January 2011
4 posts
Best Comment of 2010
2010 continued the trend of 98% of most comments being completely worthless, but by far my favorite was this:
Just shoot me if I ever write a blog post on how to save $20 a month on a cell phone bill.
That was written in response to an article I wrote about giving up my iPhone where I was intentionally being very cautious about estimating how much I’d save.
I ended the original...
December 2010
4 posts
MobileMe Renewals?
Michael Steele asked:
Regarding part of your recent post … “One last tip: You can usually save a lot by buying MobileMe from Amazon instead of Apple. The only way to save on MobileMe from Apple is to get it when you buy a new computer. MobileMe will ask you for credit card information so that they can automatically renew your MobileMe subscription. Don’t give it to them!...
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Tumblr appears to be caching
This may be a temporary situation, but I wanted to raise it so that I could share it with folks like Red Sweater and others who may work with 3rd party Tumblr editing software.
It appears that Tumblr is doing some very aggressive caching of posted content, which has resulted in changes not being immediately visible.
A Statistically Insignificant Sample Set of One
This may be a fluke or a...
Site-Specific Email Addresses
One of the nice things about having your own domain name and using it for email is the ability to create specialized email addresses for different sites.
I’ve been doing this for some time now. I started with OtherInbox but have replicated the same setup with my personal domain.
My email is configured to deliver all email to one main address. This is generally referred to as a...