I am launching two new websites this week. A blog for my PS3 Auction website named PS3Auction.com Blog at blog.ps3auction.com check out the PS3 Game Blog. Also in the works is a custom wordpress/hybrid website for Texas Direct Auto at the web address www.texasdirectautoauction.com.

I am excited about both these projects as they will be something to help me learn about website optimization and keywords etc. I am hoping to make two very graphically driven and keyword intense website that will add a lot to the Playstation 3 Community and the Texas Direct Auto Industry.

We are now living in Texas a few hours away from Houston and Missouri City, TX where the physical location of Texas Direct Auto one of the largest Ebay Motor Sellers in the world has their facility. This is a smaller more targeted niche than I usually go after such as Cheap PS3 Games, or PS3 Cheat Codes but it should be a fun challenge and a nice project to keep me busy. I will be teaming up with my brother Mark the creator of Tech Tutorial he is a great help in the ideas behind the website and making the code work. I am more graphics driven and hope to bring some flashy cool graphics to his sites as well. He also has some new sites in the work for Cellphone Unlocking and many interesting things also in terms of Iphone Hacking and similar tasks.

If you have any comments or suggestions on how to make this site better or any of our other sites please us know.

My first hurricane experience is rapidly approaching. Its said to be a category 1 hurricane, named Dolly, I guess there recycling names because I remember one from a few years back, it looks like it was only 1996 so they are going back to the old names pretty fast.

We are here at the Red Circle that I added in South Texas near the Gulf Coast, thanks to the NOAA, for the image showing all that nasty stuff headed right for my family.

So I am at work picking up all my computer wires and putting garbage bags on my computer monitors and stuff.. We picked up all the wires off the floor, when we leave were ready to put up sandbags on the door. Were expecting to get a lot of rain as Hurricane Dolly is heading for Brownsville Texas in the next day or so.

At home my wife, is getting flashlights, canned food, snacks, plastic bags, water, supplies, etc.. were in the middle of a move from inlaws house to our apartment in Weslaco, Texas, my wife’s family is in a spot that gets flooded with bad rain in Elsa, Texas, half of our belongings are still in their house luckily we have renters insurance for water/flood damage etc, were crossing our fingers that we stay dry at home, and at work if I have to go in. May get a little time off work but I just heard that where I work at an engineering company were first responders and we are expected to go evaluate damages to the levee systems that we are working on if anything happens storm related.

During lunch we went to a hardware store I got a small maglite flashlight to keep with me for the next few days in case, and when I get off work I am planning on stocking up on some drinking water and household supplies, I am expecting walmart and other stores to be packed, will probably get some gas in the tank in case we need to evacuate but it sounds like it wont be that bad unless the category of the hurricane is changed to a category 2, or category 3 hurricane.

I found this news right now.. we are pretty close to Brownsville, Texas about an hour away so we probably wont be hit by Hurricane Dolly but we should get a lot of rain and maybe some of the wet weather. It sounds like it wont be too bad, where my family is at, but we will see..

“The National Hurricane Center in Miami issued a hurricane watch from Brownsville, Texas, north to Port O’Connor, but so far U.S. government officials had not asked residents to leave the coast. Mexico also announced a hurricane watch from Rio San Fernando north to Matamoros and the U.S. border. Dolly was expected to make landfall Wednesday as a Category 1 storm with sustained winds of 74 mph to 95 mph.”

Just be cautions everyone on the Texas Gulf Coast and thanks for reading..

The answer is yes according to the IRS, see second link below. I was wondering when my family will get the tax rebate check or the economic stimulus act refund check and will it be direct deposit or paper check? So I did a little research and found that the refunds will go out between May and December. People that filed their taxes early like my family will get them as soon as the second to third week in may and people that are filing 6 month extensions will get them as late as December. If you got your refund by direct deposit the IRS will use that account and if that is a bad account or no longer valid, when the funds are returned to the IRS you will get a refund check in the mail.

The problem is that we have closed our old bank account and opened a new account, the IRS says that they are going to direct deposit the stimulus act refund into the same accounts that you requested direct deposit into. If those accounts are bad and the amount is returned to the IRS they will issue a paper check, however this will probably take much longer.

I found this out today April 14th and was thinking about calling the IRS until I found a blurb below at the second link that says that if you contact the IRS before the week of April 13th they can cancel the direct deposit and issue a paper check but that was yesterday and they said the week of so were probably too late and by tomorrow April 15th I think a few people will be calling the IRS since its the date that a lot of people put off filing their taxes.

I found this news story below with more information

President Bush Signs H.R. 5140, the Economic Stimulus Act of 2008

Also this article has frequently asked questions details and info from the IRS click the link below.

FAQ on the IRS Page about the Economic Stimulus Act

I will post more as I find out more I have heard that there is a website that you can estimate when you will get your refund check I will post that as soon as I find the official url.