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Thursday, February 25th, 2010
Dan Wood just posted an interview with me on the Mac Indie Marketing Blog. I love how interviews tease out thoughts that had never previously been fully gelled in my head. Thanks for the thoughtful conversation, Dan. Out of this experience came a new personal mantra: Always Be Marketing. This catch-phrase came to me as […]
Posted in Business, Indie, Links, Marketing | 6 Comments »
Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010
I have never owned a fax machine in my life, and I hoped that things would stay that way until the last obnoxious faq-requisite institution on earth had pulled the plug on these foul machines. But … I’m dealing with some entities recently that are hard-set on faxing, and I have needed to send rather […]
Posted in Rant, Technology | 37 Comments »
Thursday, January 28th, 2010
The future of software is on the web. That’s what they keep telling me. I just smile, and say “I don’t think so. There will always be compelling technologies on the desktop.” I believe this, but I admit it carries an odor of blind loyalty to my comfort zone. People who argue the other […]
Posted in Apple, iPhone, Macintosh, Technology, Web | 27 Comments »
Thursday, January 14th, 2010
Dave Dribin offers a couple really handy tips for modifying the behavior of the “sudo” command-line tool, which allows ordinary admin users to acquire superuser powers for editing files, changing permissions, etc. Handy Sudo Settings – Dave Dribin’s Blog I knew about the ability to change the sudo timeout, but have never gotten around to […]
Posted in Apple, Darwin, Links | 7 Comments »