Deleting Facebook…again.

I’ve been here before, that moment when I’ve had enough, throw my hands up in the air, and more or less leave Facebook. Well, I’m back. After repeated violations of trust and choices that make privacy advocates cringe (on a good day), I had been teetering on the edge of giving up Facebook and looking…

Using Trello to help track my productivity for goals and tasks

I don’t have a whole lot of time today to blog, so this is going to be pretty short but hopefully sweet and useful, too.  Yesterday I blogged about coming up with a point system and gamifying how I accomplish goals and tasks.  Later that night I was thinking about options for how I track…

Come out and play

This morning a friend of mine shared Apple’s new video with me — every holiday season they seem to come out with a new heartstring-tugging video that has subtle product placement within the little mini-movies that they release.  This year’s video snuck up on me — it wasn’t until I watched it a second time…

Killing McAfee on your Mac

A while back I had installed McAfee on my MacBook Pro (running OS X 10.9 Mavericks) for two reasons, one to verify that I had no viruses on my machine, and two to have some sort of virus protection.  With essentially four years behind me on this MacBook Pro, I have yet to have a…

Giving Facebook the boot…well, more or less anyway

Stating the obvious, Facebook’s not going anywhere any time soon — it’s a fixture in our culture and integrated into much of what we do…almost too much for what it’s worth.  We follow what’s going on with our friends and family, we invite each other to events, we play games, we share what we like,…

Top-Menu: a keyboard accessible navigation script

When I was designing and building out the framework for the new Minnesota.gov, I was looking for a keyboard-accessible drop-down/fly-out menu script, something to replace the old ddlevels Javascript that we were using on our other sites.  The ddlevels menu script did an OK job but had one glaring issue — it was not keyboard…

Back into the blogosphere — filling the ether with thoughtful perspective and observation that may or may not be read

I’ve got a mixed track record with my blogs — I’ve actively managed some and also left others sorely neglected, becoming one of millions of blogs left out-of-date to dissipate into the ether of obscurity.  By-in-large, social media sites like Facebook and Google+ (crickets) have become a sort of replacement for blogs — everyone’s there…

Liberating your data — or why Facebook really sucks and doesn’t want you to have everything back

Facebook is pretty much synonymous with change — they run an agile development shop and are continually rolling out new enhancements and changes to the user interface, to your privacy settings, and to how you interact with and contribute data to their site.  This is of no surprise.  Equally of no surprise, is that they…