The Books I Read in January of 2024

In an effort to read more, I started logging the books I read each month. This is inspired by Cal Newport. I am only logging the books I read for m...

The Books I Read in December of 2023

In an effort to read more, I started logging the books I read each month. This is inspired by Cal Newport. I am only logging the books I read for m...

Buying a Lifestyle vs Living It

I’ve noticed in the past how much of the effective marketing we see in the US is driven by selling a “lifestyle”. When Williams-Sonoma sends you a...

Progress and Improvement

It’s been a tough week, the shower was being repaired (no small challenge when you have only one bathroom in your apartment, and four people living...

Happy Birthday to Me!

Well, I’ve completed my 44th trip around the Sun on this planet 🤓 This is generally a good time to assess my life and see if I’m where I want to b...

A New Shortcut to Make Blogging on iPad a Little Easier

I created a new shortcut that is pretty simple, but removes a lot of the tedium from blogging on Gatsby from the iPad. Previously, I had to create ...

Dusting Off the Old Blog

It has been almost five years since I last wrote a post. And now that I’ve gone through the trouble to rebuild the blog on Gatsby. I feel it’s fun ...

Safari Suddenly Updating Won't Change Anything for Web Developers

There was some recent buzz recently in the web community about a post from Nolan Lawson entitled “Safari is the new IE6”. Then there was a counter ...

Building a Posterous Clone with Node.js

This is the first article in a series where we will develop a Node JS project from beginning to end. A quick introduction to what we are going to d...

So Which Is the Real Headline?

Both of these headlines appeared on Daring Fireball (tweeted by John Gruber) GOP lawmaker: Virtually impossible to get AIDS through heterosexual se...

Time Management By XKCD

Seth Godin: Upside vs. downside. If he keeps doing these posts, I might actually read Permission Marketing (currently on my shelf)

Here’s a rule that’s so inevitable that it’s almost a law: As an organization grows and succeeds, it sows the seed...

New Webkit Nightly Build Makes Debugging In Safari, etc. Almost as Easy as FF & Firebug

If you are a web developer that does heavy CSS / Javascript, you have to check out the latest Inspector from the webkit team, its pretty close to t...

WordPress' New "Press It" and iPhone App are Great for Mo-Blogging

Press It WordPress Codex. This bookmarklet combined with the iphone client wordpress just released in the AppStore makes for a decent moblogging ex...

Experiments in Social Networking: Flock

Edit: This post was unfortunately delayed as I wanted to adjust it for the latest version of flock, which is based on Firefox 3 instead of Firefox ...

A great post by Scott H Young

Scott keeps a great blog at www.scottyoung.com, with a lot of excellent observations and advice.  In today’s post he writes about the concept that ...

Mental Organization

Unclutterer poses a very simple hypothesis: If you understand the way you tend to process information, you can better select tools, practices and h...

Manage your own Hotel / B&B Bookings with Open Source tools yourself!

When my wife and I visited Key West and stayed in a Bed and Breakfast, we talked for a little while about how maybe…we should just sell everything ...

Just Discovered the “Blog Design” Blog…sorta like a meta-blog

Blog Design Blog I definitely plan to use their tips and “Dreamworks Redux” Theme to build a new (unique) look for this site. Even more amazing is ...

Getting Things Done in a Nutshell

This is my first non-technical post, more to the topic of productivity and organization. (thought it only fair to warn people up front). I was orig...

Tips for Following the CocoaCast with XCode 3

I imagine a lot of programmers out there have similar issues to mine. I meant to learn Cocoa a while back, as a programmer and Apple switcher. But ...

Elements of Javascript Style

Javascript is a very forgiving language to program in. As such, everyone has their own way to program it. My personal Javascript style is continuou...

How I Use TextMate

All Programmers swear by their editor. Its like a religion. You only need to think about the ongoing joke of emacs vs vi in the Unix world to get a...

Wednesday, June 07, 2006

Well, its been like two weeks since I have published on my switching experience. What can I say, I am a crappy blogger!...enough about my procrast...

About Switching To mac

The purpose of this blog is to track and share my progress and experiences switching to Mac. I have been using Linux almost exclusively for about 3...