UPromise

I use a service called UPromise, which I think any parent planning for a college education should use. You can simply sign up and then register a credit card that you use with them. From that point forward, any purchases that you make with any of their affiliated sites will get you a percentage kick back, which goes into your Account and can be transfered to a 529 college account. The nice part is it costs you nothing and you would be making the purchase anyway, so why not get the extra points. Oh, and it doesn't matter if your credit card already earns you miles, points or cash back. You get the college savings anyway!

Gravatar

Check out Gravatar! A very interesting concept of creating a persistent avatar that can be used with other web services:

In my early days at LLNL my co-workers called me "alpha geek" cause I am fairly knowledgable about a lot of software development and technical topics. I used to do ontology modeling with Stanford's Protege project and have always enjoyed the protege nerd that is their mascot. I "borrowed" him (I'm hoping he is under some sort of commons license) and twiddled him to match an idea I had to create the alpha geek. Mostly I wanted to make him look a little more like me so I shortened his glasses, put him in a T-shirt and put the greek alpha letter prominently in the middle. I then thought I don't claim to be a great teacher so I removed the pointer stick and replaced it with a thumbs up!

Here he is as my Gravatar. What do you think?