Month: December 2007

  • Going Postal on my Mail

    I can’t figure this one out. For some reason, only over this past year, my mail has been showing up super late and completely mangled. The funny part is it’s always the important pay checks, never the spam, never the unwanted “new line of credit” envelopes, and never the vouchers for a sale on framed…

  • Some AirSpace Goodies

    Now that I have a little more time once again to continue working on AirSpace I want to tighten up a few things with the app. Since this blog is pretty new and I did promise to write some useful tidbits, it probably wouldn’t hurt to reiterate exactly what AirSpace is. I had a few…

  • Software to bug ratio

    It goes without saying that with new software comes new bugs. I like to write about some of these bugs, having written a few good ones myself. In fact, I consider myself somewhat of a Digital Entomologist in a manner of speaking. While out hunting some rare, or not so rare species to give me…

  • Customer disservice

    I wanted to write about this topic because I have a particularly foul taste in my mouth today after having dealt with a myriad of customer service representatives over the past few weeks, and days especially. Still going through some nightmarish ordeal with issues that should be cake! I’m not going to write the names…

  • I admit, it’s no feat of intellect to defeat me in a competitive round of Mr. Elephant’s Matching Game, but can we not cater to this stereotype any longer? I thought we got past all this already? According to Tetsuro Matsuzawa of Kyoto University: “young chimpanzees at the age of 5 — have a better…

  • Losing FaceBook?

    Ok so FaceBook is flopping around like a wet flounder fresh out of the bay Facebook: The canary in the social networking coal mine by ZDNet‘s Dan Farber — Facebook has stirred up a great deal of controversy and now harsh criticism with its Beacon advertising program. Three weeks after launching Beacon Facebook, the company…

  • I just read this Apple QuickTime under siege by ZDNet‘s Ryan Naraine — Not counting silent (undocumented) fixes, Apple has patched at least 32 security flaws affecting QuickTime in 2007. Last year, the QuickTime patch count was 28. Five was documented in 2005. There’s no real end in sight… It seems that Apple needs to…

  • I’ve been pretty jealous of all the things WordPress lets you do and the usability compared to Nucleus CMS, which I use for PXL Blog. Since this is my first post here, let me introduce myself. I’m Dave Flatley, the same guy who writes on PXL Blog, the same guy who runs PXL Designs, LLC.…