Sometimes I feel like I’m living up to my potential, and at other times I feel like I have a long way to go. During my sophomore year of high school, I tried out for the basketball team. I was a decent basketball player and played almost every day with my...
I recently wrote a post about the connection distance between the iPhone and the Apple Watch. It has had had quite a few visits and comments – of which, one essentially said “Get to the point!” In his view, I could have just written: “What is...
I love I come across something that really interests me. Yesterday it was Safari Web View. Today it was Accelerated Mobile Pages (or AMP for short). AMP is an open-source project, spearheaded by Google, with a goal to speed up mobile web pages. You can read more about...
Junk mail, telemarketing calls, spam – No thank you. I’m providing some information that can help you opt out of most of the spam, etc. that is coming your way. None of this is guaranteed to work. Some companies will not obey the rules and you could also...
I’ve been banking with Wells Fargo for years. I’ve been really happy with them overall. Great customer service, great people, solid iPhone application, account access, services, etc. But when a monthly account fee started popping up, I decided it was time...
I opened a bank account with Key Bank long ago when they offered a free iPod with each new account. I was maybe 13, 14? and pretty excited about the free iPod just for opening the account. $99 worth of free, and as a teenager, it was worth it all the way – and...
I was offered a job today. A programming job. The offer was quite interesting. And I quote: “I’ll pay you to have me teach you programming.” Yes, you read that correctly. He said he would pay me for him to teach me to code. Intriguing. I was obliged to turn the offer...
Managing finances has occupied a significant amount of my brain power for quite some time. I want to improve the way I manage my finances, and I’d love a tool that would help me do that. I’ve tried Mint.com, budgeting tools, spreadsheets, apps, written...
Today, I told my wife, for probably the fourteenth time: “Honey, I’m just not settled with finances.” I was speaking not about the amount of money we are making (though we sure could use a bit more), I was speaking about the managing of our finances...
