I’ve mentioned a couple of times that I like Direct Access, and use it on a daily basis (and by “daily” I mean “I type in a Direct Access shortcut about every 30 seconds to five minutes while working, but I do this every day, so thats daily”). You can see my full review of the program earlier on my blog. Actually, perhaps review is the wrong word to use: that implies objectivity, and I’ve got none here: I love the program like I love chocolate. Anyhow, the reason I’m mentioning it out of the blue is that another site I rather like, Bits Du Jour, is running a one day 50% off sale on it. So, if for some reason you’re still fence-sitting, you can get it for $20.
As usual, when I plug something here I’m not paid to do it.
I spent quite a bit of time in the last two weeks getting my personal finances in order (I generally do this once a year around tax time, and since I have an extension for living abroad tax time is October for me). My situation, which is already a wee bit of a mind-bender as a result of having accounts scattered in Japan and the US, is going to be made a wee bit more difficult next year as a result of the uISV I set up. Here is what I am doing to make this as easy as possible:
… I am extremely busy at the day job at the moment. Today was a deliverable for the project I am working on. There are at least two deliverables to go, and final acceptance testing was supposed to start on, oh, August 31st? Yep, you could say we’re under a weeeee bit of pressure to get things finished. As a result my time on my uISV consists of responding to an email or three a week, and the odd transfer from Paypal to my bank account. I hope to get “caught up” with it after we’re out of the woods at work. I have the data from Oct. 1st through 15th stored for folks who are interested in stats, and will try to get that posted tonight or tomorrow night.
