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Posts from July 2008

Apple’s Blind Side

I recently bought my dad a new 20″ iMac and today I set it up for him. This has been a long time coming, going back at least three years that he has suffered under viruses and adware on Windows systems that would grind his computer to a halt. Up until now, he’s been replacing [...]


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19 July 2008 @ 6am

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An iPhone lesson I wish I hadn’t learned today

If you leave your iPhone on vibrate 90% of the time like I do and you use the iPhone as an alarm clock when you travel, remember to turn off vibrate before you go to sleep, because the sound that wakes you up won’t be Marimba, it’ll be Airport Shuttle Guy Banging On Your Door, [...]


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18 July 2008 @ 11am

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1st gen iPhone battery life issues: it’s the apps?

I’ve had my original iPhone for over a year now, and I’ve had a pretty stable use pattern. I charge the phone often (every time I’m in a car (daily) and every other night attached to my computer) and rarely see the battery dip below maximum. For usage, I typcially use it for about 15 [...]


By listening to this you acknowledge you are: Brian Davidson

I’ve been getting some annoying robot phonecalls recently on a daily basis. They always give me menu options to hear more, but never an option to tell them they got the wrong number (or some guy put down the wrong number). The robot leaves messages with half of their recorded message so when I was [...]


Bizjam Seattle

I’m going to be speaking at Bizjam Seattle this Wednesday afternoon about my high road approach to blogging (eschewing SEO snake oil and not being an annoying person on every social network). Judging by the titles, I suspect half the talks will be preaching the opposite of what I’m planning to say, so it’ll either [...]


Previous/Next and Back/Next pagination links considered harmful

One last UI nitpick I’ve been meaning to write down for ages, and it goes like this:

You’re viewing recent photos/posts on a website and you want to read more, so you click the button at the bottom to give you a few more older entries
You view those photos/posts then scroll down to get more
Your choices [...]


June cycling/diet update

Cycling is going really well since the weather is nice. I rode 398 miles (just shy of my target 400-500 per month this summer) in June and I did quite a bit of hill climbing work, with over 20,000 feet climbed for the month (the month previous was about half that).
Diet-wise, I sort of [...]