Following Edge

Daring Fireball goes full time

michael@followingedge.com () — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 20:32:41 +0000

While I continue to think hard about how and whether I can continue to publish anything here on followingedge.com, John Gruber at Daring Fireball has decided to do his blog in a serious way and has quit his "day job" to do so.

I don't have any desire to make a living off of blogging and I'm even still resigning myself to whether I'm publishing for you or publishing for me. But, I do appreciate Daring Fireball, a blog about technical things and specifically web and Macintosh technical things that I sometimes care about, and I know that if good writing and content are a good thing, then sincerity and dedication makes it even better. I joined Daring Fireball to help him find success [...]

Rent-A-Mime

michael@followingedge.com () — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 01:48:58 +0000

This is the funniest thing! Taking a walk today, I spotted this "ad" on a pole across the street from my office. I can't imagine whether this is real or a joke [...]

Explain your suspicious web searches (I'm back!)

michael@followingedge.com () — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 04:59:19 +0000

Yes, Following Edge is back after a weeklong hiatus. Don't ask. It's sufficient to say that the time I usually spend writing had to be used to get the blog in shape to be online again. In case you missed my non-blog post this week: [...]

Broken News...

michael@followingedge.com () — Fri, 03 Feb 2006 05:19:11 +0000

I've been hearing for a couple of weeks about a Windows computer virus called "Blackworm" or "CME-24". It's concerning for many because it erases many kinds of file (unimportant things like Word, Excel, etc documents). There was so much urgent talk about it 10 to 14 days ago that I thought it was going to do the erasing last Friday, but I eventually figured out that it's happening on the 3rd, this Friday. [...]

Our new tenant?

michael@followingedge.com () — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 15:34:36 +0000

This is hilarious! I've been getting lots of calls and emails about our house for rent, but this one knocked me off my seat:

DEAR SIR/MADAM
MY NAME IS MICHEAL MORGAN I [...]

All night long

michael@followingedge.com () — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 03:25:18 +0000

Just after my last post at about 8:00 last night, I did head off to Portland to fix our broken accounting system (IMACS). By the time I'd made it to Eugene to pick up parts, I knew from my friend and co-worker Chris (who was able to go in to the office) that the system's power supply was the problem.

When I made it to Portland at 11:00, it took me a short while to get the power supply replaced, because, for some reason, the spare part was a different type than the original [...]

I'm Upgraded

michael@followingedge.com () — Mon, 02 Jan 2006 08:28:23 +0000

Tossing aside my usual "Following Edge" mindset, I upgraded to WordPress 2.0 less than a week after it was released. Of course, I am a member of the Wordpress "testers" mailing list, so I've known about some of the issues and concerns about the new version. I was also very careful in comparing the upgrade to the old (1.5) version.

Even as careful and informed as I was, my impression is that most people could switch to WordPress 2.0 using the simple upgrade instructions, without my careful methodology, and have no trouble at all [...]

Cursed

michael@followingedge.com () — Mon, 19 Dec 2005 03:22:02 +0000

After working all-nighters last week, getting through the installation of our new store in Redmond and returning after 11:00pm Thursday, I almost got to "relax" and catch up on work Friday, except that I was still working after 8:00pm getting an Internet circuit fixed for Redmond, then our company's entire computer room was taken offline again both Saturday and Sunday mornings by a so-called-uninterruptible power supply. Now, I'm waiting for a call to start the process of replacing the expensive uninterruptible power supply with a plugstrip, which I think will be more reliable in the short term.

I was waiting to be in a good mood and post some nice, cute pictures and optimistic holiday thoughts... but it may take a long while to get there [...]

Redmond

michael@followingedge.com () — Thu, 15 Dec 2005 06:16:40 +0000

Keith and I drove to Redmond, Washington yesterday to set up the company's new store here. Many people will think of Microsoft when they think of Redmond, and, in fact, our hotel is one of the extended stay hotels immediately on the edge of the Microsoft campus. (Happily, Keith's room doesn't face Microsoft, otherwise I'm sure he would make good on his promise to moon them.)

I felt tremendously unprepared for this installation, given all the work I've had to devote to other projects instead of preparations [...]

The whole legacy story...

michael@followingedge.com () — Fri, 09 Dec 2005 04:59:04 +0000

So what has been keeping me so occupied, doing all-nighters half of the last week? A customer database.

A customer database, you say? Doesn't every database software out there come with a customer database as a sample [...]