Posts by Mike Taber
New website coming soon
No, not this site. I’m talking about Moon River Software’s new web site. Building a new web site is pretty tedious, especially when you’re creating new marketing content to go with it. You have to make sure that you use your key words effectively and often enough, but not so often that search engines will…
Read MoreSetting Goals for 2006
The past week and a half, I’ve had a chance to reflect a bit on what’s gone right this year, and what hasn’t. Most people do this at this time of year because they have all decided that after feasting like a pig at various celebrations, they need to lose some weight. Others decide to…
Read MoreUPS Update
It’s been 12 days since I was informed that UPS would make a detailed investigation that would be completed within the next 1-8 business days with the status of what happened to my server. Now, to be sure I found it more than a week ago. As a test, I decided to not bother calling…
Read MoreThe Winners and the Losers
No, I’m not talking about the Red Sox players heading from Boston to New York like the killer white rabbit has come to town. I’m talking about the strike by the New York City Transit Workers that just ended. I’m amazed at the short sightedness of just about everyone involved. I was a bit shocked…
Read MoreVolume IV: Rewards and Incentive Programs
It’s that time of year again. I’m not talking about Christmas, Chanukah, Kwanza, or <insert your personal holdiay here>. It’s getting towards the end of the year, and it’s typically around this time, that companies start doling out bonuses of one sort or another. I’ve been giving some thought to this, as my own personal…
Read MoreMilestones version 1.0.0 Postmortem
Well, it was a long hard road, but Moon River Milestones is finally out the door. It’s less than a week after the launch, and while I accomplished a huge amount of work, there’s still a lot left to do. I use Milestones mainly for my own project management, both in the business, in my…
Read MoreUPS Newsflash Update
I found out this morning what actually happened this past week with my server. It turns out that UPS did indeed have my correct address on my server. But it wasn’t that they misheard The UPS Store. It’s simply that they can’t read, and it was delivered next door. Since it was late at night,…
Read MorePaychex checks in
I met with a representative from Paychex this morning, and the experience was extremely pleasant. I’ve known for a while that I would need to outsource my payroll needs. You might think that it’s just a matter of writing yourself a check every week, but it’s a bit more complicated than that. In fact, it’s…
Read MoreAttention UPS: It’s winter in New England
There’s something about the lack of attention to details that irks me sometimes. I realize that I myself am guilty of this on occasion, but I do my best to stay on top of things. And if, for example, it’s your job to move boxes from one place to another without destroying their contents or…
Read MoreIt needs to just work
As time goes on, software should get better right? I always thought this to be the case. Enter Firefox v1.5 to prove me wrong. These are screenshots that were spliced together and show the memory and CPU usage of Firefox when I was downloading a bunch of icon packages that I bought from VirtualLNK this past…
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