Writing

Posts going back to 2003: technology, leadership, travel and food.

  • Shareware. Last night at the Innovators presentation at the O’Reilly OS X conference, Rael Dornfest brought up the old days of Mac shareware. (I immediately thought of Anarchie and MacHTTP;…

  • Starting a Business: Advice from the Trenches. Did that last “fire your boss” spam push you over the edge? Do your wish-fulfillment dreams revolve around letterhead, legal entities, and avoiding…

  • dot.communist on TV and my followup

    Sean writes about the dearth of quality TV comedy. I couldn't agree more. I watched the NBC trifecta of Friends/Will and Grace/Scrubs last night was bored senseless. My wife laughed…

  • An oldie but goodie from Adam's archive

    Stumbled across this great story on Adam Curry's site after following some fun links last night. Worth the read again.

  • Amazon linking test

    Trying a quick Amazon link generator from All Consuming. I am running a RSS feed through the blogroll macro, the same one I use for the categories OPML file on…

  • passed!. Just got back from the test center. I passed my written exam for my helicopter pilot's license! Now for the 'check ride' in about 2 weeks time and then…

  • iTunes Discovery

    Sean, I know what you mean. iTunes has been great; I'm buying more music than ever before. I listened to the clips for that band and I think I'm going…

  • Dave writes that changes are afoot at Userland. Hurray! Manila and Radio are great products with poor documentation, sparse training resources and in need of a programming tune-up. In that…

  • Installing Panther

    I've spent some time today installing MacOS 10.3 Panther. Thanks to Apple's kind UpToDate program, I received my disks in the mail today (late, my fault). Bad news–they are upgrade…

  • Stop the Insanity *or* Joshua gets more money than he needs

    Whoops!  Joshua asked for some help with money to cover the NH primary.  He got it.  In spades. Joshua, keep my money and smile.  It was great meeting you at…

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