Serenity Now!
Two Can Play the Annoying Phone Call Games
Awesome, just awesome. I hope I get a “courtesy” call tomorrow. [tags]telemarketers[/tags]
Serenity Now!
The Importance of Communication
Communication is very important to me and is the basis of a good relationship – personal or business. Over the last few weeks I have seen how good communication can be very beneficial and how bad communication can lead to mistrust, tension, and overall unhappiness. Case One – Good communication. I am finishing up a […]
Life
Sports Weekend Ahead
Let’s hope for nice weather for the next few days. Amy is off to the Bears game tonight with some friends, tomorrow I will be at the PGA Championship, and Sunday I am going to golf at Cary Country Club.
Life
Camp Greyhound Summer 2006
For the last two weeks, Amy and I have been dog sitting two amazing greyhounds: Wish and Gopher. I thought I would share some cute/fun pictures of them, plus our dog Triscuit. Having three large dogs in the house has been hectic (all three taking a walk at the same time in an area with […]
Apple
A Day of Birthdays
A quick post to wish my youngest cat – Salsa – a happy birthday (and the iMac) I have been swamped the last few days but think I have figured out how to properly set up MediaWiki to use user permissions without having to hack something together. Now to get some time together to implement […]
Hardware
Blackberry 8700
After much research and some procrastination, I decided to bite the bullet and buy a Blackberry 8700. I have been using it for three days now and it is by far much nicer than I ever expected. I thought I would miss my Treo 600, but really I only miss my Rocket Mania game. First […]
Web Development
documentation is key.
I am in the process of finishing up a project for my consulting company and one of the final things I do before handing over everything to my client is to provide detailed documentation of what I did, how I did it, and how to modify what I created. Why? I feel it is very […]
Apple
WWDC From Home
Last year I attended WWDC and loved it. This year I was unable to attend, but I did follow the keynote address and then took a look at the Leopard Sneak Peek and the new Mac Pros. I will be very interested to see how the Mac Pros perform as I am, and always have […]
Software
QuickBooks…grr.
Today was one of those “nothing is easy” days. One of my tasks today was to customize my company’s QuickBooks invoice template. As a UI person, I often need to customize pretty much everything I use in some way or another. I have to say, QuickBooks is not very friendly when it comes to making […]
Life
Great Read/Podcast!
I took a week off after my trip back east to get caught up on some of my business needs (make new business cards, set up payroll, clean up my files, catch up with all my business expenses/bookeeping. While going through my usual RSS feeds today, I finally had time to listen to one of […]