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Reading the web in your way is the future even if RSS readers fail 26 Jun 2013 | 09:45 am
You ain't seen nothing yet. Low tech small "a" AI, blah blah there is so much we could do to improve our personal Internet reading experience that hasn't been done *yet* by Google Reader or Flipboard ...
Always available Personal Algorithms + Personal Data = Programs that matter 8 Mar 2013 | 07:17 am
Always available Personal Data + Personal Algorithms = Programs that matter. Inspired by David Ascher's Personal computing in a decentralized world: a hopeful direction. What if you could keep all of ...
Email will inevitably fail so if you foolishly depend on it, learn to back it up and restore it 19 Feb 2013 | 02:17 pm
If you insist on using email as a file management system, archive system, CRM, database, contact system, knowledge management system , etc then learn how to backup your email and practise restoring yo...
The Old Reader is where I am sharing RSS items; also on tumblr via IFTTT 4 Feb 2013 | 05:00 am
For the 3 people who care :-) Instead of Google Reader I am using The Old Reader; except for having no business model that I can detect :-) (where do I pay?!?) But it has the all "Old Pre Google+" Go...
Email is not an archival system, file system, knowledge management system or a to-do system 28 Jan 2013 | 06:52 am
Email is not an archival system, file system, knowledge management system or a to-do system. If you think it's anything but a dumb temporary message store, you are "doing it wrong" :-) as the kids say...
Stop whingeing about how you used to take great photos w/your DSLR but are now mired in a morass of bad cameraphone photos - get a cheap point & shoot... 24 Dec 2012 | 11:51 am
There are countless geeky, nerdy, folks in late 2012 "whingeing" :-) about how they used to take great DSLR photos but it was too heavy & inconvenient to post photos, so they switched to a cameraph...
Nikon V1 might as well be free at $299 w/lens aka redonkulous price cuts mean desperate camera makers! One or more of Sony, Olympus, Ricoh, Pentax, or... 5 Dec 2012 | 06:11 am
Nikon V1 with kit zoom for $299 might as well be free (excellent deal for a mirrorless camera w/EVF, great auto-focus; only problem is the lens line up is not yet anywhere near complete). Points out h...
Change your life light your bike - My CBC interview on bicycle lights 22 Nov 2012 | 12:41 pm
tl;dr: I ride with far too many bicycle lights: 4 front facing, 3 rear facing 5 side facing. To be seen, you only need 2 lights if you ride in the city of Vancouver, but if you want to see, you also n...
Thom Hogan: the camera industry has started teaching customers that big discounts are the norm. 21 Nov 2012 | 01:03 pm
Thom Hogan writes on ridiculous discounts on cameras from companies like Olympus and Panasonic, what he calls the JC Penney effect: QUOTE This is not just a Panasonic problem. Olympus has the same p...
Best MongoDB to CSV tool to generate CSV files for graphing using a JS toolkit, Excel, etc? 10 Aug 2012 | 11:11 am
My previous post was unclear. I'll try again. It shouldn't take a 70 line Ruby script or indeed procedural programming to generate a CSV file from a MongoDB database. So Lazy web :-) what's the best B...
