I’ve discovered that Gmail is very helpful getting my taxes done. Since I own over 40 domains, I have domains and hosting accounts auto-renewing all throughout the year. It can be hard to round all those up, which of course I want to do, since they’re business expenses.
Here’s what I do… my domain e-mail account (paul@paulryburn.com) is forwarded to my Gmail address, simply because I find Gmail’s web interface superior to that of any standalone e-mail client I’ve tried. In Gmail you can apply labels to e-mails. So as Godaddy order confirmations come in, I simply label them “tax” with the current year (“tax09,” “tax10,” etc.) Then, when it comes time to compute business expenses related to hosting, I just pull up everything with that label. This saves me hours of digging through mail.
The second season of Jersey Shore has started filming. I hate to report on anything those morons do, but US Magazine ran a pic of JWoww on a treadmill, in a tube top. Gotta link to that. The article said she really didn’t want to do a second season, and was crying when she found out it had been picked up. So why didn’t she just quit then? I find it hard to believe they had multi-year contracts, and even if they did, I find it hard to believe a good lawyer couldn’t get her out of it.
The Red Rooster’s grand opening has been moved back to April 28th, according to their Facebook page.
I’ve added “vote” links to the “announcements” section in the upper right corner of my blog. There you can vote once a day for Memphis in a poll for which city should get Google Fiber (until May 5); and for funding for an inner-city skate park that will benefit the kids and community in Binghampton. I’ve had a couple of people ask me to ask people to vote for those every day – this way, I can do it without repeating myself in 30 blog posts. I’ve also updated the countdown timer for Tube Top Month 2010 and put it back on the blog’s right sidebar.
Gonna get some cleaning done around the apartment, then decide whether I feel like going out… last non-rooftop Thursday for 4 1/2 months, so perhaps I should stay home and rest.