Archive for December, 2008


Did I Mention How Much I Love Winter?

Wtf is going on this winter?  My plans totally keep getting messed up.  Today I have a cold/flu, and this is what it currently looks like outside of the warehouse (all of that is from the last 2-3 hours):

New Years Eve plans officially canceled.  Who knows when FedEx will make it out to us to [...]

Productive Napping

In my quest to become healthy, happy, and productive, I’ve become fascinated with sleep over the past few years.   I always exercise regularly and for the most part I eat very healthy, but a good nights sleep eluded me for a long time.  The problem started in high school where I routinely got less [...]

Hello Songbird, Goodbye iTunes

I love open source software.  There’s something fascinating to me about a community of passionate developers being able to release highly customizable software that is equal to or better than the commercial alternatives.  As I wrote in a post last year, our company uses almost all open source software, both because of the affordability and [...]

New Pure Adapt Inc Site (Finally)

I didn’t plan on posting again before Christmas, but I just finished and uploaded a new and improved Pure Adapt site so I figured it was worthy of something quick before I head off to dinner.  The old one-page website needed some updating/expanding, so over the past few weeks I’ve been spending a few hours [...]

My freecycle Experience

During my tour of our warehouse I mentioned that we made the switch recently to anti-static biodegradable packing peanuts.  Part of the reason was to protect our products better.  Part of the reason was to create a uniform packing process (previously we had just been re-using all sorts of packing material from our vendors).  And [...]

This Winter Sucks

It’s a winter wonderland outside right now as I’m writing this from my apartment.  If I had a working digital camera, I’d snap a photo.   In a way, I like snow days.  They force you to relax and stay in.  I could use a day to just throw on some sweats and a t-shirt and [...]

If I Couldn’t Run a Business…

Let’s just say hypothetically that for some reason I was not legally allowed to run a business for an indefinite amount of time starting tomorrow.  What would I do?  If you run a business, what would you do?
I’m not sure why, but I think about this question quite often.  I don’t really foresee myself ever [...]

What do you DO?

Ah, my favorite question.
Nev wrote a great post about it the other day.  Saying “I’m a lawyer” or “I’m a teacher” is a whole lot easier than saying “I run a web development company with three other twenty-somethings and we own a lot of websites with the majority of our revenue coming from our e-commerce [...]

My Email Bliss

Back in September I wrote a post entitled Making Email Efficient about how much I detest the distraction of email and what I’ve done to minimize that distraction without hurting our business.
The quote I posted from Tim Ferris pretty much sums up how I feel:
E-mail (and all of its Crackberry/digital leash/Twitter cousins) is the largest [...]

Prioritizing Work – Part Deux

Oke from Life is What You Make of It (one of my favorite blog designs, by the way) left a really interesting comment on my last post about prioritizing work:
I got a question for you. I am having a problem with this myself and do a shitty job on getting back on track. How do [...]