February 2008 - Posts
10 FREE GRAFFITI CMS THEMES
I just uploaded 10 Graffiti CMS Themes that I ported to Graffiti CMS, but that were designed by Free CSS Templates. The site has tons of great themes that you could easily port to your own theme for Graffiti.
The 10 Themes are free to download and are one click uploads to your Graffiti site.
Download Them Here
Here is an example of what they look like
The time has come for me (Brendon) to separate my Community/Personal posts from my technical posts. I have started blogging at a new location http://blogs.sharepointguys.com/brendon/ on more SharePoint focused information. Don't worry Matt and I will both still post Microsoft community related blog posts and personal posts on this blog, but now if you want the technical information you will have a separate blog location for just that. This is really to help people get the information they need without a lot of noise.
Check out the new blog http://blogs.sharepointguys.com/brendon/
I found this article online from Suze Orman about how she's engineered a deal with TD Ameritrade to give you $100 for saving with them for a year. The gist of the article is that you have to open an account with TD Ameritrade. Put a minimum of $50 into it every month for 12 months without taking any money out. The money sits in a money market fund earning about 2.78%. 4 or so weeks after the 12 month timespan, TD Ameritrade will deposit $100 into your account. After this deposit you can feel free to pull the money out and close the account. There are no fees of any sort associated with this account, including when you close the account.
So you invest $600 over the course of the year and earn about $8 if the interest rate holds steady. Then you get the bonus $100. The $108 increase on your $600 investment reflects a relative growth rate of about 18%.. Of course, investing more than the minimum $50/month will drop your relative growth rate, but 2.78% isn't really the best savings account interest rate out there so why would you put more than the minimum away here?
Sounds pretty good for a small gain and no risk (the account is FDIC insured). The question is, is it worth it to deal with the additional headache of another account you have to maintain and put money in?
What would you do for $100?
Yesterday morning, as I was plugging in the power brick for my external hard drive, the cord shorted out and blew itself apart. There was a sizzle, a significant spark, and smoke. Classic. The end which plugs into the power brick just blew itself off! Luckily, the power brick was OK and the $7 replacement cord from Radio Shack works just fine.
We are holding another SharePoint Jam Session on Feb 28th. This month we are going to have a great group of people working hands on with SharePoint Workflow's. The plan is to create Visual Studio SharePoint Workflow's and look at how we can use SharePoint Designer 2007 to help us build these workflow's.
If you are interested in the event check out the web site at http://sharepointjams.com.
I went to the movies with Kim this weekend (we saw Definitely, Maybe - a sugary sweet chick flick). While we were watching the movie, Kim grabbed my hand and I felt the baby move for the first time! Cool!