How to spend 10 dollars

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Last month in my Illinois Jaycees newsletter article I talked about what you could do with 10 dollars and the Nothing But Nets Program. How cool is this, today I came across a you tube video asking the same question. The point of the matter is for 10 dollars you can save a person from malaria. Get involved in the Nothing But Nets campaign it can prevent the spread of a disease. 

If you haven’t done so already donate 10 dollars to save a life from malaria http://www.globalproblems-globalsolutions.org/goto/2011iljaycees

Everybody Can Serve

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Way to start off Black History Month with a speech from Doctor Martin Luther King.

My Top Ten WordPress Plugins

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Hey so I thought it was time to put out another top ten list and what better topic then WordPress !!!!

  1. Akismet The best dam comment spam filter out there.
  2. Simple Social – Sharing Widgets & Icons This is a great little plug in it allows you simple integration with basically any social network out there.
  3. kPicasa Gallery I found this plugin last month it makes it easy to integration a Picasa album into your website quickly
  4. Advanced Category Excluder OMG this is one of my favorite it allows you filter out post from your homepage or archives by category or tag.
  5. Redirection Yeah so I sent out some links a while back and then changed the post locations this little plugin allows for you redirect those posts to their new homes.
  6. Google Analytics for WordPress This is a great little plugin that allows for better integration with Google Analytics
  7. Twitter Tools This a massive plug-in that bring a couple key integration features
  8. XBOX Live Gamertag This plugin is just a widget that displays my xbox 360 gamercard on my website.
  9. Most Popular Posts Just a simple little widget that displays my most popular on the sidebar
  10. Social Profilr This plugin is just a widget that displays icon links to all my social network profiles on my website.

So there you go my top ten plugins for WordPress hopefully you find this post useful. If you’ve got some favorites I’d love to read about them so just leave me a comment.

2010 In Review

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2010 was a very exciting year most importantly i got married. I wanted to share with you some of my most memorable moments from the year.

  • Served on the US Jaycees staff as the website program manager
  • Got Married
  • Got Promoted
  • Became a uncle
  • Discovered a large community of SQL users on twitter
  • Then discovered SQL Saturday through a Jaycee thanks @grr_geek via twitter then won a xbox 360 through the event.
  • Led the effort to bring a Jaycees chapter to Des Plaines, IL
  • Recruited a jaycee member through twitter
  • Completed JCI Presenter and JCI Trainer course thanks to Megan and Beth for the teamwork.
  • Went to Las Vegas with my wife on our honeymoon
  • Went to New Orleans for our Jaycees National Meeting
  • Learned when to sit back and watch the drama unfold

- Posted using BlogPress from my iPad

Grooving to the beats with Grooveshark

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So only my old AIM friends would get that title. But just last week grooveshark.com went through a full revamp of their website, switching from a flash based website to the new internet language of html5.  Which seems to quickly becoming the standard. I’m excited about the switch for two reasons. First technically you can you use the site now on your iPad and iPhone in the near future. I’ve tried it on my iPad the other night and i got a notice saying my computer was not running flash and asked if i want to continue. Second you memory footprint used by the site will be significantly smaller. Check out the new site layout below in the picture and try it for yourself.

My Pancakes Playlist on Grooveshark 2010

Grooveshark.com is free cause of the sponsored ads and if you pay for the service you’ll get all kinds of extra features like a mobile version I use it on my blackberry, and a desktop client separate from the browser but i hate it cause it’s eats up my memory.

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