April 2012
1 post
Celebrities Read Tweets About Themselves -... →
Apr 1st
March 2012
1 post
Bacon & Onion Grilled Guacamole on Plantains →
Ingredients 2 avocados 2 green plantains sea salt & black pepper cumin (1/2 teaspoon, or more) red chili powder (1/2 teaspoon, or more) cayenne (1/2 teaspoon, or more) 4 strips bacon 1/3 onion, diced salsa of choice (~1/4 cup) juice from 1/3 lime Use a knife to peel the plantains and slice them thinly at an angle, so the chips are longer (with more surface area for piling on...
Mar 14th
December 2011
6 posts
Deep Space Ambiance →
” Great for ambiance and imagining that you’re in deep space.” (Via The Verge: Star Trek TNG Ambient Engine Noise (Idling for 24….) LOL!
Dec 13th
Blank Page Insanity →
I dislike living in a world where a publisher, who wants to leave a blank page in the middle, has to print on it “This Page Intentionally Left Blank” to avoid getting emails about a blank page.
Dec 6th
DeysCast Dec 4 2011 →
jQuery(document).ready(function($) { $('#wp_mep_1').mediaelementplayer({ m:1 ,features: ['playpause','current','progress','duration','volume','tracks','fullscreen'] }); }); Back in the Kayak.
Dec 5th
Dec 5th
DeysCast Dec 2 2011 →
jQuery(document).ready(function($) { $('#wp_mep_1').mediaelementplayer({ m:1 ,features: ['playpause','current','progress','duration','volume','tracks','fullscreen'] }); }); Out for a run!
Dec 4th
DeysCast Dec 1 2011 #CDNOP →
jQuery(document).ready(function($) { $('#wp_mep_1').mediaelementplayer({ m:1 ,features: ['playpause','current','progress','duration','volume','tracks','fullscreen'] }); }); Got an early Christmas present!
Dec 2nd
November 2011
1 post
Moving Newspaper →
The best way to bring a magazine to an iPad is to not try and replicate the paper magazine reading experience. (Magazines on the iPad The BEST movies were when they just put the newspapers on…
Nov 29th
October 2011
1 post
Oct 12th
September 2011
4 posts
A Gift Basket Owed →
With everything I’ve been reading about Microsofts strategy with Windows 8 and Metro on Intel and ARM chips I think Apple better be sending a nice big gift basket to Redmond! When a user walks in…
Sep 22nd
Mornings Like These →
It’s mornings like these that I wish coffee was more then a pleasure drink for me. Caffeine doesn’t do much to me. Great for when I feel like a pot at 8pm, not so much when I need a perk up. Say…
Sep 16th
8 -11.04 →
So I heard a preview build of Windows 8 was available. Haven’t even give Windows 7 a real run down. Yes, I’m a Mac nerd, I have to use Windows at work and my software doesn’t run on anything past…
Sep 15th
PinTumbl →
Always annoyed that there ins’t RSS for my Tumblr dashboard. Tumblr is just so awesome, that would keep me there more but they don’t want to. We’ll I’ve been playing around with ifttt and I…
Sep 10th
August 2011
8 posts
All About Your Network →
It might be all about your network but it’s not all about building your network. If all you do is build your network what have you really done? Just do awesome stuff, the rest will happen. It…
Aug 31st
RAW-RUH-REE! →
Anyone else on a MacBookAir miss the old “RAW-RUH-REE!” sound to let you know your computer is actually waking up for the moment between you opening the lid to the screen backlight popping on?
Aug 30th
Last Woman →
” Even China, which has a recorded history stretching back at least 3,700 years, has only about 1,500 years left—if present trends continued unbroken.” (Via Populations: End of history and the…
Aug 25th
No To The Cake →
Wear your Real Food Uniform. Active Duty. Fly your freak-flag high. Say no to the cake. via Smoking Candy Cigarettes | Psychology Today. Too many great things to quote in here. I’m on board…
Aug 18th
Lion Is a Quitter →
“Try this experiment in Mac OS X 10.7 Lion. Start up TextEdit. Close any open document windows. You’ll notice, from the name of the application appearing next to the Apple menu, that TextEdit is…
Aug 11th
“Manage the Temptation to Publish Yourself” →
“I remember playing the guitar through the amplifier facing out the window of my house onto the street in the summer time – that was social media in 1992.” via John Mayer 2011 Clinic –…
Aug 6th
Coupon? →
Having the same payment page for your discounted and full price purchases just invites Google searches for “(app name) coupon code” and resulting abandoned cart. via Coupon Code Should Not be…
Aug 5th
Testing →
“So, when I would walk backstage, if I saw a brown M&M in that bowl … well, line-check the entire production. Guaranteed you’re going to arrive at a technical error. They didn’t read the…
Aug 4th
July 2011
12 posts
Easier? →
“One argument I’ve heard is that Apple is, in theory, acting in the customer’s best long-term interest here: iTunes is an easier payment method than Amazon’s Kindle store, so Apple should try to…
Jul 28th
Damn Hipsters! →
Bike Porter « Copenhagen Parts. “Oh I’m just out on my fixie, pickin up some wood!” Yeah, it actually looks pretty cool but these pictures…
Jul 25th
Sensationalize Much? →
“Any code created by man can be cracked by man.” via Has the Code of The Zodiac Killer Been Cracked? – Foster City, CA Patch.
