The Maroon & White letter came in the mail today. It must mean one thing – that I’ve been accepted to UMass for the second time! This time I plan on finishing. A big thanks to the University Without Walls staff for helping me come up with a good plan for finishing out my degree.
My brother started working here at CampusLIVE which is exciting. First project is getting him nasty with our new HD cam and editing suite. Here is his first work of art.
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I just setup TwitterFeed to autopost my blog posts to Twitter. We’re going to be using this for our Social Media work with many partner universities if all goes well. This post is the first test.
Posted in UncategorizedDriving to work today I saw (3) speed traps and 1 cruiser driving by. All in a 2-mile stretch. I wonder if it’s a speed trap holiday, otherwise they must have closed all their cases.
Just goes to show that there’s not much crime in Amherst once the college lets out.
Posted in UncategorizedMy friend Sara over at Coke came by the office today to work on some partnership details. She hooked me up with a sweet t-shirt and hat.
I’m definitely wearing this shirt to the Bruins game tonight!
It’s graphs like these that make me glad I’m self employed and business is growing:
President / VP
Obama/Biden
#1 – should income tax be abolished in MA.
No. There are enough cuts as is. Property taxes would jump, not a solution at all.
#2 – decriminalize marijuana poccession under 1oz.
Yes. It’s ludicrous how much is spent incarcerating adults who choose to use this relatively harmless drug. Where are the questions banning alcohol?
#3 – ban dog racing in MA
Yes. Although the job losses are a negative here I think entertainment value of watching dogs run in circles is not worth all of the illegal activities that come with it.
Myself and the rest of the CampusLIVE staff attended the Mashable.com Summer event in Boston and met some pretty cool people. We came away with 3 or 4 great connections there, a great return for the time and money.
While there I was interviewed by the guys at Mashable / Stickam. Here’s the video.
Posted in UncategorizedI just returned from a great vacation in South Carolina. Had a great business meeting while there – but really enjoyed seeing the entire family. It was my grandparents 50th anniversary – 25 of us got together for the week. A VERY full house.
I came back to the office to start a very hectic week. We’re launching a new product so things are very crazy. Organized chaos is a good title.
Here’s a shot from my vacation – my little cousin Connor has clearly tired me our after riding on my shoulders for quite a while.
In case you didn’t already have enough reasons to hate Bank of America, I have another for you. This is in addition to the 50+ other reasons that I would elaborate on if I hadn’t wasted so much with them already.
Today I log into my online banking and see two entries that told me nothing about what they really were:
Clicking on each transaction didn’t help me investigate at all, no information whatsoever. The only hunch I had was that I deposited a client’s $500 check a week earlier. Perhaps it bounced, but if so that should only be one $500 charge, not two. I went to BOA customer service for help – a daunting task for anyone.
Support put me on hold for 10 minutes to “pull up my account information”. After explaining the charges to them they said that the $500 check I deposited had bounced – they subsequently put a “double hold” on the transaction. I told them this was ridiculous and to at the very least refund the BS second charge. After some resistance he removed the second hold.
I will be accelerating my move to another bank who doesn’t aggressively rape their customers (for lack of a better word).
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