Dear OneNote, I love you but I think we should see other people
I’ve adored OneNote for many years, but have found that lately it hasn’t been able to keep up with the pace of change in technology.
Why Does Google Chrome Dev Channel Show a Cupcake?
When I upgraded Chrome this morning I saw a cupcake. Why does Google Chrome show a cupcake?
CloudFlare – Bad timing, great service, and a hack discovered
Update: I spent the morning debugging the issues I mentioned below with CloudFlare, and was stunned by two things: Firstly, the service from CloudFlare was amazing! As I was leaving the service I sent them a note to let them know what had happened. Less than an hour later I got a thoughtful and thorough …
Microsoft shows a bad case of iPad envy with Windows 8
Today at the All Things Digital Conference Microsoft shared a first look at Windows 8. As you can see from the demo below, it’s a decidedly different experience for Windows. An apt description would be Windows meets Windows Phone. Though I get a distinct sense that Redmond has finally got their photocopiers back up and …
Fixing blank category and tag pages in Wordpress
Ahh… sometimes the smallest things can prove to me the most frustrating. After fighting with high CPU usage on my Bitnami install I decided to give W3 Total Cache another try. I installed the plugin, set it up, tested a few pages and everything seemed to be working. Even a bit speedier (yah!). So I …
Chromebooks – So close, yet so far
It was with great interest recently that I watched the debut of the Chromebook at Google IO 2011, and the ensuing media frenzy that declared the Chromebook everything from the PC killer to dead on arrival. I can say if there’s anything lacking in tech news today it’s not hyperbole, and sometimes nuance gets lost …
Security is hard. And the bad guys are smarter than you
Just recently, two things got me thinking about just how hard security can be – whether online or offline. Earlier in the week, Lastpass – a service that securely stores usernames and passwords – issued a security incident report. Lastpass is a reputable company with a team of highly skilled security engineers, and their business …
Irony, Your Cruelty is Not Amusing
It’s almost as if my hosting provider, Dreamhost, was waiting for me to post my thoughts about moving Wordpress to an EC2 instance. Not two minutes after posting an overview of how to do this, Dreamhost went down and took Technology Poet with it. Dreamhost.com was down, as was FTP access to my site so …
Running Wordpress on EC2 with a little help from Bitnami
Recently I upgraded a few of my Wordpress websites to run on Amazon’s EC2, thanks in no small part to Dan Ackerson’s wonderful guide on how to migrate your Wordpress blog to EC2. This is probably the point where I wax poetic about the wonder of cloud services, and how Amazon has enabled even a …
Microsoft Aquires Nokia
News of the hour: Microsoft aquires Nokia. I wonder if embedding former employees in high level positions at other companies was a strategy at the time, or just coincidence? Regardless, this deal can only be good for Microsoft, but I can’t see how it’s good for Nokia at all. At best they’ll be able to …