Someone named Dillon Henderson recently joined the Sony Playstation Network using my Gmail address, and I immediately began receiving two to four emails per day, as Dillon recharged his account and purchased content or games, or whatever it is you purchase on the network. (I guess Dillon’s middle name must be “Matt”.)
At the end of each day, I go through my open tasks and identify the handful of todos that I plan to work on the…
Update: Since publishing this article, VMWare reached out and resolved the situation in a way that made me very happy. Be sure to see the details about that at the end of the article.
In March of this year (2013), some colleagues of mine in Berlin called to ask if I could purchase a copy of VMWare Fusion for Mac for them, because the VMWare website would not allow them to purchase the software. Each time they’d try to make the purchase, they’d get an “authorization failed” error.
Via [Ritholtz](http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2013/07/organizational-charts-of-amazon-apple-facebook-microsoft/): 
Having received a new American Express card, I just finished updating the billing details at the *thirteen* online services which periodically charge that card. And…
A while back, I temporarily needed to upgrade my free LinkedIn account to a Premium account. Today, no longer needing the premium services, I visited LinkedIn intending to downgrade back to the free plan. What a nightmare.
I discovered this morning that the [Google Authenticator app][1] is broken in iOS 7. While it does display authentication codes, it doesn’t display the associated…
As an amateur photographer, there are three simple things you can do to dramatically improve your photos. The first two relate to the most important…
Ryan Singer [wrote on Twitter](https://twitter.com/rjs/status/352279994845769728): > Affordances are tricky to pin down because they’re nested. A hammer affords driving nails; its handle, swinging; it’s grip,…
Manual app updating, prior to iOS7, was beneficial to developers as a mechanism to notify their customers that a new version was available[^fn-abuse]. Since Apple…
About a year ago, I opened a checking account at [Simple.com](http://simple.com) and made a small deposit. I’d seen a lot of chatter about the new…
In convenient chronological order: 1. At the Makalu office in Marbella, we used to have Jazztel 6mb ADSL. 2. A Movistar salesman offered us 30mb…
I can hardly express how excited I was to see this purple-toned, ugly-ass bar now appearing at the top of the otherwise-beautiful Flickr website. They…
Have you ever noticed that when surfing around the web you’ll often see big banner ads to websites you’ve recently visited? That’s due to this…
Computer chess engines compute a factor for any given board position, which indicates which player’s in the lead and by how much. “1.5” would indicate…
A couple of days ago, I discovered that my CrashPlan log (in /Library/Logs/CrashPlan/engine_output.log) had gotten huge—over 60GB. Googling, I found [this article](http://afterhours.bitsandbugs.net/2012/04/18/crashplan-crashing-here-is-the-fix/) that describes how…
The 2013 Spanish Chess Championship kicked off today just down the road in Salobreña. Of the 140 participants, our son started the event ranked 2nd…
