Post Archive
In addition to the posts you see below, I kept an online journal from 1999 to 2006 which still exists, trapped in ether, in all of its hand-coded HTML glory. I hope you enjoy reading these words as much as I enjoyed writing them!- Citi Prestige and Global Entry
- morning on the subway
- Fixing email search in El Capitan
- A Relative Calm
- Sand in My Book Jacket
- Removing the a PDF password on a Mac
- Happy New Year
- It’s Complicated
- I <3 Times Square
- Relearning How To Play
- The (Un)remarkable Big Green Balloon
- A High Line For Me, Not You
- The Sneakiest Ryanair Fee
- Delight in an Animated GIF
- London Bike Share: An American’s Guide
- Shoebox Full of Photos: Listen to my SXSW Talk
- Travel Pro-Tip: Send Customized Postcards
- An American Geek In London: Mobile Data on the Road
- 3 Simple Rules for Better Meetings
- The Kindle: Not a Book, but a Massive Portable Library
- The Need For an Open Online Identity Infrastructure
- How SOPA Will Break the Internet
- Writing the Perfect Job Description
- The Simple Joy in Making
- Installing image_science on OS X with Homebrew
- SXSW 2012, Here I Come
- A Chrome Extension to Block Your Distractions
- Visiting the City Museum in St. Louis
- Why Lion’s “reversed” scrolling feels so weird
- Benjamin Franklin: Maker, Hacker
- Who hosts that site? (a bash alias)
- Leaving Behind a Digital Life, Physically
- Programmers! Feeling Uninspired? Try Teaching.
- Paranoia and the Cloud: Why hasn’t our data been more at risk?
- Smile, Darn Ya, Smile (or, Why I Work)
- Lion Launchpad = Windows 3.1 Program Manager?
- On Hiring Exceptional People
- How to Run Tornado in WSGI Mode on DotCloud
- On business cards (or, why I don’t use Hashable)
- On converting from single-AZ RDS to multi-AZ RDS
- 3 Rules for a Successful SXSW
- on giving up
- on skating
- Ten. Years.
- Happy things
- Stumbling forward
- French fries make the man
- The places we go, when we aren’t going anywhere
- Dear Dollar Rent A Car (a complaint)
- Work-life vs. home-life
- A quarter for your troubles
- We recycle around here. Not!
- Stranger than Angels
- Complaints on an industry that probably doesn’t need more grief
- Shutting it down
- 2006: A Summary
- A year of significance
- Make your own luck
- Man of the Year: a movie review
- Port Authority and the Bus to Pittsburgh
- BarCampNYC2: Reflections, etc.
- lonelygirl15
- What’s in a sound?
- Open Source: Not actually that ugly
- On Being American
- Irony, defined
- From Point A to Point B
- Migrating from Blogger to WordPress
- The role of family
- The complexities of modern life
- The sounds of silence
- Tools of the Trade
- Too many choices, too little skin
- What do we have here?
- How I Fixed My Raid-1 Partition Size Error