I like the fact that Christmas and New Year’s are so close to each other.  At Christmas we take time to look back at the previous year, give gifts to our family and friends as a means of appreciation, and hopefully relax.  Then, one week later we are looking ahead, full of energy and anticipation of the year to come.  On January 1st the sun rises with a renewed sense of optimism and commitment.

2007 has certainly been a year of thankful appreciation at Rockfish.  (I reflected briefly on this in a previous post.)  Thank you once again to all of our clients, vendor partners, and employees for an awesome 2007!

Our goals for 2008 are through the roof audacious, but I know that we can achieve them!   We are geared up, teamed up, and pumped up!  I can't wait to see what 2008 will bring.

Tomorrow for Christmas my oldest daughter will receive a laptop computer.  We’ve had a laptop that both of my girls have shared for the past year, but both need to use it more often for school work which has created some evening conflict in our house.  (It’s amazing how teachers assign homework now assuming that they have access to a computer at home). 

Having her own laptop will mean that she will most likely keep it in her bedroom which has put me on a search for a good web filter.  I found the K9 web filter from Blue Coat.  I’ve installed the filter and have been very impressed!  As an administrator, there are lots of settings you can tweak to block or allow specific content.  Best of all, it’s FREE!

Learn more here.

Rockfish Interactive is pleased to announce the launch of Wal-Mart's new blog "Check Out".

From the blog:

This is a blog, simply, about a team of experts at Wal-Mart and Sam's Club who have really cool jobs working with gadgets, games, sustainability and more. Even better, these jobs are centered around helping people save money and live better.

The blog was built upon our corporate blogging platform, Echo.  View it online at www.checkoutblog.com.