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Archive for April, 2007
    • *groan* No WiFi at home => having 6 of the 8 files I need here at the WiFi cafe != success. *sigh* #

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    • My WiFi died last week … 5 days without connectivity at home. *Aaaargh!!!* #

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    • Home WiFi outage … no domestic tweeting … can’t breathe … heart racing … I.must.tweet.or … #

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    • “Why the Office Format Wars are Not Over” … LinuxJournal => http://tinyurl.com/37oue6 #
    • “The OOXML Contradictions Disclosed” … ConsortiumInfo “Standards Blog” => http://tinyurl.com/3cl2rj #
    • How lame … Firefox’s “History: Most Visited” is random. 2007? Yaaaa right … #
    • CBS’ Couric on Obama: “”Is America ready to elect a president who grew up praying in a mosque?” … Nothing but ice-cream, all the time. #
    • File under “Oh-Wooops”: “Rove’s Lawyer Ack’s Rove Emails From 2003 Missing In WHouse Archives” => http://tinyurl.com/3bcxvj #

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    • @bloggersblog Analytics and metrics: the #1 on that list has 1 friend, 3 followers, 1 favorite and 98 Updates. WTF. 0_o #
    • Overheard in the blogosphere: “Listening to Noam Chomsky,” said a psychologist in her 50s, “always turns me on.” http://tinyurl.com/3ouno #
    • Long exchange with 3 literati. Conceptual constructs are “mommy’s little angels” now. We are lost, doomed. But I’m ok cuz I’m not rich. ;-/ #
    • @factoryjoe Any good wiki gnome knows that the secret of survival / longevity is to 1) slap loud and hard 2) head for the kitchen. #
    • geeeeeeeeeek! http://www.slate.com/id/2159164 #
    • @rycaut Late 70s? I was in that game 72/73 … pre-email. (Teletype) #
    • Ooooh … bottom drawer is full of cassettes. _Illapu_! (Chilean; circa ‘75) #
    • Thinking of “twittering” I recall my “authentic presence” workshop and wonder at how we remain at all human … life as schmooze. #
    • @Scobleizer - FWIW /I/ didn’t know about it. ^5 #
    • K, l’e’see: @natetrue tweets @scobleizer and first thing I read is that @burtonator is being pillage. Check. “And so it goes” … ^5 #
    • LEDs in sleeves gets thousands of hits. *sigh* #
    • Woke up this morning with my site’s homepage design clearly in mind … awesome. #
    • YAJSlib http://dedchain.dustindiaz.com/ #
    • Who knew?! TinyMCE has a bazillion configurable functions! http://tinyurl.com/28fb97 #
    • “The first rule of the unobtrusive JS club is don’t talk about unobtrusive JS club. No, hang on …”huh huh => http://tinyurl.com/6vztw #
    • Golly gee shucks, Bush appointee Wolfowitz is a maggot and World Bank is a band of vultures. Golly shucks, who’d uh thunk it?! *Gack Ptui!* #
    • @acarvin “Asian massive” … good for what ails us. Mebbe “harder than realized” is just the right thing in the moment. Trust the Karsh! #
    • Paul Wolfowitz is finally going to be seen as a stinking vampire … the beginning of a wholesome sanity? #
    • Callout: Get the vampire away from control of the World Bank => http://tinyurl.com/yqe78s #
    • FEMA trashes $40M worth of emergency meals. Impressive! #

