Dafacto

The personal website of Matt Henderson.

Interview with Lance on Marbella RTV Television

The local television station here in Marbella, RTV, interviewed Lance about his success in chess.

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Evening news interview with Lance about chess

After the morning news show interviewed him, more reporters came to the house this afternoon to shoot a second segment for the evening news.

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The consequences of making political donations

A libertarian at heart, I donated to the Ron Paul presidential campaign back when he made a run for officeand that has turned out to be a terrible mistake.

As a result of that donation, my email

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Sony Playstation Network doesn’t validate email accounts

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

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Looking for a simple, menubar-based todo list

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 next day. In addition, I also note any scheduled activities or appointments I have on

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Switched to Parallels and then back to VMWare

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

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Proposal for a centralized credit card data access service

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 it took much longer than I would

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LinkedIn has the worst account downgrade workflow ever

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

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Google Authenticator broken in iOS7. Use Authy instead.

I discovered this morning that the Google Authenticator app is broken in iOS 7. While it does display authentication codes, it doesn't display the associated service description. So unless you only

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