Jared Smith

Mark Sanford won his old House seat back tonight. Until we hold the people who represent us to a higher standard, we get the representation we deserve. - Jared Smith

Here’s advice virtually nobody in the Charleston area will take: Don’t drink #chs — warxtc (@plurcx) May 1, 2013 Back in 2008, Charleston Twitter users began to use #chs as a hashtag to talk about everything relating to the city, what’s going on, traffic, etc. We expanded on this in 2009 and it’s been pretty [...] - Jared Smith

Wacky weather day near Hilton Head. Golf-ball hail was reported in Sun City earlier today; these reports weren’t far from where there are a lot of new car dealerships out along Highway 278. Ouch. - Jared Smith

A 68 MPH wind gust was reported on the Ravenel Bridge today. The Ravenel continues to be a rough ride this evening thanks to a tight pressure gradient between high pressure to the northeast and a stationary front (the front that’s cooled us off back to the upper 60s) to the south. Gusts to 62 [...] - Jared Smith

A collection of people who think Chechnya is the same as the Czech Republic. Further proof that falling asleep in high school geography & social studies can come back to bite you, hard. - Jared Smith

Quicksilver 1.0 is out. Quicksilver’s future was bleak for a long time and was being eclipsed by commercial alternatives such as Alfred. It’s awesome to see the open source community pick it up and get it to 1.0. It’s really one of the most indispensable pieces of software I run and makes the Mac so [...] - Jared Smith

Today marks five years since supercells packing tornadoes, strong straight-line winds, and large hail ravaged South Carolina and Georgia in an incredibly unusual atmospheric setup for mid-March known as the Ides of March Tornado Outbreak. (Typically, our most favored time for tornadoes is April and May, according to a National Weather Service research study.) The [...] - Jared Smith

I’m sure you’ve heard the news by now — Google Reader will be retired in July. Many are (justifiably) upset, but RSS reading has always demanded something more frictionless and less e-mail like. I never successfully integrated Google Reader (or any other newsreading app) into my day-to-day routine, rather relying on aggregators like Techmeme and [...] - Jared Smith