I was notified today that as of November 6th, Discover Card will no longer be charging a foreign transaction fee. Their fee had previously been 2% of the purchase amount.  I’m still a bit unclear where Discover thought that their customers were  racking up these foreign transaction fees, as the card is generally not accepted [...]

I read an article this week on Unplggd that suggested 6 ways to “beat boredom” while commuting; While not all of it applies to us self-drivers, the idea of it really hit home. Let me put this in perspective for a second: I work from (about) 8 to 5, and drive around 12 miles each [...]

I came across an article on Productivity 501 about a recent flight that the author had taken and what Delta had told customers to potentially “cover for” a cost-management decision made in the face of equipment failure.  Enjoy!

Some photos from our 2011 trip to northern Europe. Becky would have you believe that this is about the speed at which these photos ought to be shown

This is really just an excuse to play with Pummelvision (http://pummelvision.com/)

Music by Friend…

As some readers may know, Becky and I recently got back from a trip to northern Europe. We’re mostly dug out, in terms of unpacking, getting groceries, doing laundry and all, and are finally setting to work on the list of stuff that we’d procrastinated by promising ourselfs “we’ll do it when we get back”. [...]