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Creating a visitor’s guide to your home tech setup

July 12, 2011
Woman looks confused while holding multiple remotes

One of the joys of living in a multicultural society is the experience of welcoming someone from a different heritage into your home, and introducing them to the various artifacts, practices and beliefs of your own culture. It is in this spirit that we sometimes receive visitors to our home who use Windows machines rather [...]

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Can documentation save the world?

December 3, 2010

Yesterday I wrapped up my 2010 Home Media Overhaul and Documentation Festival with a blog post on why to watch TV. But I left another unanswered question on the table: why document your TV setup? Documentation is somewhere between a neurosis and a calling for me. As much as I love a good geek-out, a [...]

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5 ways to protect your Mac’s looks and performance

May 30, 2009

Like any passionate affair, your romance with a new Mac can fizzle when you discover the limitations of your beloved. Your new Mac is much less likely to drive you crazy than that old machine running Windows Vista, but it’s not without the occasional quirk. Here are five highly recommended investments that will help protect you from software frustrations or hardware failures.

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Halfway to hex: Anniversary gifts for geeks

July 28, 2008

To celebrate our half-hex wedding anniversary, we created a new, geek-friendly set of recommended anniversary gifts.

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Choosing a Platform for Telecentre.org

November 7, 2006

Telecentre.org has outlined plans for a distributed network of telecentre network sites around the world, which will include a site for telecentre.org itself. Mark Surman engaged me to help specify the platform requirements for creating a distributed network of sites that will share and exchange content. This document outlines the process we followed for choosing [...]

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Drupalled

August 9, 2005

OK, I’m officially drinking the Drupal Koolaid. Boris skyped me through the process of putting our doc on choosing the telecentre.org platform right into the Drupal handbook itself. Now I feel all Drupally and won’t be able to sleep.

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All Treo, some of the time

August 3, 2005

Well my Treo-ification is now well underway, which is to say that I’ve been immersed in the ever-exciting challenges of how to reorganize my life to be more Treo-friendly. (Oops — I meant to say, figure out how to use the Treo to live my previous life more efficiently.) Here’s some of what I’ve figured [...]

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10 Steps to RSStocracy

June 15, 2005

How RSS can help you track twice as much news in half the time If it’s easy to love the Internet for making a world of information instantly available, it’s just as easy to hate the Net for demanding that we spend more and more of our time scanning computer screens in order to stay [...]

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