Hi there. After many years of living here on notes.torrez.org I have moved to torrez.org. And I am posting again! Check it out. I moved all my posts over there. So everything that was here is also there. Go Computers! Continue reading

A Twitter feature I’ve wanted to see for a long time is the ability to geo-tag (assign a location) to my tweet and have it only be posted to people’s streams who are in that location. That is, I tag... Continue reading

Macs are such a huge part of my life, I can’t imagine where I’d be without them. I’ve spent thousands of hours installing new applications, customizing icons, designing and abandoning workflows, trying new utilities, widgets and gadgets and generally just... Continue reading

As I backed out I raised my hand to push the button on the garage door remote. The homeless man who had been laying next to our garage thought I was waving at him and he gave a small wave... Continue reading

We were on a road trip a few weeks ago and I had an idea for an educational app I would build if I had time. You start the app before you take your trip and set your current location.... Continue reading

For the past few months I have been using a time management method called The Pomodoro Technique. Despite the name it is a simple way to manage your work time. To follow it you: 1. decide on the task to... Continue reading

I posted this to Flickr earlier this evening, but some people wanted to know how I did it so here you go: If you are on a Mac the command you want to run to put a burger in your... Continue reading

There is a quote you are probably familiar with from William Gibson: “The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed.” I like it for what it means, but I also like it because it is from... Continue reading

It’s been a couple days now since I [took a break from Twitter](http://notes.torrez.org/2013/03/when-i-quit-smoking.html). Here is a list of things I use to keep up with what is going on: * [http://nextdraft.com/](http://nextdraft.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ed102783e87fee61c1a534a9d&id=03730a427d&e=aa0d5b058f) (Not only informative but also funny.) * [http://thebrief.io/](http://thebrief.io/) (Thoughtful... Continue reading

Just over ten years ago I quit smoking. I had tried for many years but the thing I realized is that you can only quit when you know it is time to quit. Like a lot of smokers I had... Continue reading

A few months ago I was contemplating buying a subscription to a service when I was shown a screen that reminded me I could cancel at any time. I figured I could try it for a month and then cancel... Continue reading

I’d been wanting to get this Pibow Case for a while now. And I just found out a really good reason to: [Every Pibow ever made works with Lego](http://shop.pimoroni.com/blogs/news/7511856-pi-and-prejudice) Continue reading

[Less than two weeks ago](http://notes.torrez.org/2013/03/how-to-unsubscribe-from-thousands-of-subscriptions-in-google-reader.html) I whittled my 2,000 feeds to about 100. I had to do this in the piece of trash that Google Reader had become and it spurred that blog post about how to deal with its... Continue reading

“But as the smiling face of the fastest-growing company in history, Mason was also a shield, a barrier between the press and Eric Lefkofsky, the co-founder and investor behind Groupon, and a man with a track record of creating hypergrowth... Continue reading

Because I just figured this out after unsubscribing from over 2,000 sites I wanted to share how to do this. Going into Manage Subscriptions, selecting all, and then clicking unsubscribe **does not work**. You get an error “Oops. ..an error... Continue reading

“One day, I went to work — I live in SF and I have to commute to Mountain View and there are these shuttles — I went to the shuttle stop and I saw a line of not 10 people... Continue reading

I am shuffling some ideas around in my head but I wanted to put down all the elements before I forget about it. I might revisit when I can form a better post. You might find some of these links... Continue reading

1. A small service that collects a set of vetted RSS feeds and looks for Twitter style @mentions. I noticed Jason [credited me today](http://kottke.org/13/01/game-of-tag-has-been-going-for-23-years) and I didn’t notice until I saw it in my RSS reader. It would have been... Continue reading

Last night I did some research on static blog publishing. The winner for me was easily [Pelican](http://blog.getpelican.com) because: 1. it is built with Python. 2. it supports plugins. 3. it uses a sensible template engine I can tweak. 4. it... Continue reading

Having a conversation with [DantsyPants I had an idea](https://twitter.com/dantsypants/status/289877092169035776) . A giant storage place like you see on TV and by the freeway, but every thing I check-in is scanned and I can affix a price to it if I... Continue reading

How did your [Code Year](http://codeyear.com/) go? I hope well. But if you have unsubscribed from that mailing list or haven’t caught up to the lessons, I would like to share an idea I have for people who want to learn... Continue reading

For Christmas I put [Snap Circuits](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0002AHQWS/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=andretorrez-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B0002AHQWS) on my wish list so that my son and I could start putting together circuits. He doesn't get most of it, but the little bits he does get (what certain components do, how things... Continue reading

This year [I will be listening to music from 1987](http://notes.torrez.org/2012/12/choose-what-i-listen-to-in-2013.html). It looks [like a good year](http://rateyourmusic.com/charts/top/album/1987). My wife and I went down that list talking about the bands that we loved and others we didn’t yet know. After clearing off... Continue reading

For a couple years now (2010 and 2012) I have made a resolution to only listen to music released in that year. That is, I only listened to music that was new and had been released in that year. This... Continue reading

Oh look, [a very nice article on the New York Times](http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/17/business/media/buffeted-by-the-web-but-now-riding-it.html) about Briam Lam’s [The Wirecutter](http://thewirecutter.com). (I rarely do this, but: [I was all over that last year](http://notes.torrez.org/2011/12/good-site-of-2011.html)!) Continue reading