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I experienced something today that’s frustratingly becoming quite common.

Earlier this year, I built a new website through which I planned to publish the contents of my book, Money for Something, for free.

Yesterday, I received a random email from “Emily Johnson”, from “Ranks India”:

Seriously, this is the craziest thing I’ve ever seen.

Today I received helpful support from Kimberly Castleberry, who works at Yoast.

One of my favorite podcasts, recently discovered, is StartUp, by Alex Blumberg, former producer at This American Life.

The Heritage Foundation has an interesting 2015 article on, The Redistributive State: The Allocation of Government Benefits, Services, and Taxes in the United States.

Having recently discovered that Amazon closed my affiliate referral account, this article describes the support odyssey I went through in figuring out why and getting the situation resolved.

Several weeks ago, I posted a job on Upwork looking for an individual who could help me test our new product, ChessDrop.

In a recent Philip Greenspan post questioning Apple’s competitive edge going forward, I found myself sympathizing with this anecdote:

[1]: http://digitalocean.com

This website runs on WordPress, and over the past several years has seen its hosting move from the DreamHost shared environment, to DreamPress managed hosting, to GoDaddy managed hosting to, finally, DigitalOcean.

Cozmoslabs is a Romanian company that sells products, through an intermediary company called Avangate, for building WordPress sites.

A while back I created a second personal website at rantbox.io.

> The inferior man’s reasons for hating knowledge are not hard to discern.

I just love the cultural differences in Europe.

Back in 2003, I posted this paragon of user interface design that I discovered at the Malaga airport, when trying to pay for my parking ticket:

[1]: http://fourhourworkweek.com/2015/12/28/derek-sivers-reloaded-on-success-habits-and-billionaires-with-perfect-abs/ [2]: http://sivers.org

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Via Conrad Hackett:

I know that, for me at least, a key to long-term success is planning.

The navigation app, Waze, changed their external access mechanism, which broke apps like Rego, that used the old access mechanism.

To prepare for a possible clean install of the OS, I’ve been trying to move some local mail archives to the IMAP server, using Mail.app on OS X 10.11.1.

Daniel Jalkut recently posted an AppleScript that allow quick posting of notes with MarsEdit.

While viewing an album in iOS Photos, I selected about 50 photos and used the share-sheet service to send them to a new album in Flickr.

In dire frustration, I just posted the following to the Symantec forums:

A few years ago, when Bank of America telephone support told me that my third consecutive defective SafePass card was an isolated incident, I decided to see for myself by blogging about it.

Over on the Makalu blog, I just posted an article called ChessDrop Design Details that gives some insight into our interaction and user experience design process, and presents some of the approaches we discovered to some traditional design challenges in c…

During the past few years, the financial institution CapitalOne hinted at the importance they give to design, through the acquisition of design companies Adaptive Path in 2014 and Monsoon in 2015.

Via DaringFireball, The Deck’s updated privacy statement reads:

I really enjoyed the interview with Alexander Aghassipour, Danish founder of Zendesk, in Issue 12 of Offscreen magazine.

In this post, I describe why, after years of using the wonderful Mac/iOS VPN product, Cloak, I’m experimenting with an alternative approach, that combines Private Internet Access (PIA) and Little Snitch. (2015-08-28 — As mentioned in an update at the end…

Oh, how I hate Intuit.

Today I received an email from Skype, informing me that my Skype Number was about to expire, and that I didn’t have enough “credits” to process the renewal:

While traveling this past week, and staying in a hotel with awful wifi, I tried working with my MacBook Air tethered to my iPhone 6.

The passcode to unlock my 1Password keychain is longvery longand typing that in on an iOS device is time consuming and error-prone.

[1]: /deadlink [2]: http://inessential.com/2015/06/30/love

**Update** — Timbuk2 is really a great company.

I transport my MacBook Air daily between home and the office—closing the lid to put it to sleep, and opening the lid to wake it.

If you’d like to understand the importance of having a good knowledge of probability theory, consider the following eye-opening example (inspired by something I read at David Siegel’s site.)

Previously, MONEY Magazine attempted to deliver a version of their magazine for the iPad that reflected an understanding of how text is best read on such devices, and attempted to take advantage of user interactivity.

The main compartment zipper on my Tom Bihn Co-Pilot zipper broke a month or so ago.

Just wanted to document a number of additional annoyances I’ve run across in using Photos.app on Mac OS X.

Recently, Flickr introduced a Mac Uploader application, promoting the idea that with 1TB of free storage, Mac users could now store a copy of **all** their photos at Flickr, conveniently and automatically.

This morning, my colleague surfed over to Daring Fireball on his iPhone, via the Vodafone Spain 4G network.

When I was a child, I had a box in my bedroom that was full of all sorts of bits and bobs—ranging from batteries, to rubber bands to screws, string and discarded wood chips from my grandfather’s shop.

A while back I switched from using QuickBooks for Mac 2012, to using QuickBooks Online.

Each year, American citizens, residents and green-card holders are required to report their interests in foreign financial accounts on the FinCEN Report 114 form—more commonly known as the “FBAR”.

Since starting to listen to podcasts a few years ago, I’ve always used the Instacast app.

Bank of America are making a change to their website so dramatic they need to continually remind me about it—starting six months in advance.