iMatt :: The Blog of Matt Clare

Long ago I promised myself I’d blog about <a href=”evernote.com”>Evernote</a&gt; when I made more than 1000 notes. I broke that record on Friday November 9, 2012 so here’s a quick summary of what Evernote is and what I use it for. Evernote is intended to help people remember everything. While I haven’t achieved that, I’m… Continue Reading Me and Evernote

Six months ago I ordered the Code Babies book Web Design for Babies (Vol. 1) . I took a while for it to arrive as PayPal passed on an old address and I failed to catch it, but after a number of months both ends figured it out and then package arrived. Code Babies were… Continue Reading Code Babies – HTML for Babies

I’ve blogged about being a big fan of the PeakSaver program before. mattclare.ca/blog/2010/07/07/peaksaver-heat-wave/ No longer. I recently wrote Burlington Hydro about the about the remarkably poor instructions for logging into the PeakSaver Online Control Centre. The number of issues with the process really does make Burlington Hydro and the PeakSaver program look foolish. The issues… Continue Reading Correcting Burlington Hydro and PeakSaver

Many have heard me complain that I’m not a fan of AWOLNATION’s hit song “Sail!”. One thing I often cite is how few unique words are in the song. I finally ran the numbers: AWOLNATION’s four minute and twenty seconds song “Sail” has 85 words, but, only 36 of those words are unique! Here’s how… Continue Reading How many unique words are in AWOLNATION’s “Sail!”?

If you use a Mac, and you haven’t had a chance to install it yet, I’d like to recommend AppleJack. AppleJack is a free open source tool that automates the basic UNIX tools are a few other basic maintenance tasks for OSX. All things someone comfortable with the command line could do themselves, but AppleJack… Continue Reading AppleJack free disk maintenance tool for OSX