http://www.davidrasch.com Management, Software, and Technology Fri, 22 Aug 2008 10:30:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en As many of you following the Twitter feed know, Libby spent about 48 hours working to get Muppet out and transformed into Clayton Davidson Rasch. He graced us with our presence at 21:32 on August 20th. Over the last 24-hours, we've gone from proud parents of two dogs ... http://www.davidrasch.com/2008/08/21/claytons-first-day/ We had a late night full of contractions last night. They started in earnest around 10:30pm and continued pretty strong through 6am or so when Libby finally got some rest. I also caught a few hours of sleep between 2 and 4 or so. Things slowed down ... http://www.davidrasch.com/2008/08/19/late-night-of-contractions-and-trip-to-the-ob/ The announcers, "with the call," covering the olympics often feel the need to fill the silence even though it'd often be better to hear nothing from them whatsoever. In fact, I'd happily listen to most things with them muted. "It is so much easier to train for synchronized diving if ... http://www.davidrasch.com/2008/08/14/my-least-favorite-moments-from-nbc-commentators-on-the-olympics/ My saga this far: Signed up Jan 24th on the web, selected plans and received no warnings Called to activate received phone, activated, and found voice worked, but BlackBerry did not (2/1) Called and spent 1 hour on the phone converting to BlackBerry Plan and splitting to two plans as this had been ... http://www.davidrasch.com/2008/08/06/love-my-blackberry-really-mad-at-att/ As many of you know, Libby and I have been preparing our home and Muppet to join the rest of us in the pulmonary-active world. We've cleaned the house, organized most everything we own, and fulfilled every vision of nesting. The nursery's ready. We've got 15 more ... http://www.davidrasch.com/2008/07/28/wheres-muppet/ The 401(k) program we switched to this year happens to have been a step backward as far as support for exporting transactions. In talking with Alan about it, he said he'd downloaded a program to convert the CSV they export into a QIF. In looking at the QIF ... http://www.davidrasch.com/2008/07/04/new-401k-doesnt-even-support-qif/ Our FuelFrog users are paying much more at the pump these days! On average, our users fill up 11 gallons which means they're paying an additional $5 at the pump per fillup! http://www.davidrasch.com/2008/06/18/fuelfrog-and-us-gas-prices/ FuelFrog was updated last weekend with support for metric units. We now support liters, meters, and can show your efficiency in l/100km (lower is better) which gets used by many more sensible countries for monitoring their fuel usage. Upon releasing this, we got an email from ... http://www.davidrasch.com/2008/05/29/fuelfrog-with-metric-and-direct-messaging-support/ There are really awesome things about being able to put apps together in our connected "web 2.0" world. There are also downsides and tradeoffs as with any decision. When Twitter is down, it makes it hard for people to try FuelFrog. Screenshot courtesy of is twitter down? http://www.davidrasch.com/2008/05/14/mashups/ Apparently someone at Sun agreed with my sentiments about moving to a more closed-source model for MySQL. While my original comments are self serving, apparently Sun believes that it will make better business sense in the long term to keep these components open-source. Hopefully this is a vote ... http://www.davidrasch.com/2008/05/07/mysql-and-closed-source/