The recent kurfuffle over Twitter’s retention rate according to Nielson is a tad ridiculous. Comparing the 30-40% retention rate to those of MySpace and Facebook at the same stage in life is like comparing Sonics to Marios. The major blogs nailed why this comparison doesn’t make sense – Twitter aggressively shutting down spam accounts – …

Am I missing something with the auto-updates for WordPress plugins? When I try to do an auto-update, I get a page asking me for the ftp(s) info for my server. I’m expected to: send ftps info unencrypted through the browser send my credentials to an untrusted third party open up my firewall so any ol’ …

I used wordle.net to generate a tag cloud of my twitstream so you can see the kind of stuff I’m blabbering about on Twitter. I’m usually complaining about something or another – The “All Mail” Gmail folder in Mail.app, Frustration with Kindle for iPhone, The App Store – but sometimes I tweet some useful junk …

I needed to copy all files with the string “_1” in them to a separate folder and remove the “_1”. I thought I could pull this with a one liner, but that wasn’t happening. A two liner had to do: # find . -name “*_1.jpg” -exec cp {} ../xx/ \; # for file in *_1.jpg; do …

When Safari 4 Public Beta came out, there was a mad rush to find the applications hidden preferences. Some used it to bring back the aqua loading bar, others used it to bring back tabs on bottom, and others were just curious. I’m leaving S4PB the way it is because I want to give it …