Archive for the ‘personal’ Category


My feeble attempt at a Blackberry

Wednesday, April 18th, 2007

I have been salivating over Blackberry’s ever since I seemed to be the only person not to have one. While I don’t do tons of communication, I love to be connected (oddly enough, what prompted me to write about this today was the massive Blackberry outage that has been going on for the past twelve [...]


A funny thing happened on the way to the forum

Saturday, April 14th, 2007

My company recently decided to add a message board to our website. We have a very nice email subscriber base, but wanted to increase usage of the website simply to develop more of a community. So this past week I researched some free software, installed it, and configured it. I paid special attention to security [...]


Yelp!

Monday, April 2nd, 2007

This weekend, I had the pleasure of visiting Boston’s North End, or their version of Little Italy. My wife and I drove down to Wonderland (an exuberant name for a subway stop that is anything but), got on the subway, rode it for three stops before we found out the rest of the line was [...]


I am the real Jon Heller (according to me)

Thursday, March 29th, 2007

I was reading one of my favorite sites today, Lifehacker, when I noticed a link to an article entitled How to look good when your recruiter googles you. Then I noticed an article via Digg called Why You May Need an Online Persona. To top it all off, my father sent me a scan of [...]