I got an email from Vanguard asking me to log into my IRA account and check out their new user interface. It is in beta and they were looking for feedback, it would only take 5 minutes, etc. When I logged in I got a pop up asking me if I or a member of [...]
It’s too hot to be outside, so in my efforts to amuse myself indoors today I give you a new page on O’DonnellWeb. It’s a directory listing of my MP3 directory. It’s not pretty or even particularly user friendly, but if you were dying to know if I owned X record, well this list may [...]
Last evening as I was headed South on 15/29 cutting over from I-66 to Fredericksburg, I called home to have somebody check Google traffic for conditions around Rt 17, I-95 and Rt3. The report was good, but as approached the left hand turn onto RT 17 at the Sheetz, it was backed up quite a [...]
This nifty trick, requiring Firefox and the Adblock Plus extension, will block Facebook from your computer, except when you are on the Facebook site, or using the photo uploader on Facebook. Personally, I recommend not hosting your photos at Facebook. Use PicasaWeb or Flickr and link to them from Facebook. That way you don’t lose [...]
Sal Khan is a Harvard educated CS major with a MBA. He spends his days in the corner of his bedroom creating bite sized tutorials on YouTube, on subjects ranging from Algebra and Calculus to economics and science. “I’m starting a virtual school for the world, teaching things the way I wanted to be taught,” [...]
Not the weekend review, the post about HSDads.com. That was my 5000th post to this blog. It was such a significant event that I didn’t even notice until 2 weeks later.
It was one of those weekends that makes going back to work on Monday look like a break. Friday night Breck and I checked out History at Sunset, a program by the National Park Service here in Fredericksburg. I deeply regret somehow missing out on this prior to this year. Every Friday night during the [...]
Check it out. I think you’ll recognize most of the authors.
It’s been a while since I browsed my incoming search traffic. This is all from the last month. odonnellweb movies seen – 12 visits in the last month, and I have no idea why. This has never been a movie blog, and the bounce rate of 50% indicates that 1/2 of them found what they [...]
I’ve been a huge Butch Walker fan for years, but his concerts local to me always seem to happen when I can’t make it. Not this time. I took the afternoon off, hooked up with a hot date, and headed North to Baltimore. Slowly. Really slowly. I mean really freaking slowly. A combination of Friday [...]
