Scott and I will be in the Bay Area (peninsula area mostly) next Wednesday and Thursday for a couple FeedLounge meetings. Get in touch if you’re in the area and you’d like to get together. We’re also looking at setting up in a coffee shop for an hour or two to demo the product and…
September, 2005
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If you are self-employed, remember to send in your quarterly tax payment today.
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I got a report from one of my Tasks Pro™ beta users that the tasks created from e-mails were containing a bunch of HTML when the e-mail was sent in HTML format. My testing indicates that when an HTML e-mail that includes a plain text version, Tasks Pro™ correctly grabs the plain text version and…
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I’ve used a laptop as my primary personal development machine since 2000. For the last couple of years, I’ve said that I doubt I’d ever buy another desktop machine. However… My PowerBook is a year and a half old and is starting to feel a little slow, I’ve run out of disk space and there…
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I took on a couple of small development jobs last month and I’ve completely swamped myself with those on top of FeedLounge and Tasks Pro™ development. Right now I feel like I’m behind on each of them but realistically I’m slowly working though everything, One thing I’ve been working on is a revamp of the…
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Slashdot | PayPal Freezes Hurricane Relief Account Storm Exposed Disarray at the Top “It’s such an irony I hate to say it, but we have less capability today than we did on September 11,” said a veteran FEMA official involved in the hurricane response. “We are so much less than what we were in 2000,”…
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Having a nice relaxing weekend, mostly unplugged. Colorado is awesome at this time of year. I’ve already appreciated the portability of the Canon G5 but don’t have any shots worth posting yet though. An EVDO connection will be a welcome addition to my mobile set-up. FeedLounge works really great on a slow connection – a…
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Recently I’ve been finding myself more and more reluctant to haul my SLR gear around with me. The Nova Scotia trip was probably the tipping point for me – I didn’t have my camera out much, mainly because it was a bit of a hassle. I’ve been watching Craig’s list on and off since then…
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On Wednesday Auguest 31, our DirecTV went out. I did the magic rebooting of the TiVo dance, but to no avail. A tech came out on Friday September 2nd and replaced the multi-switch1 as well as the power supply to the multi-switch; fixing the problem. On Saturday the 3rd, it was broken again. A tech…
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I posted a new version of iTunes Stats. This version adds a couple changes: A very basic install script (install.php) to create the database tables. A database table prefix setting (config.inc.php). Your name in the header of the page (set in config.inc.php). Play count for each song is put in the database. New reports integrating…
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TextDrive is selling lifetime VC accounts again – I got mine in their first offering.
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Some new wiring in the basement, plus a general desire for organization prompted me to buy a label printer this weekend. After poking around a bit, my choice came down to the Brother PT-65 P-Touch (recommended by Jeremy Zawodny) and the Dymo LetraTag QX50. Both were ~$30 at the local Office Depot, so price wasn’t…
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The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on iTunes Stats Eric’s Archived Thoughts: When Printing Kills (thanks Dan) Folklore.org: Macintosh Stories: Swedish Campground Counting Mauer – my only concern about Mauer is his durability. Taking Time to Think Google is creating a culture of thinking by allowing their employees to wander about and bump into shit. Weird…
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I left my hand on on shift key too long on my windows box and trigger some kind of accessibility feature . I tried to turn it off and since then, my fonts have been whacky – the text in the titlebars is larger and the kerning is all squished, and the actual titlebars are…
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I’m not entirely sure how or when it happened, but in the past year I’ve weeded almost all primary sources from my personal news intake. Pretty much everything I care about will get picked up or commented on by one of my secondary sources. I never gave much credence to the folks who talked about…