Category Archives: business
Economic Development in the City of Falls Church
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 … Continue reading
See, I was right!
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 … Continue reading
MS, let me buy
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 … Continue reading
I got my first bill from AT&T and it has
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 … Continue reading
Diapers.com – they love diapers
(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 … Continue reading
An Experiment
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 … Continue reading
Viget Dot Com!
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 … Continue reading
Sorry, we’re closed
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 … Continue reading
Is Yahoo! doomed?
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! … Continue reading
Computerworld’s Rock Stars
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 … Continue reading