Louis Zha and the brand benefits of the word DIPSHIT
A few days ago, I received an email from "Louis Zha", informing me that a company in China by the name of "CQT Intl Ltd" had applied to register Makalu's trademarked regoapp as their own brand, and
The iPhone 5S and chopped off fingers.
I once saw an ad for a fake Rolex that read:
Don't spend $5,000 for a real Rolex, because wearing that kind of money on your wrist is likely to get your hand chopped off! Instead, spend 45 bucks on
Receiving email for virtual users in OS X Server 10.8
I receive my own email on a Mac running OS X Server 10.8, and just resolved a problem related to the creation of a second email user on that machine.
Let's call the domain on which I receive mail on
Weekend at the computer—Dropbox, BitTorrent Sync and unencryptable drives
The recent news about the NSA's access to the data hosted with cloud providers got me re-thinking how I store and access my sensitive documents—and not only from the point of view of privacy, but
How to move folders that are synced with BitTorrent Sync
BitTorrent Sync is an app/technology that allows multiple computers and devices to share synchronized folders.
On my computer, I setup a folder called BTFamily, and synced that to my wife's and
Using a Contacts group in my email ReadLater rule
I get a lot of email that I'm interested in reading, but which I don't want cluttering up my inbox. In the past, I tried creating a mail rule that would immediately archive mails (keeping their
My finicky ungrateful cat
A plastic bag. A backpack. A set of shoes. Even a sweaty old jiujitsu kimono. If any of these items are placed on the floor in our house, my cat doesn't lose a second rushing over to lay on them.
So
Permanent portfolio historical performance spreadsheet
Today I created a publicly-accessible Google Spreadsheet that calculates the performance of the Permanent Portfolio over a range of dates.
As a proxy for the four asset classes, the spreadsheet uses
My wish for the September iPhones
Here's to hoping that with Apple's forthcoming new iPhones, they'll drop the anodizing of the outer band (as they seem to have done with the current white model), so that I won't have to look at this
Windows Usability
As a Mac user for the past 27 years, I've had little exposure to Microsoft Windows. My assumption, though, is that the usability of the Windows operating system has been improving over the years