http://andy.boyko.net Sun, 27 Jul 2008 06:30:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It's possible that the availability of an iphone client for WordPress will make me more likely to write here, in the same way that the availability of a saw in my garage will make me likely to build an armoire. Still, how can l keep from trying it? http://andy.boyko.net/2008/07/27/iphone-client-for-wordpress/ I kept hoping that at some point in the first week in California we'd feel settled enough that I'd be able to report intelligibly. Alas, no such luck. But: As of today, we're finally out of a hotel, and into our rented house in Sunnyvale; our stuff arrived in ... http://andy.boyko.net/2008/07/24/sunnyvale-is-sunny/ Say you've got two people with Macs running Leopard, both behind wireless routers. Let's say for the sake of argument that these routers are the absurdly ubiquitous Linksys WRT54G routers. What's the least you have to do to make video chat work between them? Near as I can tell, ... http://andy.boyko.net/2008/06/24/video-ichat-behind-a-wireless-router-whats-the-least-you-have-to-do/ In my house there are four people, and four computers, some fixed in place and some laptops, and I think it's the case that all the necessary technology exists to make this situation a great deal less awkward and fiddly than it is today. One should expect to be ... http://andy.boyko.net/2008/03/05/on-virtualization-my-basement-and-garageband/ So I went out last night to An Die Musik in Baltimore to see Tim Berne's Bloodcount (w/Chris Speed, Jim Black, and Michael Formanek), which purportedly is the second of three shows they're playing for the first time in a decade. The first show they played on this micro-tour ... http://andy.boyko.net/2008/02/11/bloodcount-in-baltimore/ A colleague has been pestering me to post here, and I will in order to explain to him why I generally resist. The personal blog is a flawed metaphor, irreparably so. The statement made by publishing a blog bearing one's own name is the wrong one, and I regret ... http://andy.boyko.net/2008/02/07/10/ It's not abundantly clear to me why Google Docs added a blog API to their "Publish" feature. Granting that it's a tolerable (but not stellar) mode in which to enter text on the Web, OK, I'm nonetheless unclear on why to prefer Google Docs as the input channel to ... http://andy.boyko.net/2008/01/10/6/ Things have been busy, y'see? We made another kid last January, so that slowed things down a lot (main thing that slowed: my brain). Also it is the case that things have been lively at my workplace and well so the fact of the matter, dear reader, is ... http://andy.boyko.net/2007/12/10/so-yeah-im-back/ Returning to this venue, after long hiatus: hi! Today's topic: So You Want To Get You One Of Them OpenIDs. And, you're the sort of rugged DIY nerdo who hosts his own sites; and, you're the sort of cheapskate who uses Dreamhost to do it. And, in ... http://andy.boyko.net/2007/12/10/an-openid-via-wordpressphpmyid-on-dreamhost/ What do you want? http://andy.boyko.net/2007/05/15/who-are-you/