Last week, my wife said, “Stephen, I wish you cared as little about decorating as you do care about appliance purchasing.” This was to say, it would be nice if I didn’t have to check with you on the style and color of each room our new house. I had just spent 10 or more [...]
I use Google Calendar to communicate with my wife when I have made plans in the evening. Like most action items on an automated to-do list, I add all action items I could possible want to do and then decide whether to do them only a few hours before when I receive a reminder. With [...]
I rarely log in to my online bank accounts and credit card accounts. Why? Most of the time my online accounts takes care of themselves, and this gets managing money and paying bills out of my life, so I can focus on the activities I want to focus on.
You will want to keep a minimum [...]
Minimalism is the opposite of the standard blog layout. Blog authors tend to link everything on every page to every other page. I’m trying to reject the 100 person blog roll in the sidebar attitude for something simpler. For the last week, I’ve been burning the midnight oil to consider changes to the Rachel and [...]
Citi’s Thank You Network: All credit card reward points are not equal
Not that you don’t already know that credit card companies are sneaky. I generally prefer Chase over Citi for their rewards. Why?
First of all, I can get a $50 check for my 5000 reward points at Chase.
Second, a $50 gift card at citi’s ThankYouNetwork [...]
By now, you’ve heard of Mama Bell’s upgrade to DSL called U-Verse. I-verse must have been taken. I had originally called AT&T to downgrade from Comcast cable to Yahoo! DSL in order to save $350 a year, but the salesman said there was a $150 cash back rebate for new subscribers to U-verse–without a contract. [...]
I just cracked open my 4th generation iPod tonight. It took over a half hour, a screwdriver, a multi-tool, scissors, a hammer, a nail file and a lot of patience.
Yesterday, the hard drive refused to spin up. I actually hit it a few times with the palm of my hand, and it began working. [...]
I was using SeeqPod the other day to search for non-album songs sung by Over The Rhine. (By the way, Over The Rhine is coming to Indianapolis on December 12th at the Music Mill. I wonder if it will contain some Christmas music. I’ve never been to one of their Christmas concerts.)
Many of the mp3s [...]
I noticed that one of my credit card companies, Chase, as added an alerts sidebar to the left of the “My Accounts” page. This shows upcoming activities at a glance.
There have been additions to the alerts page also. You can now be alerted when your reward points exceed a certain amount. I have mine set [...]
The definition of a geek according to Merriam-Webster:
3 : an enthusiast or expert especially in a technological field or activity (i.e.- computer geek). Its etymology is from the term for a carnival performer often billed as a wild man whose act usually includes biting the head off a live chicken or snake.
The definition of a [...]