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Fran and I had a nice Valentine's Day together. Owing to our busy schedules we spent much of the day running errands and catching up on things together. I got her a pearl necklace and earrings, along with a card and dozen roses. She got for me a waffle maker, ( more )
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Valentines Day 2005
Tuesday February 15, 2005, 10:22 AM EST
Fran and I had a nice Valentine's Day together. Owing to our busy schedules we spent much of the day running errands and catching up on things together. I got her a pearl necklace and earrings, along with a card and dozen roses. She got for me a waffle maker, recipe book, gourmet waffle mix, two cards, and a box of truffles. We also watched some Curb Your Enthusiasm. ( more )
Residential design for the mobile professional
Saturday February 12, 2005, 14:37 PM EST
Here's the situation: along with my business partner, I own a digital product design firm in Silicon Valley. I'm based in Boston. We work with companies on both coasts, and in other places. Regardless of client work, I travel out to the west coast every month for anywhere from a few days to a week. Each time I need to pay too much for a pretty crappy hotel room. Now, we just got an exciting new contract on the west coast that will require my being on-site for roughly four weeks out of the next nine. What are my options? ( more )
Happy rumblings
Saturday February 12, 2005, 14:11 PM EST
People in my industry know that the last five years have been really, really tough. But things are palpably turning around. I've got more hot leads than I can handle. We're about to dig into an amazing new identity and redesign project, have a choice consulting gig with a major research and engineering organization, and various and sundry other good projects in the pipeline. And its only February!
Since we're still in start-up mode I'm not personally enjoying the fruits of this progress and labor yet, but the future is looking really, really bright. From all other indicators, this seems to be the case for the design industry in general and tech in Silicon Valley in particular. We got started last summer, and both of us felt the timing was perfect. It appears we just might have been right. I hope our friends and colleagues out there doing good work are feeling this positive rub, too! ( more )