Daniel

  • Why Being Charitable Matters

    Posted: 31 January 2010 at 9:34 p.m.

    At Church I heard a talk that got me thinking.  Giving of ourselves whether it be time, talents, money, or other ways for others is indeed an important part of our religion.  I wanted to find out how we as are  doing.

    I learned that Americans donate more than twice ...

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  • The Ultrasound Says it's Gonig To Be A...

    Posted: 5 January 2010 at 10:12 p.m.
    We had our doctor's visit today.  We had the ultrasound.  We're so pleased to hear that the baby to be born in May seems to be healthy -- a properly functioning 4 chamber heart, a good set of limbs, a spine, etc.  We also were privileged to find out ... ...read more

  • What Is That, Daddy?

    Posted: 18 October 2009 at 10 p.m.

    Bread (300x225)Emily, for her birthday, got an automatic bread maker.  So I tried it out today.  I like 100% Whole Wheat bread so I followed the recipe EXACTLY and let the bread maker do its thing. While it was baking, I peeked in the window and it didn't look all ...

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  • Clever Names for Newsletters

    Posted: 14 October 2009 at 2:49 p.m.

    I work with a very creative & original group of ladies every day.  Lately, I spoke with one of my clients, Kathy Sims from The Enchanted Quilt (a quilt store in Wichita Falls, Texas).  Because her store has an "enchanted" and "magical" feel, she named her monthly newsletter the "Magic Moment ...

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  • International Quilt Market in Houston

    Posted: 14 October 2009 at 2:42 p.m.

    I had the most wonderful time in Houston this past week.  I was lucky to attend the International Quilt Market in Houston!  We had our company's booth near the main entrance, we were lucky to get such a great booth location.  I spoke to hundreds of people in the ...

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  • A Positive Customer Service Experience

    Posted: 29 September 2009 at 8:42 p.m.
    UPS Logo (245x300)Just a quick post today -- here's an example of good customer service in action.  I purchased something online but I accidentally let the browser auto-fill our Idaho Falls address instead of our new St. George address during checkout.  When the package didn't come, we looked into the issue ... ...read more

  • Inspiring Blind Man

    Posted: 25 September 2009 at 4:54 p.m.

    One of my favorite parts of my job is interacting with all different types of people from different backgrounds.  It's inspiring for me to meet people who have overcome great obstacles to get to where they are in life. 

    Yesterday I had the opportunity to train one of our ...

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  • How Fast Can You Type?

    Posted: 23 September 2009 at 10:02 p.m.

    While reading resumes tonight, I came across a resume from an individual that said they can type 40 words per minute.  One thing lead to another, and I found a cool website that will give you a speed test to how fast you can type!

    Here is the cool badge ...

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  • Launched Free Quilt Classifieds

    Posted: 18 September 2009 at 5:19 p.m.

    Free Quilt Classifieds screen shot (300x178)Hurray!  After months of work, we launched a new website today, Free Quilt Classifieds!  This website lets you list your quilting, sewing, and craft supplies for free.  Quilters all over the world now have a place to go to list their used longarm machines, sewing machines, etc.  Crafters can list ...

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  • Great Book: FREE

    Posted: 18 September 2009 at 2:24 p.m.

    I've been listening to a great book called Free by Chris Anderson.  It's a wonderful book about how businesses all over the world in the recent decade are making a fortune from "Free".  Chris Anderson and I relate, he's a die-hard Linux fan and into the tech ...

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  • Django + PHP to run on the same domain

    Posted: 17 September 2009 at 3:10 p.m.

    Today I figured out how to put Django and PHP to run together on the same site using the Lighttpd web server.  I googled around to see if anyone else had accomplished this feat, but haven't found anyone that did, so I thought I'd post how I did ...

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  • My experience buying Vista

    Posted: 16 September 2009 at 10:08 a.m.

    I bought a copy of Vista last night.  Yup, I did it.  If any of you know me, I'm a huge Linux nut, and I find myself much more productive on my Linux machine than any other OS.  But I need it to run Quickbooks, so I broke down ...

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  • We're Moving To St. George!

    Posted: 7 July 2009 at 8:53 p.m.

    We accepted an offer on our home this past weekend.  We're thrilled.  We can now realize our dream of moving to St. George this summer.  Now to get the business, Emily's piano recital, packing, and house shopping in order.

    We feel very blessed by the Lord for the ...

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  • Some Thoughts On Time Management

    Posted: 12 June 2009 at 1:13 p.m.

    time management clockI was recently challenged by someone I respect very much to find a way to squeeze in another hour's worth of work in a day without working an extra hour.  I kind of shrugged off the challenge, thinking it was a good idea, but more like a "yeah, but ...

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  • Amazing Jump Rope Video

    Posted: 17 April 2009 at 12:04 p.m.

  • Gold And Me

    Posted: 1 March 2009 at 5:01 p.m.

    I was reading in the scriptures today and came across this verse in 1 Peter  1:7.  I wondered a little bit about refining gold, so I did some research.  Here are some parallels that I have learned about gold and ourselves, moreso for us to become "gold-like" to the ...

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  • A Nice Clean Home

    Posted: 28 February 2009 at 11:25 p.m.

    We spent our day making our house nice and clean.  Emily and I together put about six hours into making our home nice.  We vacuumed all of the rooms, cleaned the kitchen, the living room, family room, did lots of laundry, polished the furniture, etc.

    Our house is now for ...

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  • Busy At Work

    Posted: 25 January 2009 at 10:10 p.m.

