Okay, let me just rant for a minute here. I have turned off ALL notifications from Facebook to my email. And when I say ALL, I mean ALL notifications. I don’t want to get a single email from Facebook saying I have to go to their site and read a message. I want to manually type “facebook.com” into my browser’s address bar and peruse messages, notifications, invites, pokes, picks, pukes, punks, plucks, pucks, and porks when it’s convenient for me. Which means maybe once a day or so.

At this point you may be thinking, “He’s pretty anti-Facebook. Why is he even on it?” I’m not anti-Facebook. I like keeping my friends in a tidy little relatively self-organizing corner of the Internet. And the “why is he even on it” thing? Are you serious? How can you not have a presence on Facebook nowadays?

Finally… the living room is DONE!

Matt Taibbi has written some excellent stuff. My favorite is his article, “The Great American Bubble Machine.” This article summarizes why Americans are angry and expressing it via protests.

Wall Street Isn’t Winning It’s Cheating | Matt Taibbi | Rolling Stone.

Hooray for Google+! I just noticed the option to enable Google+ in my apps domain dashboard. Now I can play with it and set up my social network all over again. :)

I have just implemented a whitelist on my phone system. Those of you who are in my address book should notice no change, however those of you who are not will have to step through a hoop to get the call connected. I will say no more than that, but it’s a relatively painless one-time process in order to add another layer of convenience and privacy to my phone system.

Why is Whitelisting Absent from Telephones? :: TechMiso.

…People who are great at something are not so much convinced of their own greatness as mystified at why everyone else seems so incompetent.

via Great Hackers.

I was using ab2vcard to sync my Mac OS X Address Book with my PBX. It was working great for many years. Then Apple up and removed Rosetta support from Mac OS 10.7 Lion and I was up the creek. So I hacked together a klugey fix by importing the source code into Xcode 4 and recompiling and ta-da! It works.

If anyone wants the new binary, let me know and I’ll post it here. Otherwise you’re probably already adept enough to recompile it for Intel on your own. This was my first foray into Xcode and Objective-C.

It seems obvious, doesn’t it? You keep a ledger of your account transactions, then you reconcile them with the bank’s statement at the end of each month. Simple. Everyone learns this in grade school, right? You do it because you were told to do it. You do it because that’s the way it’s always been.