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- Poor user experience design at CapitalOne
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- How to create a kill-switched VPN on Mac OS X with Little Snitch
- Lance is the 2015 Spanish National Chess Champion!
- Lance is the 2015 Spanish National Chess Championship Runner-Up in U12
- Feature request for 1Password — Provide PIN opening on TouchID enabled devices
- Making apps is fun, but flipping burgers pays better
- An eye-opening example of the importance of mathematical literacy
- UI/UX — MONEY Magazine takes a big step backwards in user-experience on the iPad, and so I’ve unsubscribed.
- Inconsistencies and irritations in Mac OS X Photos
- Trip to Budapest, Hungary
- The Box
- Hike on the Vereda de la Estrella, Granada
- QuickBooks Online and the un-dismissable guide
- Initial impressions of the Overcast podcast app
- Auto-creation of albums in Flickr uploader for Mac
- The bee
- On the right of government to mandate what we use as money
- 2015 Cádiz Blitz Chess Championship
- It’s confirmed—Garmin is out the game
- End botched training data with auto-stop on loop
- What happened to UI/UX design at Garmin?
- Search for the elusive, perfect file & screenshot sharing tool
- Software testing and charging customers for bug fixes
- Relative safety of various travel means
- BitTorrent Sync vs Dropbox
- When marketing trumps logic — Betterment on the Apple Watch
- How to track crowdsource real estate investments in iBank
- UI/UX — Discovery flow in the new commenting feature at Dropbox
- Face management in Photos.app version 1.0
- Why I switched from DreamPress to GoDaddy Managed WordPress Hosting
- iCloud Photo Library and the synchronization of Faces data
- iCloud Photo Library
- Investment returns of the average investor — What happens when you don’t stay the course.
- Rand Paul is up to some slimey shit
- Lifecycle Investing
- Socialismo
- For your credit report, more accounts is better?
- Politics, Society and Corruption
- The opportunity cost of spending today
- The user experience of European banking websites
- Considering health care costs as taxation
- Is Apple’s pricing fair?
- Those unintended consequences of usability improvements
- Nepal Documentary
- A paragon of user interface design
- In the hopes that Tom Bihn slightly increases the size of the Co-Pilot bag
- I’m an Anti-Braker
- You can’t beat the market
- Years later, this still cracks me up
- The disconnect between publishers and consumers
- Photos for Mac
- My iCloud Photo Library seems to be broken
- Notes from the Tim Ferriss interview of Arnold Schwarzenegger
- How to secure Mac and iOS devices with the Cloak or PIA VPN
- The unethical business practices of eFax
- Another one bites the dust — Picturelife was acquired by StreamNation
- Meeting UFC champion Fabricio Werdum
- Keyboard Maestro script for tweeting latest post
- Notes from the Tim Ferriss interview of Pavel Tsatsouline
- How to setup a WordPress site on a Mac mini running OS X Server Yosemite
- How to transfer digital assets upon one’s death
- Educational Absurdity
- iTunes Match lost all my music (and then I got it all back)
- A Two-Context Approach to GTD with OmniFocus
- RaceSplitter rejected after three years for using a slider control
- Rego is a great alternative to Pin Drop
- 2014 European Youth Chess Championship in Batumi, Georgia
- A Dropbox disaster
- Bank of America SafePass Card Bubbles
- Rego 2 — Sweating the details
- Notifications
- Is there an optimal method of chess training?
