I have been a user of paper planners for something like 15 years. Each year I would get a new set of pages and each year I would use them a little less. I had been using the franklin planner for the whole time so the $50 a year for the pages and refills was starting… Read more »
Finance should be a required course in High School
How did so many Americans get into home loans and mortgages that were going to blow up in their faces? Why are so many Americans in so much debt, yet they keep spending? I am constantly amazed by peoples lack of basic finance skills. Not just the “how to balance a checkbook” kinda stuff either…. Read more »
Use the wind or it wil be sad
Microsoft Sells Razorfish
If you don’t know who Razorfish is, you can probable skip this post entirely. Back in the day (dot com madness) Razorfish was the considered THE company to be doing your website. Post crash they kinda fell apart like a lot of other digital firms that expanded to much. They were sold off to various… Read more »
Design by Analytics
One of the traps that many companies get into once they start looking at their Google Web Analytics is that they start to make more and more site and design choices for their site based on Analytics rather than common sense. If you change the name of the link from “Sign Up” to “Learn More”… Read more »
Create a virtual machine from an existing install
I am in the middle of switching from a PC to a MAC at work right now and the one thing that would make my life much easier is to be able to just “roll up” my existing PC machine install (XP SP3) into a Virtual Machine and keep it going on my MAC. I… Read more »
Welcome to iPhone land
We had talked about getting iPhones a lot over the past couple of months and we finally broke down this weekend and bought them. A few people at work have them already and I guess for me it was only a matter of waiting for my previous cell plan to expire so I didn’t have… Read more »
Warren Buffet
With all the upheaval in the stock market I hear people in panic talking about selling their stocks and mutual funds. People always say that Warren Buffet is a great businessman and investor yet they always forget one of his biggest rules about investing. “Be greedy when others are fearful and be fearful when others… Read more »
Yahoo – Icahn
I started writing about the Yahoo!, Carl Icahn tug of war a while back but I just couldn’t keep up. It seemed like everyday there was some new twist or some new turn. I decided it was easier to wait until the dust settled, if it ever did, and see what happened. So as of… Read more »
Energy Moon Shot
Former vice president Al Gore has layed down “the green gauntlet” (kinda silly way to put it) to put America on the track to energy independence. I have been blabbing at people for years about this. Get a beer in me and ask me about energy, and I will spill out over the sides talking… Read more »