I understand why people sign up for services like Spam Arrest. I really do and I harbor no grudges against them. I don’t like spam. But I rarely go through the rigamarole required to verify myself when I send email to users of those kinds of systems. It’s a pain in the ass. Maybe I [...]

I’ve been noticing lately that embedded video wasn’t showing up in my feeds in Google Reader. The video displays on the blog itself, it’s in the RSS, and Feedburner displays it in their feed preview. But Reader ignores it. And then I remembered that this problem started when I upgraded to WordPress 2.7. After a [...]

The new web-based AWS Management Console is a fantastic tool for managing your EC2 instances, images, EBS volumes and more. Amazon did a super job on this. I have to keep reminding myself that Amazon is a book store.

I’ve stopped using Google Notebook twice now. The first time, I took all of my notes offline for privacy reasons and stuffed them into a desktop application. That worked great and I still do that for a lot of my notes but I’ve found there is a class of note taking that is better suited [...]