- Tears & Euphoria — Lance becomes the 2014 Spanish National Champion in Rapid Chess
- Embarrassing
- Budgeting & Financial Monitoring in the Internet Age
- Simpler method of getting message-linked todos into OmniFocus 2
- Using Keyboard Maestro to create todos in OmniFocus 2 that are linked to original messages in Mail
- Arbitrary scheduling in Keyboard Maestro
- Staying the course — Performance of the permanent portfolio since the launch of Money for Something
- Richard Feynman on knowing something
- Fucking politicians—The consequences of having donated to the Ron Paul political campaign
- Tracking LendingClub investment performance in Quicken or iBank
- Twenty dollars to the first person who solves my OS X firewall problem
- Thoughtful design — Comparing the user experiences at Basecamp and Atlassian
- Comparing the market valuations of Apple, Google, Facebook & Twitter
- Hours of lost time because Delta airlines do not validate new account email addresses
- Reflections on my first few weeks of listening to podcasts
- Keyboard Maestro macro to get URL to selected message in Mail.app
- Lance finished 2nd overall at the Churriana chess tournament
- How to setup a roaming wifi network over ethernet with an Airport Extreme and Airport Express
- Fixed — Stopped the tccd process in Mac OS X Mavericks from consuming CPU and memory
- High-speed rail in California versus China
- Disable iCloud Keychain to fix icbaccountsd problems
- Blogging for profit
- iCloud syncing of Mail.app rules and Smart Mailboxes
- Great customer support at the Apple Store
- My wish for Ulysses — Dropbox integration
- Design Details
- Pausing the Cloud
- Tom Bihn Co-Pilot Bag
- iPad is Disabled
- Fixed — Daylite can’t connect to server after Mavericks upgrade
- My iPad mini seems to have a hardware problem
- A frustrating experience with the WIRED Magazine app for iPad
- Rego 2.0 decisions and country-specific download and conversion data
- Photo management — from Aperture to a file system and Everpix
- Calling Gmail technical support (yet another scam story)
- Louis Zha and the brand benefits of the word DIPSHIT
- Receiving email for virtual users in OS X Server 10.8
- The iPhone 5S and chopped off fingers.
- Weekend at the computer—Dropbox, BitTorrent Sync and unencryptable drives
- How to move folders that are synced with BitTorrent Sync
- My finicky ungrateful cat
- Permanent portfolio historical performance spreadsheet
- Windows Usability
- Evening news interview with Lance about chess
- Interview with Lance on Marbella RTV Television
- The consequences of making political donations
- Looking for a simple, menubar-based todo list
- Switched to Parallels and then back to VMWare
- Organizational charts of Amazon, Google, Apple and Facebook
- Proposal for a centralized credit card data access service
- An introduction to Bitcoin
- LinkedIn has the worst account downgrade workflow ever
- How to take good photos
- Inherent vs explicit affordances
- My experience with the Simple bank
- The difference between Grand Masters and amateurs
- Discovered and fixed a huge CrashPlan log file
- Spanish Chess Championship—Day 1
- The Saris Solo bike rack
- RaceSplitter invited to time the 2013 Vuelta Cerdanya Ultrafons
- Kenu Airframe car mount for the iPhone
- Simplifying our hosting infrastructure
- iCloud syncing of Mail rules
- HelpScout for customer support & product documentation
- Using a custom domain for your Dropbox public files URLs
- Truth in design
- Thoughts on product reviews and a tale of a disagreeable customer
- Recent performance of the Permanent Portfolio
- IRS claims it can read your email without a warrant
- Name Mangler 3 for fast and efficient file renaming
- Eye-opening observations about American poverty statistics
- Book notes — Manage your day to day
- Cyprus and bank depositors
- Daylite and Direct Mail for managing customer relations and communications
- San Pedro Chess Tournament
- Rego goes viral in Brazil for the wrong reason
- On deciding what to do in the running of a modern company
- On the importance of developing trust
- A study of the effects of nasty comments on reader perception
- The days when you still had a chance to be heard
- Paris in February
- 2013 Malaga Chess Championship
- Dafacto—new name, same blog (or, why I don’t suck any more)
- Malaga Promotion Chess Tournament Day 2
- My simplified backup system using CrashPlan
- Chess tournaments in Marbella and Malaga
- Roquetas de Mar Chess Tournament
- Why good intentions can fail as a starting point for organizing society
- Bodega Marcelino Serrano
- Trip to the Alpujarra — Pampaneira, Bubion and Capileira
- The inefficiency of government subsidized medical care
- Credit card statement design
- Drive Slowly
- Obama’s reelection — are we on the path to Spain?
- Awful design at Skype
- The Four-Percent Rule
- The Wealth of Statesmen
- Financial intelligence—not off to a good start
- Moving abroad—proposal for a new Twitter feature
- It's more pleasant to pull teeth than to buy something online with a credit card in Europe
- People just want to want to know what to do
- How often should you check your investment portfolio balance?
- What do four questions look like?—Bad user experience with Booking.com
- Money for Something—One month after the book launch
- Cooperative booking for travel, hotels and car rentals
- A weekly planner—the missing killer feature from Things
- Spamming the SEO Spammers
- How much should you learn about investing?
