I've been updating this website very infrequently and it is only going to become more infrequent as I put my time into Spendbot (and future ventures). These past five years have been interesting and occasionally fun, and I look forward to staying in touch with the hundreds of customers, business associates, and coworkers I've enjoyed meeting over the years. I'd like to leave you with a few of my favorite sayings, some I made up and others I haven't:

1. Which comes first, the chicken or the egg? Answer: the Farmer. So make your plans and get going;

2. If you have a customer, you have a business;

3. There are those who make things happen and then there are those who watch (not mine);

4. Don't overestimate what you'll accomplish in a year, nor underestimate what you can achieve in five (not mine);

5. In a world where 3 billion people live on two dollars a day or less and want to do our jobs for half price or less, money's going to be tight for a lot of people for a long time;

6. E is for Entrepreneur; also for Ediot.

7. Nearly every successful company has failed before succeeding- it's why they have financing "rounds";

8. You can't try unless you try;

9. Odds are, 90% of people would be worse than your current partners, and 5% better, but those 5% are probably already doing something better;

10. Treat others as you wish to be treated (not mine);

zài jiàn for now!

So you've upgraded to Windows 8 and reinstalled Thunderbird only to find out that your old emails- including inbox and sent- are now missing from Thunderbird. Thunderbird has a nice utility to import emails from other clients like Outlook, but not from old Thunderbird installations. Perhaps the instructions below will help, although I take no responsibility for how this works on your machine. It worked on mine.

First, exit Thunderbird. Next, find your old emails. You have to search the windows drive of the old computer, or in windows.old if you've upgraded a computer to Windows 8 from preview edition. Look for Thunderbird/Profiles/Mail and in that Mail folder you should see a folder named random letters.default. Inside that you should see one folder that says Local Folders, and another with a name that corresponds to your email account. Open that folder.

In that folder, you will see files like inbox and inbox.msf.  DO NOT DELETE OR MOVE ANYTHING. Instead, make a copy of these files, either on your desktop or onto a USB drive. Rename them to something to indicate to you they are old, like inboxold and inboxold.msf, or inbox2012 and inbox2012.msf, making sure they're not the same as an existing folder name.

Now, find your current email profile folder by searching your current windows directory, again for Thunderbird/profiles/mail. When you open that .default folder and the folder corresponding to your email account, you should see more files with names like inbox and inbox.msf. These are your current email files.

Now, copy your old email files that you renamed into this folder. None of them should have the same name, if they do DO NOT replace, rather go back and make sure the file names are unique. Once these files have been moved into this folder, you can start up Thunderbird and you should see your old emails in these old files.

If this works for you, great, feel free to drop me a line and let me know.

I've been working on a couple big projects. One is acting head of marketing and sales for Delta Mobile Systems, a leading mobile systems ODM, where I've been responsible for introducing new product platforms to target new accounts while identifying additional platform opportunities. We've uncovered a couple sizable opportunities and making headway into over a dozen major accounts.

The other project is a consumer SaaS offering. We have a very strong team, still in stealth mode, and I've enjoyed learning more about cloud architecture and creating multiple monetization paths.