Monthly Archives: February 2008
Great moments in hot Scottish rock chick history
For your Valentine’s Day listening pleasure I present “Great moments in hot Scottish rock chick history”. Anything by Camera Obscura (1996-present): See also: Lloyd I’m Ready to be Heartbroken, Keep it Clean, Tears for Affairs, If Looks Could Kill. I … Continue reading
A better way to look at traffic statistics
My readership, while small, has been increasing since I started writing regularly. I had a recent peak of 50 web visitors and the number of daily RSS subscribers is about 50 as well. Micah asked me how many readers I … Continue reading
Jason Calacanis, shrewd recruiter and notable non-wiener
Jason Calacanis got rich selling his blog network to AOL. His major rival is Nick Denton of the Gawker blog network. On a recent This Week in Tech podcast Calacanis talked about attempting to poach Gina Trapani from Lifehacker (listen … Continue reading
Yahoo + Microsoft ?
Plenty has already been said about Microsoft’s (rejected for now) bid for Yahoo. All I can add is that Yahoo couldn’t absorb Flickr and delicious in any meaningful way since users prefer them as stand alone brands. I doubt Microsoft … Continue reading
For bloggers and techies: Lessons from a WordPress migration
I love the WordPress blogging platform because it’s open source, is easy to work with, boasts an excellent list of plugins, and runs anywhere PHP does. This account of a huge migration from Moveable Type to WordPress details some of … Continue reading
Computer backup guide update
Since I wrote my backup guide the SuperDuper bootable backup software has been updated to work with Leopard and TimeMachine. I’m still on Mac OS 10.4 but for you 10.5 users this is good news.
Why shrinkwrap software is dead
The other night I took Micah to see the Lakers beat the Knicks at Staples Center. I mentioned my recent post about hard drive backups and said that even supposedly “painless” technology stuff often has a ton of cognitive overhead. … Continue reading