Ed tweeted, "New drive in MBP, clean Snow Leopard install, reinstalled apps, very fast and no more beachball!! thought you only had to do this on Windows" on February 6, 2010 at 7:42 PM

Ed tweeted, "Lost is about boiling the frog, not jumping the shark #lost" on February 3, 2010 at 12:22 PM

Ed tweeted, "omg #lost" on February 2, 2010 at 9:22 PM

Ed tweeted, "No replacement trackpads in stock, they need to order it :p" on February 1, 2010 at 6:23 PM

Ed tweeted, "On my way to Apple Store to get MBP trackpad fixed" on February 1, 2010 at 5:19 PM

Ed tweeted, "Not standing in line though" on January 27, 2010 at 7:06 PM

Ed tweeted, "I had the self-control to not buy an iPhone til the 3G model came out, I really should wait til next year's model, but I'm sure I won't" on January 27, 2010 at 7:05 PM

Ed tweeted, "Ok, now that the high has subsided, where's the front facing camera? Videocalls would have been a killer app and it's a $1 part." on January 27, 2010 at 12:59 PM

Ed tweeted, "the price is quite a coup" on January 27, 2010 at 11:27 AM

Ed tweeted, "Ouch, TechCrunch goes down as the Apple event starts" on January 27, 2010 at 10:01 AM

Ed tweeted, "New microwave delivered to replace old one that co-worker dried socks in" on January 25, 2010 at 11:36 AM

Ed tweeted, "The power just went out and it's not even raining" on January 23, 2010 at 4:45 PM

Ed tweeted, "Trying to restore my Entourage email from a Time Machine backup, only having partial luck" on January 19, 2010 at 9:32 AM

Ed tweeted, "One thing I've always wondered is how Dutch survived the nuclear explosion at the end of Predator... ah, the wonders of late night TV" on January 13, 2010 at 7:39 PM

Ed tweeted, "Every time that damn spinning beachball appears, I wan't to throw my MBP out the window, and someday I'm sure I will" on January 9, 2010 at 12:06 PM

Ed tweeted, "@Coach_D_Antoni You'd have to ask @djacobs, it's his site, but you'd have to move your blog to TypePad :)" on January 5, 2010 at 7:12 PM

Ed tweeted, "Why doesn't http://www.google.com/android point to something other than a 404?" on January 5, 2010 at 6:16 PM

Ed tweeted, "Movable Type 5 released! http://www.movabletype.com/blog/2010/01/introducing-movable-type-5-1.html" on January 5, 2010 at 3:30 PM

Ed tweeted, "@leahculver I agree w/ @djacobs, Apple's pricing works like this: take the most you'd ever conceive of paying and double it" on January 4, 2010 at 5:25 PM

Ed tweeted, "My personal litmus test for tech blogger credibility will be how accurately they can predict the pricing of the tablet." on January 4, 2010 at 1:04 PM

Ed tweeted, "I'm really hoping that there's a version of the Nexus that runs 3G on AT&T, I've got a G1 on AT&T I never use because it only runs EDGE." on January 2, 2010 at 1:44 PM

Ed tweeted, "@avh I watched that again last night, just as good a second time." on December 30, 2009 at 3:10 PM

Ed tweeted, "Back in SF, smooth flight, security lines were minimal." on December 30, 2009 at 3:09 PM

Ed tweeted, "I'm at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport (Fort Lauderdale International Airport Terminal Dr, Fort Lauderdale) w/ 2 others" on December 23, 2009 at 3:42 PM

Ed tweeted, "Packing the night before would ruin all the excitement of an early morning flight, could probably do with less of that kind of excitement" on December 23, 2009 at 7:41 AM

Ed tweeted, "@monstro Time for some "Find My iPhone" vigilante action!" on December 19, 2009 at 5:49 PM

Ed tweeted, "The surest way for me to guarantee I'll never want to see a move again is to buy the DVD" on December 19, 2009 at 5:31 PM

Ed tweeted, "@capndesign careful, that's not chocolate" on December 18, 2009 at 2:56 PM