- Running your own server-side spam filter with SpamSieve
- College wasn't his biggest mistake
- Table of contents missing when converting from EPUB to MOBI
- On Lance Armstrong and Doping
- Watch out for no-man’s land on the road to bootstrapping a start-up
- Apple's app review process — a rejection with a happy ending
- The 2012 edition of the 101km de Ronda
- How to never forget to enable your time tracking timer.
- Random thoughts having spent a day with 37signals's new Basecamp Next
- Casa de Pepe Bravo in Alozaina, Spain
- My new social media diet
- An interview with Notational Velocity developer Zachary Schneirov
- Teaching Brazilian Jiu Jitsu
- Compromise in Design
- The Making of the Catalog Choice iPhone App
- A paragon of design and user experience — the Spanish parking meter
- WaterField iPhone Wallet & Timbuk2 Mission Cycling Wallet
- User experience and the Nespresso coffee machine
- How to batch process videos using HandBrake and Hazel
- Are philosophy and religion dead?
- User experience and the changing room
- How to schedule focus
- Cycling — Yunquera to Ronda
- Google vs Facebook advertising — Our experience with RaceSplitter
- My system for Getting Things Done
- Cycling through the chestnut valley
- My experience with the Paleo diet
- The problem with iTunes reviews
- Is there a better alternative to taxing the upper class?
- The biology of productivity?
- RaceSplitter in the sport of Trail Running
- A message from Rand Paul (or, what pisses me off about the conservatives)
- Timing of the 24 hours of San Pedro race with RaceSplitter
- RaceSplitter demonstration at the Sierra Elvira Spanish Cup mountain trail race
- Demostración de RaceSplitter en la carrera de montana de la copa de Espana de Sierra Elvira
- Reservations about Our Choice, and the Push Pop Press vision of tomorrow’s books
- The experience of enrollment in European and American summer camps
- Photos of the Makalu Interactive office, in Marbella, Spain
- What’s better than an office on the beach?
- Apple and the iOS market blind spot
- Draculino Team Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu
- Skype for iPhone’s Confusing Settings
- Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics
- The story of the building of RaceSplitter
- My advice to the kids at Swans Career Day
- Interaction design at MarketCircle
- Interface inconsistency at Twitter
- Faster archiving to a server-connected Drobo
- The Story of RaceSplitter
- Getting trapped in a cooling tower at the Georgia Power Company Plant Yates
- A prayer for Japan?
- The Big Short—A brief summary of the 2008 financial collapse
- Sam Harris on The Fact of Life
- Apple's subscription policy is not unfair
- Why we get fat
- The State of Georgia Declares War
- Religion, historical context and common sense
- The unfortunate consequences of protective social laws in Spain
- The squint UX test — Bank of America vs Lending Club
- Spain not interested in productivity
- Interview at Talk Radio Europe
- Marbella Express article about the 2011 European BJJ Championship
- Bronze Medal at the 2011European Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Championship
- RaceSplitter race timer for iPhone and iPod Touch
- A look at Apple competitor advertising
- Inadvertent worldview distortion
- Why we do not sign NDAs at Makalu
- Notes on application of game mechanics to functional systems.
- Financial independence.
- The Harry Browne Permanent Portfolio
- Reactions to Paul Graham’s views of future trends.
- German government bureaucracy
- Are we entitled to data security?
- Startup disk recovery and repair — lessons learned.
- The nightmare that is Vodafone España — Ordering an iPad microSIM
- Reconciling A Random Walk and The Great Wall.
- Building software is hard
- El Chorro and the Caminito del Rey
- Hike to the Cañon de las Buitreras
- Hike from Benaojan to Montejaque
- An overview of personal investing.
- Following Twitter in an RSS reader.
- The benefits of setting limitations.
- Homenaje de los 101km de Ronda.
- Hike to Puerto Martínez near Casarabonela, Spain
- iPhone vs Android.
- User interface review of the new and improved Securitas Alarm.
- On the pricing of services work
- Easier tweet authoring with LaunchBar.
- Finding the Minimal Twist.
