Archive for the 'General' Category

iWork ‘08 Numbers

Wednesday, August 8th, 2007

Of the Apple announcements yesterday, the one I was most excited about was the addition of Numbers, a spreadsheet program, to the iWork suite. Finally, an Apple spreadsheet app. (Unless of course you remember back to AppleWorks.)
So I gladly downloaded the 30 day trial to see if Numbers can replace Excel. I had high hopes, [...]

Blogs vs. Websites

Friday, April 14th, 2006

A question I’m frequently asked these days is “What is the difference between a blog and a website?” I’m having an increasingly difficult time answering that question. Not because I don’t have some semblance of an answer, but rather I’m making a personal push to get away from using the word blog.
I don’t like the [...]

Fighting Comment Spam

Monday, February 27th, 2006

Despite using a captcha to fight comment spam I’ve seen an increasing amount of the junk in the past few weeks. At first I thought maybe the spammers were getting past the captcha, but carefully analyzing the log files shows that isn’t what happens.
In the most recent comment spam I received the spammer simply used [...]

Secure Document Delivery

Monday, January 30th, 2006

There has got to be a better way to deliver secure documents to people. Today I received a 1099-MISC form in the mail. The window on the envelope which is supposed to display your name and address also displayed my tax ID number. But even that slip didn’t really matter because the envelope wasn’t sealed.
I’m [...]

WordPress 2.0 Upgrade

Friday, January 13th, 2006

Okay, no less than two weeks after I listed reasons I wasn’t going to upgrade to WordPress 2.0, I’ve done so. But…. Just on this site. I have not upgraded any of my other WP installs and I don’t plan to soon.
My opinion of the release remains the same. It will be great for many [...]

Things are Crazy

Thursday, January 5th, 2006

Things are crazy. Things are very crazy. I’ve written close to 100 blog posts this week and I’m still behind on one of them (flightnest). This whole craziness has been the result of a few different factors.

Google let one of my websites out of the sandbox. Or since Google barely acknowledges such a thing exists [...]

GPS Review makes CNET Top 100 List

Thursday, October 6th, 2005

GPS Review has made CNET News.com’s Blog 100 List! Wow!
GPS Review has been selected as part of the News.com Blog 100, a feature in which News.com editors and reporters are helping find the best news and views on the Web for the convenience of our readers.
They cited the reason as “Good aggregation of product news [...]

Where Have I Been?

Friday, July 22nd, 2005

If you drop by here with any regularity you will notice there has been a lack of posts over the past couple of weeks. Well, you see the Tour de France is in progress which takes a few hours out of each morning. I also had a client with a hard drive failure that unexpectedly [...]