Dafacto

The personal website of Matt Henderson.

My experience with the Paleo diet

This is a long article, but one I think could be important to you. It's about something that has proven transformative in my life. It's about the Paleo diet, and I hope you enjoy it.

The background

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The problem with iTunes reviews

A thoughtful iTunes user awards our product—one star.

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Is there a better alternative to taxing the upper class?

People who argue that transferring weath from one segment of society to another through taxes should remember there’s an ugly intermediary in-between.

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The biology of productivity?

I've been reading the book, "Why we get fat" by Gary Taubes. If you're interested in understanding the relationship between eating and getting fat, then you must read the book. It could change your

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Translating Intuit's corporate speak about Quicken's compatibility with OS X 10.7 Lion

Having tracked my personal finances and investment transactions in Quicken for Mac since around 1992, I was keenly interested in an email from Intuit, with the subject, "Is Quicken compatible with

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RaceSplitter in the sport of Trail Running

BEFORE NOW, THE CHOICES AVAILABLE to organizers of trail running events for the timing of their races were:

  1. Expensive — Contracting a professional chip-timing service, the cost of which can easily
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A message from Rand Paul (or, what pisses me off about the conservatives)

How to best organize a society is certainly an area in which I'm hardly qualified to offer opinions. That said, having studied economics for a couple of years, what I've heard that makes most sense

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Timing of the 24 hours of San Pedro race with RaceSplitter

This past weekend, the nearby town of San Pedro celebrated its annual "24 hours of sports" festival, during which a variety of sporting events are conducted over a one-day period. One of the events

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Reservations about Our Choice, and the Push Pop Press vision of tomorrow’s books

Like most people fascinated with the potential that devices like the iPad have to change how we read and learn, I rushed to the App Store to purchase Push Pop Press's highly-anticipated first

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RaceSplitter demonstration at the Sierra Elvira Spanish Cup mountain trail race

Yesterday we got a glimpse of the future of race timing, as the Makalu team traveled to Atarfe, Spain to conduct a live demonstration of our new product, RaceSplitter — an iPhone application for

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