Dafacto

The personal website of Matt Henderson.

A physics lesson from U-Haul

A physics lesson from U-Haul

A must read... I love this guy!

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32 days, 19 hours

32 days, 19 hours — that's the present "uptime" reading on my Apple Macintosh OS X computer. I guess the next time this machine will get restarted will be the next time it gets an OS update. It's

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On-the-Fly Emailing

My wish for Apple Mail 2.0 would be a mechanism for shooting off a quick email without leaving the present application. I would like to hit a key combination, have a window pop-up (similar to the

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New Honda Lead Scooter

Automobiles can be downright inconvenient in your average-sized Spanish town. Traffic on the narrow streets can come to a crawl when a big truck decides to unload, or even just when some driver

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Live365, example of poor user interface design.

This, in my opinion, is an example of quite poor user interface design. The image on the right (click the image for a larger version) is a screenshot from Live365.com's web page that users

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Backing Up with Rsync

Note to self: Excellent tutorial for using rsync in a backup strategy.

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Dashboard and a new generation of developers.

John Gruber writes in his (to be expected) excellent review of the Dashboard/Konfabulator situation:

In terms of attracting hobbyist-level developers, Dashboard is going to be an order of magnitude

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Borrowed Innovation

There's been a lot of negative talk about the fact that Apple are introducing technologies like Dashboard, Spotlight and Safari RSS into the forthcoming OS X 10.4 (Tiger) — since they are

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MT-Blacklist Upgrade

Just updated to MT-Blacklist 1.64. Hope it will help control this atrocious comment-spam problem.

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How Not to Get Hired

Kimbly writes about what not to do when applying for a job:

First, don't say you're looking forward to working at a leading pharmaceutical firm, when the company you're applying to is actually a

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