Just some random notes and reminders…
Last week I migrated this site, Togetherism, and The Everyday Cafe to a new web host. The experience wasn’t too painful and it was totally worth it — the sites load almost immediately now instead of taking a few seconds.
Dawn Foster put some work in over the weekend on her […]
When I realized that my pro-blogging and book authoring career had run its course (at least for now), I had to look around to see what might be of interest next. For a while, I’ve been interested in Drupal. Why? I don’t know exactly. I like the idea of open source. I like WordPress, but […]
This blog started slowing down in the past couple of weeks. I tried dropping tables I didn’t need and optimizing the rest, but it was still sluggish, even using phpMyAdmin to access it. I’ve solved the problem, but in case anyone else runs into something similar, I wanted to share my experience.
Don’t bother calling GoDaddy […]
I’ve been playing around with Ajax start pages today. I plan to review the more popular ones for Web Worker Daily or perhaps just write some sort of feature article about using them, but so far I’ve just felt frustrated by them. They are so far from doing what I want.
The three I’m trying so […]
Curse wildly.
Scream for your spouse.
Turn the MacBook over and pour all the excess coffee out.
Blot up what you can with paper towels.
Let it dry.
Feel relieved that it still boots.
Realize that a good portion of the keyboard is nonfunctional.
Curse some more.
Make a reservation at the local Apple store’s Genius Bar, and hope they can fix it […]
London-based Flow Interactive is running a project for World Usability Day (November 14th) called Making Life Easy. They invite you to submit examples of things that make life easy and things that don’t. If you’re really motivated, get out and put a red balloon on the best and worst examples of usability you can find, […]
The podcast jam officially starts tomorrow, but I’ve launched the chat today in case you are “in town” early and want to come hang out at the equivalent of the conference hotel bar.
If you’re the sort that subscribes to podcasts, you can just use the main news feed in your podcatcher. FeedBurner offers a service […]
Christine Herron is blogging from DEMOfall, where new technology is exhibited to a crowd of venture capitalists, journalists, entrepreneurs, and business executives. I was intrigued to read Christine’s description of PostPath, a Linux-based replacement for Microsoft Exchange server. After the onslaught of web-based Microsoft Office replacement wannabes, it’s nice to see a company aiming at […]
I cannot focus. I have too many pressing things to do: plant Apricot Beauty tulip bulbs and grape hyacinths around my new skyline honey locust tree, pretty up the chat capability for the podcast jam website, review a load of database design docs for a client, hire an afterschool nanny so I don’t turn into […]
Email really sucks as a collaboration tool doesn’t it? Everyone has to manage their own archives. New team members don’t have easy access to old discussions and shared documents. People lose or delete information that turns out to be important. Stakeholders get mistakenly or purposefully left out of discussions. Email inboxes get flooded with information […]
