Category Archives: Geek

Recovering Address Book and iCal calendars from a backup drive

After a clean up-stall of Snow Leopard, all seems well… but I realize I neglected to create easily importable backups of my address book and calendars. Not a problem – I had backed u......

Back to the top: navigation and design failure.

One of my pet peeves when it comes to web design is one that I consistently see with businesses who traditionally relied on the sunday advertisement insert is a reluctance (or perhaps overt refu......

Radiant Heroku… getting your Radiant App live on Heroku in about 10 minutes.

I’ve discovered various degrees of up-to-datedness and accuracy in some of the tutorials out there for deploying an app built on Radiant CMS to Heroku, so here’s one that is valid fo......

So many websites with nothing original to say…

I’ve had many discussions with others lately about websites that focus on providing user-contributed content… and in those conversations, one of the topics that invariably comes up i......

Dreamweaver CS4 Hanging at “Initializing Files?”

After launching Dreamweaver, does it look like it hangs at the “Initializing files” stage? If you’re linked up with a subversion repository, that might be to blame. Accordin......

Would you tinker with gravity?

Let’s say someone invented a device that could reduce the force of gravity from Earth’s gravitational field to, lets say, the gravity felt on the moon. Presuming we had some way to ......

They tell no lies…

I saw this brilliant video about one of the most, er, interesting aspects of barnacle physiology in a course taught by the illustrious (and ever-so-interesting) Dr. Paul Dayton. And in the 12 y......

Not funny… yet so hilarious.

The joke: not so funny. Letterman’s response: reasonable, heartfelt and honest. Embedded video from CNN Video But this response: hilarious. caroline June 11th, 2009 10:42 am ET I have......

As if we needed another reason to love Yelp….

What a lovely fail to wake up to in my inbox… To be perfectly clear, when I contacted the staff at SF Women Against Rape to let them know about what they were have purported to have spons......

Prop 8 upheld… but can it be enforced?

In today’s decision to uphold Proposition 8, the California Supreme Court justices were just doing their job. I can’t fault them, as they were working within the boundaries of the le......