The personal website of Matt Henderson.
11 March 2015
One area in which the United States is light years ahead of Europe is online banking. Some time ago, American banks finally came to understand that the usability of their online interfaces represents a competitive advantage, ever growing in importance. Most European banks have not gotten that message yet.
03 March 2015
Somebody signed up for an account at LocalFlavor.com using my email address (a common occurrence, since I have a relatively common name, and was the first to grab it at Gmail.) Heres what happened next:
26 February 2015
Earlier this year, I described how I used Dropbox to share confidential documents among our family’s Macs. Unfortunately, that approach proved too problematic and I’ve since had to switch to a new approach—based on the Tresorit service—which, while not a perfect solution, does represent an improvement.
22 February 2015
The US tax revenue as a percentage of GDP is about 35%. In this article, Phil Greenspun points out that Obamacare, which forces citizens to purchase health insurance, isn’t materially different than European governments forcing citizens to pay extra tax to covers the cost of state-provided health care.
20 February 2015
In a conversation with the BBC, Motorola president Rick Osterloh had some words to say about Apple’s pricing.
18 February 2015
Both my Jeep Wrangler and Toyota iQ introduced usability improvements that have some unfortunate consequences.
16 February 2015
We watched this interesting documentary about Nepal the other night on the Apple TV. Back in 1998, my wife and I spent two weeks following the same trekking route as covered in this video, from Lukla to the base camp of Everest. It was a wonderful experience, and from the video, it looks like little has changed since we were there.
15 February 2015