Words of Advice Before Upgrading to iOS 5 and iCloud
Today is a big day for Apple. The iPhone 4S is shipping and Apple is doing one of its biggest set of software updates ever. Today they’ll be releasing iOS 5 ...
Recent posts
I Hadn’t Expected It To Be So Dusty
Although I hadn’t expected a flood, either. I usually think of hurricanes sitting off the coast and dumping on Cape Cod and Boston (if they ever get that far...
iPhone Tethering
Free Wifi is great, isn’t it? Except when it’s worth exactly what you paid for it: nothing.
iTunes Hygiene
Instead of working on a site redesign that I have a tight deadline on, I am dealing with a long-standing peeve I’ve had: iTunes hygiene.
Twitter and Facebook Have Not Killed Their RSS Feeds, Completely
Yesterday there was a fuss about alarming news that Facebook and Twitter had both killed off their RSS feeds (“completely”).
Why I Don’t Self-Host Anymore
I’m at An Event Apart and have just listened to a great presentation by Jeremy Keith on data permanency. He touched on many issues, from technical ones regar...
Nutrition Labels for WordPress
Download I’ve just released a plugin for Wordpress, wp-nutrition-label. It provides a Wordpress shortcode which generates an HTML FDA-style nutrition label. ...
How to Quote a Shortcode in WordPress
Wordpress offers a handy mechanism called a “shortcode”, which is a kind of macro. Shortcodes are supplied by Wordpress itself and by plugins that extend Wor...
A Reason I Like Apple
I don't go to physical Apple retail stores very often but this weekend in New York I needed a mini-displayport to HDMI cable, so we took a walk to the 5t...
Lean Chicken Chorizo Recipe
I like the flavor of chorizo but I'm not thrilled with its ingredients. Most commercial chorizo is very low quality food and quite unhealthy. It's made wi...
My Inbox Is Not a Todo List
I have 6 pieces of email in my inbox right now, down from somewhere slightly south of a thousand a few days ago. Much of the mail that was cluttering my inbo...