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This sport is stupid anyway.

Mon, 28 Jun 2010 22:07:01 -0500

This sport is stupid anyway.

I’m seeing The Tallest Man On Earth tonight @ the Pabst in...

Tue, 25 May 2010 18:31:46 -0500

I’m seeing The Tallest Man On Earth tonight @ the Pabst in Milwaukee.

Phonetic ONE - “Home Sickness”. Part 4 of 4 of the...

Tue, 11 May 2010 14:47:59 -0500

Phonetic ONE - “Home Sickness”.

Part 4 of 4 of the Phonetic ONE 2010 Mifflin Block Party Installment.

Andrew Thomas (aka Phonetic ONE) and the band featuring Rafael Casal, Charles Kim, David Budiac, Oliver Hunt, Vaughn Freitag, and Jeff Weiss.

Download ALL of Phonetic ONE’s music for free at http://PhoneticONE.bandcamp.com/

Phonetic ONE - “Be Alright”. Part 3 of 4 of the...

Mon, 10 May 2010 23:55:09 -0500

Phonetic ONE - “Be Alright”.

Part 3 of 4 of the Phonetic ONE 2010 Mifflin Block Party Installment. Stay tuned for more.

Andrew Thomas (aka Phonetic ONE) and the band featuring Rafael Casal, Charles Kim, David Budiac, Oliver Hunt, Vaughn Freitag, and Jeff Weiss.

Part 2 of 4 of the Phonetic ONE 2010 Mifflin Block Party...

Sun, 09 May 2010 13:37:00 -0500

Part 2 of 4 of the Phonetic ONE 2010 Mifflin Block Party Installment. Stay tuned for more.

Phonetic ONE - “Crying on the In”.

Andrew Thomas (aka Phonetic ONE) and the band featuring Rafael Casal, Charles Kim, David Budiac, Oliver Hunt, Vaughn Freitag, and Jeff Weiss.

Part 1 of 4 of the Phonetic ONE 2010 Mifflin Block Party...

Sat, 08 May 2010 14:06:00 -0500

Part 1 of 4 of the Phonetic ONE 2010 Mifflin Block Party Installment. Stay tuned for more.

Phonetic ONE - “First Night Back in Town”.

Andrew Thomas (aka Phonetic ONE) and the band featuring Rafael Casal, Charles Kim, David Budiac, Oliver Hunt, Vaughn Freitag, and Jeff Weiss.

I’m rehearsing for the infamous annual Mifflin Block Party...

Wed, 28 Apr 2010 17:09:01 -0500

I’m rehearsing for the infamous annual Mifflin Block Party this weekend with Phonetic ONE (bluesy / jazzy hip-hop). Come see us this Saturday (May 1st, 2010) @ 3:15PM. The stage should be setup around Mifflin & Bassett.

Umm… What? What do I choose???

Tue, 27 Apr 2010 10:09:45 -0500

Umm… What?

What do I choose???

"I shall pass this way but once; any good, therefore, that I can do or any kindness that I can show..."

Sat, 03 Apr 2010 18:36:29 -0500

“I shall pass this way but once; any good, therefore, that I can do or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer nor neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.”

- From Dale Carnegie’s How to Win Friends and Influence People… I always find most quotes to be corny, but I definitely do not follow this enough.

I am playing at the Rock for Haiti benefit tonight at 7PM at...

Thu, 25 Mar 2010 14:28:48 -0500

I am playing at the Rock for Haiti benefit tonight at 7PM at Wisconsin’s Memorial Union / Great Hall with First Wave scholarship’s Phonetic One and Charles Kim. Tickets are $10 in advance and $12 at the door. All proceeds will benefit Partners in Health for Haiti disaster relief efforts. Come out for some great hip hop!

A vinyl record player made from the corrugated cardboard that...

Tue, 23 Mar 2010 01:16:00 -0500

A vinyl record player made from the corrugated cardboard that packages the record itself. Engineered by GGRP Sound and designed by GREY of Canada. Super cool.

Via: Ads of the World.

Wow. Nice error message HypeM!

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:07:44 -0500

Wow. Nice error message HypeM!

I saw the Punch Brothers last night!

