Dafacto

The personal website of Matt Henderson.

Money for Something—One month after the book launch

My new book, Money for Something, has been out for about a month, and I wanted to post a note about my experience during that time.

Feedback

The feedback so far has been overwhelmingly positive, and

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Cooperative booking for travel, hotels and car rentals

Travel booking sites need to do a better job addressing the workflow in which one person does the research, and another does the booking.

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A weekly plannerthe missing killer feature from Things

I use Things for managing my tasks. It needs just one little feature to be perfect.

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Spamming the SEO Spammers

If you run a website, Im sure youve gotten your share of these: Hi there! We found your site on one of the back pages of Google. Wouldnt you rather be up front? Lately, Ive been having a little fun with these SEO experts.

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How much should you learn about investing?

Many years ago, I learned the fundamentals of investing, and over two decades of consistently following them, confirmed that (at least for me) they worked exactly as advertised. Over the years

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Deleting old spam messages with AppleScript

If you use SpamSieve to keep your Mac’s inbox free of spam, and would like to automatically clean your corresponding spam folder, this article shows you how.

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Running your own server-side spam filter with SpamSieve

Would you like a spam-free inbox on your iPhone or iPad, without having to rely on third-party mail services like Gmail and iCloud, or server-based spam filters like Spam Assassin? This article will show you how.

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College wasn't his biggest mistake

Steve Corona, CTO of Twitpic tells the story of his path from failing out of college to become an executive a leading social service. It’s an inspiring article, but I think the title is unfortunate.

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Could Twitter better support conversations with a special @all address?

I have a proposal for a special use of the @reply mechanism, that would allow Twitter to better handle growing conversations.

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Table of contents missing when converting from EPUB to MOBI

I'm a first-time e-book self-publisher, and have a problem I need some help with.

My source content is in a Pages document, on the Macintosh. When I export my document from Pages to ePub, and open

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