Twitter Map You’re about to go on vacation.  Finally, no more work.  No more responsibilities.  You’re excited to get away and you want to rub your friend’s noses in it.  Without a thought, you pick up your phone and send out a Tweet.  “Kiss off, suckers.  I’m on my way to the beach!”  You probably didn’t even pay...

A week ago, I had an unsettling encounter with Disney Security at Downtown Disney.  After thinking about it for a day, I decided to share the story on my photography blog. The story gathered a lot of attention, at least in comparison to most of my  posts.  As a result, I received a lot of comments on the blog, in comments on other blogs that carried the story, and...

After months (or was it years) of bitching about Movable Type, I’ve finally switched to WordPress.  I really wanted Movable Type to step up with the same ease of configuration as WordPress.  Themes & plugins just work.  You can code if you want, but you don’t have to do it. Both platforms have a thriving community of users, but the WordPress...

Dear Six Apart people, Why do your themes for Movable Type still suck so much? Mostly, you have variations on a theme created years ago. Stylecatcher came out in 2005 as a potential solution and it quickly went nowhere. I can’t speak for all of your users, but I’m guessing there’s a pretty significant contingent of folks like me; people who lack...

I recently created another blog specific to my interest in Photography. While I haven’t exactly been burning up the Internet with posts on this one, I think I’m about to make some changes. Part of the reason I’ve not written here quite so often is my frustration with Movable Type – just signing in pisses me off. The new blog is under Word...

The iPhone App store is open now. As expected, Six Apart has a native iPhone application there for TypePad users. It’s a really cool idea. Although Six Apart has written some web apps in the past to support blogging on the various platforms provided by the company, this one is a bit different. One of the most notable features, to me, is the ability to use a...