Ed tweeted, "Someone needs to create an app that tests Twitter API clones, I wonder how compatible WP's implementation is? Does it support oAuth?" on December 12, 2009 at 6:06 PM

Ed tweeted, "I ran 710m before hitting a wall and tumbling to my death on my iPhone. http://www.canabalt.com/" on December 9, 2009 at 12:16 PM

Old projects uploaded to Flickr

By Ed Anuff on May 30, 2009 9:36 PM | No Comments | No TrackBacks
In honor of Maker Faire this weekend, I'm uploading some of the old photos from the various projects I've hacked around on over the years.  These used to be on several old sites and blogs that I let lapse:









The installation of the navigation system took place of the course of two days in the garage of my apartment building back in October of 2001.  One of my neighbors became very concerned when she saw me disassembling the interior of my car and alerted the building security.  Apparently she thought I was turning the car into some sort of terrorist weapon, go figure.  Most of this project was documented along with a lot of other interesting information on the now-defunct openbmw.org site and a Yahoo Group.  At the time, if you didn't purchase the car from the factory with the navigation system installed, BMW refusted to install it afterwords, claiming that it wasn't possible, and would refuse to provide information to people who wanted to install it themselves.  I found a CD-ROM database of part numbers and identified every part used by the navigation system and ordered them from the repair departments of three different dealerships over the course of several months.  Eventually, after a number of people printed out the instructions from my site and went to their local dealers asking them to perform the retrofit, BMW relented and packaged all the parts into an installation kit that could be installed by the repair centers.

The car computer project was primarily focused on building an interface board that would tap into the navigation system and allow an in-car PC to take over the display and interface with the dashboard knobs and buttons.  I designed the circuit boards and sent the files to China to be manufactured and assembled.  When I got the boards delivered back to me, I'd usually find at least one chip would be mounted incorrectly and I'd have to resolder it by hand, which would unfortunately often result in me ruining the board.  Once the interface board was installed, I used a trunk-mounted Linux PC running software that I'd written on top of Mozilla to provide a user interface for things like an MP3 jukebox and web access.  Maybe I'll turn it into an iPhone app at some point.

Navigation Installation Project - 2001
http://www.flickr.com/photos/edanuff/sets/72157618942758407/

Car Computer Project - 2004/2005
http://www.flickr.com/photos/edanuff/sets/72157619029279570/

Yes, I am a geek

By Ed Anuff on April 3, 2009 8:33 PM | 4 Comments | No TrackBacks

Yes, I am a geek, originally uploaded by Ed Anuff.

iPhone Experiments

By Ed Anuff on March 16, 2009 10:25 AM | No Comments | No TrackBacks

Game, originally uploaded by Ed Anuff.

iPhone programming isn't that hard once you get the hang of it.

Unwidgetizing the web (or at least my Twitter feed)

By Ed Anuff on August 24, 2008 5:53 PM | No Comments | No TrackBacks
When I started this blog on Movable Type 4, I used the Action Streams plug-in to put a list of Twitter and Facebook activities in the right hand column.  I did this out of habit, treating the list of tweets as a black-box in the form of a widget rather than something actually integrated into the content of my blog.  Over the last couple of week, I realized that while this made sense from a technical perspective, it didn't really reflect the true relationship between the content generated through lifestreaming and long-form blog posts that expounded on a particular idea, never mind that fact that the former are going to outnumber the latter due to my lackadaisical efforts to compose interesting posts.  But, more importantly, it demonstrated some of the limitations of using widgets as the fundamental building blocks of web publishing.
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A few more thoughts about blogging and social networks

