Category Archives: software

Moving email to Google apps

In an endless quest to be able to publish right to wordpress from Emacs, I upgraded an older hosting account to the newer and shinier version (it’s a whole other story in itself, some other day).  Since I was breaking things right and left, I figured I’d take the leap to Google Apps backend as

Get yourself a high-definition browser

If you live in the US and watch TV in any amount, you know that we are about to make a switch from analog signals to digital signals. This means that any non-cable ready TV will need a converter box to get over the air programming as opposed to just having rabbit ears. It’s part

wp-cron and mysterious editing errors in wordpress

We use several wordpress sites internally at work on a server with external web access. Ran into a very odd problem when using HTTP Authentication. By authenticating against the Windows Domain Controller at work, we don’t have to have users create another user name and password, which means things Just Work for the most part.

SecureCode FAIL?

SecureCode® is a program by MasterCard to have another (useless?) number you type in to use your credit card with certain merchants. You may remember when the CVV2 code was the NEW BIG THING that people asked for to make sure you were really the person using the card. (IMHO, each of these is perfectly

Accessibility tools in the page versus chrome

One of the Human Factors Engineers asked me about accessibility controls in the UI on Friday. Things like text zoom controls that allow the user to zoom the font size and so forth. He was asking whether those should be revealed to all users, or just shown to users who were using some sort of