Dafacto

The personal website of Matt Henderson.

Automated Comment Deletion from MT-Blacklist Emails

I, like many Movable Type users, am getting loads of comment spam notification emails from the MT-Blacklist plug-in. Processing the comment spam usually goes something like this:

  1. Select the mail in
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Life in Spain

It's been nearly a week since the mailman has delivered any mail. Even though I work at home, I consistently get "We couldn't deliver a package, because you weren't home." notices. The lady working

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Steve Jobs on innovation: Saying No.

From a new Interview with Steve Jobs in Businessweek:

Q: How do you systematize innovation?

A: The system is that there is no system. That doesn't mean we don't have process. Apple is a very

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Power Laws, Weblogs, and Inequality

Shirky: Power Laws, Weblogs, and Inequality. This is a very interesting article discussing the apparent fact that when a society can freely choose among a large number of options, the choices can be

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Marbella Submission Fighters

Today we launched the website of Marbella Submission Fighters:

http://marbellasf.com/

MSF is our Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and grappling training club in the Marbella and San Pedro areas of Spain (in the

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More Productivity Tips

Thinking about productivity lately, following are a few more tips relating to the minimizing the distractions and interruptions in our desktop environments (which I'm convinced is one of the big

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NetNewsWire 2.0 and MarsEdit 1.0 (Betas)

NetNewsWire 2.0 and MarsEdit 1.0 betas were released yesterday by Ranchero. Both look quite good, and I'll be test driving them over the next few weeks. This is the first post with MarsEdit.

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Getting Things Done

The recent posts of Merlin Mann have re-kindled a long-time interest I have in the area of personal productivity. According to Peter Drucker, one of the defining aspects of our generation is the

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iPotty — The Next Big Thing

So I was taking care of business this morning, realized somebody had shuffled off with my usual reading material, and subsequently had an idea for Apple's Next Big Hit—the iPotty. I think the sketch

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Amazing.

Ok, I must still be heavily under the influence of my pre-OSX days, but the following just amazed me: Today I was synchronizing my G5 to my Powerbook, and realized that Sync Pro X was reporting 3.00

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