Category Archives: tow.com

Steve Jobs Was Technology’s Change Agent

Posted on October 9, 2011 by Adam Tow

As the world says goodbye to Steve Jobs, I’d like to share a few stories and photos of my own as I reflect on his death and legacy. Growing Up With Apple I’ve long had a love affair with Apple … Continue reading →

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Comment Spam

Posted on October 28, 2005 by Adam Tow

I finally got around to installing SecureImage to deal with comment spam. I had been using SpamKarma for some time until it started spewing PHP warnings all over the place. We’ll see how well the new system works to prevent … Continue reading →

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Transferring content to WordPress

Posted on February 1, 2005 by Adam Tow

Kaplaaa! I’ve succeeded in transferring most of my old photojournal entries into WordPress! The process was greatly simplified after I wrote an AppleScript to handle each post. The script parsed two files used by my old entries: (1) an XML … Continue reading →

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Site Redesign

Posted on January 27, 2005 by Adam Tow

Well, it’s finally done! I’ve been meaning to redesign tow.com for what seems like an eternity. My old custom content management system was getting quite creaky and unwieldy. The site is now powered by WordPress, a “state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing … Continue reading →

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Server Migration

Posted on May 2, 2004 by Adam Tow

This past weekend, I installed two 2U servers from King Star Computer (ask for John, he’s a great salesperson at King Star!) at my new co-location facility at United Layer. Matt and Sean were very helpful getting everyting configured and … Continue reading →

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Books, Red iPods, and RSS/RDF

Posted on December 7, 2001 by Adam Tow

The past few days have been pretty busy in the Bay Area. I have been doing some extensive plumbing work on tow.com. Like Scotty did to the Enterprise in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, I’ve got tow.com running … Continue reading →

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Musings on tow.com

Posted on July 9, 2001 by Adam Tow

July 9, 2001 marks the one-year anniversary of relaunching of tow.com as a personal web site. This musing reflects on the days before tow.com, its five year history as my company’s web site, my decision to transform it into my … Continue reading →

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