I thought you might be entertained by the following exchange I had with a company called CodeWeavers. They produce a product called Crossover which lets you run some Windows apps on a Mac. I wouldn’t go as far as to say that Crossover for Mac sucks, but I wouldn’t put it in the same category [...]

I used to be a habitual stat watcher, but over the last couple years I haven’t kept a close eye on where my traffic as closely. As a result it was a bit of a surprise to learn which of my posts get the most hits from search engines. Using Google’s Webmaster Tools, I was [...]

I spent last night trying to figure out how my websites got hacked. Luckily no permanent damage was done, but it did take some time to figure out what was going on. I wanted to post my experience in case someone else comes across this same problem. Here is what happened…
By pure coincidence I happened [...]

Wordpress Plugins by Adrian Hanft

Easter Egg Plugin

I am proud to introduce my latest Wordpress Plugin. This one is called “Konami Easter Egg” and it makes it easy for anyone to create custom easter eggs on any Wordpress powered website. If you aren’t quite sure what an easter egg is, let me backup and give you [...]

Twenty-three days ago my MacBook Pro crashed. Since my computer was out of warranty I decided to take it to the Mac Shack in Fort Collins rather than the Apple Store. I figured that it would be cheaper and it was also closer to my house. I wanted to give an honest review of my [...]

As I anxiously await the verdict of what it will take to repair my MacBook Pro I have been researching my options in case I have to replace my laptop with something new. I love Apple products, but I am open minded enough to at least explore the non-Apple alternatives out there.
So I stopped [...]

I suppose it was bound to happen some day. This morning I started up my 17 inch Macbook Pro and the startup chime sounded as usual. A few seconds later the chime sounded again. Then again. And again. And again. Uh oh. Not good. Nothing I tried worked. I couldn’t get it to respond to [...]

Hopefully you aren’t in a situation where you have to clean out your desk because you lost your job, but if you are I want to give you a checklist of things that people often forget to do before they leave their computer workstation. I am started a new job this week (more on that [...]

The human body is an astonishingly flexible thing. Grade school taught us to categorize our senses into five categories, but the boundaries between them is much fuzzier than most of us realize. I find myself fascinated by stories where senses are heightened are used for other purposes. Here are a few links to some fascinating [...]

I hate that the days are so short now, but the good thing about daylight saving time is that it makes it easier to make timelapse videos of the sunset from out the window of the office where I work. Here is what today’s evening clouds looked like:

I don’t know why YouTube messed up [...]