Saturday, December 31, 2011

Manipulating JSON data in a traditional relational database (Microsoft Access, FileMaker Pro, Converters)

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While I wait to see if Pinboard can fix their Google Reader JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) import , and while I consider Google Reader Sh...
Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Pinboard imports Google Reader JSON exports

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Pinboard is the first service I know of that will import a Google Reader Social (shared item) JSON file: Pinboard: howto page Google Reader ...

Sharing and annotation: Instapaper's supporting apps

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I haven't found a replacement for the rough annotation-share-feed ecosystem that had grown up around Google Reader Social (RIP). I'...
Friday, December 23, 2011

Recovering Shared Reader items: JSON import into Wordpress

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Google amputated a portion of my distributed memory , but they left me a frozen json remnant. (Yes, we are living in a cyberpunk novel. Si...
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Thursday, December 22, 2011

The cost of repairing a Mac is less than expected

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When my iMac 11,1's 2yo 1TB Seagate drive developed metastatic blockitis I was most unhappy. It wasn't that the drive is dying youn...
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Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Mac drive diagnostics: TechTools Pro and Drive Genius find problems OS X missed

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I've been having suspicious application crashes lately. In the Mac world, that suggests a hardware problem. (Once upon a time software w...
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Backups - why you need two methods and abundant paranoia

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I can't say I feel good about my backups. I believe data wants to die; it wants to be free of the burden of order. Against the despair ...