Category Archives: useful web

IT Conversations is kind of like NPR for the web. They provide original interviews as well as audio recordings of conference presentations and panels on a diverse range of subjects of interest to technology enthusiasts. I’ve been a fan of … Continue reading →

In the twinkling buzzword constellation that constitutes the Web 2.0 firmament, “open source” is one of the brightest and most twinlky of stars. In Tim O’Reilly’s original article announcing the concept, the phrase appears in no fewer than seven different … Continue reading →

While in a less than fully sober state after the Less Distracted Party last night, Chirs made a disturbingly sound suggestion: now that I’m posting Rails tutorials with some regularity, it might be a good idea to write something about … Continue reading →

I do a lot of Google-searching for lyrics. I mean, a lot. I spend part of my day hand-screening suspicious looking new MFDZ uploads for piracy (for example, I don’t think that cutegirl457 really made the song “50 Cent – … Continue reading →

A couple of days ago, I was doing some research on the web. It was totally run of the mill stuff: opening a bunch of windows each with countless tabs and then jumping back and forth between them in order … Continue reading →

It turns out that one of the hardest parts of accomplishing things is remembering that you wanted to in the first place. The productivity pros call this ‘capture’: the ability to catch your ideas and to-do’s whenever (and wherever) they … Continue reading →

With Clive Thompson‘s article in this weekend’s NYT Magazine on “Life Hackers”, a recent growing trend has reached a fever pitch: a kind of nerd revolution against nerd-made tools. As the article outlines, “Multi-tasking” became the expected mode of office … Continue reading →

Uploading a bunch of photos to my Flickr account as well a live performance art recording to MFDZ in the last couple of days, I began to get frustrated with how the file upload process as a whole works on … Continue reading →

Nothing gooses me out of a laziness-inspired blog hiatus like a good linking. Today, Merlin Mann of 43 Folders, a better and better read blog dedicated to “a bunch of tricks, hacks, and other cool stuff” related to productivity and … Continue reading →