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I’ve said before that the fate of YouTube is to “waft in a terrible state of semi-relevance before being acquired. Within its new parent company, YouTube as we know it will die either from neglect or being rolled into some larger service or portal.”
Dead 2.0 is offering five possible exits for YouTube and there’s a […]

Seriously, get Tab Mix Plus.  When Firefox hangs and you have 16 tabs open, you want to cry. I just want to kiss the Tab Mix Plus add-on when that happens because I close Firefox and when it restarts, TMP offers to restore my crashed session.
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1122/

Starting the day with a small win is always good. My keyboard still works.
In a dramatic moment of carelessness, I spilled half a cup of tea on my favourite keyboard last week (Thursday, IIRC). Of course I first flipped it over and tried to get as much liquid out as possible and then […]

Apparently I was living under a rock in June because I completely missed BumpTop make the rounds (found via this post). I was going to write off BumpTop until I realized it was a research project not a product (phew!). My initial thoughts were “this looks familiar” and “I’d never use this for […]

Over the past three years I’ve tried a bunch of different feed aggregators and could never stick with a per-blog / folder-based reader. I have found I really prefer a river-of-news style reader (a la Dave Winer). But I also find I like having my feeds in Outlook where they are indexed and […]

My name is Derek Hatchard.  I am a software consultant, author, founder of ChurchRadius.com, and Microsoft Regional Director.  This is my place to write on anything that does not fit on my developer or church software blogs.
If you’ve come here because you read one of my other blogs, you might be wondering why in the […]