I've always had an affinity for George Carlin. He and Kurt Vonnegut are a huge influence on the way I experience the world. Today is George's birthday and it was a treat to sit back and watch some of his wisdom.

There are also great collections of quotes ...

A simple little JS based calculator to figure out exactly what data storage and retrieval on Amazon Glacier will cost. Just imagine if Amazon had something this useful.

It really gives a feel for how much retrieval priority changes the cost. Sure, storing 1TB of data on Amazon Glacier would ...

I live on the outskirts of the boonies. We lose power more than I care to recall so I've become familiar with finding my way through the house in near darkness. We're clever enough to stash cheap flashlights around the house but I decided I wanted an "upgrade ...

I guess this is part of my blogroll series, but there are a few folks that cost me a lot of money. These are people with opinions I trust that also like the kind of stuff I like. Be warned, if you follow them, you will likely spend more money ...

Jessica Testa has a lengthy article on BuzzFeed this week. The piece focuses on the televised suicide of a carjacker. It's a great piece of journalism from an unexpected source, BuzzFeed. I don't normally read BuzzFeed. That's not a knock against BuzzFeed. They have section titles like ...

Wordnik is a very nice website if you love words. For example, here's the page for the word "epitome". There's a bit of the social overload for my taste, but I'm an old recluse.

Lex Friedman and Dave Addey both have thoughtful articles about app pricing. Go ahead, you really should go read them if you care about apps or developers.

I can't disagree with their premise. There's a common perception that apps should cost next to nothing.¹ The low cost ...

My sincere thanks to Smile for sponsoring this week's RSS feed on Macdrifter. I'm a big fan of Smile and love their software. PDFpenPro6 has some great new features and was an instant upgrade for me. The best in breed, if you ask me.

PDFpenPro is the advanced ...

Hammer is a Mac application for coding up static HTML. It looks very pretty and has some handy features like custom tags for includes and file paths. Itcan compile SASS, HAML, CoffeScript and Markdown to HTML.

Available in the Mac App Store for $24. You'll also want the free ...

A nice outline of common unix tools for monitoring resources and processes.¹