Life

For those of you who use Google+, Google has announced that they will soon be offering vanity URLs. A vanity URL is the ability to have a short URL with your username at the end of it. For example, http://facebook.com/jeradhill instead of a long URL that is typically difficult to remember.
Typically, your Google+ URL looks something like [...]

College is not what you are promised it will be. It wasn’t 14 years ago when I decided to give it a try and it’s even more true today. We live in a different world these days. Everybody has a degree in something and most are not working in the field they spent 4+ years studying in.
Now I understand that you have to go to colle [...]

Over the past few years I have moved away from the industry standard of “owning” a copy of music produced by the artists I enjoy. It started with Apple’s iTunes. I started purchasing digital copies of music instead of CDs because it was cheaper. I didn’t necessarily want the whole artists album. I just wanted acces [...]

Modern society gives us plenty of reasons to not be happy, however it turns out that being happy is much easier to achieve than most think. Networx has put together a simple infographic which states 10 clues that may mean you’re truly happy right now.

For the most part, everything I have done in life I did myself. Of course there was some encouragement along the way, but all of my achievements came from my own hard work. I didn’t ride in on the coat tails of anyone else. The reason I got into website design was fulfill a need for a website. I wanted to start an online business an [...]

Part of the way I learn is trying to teach it to someone else. I find that challenging myself to reteach what I just figured out how to do writes it deeper into my brain. Besides that, I enjoy giving back. I have no formal education beyond high school. Everything I do for work and in many cases in life, I attained through some sort of res [...]

Today is a cool day. My oldest boy Liam turned two. The last two years has been pretty amazing and quite a challenge. Liam had a rough trip into this world with a some what traumatic delivery. Everything was fine after that until he broke his leg earlier this year. All of that aside, he is one amazing little boy. I really have no idea how [...]

I am getting tired of the lack of courtesy people have for others on Facebook. I have blogged about this before but at this point in my life I feel that I need to get more strict on how I handle those who spam on social networks and I suggest that others do as well.
I have initiated a 1 strike rule with an exception. If I get a spam wall [...]

This “What People Think I Do” Meme has been blowing up lately so I thought I would create one for Entrepreneurs out there. Since we associate each other by our trades I thought it would be funny to highlight what most people think I do. The truth is, many people don’t. Over the years I have created and launched new thing [...]