There are a bunch of reasons that you shouldn’t have a website that is just one big flash application. Here is one simple one. The other day we were thinking of going to Tejas for lunch and wanted to check their hours. Simple enough. So I brought up their website on my iPhone. …
Keep reading · 1 minute: Fancy Flash Websites on the iPhoneUpon upgrading to iTunes 9 today I noticed that some old iPhone restore images had been dumped in my trash. I’m not real sure where they were being kept before, but the trash now had this stuff in it. Nifty. That cleared up 1,793 MB of storage that was never going to be used …
Keep reading · 1 minute: iTunes 9 Removes Old iPhone Restore ImagesA couple of weeks ago I was having an email dialog with my friend Dave Oosterhuis about iTunes metadata. We had been discussing the finer points of dealing with duet albums. Are they compilations? No. What artist field do you set? It’s all just a bit annoying for the …
Keep reading · 3 minutes: iTunes Feature Request: Song Linking“Domain names, like ideas, are cheap.” — me
We have been in Lignite, ND this weekend visiting my family. It’s really nice to see everyone. In addition to great relatives, I’ve had less stellar visits with a couple of Windows XP machines that needed various levels of help. Mostly cleaning up junk and updating things, however, my aunt had a full blown spyware infestation that was fairly gnarly. Microsoft owes me about 5 hours of time from this trip.
I’ve debated this many times, but finally decided to pull the trigger and remove the “www.” prefix from my website. This really isn’t anything that anybody need worry about. You will be redirected as appropriate to the right spot. I’ve been hesitant to drop the www because the …
Keep reading · 1 minute: Dropping the wwwI was catching up on my Daring Fireball feed today and saw that John Gruber had put together a longer post on Microsoft’s earnings shortfall. It’s a worthwhile read, and I think that Gruber is correct in suggesting that Microsoft has begun a very difficult time and is going to be …
Keep reading · 6 minutes: My Solution for Microsoft to Get Nerds BackI’m really struggling to get the hang of the Goldtouch Ergo keyboard. The command key is hard to adjust to. The CTRL key is horribly placed.
Oracle buying Sun saddens me.
Greed beating passion.
Just had a great work session using OmniGraphSketcher. This program has a lot of potential, still in beta. Hope to see it move fast!