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 09:44:59 -0600

I saw the Punch Brothers last night!

While I was in Hong Kong I couldn’t help but notice the...

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:05:00 -0600

While I was in Hong Kong I couldn’t help but notice the obscene amount of tutor advertising that goes on. The above photo with Patrick Tong is just an example. Hong Kong tutoring is a massive $460 million industry that produces star millionaire tutors. Obviously Hong Kong parents are very grade-oriented and are willing to shell out the cash to push their children’s grade up, and who wouldn’t when job placement and post-secondary school admissions are rigorously filtered by tests like the HKALE.

I couldn’t find any exact figures, but I’ve always heard that the Hong Kong education system is among the most competitive in the world. In the US about 62 to 69 percent of students who graduate high school enroll in college. Can anybody find that figure for Hong Kong?

Update: A few of my friends commented that only somewhere between 25% and 12% of students who graduate high school in Hong Kong enroll in college in Hong Kong. Wow… I guess that might make Hong Kong more of an international city in a odd way. With that competitive environment and low of a percentage, I’d imagine a lot of students leave Hong Kong and end up networking with people outside during their university years.

A few of my brother’s acquain-tances and Twitter...

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 16:04:00 -0600

A few of my brother’s acquain-tances and Twitter co-founder, Jack Dorsey founded a pretty rad startup called Squareup. Currently in their product/service pilot program, Square up gives away square dongles that work in conjunction with their iPhone and Android apps to people and merchants for free.

It’s similar to Apple’s new in-store POS / Inventory tracking systems developed to work in conjunction with their iPod touches. Except SquareUp is more focused on just the the credit card transaction, while Apple’s system involves a bar-code scanner and inventory tracking, and hasn’t sold their system to other companies as far as I know. I’d imagine SquareUp’s business model involves charging a small fee per transaction. See above video for more details.

My plunge from Saturday. I raised a total of $130. My combined...

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 14:14:44 -0600

My plunge from Saturday. I raised a total of $130. My combined teams raised a total of $2,411

I’m the one with the sunglasses and wig.

The Morning Benders: Excuses (Live). Amazing new single.

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 13:41:06 -0600

The Morning Benders: Excuses (Live). Amazing new single.

A few friends of mine posted a pretty rad house mixtape called...

Mon, 15 Feb 2010 14:04:00 -0600

A few friends of mine posted a pretty rad house mixtape called “We Can’t Hear You”. Check out just.one.duran.

Download: We Can’t Hear You!

Donate to my polar plunge!

Sun, 14 Feb 2010 21:30:01 -0600

Next weekend I am taking the polar plunge… twice. The water temperature of lake Monona is hovering right around a comfortable 0.5 degrees Celsius! Please consider donating!

Donate towards my Mu Kappa Tau team.

Donate towards my Delta Tau Delta team.

All the proceeds go towards Special Olympics Wisconsin.

This past summer I worked with Inphinet Interactive...

Sat, 06 Feb 2010 19:54:00 -0600

This past summer I worked with Inphinet Interactive Communications, Inc. and helped design the their relaunch of FindAccountingSoftware.com. The goal of the redesign was to improve SEO, web page optimization, and overall traffic. The photo above is a screenshot of the redesign.

The new site went live on New Years Eve 2009. We’ve seen some great stats…

Organic Google visitors are up from a monthly average of just under 3,000 to now just under 22,000. A 733% increase!
Our overall monthly traffic has almost doubled at no increase in Adwords expenditures from last year.
Our total conversions have more than doubled.

Note: I only have Analytics data that dates back to May of last year, so I had to use a few averages to arrive at these rough stats.

It’s been a fairly successful launch. All of these improvements have come at really no change to the company’s core service in matching accounting software vendors and support with customers.

Anyways, if your business needs accounting software, use these guys. I couldn’t imagine trying find the right accounting software among the 2,500+ developers, 6,000+ non-customized programs, and 12,000+ accounting software vendors in the industry. You get streamlined, unbiased software matches since vendors don’t bid on potential clients in the service, they apply for the potential clients/projects. It’s a pretty cool win-win-win (vendors/customers/lead generation service) business model.