Nobody is Listening
Posted in Falls Church, business on Nov 5th, 2008
The City of Falls Church has a variety of Boards & Commissions. One of them is the Economic Development Authority. I’m not sure exactly what the differences are between committees, boards, commissions, and authorities. I’ve been to the past two EDA meetings and my intention is to try and get one of the three open [...]
The other day I complained about a couple of web-related things, like undated web content. It turns out that my complaint was spot on. According to this Washington Post article (and somewhat confirmed by this Google blog post) an undated news item triggered a sell off of United Airlines stock - [...]
Someone at work had been running a trial version of Office. When it expired we decided to just click on the Buy button to fork over our money and keep the product going. If only it was that easy. About 15 minutes later we gave up and I ordered Office from Amazon, it will be [...]
Posted in business on Aug 28th, 2008
With my new iPhone comes my new AT&T bill. I had been on Verizon before so this bill was totally new to me (how exciting). The first thing I noticed is that they don’t make it too clear on the bill that I can pay online and where I might go to do that. I’m [...]
Posted in business on Aug 26th, 2008
(I just previewed this post. It’s a pretty long one - about diapers. That’s not good. Here’s the summary: Diapers.com provided us with good customer service.)
I have two kids. Only one is in diapers but we still seem to go through a lot of them. Buying them at the store is a pain. Also, we [...]
We’ve all heard stories about people tweeting about a product or service and then having the company who provides said product or service reach out to them based on their comments.
(Okay, maybe I’m assuming something about my non-existant audience - maybe we haven’t all heard of this. Well, it happens. People post a comment on [...]
For the past several weeks a dedicated team of folks at Viget have been working on updating the web site. We set a target launch date when we started and they managed to make the deadline! A lot of hard work was put in by a few key people and many others chipped [...]
Health insurance is a huge pain - in many ways. The entire health care industry is a bit screwed up. Don’t get me wrong, I have had the good fortune (depending on how you look at it) to deal with quite a few very competent doctors and nurses over the past several months so I’m [...]
The talk over the past couple of weeks has been about the Microsoft bid for Yahoo! Other than Flickr, does anyone still use Yahoo!? Okay, I’m sure plenty of people do - actually my wife and I use the Yahoo! address book because we’re still waiting for Google to come out with a [...]
Posted in business, technology on Jan 23rd, 2008
There’s a new Computerworld article out about Rock Star Coders. Several folks at Viget talked with Mary Brandel, the author of the article, about the concept of rock star coders. Our connection to the “phenomenon” is that Emily used the term in one of our recent creative job postings. Overall the article [...]
