Thanks to our good friends Abby & Ivan for bringing us TipJoy! They are in alpha testing right now, but for those of you looking to 'tipify' (if that's not trademarked yet, I call dips) your Movable Type blog, here's what I've figured out so far. For those of you using the standard MT templates, here's what you need to do to add the TipJoy button to the bottom of each post, and make sure...Read on

Pete passed along another meme. I'm several days late, but I suppose it's better late than never. In the spirit of the activity, here are four lists of four things about me.Four jobs I've had in my life:I've done plenty of yard work in my day -- good money for a young kid.Mervyn's -- my first 'company' job between high school and college stocking clothes on the floor of the kid's department at this West...Read on

Fortunately, my visit to Espoo, Finland to visit Nokia allowed me a little time to explore Helsinki.  Wandering around the downtown area, I noticed a couple things. There are bars everywhere, and a lot of them look pretty swanky. Every casual furniture store (and they are plentiful) looks like Design Within Reach. Hair salons are the Starbucks of Helsinki--I couldn't believe how many there were. The architecture was interesting. Most of the old buildings have...Read on

It's a new year, and since I have nothing better to do with my time, I decided to take on a site redesign. Part of my motivation was a move to the latest version of Movable Type 4, which pretty much changes the way the sites are assembled. Either way, here it is -- my new minimalist design. You'll notice that my URL changed from birdahonk.com/home to thoughts.birdahonk.com. The RSS feed should still work fine,...Read on

So Pete tagged me with the "8 random things" meme. So many things about me are random it's hard to choose where to start. But here it goes: 1. One of my first words as a baby was "birdahonk" -- hence the name of by site. My family teased me about it for years. On my 15th birthday, my entire family played a recording of me saying it and they were all dying to know...Read on

Well, a lot has changed since my last post. I spent a little over a year at Catapult Thinking. I learned a ton as a Senior Design Researcher/Strategist. I left Catapult back in September 2005 for an opportunity I couldn't pass up. I'm now a Senior Media Analyst at Forrester Research (joining my better half, but she's on a different team). My primary coverage is the Internet's impact on the media business which includes business...Read on