I really love this guy’s way of communicating powerful, knock you out of your rut ideas. I guess these are what he calls “reboot your brain” ideas. I often like to repeat an idea he raised during a radio interview I heard with him in San Francisco. He was being interviewed by Marty Nemko on […]

Anybody who has dabbled with CoreAudio programming on the Mac is probably familiar with the indispensable MTCoreAudio framework, by Michael Thornburgh. The framework makes it easy for Cocoa programmers to harness the power of CoreAudio’s HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) by wrapping some of the major components in Objective-C wrapper objects. What has Thornburgh been up […]

It’s the beginning of the month, which means it’s invoice time for me. I very rarely send out paper invoices. These days most companies are hip enough to have addresses like AccountsPayable@<company>.com. So my low-volume invoicing mechanism involves a Pages templates document, and a little manual copy and paste from my web-based hour-tracking system. One […]

Since moving to the Northeast I’ve been a customer of Verizon for my telephone and internet service. Being a customer of Verizon is basically the same as being a customer of SBC, as I used to be in San Francisco. Things basically work most of the time, but any time you need to change anything, […]