Category Archives: geek

WordPress vs. Tumblr

Tumblr is a new blogging platform which focuses on simple, quick blogging called tumblelogs. A tumblelog is a blog of very short posts, maybe just a photo, link or quote; a slightly richer form of Twitter.
The Tumblr service has an elegant design focusing on simplicity. I was impressed with it and for a few days [...]

photophlow

Photophlow is a pretty cool new way to interact with photos and people. It ties into Flickr and allows you to view photos simultaneously with other users and chat in real-time about them. You can select a photo and everyone in the chat room sees the photo and can comment on it.
If you like talking [...]

Fantasy Football 2007 Wrap-up: Receivers vs. Running Backs

For the first time in recorded history, I won our Fantasy Football league. woo hoo! Oddly enough, I had horribly running backs this year, sorry Maroney you may go undefeated but you were a fantasy bust. None of my running backs were in the top 20 based on yardage. However, my receiving core was [...]

Leopard Bugs Follow-Up

A follow-up post on the Leopard bugs I previously discussed.
My biggest beef is that tar is still broken.
User Error: The terminal tabs shortcut keys was my mistake, they are curly brackets so I have to hold down the shift key to switch. Between Safari, Firefox, Terminal, and Adium there are just too many [...]

Leopard Bugs

I ended up upgrading to Leopard (Mac OS X 10.5) and I think that was a mistake. I should of headed my low expectations and not even bothered. There are many annoyances and a few bugs. The biggest bug which is actually impacting my work is also the oddest, some how they broke “tar”.
Leopard upgrades [...]

Leopard: To Upgrade or Not

Apple has releasd yet another major upgrade to Mac OS X. Each upgrade becomes less and less interesting. I’m more interested in the GMail IMAP upgrade then anything at all happening with OS X. Hey Google, when does it come to hosted accounts?
The operating system is mattering less and less as web apps [...]

Interesting Color Theory

In the image above the two small squares in the middle are the same exact color value. Really. Visually, the box surrounded by the darker background looks lighter, and vicey versey. This is due to an effect called simultaneous contrast.
Interesting to think about when viewing photos within a photo editor such as Aperture, see this [...]

Blog, Magnolia, Facebook - Pipes ties it all together

I publish various things on the web. I write in this blog, I publish photos to my photo blog and I save snippets of interesting articles using Magnolia. If you come to my mkaz.com home page you can see all three of these things going on. You can even subscribe to one or all of [...]

Unix Directory Commands

Ok, I’ve posted way too much about the iPhone, I think a few people might actually be reading and subscribing to my blog. I’m actually getting comments too. Time to nip that in the bud with a post about obscure unix commands.
I was reading a tutorial on setting up an IMAP server and the guy [...]

Tyvek iPhone Case

Here’s a simple how-to for making your own Tyvek sleeve case for your iPhone. Yes, it’s odd that I’m willing to spend $600 on a phone and then make my own case.
Tyvek is a magic material made by DuPont [more info]. It is used for mailing envelopes and house siding. I even have [...]