December 2009
29 posts
Tumblr iPhone App Tip, revisited
jacob:
dwineman:
If you use the Tumblr iPhone app to read your Dashboard, you’ve probably noticed that sometimes a post will appear to have its margins set too wide, so you can only see the left side of it. It happens when there’s a URL or other long block of non-whitespace characters, which screws up the text wrapping.
I don’t know if this is a new feature or it’s been there all along and I...
November 2009
21 posts
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Tumblr iPhone App Tip
If you use the Tumblr iPhone app to read your Dashboard, you’ve probably noticed that sometimes a post will appear to have its margins set too wide, so you can only see the left side of it. It happens when there’s a URL or other long block of non-whitespace characters, which screws up the text wrapping:
I don’t know if this is a new feature or it’s been there all along...
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BY THE WAY
weselec:
When I encounter something that confuses me or just moves too goddamn fast, my first inclination is to blame it for being misguided or some shit. The Venture Bros AIN’T THAT. That show is outright amazing and I am dumb for not keeping up and you should be watching it because it transcends humor into some other realm where comedy only exists for the intelligent. My god.
I sometimes try...
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Big bag of hurt
funsizebytes:
Tumblr 1.1 for the iPhone is out. App Store Link
Reblogging is still a big bag of hurt. In case you thought that might have been important enough to get working on the iPhone.
It does other things. apparently.
Yes, reblogging is still as broken as it used to be, if not more so: there now seems to be no way to cancel a reblog without quitting the app. The Cancel button is...
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Oh hey, Unsubscribe Guy. It’s us again. No, don’t get up, this won’t take a moment. We just stopped in to confirm that we saw your No Trespassing sign. Great sign, by the way. Really nice work.
Anyway, if that sign was a mistake, or if you ever change your mind about the trespassing thing, give us a ring. We’ll keep all our photos of your home and family on file just in...
I'm going for a hot Ding Dong.
Hot Ding Dong?
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My own brush with plaintext passwords
Go read Sean’s plaintext-password story (and followup), because it’s hilarious. I have one of my own.
Years ago, I registered an account with Equifax to get a copy of my credit report. They sent me a confirmation email containing my password, in plaintext. Normally I would have shrugged it off, but this was a. Fucking. Credit. Bureau. The account I had just created contained enough of...
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“Chris Griffin, a character on the television series Family Guy;
Chris (King of...”
– Wikipedia’s exhaustive list of fictional characters named Chris.
I’m all for the wisdom-of-crowds thing. Crowds are really smart. But sometimes crowds are total nerds.
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“Q: Can I write one word 50,000 times?
A: No. Well… No.”
– My favorite part of the NaNoWriMo FAQ. What I love about this is that it obliterates the pointless pedantic argument over what constitutes a “novel” without ever engaging it. A wordier answer might have left room for “Well, how about if I write the same sentence 5,000 times?...
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How to make people love you while taking their...
Warning: Boring Customer Satisfaction Story.
My wife and I had, stupidly, been paying for individual MobileMe accounts ($99/year each) instead of sharing a Family Pack ($149/year for up to 5 people, with some minor storage limitations). I just went through the process of fixing that.
Our accounts renew on different dates, so I fully expected we’d have to call Apple, wait on hold for a...