I’m sitting on a plane (yay offline GMail!) on my way back from a last minute mini-vacation to San Diego for 4 days. Since starting the business nearly 2 years ago, I’ve not had much in the way of time off, let alone a full-fledged vacation. Its funny, because though we emphasize a healthy work-life […]

Last week, I gave a talk to the local chapter of the AITP organization about how BrightMix leverages “cloud computing” to run our company and uses the best cloud storage. For the talk, I use the term “cloud computing” in the sense that most of the software applications that we use to run our company […]

Since the weather’s been so nice, Brightmix, with the help of supplies from Marlina, is growing a garden. It’s not huge, but by August, we should have lots of Cherokee Purples and this other thing called “bell pepper”…whatever that is. Also, “lettuce.” It’s like our version of having a fish tank. Maybe come winter, Brightmix […]

Hello World, I am the Bentern, the Brightmix intern.  For the past six weeks I have been working out of the Brightmix international headquarters here in Omaha working on a project of my own.  I came up with my idea originally as a programming challenge for myself and it quickly progressed into what I think […]

We’ve been in the news quite a bit recently, and have been lax on tauting these happenings to the blog. Most recently, this past Saturday I was quoted in the Omaha World Herald in a story about the coworking project that we’re helping to spearhead called Jailbreak Omaha. Jailbreak is a hybrid coworking / incubator […]

After a most “amazing” Cupcake Party, BrightMix has officially declared 2009 the year of the dessert-themed party. For our next bash, we’re hosting an ice cream social for the ages. It will be like nothing Leavenworth Street has ever seen before! We’ll have ice cream, bowls, spoons, and drinks. We’re counting on you to bring […]