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LaPreta Family Disney Vacation

Rick — Tue, 06 May 2008 03:23:08 +0000

Sorry I haven’t been keeping up with this blog. It’s been a busy time for me. I’ve been greatly expanding my presence on the internet (click Hernandez Life Design if you’re interested), but now I want to get back to my beginning, this blog. Over the rest of the week you should see 3 or 4 more postings with what’s been going on in our lives. First up — The LaPreta Family Disney Vacation.

End of March, Eva, Anthony, and the kids drove down to Orlando for a fun filled week. They rented a house with a pool near the attractions and had a blast. The LaPreta’s came back tired, but also tanned and full of great memories. Click the photo below or here to get to the password protected photos of the whole family (don’t worry there is a hint if you forgot the password).

P.S. I only found out last week that the links to our photo site were broken. All is fixed now, easier to access. and much faster. To see all our photos go to photos.hernandezlife.com.

Until you’ve read our reviews…

Rick — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 09:32:10 +0000

My friend Dmitry and I are collaborating on a new website devoted to reviewing stuff available through the internet. it’s called DontClickIt.com. So far we only have six or seven articles, but it’s growing daily. Our most recent review is about an upscale baby furniture store called PoshTots. Other reviews cover: TurboTax (software), Busted Tees (interesting t-shirts), and PhotoStamps (it’s really cool, thanks Aunt Liz).

As we say on our ‘About Page’:

DontClickIt.com is dedicated to reviews, news, and information, about the best of what is available on the internet for your pleasure and edification. Started in January 2008 as a joint venture between ALEXUSBIZ Corps and HernandezLife, DontClickIt will be your number one stop for all the latest info on what’s worth reviewing on this crazy. mixed up, network known as the World Wide Web.

Yes, our purpose in setting up this website is to make some money, but don’t let that stop you from checking it out. Just click here.

$5 off SmugMug! (Oh, and family-only website reborn)

Rick — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 06:28:42 +0000

OK, as any of my friends can attest, I’m an Apple fanboy. I’ve worked on Apple computers before there was a Mac, and I’ve just about owned every model of Mac PC they have come out with, except the notebooks and the $10,000 Lisa (although I have used one). I’ve owned a few iPods, an iPhone, I’ve even been known to pay for their software. I love iWeb and .mac, but their web servers are as slow as ~~the Post Office~~ molasses. That was one of the reasons I originally moved this web site from Apple to HostMonster (highly recommend them). I’ve spent the last month trying to make this site faster, and now over the last few days, in a quest for speed, I’ve moved all our photos, both this site’s and our family-only site, from being hosted on Apple, to being a series of galleries on SmugMug (family site ones are still password protected).

There are some downsides. iWeb was a wonderful tool for creating web sites. The integration of iPhoto, iWeb, and .mac, made it real easy to put a sophisticated and complex gallery of photo albums up on the web. I will also miss the nifty mini-slideshow widgets iPhoto could produce (I have kept a couple cause I like them so much).

However it was really really slow. If you were using Internet Explorer as your browser (you really should get Safari or FireFox), or were connecting through DSL or (God forbid) dial-up, well then, you probably gave up on my family site. I apologize for that. That’s what, after a bit of research, led be to SmugMug. You have to pay for the service, but it is a very small yearly amount for the ‘standard’ level service. Sure there are free sites like Flickr out there, but your viewers have to put up with advertisements, and a not as nice interface. Plus SmugMug is really fast. If you are ever interested in using their service, I can get you five dollars off by using coupon code zUHZEirkZ6UDQ in the ‘Referred by’ field on the signup form.

SmugMug gives me unlimited photo storage, so besides now having private backups of all my pics, the public galleries contain many more pictures than before. Also if you see a photo of mine you truly like, besides downloading it for free, you can pay to have it professionally printed ($0.19 for a 4×6), you can even have it made into a mug, an apron, a ceramic tile, keychain, or a slew of other choices. Just so you know, the prices are reasonable because I’ve chosen not to recieve any proceeds from these sales.

So in closing, there have been allot of behind the scene changes on our web sites, plus I had to notch up security in response to a hacking attempt. If you find anything broken, a link not going were it is suppose to, a missing picture symbol, an out right error message, please email me and let me know so I can fix it. Thanks for reading hernandezlife.com

P.S. For the family-only galleries, the password is the same and you no longer need a userid.

Click photos to go to gallery.

Ten Of My Very Favorite Photographs

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Get your free stuff here!

Rick — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 03:30:03 +0000

If you like getting free stuff in the mail then you’ve got to visit the freestufftimes.com website. I visit allot of such places and this one is the winner, both in the most interesting (and useful) items, and in the amount of stuff they come up with every day. Definitely one of the most updated free stuff sites on the internet.

My wife was a little bit skeptical, but the stuff started rolling and and now she’s interested in what new items show up each day. Today alone I received some Lemongrass soap, samples of three different types of Metamucil (I like the berry flavored powder), a pots worth of Folgers Bistro Blend coffee, and four different samples of Biore Pore Perfect products.

Check them out. If you’re too busy to visit their site every day you can get updates emailed to you, although some may be expired by the time you get to them. Before ordering anything make sure you read their tips. They also currently have a contest going on till the end of October if your willing to create some flyers or blog about their site (Hey, you knew there was a reason I was telling you about this). Take a look, you won’t be sorry.

Gavin’s Visit

Rick — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 03:37:13 +0000

Sorry but this posting is a bit belated. Turn’s out our friend Louisa, daughter of Marylou (see next post), has been having an internet romance. On August 19th, Gavin flew over from England to meet Louisa for the very first time in person. Given Phaedra & my work schedule, we unfortunately could not meet Gavin in person, but from what everyone has told us, he is a very nice guy (like Louisa would go out with anyone who wasn’t!). Hopefully he’ll be back soon and we will get the chance to meet him (sure, that’s the only reason Louisa hopes he returns). Phaedra & I wish them the best of luck. You can see the full set of pictures here.

New Family Photo Blog

Rick — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 04:56:37 +0000

You may have noticed you don’t see many (if any) photographs of Eva & Anthony’s kids, or any other children on this site. That was done intentionally. Now I’m setting up a new site/blog that can be a repository for the photo’s of children in our extended family and any other pictures we only want to share within our closed group.

The site will require a password to enter. Once I have everything running smoothly, I’ll email everyone the required info to check it out. As with this blog, if interested you can subscribe to an RSS feed so you can be notified when any new entries/photos have been added. Let me know if you need help setting that up. Once you have that password you can enter the site via a link at the top of the first page (Welcome) of this site, you can go directly to family.hernandezlife.com, or you can clink here. Hope you like it.

A Website Reborn

Rick — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 04:00:40 +0000

~~Garbage in, garbage out.~~ Out with the old and in with the new. Our old website was ~~boring~~ getting dated so I wanted to try something new. Luckily Apple just came out with their new iLife series of programs which contains their new astounding website builder called iWeb.

In addition the afore mentioned company also saw to generously update my storage from 1 gigabyte to 10 gigs. Also I became the proud owner of a new domain, hernandezlife.com. I had to take this opportunity to recreate our site with more interactive elements, and hopefully make it a more ~~uber~~ fun site. Please post a comment and let me know what you think. Being a new site, there a bound to be a few ~~features~~ bugs about, let me know if you find those too. Thanks for visiting!