When we left the U.S. a few years back, I left Last.fm behind because it is paid content in Canada where it was free in the U.S. In fact, I like the music service and would pay for it if I used it more. I’ve still got a profile on Last and, when I...
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Ubuntu is my fast operating system. When I don’t have time to wait for Microsoft Windows to load itself up and decide whether it is going to respond, I dual boot into Ubuntu. I reloaded Ubuntu 11.10 recently and was fooling around with its configurations. The latest version uses a new interface – Unity...
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I use an older media server to deliver the nearly 60 GBs of music files ripped from my CD collection. When I upgraded from Windows XP to Windows 7, I found that Windows Media Player would no longer add the server to the music library. Even though I can access the drive and reach...
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I was working in a law firm when I was a teenager and someone said, “you need to learn to take a compliment.” It’s something that I still consciously think about because I often feel compelled to reply with some self-deprecation, and often am conflicted about whether the compliment is really deserved or not....
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If you’d visited my site recently, you’d see I’d been playing around with the Presswork theme. Unfortunately, when WordPress upgraded to 3.3, Presswork became incompatible; if you haven’t upgraded from WordPress 3.2, stay there. Update: Presswork has released version 1.04 to WordPress and a release candidate to anyone brave enough to use it; I...
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First week of the new year and already a time management improvement I was trying failed miserably. I had blocked off time in my calendar this morning to work on some writing and upcoming presentations. Instead, I’ve spent the last four hours: attending a scheduled training session; sitting down with staff who wanted to...
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Best practices is a term frequently used by organizations to suggest they know what they are doing or that they have checked to see what other people are doing. Lawyers understand best practices – in essence, it is finding the precedent and applying it rather than using losing arguments. I was recently involved in...
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People often say that they do one thing, to create an appearance that they are smarter, better read, whatever, when in fact they do something entirely different in reality. This piece in the Guardian from 2009 and this one on the Beeb look at how readers do this sort of thing. I’m sure it happens in...
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