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Writing More 16 Aug 2013 | 01:28 am
I’ve resolved recently to begin writing more again. I find writing to be very helpful. In addition to being a small respite in an otherwise busy day I enjoy translating an idea in my mind into words. ...
Happy Birthday, Podcasting 13 Aug 2013 | 06:46 pm
Today marks the 9th anniversary of the day the first podcast was published. Adam Curry‘s Daily Source Code is hardly daily anymore (in fact there hasn’t been a new episode in over a year) but podcasti...
I Don’t Care If Jason Collins Is Gay 3 May 2013 | 10:00 pm
A big story broke earlier this week when NBA player Jason Collins announced he is gay. Collins became the first active player in any of the four major sports in the United States (NBA basketball, MLB ...
Pointing Abraham Williams’s PHP Library for Twitter OAuth to Twitter API 1.1 5 Mar 2013 | 12:35 am
I’ve mentioned before how I’m using Abraham Williams’s PHP library for Twitter OAuth for various projects. With the impending decommissioning of version 1.0 of the Twitter API the question has come up...
Plugged In, Not Charging? 7 Feb 2013 | 08:31 pm
When I came into work this morning I noticed that the battery icon in the task tray of my windows 7 laptop said “63% available (plugged in, not charging)”. Naturally the “plugged in, not charging” par...
Let’s Stop Using The Term Blogger 5 Feb 2013 | 08:22 pm
Upon perusing a couple of fan sites for a sports team this morning I began musing on how blogs have evolved over the years and how the term originally applied to the content management system has grow...
If Steve Jobs Were Alive He’d Want Us To Stop Saying “If Steve Jobs Were Alive” 17 Oct 2012 | 07:10 pm
This morning I read yet another piece about Apple that said “If Steve Jobs were alive…”. We’ve seen this time and again since Jobs died but even more now in the wake of the release of the latest iPhon...
Goodbye, Twitter Tools 15 Oct 2012 | 11:43 pm
I had fallen behind in installing software updates on this blog since I hadn’t posted for a while. (Too many other things going on in my life that I had to deal with so the blog got put on the back bu...
More Bugs In Podcasts App For iOS 15 Oct 2012 | 08:34 pm
The Podcasts app for Apple’s iOS really stinks. Many of the bugs in the app are well known and documented on other websites and blogs but there’s one I came across today that I hadn’t seen anywhere el...
A Writing Experiment 3 Jul 2012 | 08:07 am
I’ve written before about my desire to write more often. Unfortunately despite my efforts I have still not been able to manage writing as often as I’d like. A new approach is definitely in order. Star...