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O’DonnellWeb 11.0?

By From http://www.odonnellweb.com • Aug 1st, 2010 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

I don’t track my site updates closely, but the last time I did a major redesign was 9/2006, and I called that one 10.0. So that makes this O’Donnellweb 11.0. I wasn’t planning on redoing the site today. It just sort of happened. If you are reading this on Google Reader or some other feed […]



Vanguard Market Research Fail

By From http://www.odonnellweb.com • Jul 29th, 2010 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

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 […]



My MP3 directory

By From http://www.odonnellweb.com • Jul 24th, 2010 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

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 […]



Skip RT 17 when heading south to Fredericksburg from NOVA

By From http://www.odonnellweb.com • Jul 19th, 2010 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

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 […]



Tired of the ‘Connect with Facebook’ icon that is littering the web?

By From http://www.odonnellweb.com • Jul 14th, 2010 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

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 […]



YouTube University

By From http://www.odonnellweb.com • Jun 28th, 2010 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

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,” […]



About that last post.

By From http://www.odonnellweb.com • Jun 13th, 2010 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

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.



History and Horses and Fencing and more Horses

By From http://www.odonnellweb.com • Jun 13th, 2010 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

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 […]



There is a new Dad blog in town

By From http://www.odonnellweb.com • May 26th, 2010 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

Check it out. I think you’ll recognize most of the authors.



Fun with search terms

By From http://www.odonnellweb.com • May 23rd, 2010 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

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 […]