I’ve never been very good at managing my finances. There was a period of time back in college when I lived off my credit cards. Fortunately over the last few years I’ve gotten better at living within my means and have been gradually paying off my debt. Despite this I’m not exactly [...]
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How Quicken Made Me Happy Today
Saturday, January 2nd, 2010Managing Feeds Part Two
Wednesday, December 16th, 2009I previously talked about reordering my Google reader in order to make my life less overwhelming. A little over a month has gone by and I thought I’d post an update about how it’s worked.
Things have been a tremendous success. By simply re-categorizing my feeds into Low Volume, High Value and Low Value [...]
How do you know what you stand for?
Friday, December 11th, 2009I’m someone that likes to think of himself as pretty driven and goal oriented. I think this is why it’s bothered me so much that lately I’ve been floundering without any great direction. Some of it is probably the “Quarterlife Crisis” but it could also be that I’ve been getting lazy.
I firmly believe [...]
Managing Feeds
Friday, October 30th, 2009Today I logged into Google Reader and saw that I had 230 unread items. This is not unusual, nor it is particularly difficult to get through. However, that is what’s in my “inbox” between when I checked it last night and when I woke up this morning. I’m not sure how many [...]
How to Lose Customers
Thursday, October 15th, 2009Ever since I got my TiVo back in 2006 I’ve been a huge fan of it. True, it’s frustrating to have to attach the little infrared lights to my cable box, and although the DVR functionality works amazingly, many of the other features leave a lot to be desired.
Last year before I was preparing [...]