By Ed Anuff on August 15, 2008 7:45 AM | No Comments | No TrackBacks
Om Malik did a good job today of summing up the conversation about the convergence of blogging and social networks that was started by Six Apart's launch of Movable Type Pro on Wednesday, with a full set of features aimed at allowing bloggers to create social network-like communities around their blogs.  A couple of things worth adding, though.  First, as I mentioned in my previous blog post, the "social" aspect of blogging platforms is one of the main things that differentiated them from the previous generation of content management systems.  Second, is that there seems to be a perception that the social network around a blog is meant to replace or compete with the mainstream social networks such as MySpace or Facebook.  Fostering community discussion and interaction wherever a focus of interest occurs is a good thing, and the blogosphere is a perpetual source of these focus points.  This is the inevitable evolution of blog commenting, which is what makes sites like GigaOm so interesting.  The social network capabilities will allow these blogs to take that to the next level.  However, these communities will be linked to each other and to the large social networks like Facebook through a variety of mechanisms, such as all the emerging standards like OpenID, aggregation tools such as FriendFeed and Movable Type's Action Streams capabilities, and other forms of data portability.  The nice thing is it's not going to be an either or choice, sometimes more is more.

How is blogging changing the content management market?

By Ed Anuff on August 13, 2008 5:34 PM | No Comments | No TrackBacks
I had an interesting conversation today with an analyst that was trying to understand how tools like Movable Type and blogging fit into the general category of content management.  When I was at Vignette, we had seen the content management space splitting into web content management (WCM), document management and enterprise content management (ECM), and collaborative intranet portals.  Although Vignette, through various acquisitions, had strong products in each of those categories, it was hard to see the relationship between how content managed in the WCM and ECM worlds related to the more ad-hoc collaborative content that was created and interacted with on a daily basis within the increasingly-popular intranets and corporate portals.  Companies were increasingly choosing corporate portals such as Epicentric, Plumtree, and Microsoft's incredibly successful SharePoint product, which offered "lightweight" content management in conjunction with strong collaboration capabilities over the more powerful, large-scale content management systems.  For Internet publishing, the same thing was occurring in the web content management space as well, but it was happening under the radar screen of most of the WCM vendors in the form of the emergence of blogging.  The reason why it wasn't immediately understood was because WCM vendors have historically been driven by the needs of the large media publishers, and as we all know, those publishers had no idea just how much the principals of blogging would transform their businesses at the time.
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I've joined Six Apart

By Ed Anuff on August 11, 2008 8:34 PM | No Comments | No TrackBacks
It's been just under a month since I joined Six Apart as the EVP of Movable Type and Six Apart Services, and I'm sorry to say I'm just getting around to blogging about it.  It's always a tug of ware between the clichés of "eating your own dog food" and "the cobbler's kids going barefoot".  I'm not going to get too much into what the company is up to just yet, other than to say we've got a lot of good stuff that will be coming out very soon now.  As for as the job itself, I'm enjoying it quite a bit.  The company has a great culture and great people, and it's refreshing to be at an Internet company that's revenue focused.  I really like the markets the company serves, and there are a lot of things I see that make me confident that the space is going to enter a new phase of growth as the changes brought about by blogging start to permeate and reshape the rest of the media industry.  I'll share more thoughts about that here over time.

Moved blog over to Slicehost

By Ed Anuff on August 11, 2008 2:16 PM | No Comments | No TrackBacks
I've just moved the blog installation over to Slicehost, which means this is the third hosting provider I've used for this site in less than a week.  All of the hosting providers I've worked with have provided great service at good prices, but I've been unhappy with either the performance or the server configurations.  Slicehost is great if you're willing to forgo a control panel, I've used them in the past for various server projects, but I've become spoiled by having a nice control panel like Plesk for personal sites or RightScale for Amazon EC2 servers.  However, I just can't find a provider who offers fast VPS hosting of an Ubuntu server and provides a control panel at a price point which is competitive with Slicehost, and since I'm using Movable Type to publish anyway, I don't really need anything else to manage the site.

Action Streams is up and running on the blog

By Ed Anuff on August 7, 2008 11:21 PM | No Comments | No TrackBacks
Twitter and Facebook actions are now displayed on the right hand side of the page via the Action Streams plug-in.  Very cool!

Blog up and running on Movable Type 4.2 RC5

By Ed Anuff on August 7, 2008 7:43 PM
Latest release candidate installed, so far so good...
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