This website, like all of my sites now, has an Webclip Bookmark Icon. That means that if you use the webclip feature of an iPhone or an iPod Touch to “Add to Home Screen”, you get a nice little icon in your home screen instead of just a miniature screenshot of the site itself. How…
Category: geek
Inaugural Dorkbot DC + Make:DC Workshop
I went downtown tonight for the first joint Dorkbot DC meeting, and the first ever MAKE:DC meeting. It was held at the Koshland Science Museum, which I’d never been to before, but it was pretty easy to find — just around the block from the Gallery Place Metro stop. We were going to make a…
Macworld Keynote 2008
Four big announcements: – **1. [Time Capsule](http://www.apple.com/timecapsule/)** – 500 GB or 1 TB models – Essentially an AirPort Extreme with a hard drive inside- **2. iPhone & iPod Touch** – SDK will still be released in February – [1.1.3 today](http://www.apple.com/iphone/gettingstarted/guidedtourupdate2/large.html): – Maps with location, using Google’s Celltower system + Skyhooks wifi system – Webclips -…
Markdown on Tumblr
Not sure when they added it (seems like just today), but [Tumblr](http://www.tumblr.com/) has just added Markdown support for posts. Huzzah! My [Rathole](http://rathole.tumblr.com/) tumblog is hosted by Tumbler, and this is just one more reason to love ’em. What’s a “tumblog,” you say? Check out the grandaddy of them all, [project.ioni.st](http://project.ioni.st).
Not quite as extreme as I’d hoped.
This morning, my [AirPort Extreme Base Station with Gigabit Ethernet (802.11n)][apbs] started crapping out on me. At first, I thought it was just a one-time glitch, and I cycled the power. Within a few minutes, however, it was frozen again. [apbs]: http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/AppleStore?productLearnMore=MB053LL/A
HowTube 008: Markdown Cheat Sheet
The post below is out of date. See the latest version here. In the words of its creator, John Gruber, “Markdown is a text-to-HTML conversion tool for web writers. Markdown allows you to write using an easy-to-read, easy-to-write plain text format, then convert it to structurally valid XHTML (or HTML).” I’ve known about Markdown for…
Testing out Markdown
I’ve known about Markdown for quite some time, but for some reason, I’ve always just stuck with writing up my posts in plain ol’ HTML. Since I’m trying out MarsEdit, and it has preview functionality for Markdown, I thought I’d give it a shot. I’m all for the human-readability of it, and if I can…