When MTV launched “The Real World,” the ground it broke became a sinkhole sucking American TV into a glut of reality shows and programming designed for passive absorption over active engagement. Let’s establish one point now to help you decide if you want to read any further. I have never seen a single reality show. …
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Custom CSS in Movable Type 5
As I covered in my last post, I have two subdomains: one for the CaSt blog and another for linked items (actually, there’s a third for archives). Each subdomain has its own css file. For my purposes, all three use the same code and I was trying to manage updates on all three. It struck …
Movable Type css with subdomains
Update: I spoke too soon. My initial fix did not work (see strike below. The fix that actually worked for me follows. –elb 2012-09-17 12:21:24 Adding subdomains to my new Movable Type 5 website screwed up the links to my css stylesheets. The fix is easy and I think it will hold up over template …
The yellow flag must be down!
Our over-sized plastic mailbox has an extra plastic tab that pops up every time the door opens. Ding! You’ve got mail! The tab is adorned with a bright yellow sticker you can see from the house. A glance from the window prevents a fruitless lap to an empty mailbox. That tab is a terrific life …
Pleased to meet you, hope you guess my name
Notice anything different? No, not my hair. New glasses? Nope. I’ve had these a while now. OK, I’ll tell you. It’s the next iteration of Carrying Stones. Welcome back! I used Squarespace for a while. Version 5 was different in a pretty cool way that I kind of liked before the shininess of Squarespace 6 …
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Fever Dream of a Guilt-Ridden Gadget Reporter
Commentary by Mat Honan. So good. So true! Fever Dream of a Guilt-Ridden Gadget Reporter: Electronics are our talismans that ward off the spiritual vacuum of modernity; gilt in Gorilla Glass and cadmium. And in them we find entertainment in lieu of happiness, and exchanges in lieu of actual connections. And, oh, I am guilty. …
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Simple Writing Advice
The best writing advice is simple. Evan Thomas, former editor-at-large for Newsweek, is co-teaching a winter writing program for Harvard students with Steve Jobs biographer Walter Isaacson (and, oh yeah, chairman of CNN and managing editor of Time Magazine). Thomas shared this insight about how difficult and crucial it is to write simple. Writing, clear …
MoneyWell 2.0: So Far a Poor Return on Investment
As a general rule I prefer to give independent developers the benefit of the doubt, but MoneyWell 2 (produced by Kevin Hoctor at No Thirst Software) is pushing it. MoneyWell was one of the indie apps that rose to fill the void left by Intuit’s malnourished and barely-supported Quicken. It uses the concept of budget …
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A Cloud of His Own
Maciej Cegłowski writes about cobbling together his own server to run the awesome Pinbaord bookmarking service for introverts: “While certainly motivating, spending hours trying to unbrick a five thousand dollar server was not a joyous journey of discovery that I wanted to repeat.” It’s worth the read for lines like this one.
Boondoggle? Seriously?
File this incredibly shortsighted ReadWriteWeb editorial away. It will come in handy when all computers are expected to have a Retina-like display. Apple’s Brilliant Boondoggle: MacBook Pro Retina Display: “‘Until you saw it, you didn’t know you wanted it,’ adds Frank Gillett, another Forrester Research analyst.” Wow, they really blow it with this one. If …