be about the TJMaxx data breach from a few years back but all they really did was to tell you that:

a. Every bad guy can IM someone and buy your personal information

b. Wally World knows your SSN

c. WEP is of the devil

What!? Yeah it was a bunch of oldpeopletechnobabble that didn’t make much sense at all. They get some wannabe geeks to run a sniffer and call them a hacker and then throw in a professor and an FBI agent who can use Yahoo IM and you have the makings of a crapload of geezer reporting.

See if for yourself

http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/i_video/main500251.shtml?id=3538299n

So I was taking a stroll down memory lane and was wondering if one of my old websites was still around. Sure enough it is and has been bought by Salem Publishing!

I started CMcentral.com with a buddy of mine Jesse that I met over the Internet back in 1999. He had started a website called ChristianBandList.com and wanted to move it into more of a community feel. This project is held dear to my heart because it was the first place I learned ColdFusion. We wanted to have an artist database and we figured it had to be easier then creating individual static pages for each artist. We saw that our web host offered ColdFusion 4.0 so we dove right in. I got a CFWACK and off I went.

After about 2 years of making no money on it and the hopes and dreams of getting bought out by a huge company like MusicForce.com or Gaylord getting sqaushed due to the dot com bust I eventually dropped off and he sold it to a guy here in Nashville who I guess then sold it to Salem.

ahhhhh the memories.

Sometimes we as developers wonder if all our hard work to push the tech world along in advances of technology. There are times when I say “Heck Ya!” all my hard work is paying off…

In the life of a blogger you live and die by your RSS subscriptions. They are the life-blood of what we do. We create content on a daily or weekly basis and if nobody knows about the fresh content we are just writing for the Google Bots.

In Walks RSS Hugger

RSS Hugger is a service by the maker of WordHugger, the Internet micro-investment site. It touts itself as the service that will bring readers and bloggers together. As a human approved directory you are guaranteed to have quality blogs and not have to weed through spam like so many other directories. Currently only serving up 57 RSS Feeds it proves to be a great service that will uncover some of the hidden gems of the web.

I use FeedBurner to manage my RSS feeds and it gives me great information as to how many people are subscribed to my RSS feeds and how many people are reading them. I just noticed that the Pro features are now FREE! That’s right, if you are a blogger and you use feedburner just go into your account and you can activate the Pro features for free!