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Redfin launches School Reviews, Mortgage Guide

bryan — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 05:20:05 +0000

Looking back, my blogging here has been pretty sparse over the past couple months. Mostly that’s because I’ve been too busy with work and finishing our home remodel to come up with anything interesting to write. Sorry. But I can post today about Redfin’s Thursday website upgrade with schools on the map, school reviews & [...]

Qwest Customer Service: Win. (Maybe they do change…)

bryan — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 00:56:24 +0000

Within an hour of the post, Steph, a Qwest customer service manager , direct replied to me on Twitter asking how she could help fix it. She did what I expected the folks on the phone to do when they missed my appointment: she took care of the professional install fee I was paying ($40) and worked to get me setup earlier than the next Saturday. I had to only deal with 2 more hours of waiting for the tech to arrive and hook it up instead of 4 or 5. It still wasn't quite a flawless execution from there on out, but they were professional, very prompt in answers to my questions and the timeline to the tech. ... I've called their techsupport since and have gotten a mixed bag: one guy was awesome, one guy wanted to make me quit right then.

Blog Widget Fun: Where did you get those children?

bryan — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 17:40:14 +0000

While reading Glenn's post on reading resumes (something I've spent a ton of time doing lately), I clicked through to Guy Kawasaki's piercing blog post about cover letters. What cracked me up the most, though, was what the Alltop Widget embedded in the page apparently thought the post was about: slavery news.

New blog: blog.bryanselner.com

bryan — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 03:34:56 +0000

OK, hopefully this is a new and improved blog where I can play around with more plugins, etc and actually learn some things. I've moved off Wordpress.com and onto my own domain, www.bryanselner.com and blog.bryanselner via BlueHost to open up new possibilities on what I can learn and play with in Wordpress. Let me know if you see any problems with the new site. I'm sure there'll be a couple kinks to work out.

Blog upgrades: Bookmarks & Twitter

bryan — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 04:14:55 +0000

I’ve finally gotten around to adding my Twitter feed to the blog (took all of 5 minutes). I have also tried setting up Delicious to auto-post my new interesting links daily; we’ll see how the latter goes.

Upgraded to iPhoto ’09

bryan — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 03:05:00 +0000

I’ve upgraded the laptop and desktop to iPhoto ’09 (yay for family plans.) So far I like: “Do not copy files to iPhoto library” checkbox: I don’t know if that was there in ’08 or not, but was always a pet peeve of mine about iPhoto. I manage my photos via the file system first. [...]

Ecto plug-in for Twitter

bryan — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 05:48:14 +0000

I’m loving Ecto more and more. Turns out there’s a Twitter plug-in for Ecto which means I can be lazy and not twitter my posts. Update: turns out the instructions aren’t obvious so my first post: FAIL.

How the Heck Do I Buy This Thing?

bryan — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 05:29:55 +0000

I’ve wanted to put my personal domain on this blog since I moved it to WordPress.com. They offer an “easy” way to do this, but for the life of me, I can’t figure out how to give them my money! It’s ridiculous that there is no call to action on the personal domain page where [...]

WordPress or Ecto is losing it’s mind

bryan — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 04:42:18 +0000

Last week has been a storm of bad “login/password combination” errors… haven’t touched my password nor the one saved in Ecto. WordPress server problems or something else?

iTwittering

bryan — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 05:00:27 +0000

Not sure i’ll stay on the Twitter bandwagon. I just can’t seem to get into the vibe as well as some. Matt passed me a great article by Guy Kawasaki that’s worth a read. Guy lays out how you work to build a sweet tweet by contributing to your followers and other ideas. I’m not [...]