Hosted services are great. Until they are gone. Without notice. Once you have your subscribers on http://yourdomain.com/feed, you can rest easy
Why does France’s SNCF hate European tourists from German speaking lands?
We’ve suffered through two world wars with you, you didn’t pay the reparations we wanted for the first one, you’ll pay those reparations now.
WordPress Speed Test 2012: WP Super Cache vs HyperCache
If your server ever does overload, you want HyperCache on your side. As soon as the load goes down, HyperCache will start serving quickly again.
iPad vs MacBook Air: Why I’m so glad I don’t use an iPad
IT is a minefiled. The big vendors are not on our side. KISS is the golden IT rule.
Apple Mail IMAP: Sent Mail Showing up in wrong folder on second computer
Whenever you find you have duplicate sent boxes or spam mailbox settings, pick one and make it the blessed folder across all computers.
WordPress 3.4: More eye candy instead of much needed performance fixes
Let’s hope WordPress stops with the eye candy and deals with its more substantial core issues soon.
Review: LinkLove Conference London 2012
Linklove 2012: sold out. What do SEO’s really talk about behind closed doors? An illustrated guide to grey hat link building.
Wikileaks’ Julian Assange spotted at Linklove SEO confab in London
Julian Assange is looking, younger, fresher and ready to continue the battle for his liberty.
Linklove London 30 March 2012: Distilled.co.uk
These are just the morning pictures. We’ll be back with afternoon pictures and in-depth coverage of every speaker.
Google currency converter: Xe.com just lost another customer
It turns out Google can handle your currency conversion needs. Keep in mind Google keeps a record of your queries.
Visiomente: Modern Carpet Baggers or What’s Wrong with American Business
Visiomenté don’t produce anything except legal documents and hassle.
VPN for OS X: Witopia 2012 review (from a three year user)
The Witopia Personal VPN is a great value, but watch out for tech support issues with WiTopia Pro OpenVPN SSL account. Same fast speeds on both.
Laptops for Schools: Microsoft Windows, Apple or Linux
If you had to buy 1700 laptops for a school one to one program, you have a budget to enhance drivers and open source and still save money.
Thanksgiving: Making a Better World
Heroic work at great personal sacrifice are what makes hope possible. It is an honour to support such work.
People who buy iPhones are image-conscious fad-following idiots
Samsung smartly shows iPhones are for pretentious wannabes who are behind the times.
WordPress images uploaded by client too large? try Imsanity
Imagine that someone created a plugin which would resize huge images to the maximum size used on your site.
Textile: How to write in the world’s greatest markup language
I often have to introduce our team to Textile formatting and our clients. I’ve linked to the other great Textile documentation out there.
HighriseHQ issues: Why can’t we create a new Deal from dashboard?
How can 37signals cripple the dashboard File option for Deals by not allowing us to create a new Deal and file the item directly?
Textile Editing on OS X: BBEdit, iTextile, MarkMyWords
So for non-programmers, here’s how to get Textile editing working on BBEdit. Review of other OS X textile solutions.
Balancing life and work as an entrepreneur
What’s your best advice for balancing life and work as an entrepreneur? Forget it.
