Dafacto

The personal website of Matt Henderson.

Dieting and weight loss report.

In the sport of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, I've been fortunate (having trained under some great coaches) to have won gold medals two times at the European BJJ championships. On both occasions, I fought in

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From my inbox: The ultimate resume. How could we not hire this guy?

The following resume, verbatim, just landed in my inbox. Seriously, how could we not hire this guy!? The only thing he's not, is concise. Resume of {Name Deleted}

A Man for All Solutions

Highly

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CapitalOne User Experience

CapitalOne could have emailed me with the following short note:

Due to forthcoming changes in our online banking, please visit the following URL if you access Bill Pay via Quicken
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Experimenting with Google Voice and Skype

Unfortunately, Google Voice doesn't yet support forwarding to international numbers, which, for someone like me, living in Spain but with considerable interests in the US, is quite a bummer. (What I

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Rethinking security after the Twitter/TechCrunch fiasco

In case you missed it, TechCrunch received some 300+ confidential documents related to Twitter (the company), which were attained by a hacker. These documents contained minutes of meetings, business

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Pixmania User Experience (or is it eXpansys?)

I recently placed an order for a camera with Pixmania.es. After a few days I received this email (with my order number edited; so don't click the link):

Su pedido 9HJ1-6706EDIT fue envíado.

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How to update the firmware of a Seagate 1.5TB drive on Mac OS X

This article is written for the benefit of other Mac OS X users that may find themselves in the unfortunate situation of needing to update the firmware on a Seagate 1.5TB drive.

Considering the

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Timely quotes from Thomas Jefferson

A great list:

"The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not."
"It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it
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Alto Chorrillo to the Siete Lagunas, in Sierra Nevada

Although it's still wonderfully warm here at sea level in Marbella, it's quickly getting cold in the Alpujarras and Sierra Nevada, and so thought this could be our last weekend to try camping at the

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Launch of the Mocca Marbella Website

Those of us working in the Marbella, Spain office of MakaluMedia are pretty darn lucky to have a super scrumptious cafe/restaurant—Mocca Marbella—just five minutes away, serving up fresh, seasonal

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