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Random Thoughts

Posted by Mark | Filed under Life

I’ve been bad about post­ing any­thing here, so here’s a col­lec­tion of ran­dom thoughts that have occurred to me since my last post­ing. For sev­eral years I car­ried a PDA to keep track of appoint­ments, jot down notes and to have impor­tant phone numbers/addresses handy. I started off with a Hand­spring Visor Plat­inum, later switched […]

Tags: DIY, halloween, home, moleskine, thoughts, writing

Read more | Comments (0) | Nov 1, 2007

Up in Smoke

Posted by Mark | Filed under Life

It was another long, dull morn­ing at the office. For­tu­nately, the after­noon proved to be quite a bit more inter­est­ing. While I was exam­in­ing an issue reported by one of our beta users; I heard some shout­ing about a fire from one end of the build­ing. Pop­ping my head up like a good, office gopher; […]

Tags: bathroom, home, office

Read more | Comments (6) | Jul 25, 2006

Trying to lose my business? (Part 2)

Posted by Mark | Filed under Life, Rants

Per­haps I am old-fashioned but I feel when you say you are going to do some­thing, then you should do it. Case in point, this morn­ing I dropped the car off at the deal­er­ship to get that shift­ing prob­lem fixed. I dropped it off at approx­i­mately 7:45 AM CST (-06:00 GMT). My appoint­ment to have […]

Tags: email, home, problem, repair, Software, VW

Read more | Comments (2) | Jun 26, 2006

Trying to lose my business?

Posted by Mark | Filed under Life, Rants

Back in April, we bought a new car from Carousel Motors. And until yes­ter­day, it’s been great. I let me explain… Yes­ter­day, I went home for my lunch hour. When my time was up, I went down to the car to get back to work. The car unlocked and started up with­out any prob­lems. What […]

Tags: coffee, corporate, driving, home, park, problem, VW, youth

Read more | Comments (5) | Jun 20, 2006

Update on the Nibble

Posted by Mark | Filed under Life

Unlike the major­ity of Amer­cians, I did not head back to the office after the Memo­r­ial day week­end. Well, not back to my office any­ways. Instead, I whipped out my inter­view suit1 and went to a job inter­view. It was a really good thing that I left early to get there as I got slightly […]

Tags: Apple, breakfast, coffee, home, Japan, office, weekend

Read more | Comments (2) | May 30, 2006