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    • Note to self: remember what you forgot - that great page on AHAH … and that blog post on “SW can be fun for users” #
    • Breaking News: deployments to Iraq and Afgh. upped to 15 months from 12. Condolenscences to all hands. #
    • A pot of tea, a big bowl of fresh popcorn, Sopranos … life is good! #
    • “Problems of Understanding in Conflicts and a Semiotic Solution” *sigh* I’d rather be busking. Much. http://tinyurl.com/2uytac #
    • Know what? It ain’t funny … we lost 2 more in Afgh today … “epistemological approach to conflict resolution”?! Yaa … not j/k. *sigh* #
    • triplr … JSON … YahooPipes. *My brain hurts!!* #
    • From JSON (frying pan) to SKOS (fire?) #
    • Schweeeet! “International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media” blog has a ton of presentation videos => http://www.icwsm.org/blog/ #
    • @davewiner google news on Vonnegut’s passing => http://tinyurl.com/2×2dw3 #
    • @leslienassar NYTimes on KV: http://tinyurl.com/yw7rop *sigh* “There’s only one rule that I, babies ‘God damn it, you’ve got to be kind.’ ” #
    • @leslienassar “There’s only one rule that I know of, babies - ‘God damn it, you’ve got to be kind.’ ” NYT on KV: http://tinyurl.com/yw7rop #
    • @leslienassar http://tinyurl.com/yw7rop NYTimes on KV “There’s only one rule that I know of, babies ‘God damn it, you’ve got to be kind.’” #
    • 3 times in a row … the blessed systema can’t even count. geeeeeez #
    • @bronwen huh huh … thanks, I needed that as a note to end on. *This day we lost K Vonnegut, but we sally forth undanted!* ciao #
    • @whurley Broken URL? 404 there #
    • Word up … same old “Atlats”, smarter URL => http://twitteratlas.com #
    • In a forum on “psychopaths in society” I pointed out that folk were being abusive, beating up on one guy. _I got banned_. Paradigmatic? #
    • Ok .htaccess redirects /mozdawg/ to blogspot.com, now let’s see what we can do with tumblr! #
    • Ok. *waits* … *waits* … Uhhh, I have a tumblr account … *waits* … Hello? Isn’t this where my life changes? #
    • By way of NYTimes (which just discontinued its Forums!!), “Business of Green”, Int’l Herald Tribune blog => http://tinyurl.com/2m666a #
    • @soopa You sure those batteries won’t suffer from deep-discharge? The one in my lovely Casio camera is now x_x #
    • *ponders* If most folk are already brusk and bruttish, and things speed up, does that mean still-decent folk will see and ID one another? #
    • NB: People of integrity don’t need to have their asses kissed continuously. (File under “Everything I know I learned from West Wing.”) #

