New Year’s resolutions work out for me about as well as they work out for everyone else, which is to say “not at all.”  So, let’s not use the r-word.  Instead, here are some things I’d like to do in the new year.  And, if I manage to make any progress on them, I’ll be [...]

The recent outage at Dreamhost somehow killed my installation of Tracks, the web-based Ruby on Rails application that I had used for the past few years to manage my tasks and projects, following the Getting Things Done (GTD) methodology.  I messed with it for a long time, even installing a new version locally and attempting [...]

Using a desktop application to publish to a weblog has always seemed like overkill to me, but I downloaded a trial version of MarsEdit. This is my first post using it. So far, I’m not quite sure what to think of it.

Here’s the story:  some of my web host’s machines took a dive and took all of my sites with them.  The sites went down sometime on Sunday, December 14th.  At some point email went down, too.  I didn’t receive anything between 8:02 AM and 4:23 PM on December 15th.  I noticed that my sites were [...]

My wife and I are now almost a year into this baby adventure.  I’ve been planing for a while to document some of the gear we’ve found useful.  I’ll cover the less fun–but incredibly useful–stuff in Part II.  Right now, I want to focus on the fun stuff:  toys.  I’m sure that individual preference is [...]