Month: February 2008

Auto-categorization in Moneydance vs. Mint Sean Reilly, a developer from Moneydance commented on an earlier piece I wrote about how the application auto-categorizes downloaded transactions. I noted that Moneydance does not auto-categorize, but he is correct, it does auto-categorize up to a point. I want to point out how Mint and Moneydance approach auto-categorization differently…

links for 2008-02-13 Barstool Sports: New Jersey Freakshows Yup, we chose to move back here. (tags: nj funny)

Personal Finance Software for Mac I need some suggestions on finance software for the Mac. I’ve got three requirements: auto downloads transactions from Bank of America graphs and charts for monthly budgets auto-categorizes downloaded transactions I’ve been using Mint for several months. I really liked its auto-categorization features but its reporting is really, really bad.…

Wishing we were snowed in today so I could sit around watching pixar movies with the kids instead of plugging away at PHP.

Pork Roll, Egg and Cheese I heard via twitter from Tom Labetti that Brennan’s in Rumson got mentioned in Esquire’s Best Sandwich in America for their Pork Roll, Egg and Cheese. Nice job Esquire. I appreciate that you’re sending all the suckers to Brennan’s so that the line at Joyce’s in Lincroft (for America’s *really*…

A bit of Key West in my kitchen! .flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } A bit of Key West in my kitchen!, originally uploaded by sjwillis.

links for 2008-02-12 Home recording and project studio blog – Hometracked Cool site (via Joe’s del.icio.us links). (tags: audio blog howto)

Home recording and project studio blog – Hometracked Cool site (via Joe’s del.icio.us links).

I didn’t realize how much i disliked having a translucent menu bar until I disabled it after the 10.5.2 update.

You Are What You Spend You Are What You Spend From the NYTimes Op-Ed page yesterday. I’m not sure I totally agree that household consumption is a better measure of financial well-being than income, especially when it looks like that household consumption is being subsidized by massive amounts of debt or mortgaging ones future or…