Since becoming a Mac guy a few months back I have been doing some thinking about converting our server cluster to a *nix based cluster. Our products are all on MySQL now so that is no problem and I would like to get away from Windows in general in all aspects of my life :-)

So the question to the *nix CF geeks out there… What is your most favorite flavor of Linux for CF8?

Comment below…

Great commercial from Lincoln… though I don’t know how environmentally correct it is :-)

SvN just did a post called: Why I love working with family people

I wrote this as a comment but I thought i would post it here:

I am 29 with a wife and 3 kids and do web development and work at home. I started out as a 20 year old that would work for hours on end and I have been able to refine my process.

Really what this boils down to is 2 things.

1. Family people tend to be older and more mature. Kids do something to you and your maturity level skyrockets (usually). I always say that a guy is never ready to have kids and will never be ready until he HAS kids.

2. This is exactly what the 4 Hour Work Week by Tim Ferriss is talking about. The idea of if you have something ELSE you HAVE to get done then you will work more diligently and more focused to get it done.

Thoughts?

I have started to do a segment on fridays called “Financial Fridays” where I will write about something having to do with personal or business finance. I have always been intrigued with money and making it work so this is a natural progression for this blog. If you have questions you want to submit just click the contact me link above.

Hey,
Because I’m doing a lot of sub contract and freelance work, I don’t
currently have an active 401k. I have money tied up in two old ones, but I’m
not contributing to either because I’m not working for the employers that
have the 401k’s.

I’d like to consolidate these into one account independent of an employer..

Is anyone doing this, or have any suggestions?

Thanks

To short answer your question you can rollover the 401(k) into a traditional IRA account at any broker. You can either contact your banks investment branch or just jump on etrade.com and have one setup in minutes. Because the 401(k) and the Traditional IRA are all pretax money you won’t have to pay any penelties or taxes on the money. Also being self-employed allows you to setup what is called a SEP IRA (Simplified Employee Pension Individual Retirement Account). These are a little more difficult to get setup and if you don’t plan on being self-employed for a while this might not be the best way to go.

Now let me go into some details on the why…

401(k)’s are a great investment vehicle but are not the best option we have out there. What I suggest to people is to only put in money into your 401(k) up to the employer match. Because the way 401(k)’s work you are usually locked in to only investing the money in 10-20 funds that are preselected. These are either picked by the group manager or your employer. The amount of funds depends on how much your employer wants to pay in fees so larger employers tend to have more funds available.

The reason I say to only do up to the match and no more is because Congress a few years back gave us one of the greatest gifts they could called the Roth IRA. This is an IRA account that is after tax money, meaning you won’t have the ability to “write off” your contributions at the end of the year. The nice thing is that when you pull the money out when you are ready to retire you DON’T PAY ANY TAXES ON IT. That’s right, if you have all your money in a Roth you can say bye bye to taxes after 60!

It’s amazing how just a couple of dollars a paycheck can really add up!

Dear Jerry,

He is your problem now.

Sincerely,

Jeff and Bud

:-)

If you are in Moldova hit me up either in the comments or the contact me link above. My church has a non-profit called Justice and Mercy International that works with kids in Moldova. They are starting a transitional living home for girls 16-20 y/o that are transitioning out of the orphanage and into the real world in hopes of keeping them from the sex trade.

I have been given the duty to research internet options for the home in Chişinău and I of course have no idea where to begin… So please hit me up and let me know what the options are in the area and what some of the costs are and which ones to stay away from.

Thanks!

We just posted over at SpotOn!’s blog about what we do for the Earth… go take a read

http://www.spotonpm.com/blog/2008/04/22/our-part-earth-day/

Thanks!

OfficeSnapShots just posted pics of the new Digg office… I need to get some Guinness for my office fridge!

http://www.officesnapshots.com/2008/04/21/the-diggcom-tour-office-snapshots/

So at my day job we were taken back by a sudden surge of user sign ups for our project management app and started to look at google analytics… only to find that we were featured in PCWorld magazine!

Yeah baby!

Read more about it here