Since I’m a general know-it-all, and like unlike most people do not have problems managing finances, people ask me about real estate issues a lot.
If they have a decent attention span and live in Seattle, I point them to the Seattle Bubble Blog. It does a great job of debunking a lot of the fluff [...]
Category Archives: Business
Real Estate
July 28, 2008 – 4:08 am
Just what I didn’t know I needed
July 25, 2008 – 3:41 am
Because I hate going to a gym in the mornings, I decided I would give Wi Fit a try so that I can supplement my normal training schedule with some extra effective morning mild exercise. I’ve been checking intermittently to see if Amazon had them, because I really don’t care enough to go and hunt [...]
AT&T hates their customers
April 26, 2008 – 3:10 am
Every time I have an interaction with AT&T wireless, it is an agonizing and drawn out horror of an experience. Because I know this, I only call then when absolutely necessary. Basically this is when they break things and I need to figure out why my stuff is busted.
I spent about four hours on the [...]
iphone meets net neutrality
March 21, 2008 – 5:44 pm
Chris Soghoian made an interesting point in his recent cnet article entitled iPhone rules pose Net neutrality, antitrust concerns. My key point of interest here is the following:
Apple’s, and to a degree AT&T, inclination to lock in customers is counter to the current direction of the market. Verizon is opening their cellular network and allowing [...]
A new hobby of mine
December 5, 2007 – 12:43 pm
I’ve decided that I, as a relatively new resident of Washington State, will start filing formal complaints with the state Attorney General’s office (using this form here) for those companies who have harvested or purchased my contact information.
I’ve been doing some of my own work in email marketing on behalf of one of my clients. [...]
Web2.0 and history recurring
November 24, 2007 – 10:05 pm
It is a new Web 2.0 economy! All the rules have changed!
Yeah. Sure they have. Right.
It’s the same shell game of no revenue that everyone has played before. Actually, I think it’s a little worse this time.
It is worse because companies like Google, and everyone else because of them, are over-valued in the extreme.
These companies [...]
Internet Payments
November 19, 2007 – 6:39 am
I had the pleasure of setting up an online payment system that had the following goals
Point and click payments available by url
Not dealing with the complications of handling credit cards directly
Email invoicing
Lowest transaction and recurring fees possible
Add to this the very well known problems with the way Paypal does business, specifically with sellers, and I [...]
ITCi 2007
November 12, 2007 – 2:42 pm
This is the presentation that I gave earlier this week at the ITCi Conference in San Diego, California. It was well received and fostered a lot of interesting discussion.
My recording of the event on my laptop had enough problems as to be distracting, so I gave up on using it to export a real-time presentation. [...]
Phone followup (again)
November 2, 2007 – 2:19 pm
So tomorrow, the iPhone goes back just under the two-week-trial wire and I will be in a dead zone of no phone limbo until my Nokia n95 arrives when I’m at my conference in San Diego next week.
No phone for a few days. That will be an odd feeling. I wonder if I [...]
Thunderbird and Google Calendar
October 16, 2007 – 6:21 am
As I mentioned earlier, the Lightning and Provider extensions are handy for getting meeting information flowing with non-Microsoft software.My entry was a bit light on screen captures and detail, so if you were having trouble following it, check out this step by step guide.
