You’ve got your partner(s). The bank account has been setup. You might even have a brand new company cell phone (which you probably didn’t need, but wanted). Rewind to before that. Did you print business cards already? Did you buy a website template? A common mistake I find among small business owners is a beleif …
It’s been a busy winter. Lots of web development taking place. This is a round up of some of the projects Pdwebs has completed. Background Checks & Balances Located in Denver, CO, BC&B offers screening services for future tenants, dating partners, or employees. For $65 you can grab a detailed background check of whomever you’d …
My income tax rate: 25% + another 13.3%: self employment tax. These companies spent more money lobbying than they did in taxes. Check out the entire Dirty Thirty list here.
If you’ve come here looking for some Gillespie Photography photos… you’ll have to head on over to gillphotos.com. The blog and site have moved to a much warmer location. Nestled inside the GillPhotos domain.
Near the beginning of Sept 2011, we decided to tackle Little Bear, Blanca and Ellingwood peaks in the Sangre de Cristo Range. Little Bear is considered one of the most difficult 14er routes in Colorado and by far the most challenging peak I’ve ever climbed. We hiked up to Lake Como on day one, climbed …
I’m normally to busy with work to take a second to blog about a finished product, but since this one is close to home, I had to. Actually, it is home. Most of you are aware that my parents own and operate a veterinary clinic in Westcliffe, CO. My father, Dr. Scott Gillespie works on …
These were taken almost a year ago and somehow got buried underneath my workload. While they go a bit fast, they still gives you a tiny insight to the condition my house before I ripped it a part and put it back together. For both tiling projects, I used 13 inch porcelain tiles with some latex mortar …
Upon being given the task of converting a Mini DV tape to DVD, I gave myself a few hours to figure it out. Capture video from camcorder using Firewire into Adobe Premier. Easy – Fast AVI file on PC is playable. Success Searching Google for free software to burn AVI file to DVD. Hard – Painfully Slow …
Around this time last year, I moved my dedicated server from LAMP to a WAMP based environment for several reasons. I was quite fond of my exhisting setup, but I needed some additional networking functionality that Windows handled better. With a year under my belt, I can honestly say I’ve had no problems with it. Reliability, speed and …
Ever since starting my first discussion board, the ModTheater, back in 2002, I’ve installed and configured many different variants of forum software. The two that stuck were phpBB and vBulletin, both in their second versions at the time. VBulletin had a faster development cycle as well as a better support base, so I forked out …
This morning while running through my social media feed, I ran into* a new start-up called Bump. In short, it allows people to network using identifiers such as license plates. Take a picture or type in a plate number and you’ll be connected to the registrant of the vehicle, if they’re registered with Bump. The …
Today marks day eight since my last day at T-Mobile, and day four of being completely business for self. Since starting at T-Mobile in September of 2006, I’ve experienced a lot of changes with T-Mobile and personally. Real quick, let me highlight a few. They finally rolled out a decent third generation (3G) network, far …
Six years ago Digg was born. Less than a week ago, Digg v4 was made public. Today, I’ve removed it from my bookmarks for two reasons. First, Digg is now catering to publishers, instead of its readers. Secondly, they went all social-networking-junk. The downfall of Digg started when they accumulated some 40 million in VC …
During my time at T-Mobile, one of the many things that seriously aggravated me was when customers insisted that the more the Gs, the better. Be it gigabytes, megapixels, 3G/4G, MHz or screen type, it drove me crazy. Being a photographer, I also get a lot of people asking me for camera advice. And lastly, …
A few years back I explained to my mother how one day the money-loving ISP as we know it would one day be free. Ever since Google set forth the precident that they’ll spend millions of dollars on giving its users free services (GMail, 411, Books, Documents) with a side of advertising, the traditional ISPs …