Not quite horrible weather in California… we can got outside and a few folks at work are still wearing shorts as some type of strange “We will not admit defeat to Winter” protest. What I miss from warmer days is this: I get up ass early and drive over the hill for a couple hours… More

The well documented switch to the Mac last year is going swimmingly. There is not a single mainstream application that I find myself missing on the Mac platform, but I still have a well-defined need for access to a PC. The first issue is that I have N.A.D.D. and I continue to travel in PC… More

In this article, I start tackling the idea of replacing status reports with some mutant combination of emerging social software tools. My two requirements for this next version of a Status Report was: – Makes it easy/attractive for larger organizations to share their information – Provides a facility to publish scheduled structured reports to executive-types… More

I stopped using NetNewsWire a few months back and felt pretty guilty since I’d foamed significantly at the mouth regarding RSS readers a few months back. It fell out favor during the great Jaguar/Panther migration… it was “yet another thing” I needed to ressuciate after my many and frequent upgrades and I just stopped doing… More

I surround myself with Alpha Geeks because they do a fine job of keeping me abreast to the latest trends which keeps me pleasantly on the bleeding edge. It’s a simple process, just listen to the Alpha Geeks. See what is floating their respective boats and when you see enough boat floatage, you jump on… More

I am very pleased with Mail’s ability to handle spam. I’ve got three different accounts of various ages pointed at a single account that is used by Mail. This meta-account receives a huge amount of spam, most of which is filtered nicely into nothingness. One strain of spam that has been getting through for the… More

The rapid evolution and adoption of the MTBlacklist plug-in is a surprise to no one. Comments have been sitting there with scads of exploit potential the moment the first decent looking woman (who could type AND owned a digital camera) discovered the wonders of LiveJournal. The MTBlacklist plug-in strikes me as a very good solution… More

About a year a half ago, I made the switch to Apple. One of the handy facts of this existence is that there is a large community of folks who stare significantly at “All Things Apple”. This provides a fascinating running commentary of Apple’s public facade which, in recent months, has been rapidly evolving. So,… More

It doesn’t take two cups of coffee on Sunday morning to figure out why the screen saver market never bloomed into a full blown industry. Screen savers were, and are, a tool which is intended to do something while YOU AREN’T THERE. There is a fundamental contradiction in paying for something which assumes your absence.… More

I’m a database guy. This means when I have to build something with software, the first thing I’m going to think is, “How is a database going to help me here?” I’d argue there are two other application cults in this realm, there are the spreadsheet guys (sales/marketing/management) and language guys (engineering). My database biases… More