Category Archives: Pre-UrHo

A while back, Merlin Mann at 43 Folders came out with an idea that’s since caught fire: the Hipster PDA. The idea was that, instead of using a complicated digital handheld that made you learn a secret scrawl and a … Continue reading →

This past Monday morning, Brandon Erickson, a friend of Ethan and Cary‘s from college and a teacher in the Portland Public Schools, began an atttempt to break the all-time record on the 1984 Star Wars arcade game. I just read … Continue reading →

I’ve mentioned IT Conversations here a few times before in the context of other subjects, but I recently recommended a bunch of my favorite episodes to a friend for a trip he was leaving on and he suggested I reproduce … Continue reading →

I’ve been thinking lately about my experience learning to do things on the web (both in the past and the more complex things I’m trying to learn how to do now) and it seems that I’m in kind of a … Continue reading →

Jon Braman, whose website I designed and whose music I recorded, has started an audioblog on my suggestion. Jon makes great ukele-rap and has a habit of calling and leaving songs as answering machine messages for his friends, so I … Continue reading →

The Great Comma Crisis of 2005 has ended. Plus, I now know all about the mechanical working of Powerbook keys. They’ve got two crossed loop-shaped bits of plastic which interlace at a jointed-intersection. The one closer to the top of … Continue reading →

The comma/open-bracket key fell off my Powerbook’s keboard. Now, whenever I want to type a comma, I have to press this strange jelly-like thing. Weird. It wouldn’t be so bad if it was at the same level as all the … Continue reading →

Just noticed something odd watching a Quicktime movie in Safari. If, at any time while running the movie or after it’s stopped, you hit cmd+BackArrow, instead of going back to the previous page as usual, the clip plays in reverse. … Continue reading →

If RSS is really “TiVo for the internet”, when does it start making recommendations? TiVo is basically an aggregator, just like NetNewsWire. It keeps track of the shows you “subscribe” to, checks to see when new “items” are available, and … Continue reading →