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NASCAR Race - Phoenix 2004
Eight years ago this week my wife and I spent the weekend in Phoenix Arizona for the NASCAR race. We had a great connection through my uncle and were able to get Sprint Cup garage passes. (We also had...
View ArticleUnderstanding Email Security and Privacy
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has a good summary of the laws governing email privacy protections in the context of the scandal that led to the resignation of General David Petraeus, the...
View ArticleMovable Type 5.2 on Mac OS X
It’s been a while since my notes about local development copies of Movable Type and WordPress on XAMPP - a local LAMP stack that runs on Windows. I’m still using both blogging platforms and wanted to...
View ArticleTech Advent Calendars
As in year’s past, several tech communities are running Advent calendars during the month of December: Perf Planet Advent (performance) - RSS 24ways Advent (web design/development) - RSS Perl Advent...
View ArticleGoogle Zeitgeist 2012
What did the world search for in 2012? The data from Google Zeitgeist is kind of interesting, but the video is very cool:
View ArticleConverting HTML to Text or Markdown
I’m working on a documentation project where I might need to convert some existing HTML pages back into text or Markdown format for the new system. Rather than manually editing the HTML source, I’m...
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Downcast - A Great Podcast App for iPhone
Downcast is an excellent podcast app for iPhones; it’s much better than the Apple Podcast app. When I first started listening to podcasts on my first MP3 player (a Creative Zen Touch), the software was...
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Preventing Scam or Fraud Warnings for Email Newsletters
Some email clients like Thunderbird will sometimes show a scam warning message on emails which appear to be normal and not suspicious. The Thunderbird warning is two-part: first an inline message “This...
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Export Twitter Friends Script
As part of my Tweetfave project, I wanted to get a better sense of the people I’m following and whether they use the Twitter “favorites” feature. By using the Twitter API, I’m able to first fetch my...
View ArticleDomain Names and Web Hosting by Pair Networks
For the past 10+ years I have hosted this website and my other side projects through pair Networks. I’m also managing all of my domain names through the sister company pairNIC. As of today (2 more...
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Introducing Tweetfave
Tweetfave is a free service to help you get more out of Twitter favorites. Tweetfave monitors your Twitter feed and sends the tweets you mark as favorite to your inbox. I built Tweetfave for myself...
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Tweetfave Software and Services
With my Tweetfave project finally launched and starting to get a little bit of usage, I thought I’d summarize some of the key building blocks for this project. First of all, what does Tweetfave...
View ArticleBrief History of Tweetfave
Here’s a brief history of Tweetfave - my new free service that automatically emails your Twitter favorites to your inbox. This project started as one of those “wouldn’t it be useful if…” projects, as...
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Tweetfave Stats After 30 Days
One month ago I launched Tweetfave - my new service which improves the usefulness of Twitter favorites. After using Tweetfave myself for so long, it’s been exciting to open it up for others, and to see...
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Find Largest Files in Dropbox
File hosting services like Dropbox, SkyDrive, Google Drive, and Box all have very generous free storage levels (2 GB and up). Even so, it’s easy to quickly reach the free limit, especially as you start...
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Zapier - Smart Update Emails
Zapier is an interesting service I’ve been playing with lately. It’s somewhat similar to IFTTT, but with more of a business focus. In their words: Zapier enables you to automate tasks between other...
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Yahoo! Sports Broken on Nexus 7
Yahoo! Sports was recently updated with an all-new design, following along with updates to other major sections of the site. There has been a lot of vocal feedback - common whenever a popular site has...
View ArticleTwitter Followers in CSV Format
Several months ago I shared my script for exporting Twitter friends into CSV format, suitable for importing into Excel or other spreadsheet programs. This week I made some slight improvements to my...
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Top 7 Technical Podcasts
Here’s a list of all the technical/startup podcasts I’m currently listening to - my own personal “top 7”. I have a longer commute now and whether in the car or the train, I’ve had lots of time to keep...
View ArticleScreencast: Importing HTML Tables into Excel
Importing table-formatted data from web pages is a very handy feature of Microsoft Excel, and probably not very well known. To demonstrate the steps, I made two short videos covering both Windows and...
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