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    • @dweinberger It’s never a commonplace. “Ask not for whom the bell tolls …” #
    • @anildash Whaaaaa?! I was on his site 45 mins ago … good grief. #
    • Gadd … RIP Paul Graham? How ghastly … I have his “Microsoft is Dead” in another tab. Is this a bad joke? #
    • AJAX? Sure, fine … and then there’s AHAH (Async HTML and HTTP) http://tinyurl.com/9xmsq #
    • Extroverts make you crazy? “we gasp for air amid the fog of their 98-percent-content-free talk” http://tinyurl.com/d7c8t #
    • “A Software Eng, a Hardware Eng. and a Departmental Mgr driving to a meeting, down a steep mountain, when … http://tinyurl.com/2owm4w #
    • heh … someone wrote XLS to generate a Mandelbrot fractal. http://tinyurl.com/2fg3vh #
    • I am a serious thinker. “”Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.” makes me laugh. And I think about that. Seriously. *snort* #
    • @lachlanhardy “People of the Sun” keeps me going, day by day. #
    • @davetroy In case it applies: iMatix 27MAT07 “AMQP packet sniffer available” http://tinyurl.com/39mjxv #
    • biomimetic detection of gun-shot source, new? I wrote about that in ‘84 … psychoacoustics? ‘76. meh #
    • @lealea Do your classes / performances ever use live handrumming? #
    • It makes me wonder … decent number of site hits, and page reads, but almost no comments. Matrix sucks. #
    • What’s with people not dating their blog posts?! Gooooood grief. #
    • Looks like extJS is putting the boots to Dojo. *sigh* #
    • Ooooh, dog food with thick brown gravy! “Firefox as an IDE” http://tinyurl.com/2lr36p #
    • @gervis Apart from mine (LJ), Hixie’s (WHATWG) and the weather one I know of no others bots. #
    • Oooh, lookie me! A collection of AJAX “e-books” (PDF)!! http://tinyurl.com/24pvnv #
    • gervis - I’ve seen some radio stations and news sources … watching twittervision shows who’s frequent. #
    • @kevinmarks Kathy Sierra and Chris Locke co-comment on, well, “the situation”. http://tinyurl.com/25zoq9 #
    • A “rightosphere” poll, 7 Qs. Be afraid. E.g. ” If Scooter Libby goes to jail should Bush pardon him?” (86% Yes) http://tinyurl.com/3ca8f4 #
    • OMG, someone mentionned Oscar Romero in 2007?! *wooot!* http://tinyurl.com/2hqwu9 #
    • OMG, someone mentionned Oscar Romero in 2007?! *wooot!* http://tinyurl.com/2hqwu9 #
    • If I escape anomie by attaining a pluralistic solidary, does that mean I’m poly-nomial? #
    • awestrology.com … a strole logy … ass-troll logy … the mind baww gulls. #
    • Accesibility concerns with AJAX … it’s a Good Thing. http://www.webaim.org/techniques/ajax/ #
    • Spolsky “select clips” on Scoble … gotta luv it. http://tinyurl.com/ywc3c8 #
    • @burtonator I notived that Hintjens moved http://www.imatix.com/ to WikiDot … seems to be the thing to do. #
    • Sure wish technorati would tweet more than just “Xyz needs a WTF” #
    • @bloggersblog circa 1984 … a motor in the base turning a slightly twisted shaft “spine”, audio switched on/off and fast/slow. #
    • New for technorati: “Blog Top Tags widget shows the top tags in any other specific blog URL” => http://tinyurl.com/2wet34 #
    • OMG I very nearly got interested in marketing. Someone slap me, quuuiiiick! http://tinyurl.com/2j3n5x #
    • @skampy Include someone invisibly in an IM exchange?! 0_o #
    • Must Read: tecnorati’s “The State of the Live Web, April 2007″ => http://tinyurl.com/323oyj #
    • Three blogs (blogspot, LiveJournal, wordpress.com) and 1 YouTube video … 3 different markups. And folk get paid for this?! meh #
    • Twitterment … search / compare … good eye, @bloggersblog! I compared YouTube and MySpace huh huh => http://tinyurl.com/2n4zra #
    • Kinda neat, gettin’ in on the ground floor; the Twitterment search/compare homepage? The counter’s at 236! http://twitterment.umbc.edu #
    • Just remembered something I tracked 5 years ago, ULd a coupla weeks back: http://tinyurl.com/32pzbp #
    • C=64 … those funny utitlities to check integrity as we keyed in code from magazine articles. masochism! #
    • Ahhhh … a beating heart in a soul-less world: http://www.epiphanyradio.org #
    • Is it just me? blogger.com seems to become more byzantine month by month http://tinyurl.com/yrwvpx #

