I just published my first ScreenCast (if you don't see it, it's because I'm split testing against the old version of that webpage, and you got the old one--sorry!) I checked out some Mac software first, but ditched it almost imediately--useless. I tried Wink next, but found it wholly unsuitable both for recording audio and...
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Rogers Cadenhead points out today that the title character of the TV series "House" bears obviously intentional similaries to Sherlock Holmes, thus the name "House". And here I thought they'd called the show "House" because "Jackass" and "The Jerk" were already taken by movies. I can't stand that show.

4/26/2007 Update: The price is now locked at $14.95. This for a DVD recording of a seminar on making your mailing lists more profitable. The original cost of admission was $997!

If I were you, I wouldn’t even take the time to finish reading the rest of this post! Seriously, if you want to ge...
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After my transition from Mail.app to Thunderbird today, I discovered that quite a few messages that I had deleted long ago in Mail.app had reappeared in Thunderbird. Here's my theory of how it happened and how people using Mail.app can be sure that they're not wasting a lot of hard drive space on deleted messages....
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Yesterday, I heard that version 2.0 of the Thunderbird email client had been released, so I decided to check it out. I would have switched a while back except for one annoying problem -- I prefer the two-paned view with a separate window for reading messages, which works great in Thunderbird except that when I...
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I recently signed up for a test drive of BidFuel.com (which I cancelled during the free period--it didn't look useful enough). Since then, I've started receiving spam at the email address I gave them--an email address I created uniquely for them. No one else has ever seen that email address. I recommend not signing up...
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While I was at my father's house during the Christmas holiday, we had an interesting discussion of the problems in Iraq and throughout the middle east. The three main sources of information were my brother-in law (an air force intelligence officer who has spent time with military personnel from a variety of middle eastern countries),...
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Last year, my resolution was 1280 x 1024 on both of the 17" monitors connected to my Mac. I did pretty well on those--I don't feel the need for larger screens.  This year, my resolution is to replace the Mac and one of the monitors with a 17" iMac at 1440 x 900. I'll have...
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I switched my Blogger account to the beta of the new version today, republished one of my feeds, checked it to make sure it was in Atom "1.0" format (yeah!), validated it at feedvalidator.org, and to my surprise, got this warning: "Self reference doesn't match document location". I checked the feed, and sure enough, the...
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Last night, I thought I'd post a humorous entry about "Murphy's Razor", defining it along the lines of "the worst possible explanation is usually correct." But first, I decided to do a Google search to see if anyone else had combined Murphy's Law and Occam's Razor before. Sure enough, 62 results were found. I'd been...
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