The other day I went to the pump and filled up my 2008 VW Rabbit. With gas in my neck of the woods well over $4/gallon, it cost me nearly $60 to fill up my 14.5 gallon tank. $60! Dude, I drive a freaking Rabbit! It’s like the smallest car ever. It might not happen [...]
Archive for May, 2008
Some Amazing Nature Photos
In my Back on Track post I wrote about how I took a day off and hiked by myself in Thacher Park. Increasingly I’m finding that the more time I spend doing enjoyable outdoors things like hiking and playing basketball, the more relaxed and focused I am when it comes time to work. Afterwards my [...]
More on Micro-Innovating
A few months back I wrote a post entitled Micro-Innovating Every Day: Ideas are a very, very small part of the majority of great innovations. Most great innovations come from a recognition of a recurring problem that a company encounters repeatedly and has the foresight to come up with a creative solution. It’s less about [...]
Looking for Writers for Tastefully Driven
We’re looking to grow and expand the presence of the Tastefully Driven Lifestyle Blog and we need some help to get us there. We don’t just want the blog to supplement the e-commerce portion of the site, we want it to be one of the main reasons that people visit the site. In a way, [...]
Productive Output: What the 9 – 5 Misses and Why I’m Done with a 40 Hour Workweek
As any college student will tell you, scheduling classes is an art form. My first semester I didn’t have much choice and had to take whatever was available. My second semester I loaded up on Monday and Thursday and had the rest of the week off. It sucked – Mondays and Thursdays wore me out [...]
Back on Track
Last week was supposed to be a laid back week for me. I moved to a new apt the week prior so I just wanted to take some time to settle into the new living situation. Obviously with our server issues that didn’t happen. The stress/frustration caught up with me and – despite the site [...]
Book Review: Internet Riches – The Simple Money-Making Secrets of Online Millionaires
I’m lucky enough to have somehow gotten on the American Management Association’s list of bloggers to send advanced copies of books to. I’d say I get around ten requests a year from the AMA and other organizations asking me to review their books. While always flattered, I’ve been saying no more and more recently because [...]
We’re Live!
Finally at 11:50 AM a day later Detailed Image is up and running and orders started coming through immediately. Having a dedicated server with a dual-core processor and 1 GB of RAM is fast…very fast. I’m liking this already. Considering when I started out with SportsLizard I barely could navigate my own control panel, I [...]
12 Hour Update
Before moving Detailed Image to the new server I decided to move PureAdapt.com. The reasoning behind this was two-fold: it would give me a test run with a site that wasn’t super important and it also was preferred to move this overnight because our email hosting with Google takes a little while to configure. Around [...]
Game Time
Today was just one of those days where everything that could go wrong went wrong. When it rains, it pours, and the flood gates were open today. The good news is that our server problems are now in our control: the server is up and running so it’s just a matter of me migrating the [...]
