Archive for November, 2007

Working Abroad - Taxi Tips 

If you’re working overseas and you are planning to use taxis to get from the hotel to the office and back, create a taxi card.

Use your favourite word processor to print the hotel address and the office address on a single sheet of A4 or letter-size paper.
Use landscape mode and select a bold sans serif [...]

FogBugz World Tour Comes To London 

I attended the FogBugz 6.0 World Tour presentation this morning at the British Library in Euston Road, London. Joel Spolsky was the speaker and he made an excellent job of describing some of the funky new features in FogBugz 6.0.
The Evidence Based Scheduling (EBS) is sufficiently similar to witchcraft to warrant further investigation Joel [...]

Beware the Mint Card! 

I’ve had a Mint credit card for sometime now, but I haven’t used it until recently.
I paid the deposit for our wedding with it, and looking at this month’s statement I’m shocked and surprised!
The balance bought forward is 1,802.17. The minimum payment from last month was 40.00. The interest this month is 47.10 and the [...]