Its so important to like where you live, whenever possible. Here’s where I live. We moved here on Halloween last year. Kevin even went to Costco and got some king size candy bars (to match the size of the chimney?) but the kids never came by and we still have Continue Reading
Last night I finally got all of our household accounts updating in my Mint.com account and it was so easy! I had been procrastinating really getting myself set up with Mint.com because, in my past experiences with Quicken and MS Money, the process could literally take days. Time spent digging Continue Reading
Today is mother’s day and we gave my mom-in-law gift cards – and, as usual, she was thrilled! She has a very interesting gift-giving policy, which it has taken me about three years to finally begin to appreciate. Today I saw the light. For every holiday, my mom-in-law tells all Continue Reading
This morning was like Christmas morning. I went to bed last night, but plenty of other people around the office were up all night working on the final touches of the latest and greatest version of Whrrl. I’ve settled in at my desk this morning and played with the new Continue Reading
This was going to be a meta-post about my own blog, and why I am so bad at keeping it up to date. Last night we cooked dinner with some friends and I made a comment that anyone who wanted their blog to be significant to the blogosphere had better Continue Reading
Today Google announced that they are giving the KML file format, originally developed by startup Keyhole who Google acquired, for geophysical data (maps) to the Open Geospatial Consortium. I am curious to hear how different businesses intend to take advantage of this open standard – it seems like there must Continue Reading
When I worked at Expeditors the arch-nemesis was UPS. Of course, the koolaid we all drank was that all our competitors were inferior, but at some point after the honeymoon period wore off I began to actually examine that claim. Of course, I quickly found the various “I hate UPS” Continue Reading
Today I’ve been catching up with various “toys”: RescueTime – added their data collector to another machine, so now I won’t have big gaps on the days where I work from home. Time Machiner – sent various emails to myself in the future, and also to my husband for his Continue Reading
Today was a really great day at work – celebration of our latest release of Whrrl this morning. First off, every single meal was brought to the office. There were Top Pot Donuts for breakfast to celebrate the release, pizza from a company we work with for lunch, the yummy Continue Reading
When I worked for Expeditors, a book circulating through management called Broken Windows Broken Business was very popular. It talks about how making sure to fix mistakes and problems at the detail level will lead to greater overall success, using the clean up of New York city as an example. Continue Reading