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    • @agentdero - Go with chihuahua; always open season on chihuahua. Let the kittens be. 0_o #
    • Woaaa … googled HTMLWG RSS and got a tweet I sent to codepo8 3 or 4 days ago! #
    • /me seeks htmlwg feed to tweet #
    • @factoryjoe Is that lime green or kiwi green? Avacado? *Read: aaaaargh!* ;-P #
    • @factoryjoe - sorry multis; can’t msg you. http://twitter.start4all.com is from (by?) gervis … I suggest add http://twittermap.com/search #
    • @factoryjoe - coworking.pb is open, but not twitter.pb? :-( #
    • @WHATWG Good show. NB: http://www.htmlwg.org/ is no-such … TBD. #
    • Well hell. If this isn’t good for sending msgs in the mo’ to such as WHATWG then it’s just another in the longs series of toys. That’s sad. #
    • take 2. @WHATWG - good on you. NB: http://htmlwg.org is no-such … TBD? #
    • @purecaffeine I little bird wrote something like “PHP has no place in startups” … probs backstage at tweet-central? #
    • At least 3 tweets that were in “Recent” here at Twitter.com about 5 minutes ago are now absent. /That/ is very, very strange. #
    • take 2 - At least 4 of my tweets that were in “Recent” here at http://twitter.com 5 or 10 minutes ago are now absent. /This/ is very strange #
    • NB: Stuff that shows up in http://twitter.com “Archive” do notRPTnot show up in “Recent”. #
    • @twitter_status NB: Stuff that shows up in http://twitter.com “Archive” do not appear in “Recent”, or appears there only to disappear. #
    • 2 hours without any update of “Recent” here at http://twitter.com … ’sup with that? #
    • Ok, I’m logged in at TwitterVission … will this post make it out? #
    • Good call, Dave … the post function on TVision at least posted to the map. #
    • Just for the record, I’ll keep pinging via twittervision. #
    • *ping* via TwitterVision #
    • We Can Work Thro … *blink* Eeeeeeew, no … Let The Game Continue!! #
    • Isn’t data integrity kinda fundamental, like “Lose a tweet today, tomorrow lose payrolls” … it’s top 10 item in my book. #
    • @pureCaffeine Rollerball mate, only way to go. *hits the floor and heads for the kitchen* #
    • Gotta luv InfoWeek - “Are You Part Of The Solution Or Just In Denial?” http://tinyurl.com/2etspz #
    • @bronwen I tripped over “ReadableLaws” and discovered http://newassignment.net/ #
    • @mastermaq I’m grateful for Sunday … did a long walk in MillCreek Ravine (next door). #
    • “class-action against M$: deceptive practices branding computers Vista Capable even if can only run Vista Basic” http://tinyurl.com/3y7f6k #
    • @rycaut in my experience consulting was all-consumming. It better be “fun” cuz it takes over! ;-) #
    • WinSCP4beta released http://winscp.net/eng/index.php #
    • “a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.” –Herbert Simon, Nobel, econ. “ambient findability” http://tinyurl.com/2lxvff #
    • @bloggerblog Was Hoff at it with his hairdryer yet again? ;-P #
    • My 3rd month in MySpace … that place is /seriously/ deranged. Folk with 0 blog entries and 1723 friends … no joke, it’s insanity. #
    • @Osolage - It’s just you …authenticity, integrity, mebbe even principle … and sense of humour. Cut yur loses ‘n give it the heave-ho. ;- #
    • I see that tweets are still slipping through the cracks. #
    • Twitter? I get it … I got it ‘n I’m keepin’ it. Tumblr? *blink* An “easy to do: blog. Oh. K. *blink* I don’ get it. #
    • Yaaa, death to all those who uhhhhh *remembers being “on the bus” at 14* wooops, someone else’ rant. #
    • huh huh … I’m glad I started “hfx_ben” … some of those LJ updates are precious. “Hermetic Order of the Golden Mid-Afternoon” heeheee #
    • @JasonCalacanis - mebbe next week someone will be swaggin’ those “Civility Enforced; we believe in free speach” badges. #
    • BEA “Focus Series” event on SOA Governance here Thursday morn’. Me wanna go. #
    • @agendero Just tell him/her how “write” was a harmonising influence in *nix shops. !definite #
    • @all Ok, straight up or down on this, YUIextJS vs Dojo … extJS? *counts* Dojo? *figures? K, thanks kidz … graphs/PPT at 11 #
    • DZone has adopted OpenID … schweet. http://www.dzone.com/ #
    • *blink* Ok … you, you clehvur kidz. Knock it off with the schmatz, ok? “Event Delegation versus Event Handling” http://tinyurl.com/ysd4nf #
    • “A few days ago I suddenly realized Microsoft was dead” Oh. Well … hey … *blink* … http://www.paulgraham.com/microsoft.html #
    • lighttpd? http://tinyurl.com/2btcff … Whatever happened to http://www.Xitami.com/ I’d like to know. (C’mon, Pieter!) #

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