- The benefits of constraints (or, how we finally built our new site)
- User Experience & Software Engineering
- Gold Medal at the 2010 European Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Championship
- Spanish quality
- My data storage and backup system
- Upgraded my MacBook with a Solid-State Drive (SSD)
- Banking Insecurity
- A simplified exercise in socialism
- Nacimiento del Rio Grande
- Dieting and weight loss report.
- I hate being part of a crude and insulting sales process.
- CapitalOne User Experience
- Experimenting with Google Voice and Skype
- Timely quotes from Thomas Jefferson
- Alto Chorrillo to the Siete Lagunas, in Sierra Nevada
- Launch of the Mocca Marbella Website
- Problems with Vodafone Spain
- Pinsapo de la Escaleretas
- Puerto Jacara & Fuente de los Hornaos near Sierra Prieta
- Letters to the Next President: Writing Our Future
- You are what you eat
- Pico de Juanar
- Mirador de Luis Ceballos
- Weekend in the Alpujarras
- An overview of personal investment
- Drupal to WordPress Weblog Migration
- How to geo tag photos on Mac OS X using Garmin devices and HoudahGeo (and then display on Flickr)
- Using two Garmin GSC 10 Cadence Sensors with a single Forerunner 305
- WordPress to Drupal Weblog Migration
- Gold Medal at the 2008 Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Championships
- Brown Belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu
- End the flow of unwanted catalogs with Catalog Choice!
- Keen Hood River II Sandals
- Rinky the Cat
- American Customer Service
- Personal Productivity Revisited
- DabbleDB / User Interface / User Experience
- Tricky problem when using rsync to mirror and archive Linux to MacOS X
- Carrera de Alpandeire
- My working environment…
- Shuffles + Headphones + Device Acquisition Strategies
- MacFUSE, MacFusion, Dreamhost and rsync Backups
- Case Logic camera case for my Canon IXUS 850 IS
- I miss my old Paperport
- Four Elements of Design
- Upgrading Quickbooks 2005 to 2007. Get with it Intuit!
- RSS / Email / Notifications / Demographics
- Matt's Corollary to Moore's Law
- Five Things
- Back to blogging…
- Skype's Top-Secret Artificial Intelligence Based Customer Support System (AKA: Sandra Valle)
- Word Count Journal Launches!
- Word Count Journal, and other cool stuff going on at MakaluMedia
- Hike in Casares on the Sendero Cristellina
- Hike through Fuensanta to El Burgo
- Entering the world of GPS with the Garmin 60Cx
- iTunes Killer Application — Better List Purchasing
- US Telephone Services
- Henderson & Henderson, building north Georgia lake homes.
- Ojen.net — A new information portal on the Spanish Costa del Sol
- The Building of Fincalena
- Alex Bendiken Wins Slashdot Redesign Contest
- Perspective
- Desktop Mailing List Management
- Apple(Does)Care!
- Just another day in southern Spain
- Launch of IRMA24.com
- Apple(Don’t)Care
- Känkkäränkkäpäivä
- Online Translators
- Marbella Guitar Instructor: Mario Solis Sola
- Three-day trip to Granada & Sierra Nevada
- Terrible Telefonica
- Purple belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu
- Gold medal at the 2006 European Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Championship
- Outer Level describes logo development process with MakaluMedia
- Salaries of small business owners
- Scott Adams on giving money back
- Traffic ticket in historic Whitesburg Whitesville, Georgia
- Acantilados de Maro near Malaga, Spain
- Migration to WordPress from Movable Type on MacOS X and Linux
- In Search of One True Layout
- Gracie-Barra BH Marbella Weblog Launch
- WordPress Pages or Posts?
- Favorite Macintosh OSX Applications
- Hacho de Pizarra, Spain
- Encrypting multiple files using PGP 9 on Mac OS X
- The Software Engineer
- Surviving in Andalucia
- Cultural Differences?
