So I’ve moved hosting companies from Dreamhost to ANHosting. Dreamhost has a great hosting plan, but some general unreliability with my hosting left me somewhat unsatisfied. I’ve been patient with their ongoing issues, but decided that enough was enough and moved jeffbyrnes.net. I’ll be slowly migrating things after I see how everything goes with ANHosting, but so far, so good!
I’ve posted about this service previously, but they’ve come out with a referral program (you save $5, I make $5), as well as added the ability to sync your Address Book contacts with Gmail’s contacts, and it works VERY well. Just be sure if you want the latest & greatest to download the beta version.
Just tryin out making a post using the iPhone app. Pretty nice for something quick.
Had a spectacular gig at La Luna Caffé this past Saturday with Maria McNeil. It’s a great little place just on the southern edge of Central Square, right on Mass Ave across from the firehouse. We got started around 9:30pm, played a great set, but after we finished up, one of the employees asked us to keep going. So Maria played a tune of hers solo, then Samad, Aaron & I ended up jamming for another 20-odd minutes. Haven’t done that in ages. Really refreshing to just play, y’know? Really encouraging for us was the tip jar at the end of our set, people were very generous.
One of Aaron’s friends took a few pictures, I’ll see about finding those & posting a few. Hope to see some of you out at my next show, this weekend at Tommy Doyle’s with Tony Brown & the Faithful!
Stumbled accross this one: Double Rainbow. Really love HDR.
Sony’s Amazing Crapware-Free PC:
Ed Bott:
Sony is finally taking on its crapware problem. For the past two months, I’ve been using an astonishingly light and agile Sony VAIO notebook and loving every minute of it. The best part of all was that this machine was absolutely, completely, unequivocally crapware-free, which meant I was able to be productive within a few minutes of unboxing.
Good for Sony, but Bott’s enthusiasm is like being amazed after buying a sandwich that wasn’t spit in.
Absolutely hilarious.
(Via Daring Fireball.)
Seriously, these are awesome: Shirts For Coders. I mean, yeah, you need to be a hardcore geek (like the guy in my tattoo post a while back) but I am a hardcore geek!
My favorite:
Courtesy of Lifehacker comes this nice little tidbit:
iPhone/iPod touch only: The iPhone has sported a .com keyboard shortcut for making quick work of URLs in Mobile Safari since it was released, but reader George points us to an expansion to this keyboard shortcut that can save tons of time for entering email addresses and non-.com URLs. First, in Mobile Safari, just hold down the .com button for a second to see other domain options (namely .net, .edu, and .org). Second, when the keyboard has the @ symbol but no .com key, you can hold the ‘.’ (period) key to get the same domain shortcuts—something that comes in especially handy when you’re manually entering email addresses or filling in login credentials in new apps. I’m not sure if this keyboard shortcut is an iPhone 2.0 feature or something that was added when hold-for-accents was added for international language support, but it’s definitely one to know. Thanks George!
(Via Lifehacker)
Really great mention of an article by GQ on Gene Robinson, the first openly gay Christian bishop. Jack Shedd picked out a really great quote to pull, and I’m going to echo it here:
(A) man of the cloth who doesn’t seem to communicate so much as embody his love of God; […] a disciple whose elevation has brought on the Church the greatest crisis since the Protestant Reformation some 500 years ago, and may well lead to a worldwide Christian schism; a man whose life and works are going to determine, for better or worse, how the world’s 77 million Anglican Christians comprehend their god over the next hundred years; a marked man.
(via Big Contrarian)
Seriously, go check it out. And if you life in Kansas, help the guy out & maybe you’ll improve your sociopolitical state of being.
Running for Office: It’s Like A Flamewar with a Forum Troll, but with an Eventual Winner
