Just received and email from Bitpass.com saying they are no longer: Dear Valued Bitpass Merchant We want to thank you for your past business, however due to circumstances beyond our control, we are discontinuing our operations…” “On January 26, all US Bitpass Buyer accounts will be closed and we will begin the process of refunding …
Author Archives: Garrick van Buren
Backing Up with rsync, iCal, and Applescript
This morning marks the completion of the first full backup I’ve done in quite a while. But not the last. For the past 3 months, I’ve been working on an automated backup system – so I no longer need to wonder if things are backed up. They are. In at least two places. A little …
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Mistaking Relevance for Trivia
Last night, I had bad dream about attending a live recording of a radio program. From what I can remember, the point of the show was to dismiss highly-personal communications as trivial while a panel of teen girls shared the melodramatic relationship unfolding within their MySpace pages. While “trivia” (or gossip) might not be the …
Garrick is at MPR’s The Loop Tonight
I’ll be in the audience of tonight’s recording of MPR’s The Loop: Digital Divisions. Hopefully I’ll see some you there as well. My notes and thoughts from the event: All the chairs are filled. A good cross-section of Minnesotans. Far more diverse in age, background, and ethnicity than the last time I was here at …
Garrick on the MN PodSafe Music Awards
Many thanks to AJ for putting together the first Minnesota PodSafe Music Awards and asking the PodcastMN community to help pull it together. If you haven’t hear my voice in a while…I introduces the nominees and announced a couple of the winners. Listen to the MN PodSafe Music Awards
Some Post-Pre-Dad Thoughts
Daddy Types is collecting thoughts for Soon-to-Be-Dads. Mine: Everyday, take your family for a walk. And a bonus story: One of our neighbors rang the doorbell one night back when Little C was just a few months old. Jen and I were watching TV and I was giving Little C his early evening bottle. The …
The News Block by Block
“The future of media is to stop boring us with news that doesn’t relate to our lives. I’ll start reading my ‘local’ newspaper again when it covers my block.” – Chris Anderson Chris nails the idea I’ve talked about on this blog (1, 2, 3) and in numerous lunches: the blog-on-every-corner news. St. Anthony Village …
Color Me Stressed
I took the ColorQuiz 3 times this afternoon. Hear the results
Balance in the Air
A couple very recent quotes on balancing your life from two of my favorite bloggers: “5. People have only so much toleration for novelty in them; no one embraces novelty consistently and in all fields of life. Spend your tolerance for novelty wisely.” – Tyler Cowen 23.”Running a startup is full of extreme ups and …
RSS: Rude Screen Scrapers?
“I hate it when RSS scrapers steal my content” – Thord Daniel Hedengren Yes – crediting the source is polite. I make a point of linking back and crediting, and expect the same those of you that find what I write interesting. That said, spammers are inherently rude. They don’t change their ways when asked …