Dafacto

The personal website of Matt Henderson.

Telefónica España and Proxy Caches

My ADSL and internet service provider, Telefónica España, just installed a network of transparent proxy caches. I suspected this when last week I suddenly lost my ability to immediately see updates

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Microsoft Integration

Just saw this great post by NSLog(); pointing to someone's commentary about what life will really be like when Microsoft achieves their grand integration plans.

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ImageWell

If you're blogger on the Mac OS X platform, and like to include images in your entries, you'll likely find ImageWell one of the most useful utilities around.

It resides in your menu bar. Dragging an

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Disk Utility Fix Permissions & CommuniGate Pro

If you use Apple's Disk Utility application to Repair Permissions on your Mac OS X system AND you have CommuniGate Pro installed, you'll end up messing up CGPro's files such that the following won't

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VersionTracker 6. Oh my goodness.

If you want to see what techies are capable of doing when they've got their hands on a lot of data and a relational database, and no idea whatsover of user-interface design, have a poke around the n

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Purchased Music

Gulp. My Purchased Music list in iTunes has grown to 109 songs. My wife's gonna kill me! I'm not sure Apple making it so easy to purchase music was a good thing. ;-)

Anyway, stuff I've purchased

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Site Redesign

As you can see, I'm redesigning the site (none of the Section links work yet.) Hopefully this won't be a complete exercise in the name of vanity, since we'll also be installing Movable Type for the

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iTunes 4 Warning

Just a quick note to mention that when iTunes 4 asks if you want to "Replace Existing" songs when re-encoding, what it really means is "Move Existing to Trash". As I'm re-encoding my entire CD

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Mac OS X Hacks

I'm currently reading through Mac OS X Hacks, by Rael Dornfest. It's a good read, with some interesting OS X tricks and tips (like controlling iTunes via Perl). Finally some books are starting to

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Vaya Paliza!

With three cycling clubs in a small town like Marbella, you can imagine that its a fairly popular sport here. A friend of mine (Diego López Luque) and I even started a small website, MarbellaCycling

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