Just a quick congratulations to my friend Ben Lew, who just launched his first iPad app: Interactive Alphabet. It’s designed more for kids, but if you have trouble with some of your letters, you might like it as well I don’t have kids, but after playing with the app, I think it would be something [...]
Last month, I passed a major milestone that’s been a goal of mine for a long time: I flew solo in an airplane, without my instructor. I started taking flying lessons in 2007 but had to stop due to financial concerns (flying a small airplane is a ridiculously expensive hobby). I started up again in [...]
I’m not always as up to date on the news as I should be, and something caught my eye today that has probably been in the national news for months, but had previously escaped my attention. The issue in question? The Ground Zero Mosque. At first I wasn’t sure what the controversy was, and I [...]
Backstory: A couple weeks ago, I launched a site called PRManna.com, to help startups and small businesses connect with reporters and other journalists who are looking for experts and sources for stories. The launch was well received, got picked up on ReadWriteWeb, and people have been using the site for the last couple weeks. I [...]
The last week has been a rough one. I’ve been very busy juggling client work and working feverishly to get BlueSwarm.com out the door. We’re very close and I hope to be posting about that any day now. Anyway, my daily habits fell apart sometime around last Wednesday and I’ve been fighting to catch up [...]
One of my clients launched HowYouEco.com today, which actually includes a suite of sites (HomeEco.com, WorkEco.com, PlayEco.com) and is directory project that helps people keep track of everything going on in the green movement. I got involved late in this project and mainly helped wrap up some loose ends and clean things up a bit. [...]
About a year ago, I started blogging in earnest about personal finance and investment, as well as the occasional post on personal development. In April 2007, I started a series about investing for young adults, which took me a bit longer to complete than originally planned (6 months vs. 1 month). During the process of [...]