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A Rego user just wrote in concerned that Rego was consuming 14% of his battery usage:

My blogging workflow generally involves:

Fabricio Werdum is currently the interim heavyweight champion of the UFC, and calls California home.

A couple of weeks ago, I posted a job on the oDesk site.

This weekend I listened to an episode of the [Tim Ferriss Podcast][1] in which he interviewed strength and conditioning expert Pavel Tsatsouline.

This is the disappointing story of a user who decided to delete Rego, and give it a one-star review.

I have an internet-hosted Mac mini running OS X Server, and recently decided to figure out how to host websites on it, and in particular, Wordpress websites.

About a year ago, somebody must have published a very popular book or article proposing a new sales technique that leads to greater conversion.

For years we contracted an office security system from Securitas Direct; a complete waste of money, but that’s another story.

Last week I tweeted a snippet from my 11 year-old son’s corrected math test, in which his answer was incorrectly marked wrong.

For more than a decade, I’ve been accumulating music and curating playlists in iTunes, all of which has physically been located on the SSD of my MacBook Air.

With versions available for both iOS and OS X, OmniFocus is the most powerful task management system intended for individuals on the Apple platform.

I was excited to find that Beachbody has released the latest in their P90x fitness series, with the new P90 product.

RaceSplitter is an app that provides “do it yourself” timing of sport events.

About a month ago, a notice was posted to the Pin Drop blog announcing that the app would be shutting down.

I’ve been unable to install Yosemite on a mid-2011 iMac.

I’m in the process of recovering from a Dropbox disaster, and wanted to document it here in case it may prove useful to others.

For years, I’ve been accumulating an archive of files at home on an external drive connected to a Mac mini.

As a Bank of America customer who spends a lot of time outside the United States, I have struggled to confirm my transactions due to (a) defects in the Bank of America SafePass card, and (b) being unable to receive a Bank of America SMS on a foreign phone…

Rego 2—a major update to our popular location booking app—has just been approved by Apple and is available for sale or update in the App Store.

On each of the six Macintosh computers that I manage, I have a number of tools and utilities running which perform regular duties.

Last Sunday we left Marbella for a week of vacation in Andorra.

Yesterday evening, I parked my scooter at the entrance to the Marbella boardwalk in order to meet up with my colleague Alex for dinner.

Using software like Quicken or iBank, I’ve always budgeted, tracked and monitored our family’s expenditures by category.

A couple of days ago, I posted an article detailing how to use Keyboard Maestro to create todos in OmniFocus 2 that are linked to original messages in Mail.app.

About a year ago, I switched from OmniFocus to Things, in part because of a dislike of the OmniFocus Mac app.

As I wrote about in the past, I host my email on a **Mac mini** with **OS X Server**, and on which I run Mail.app and SpamSieve together to provide a server-side spam filtering and rules-processing solution.

This morning I was trying to create a Keyboard Maestro macro to automatically send an email to my team members on the last day of each month.

[1]: http://moneyforsomethingbook.com [2]: /2010/harry-browne-permanent-portfolio

In the video [The Pleasure of Finding Things Out][1] I love this profound quote by Richard Feynman.

Back in 2008, I made a terrible mistake—I donated to the Ron Paul political campaign.

Remember those funny videos of people like George Bush or Dan Quayle incoherently rambling on about something?

This article describes how I track and reconcile my LendingClub investments, using the iBank personal finance software.

Speaking with people of different religious beliefs, I’ve always found it curious to hear a common viewpoint, that goes something along the lines of:

This article discusses a strange issue related to the OS X 10 firewall, mysteriously restarting itself, and disallowing traffic to applications that should be whitelisted.

At Makalu, we’re longtime users of Basecamp, the online project management system created by the folks at Basecamp (formerly 37signals). 37signals care deeply about design, and this is evident pretty much everywhere in the user experience of their product…

After reading about Facebook’s $19 billion purchase of WhatsApp, I started thinking about the revenue and public valuations of the giant advertising companies—Google, Facebook and Twitter—as compared to that of Apple:

A few months ago, a frequent-traveler named “Matthew Henderson” from New York City signed up at Delta.com, accidentally providing *my* Gmail email address instead of their own (which is likely some minor variant of mine.)

A few weeks ago, and way late to the game, I started listening to podcasts.

While waiting for version 4 to be released, I’ve had to temporarily uninstall the MailTags plug-in from Mail.app in OS X Mavericks.

In the past, all the devices in my home operated over a single wifi network—including four Macs, an AppleTV and several iOS devices.

For the past few days, the CPU on my 11” MacBook Air, running OS X Mavericks 10.9.1 has looked like this:

Ben Brooks referenced a Boston Globe article discussing the poor state of internet access in the USA.

California will spend $68 billion to build 520 miles of railroad by the year 2029, while China will spend $300 billion to build 16,000 miles of railroad by the year 2020.

**Update 2014-03-12:** OS X 10.9.2 seems to have fixed this.

Of the blogs I read, many are from authors who’ve become popular enough to monitize their sites, through memberships or advertisements.

I run Mail.app on an internet-hosted Mac mini, in order to provide server-side spam filtering and to pre-process my email based on an extensive set of rules.

ScannerPro is a wonderful iOS app for scanning and working with scanned documents on the iPhone and iPad.

Back in August, I purchased a 4TB G-Drive at the Apple Store in Marbella to serve as the destination that CrashPlan uses when backing up our family’s various Macs.

**Update:** Sometimes blogging really pays off.