I hate to do this but I don’t really have a choice. If you work with Ashish Tiwari of Indore India, be warned. I hired him to create a payment gateway module for a Magento store I’ve been working on for a customer. He indicated that it would take a week or two of part time work and he’d have it ready. $800 later (on a $1300 website gig) it looked like he had finished because I was able to place the order in Magento and it went through successfully.  Shame on me for not testing more thoroughly. All he …

We finally took the plunge and bought a HDTV. We’ve been (mostly me, actually) coveting HDTVs for years and now we have joined the elite club of individuals with many more pixels behind the glass. Being the bargain shopper that I am I decided to get a larger slightly used TV instead of a smaller new one. I bought a Vizio 47″ LCD for $500 and it’s a thing of beauty. I then bought Hancock on Blu-Ray last night and watched it until 1:30 AM. It rocked. Nils will strive to post more regularly.