Author Archives: joransen
Road Trip Ahead
The boys and I are going on a road trip. The wife is in Italy for two weeks, so we’ll travel to Wrigley Field for a game on July 4th. Then make our way to Cooperstown at the end of … Continue reading
Reading top to bottom
After tweeting that I really want all of my “readers” (mail, rss, twitter, etc) to allow me to sort items with the newest on the bottom, a friend asked “why.” The answer is that I read from the top down. … Continue reading
Recovering Hard Drive Space… sync logs
My hard drive was getting close to filling up and I couldn’t think why. I have an external Drobo (2nd gen) that I store my photos and iTunes library on, so the main disk shouldn’t have anything crazy on it. … Continue reading
Stimulus vs Pork
The part here that makes a lot of sense to me is ‘if there is any debate, drop it.’ I would be interested in seeing how big a stimulus bill would if we only included those things that had a … Continue reading
Leasing appliances?
If this is right, that most would lease this new appliance, I have to ask, why? Maybe I just don’t understand the finances of hardware, but unless this thing is super expensive, I’m confused why it would be “most.” Tibco … Continue reading
The iPhone app I want
Just got one or the periodic Rogue Amoeba newsletters and it had this bit about their plans for products this year: On the iPhone side, we’ve got updates to Radioshift Touch in development. Better yet, we’re hoping to shipping Airfoil … Continue reading
Subversion clients
I’m finally (after far too many years) starting to use a version control system. I’ve always used “a better one is coming” as a reason. cvs, subversion, git, plus a slew of commercial ones have temped me like Perforce. It … Continue reading
WordPress upgrade
I need to keep more current on WordPress. I upgrade about once every 8 months. I should make it more like once every two months. While it isn’t hard, I need a way to make it a one line command … Continue reading
Nickels and Dimes
USAirways finds new ways to nickle and dime you. Extra charges for baggage. Extra for food is something we have all gotten used to. Paying for drinks is a stretch for me, and I have to say that not even … Continue reading
Video Playlists on Apple TV… finally
One of my big pep peeves with the Apple TV has been its lack of support for a video playlist. I wanted to have a list of music videos to run during a party. I also wanted to have a … Continue reading