While I was searching for how to fix my missing Dropbox contextual menus yesterday, I came across these handy links: If you're a Path Finder 6 user, Thanh Pham has figured out how to make an Automator service that will let you share a public Dropbox link from Path Finder's contextual menu. More often than not, I find that I need to share files that aren't in my Public folder already, so I don't know how much I'll use this, but it's handy to have a bit of Dropbox integration in Path Finder nevertheless.

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I discovered yesterday that my Dropbox contextual menus had disappeared. I have no idea when it happened. It might have been when I installed Mavericks... that's how little I use that feature. But when I need it, it's damned useful. It took me about an hour of poking around the Dropbox forums (which were no help, ultimately) and trying various queries in DuckDuckGo to figure out how to get the menu options back.

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Amazing. This actually works: use your own fingers (or someone else's, I guess) as temporary reading glasses.

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Glass, Home and solipsism: One of the things you're supposed to work out some time in your adolescence is that though you're the star of your own life, you're not the star of anyone else's. Some companies never work this out. Via strat?chery.

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A thought-provoking piece about policing in the wake of the Boston bombings. What police behavior is justified in a case like this? What's over the line? The police in Boston were searching for some dangerous criminals who killed innocent people, killed a rookie police officer, hurled at least 3 bombs at police during the chase, and engaged the police in a massive gunfight. Obviously, extraordinary precautionary measures are reasonable and necessary.

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Using mature, reliable, widespread tools isn’t just about scaling more easily — it’s about being as low-needs as possible so you can spend more of your time and attention on things that matter more to you. Marco Arment's conclusion here is a smart observation on dealing with problems of scalability in web services, but it could also apply to just about any area of tool use. I like fiddling with my tools, systems, and processes as much as the next guy, but at some point I just want to get stuff done.

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I love K-Mart for doing this commercial.

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I completely agree with this Macworld review , especially the bottom line: Real Racing 3 handles like a dream and is one of the biggest, most feature-rich, and deepest racing games I’ve played—it’s truly a worthy successor to Firemint’s first two titles. Unfortunately, EA has taken the air out of the tires of Real Racing 3’s lightning quick gameplay, effectively turning one of the best iOS games on the market into a frustrating, stop-and-go test on your patience.

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Amazing. This actually works: use your own fingers (or someone else's, I guess) as temporary reading glasses.

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I'm still proud of the fact that I participated in the very first Ignite talk back in 2006. I can still remember 250 or so geeks crammed into the Capitol Hill Arts Center, building bridges out of popsicle sticks, drinking beer, and enthusiastically cheering on the evening's presenters. I recently came across my slides from that night and thought I'd post them here just for grins. I'm still fairly happy with what I came up with for that night.

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