February 2010

My Monthly Subscriptions (Paid ones)

by Nima on 18 February, 2010

Throughout the past couple years I’ve signed up for quite many subscriptions and lost track of most them. I was trying to find all my paid subscriptions and found them (hopefully I found all of them). I canceled some and kept the rest. Here is a list of the ones I still have: Personal Subscriptions [...]

Twitter Updates

by Nima on 17 February, 2010

I just added a twitter gadget to my iGoogle (homepage) which has made me much more twitter active. I will twit about Iran issues, websites issues, and now working as an engineer issues. My twitter followers count is pretty low at 179 followers right now. I’ll shoot for a (hopefully easy) 250 followers by end [...]

How to Cancel ESPN Online Subscription

by Nima on 16 February, 2010

I signed up for ESPN online magazine subscription for about $5.00 a month. I looked all over my account information and on ESPN website. I couldn’t find any link anywhere which was frustrating. They make it very easy to sign up but very hard to cancel. This is not an un-common practice among businesses. I [...]

New Audio Book – Crucial Confrontation

by Nima on 13 February, 2010

The audio book I ended up buying for month of February is Crucial Confrontations by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan and Al Switzler. The book is about how to handle complex confrontations at work. I’ll post a review of the book at the end of the month.

Book Reading Goal

by Nima on 11 February, 2010

Few months ago I  read a new book every few weeks. I haven’t read a single book since December. So I just signed up for Audible gold membership. I get one credit every month which can be used to purchase one audio book. Between going to work every day from 8 to 5, doing work [...]

New Website Goals

by Nima on 11 February, 2010

My newest website is the Automation Field Engineer.com. I’ve got it up and running with all the good plugins. My goal is that by end of February the website have 500 visitors (in this month alone). Right now we are at 180 visitors.