Don’t know what happened, but yesterday all my internal site links broke. Either my hosting environment or I did something goofy. Anyway, after a few installs and data imports, I think I have everything back now. If anyone was watching, that’s why the feed and/or the site may have acted strange yesterday. Sorry about that.
I stubbled on 10 Benefits of Rising Early, and How to Do It, and I have to admit it is good stuff. Until my kids were born, I was never much of an early riser, but since then I find that I can’t sleep late anymore. When I do, I feel like I missed something. There is nothing like greeting the day when the sun is just coming up. It’s worth not staying up late.
BTW, the rest of the site has some very interesting tips as well.
Saw this post on Guy Kawasaki’s blog. There are many pictures of the Threadless offices in Chicago. I don’t know how much software or technology they work with, but those have to be some of the coolest offices I’ve ever seem. It’s like working in your college apartment, but with an actual budget for toys. I like it! I bet they are super productive as well because people can be inspired when they are having fun.
Long ago in another life I was a Mac user (at least at home). I also became a loyal Quicken user. This was back in 1991 or 1992. Along the way, I bit the bullet and replaced my home Mac with a PC (grudgingly). Now, I’m back to a Mac at home and loving it. Unfortunately, I’m not as happy with Quicken for Mac. It works fine, and I was able to get all my data transferred over pretty easily. Online banking was a snap to setup, but things went downhill when I tried to add Quicken Bill Pay back to my checking account. Quicken Bill Pay decided to download every bill paid going back to 2004. This resulted in hundreds of duplicates in my register and my balance being way off.
Several more attempts and a lot of web searching later, and I still had no solution. I went to Quicken support and chatted with several people, but they all had the same answer.
“Manually delete the duplicate transactions.”
My response is “Maybe you missed something. This is 3+ years worth of transactions!” I can’t believe that a sane company would not have a solution for this given that I found several others with the same problem. Personally, I could never in good conscience tell a customer to manually delete hundreds of transactions. It shocks me that they could even say it. It’s not like we are talking about a strange scenario.
My son, Declan, was born March 31, 2007. Declan is my wife and I’s third child. The twins, Cameron and Zoe, are very excited. We are all a little sleep deprived, but that is to be expected. The great thing about is that this time nothing will bother me. I remember leaving the hospital with the twins thinking these people can’t possibly send us home with two infants. We have absolutely no clue what we are doing! Somehow, we got by. I don’t remember a whole lot of the first several months because there was very little sleep involved. Thankfully, the crew of the ferry I took to work every day would wake me up when I got into Boston. After a week at home with Declan, it’s a breeze so far. The “little dude”, as Cameron and Zoe refer to him, is great. Even at only a week old he still finds a way to make us laugh. I don’t want to jinx us, but two infants are far more than twice the work of one. I guess it helps that until now I only knew what is like to have two.