Author Archives: feoh

I’m Glad Google Is Retiring Reader.

Because I and about a zillion other jilted Reader fans have now found Feedly. Feedly is what Reader wanted to be when it grew up, but never had the chance to become. Yes, it’s that good.

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Ungagged!

A couple of weeks back I was laid off from Blue State Digital.

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I’ve gone native. (Or – Google’s UI and I are parting ways)

Today Google announced that they were releasing a new Composer for GMail. It’s awful.  They made the window small, and right justified it.  I feel like I have to crane my neck at an unnatural angle in order to see what … Continue reading

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What This Election Means To Me

For me, this election is personal. When a candidate and the party that backs him set out to legislate what goes on in the bedroom (telling us who to love and marry) and in the doctor's office (making decisions about … Continue reading

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The walled garden is the future of computing.

These days it seems like almost everybody (at least almost everybody in the technology world) has made bashing Apple their new favorite past time.

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Trying out VimRepress

VimRePress In an ongoing effort to immerse myself in Vim as much as possible, I’m trying out a plugin called VimRepress – a fork of the popular Vimpress plugin.

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Amazon is doing itself a dis-service by killing Stanza

Apparently, Amazon bought the company that makes Stanza quite a while ago, and if one can believe what one reads, they did so for the sole purpose of killing it.  This is a stupid move on their part if true.

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Move over TextMate. MacVim is the new kid in town!

For years I’ve been rather proud of the fact that I’m a total polyglot when it comes to editors. I’m comfortable on both sides of the fence, using Emacs, Vi, TextMate, EditPlus, or even the venerable /bin/ed whenever that makes … Continue reading

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Sleeeepy (And old :P)

I’ve noticed that as I get older, getting enough good sleep has become more and more of an issue…

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Why Apple’s Mac App Store will be good for the Mac

When Apple said they were introducing an “App Store” to OSX a-la the iPhone, iPad, etc. there was much ranting and foaming at the mouth…

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