Category: blogging

  • First impression of WordPress iPhone app: a solid B

    This short post comes to you courtesy of the brand new WordPress app for iPhones and iPods Touch. It’s short because typing on my iPod gives me a headache but my first impression of the app is a positive one. Set up took under 30 seconds and I was ready to post. There are fields…

  • Getting excited for upcoming iPhone/iPod apps

    There’s plenty to love already in Apple’s app store for iPhones and iPods Touch but I’m chomping at the bit for a few “coming soon” programs that can’t get here soon enough. First and foremost, as I mentioned the other day, I’m looking for a blogging app to write entries for this blog (which runs…

  • Just one blogging app at the iPhone app store isn’t enough

    It’s definitely an all-iPhone, all-day kind of day with wall-to-wall coverage everywhere. I’m keeping up with the torrent of news at John Gruber’s Daring Fireball site as well as the most useful Mac aggregation site I’ve found, MacSurfer. There’s so much out there that I almost want to avoid writing anything more but one weird…

  • Making my WordPress site legible on my crummy mobile phone

    Stuck with my Treo “smart” phone in an airport recently, I decided to navigate over here to my blog via its wimpy browser. The Treo is on Verizon’s 3rd-generation broadband service so even though I have a fair number of pictures on the front page, I figured all would be okay. Nope — the experience…

  • Unwired for a weekend, re-wired blahs

    I spent the weekend at my 20th college reunion — big fun and all credit to the wife who championed going (we met in college!) over my objections. But it meant there was little to no time for twittering, yelping or any of the other various and sundry online activities I typically engage in from…

  • Thanks for the linkin’, Mister Churbuck I presume

    Blogger par excellence and Cape Cod resident David Churbuck had me featured on his blog as a good read yesterday. Awesome. David’s own blog chronicles his experiences as a web savvy marketing guru for Lenovo, fishing in the deep blue sea and generally being an all-around 21st century techno dude. Thanks for the link.

  • More screen space, more caffeine, less paper, less noise

    I have recently been declaring my love for my Nespresso D290 coffee maker that brews up one quick & tasty espresso at a time, so I was immediately favorably disposed toward’s Mike Gunderloy’s post over the holiday weekend on Web Worker Daily. Gunderloy has four recommendations for improving productivity for work at home folks like…

  • Trying out Disqus for comments

    Web 2.0 guru and venture capitalist Fred Wilson posted today about the blog comment service his firm has funded. It’s called Disqus (Get it? Sounds like discuss!). It allows commenters to maintain a single “identity” that can be followed around when they respond to posts on disparate participating blogs. It also lets you know about…

  • Fantastico or who won’t let me upgrade WordPress

    It’s a real “hmmm” moment with my just-installed WordPress 2.5. There are a couple of annoying bugs, as I mentioned yesterday, so I want to upgrade to version 2.5.1. But my web hosting service, Bluehost, uses a program called Fantastico De Luxe to give me the capability to install and upgrade WordPress on their server.…

  • Speaking of simple, upgraded to WordPress 2.5

    Fantastico, the web server application installation service used by my hosting company, finally posted version 2.5 of WordPress so I hit the button for the upgrade. So far no visible hiccups. The writing and administration screens are less colorful than before but I have yet to uncover many differences. The Mandigo theme, upgraded to version…