Don't Back Down

  • CompUSA Can't Even Go Out of Business Correctly

    With the announcement that TigerDirect parent Systemax is acquiring the CompUSA brand, trademarks, e-commerce business and as many as 16 stores from my least-favorite retailer. The sixteen stores are located in the Florida and Texas in the United States and in Puerto Rico, apparently a hotbed of CompUSA…

  • Using Bulk Rename Utility to Rename Files

    It isn't often that I have to rename a ton of files. Usually I find that it is just faster to rename the three or four (or ten) files that need renaming than it is to figure out how I can do it by writing a batch file…

  • Using an Offline Editor to Post to Your Blog

    I've been writing for a long time, and I've been creating blog posts for a while now. Almost 1500 entries, and closing in on five years! But the majority of those are written through the regular Movable Type editor. I've tried WYSIWYG editors, and I just don't like…

  • Easy Christmas Returns and the Death of the Department Store

    I was having a conversation with my wife after we managed to get out of bed, some hours after the new year began, and we were trying to decide what to do with the day, it being a holiday and all. She offered to take the kids out…

  • How to Best Handle Spam on Your Movable Type Site

    To build a community, you need your visitors to comment on your site. Unfortunately when you do that, you open up your site to others who you might not want to come calling – namely spammers, who will leave all sorts of garbage on your (virtual) doorstep. While…

  • Enhancing the Display of Images on Your Site with Slimbox

    I'm not a big user of images – though I have a digital camera, I typically end up using it less than I probably should. I think one of my goals for next year will be to actually get some of the images off the memory card in…

  • XBMC Won't Play AVI Files

    A while back, I converted an original XBox to something new – an XBOXMEDIACENTER. It actually was a whole lot easier than I expected. I didn't even have to open it up, because through the judicious use of eBay, I managed to find a copy of the original…

  • Family Night at the Charlotte Checkers

    On Tuesday night, we decided to head out for the annual Everitz Consulting Christmas Party. What's that? You think just because I'm a Movable Type Consultant, I can't have a Christmas Party? Think again. Anyway, we decided that we'd take in a Charlotte Checkers game, which thanks to…

  • Convert RightFields Data to CustomFields

    If you use Movable Type, there's a good chance that you use plugins. And if you took the plugin survey, there's a good chance that you use a plugin to add extra fields to your installation: Roughly one-third of people polled used either CustomFields or RightFields to provide…

  • Install Movable Type Under Apache Tomcat

    I haven't done a lot of work with Apache Tomcat previously, so when someone asked if they could install Movable Type, I had to do a bit of digging to see if it was possible. The answer is actually yes – but it's not the most intuitive installation….

  • Have Gift Cards Gone Too Far?

    Since it's my birthday, I thought I'd talk about something that really bugs me about gift cards. As I'm filling up at the gas station, I look up and see a sign that reads "Give the gift they wont want to regift". Yes, that's right – a gift…

  • Using Pageant with PuTTY at pair Networks

    One of the reasons I like pair Networks is the shell account. I don't always need shell access, but it's really useful to have it when I do need it. Much better than the alternative – needing it and not having it. One question that comes up when…