A college student wrote in to Picnik asking for general advice about how to create a similar project for school. After reminding him that we’ve had a team of people working on Picnik for several years, and tossing a few book recommendations his way, I closed with this advice: Overall I think the best way [...]
Think Small
March 12, 2008
Ubunting
December 16, 2007
I’m writing this blog post while running Ubuntu! The migration is now (more or less) complete and it had some delights and some frustrations. After spending a bunch of time trying, unsuccessfully, to re-partition my hard disk I decided to throw in the towel and just start from scratch with a complete overwrite. To my [...]
Leaping To Linux
December 9, 2007
Today I started preparations to convert my main computer over to linux. Ubuntu, specifically. This computer had become too slow and unstable and I figured if I was going to have to re-install Windows anyway, I might as well take the opportunity to make the conversion. It turns out my leap won’t be such a [...]
An Open Letter to All Yellow Pages Manufacturers Everywhere
August 6, 2007
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How Microsoft is losing
May 4, 2007
I’m working on a specification document for my new job. I need to draw a diagram showing how various servers communicate with each other. Unfortunately, Word keeps hanging after I get a few boxes done. I kill Word, submit the error report, and Microsoft tells me to download some updates. Fine. Except now I need [...]
Time to Convert Another One?
June 21, 2006
Kate and I did the server shuffle a few weeks ago. Kate’s desktop computer became our mail/web server, and our web/mail server became a file server, and Kate got a new Mac Mini to use as her desktop computer. We started setting up the file server yesterday — formatting the old computer and installing Windows XP [...]