Great first impressions of the MacBook Air. Be sure to read the prologue too.
February, 2008
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It’s interesting how your work environment changes the way you view your ideal computer set-up. My recent history (2004-2008): A few years back, I was using a 17″ PowerBook with an external monitor as my primary machine. Then as I transitioned to doing most of my work from my home office and the desktops were…
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Steve O’Grady and I have been talking recently about Twitter, social networks, friends, followers and the feeling of responsibility for what you post/tweet.1 Of course it isn’t realistic, but I wonder if people would be more likely to absorb good Twitter behavior if they had to follow people for a week before they could post.…
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Blu-Ray Wins HD Disc Format Battle; Will Lose War To Downloads Verizon to offer unlimited voice, data, and messaging packages – I’m very interested to see how this plays out. Douche Bag Quest to be First Douche Bag on Google – I’m always up for supporting a good cause. Is the Air all that? –…
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After finding the excellent CodeIgniter TextMate Bundle, I’ve switched to TextMate as my editor of choice for my CodeIgniter development. I’ve tried switching to TextMate in the past and there is a lot I like about it, however I always end up back with BBEdit for find/replace and other text manipulation tools. This time though.…
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We’ve had our first turnover at Crowd Favorite. Mike Hostetler has decided to go solo so he can spend more time working at home with his new baby daughter. Mike’s going to be focusing on Drupal, Qcodo and jQuery, I thank him for the work he did with us and wish him success with his…
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I’m not finding as much time to experiment with things on this site as much as I’d like, but I did switch over from Google AdSense to Rubicon to try them out (on Micah‘s recommendation). I turned off things I thought would be too annoying: Audio Ads, False Message Ads, Shaky/Flashing Ads and Windows Dialog…
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Welcome | Internet Advertising – the Rubicon Project – seems interesting, I’ll be trying it out if I get into the beta. So you’re going to write an iPhone app – great tips here. Starbucks Switching From T-Mobile to AT&T for Wi-Fi Service John Resig: XPath Overnight Boulder Startup Weekend II – too bad I’ll…
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There are two kinds of people in the world, those that have lost a hard drive and those that are going to lose a hard drive. Ever since my hard drive snafu a while back, I’ve been a lot more cognizant about backups. My email is sent to both FastMail and TuffMail, just in case.…
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I’ve gathered up a bunch of my unused tech gear and got it posted on eBay. It’s all in pretty good shape, some stuff has issues that are noted in the descriptions. This is my first experience selling things on eBay… now I just sit back and wait for the millions to roll in, right?…
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Awesome! Adam has done a terrific job on MsgFiler. I’m thrilled to see it thriving.
Credit to Paul Tomlin for his QuickFile extension for ThunderBird for the inspiration, and many thanks to Adam for building it and making it really slick in the latest version.
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I took part in a brief Squadcast interview that was published yesterday. We talked about WordPress, particularly plugins. The podcast is mercifully short, hopefully it is also interesting. 🙂 Thanks to the Squadcast team for having me on.
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The ShareThis team has been hard at work on a number of things lately, and three of them are now available. Reporting This is a big one that lots of people have been waiting for, myself included. When the ShareThis team and I first spoke about working together, this was an item we talked about…
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A commenter asks: on your page: Articles How do you prevent, that when a user searches in google like, say “From King Design to Crowd Favorite” on the SERP he is displayed by google the posting and not your https://alexking.org/articles page? Like I see it, you don’t have a noindex on the https://alexking.org/articles page! I’d…
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VoteChooser.com – I was 10/10 with Obama. Dialectic : Coming Soon! – I hope this will work with our IP phone system C-c-c-changes | Lisa Sabin-Wilson – heh. Why I flipped to Twitter – this is exactly my point to people. Try it, then make a decision. Do Normal People’s Brains Move This Slow? –…