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Love this. After a week away from my AeroPress and my Chemex I’m really ready for a good cup of coffee.

“Content Creation” as I use the term applies to a broad range of activities that includes tasks as varied as a student taking notes, a worker recording and distributing meeting notes, a club secretary assembling and distributing newsletters, a teenager spiffing up the audio from a band performance, a webmaster updating a website, and a mother preparing her annual Christmas letter. Contemporary PCs and MacBooks handle such work effortlessly. But, have you tried to accomplish tasks like these on an … Continue reading →

Askismet has started to let some spam comments through. If you feel like sending me some feedback, feel free to send me an email, or respond in another way. After seeing these break through the filter, I furiously patched everything I could to see if that would help and ended up undoing the linked list theme customizations at a very inconvenient time. Hacking PHP in a browser by memory is a terrible way to spend your lunch hour.

I had two consecutive days without work this past weekend for the first time since late January. It’s incredible how much better I feel this week.

This is really cool. I’ve got one set up which starts a message with privilege information pre-populated. The other big plus? It’s super fast and keeps you from having to open your inbox just to send a message.

Apply directly to the forehead.

On Friday, American Airlines is the first airline in the world to be fully FAA approved to use iPads during all phases of flight. You know, it’s not TSA’s groping and pawing through my bag that gets me really pissed when I travel. It’s the bossy flight attendants who enforce “sky law” with my iPad and iPod. I just want to get on, turn on some Coltrane and zone out until we get there. No word on whether the FAA … Continue reading →

An interesting take on the popular single cup coffee makers.   via Marco Arment