Hey, I’m Chris!

I love my wife and 5 kids, my consulting opportunities, and my life in general. I love to solve problems and usually like to find ways to do it with Technology. My hobbies include programming and learning about self development (and attempting to improve myself every day). Because lifestyle design is a passion of mine I also love to help other people unlock their true potential. If you are interested in what I am working on right now, you can see it on my Now page.

My small business consulting & web design company is Polished Stone, LLC.

Hey Friend! Welcome to my ramblings.


  • So today when I logged into gmail I noticed something – for one thing it didn’t just say “Loading…” it said “Loading XXXXX@gmail.com…” – AND it loaded faster – or seemed to. I thought well maybe it was just a figment of my imagination because I was reading the loading thing and didn’t notice the…


  • Ok, so first of all I didn’t get all of my goals accomplished today.  It really was a pretty good day until I started to write this post.  I then got a phone call from a previous project manager – for a project I have yet to be paid.  The project was a terrible one…


  • So what do you do when life just runs away from you?  I thought after I graduated things would settle down… but it seems the opposite happened!  I think what it happened is that I felt like I should have more time to do things, so I got these ideas of catching up on all…


  • OK, so it has been crazy the last 2 weeks.  I’ll give a quick recap of what has gone on and hopefully things will get back to normal soon.  First of all, we moved to our new house.  We are still renting currently, but hey, its a house, not an apartment – pretty exciting!  Next,…


  • So today I decided to try something.  I had heard (particularly from Get Rich Slowly) that if you called your Credit Card you might be able to get your interest rate lowered.  So I called.  The conversation went like this.  (After proving myself and the agent pulling up my account) Me: Hi, I was wondering…


  • I am sorry to anyone who has been posting comments on this site. I do not know what happened but somehow my user that is supposed to write to the database lost those permissions. I realized it one day when I was trying to figure out why I was getting all of these email messages…


  • So I still have too much on my plate, but I have realized that all I can do is one thing at a time.  Instead of trying to multi-task everything, I have decided that I would just try to do one thing at a time.  I have noticed that once this is done, I can…


  • Well, I accepted a job at Cluster Resources today so it looks like we will be staying here in Provo for the next few years.  Its going to be a great opportunity!  I’m their Business Infrastructure Developer.  Basically I’ll get to work with the different teams to fix some of the problems that they have…


  • This site will be going through some changes – You can see some of them on the side now.  I have converted my blog over to wordpress as I figured that would be quicker than creating commentability in my current setup.  Thus, we now have a new blog (although it should look virtually the same)…


  • Are your Google Analytics stats messed up because you go to your site all the time? Would you like to fix that? Well Google provides a way you could block the traffic from a certain IP address. But if you are checking it from a range of computers then that doesn’t really do you any…

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