Been thinking a lot more about the blogging side of it and I'm not sure going to Scriptogr.am is the right decision. Pros: * posts are stored in Markdown * can write them with any text editor * stored in Dropbox Cons: * only supports a single author so Christine and I (and then Elise and Daniella) can't really have a family blog * have to do HTML/CSS work unless you like their current themes The reason for my rethink is my end goal. My end goal is to just have all my posts in Markdown....

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I will talk about Twitter, Facebook and email later, but I am rethinking my previous blog post.

I got my existing blog posts exported (thanks to Brett Terpstra) and I set up Scriptogram successfully. My intended flow was to write all the posts in a text editor in Markdown and then have Scriptogram post those.

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For a while now, I have become more aware of the "dangers" of not controlling my content. It seems every service/site wants to hold onto your data and not let you do anything with it. Which means if they go away or change their model, you are screwed.

Two things pushed me over the edge. The first was Twitter. Previous to their douchbaggery, I was archiving my tweets with IFTTT & Evernote (another proprietary system…sheesh). The second was this post by Frederico. Combined...

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I had read that if you encrypt your iPhone backups, when you restore you won't have to re-enter all your mail, wifi and other passwords. So I dutifully encrypted the backups. And then I forgot the password. I didn't really want to have to redo all my app organization and settings the next time I needed to restore my iPhone. Thought I'd post the steps to remove the encryption in case others need to do this: 1. Jailbreak phone 2. Install OpenSSH 3. Mount the phone on the desktop (I used...

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