I love using Mint.com for monitoring all of my personal financial activity. A perfect example is the email that I recently received from Mint.com regarding a credit card that I use. Could a company position themselves any better to appear that they are on my side? More...

I feel like I am on Mozilla's bad side after a series of posts about the conflict between Firefox/HTML 5 and Flash/Silverlight. In an effort to bring my open source karma into balance, I am going to talk a little bit about Firefox and some of its many benefits. None of this will be particularly shocking to Firefox fans, but hopefully will convert a few of those IE users who are still wondering what they are missing! After all, my goals are more about the best end user experience versus any organizations' agendas, and Firefox is definitely part of that experience. More...

I am freshly back from the family viewing of Pixar's Up, and I have to say that I am exhausted! It is quite taxing being sucked into and then pulled out of a great family adventure. The other reason stems from a lackluster experience with 3D that lessened my enjoyment of a day at the cinema. Let's start with the high notes, and there are plenty of those!

When will the streak end?

I hope that Pixar never stumbles, and though I know it can't last forever, theirs is the kind of streak that benefits society as a whole. Quite simply, this movie is fabulous. Both of my thumbs are pointed straight "up", and I would recommend this film to anyone in a heartbeat. I literally get caught "up" (last one I promise) in movies like these and am emotionally spent when they are over. I used to think that since for some reason these stories were geared specifically for me (and my kids). I am realizing that Pixar tells stories in a way that everyone feels they were written especially for them. More...