- Mac: Bookit
- Weblog Redesign 2005
- Montes de Málaga
- MakaluMedia team up with The Playaz
- Pico de Juanar, Marbella
- El Torcal in Antequera, Spain
- Oh, the things software publishers face
- MacOS X Backup Strategy
- Professional Manners
- Timbuk2 Euro Tote
- Paseo de los Pinsapos, near Estepona, Spain
- Ardales, Spain
- Honda Pantheon 125 Scooter
- The Scanner
- My Frozen Beer
- Trends in Mac application development
- Data Loss in PGP 9 for MacOS X 10.4
- Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) Notes
- Another story in the "Only could happen to me" book
- Apple Mac mini
- Gripe Sheet
- Address Book Plug-In for Dialing with Skype
- First Degree Blue Belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu
- To File or Not To File
- Harman/Kardon SoundSticks II
- Beautiful Home for Sale on Lake Lanier
- My Incompatibility with AppleScript
- Software Testing
- Booting into Single User Mode on MacOS X without Restarting
- Comment Spammers
- Sport-Safe Earbuds/Headphones
- Apple Business Plan
- Take Control of Your Airport Network
- OSX Application Help
- Filing Email Messages within Apple Mail
- A MacOS X System for Automating Movable Type Comment Spam Deletion
- Browser-Based Man Reader
- Life in Spain
- Power Laws, Weblogs, and Inequality
- Steve Jobs on innovation: Saying No.
- Marbella Submission Fighters
- More Productivity Tips
- Getting Things Done
- iPotty — The Next Big Thing
- OmniWeb Bookmark Syncing — Who would have known?
- OmniWeb 5.1 Wishlist & RSS News Reading
- Canon LiDE 30 Scanner
- SnapzPro Pro 2.0.1 Sound Track Problem and Solution
- Recent Software Purchases
- MacOS X Services Menu
- FinFlow
- Roger Ebert on Columbine
- New Honda Lead Scooter
- Live365, example of poor user interface design.
- Backing Up with Rsync
- Dashboard and a new generation of developers.
- Borrowed Innovation
- How Not to Get Hired
- Website Localization
- Marbella Submission Fighters
- What’s on your Logitech?
- Productivity
- palmOne Zire 72
- Migration of a Movable Type Installation
- SpamSieve AppleScripts
- Compost for MacOS X
- PGP and Apple Mail Integration
- Weblog Management with ecto
- The Realities of Buying Property in Spain
- LaunchBar 4 Beta
- Eat a NutriGrain!
- Back from Vacation
- Rule Numero Uno
- The Common Cold
- The Thermos
- Getting your Résumé (CV) Read
- Old Time Rock and Roll
- Reality
- What is Mac OS X?
- Apple and HP
- Expensive at the Movies
- Equipo Marbellero Bate el Record!
- 12" Powerbook G4
- DEVONthink Usage Tip : Daily Notes
- Palm Software and the G5
- World’s First Solar-Powered Internet Rickshaw
- StuffIt Deluxe 8
- Cruz de Hierro!
- TCP/IP over Bongo Drum
- Palm RSS Reader
- Hall of Technical Documentation Weirdness.
- Tihs Mkeas Snese?
- Palm Developers, Where's my RSS Newsreader?
- Photo Finish
- DirectNIC Revisted: Look what I found!
- DirectNIC.com Making Life Difficult
- Reading on the Palm
- Corrupted PreferencePanes Cache
- Disconnected!
- Congratulations Lance Armstrong!
- Apple Address Book Network Integration
- A Model of Usability
- Lost Mobile Phone (How it Ended)
- Bad Morning
- Europe and Italy
- Excellent Educational Article
- Mailsmith 2.0 Released!
- MacOS X and Linux Metaphor
- Neat Finder Tip
- AddressBook Access from the Command Line
- 3rd Annual Nigerian Email Conference
- ESA Launch Mars Express
- iTunes Blog Integration
- Powerbook Disk Failure
- Shell Script Launcher
- RadioLover
- iPhoto Library Manager (Revisited)
- Cnet Article about the Apple Music Service
- Shell Aliases
- iPhoto Library Manager
- Happy Birthday Lance!
- Test Driven Development
- World’s Worst Banking Website
- Music Encoding Options
- Málaga Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Championship
- ddclient for DynDNS.org
- Goodbye VersionTracker
- Telefónica España and Proxy Caches
- ImageWell
- Microsoft Integration
- Disk Utility Fix Permissions & CommuniGate Pro
- VersionTracker 6. Oh my goodness.
- Purchased Music
- Site Redesign
- iTunes 4 Warning
- Mac OS X Hacks
- Vaya Paliza!
- More Music Thoughts
- Pollo Andaluz!
- Apple Music Service
- Tyler Hamilton wins at Liége-Bastogne-Liége!