Joomla Content Management System

I’ve been playing with Joomla this weekend. We’ve always built our own CMS but I finally gave in and tried Joomla. It’s a very robust CMS and widely used. It’s a little slow when setting up, but it does make creating a manageable web site fairly easy. They have lots of plugins to do just…

Facebook is too confusing

Is everyone you know on Facebook? Yeah, me too. Have you tried getting your business or web site on Facebook? Tried creating a page? Forget it. It is simply the most confusing and poorly coded site I’ve ever seen. You never know what page you’re on, all the important links are way too small, they…

How to find the right church jobs

Churches looking for the right pastor, or ministers looking for their next calling can all benefit from ChurchJobs.net.  The website for matching churches and candidates has current church jobs from all over the country.  You an do a nationwide search for your next pastor.  Head on over to ChurchJobs.net to find pastor jobs. So many other sites…

Obama’s stimulus package will be a disaster

Why can’t the politicians get it? They are growing the size of our government beyond what we are capable of maintaining. Bush spent us into the poor house and now Obama wants to double down on that achievement? We’re headed for massive inflation and a decade of stagnation. No doubt!

Will the Republicans ever learn?

On January 31, 2008 I told you in this blog how crazy the Republicans would be if they put up John McCain as their nominee.  My view has been the same since then.  The Republicans were crazy to put up John Mccain as the party's nominee.  Won't they every learn that merely hanging around the…

I hate Daylight Savings Time

I don’t know about you but I hate daylight savings. I wish we’d leave the time alone. If we have to have it, my vote is to have it start on May 1 and end on October 1. That’s about all I can take. It screws my sleep patterns up and I just don’t like…

Gmail as your personal nerve center

I just read an interesting article about using Gmail for bookmarks, a personal database, and more.  You can read about it here: Using Gmail as Your Personal Nerve Center After recently moving from Outlook to Gmail this was an interesting read. Outlook still rains supreme for managing all of my contact information but Gmail really…

Truecrypt

If you’re looking for a free, flexible, strong encryption software, check out Truecrypt. You can create mountable drives and even encrypt your full hard drive via its whole disk encryption feature. Truecrypt is easy to use and will protect your data from prying eyes. If you use a strong password you’ll have complete security for…

Election Speak

Have you ever noticed that every election seems to be the same? No matter how far back you go, the same language is always used. We always hear “this is the most important election of our lifetime.” Why is that? It’s because politicians are completely full of B.S. Aren’t you sick of hearing these words…

Cut Capital Gains Rates Now

With the market sliding seemingly out of control we need to cut capital gains rates immediately. Why not just drop them to zero. You would see an infusion of cash into the US within 24 hours. What are they waiting for?