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Using Twitter Search to Find Interesting People to Follow
So everyone knows by now that Twitter is getting big. Really big. One of the most…
The Steam, Water, and Ice of Modern Communication
A friend recently forwarded me an email I sent to him in 2004. It was part of…
The Real Reason Git is Great
This is the best argument I’ve come across for why git is special and worth…
Character Encoding: Which Schemes Encode to Which Sizes?
The subject of character mapping and encoding is formidable, and many confuse…
Misconceptions about Unicode and UTF-8/16/32
You keep using this word; I don’t think it means what you think it means.…
Problems with Check Point, NAT, and SIP
Scenario You have an Asterisk server behind a Check Point firewall trying to contact…
Technology Pseudocode: Keeping Your Technology Problems Abstracted
The über-tech-geek culture has a problem with tool obsession. Twitter, Friendfeed,…
Some Thoughts on the Economic Viability of E-Books
A friend of mine (I’ll identify him if he so desires) sent me the following…
Spotify: How We Will Consume Music in the Future
I’ll mess this up, but here are the various ways we’ve been able to…
Quicksilver + Quicksearches = Ultimate Power
I’m often asked why I think so much of Quicksilver, and why it’s always…
VOIP Phone Selection
So I now have fully functioning VOIP at the house using Asterisk, but I currently…
Why Twitter Works
We all have a problem keeping up with friends and family that have moved away.…
Google Chrome Has Wicked Quick Searches
One of the reasons people don’t want to leave Firefox for Google’s…
How I Organize My iPhone Applications
It can be frustrating to not have a system for your iPhone app organization–especially…
How to Add Directory Colors to OS X’s Terminal
It’s kind of annoying that ls –color doesn’t work in OS X. Fortunately…
Personal Daemons and Wuffie
Everyone knows the future of technology lies with the individual. One of the ways…
Microsoft’s Best Kept Secret For IT Professionals
On the desk next to me sits full, legal copies of the following Microsoft software:…
My Idea For A True Content Aggregation Service
I’ve been struggling with a problem for a while now. The problem is how…
Did You Know Notepad Could Do This?
Yeah, that Notepad. It has a feature that few know about, and I’m not talking…
Why You Should Be Using Friendfeed
FriendFeed is a relatively new service designed to let you stay in contact with…
Aug and Naug
In the future, after we’ve started integrating computers into our brains…
Information Security as Insurance
The future of information security is to provide data to insurance companies.…
Apple vs. AT&T
As you may have heard, AT&T’s chief executive disclosed last week that…
How to Migrate Your Custom Domain’s Email to Google (And Maintain Your Addresses)
After over six (6) years of handling my domain’s email through self-built…
