Gawker founder Nick Denton (home of Mac Hacker, er, Lifehacker; Gizmodo; io9; Jalopnik; and formerly Consumerist) says online comments aren’t worth the trouble. I agree and disagree.
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Are comments worth the trouble or not?
Posted by Dave Farquhar on March 15, 2012
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2012/03/are-comments-worth-the-trouble-or-not/
Putting blog updates on Facebook
Some unknown percentage of my Facebook friends are interested in my blog posts. And some other unknown percentage of them would be if they knew what I was posting. There are several ways to get WordPress to put blog post links on Facebook, but some work better than others. I’d like to thank Rob O’Hara [...]
Posted by Dave Farquhar on June 11, 2011
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2011/06/putting-blog-updates-on-facebook/
How to secure a computer like a spook
A link to the National Security Agency’s (NSA) guidance on hardening operating systems has been floating around various blogs today. But the NSA’s guidance on configuring Windows 7 and other recent operating systems is, to put it mildly, a bit incomplete. What one government agency doesn’t do, another probably does. That’s usually a safe assumption [...]
Posted by Dave Farquhar on May 20, 2011
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2011/05/how-to-secure-a-computer-like-a-spook/
Apple and its controversial pentalobular screws
I see the ‘net is overrun today with complaints about Apple switching to oddball Pentalobular screws (sometimes called “pentagram” screws–is that an accident, or people being snarky?) and the occasional person claiming to know where to get a Pentalobular driver for a few dollars, but few people actually being, you know, helpful. So here’s where [...]
Posted by Dave Farquhar on January 21, 2011
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2011/01/apple-and-its-controversial-pentalobular-screws/
Pontificating on how to blog
Several people I know have started blogs lately. Conversations with them have reminded me of a few things. I’m far from an A-list blogger, and was never anything more than an E- or F-list guy. At my peak, I got about 2,000 page views per day, but I’m a ways from that now. All I [...]
Posted by Dave Farquhar on November 22, 2010
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2010/11/pontificating-on-how-to-blog/
And we have safely arrived in the 21st century.
It wasn’t the smoothest of transitions, but it went a whole lot better than it could have. I’ve moved the venerable Silicon Underground, with its nearly 1,800 posts spanning a little over a decade, to WordPress 3.0.1. This blog’s been pretty stale for a long time. Some of that is due to the software. Some [...]
Posted by Dave Farquhar on October 1, 2010
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2010/10/and-we-have-safely-arrived-in-the-21st-century/
Do twice-monthly mortgage payments save money?
The debate over paying your mortgage every two weeks rather than every month is making the rounds on some popular blogs right now.
Whether this trick works depends on several things, but the most important part is that you shouldn’t pay a penny extra for this service.
Posted by Dave Farquhar on March 11, 2010
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2010/03/do-twice-monthly-mortgage-payments-save-money/
The Stingy Scottish Miser: Thermal Curtains
So the Stingy Scottish Miser Chronicles continue. Yesterday my wife and I went shopping for thermal (also known as blackout) curtains. I’d read about them in comments on financial blogs but never saw much else in the way of first-person testimony about them.
I figure one day’s worth of experience with them is better than no information at all.
Posted by Dave Farquhar on June 7, 2009
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2009/06/the-stingy-scottish-miser-thermal-curtains/
Still no (legal) prosecution for the Megan Meier Myspace suicide
St. Charles County Prosecutor Jack Banas announced today that he won’t prosecute the online vigilantes who drove Megan Meier to suicide in October 2006. Here’s the St. Louis Post-Dispatch story, which has more details than the AP story.
Not only is the legal system failing Ron and Tina Meier, it’s also failing Lori Drew, her husband Curt, and Drew’s employee and co-participant, Ashley Grills.
Posted by Dave Farquhar on December 3, 2007
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2007/12/still-no-legal-prosecution-for-the-megan-meier-myspace-suicide/
The difference that posting frequency makes when blogging
Some time ago, I gave the advice that it doesn’t really matter if you post every day or not. I think my rationale was that quality matters more than quantity, or at least it should. And although I still believe that in an ideal world, quality should matter more than quantity, now I have around [...]
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2012/05/the-difference-that-posting-frequency-makes-when-blogging/