http://www.wrighters.net/blog some writing about some things Tue, 22 Jul 2008 12:38:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I saw the WordPress iPhone app come up on the iPhone applications unofficial feed. I grabbed it right away and started this post. Setting up a new blog is easy, you just add the URL and username and password. Once setup, you can see the last 30 posts (configurable), or ... http://www.wrighters.net/blog/articles/2008/07/22/the-new-iphone-wordpress-app/ Like many iPhone owners I couldn't wait to try the new 2.0 firmware. So when macrumors reported it was available early, I downloaded and installed it against my better judgment. You have to download the file separately and then use option click on the "Check for update" button ... http://www.wrighters.net/blog/articles/2008/07/10/iphone-20/ I read Serve God, Save the Planet a number of months ago, but was prompted to write about it based on the story in the NY Times today about a change in the Southern Baptist Convention's official stance on climate change and another story on the addition of pollution to ... http://www.wrighters.net/blog/articles/2008/03/10/book-review-serve-god-save-the-planet/ I got a new iPhone today, and thought I would try to activate it with a prepaid plan - known as a GoPhone with AT&T.  This would allow me to not have to sign a contract and since I use almost no minutes anyway, it would be $5/month cheaper ... http://www.wrighters.net/blog/articles/2008/01/16/no-prepaid-iphone/ Yay!  Apple has apparently announced a fix for the keyboard freezing problem on MacBooks and MacBook Pros that I was noticing.  The software update notice says: This update addresses a responsiveness issue on MacBook and MacBook Pro notebook computers. Some MacBook and MacBook Pro systems may occasionally experience a temporary suspension ... http://www.wrighters.net/blog/articles/2007/12/18/apple-fixes-frozen-keyboards/ I was first exposed to Michael Lopp's writing from his blog, Rands in Repose. Rands is his pen name, and the blog deals with issues around managing technology professionals, from a Silicon Valley perspective. When I heard that he had published a book, I knew I had to ... http://www.wrighters.net/blog/articles/2007/12/06/book-review-managing-humans/ I got a new MacBook (white 2.2 GHz CPU) on November 3rd, just after the update to the new Santa Rosa chipset.  It has been quite nice, especially since I updated the memory to 4 GB using third party memory.  Apple wanted $850 for a 4 GB upgrade, I did ... http://www.wrighters.net/blog/articles/2007/11/21/leopard-and-new-macbook/ I have used a Fisher bullet pen for a while now. These are the pens made famous by the Seinfeld episode where Jerry accepts the pen from his parents' arch nemesis in the condo association, and they want him to give it back. Hilarity ensues. The big ... http://www.wrighters.net/blog/articles/2007/11/18/fisher-telescoping-pen/ I finished George Barna's Revolutionary Parenting a few months ago, but wanted to look at it again recently. Like most Barna books, it takes the research from Barna's company and turns it into a book that attempts to show what the survey evidence supports. As a parent of ... http://www.wrighters.net/blog/articles/2007/10/08/book-review-revolutionary-parenting/ Henri Nowuen's The Return of the Prodigal Son was recommended to me by my dad. Nouwen describes his interaction with the Rembrandt painting Return of the Prodigal Son and its impact on him over a period of about 10 years. Nouwen starts with a detailed description of the ... http://www.wrighters.net/blog/articles/2007/10/08/book-review-the-return-of-the-prodigal-son/