    Danemco has been very busy.  Last year around this time, things slowed down to give us a chance to work on our own projects (the things that are generally important  but not urgent).  This year, however, has been the opposite.  Danemco has never been busier.

    Some exciting things: we picked ...

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  • Riley Blake Designs

    Posted: 9 January 2009 at 12:08 p.m.
    We're working on a new website for a fabric company in Draper Utah called Riley Blake Designs. ...read more

  • "Gingerbread" Nativities

    Posted: 8 December 2008 at 10:07 p.m.

    Tonight we decided to make gingerbread houses for Family Home Evening.  We invited the Perkins to our home and join us.  We had a lot of fun.  We decided to make our gingerbread houses around a Christmas theme, so we both ended up doing a nativity scene.  It was a ...

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  • 5 year Aniversary

    Posted: 30 November 2008 at 10:18 p.m.

    Ice Skating - We skated for about an hour and a half and had such a wonderful time. Our chins started to freeze and we'd laugh that we couldn't pronounced our words very well or move our chins as quickly as we are used to.  Daniel tried to teach ...

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  • Look Dad! Cows!

    Posted: 23 November 2008 at 8:13 p.m.

    Cows in our back yard

    I took this picture from our bedroom window.  We have cows in the field beyond our backyard we enjoy watching.  The children are delighted to see them.  The farmer lets his cows graze on his field after the harvest every fall.

    Having cows in our backyard has raised some interesting ...

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  • Man Pays Bill With Spider Drawing

    Posted: 21 November 2008 at 11:18 a.m.

    Josh VanderLinden, (see his blog), sent me this link to this funny story about a man that tried to pay his bill with a spider drawing.

    http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=665847

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  • To Bies, Daan & Emilie in Amsterdam

    Posted: 16 November 2008 at 9:27 p.m.

    A very unusual thing happened to us last week.  I received the following e-mail out of the blue, and didn't know what to think:

    You don’t know me, but I came across your site/blog through Google. My name is Bies Vermeulen and I live in Amsterdam, the ...

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  • Amazing Post-it Notes Video

    Posted: 13 November 2008 at 5:30 p.m.

    I found this video today.  This is from the same guys that became famous with the Mentos + Diet Coke experiments.  It's amazing!


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  • How To Convert AVI to FLV

    Posted: 1 November 2008 at 9:35 p.m.

    I have to look this up every time, so I thought I would save someone the trouble.  This is how I convert AVI files to FLV using FFMPEG:

    ffmpeg -y -i IMGP2371.AVI -ab 56 -ar 44100 -b 200 -r 15 -f flv /tmp/candles.flv -s 320x240

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  • Book Finished And Published

    Posted: 19 October 2008 at 6:57 p.m.

    Book CoverI did it!  I wrote a book and it was printed this past week!  I am so thrilled.  My goal was to wwrite a 120 page book.  It ended up being 138 printed pages.  It was a great experience and I look forward to writing my next book... what will ...

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  • Food Storage Adventure

    Posted: 18 October 2008 at 11:10 p.m.

     

    Last Saturday, we canned the food we bought while we were in Salt Lake City.  We canned 645 pounds of food, which came to 152 #10 cans of food.  We canned wheat, oats, 6-grain cereal, flour, white rice, brown rice, and sugar.

     

    Preparing to can

    While canning, one of the cans got really ...

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  • Writing A Book

    Posted: 9 October 2008 at 10:10 p.m.

    Have you ever written a book before?  I'm writing my first book ever.  I hope to have it done by tomorrow so that I can edit it and have it printed next week in time for International Quilt Market later this month.

    It's kind of fun. I find ...

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  • Daniel's Eee PC 1000

    Posted: 30 September 2008 at 10:36 p.m.

    The first words out of my mouth were, "Oh how cute!"

    Emily has been really wanting a new laptop computer for quite some time.  I sold some old web servers and put that money into a new laptop computer.... but  it's not just any normal laptop.  It's an ...

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  • General Conference Season

    Posted: 27 September 2008 at 9:27 p.m.

    Emily just got back from the Relief Society broadcast for General Conference.  I love this time of year, as it is very refreshing to hear from our church leaders.

     

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  • Jeffrey - Our Lawn Boy

    Posted: 7 September 2008 at 10:51 p.m.

    Jeffrey knows more about mowing the lawn than I do.  A few weeks ago, I went out to mow the lawn.  I didn't even know how to start the lawn mower.  But Jeffrey taught me how ... he likes to help Daddy mow the lawn all the time.

    Recently, he ...

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  • Yummy Orange Chicken

    Posted: 7 September 2008 at 10:16 p.m.
    Orange ChickenI made dinner for our family tonight. I was planning on making a stir fry.  While getting the chicken out of the freezer, I saw the orange juice concentrate.  Today is Fast Sunday, so being especially in the mood for some great food (and orange juice concentrate), I changed my ... ...read more

  • No Arm No Leg Jokes

    Posted: 2 September 2008 at 10:46 p.m.

    Camille asked that I write down a few of the No Arm No Leg jokes that I know.  Here's my list:

    What do you call a guy with no arms and no legs...
     on your doorstep?
    		 Matt 
     in a swimming pool?
    		 Bob 
     hanging on a wall?
    		 Art 
     in a ...
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  • New Videos

    Posted: 17 August 2008 at 11:06 p.m.

    We added four new videos to our site tonight.  Until we get them linked up in the photo gallery correctly, here's the link the them:

    Cambree Playing
    Jumping Jeffrey
    Pianist Daniel
    Playing Chase

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