My ideal podcast app

I love listening to podcasts on my phone, especially Back to Work, Democracy Now en EspaƱol, and BBC Mundo. Unfortunately I've not found a podcast app I really like on Android yet. I always end up having to configure a few hours of stuff to listen to right before I…

How to balance your checking account using a Google Docs spreadsheet

Have you ever gotten an overdraft fee? It really sucks when your account only has a few bucks in it, and then that check you wrote last week that you forgot about posts and you get slapped with a $39 fee. It happened to me a few times, but then…

One giant game of pretend

I attended the biweekly (that's every two weeks, folks) Coffee House Coders meeting in Ann Arbor tonight. We had a decent turnout, maybe 12 people at its peak. I had a great conversation with a guy named bill about working from home or working location-independently. The idea of working from…

PNC Bank Virtual Wallet review: Not a fan.

I know my personal finance posts don't tend to fare as well as my attention / procrastination posts, but I wanted to write about my recent experiences with PNC Bank's Virtual Wallet. In a nutshell, I feel like they hired somebody who really understood how young people use banking these days,…

Get things out of your head

Back when I was studying psychology, I read this article about the human mind. It started out with this little anecdode that stuck in my head: How cool it would be if at some point in the future, somebody invented a device that could hook up to our minds and…

50 ways to overwhelm your readers

I see these types of posts everywhere these days. Bloggers collect tutorials, plugins, tricks, tips, etc. and package them together into the "50 best (things) every (type of person) should know". For a long time, I used to think that these types of posts were worthwhile. I used to put…