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My roommate Molly just purchased a brand new $999 MacBook. I was of course there for the unboxing and original setup. We fired it up right away, and were greeted by the chime and then a series of three loud beeps right away. Some quick research suggested it may be the battery so we plugged […]

Just decided it was time. This one is a bit more my style. The last design I liked in many ways, but it was intended to be more generic and customizeable (which is why it made good fodder for that series of screencasts). This one is more personal to me and matches more my current […]

I just got this comment on CSS-Tricks. I think it is my favorite ever: SUP HOMIES GUESS WHAT, I WILL UZE IE6 TILL THA COWS COME HOME, ID ONT CARE ABOUT ANY UPGRADEZ MO-FOZ, DOWN WITH THE WORLD SYSTEM DARK ORDERS, CRACKERZ OWN THE WORLD HAHA -PARADOX. (!!)

I was googling around trying to find something on this today and there is lots of advice for setting the iPhone viewport like this: That’s fine and dandy for when the iPhone is vertical, but when you flip it, the screen kind of “zooms in” to make 320 pixels into 480, and it looks like […]

I just caught a guy from NW Natural, the gas company in Portland, pissing in my closed-gate backyard. I saw a strange person walk the window so I thought I’d investigate. There is nothing back there but my car, it’s all fenced in. So I open the door and hear the back gate swing open. […]

I receive and send a good amount of email every day. I friggin’ love GMail. There are so many features that make it perfect for me. Threaded conversations, starring, IMAP, easy filters, the list goes on. The fact that it’s in the cloud is great for me. I also love “archiving” my email instead of […]

I asked on Twitter if anyone had any books on learning PHP that they thought were good. There were many responses, so I’m “rounding them up” here with the suggester and their book. Suggested by: Raphael Caixeta Jimmy Gleason Suggested by: Maggie Hussein Riley Will Wilkins Kenny Phillip Lovelace Suggested by: Matt Kern Andrew Nash […]

Bullshit, when it comes to online advertising. With online advertising, you can measure results. You can learn the value of a click. If the value of that click is more than what you paid for it, a budget hardly comes into play. It’s like free money. As Seth Godin summed it up: If the local […]

Things is pretty killer to-do list-style productivity software for the Mac. It has a companion iPhone application that is pretty fantastic as well. What it doesn’t have, is the ability to sync itself across multiple computers. At least, out of the box, it doesn’t. I do work both at my home iMac and my laptop, […]

Merlin Mann as Jim Wesson (EVP, Enterprise Sales): BUT, on that same subject, Sandra, what can you do to really make the new design “POP”? I want it to really POP off the page. People get many letters every year, and I want ours to be the ones that never get thrown away — just […]

I’m with Seth Godin: I don’t like New Year’s. Faux merriment, excessive drinking, ridiculous resolutions and general malaise. Not to mention Dick Clark. It’s not because I don’t like drinking, it’s just because I like to drink on my own terms. These “big expectations” days annoy me. EVERYBODY. We are GOING OUT TONIGHT. We are […]