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“Lead, Follow, or Get the Hell Out of the Way.”
Just read it and I love it!

Just returned from a splendid one weak stay in Grand Cayman.  Managed to hunker down, drink a Cay Brew on the beach, watching the sunset, while typing away on my MacBook Pro - heaven couldn’t have been any closer!
For a colony of the British West Indies, it’s very Americanized but still quite nice.  Most especially […]

to both Leopard and Wordpress 2.5 So far, everything works splendidly. More to come soon.
UPDATE
Ok, so maybe it hasn’t worked out “splendidly” but the transition to Leopard has proved more fruitful than I thought it would.  Most notably, Quick Look is a lifesaver and a MUST for anyone having to consistently open MS […]

Forgive the rant, but who the heck thought of using the Command+Left and Command+Right shortcut for Back and Forward in a web browser (I’m looking at you Firefox)???  I can’t even begin to count the number of times this shortcut has created necktie-in-the-shredder frustration and had me accidentally backing out of a WordPress post or […]

After attentively watching Wil Shipley’s erudite speech at the C4 conference recently, I was struck by his comment at 1:13 stating that users who are usually too cheap to update their Apple software are too cheap to upgrade and/or buy yours?! I’ve been chewing on that thought for two days now, and I’m not […]

What can I say but WOW:

Found via Neatorama

I don’t normally like to blabber about random downloads across the internet, but this one has struck my fancy. In place of the standard LAMP configuration of most web servers (Linux Apache MySQL PHP), there is a one-click freeware installer to do all of this on a Mac, thus the acronym MAMP and the […]

In the spirit of 37Signals “[Screens Around Town]” occasional posting, I recently came across some designs and discussions that caught my attention.
Easy Price Quotes
While researching shopping bags for a promotional event, I came upon an innovative pricing table at AbsorbentPrinting.com. Rather than having to bust out a calculator, or click and submit various quote […]

Busy is not a word.  It’s a lifestyle!!!  In recent news, there was the treat of being featured on Tim Dietrich’s FileMaker Addict blog.  It’s a great blog with some insight into the people behind all of the developer-related FileMaker news we all read about.It’s worth the read (the blog in general) and I recommend checking […]

In the world of software and ever-increasing complexity in software, help manuals with proper grammar, clearly written language, and even better visual demonstrations of functionality are a hard thing to come by.  Should software even have a manual? How would you explain advanced functionality to users? As I’m finishing the 50+ page to the InBloom […]