Coffee Dharma

Spreading The Project

Some of you have been following the progress of the free design project these past few weeks.  For those who haven’t please let me explain what it is. CoffeeDaze Design was founded as a way to provide graphic design, tech support, web integration and advertising for free to individuals, churches, schools and other organizations.  The project [...]

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TrainforHumanity.org Humanitarian Initiative

I would like to take a moment to call to the attention of my readers a very powerful and noble cause.  Train for Humanity combines fitness with social media to help empower people for social good while creating a humanitarian movement.  Please read more about them and help spread the word or get involved.   Over the [...]

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Feeding The BlackBerry

BlackBerry devices do a lot of things very well, RSS included.  There are quite a few different RSS readers available for BBs and I decided to test out a few current ones to see which was the best for me. The contenders for this matchup were Viigo (beta), NewsGator Go and FreeRange.  I didn’t include a [...]

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CoffeeDaze Design Begins

Those who know me personally are aware that I ran a graphic design company for a few years called CoffeeDaze Design.  I specialized in custom graphic design, 3D modeling and presentations for individuals and small business.  When I moved out west I found the business side of things had slowed down so much I finally [...]

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Gilbert House

Yesterday I took our son to A.C. Gilbert’s Discovery Village.  For those not familiar with A.C. Gilbert, he was probably the greatest scientific toy inventor in American history.  He was born in Salem, OR (our town) and invented and created such toys as the Erector Set, American Flyer trains, the Atomic Energy Lab, and 150+ [...]

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New CoffeeDaze

As many have noticed CoffeeDaze.com has been going through some major changes this past week or so.  In an attempt to make the site faster, cleaner, and more enjoyable for everyone I have worked on several key features and upgrades.  I have been posting articles on there about some of the changes over the past [...]

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Busy Times

Sorry I haven’t written here in a while.  We’re still getting adjusted to living in our new home and I was working on a redesign on CoffeeDaze.com this past week. Emma is getting older quickly and becoming a lot more interesting as time goes on.  She is a very smiley girl who loves to laugh and [...]

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Shared Pain

Yesterday was an interesting day. We started the day by going to the doctors for the kid’s shots.  When Kellen was a baby the shots process didn’t bother me much.  It’s not that I’m sadistic but I think the delayed pain reaction from him and the necessity of the shots just balanced for me enough that [...]

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LG Dare Tricks

It’s been a few weeks since I bought my LG Dare and I have discovered quite a few fun tricks with the phone.  There is a fan site LG-Dare.com that has been a great resource for lesser known tweaks and I highly recommend it to Dare users.  I wanted to share some of tricks I’ve [...]

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New Home

We have finally moved to our new home.  Moving day was tougher than we expected.  When you pack your items in boxes they never look as plentiful as they actually are.  We were helped (oh so grateful) by my wife’s family and were able to do it in a day with only two trips.  There [...]

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