Jul 23rd
Zoom – H2n →
“The H2n is Zoom’s most innovative handheld recorder to date” via Zoom – H2n. If you are thinking of recording a podcast, especially if it’s outside a studio, THIS is the device you need. I’m…
Jul 21st
Lost →
Good thing I gave a bunch more FieldNotes on order!
Jul 15th
Need Yourself →
“they don’t need the U.S. middle class any more” via bubble-destroyed-middle-class-marketwatch: Personal Finance News from Yahoo! Finance. I have a lot of notes written about this one but this…
Jul 13th
Tips and Tricks →
“Tweetbot has features that many users may not know about.” via Tweetbot Tips and Tricks — Tapbots Blog. You’re damn right. I learned a lot, now I just have to remember it all. BTW, A…
Jul 12th
Non-Reactive →
“One thing I actively work on, and have been actively working on for sometime, is maintaining a non-reactive mode of working.” via MacSparky – Blog – Home Screen – Kourosh Dini. Same reason I…
Jul 11th
All Male →
“any cable with a male HDMI connector at one end must also have a male HDMI connector at the other end” via Mini DisplayPort to HDMI cables banned by HDMI Org | TUAW – The Unofficial Apple…
Jul 10th
What Now? →
“The Hit List for iPhone 1.0 now available” via The Hit List for iPhone 1.0 now available | TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog. Well one of the “things” I was waiting for happened. The…
Jul 7th
Thesis 1.8 and WordPress 3.2 →
Just held my breath after a WordPress backup and hit update. Couldn’t find any documentation to say that the new version of WordPress (3.2) and the current version of Thesis (1.8) played…
Jul 6th
Google+ Awaiting Approval →
““the Google+ iPhone app has been submitted to the App store (no not today, sometime prior to today) and is awaiting approval.” (Via Google+ For iOS Awaiting App Store Approval.) If it’s as…
Jul 5th
June 2011
9 posts
2 tags
iPhone
Like the new iPhone app!
Jun 30th
1 note
Debit →
Had a conversation yesterday about cash vs debit. I hate using my card, almost as much as I hate using my visa, but after the conversation I wondered how many people don’t get why it’s called a…
Jun 26th
SO want a coffee now →
Aero press from Alexey Kurbatov on Vimeo. (Via The Inverted AeroPress Brewing Method – Shawn Blanc)
Jun 24th
DeysCast June 20 2011 →
Talking about Marco Arment on Build & Analyze 5by5 Podcast, pets and moving. deys200611 by billdeys Download: m4a
Jun 21st
What Safari’s Reading List means for Instapaper –... →
“I consider, the more likely it seems that Safari’s Reading List is either going to have no noticeable effect on Instapaper, or it will improve sales dramatically. Time will tell.” (Via What…
Jun 7th
Can’t everyone telework? →
“There’s another problem with working from home. You can’t moan about it to the person sitting at the next desk.” (Via BBC News – Home working: Why can’t everyone telework?.) There are a lot…
Jun 6th
Traffic-aware iOS calendar alerts →
“It could also use weather information, traffic data, public transportation schedules and more to help get you where you need to go.” (Via Patent suggests location- and traffic-aware iOS…
Jun 5th
You are… →
” If your clients love you so much that they consider you a guru, that’s great — but if you put it on your business card, you’ll raise eyebrows and devalue your personal brand.” (Via News…
Jun 3rd
Trials →
I love the Mac App Store. It’s just so easy to buy apps, update them and install them on multiple machines. One problem I’m starting to find more and more is that not having a way to do trials is…
Jun 2nd
May 2011
16 posts
6 Word Review – Tiny Wings →
So Simple. So Addictive. So Awesome! Tiny Wings
May 28th
1 tag
May 28th
Imaginary Phone →
(Via Imaginary Phone) This looks cool and all but, it just seams so useless. Even in the “future” the gear would probably be as cumbersome as the phone would be and half the point of the…
May 27th
3 tags
May 25th
1 note
Geek Runner →
You may not have heard, we never really announced it but, I also blog over at The Geek Runner. I just put up a post about starting a new running program. You might be interested. Maybe not.
May 24th
Problem with Twitter Apps →
I feel like there is a problem with almost all twitter apps on the iPhone. Boxcar is just too good. If you don’t know Boxcar is an amazing app that basically just pushes notifications to your…
May 22nd
Looks good but… →
This looks amazing. I almost bought it until I realized it’s just a hunk of wood. Beautiful, beautiful, wood. What is should be is that hunk of wood with the guts for a speaker dock. Then I’d buy…
May 17th