Labor Day for us meant our daughter came home for her first break from Valdosta State University, which was great. We miss her when she’s gone, which already kicked in after she left earlier today to return to campus. We watched The Shining together; her first time. During the first half she was rolling her …
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Date this way!
Shame on you if you don’t know about xkcd, the best comic on the Interwebs! This is the only way anyone should record dates on their computer. I have years of files that I can quickly flip through to find just about anything.
Apple acquired by NeXT
Glenn Reid has the credentials to authoritatively write What it’s Really Like Working with Steve Jobs. Reid wrote he was employee #40 at Adobe Systems in 1985 before moving to work as product manager at NeXT reporting directly to Steve Jobs. The entire piece should be interesting to those who run in my circles online, …
Resolutions
If you don’t read xkcd, you should.
Clearing mental debt, editing like a pro
It’s really easy for nerds like us to build up a digital hoard of things to do/learn/read later, and each of those (mostly useless) items drops another pebble of guilt on a growing mountain of mental debt. Tech bankruptcy My Instapaper queue is a great example of tech debt and it’s easy to fix. Just …
Lost in "Lost" all over again
Christmas break has given me and Julie a chance to tie up a loose end we left frayed a long time ago. 4 8 15 16 23 42 We were enthralled by J.J. Abrams’1 Lost while it was airing on television, yet for some reason that neither of us can recall (electromagnetic pulse maybe?) we …
My daily Mac
My MacBook Air (11-inch Mid 2011 edition) is the best Mac I have ever owned, and a handful of apps I use every day really help me churn. I write this stuff up occasionally to help me review how I work. Maybe it’s helpful for you. Always running These are the apps that power my …
Other things I think about
As I have tinkered with this website, my attention has been focused on learning the ins and outs of Movable Type. The result? A string of posts written in geek speak–probably incomprehensible to many of you–as I work through my questions about the content management system. It’s a great CMS that can be challenging to …
Mapping Movable Type subdomains with symlinks
In my experience with content management systems, default settings drop “inside pages” into directories to create URLs like www.foo.com/bar. I prefer mapping subdomains to those directories so URLs look like bar.foo.com. After putting this design in practice, I ran into problems. For example, any attempt to use the search box from one of my subdomains …
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More responsive MT 5.2.2 worth a look
With its new responsive theme–Rainier–it looks like Movable Type 5.2.2 now delivers what I have been looking for to serve up this humble writing collection. The key word there is “responsive.” Since 2010, when Ethan Marcotte introduced the concept in his seminal article Responsive Web Design, the word has been overused alongside “curated” and “”air …