Dafacto

The personal website of Matt Henderson.

A Dropbox disaster

I'm in the process of recovering from a Dropbox disaster, and wanted to document it here in case it may prove useful to others.

I have Dropbox running under the same account on two computers, my

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The Odyssey of getting my data into Amazon Glacier

For years, I've been accumulating an archive of files at home on an external drive connected to a Mac mini. These are files that I do not expect to need in the future, but at the same time wouldn’t

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Bank of America SafePass Card Bubbles

As a Bank of America customer who spends a lot of time outside the United States, I have struggled to confirm my transactions due to (a) defects in the Bank of America SafePass card, and (b) being

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Rego 2 — Sweating the details

Rego 2—a major update to our popular location booking app—has just been approved by Apple and is available for sale or update in the App Store.

In principal, Rego is a very simple product—you use it

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Notifications

On each of the six Macintosh computers that I manage, I have a number of tools and utilities running which perform regular duties. Carbon Copy Cloner keeps attached bootable backup drives current

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Is there an optimal method of chess training?

A decade ago, as an amateur competitive cyclist I became interested in the topic of optimal training methods. Through research and personal experience, I learned that while nearly everyone followed

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Suspicious Practices at Europcar

Last Sunday we left Marbella for a week of vacation in Andorra. Our travel plans included a flight to Barcelona, from where we'd pick up a rental car and drive the remaining three hours to Andorra

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Tears & Euphoria — Lance becomes the 2014 Spanish National Champion in Rapid Chess

At the beginning of this month, the 2014 Spanish National Kids Chess Championship kicked off at the Best Western hotel in Salobreña, Spain. For five consecutive weeks, children from all over the

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Embarrassing

Yesterday evening, I parked my scooter at the entrance to the Marbella boardwalk in order to meet up with my colleague Alex for dinner. Later that evening, we walked back to the boardwalk entrance

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Budgeting & Financial Monitoring in the Internet Age

Using software like Quicken or iBank, I've always budgeted, tracked and monitored our family's expenditures by category. In this area, the internet age has delivered both improvements and setbacks.

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