Blog ← A Little Ludwig Goes A Long Way

Quick software/hardware trial notes

Aug

2009

* WPTouch plugin for wordpress is awesome. check out theludwigs.com from your iphone. * Messing around with Slingbox finally. Works well tho I had to massively reconfig home network to get rid of routers — configuring to get through one router was reasonable; getting through two was nearly impossible; getting through the three I had ...

Make Your Own URL Shortening Service

Aug

2009

Make Your Own URL Shortening Service – url shorteners – Lifehacker. Must read this and implement.

Hey some seattle VCs blog!

Jul

2009

Why Seattle VCs don’t blog – TechFlash: Seattle’s Technology News Source — John Cook wonders why we don’t blog. Obviously some of us do — myself, Rich. We do it for personal reasons, not motivated by our business — we’d be blogging if we were still at MSFT, if we were running a vinyard, etc. ...

Apple to release networked HDTVs

Oct

2008

Calacanis: Apple to release networked HDTVs – Nate Lanxon, MP3 & Digital Music Editor – Technology Blog at CNET.co.uk. — this would be good. The current state of the world where you have to buy some separate box and whack it into your media center to get IP-delivered content is just not going to succeed, ...

Five Amazing Color Palette Generators

Aug

2008

Five Amazing Color Palette Generators – ReadWriteWeb. — I don’t know why but I love color palette generators. They have grown up a lot.

Pinewood derby designs of excellence

Jul

2008

MAKE: Blog: Pinewood derby designs of excellence. Love the pinewood derby, still remember coming in 2nd and winning the pen and pencil set so many years ago, one of my finest moments. These examples are clearly adult-assisted but cool. Your kid’s car should look nothing like these — mine looked like a block of wood ...

More trees with eyes!

Jul

2008

MAKE: Blog: More trees with eyes! — very nice.

waiting for wordpress iphone app…

Jul

2008

WordPress for iPhone…apparently not that far away

Trying to force textile to point to kindle editions

May

2008

I use textile to create all my book links in the blog. as a reader pointed out, this unfortunately doesn’t link very directly to the kindle edition of books. So experimenting with textile below: * “The Story of French”:amazon — this is a textile generated link just using the title * “The Story of French ...

Gocode plugin

May

2008

I’ve always wanted to have my own implementation of tinyurl — gocodes seems to fit the bill. we’ll see how it goes…

Software Tips — CSS for Google Docs, Airport Monitoring, Whatpage, Blog Tools

May

2008

* Google Docs: Style Your Google Docs with CSS, wow, reminiscent of old word stylesheets * Monitoring airport client performance — thanks rich * WHatpage for rotating through start pages * A bunch of blogging tools and hints

Rich likes Zenphoto

Apr

2008

Fotki vs. Zenphoto vs. Nextgen Gallery | Tongfamily.com — rich is recommending zenphoto. I need a solution and this could be it

WordPress Automatic Upgrade – it rocks!

Apr

2008

WordPress Automatic Upgrade – it rocks! | Ed Bott’s Windows Expertise | — what ed says, this thing is great. My only problem with the upgrade is that my mobile admin plugin has died, have to wait for an upgrade of that i guess.

Back to life!!

Mar

2008

OK website alive again. Sadly the feed location has changed for RSS readers and I am not sure what to do about that. oh i guess i can add a redirect. i’ll get cracking on that. Why dead for a week? Well I tried to change blog software (movabletype to wordpress), hosting (my own server ...

Blog Transition Notes

Mar

2008

Motivated by Rich, I am finally moving A Little Ludwig Goes A Long Way off my own server and onto a hosted service. Back when I started this thing, it was fun to have it on my own box and twiddle directly with the bits. But I am past that, and doing my own MT ...