Since Google is going to shut down Google+, I decided it was time to really make a home for my LiveJournal backup and my Google+ backup.

Working on them has been very nostalgic, even moreso for LiveJournal. I have really fond memories of my conversations with my LiveJournal friends. Love you guys so much! Always will.

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I came across an old LifeHacker article Get Shit Done Blocks Distracting Web Sites So You Can Do As the Name Instructs, that mentions a productivity script, get-shit-done. So I went to the github repository only to discover that the Python script was no longer functional. I didn't have permission to fix the script at the site, so here's a quick ( Read more... )

My list of addresses has made its way from a physical address book, to a Palm Pilot, to Microsoft Outlook, to Google Contacts to the iPhone Contacts app. Along the way, each of the transitions has played fast and loose with the mappings of the individual fields ( Read more... )

It really frustrates me to have to follow up Amazon Still Hates Your Life(stream) with more poor decisions by the eCommerce leader and giant.

In late October 2010, Amazon removed the ListLookup operation from the AWSECommerceService Service. When I noticed it, I tweeted about it. I was sorta late to the game, though. Amazon announced they would ( Read more... )

Dreamhost offers a personal backup service.  Here are some notes on what I did to get it working from my Microsoft Windows Vista system.

Install All Required Cygwin Modules
First, I installed any missing required modules for cygwin.  At first, I had trouble with ssh, because it complained it couldn't find cygssp-0.  Using cygcheck confirmed the ( Read more... )

Four services I use changed their APIs on me last week.  Four.  What the hey, Internet?

TechCrunch

They migrated to the Disqus commenting system.  In the process of doing so, they broke a feature of their RSS feed.  Their feed has the element for each item, and it used to contain the correct number of comments.

I'm too busy to have to read each ( Read more... )

Step One: Stop wasting time all willy-nilly.  Decide when to do it, and stick to your decision.
Step Two: Mute your friends who post, tweet or plurk without any substance (or update too frequently), but are still awesome. Save those streams for time-wasting time.  Don't add their feeds to your feed reader.  Make it so you have to force yourself to ( Read more... )

 I've got a scrap of paper on my desk I need to clear away.  So I'm filing it here.  Eventually, I'm going to replace my Home WDS (made from a couple of WRT-54Gs with DD-WRT installed).

Somebody on a podcast (Maybe NPR's Science Friday) around Christmas time recommended looking into the Netgear WNDR 3700 and the Western Digital WD TV Live.  But then ( Read more... )

Finally, I downloaded the Chrome Beta because the Beta supports extensions for the following critical features:

• RSS Feed Detection - I needed single-click access to this
• IE Tab - Some corporate sites only work with IE.
• XMarks Sync - I have a tough decision to make with XMarks, now, since Chrome (Beta) supports native bookmarks sync.

There are other ( Read more... )

[EDIT: Twitter later stabilized @reply visibility:  Users now see @replies when the originator and recipients are known to the user, and don't see @replies otherwise.]

On Twitter, we'd all better second-guess what we see in our friends list of tweets.  Even if you want your public replies to be visible, be aware:

Your friends won't see your public ( Read more... )