Archive for January, 2010

Blogging from an iPhone

Let’s see how this goes. I’m writing my first blog post from my iPhone. A few months ago I tried the Wordpress app version 1 point something. Couldn’t figure out if it supported tag, and I prefer using tags over categories. Fortunately I came across version 2.1 today and it works without a hitch.

Get a Mac to stop at dropdown menus

After using nothing but PCs for the past 15 or so years, getting a MacBook has given me a little more of a learning curve that I was expecting.  Fortunately it’s been pretty intuitive and hasn’t been that bad.  But there’s been one little snag that kept catching me.
By default the tab key does not [...]

Should I block Baidu?

Well, I am for now.
I noticed Baidu pretty much on a forum of mine 24/7, but I didn’t recall ever seeing them show up in the referrer logs.  Over the past year, across the sites on my server, they’ve made almost 35,000 requests for pages; chewed up 337 megs of bandwidth, admittedly not a big [...]