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Mint.com is a financial site that allows you to log into one system to see all of your finances. Basically, it is as if you were able to take all your separate accounts and move them to one bank view. It’s really quite interesting, and I”m excited about getting on top of all my finances on a daily basis. Also of note, it has a really good feature to tell you if you are saving money or losing money over the past 6 months. Even though I’m still in debt, I was very excited to see that I was still going in the right direction! ...

At roughly 3 AM last night I started to hear the shutters above my head rattle. It would happen in waves. First it would shutter, then it would stop, then it would shutter and then stop. Very scary at first, then I realized that something was flying into them, and apparently making shutters rattle. I left the room rapidly, as I was in a state of excitement, and turned on the light from the outside, and peaked in through the door. I definitely saw something flying around. It appeared to be a Bat. I spent he rest of the night sleeping on the couch. Woke up this morning, the bat had apparently flown back out the window. ...

One of my two dogs, Oliver had a seizure last night at roughly 1 AM. I was getting ready to pass out, having just got off the phone with my roommate to remind her that I was coming home in a week, when I heard a bark-squeak from the dog’s room. It was followed by a ton of claw scratching. I flipped out, called for one of my brothers to wake up and went down to investigate, only to find dog seizing in the middle of the room. I had to stay up with the dog until 3 am so that he felt comfortable and would sleep (only after I drugged him with a dog sedative my mother had in the cabinet). ...

Cultured Code Released Things for iphone. I have just download it and will start working it out tomorrow. I will say that I have been trying to start using things on my Mac, but it has been very hard to get up and running as I am not around my Mac all day. This App promises to change that, the problem. It doesn’t yet sync with the desktop client. They promise to fix this shortly, but until they do, I don’t think this app is really worth it’s value. However, with no purchasable version of Things for Mac available, I will take any opportunity I can to support the company, and buy this App. ...

Last Night I went to a few WWDC after parties. This being my first year in the SF bay area, I wanted to make an effort to meet more Apple people, and while I couldn’t quite afford attending WWDC, I wanted to make it down there to meet some of the people. Mike was planning on attending the Webkit Party yesterday, but as the day wore on, he was less and less definite about his attendance, as he was already tired from a wild Monday night. So that left me with no one to go with. Now, I’m not overly shy, but I always like having a starting point in a crowd. Without Mike, I felt it would have been difficult to find that point (He works for Apple and therefore knows a bunch of people at webkit). ...