Current Atomic Episodes

February, 2001: HealthInsurance.com Individual Path is launched (Whew)
Maddi is still working for FDC and has professed her love for database modeling and 20 hour work weeks.

January 1, 2001: Happy New Millennium!
I remember seeing the Movie "2001, a Space Odyssey" in 1968 (I think). At the time, 2001 seemed a very long way away...In fact, as near as I can remember (it was the 60's after all :) it was as distant and impossible as my 50th birthday (which occured last September.) There I was, 18 years old, in Westwood Village, resplendent in embroidered bell bottoms, a scarf for a blouse, dripping in Navajo silver and tourquoise,long straight hair and those Dingo boots with the round toes and buckles on the side. I was accompanied by a boy I was seeing at the time, who had a blue Triumph sports car, a TR6 or something. My dog Grunion would soon destroy the interior of that very sports car as we lunched at Split Pea Andersons. We stopped seeing each other shortly thereafter. To put this all in proper perspective... Amy was about one month old at that time.

November 2000: HealthInsurance.com site is launched

October 2000:HealthInsurance.com beta site is launched

September 2000: Jewelry.com and Miadora.com become casualities.
Miadora runs out of money and both sites go belly up. Amy and I are happy that we didn't negotiate Miadora stock or options. Demitri and Maddi were not so lucky :-(

Atomic Cocktail hires Joe and Arash, the Java boys and sends them up to Cupertino for WebObjects training.

August 2000: Josh goes to work on another jewelry site, Puredazzle.com

July 2000: Atomic Cocktail gets goin'
With a little help from our friends, we start working on the HealthInsurance.com website (HUGE). Demitri wants to use WebObjects, a bold step. We hire a Webobjects consultant to help us with development.

June 2000: Atomic Woman on the Move
Jewelry.com, after being sold off to Miadora.com, another online Jewelry site is moved up North. All of the development, fulfillment has been moved up there as well. Since we love working together, we decide to form another company! Enter, Atomic Cocktail.

March 2000: Atomic Women at Jewelry.com.
Amy and Jocelyn are currently working as web design consultants at Jewelry.com. It's hard work, but the pay is good plus all the jewelry we can eat. We are part of the web development team there and are helping to remodel the site along with our team members: Head programmer Demitri [cgi programmer extraordinaire, and comic improve guy....really!] and Josh, the precocious "boy wonder" html programmer. Our bosses love us [we think] and we don't even mind the commute!

Maddi is developing at a high security site that can only be mentioned vaguely and in hushed whispers. We can't even post the URL for fear of imprisonment, or worse. Yikes!

Atomic Women do SETI [Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence]

Jewelry.com has provided us these really nice, really fast G4's to use for web development. But when they are idle, they might as well be looking for E.T. So Amy and Jocelyn have got SETI@home running on both boxes. We are on Team MacObserver