Inna Demianova is doing her best to overtake Ronak Parker’s persistency record. Looking for a way to migrate WooCommerce data, I ran across her company’s…
The path less traveled.
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Inna Demianova is doing her best to overtake Ronak Parker’s persistency record. Looking for a way to migrate WooCommerce data, I ran across her company’s…
Earlier this year, I built a new website through which I planned to publish the contents of my book, Money for Something, for free. After finishing the site, I found myself feeling unsatisfied with a couple of things.
Yesterday, I received a random email from “Emily Johnson”, from “Ranks India”: Hi esteemed Sir/Ma’am, Could you please outsource some seo business to us? We…
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.
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…
Cozmoslabs is a Romanian company that sells products, through an intermediary company called Avangate, for building WordPress sites. I purchased a plugin from them, subsequently decided it wasn’t for me and requested a refund. I was eventually granted a refund, but only after some frustration and confusion. Here’s the story.
A while back I created a second personal website at rantbox.io. The idea was that my frequent complaints about things really weren’t content I wanted…
I just love the cultural differences in Europe. This Christmas, we played two chess tournaments—one in Spain, and the other in Germany. Prior to the…
There are certain kinds of tasks for which Upwork is the perfect place to find help. And from personal experience, you can find some absolute…
Via Conrad Hackett:
Daniel Jalkut recently posted an AppleScript that allow quick posting of notes with MarsEdit.
While viewing an album in iOS Photos, I selected about 50 photos and used the share-sheet service to send them to a new album in…
A few years ago, when Bank of America telephone support told me that my third consecutive defective SafePass card was an isolated incident, I decided to see for myself by blogging about it.
This would have made for a decent avatar photo, if not for the bee.
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…
A bit more than a year ago, I posted a article on the Dafacto blog about switching from a Tom Bihn Ristretto to Co-Pilot, as…
I was struggling with the question of what to get my wife for Valentine’s Day, until this thoughtful email arrived from Seagate. I’m going to…
I’m an Anti-Braker Guys, I wanted to let you know about a personal decision I recently made. I don’t really feel like discussing it, but…
Well-known Bitcoin-India CEO, start-up entrepreneur, actor and Hollywood film producer Sykam Srimannarayana Reddy is offering me $2.97 billion per month on a one-time investment of…
For the past several years, the main outlets for my postings were Twitter and here at the Dafacto website. Today that changed. Twitter’s a great…
Fabricio Werdum is currently the interim heavyweight champion of the UFC, and calls California home. Several years ago, though, he lived in Madrid, Spain, where…
The local Chinese shops here in Spain are absolutely shameless. From iPod shuffle knockoffs to “top brand” clothing like these hilarious “Dadida” socks.
My blogging workflow generally involves: Posting a blog article with MarsEdit Reviewing the article in Safari Tweeting the article in Twitter Step 3 required copying…
Yesterday evening, I parked my scooter at the entrance to the Marbella boardwalk in order to meet up with my colleague Alex for dinner. Later that evening, we walked back to the boardwalk entrance and Alex jumped on his scooter and headed home. I did the same, but upon turning the ignition key — nothing. Second try — nothing. Great, just what I needed — a dead battery.