Author Archives: WasatchGirl

PC Gaining Television Audience

I sold my television over two years ago, preferring to watch all video content on my computer, personally considering the computer sufficient for my media consumption needs. Within the past 3 months I moved in with a friend who happened to own a television but without cable access; its sole purpose being for guitar [...]

Impact of the Chip-In Widget

In May Phil Burn’s daughter, Serenity, was diagnosed with leukemia . Phil Burns is a local entrepreneur, blogger, and technologist and well known in the local technology scene. With the announcement of the news, fellow bloggers immediately responded by distributing the Chip In Widget (created by Jesse Stay) amongst their online presence and pitching [...]

Personal Financial Management Options

I have been actively managing my finances (i.e. budgeting, investing, etc.) for the past 4 or 5 years and have noticed that the process is substantially easier through the deployment of a personal financial management solution.
For the past 2.5 years I have been using the Utah-based start-up mVelopes for my financial management needs. I have [...]

On Vacation: Squamish, BC

Sorry for the lack of posts lately. I am on vacation, climbing in Squamish and Whistler. I had high hopes of putting out a couple posts while away… but… it hasn’t happened and most likely won’t. =) I will resume when I get home on the 22nd.

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Wordpress 2.5.1 is Elegant

The latest version of Wordpress came out a couple weeks ago but I was stalling on upgrading due to a warning my hosting company posted. After doing two different types of backups, one through the hosting service and one through a shell script Rob wrote, I decided to take the plunge and do the [...]

Another Way to Help Serenity

Numerous posts and tweets have been hitting the Utah scene lately concerning Phil Burn’s daughter, Serenity, being diagnosed with Leukemia. I blogged a couple days ago about the new Chip In Widget, created by Jesse Stay, that thankfully has been distributed amongst a handful of bloggers and is seeing a good up-tick in donations.
However, [...]

Women Blogger Research

I subscribe to the Ken Radio newsletter. He often provides tidbits of information that I find interesting, with this last newsletter being no exception as it was concerning the demographic of the woman blogger. I couldn’t find this content on his site (perhaps it was just in his newsletter?!) so will share here.
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Supporting Local Entrepreneurs….. and their Families.

As many of you local readers and twitter-ers already know, one of the fellow technologist in the area, Phil Burns, learned this past week that his 22-month-old daughter, Serenity, has leukemia. Incredibly heart breaking news, but with the upside that she has immediately started chemotherapy and should be able to survive. His previous [...]

Super Hero Life. =)

The WasatchGirl was once picked up by a SLC blog listing, not Connect Blogs (which I know syndicates my blog.. thanks Jordy) but another one I did not know. The site included a description of me that was along the lines of how I blogged on business, technology and venture capital and then [...]

Understanding SteepAndCheap Advertising

I am an active watcher and customer of SteepAndCheap (and the parent company Backcountry.com along with its sibling site Dogfunk.com), repeatedly checking the site for quite a few years. I think their implementation of the “woot” model to sell old inventory is superb, especially now (actually integrated about two years ago) that they have [...]