Dafacto

The personal website of Matt Henderson.

On Lance Armstrong and Doping

Bill Strickland wrote an article in Bicycling magazine about the implications of Lance Armstrong’s doping. A commenter there summed up my own thoughts.

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Can customer support get any worse than this?

Excited about the recently released FileBuddy 10 utility, I ended up having a pretty rotten purchasing experience.

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Watch out for no-man’s land on the road to bootstrapping a start-up

Bootstrapping a start-up business is hard, and requires personal sacrifice. Don't find yourself in no-mans land.

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Encrypting external USB bootable backup drives with Disk Utilities

After upgrading to a 2012 11" MacBook Air, I discovered that it's not possible to encrypt the 500GB G-Drives I had purchased to serve as bootable backups.

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Migrating from a 2011 to 2012 MacBook Air

For future reference, I noted the issues I ran into while migrating from a 2011 to 2012 MacBook Air.

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Apple's app review process — a rejection with a happy ending

Apple's app review process seems to get its share of knocks in the developer press, but we at Makalu recently had a positive experience which demonstrates that, at least from time to time, the

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The 2012 edition of the 101km de Ronda

Each year in May, my wife and I head to Ronda, to participate with 7,000 others in the 101km of Ronda event. Here's the story of 2012.

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How to never forget to enable your time tracking timer.

Use Keyboard Maestro to help remind you to turn on your time tracker.

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Random thoughts having spent a day with 37signals's new Basecamp Next

Having spent a day with 37signals's new Basecamp Next, I like what I see.

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Casa de Pepe Bravo in Alozaina, Spain

In the whitewashed Spanish village of Alozaina, about 40 minutes from Marbella, is a very special center, called Casa de Pepe Bravo.

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