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Terms of Service Screens
Got this a while back on my iPhone. That gave this. You got that right? Good.
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Backing Up While Traveling
Time to backup all of the Iceland trip photos to two separate 500G portable drives. Not going to lose any of these photos!
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AT&T LTE Spotting
AT&T has announced that they are working to bring LTE to the Twin Cities market by the end of the year. Yesterday while driving by the River Center I saw LTE on my phone for the first time. I...
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Guest network now openwireless.org
For years I’ve ran a guest WiFi network at home that has been called “Thingelstad Guest”. It makes it super easy for people that are visiting to hop online when they are visiting. I also don’t have to...
View ArticleMediaWiki Template Filter Title
I was recently doing some cleaning on our Read/Write Book Club website and ran into an interesting challenge. All of the books in the wiki are in a couple of categories, but I wanted them sorted right...
View ArticleAdding Email Mention Notification to WordPress P2
I’m using the P2 theme on a couple of websites, one of them is for the team minne✱ to help coordination and collaboration. P2 supports the ability to use a @user notation to mention other users on the...
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Google Reader RIP; Long Live RSS!
Today Google announced that they are shutting down Google Reader. People on Twitter are apoplectic about it all. I get to feel a little smug since I decided a couple of years ago that I needed to move...
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RSS Infinity Mirror
Reading about Google shutting down Google Reader, from the guy that made RSS, using Fever on my own server.
View Article“Uncomfortable about how the internet’s developing”
Sue Gardner announced that she is moving on as Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation today. She highlighted where she wants to direct her energy next: Increasingly, I’m finding myself...
View ArticleDisplay MediaWiki job queue size inside your wiki
I wanted to find an easy way to show the current size of the MediaWiki job queue on WikiApiary. When you make changes to templates that are used on thousands of pages the queue can get backed up and...
View ArticleStopping MediaWiki Spam with Dynamic Questy Captchas
MediaWiki websites are often plagued by spammers. It’s annoying in the extreme. If you setup a blank MediaWiki website and do nothing it is likely that within a couple of weeks your site will be found,...
View ArticlePaging Large Datasets in Semantic MediaWiki
I’ve been working with Yaron Koren‘s new Miga project to provide an offline, mobile optimized way of accessing the nutrition data in Wikinosh. It works pretty well! However, we hit a couple of walls...
View ArticlePassword v. Passphrase
Today’s xkcd highlights what might be one of the biggest security mistakes of our digital age: using passwords over passphrases. The comic does a great job of illustrating it. I’ve mentioned before...
View ArticleProductivity Apps for iPad
A bunch of people at work got new iPad’s recently and I figured some may find it useful to know what productivity apps I’ve been using on my iPad. Over the last couple of months the iPad has really...
View ArticleHere’s Everywhere You Should Enable Two-Factor Authentication Right Now
Two-factor authentication is one of the best things you can do to make sure your accounts don’t get hacked. We’ve talked about it a bit before, but here’s a list of all the popular services that offer...
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One Year for WikiApiary
Yesterday WikiApiary had a very meta tweet when it wished itself Happy Birthday! A while back I realized that if you looked the edit history of the “Main Page” of a MediaWiki website you could infer...
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Opt-Out of Google Plus Gmail integration
It’s lame when the only time you need to log into services is to disable privacy invading features that I have no interest in.
View ArticleDropbox Arbitration Opt-Out
If you missed the news that Dropbox is now automatically putting all users into an arbitration agreement you should take a moment to opt-out of this change. You can go to...
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“Walk into a room of people just like you.”
Over recent years I’ve been growing increasingly concerned about the lack of women in technology careers. Perhaps it’s being a dad, or just getting older. Either way, I think this is bad for our...
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Huge Impact of Linode Cloud Updates
I host all of my personal projects on two servers at Linode. Last week Linode announced new “cloud servers” with SSD’s, double RAM and a new chip architecture. I migrated both of my hosts over to the...
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