Entries from January 2008
January 30th, 2008 · 2 Comments
I’m pleased to say that I am still quite happy with my choice in online backup services after two weeks. I chose to use Mozy and it has simply been invisible since then.
Actually, invisible isn’t the right description, that would imply I couldn’t see it even if I wanted to. But since I can, I […]
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Tags: Reviews
I’m not sure how I missed it before, but PayPal has a new competitor in Amazon Payments.
I applied this evening to the beta “Flexible Payment Service” so that I can develop a plugin for Satchmo, using Amazon Payments.
It looks really interesting. The base features will be a snap to do in python/Satchmo, of course. But […]
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Tags: Satchmo · Libraries
Yay! I’m going to go to South by Southwest Interactive in March. I was just checking ticket prices, and I lucked into a great deal on my favorite airline.
What’s more, since it is clearly a business trip, I’ll be able to write off every penny. Excellent.
Now, I just need to get in touch with friends […]
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Tags: Planning
January 13th, 2008 · 2 Comments
After reviewing several online data backup services and software packages, I choose Mozy Online Backup.
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Tags: Reviews · Macintosh
Recently I was doing a server move for a client. From an ancient slow system costing her too much money (and me too much bother dealing with a know-it-all-wrong admin) at Today.net, to a nice modern VPS reliably, competently and fully managed by LiquidWeb.
Last year, I wrote her a travel reservation & quoting app in […]
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Tags: Tips · Macintosh
Last year, I wrote about my love of apps which “just fit” into OSX. At that time, iGTD was my pick for an app that best fit my Mac and how I use it.
Unfortunately, despite it being easy to get new tasks into iGTD, it wasn’t so easy for me to use on a regular […]
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Tags: Macintosh