Dafacto

The personal website of Matt Henderson.

Paris in February

Perhaps biased from watching one too many editions of the Tour de France in July, I suppose my mental image of Paris has always been set in a fresh, pleasant time of year. So when at the last minute my wife decided to spend our Spanish February "Semana Blanca" holiday there, I was caught a bit off guard. Here's the story!

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Getting rid of those annoying “Open With…” duplicates

A useful script for deleting those annoying duplicate versions of apps you see when using the MacOS X Finder to "Open With..." anything other than the default application.

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2013 Malaga Chess Championship

Our two kids won first place in their respective categories in the 2013 chess championship of Malaga. Here's the story.

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Unsubscribing from email with Air Berlin

For quite some time, I've been receiving email newsletters from Air Berlin at least two or three times per month. I tried to do something about that today, and I think you'll find the following conversation with Air Berlin on Twitter to be quite entertaining.

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Economic news from Marbella—good or bad?

Peugeot builds out a major new commercial space here in the industrial zone of Marbella. Is this good or bad economic news?

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Dafacto—new name, same blog (or, why I don’t suck any more)

You know those drawings where you see a beautiful woman but the rest of the world sees an old hag? Well, where I saw "This UX", the rest of the world saw, "This SUX". And that did suck, but I couldn't think of a better option. Here's the story of my new blog name.

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Malaga Promotion Chess Tournament Day 2

Day two of four of the Malaga Promotion Chess Tournament. Here's the summary.

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My simplified backup system using CrashPlan

Having recently simplified my Macintosh backup system, this article explains the how's and why's.

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Fast access to the previous month's time report in Harvest

This article shows you how to use Keyboard Maestro to automatically access your Harvest timesheet report for the previous month. Enjoy!

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Chess tournaments in Marbella and Malaga

Evidently, one chess tournament each weekend just wasn't enough for my wife, who signed us up for two — on the same day! — this past Saturday. Here's the story.

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