I work a lot...

Seriously I could post a little more often than I do. Well... At work we've come up slightly for air. (Ya, I'll blame my lack of blog postings on that!) Our team recently had a press release for our product - the Monster Career Ad Network. YAY us! A long time coming! Dee did a really great job getting the word out and apparently everyone in our world is buzzing a little over it. This is my favorite article on it. She does an awesome job of explaining it.

I must say that the team I work with is just a really great and talented group of people and I am extremely happy to have had the opportunity to do this with them. Of course I am also really amazed since I remember when this idea was three boxes and two arrows on a white board in Labs. 2 years in the making, selling the idea, about a million mockups, 7 million meetings ;), people coming and going, an entire team built, random "you did what!?!'s", watching the stats like a hawk, LOTS of laughter, no shoes, crappy xslt's, YAGNI! and the bajillion agile iterations... Wow that parking lot is HUGE!

I think we've done a pretty doggone good job! I don't think we ever had a single problem! Hahahahaha. All I have to say is YAY and thanks to Dee, Chris, George, Sam, Gil, Tammy and everyone who helped us out along the way.
Time for a nice glass of wine and vacation!?! Chris when are you booking one for us?

Christmas is over, time to redeem your itunes gift card and find that song you heard!

Hi ya, Yes I am actually alive. Had an awesome Christmas hanging out with the family. Many stories and hilarious antics - as usual if you knew my family! So getting back to the usual grind again, cleaning up the house and disposing of christmas decorations yet dealing with 70 degree weather! This is utter insanity in the Boston area! I'm gleefully wearing flip-flops today. Is the weather aware that it's January 6th???? It's utterly unbelievable and I'm horridly un-anticipating our first major dig-out... It's got to be coming to sock us really good one of these days.

So anyhow... I was tinkering on itunes redeeming my christmas gift cards and figured the three people who will stumble by this may not know about my favorite itunes feature. You can actually browse local radio station playlists in your area. I utterly love this thing! I can't even explain how much and how smart I think this feature is. You see... even though I have a kickin' little radio system in my robin's spiled car that displays the title and artist of the song playing on the radio... a) not all stations do this yet, uh... duh, which just drives me bonkers, and b) I never cease to annoy myself by not remembering when I said (to myself, assuredly out loud, all alone) "Oh, I really need to remember that one so I can ipod it." So this wonderful little feature saves me from remembering one more useless "to do" for the day. (no, saving my life is drastic, I exaggerate, but it gives me amazingly great pleasure)

So what you do is... Go to the quick links over to the upper right side of the itunes store home. Here you will see "Browse." Now, once it switches to the browse screen, to the top left is your categories: Charts, Radio Charts, Audiobooks etc. Charts gives you the billboard charts (ohh, chills thinking about listening to Casey Kasem (check out his real name) and the top 40 - hee hee.
So... the cool feature, tada! Radio Charts. Select this one and move to the next box to choose your city. You then see all the radio stations in your area that you can look at. WOOOHOOO! And so solves the mystery of what was that stupid song you heard on the way to work that you wanted to remember but can only hum a little bit of. Lata'!