Get a Yahoo homepage when you install Java!
07 February 2016
Seriously, this is the craziest thing I’ve ever seen. While updating Java 8 to version 73, the Java installer presented me with this screen — offering me, a Yahoo Homepage & New Tab.
The personal website of Matt Henderson.
07 February 2016
Seriously, this is the craziest thing I’ve ever seen. While updating Java 8 to version 73, the Java installer presented me with this screen — offering me, a Yahoo Homepage & New Tab.
04 February 2016
One of my favorite podcasts, recently discovered, is StartUp, by Alex Blumberg, former producer at This American Life. The podcast chronicles the story of starting Gimlet Media, Alex’s new business aimed at creating a network of story-narrative podcasts. “StartUp”, documenting their own story, is Gimlet’s first production, and what’s interesting about this podcast is that Alex records almost all of his conversations along the way, giving us uniquely inside access into the creation of their company.
04 February 2016
Today I received helpful support from Kimberly Castleberry, who works at Yoast. At the bottom of her email was a mechanism to provide feedback:
03 February 2016
Having an extended family spread geographically far and wide, I’ve been pleasantly surprised to find that a Mac/iOS feature I’d previously rarely used has ended up connecting us far better than any social network, and that is iCloud Photo Sharing. My parents, brother, our kids, their kids, etc. love seeing photos appearing in the streams, and being able to comment on them.
03 February 2016
The Heritage Foundation has an interesting 2015 article on, The Redistributive State: The Allocation of Government Benefits, Services, and Taxes in the United States. In it, I saw this interesting chart comparing taxes paid versus benefits received, based on income. I’ll refer to this next time someone mentions that the wealthy aren’t paying their fair share:
29 January 2016
Having recently discovered that Amazon closed my affiliate referral account, this article describes the support odyssey I went through in figuring out why and getting the situation resolved.
29 January 2016
Several weeks ago, I posted a job on Upwork looking for an individual who could help me test our new product, ChessDrop. In addition to receiving applications from individuals, I also started getting emails from all the offshore companies who use Upwork as a source of leads.
27 January 2016
In a recent Philip Greenspan post questioning Apple’s competitive edge going forward, I found myself sympathizing with this anecdote: