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Archive for January, 2008
  1. BenTrem tweeted on 2008-01-31
    January 31st, 2008 by | No Comments »
    • Disappointing: I strapped SiloBreaker to my "Ace Political Blogs" feed > http://snipurl.com/1ymmi < Just the title and a self link … #
    • #innovation #business "Heading to Ycomb. dinner" I don’t begrudge kidz in SF or Seattle, but some get lots of that, the rest of us? _Nada_ #
    • Is it just me or are more sites incorporating <marquee>? What next, <blink>? *shudder* #
    • @marshallk Just saw a PBS documentary on Patagonia. Folks say we have like 5-10 yrs to set areas aside for conservation. Fisheries? Yikes! #
    • "Thanks for the patience?" Patience?! What freakin’ patience?!! Bring back the tweets or I want my money back! (Oh, wait, that won’t work.) #
    • Why I’m such a cheery guy: "Dark Caves of Intelligence; How Bush/Cheney and Snow Help Al Qaeda" > http://snipurl.com/1yndf < 12 9 #
    • @hrheingold I’ve been calling g.reader "Too much of a good thing" … rolling my own !Pipes, viewing those w/ NetVibes Ginger. #
    • Into Yahoo!Pipes? 5 tutorials from MetaFluence > http://snipurl.com/1xm7n < #
    • Holy sheep shit FaceBook is a royal PITA! All the dumb stuff is easy … the thing is like playing pachinko. #
    • I finally spoke my peace on what I think of google’s attitude to programming > http://snipurl.com/1yp6h < #
    • #mashups #readers How peculiar is /this/ site?! > http://snipurl.com/1yp8k < Macros Reader; a mashup feeds library.only the best f … #

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  2. BenTrem tweeted on 2008-01-30
    January 30th, 2008 by | No Comments »
    • I needed a term. I planned to tweet a Q; I had a thot that fell between 2 taxons. I didn’t have a term. For lack of it, I forgot the thot. #
    • @lachlanhardy Was reading on "ponzi" FaceBook apps; they require you to "invite" 5 friends to see the results. Wicked/evuhl. #
    • Notso easy, but: take 12 or so fave feeds; mash through Pipes! c/w throttle and sort; tweak and serve > http://snipurl.com/1yk1s < … #
    • Web Relational File System > http://snipurl.com/1yk5d < Anybody here worked w/Berkely SoftWorks? Variable Length S’thing S’thing C=64 #
    • @chrispirillo Gotta luv it … reminds of how Bermuda regulates house colors … gottaRPTgotta be pastel. ;) #
    • Bingo! "VLIR (Variable Length Indexed Recording)", core system that made C=64 run like a programmable Mac (GEOS)/GEOProgrammer (assembler). #
    • @guykawasaki You know, I studied ethology. Started w/crows; seduced by foxes. A lovely item, truly. Yet really: you should start @truemors #
    • @guykawasaki Ok, @truemors exists. Wouldn’t it be fair to have Truemors stuff there, and have @guykawasaki about you? You know, honesty? #
    • "Sprout" … 20 minutes I didn’t mind a bit. > http://snipurl.com/1yke9 < *Hey @mashable - thanks, pete!* #
    • @jjprojects /This/ fool denegrates fear, while /that/ fool never has fear. Heat + metal = temper. Sentience + fear = focus. :-) #
    • @pkedrosky Zero-sum in action; "closed" mentality is operative. "Do no evil" != enlightened self-interest. Elbows always up … it sux. #
    • @yourdon My 2nd email went un-noticed. HeyHo … one more A-list personality who doesn’t reply. Kinda like reverse autograph collection! #
    • "Sprout" … 20 minutes I didn’t mind a bit. > http://snipurl.com/1yke9 < #
    • Log into Ginger.NetVibes c/w invite code; get "Will transfer". Nothing. Log in again. Time passes. Log in; "Code has expired". Log in … #
    • @strutting "The center cannot hold … a blood-dimmed tide is loosed". Watch: the oligarchs will lash out. They do that. They always do. #
    • @photomatt Everything Gates knows he cudda learned from AT&T … I just tweeted about "oligarchs". (You don’t follow me; so sad.) #
    • @yourdon Thanks Ed, I appreciate that. *Dons wiki-gnome helmet and strikes carbide lamp.* I look forward to connecting. #
    • I /totally /love// being able to throttle multi-feed stream via !Pipes … just like multi-track recording. Sentience 101. #
    • At 18 I was tracking Soviet subs, copying traffic from their bombers, and hacking their birds. At 53? "Web2.0" … how tedious. #
    • I try to stay positive, but really … between yuppies’ kidz and bourgie twits, it’s pretty disheartening. #
    • @colbypalmer Cole Porter? No, wait … Eminem! ;-P #
    • *syncopated jazz* ♪♫♫♪|♫♫♪♪|♪♪♫♫| *dang, no quarter notes!* #
    • @pureCaffeine Parlez-vous CSound? Another early web technology that went nowhere. google; you’ll be happy for it. #
    • @pureCaffeine Order of the British Empire?! Woooh … me thot U anarcho-geek type. HeyHo. #
    • @RobinGood Some of us know that the oligarchs will have their say. "Prague Spring", Allende … there is always / never other than 1 game. #
    • "When what is said is not what is meant, what should be done is left undone." –Confucius. I for 1 will say that most "Web2" stuff is crap. #
    • FWIW: 1978, working with CBC radio, talking with friends about my (then) teenie cassette player, I described what we call pod-casts. #
    • @mashable Get a grip. I login; get my profile. Back to the article. Login required. I login. I get my profile. Back. I comment. *error* Meh #
    • Drag&Drop is great fun for twiddling. But for anything substantial? Tedious; everything should be text editable. (Key: Web2 is triffling.) #
    • @bmn I saw that somewhere … one of the industrial magazines … not InformationWeek, but like that. ZDNet? No, but … sorry. #
    • *Inch by inch / row by row* 1st cut on "Ace Political Blogs" > http://snipurl… < throttled and sorted using Yahoo!Pipes. #

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  3. BenTrem tweeted on 2008-01-29
    January 29th, 2008 by | No Comments »
    • After just over 12 years on the web I finally posted a realistic profile … feels kinda nekkid! > http://snipurl.com/1ygw9 < #
    • Well for god sake, what’s the freaking problem?! Counter shows 4, or even 6, then chops the post. #
    • Check: They lied to us about reasons to invade Iraq, but they’re telling it straight with the economy? > http://snipurl.com/1yh01 < 6 #
    • @dpn "requires a login. ironic ;)" Noooooo kidding. Haa! You know, every few months I get there wondering why I’m not a regular. heh … #
    • @dpn http://gnn.tv/articles/ … "New Study … Is the same type of misinformation influencing economic coverage?" #
    • @gruber: Years ago I did literature survey on Reagan, "the great communicator"; folk usually felt good while disagreeing. Go figure. #
    • Historic blow-back? Bill Clinton goes negative against Obama and Ted Kennedy reacts, drops his neutrality, and endorses him. #
    • "Saving the Internet From Stupidity" > http://snipurl.com/1yh4l < Say no more! #
    • And now … PotUS presents: State of the Onion … his 7th AND FINAL. #
    • @n8k99 ‘course he wants scientific progress; money to be made, and weapons to design. But no disruptive innovation stuff; it’s not nice. #
    • @adelemcalear Autographs after SotOnion is tradition down there. *bites down on tongue. hard. again.* ;-P #
    • @Furrier Not so long ago I had a running debate on twitter … when I hear "Ideas are a dime a dozen" it makes me crazy. 0-sum BullShit. #
    • @trib My kinna humour huh huh … TU. *"PIGT" snort* #
    • @Furrier heh "distributed middle" strikes again! /All/ are great VS "dime a dozen". AFAIK some are key, a few are revolutionary […] #
    • @Furrier No doubt … but I’m thinking the answer will be "No" pretty much whatever I say. /My/ ideas aren’t worth even 25/10th of a cent. #
    • Anybody here registered account at WordPress.com can tweet using the new "Prologue/Twitter" theme: > http://42words.wordpress.com/ < #
    • Ok, that proves it. First time I posted that it went through fine. I copied and posted and "Oh-wooops over 140" … buggy. #
    • http://42words.wordpress.com < Anybody here registered account at WordPress.com can tweet using the new "Prologue/Twitter" theme. 8 #
    • @Furrier Non-linear; wordprocessing wasn’t paradigm shift; spreadsheet was. 1988 I was doing documentation w/hyper-text, but w/o TCP/IP. #
    • @Furrier "Cards" as in Mac? That great! *Shift|orthogonal* "Bad" ideas, if treated well, can be dialectical antithesis i.e -> synthesis. #
    • I dunno. If http://many2many.wordpress.com/about/ means nothing to anyone, then I can be excused for thinking I’m surrounded by trifflers. #
    • Lies and fictions? I married a blonde, raised 5 kids, cliff-climb, race bikes, trained airborne, but I’m a weakling nurd. Anti-intellect. #
    • M’aidez: recently, a site … a gizmo … input a URL and it would extract XFN. I lost it … ring any bells? #
    • #toyz An impossible request for Firefox Bookmark Manager: "sorty by date added, descending" … a regression from NS3.0Gold. #
    • @dpn I’m pretty anal about comms; please tell me: the /articles/ worked while the specific URL required PWD? See, I was logged in, soo … #
    • @bear That BackNetwork thinghamahbobble is a hoot! It got my hcard ++ New to me, though, which means I lost a good one. Ddang. But thanks! #
    • @ChrisSaad Did you tweet an XFN extractor recently? I had on but lost it … @bear passed me http://snipurl.com/1yho0 … but. Dang … #
    • Mac Air ad on TV … *blink* … oh … yaa … that … *blink* And I can’t have better than 300MHz/Win98SE. haaaaaahahaha! *le smurque* #
    • @bear I had a History.dat meltdown. I’m pretty sure ChrisSaad knows, but my Q got no reply. (He’s got no time for me, of course.) #
    • I had a long on-going cyber discussion with some yuppies’ kidz in a buddhist channel. They not stupid, or ignorant. Dishonest. Just that. #
    • @bear … I’m wupped. Search my soup.groundplane.org and my snipurls … and bookmarks too. Maybe I had a lockup with it onscreen. #
    • Here’s a secret: it’s not that young turks don’t have time to answer blog comments and such; they can’t think through any but the obvious. #
    • @ccmehil m.facebook is the most painfully Web.06a page I’ve seen in a long /long/ time … butt-ugly, it is. #
    • @interstar InfoQ is in my Pipes!, along with InternetEvolution, digg soft/prog, reddit soft/pol ++ … > http://snipurl.com/1xsg5 < #
    • google/blogspot does a seriously mediocre job of identity management. I’m soooo tired of struggling with web services. #

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  4. BenTrem tweeted on 2008-01-28
    January 28th, 2008 by | No Comments »
    • I’ve wondered at Cat (15 yrs old); sometimes he seems right senile. ATM he’s sitting on the porch 2 feet from his box, out in the snow. #
    • @marshallk Nothing on http://portland.indymedia.org/ … ’sup? #
    • "PieChart Time Breakdown of Modern WebDesign" > http://snipurl.com/1yeel < a deff keeper! #
    • Busted! Because my "gnodal" approach is new, folk don’t grok it. But the authors of "The Exploit" do! > http://snipurl.com/1yefo < 8 #
    • @chrisbrogan Thanks for that pointer … ace stuff. #
    • @chrisbrogan That sort of resource listing is what I was doing when I started http://gnodal.livejournal.com … "It’s about governance!" #
    • > http://tinyurl.com/3c3gtk&lt; is a fine post. And > http://snipurl.com/1yeih < is a great blog. #
    • @revtriste That’s an our trekker’s trick … potassium chlorate + something sugary -> fire starter. #
    • Folk get snotty about LiveJournal. "A-list" inspires people to high-handedness. My LJ friends are fine. > http://snipurl.com/1yejk < 6 #
    • "A-list" arrogance? Just another variation of abuse. Lots of other abuse. And yet … "Antwone Fisher" > http://snipurl.com/1yemx < 7 #
    • http://antwonefisher.net/ #
    • Does music do any good? I was playing bass and doing sound when I was 14. Theatre? I won a scholarship to Banff. Have they done good? #
    • @alexdc I’d call it "Basic Twitter-!etiquette" … keep a Follower by messaging, but don’t bother Following. Top/down … in/out. #
    • @raygrieselhuber "you’re the only one who can answer that" Answer what, whether you program ExtJS? *blink* 0_o #
    • Program ExtJS? I just found some files from last year … http://snipurl.com/1yeol … totally frabbed, but dang sure does look sweet. #
    • @spin Don’t know first hand, but what worries me about "breathable" (kinna like gortex) is fuel contamination. Maybe ok … dunno. #
    • @spin I got /totally/ addicted to high cut … a total ankle-support junkie. #
    • @spin I had a pair of WWII vintage jump boots … like hammer-head sharks; high, snug in back, tons of room in the toe. #
    • @spin Elite Spider $110 > http://snipurl.com/1yepc < GearZone #
    • @bear heh … keyboard indentations on the forehead is a dead give away. Yaa, me too. cheers ^5 #
    • "A-list" arrogance? Just another variation of abuse. Lots of other abuse. And yet … "Antwone Fisher" > http://snipurl.com/1yemx < #
    • @standardsguy "Strong XHTML, XSLT/XML, CSS and Javascript skills" … must be to stack manuals in the back room. #
    • "Integrated, ATCA-Based COTS Solution for MultiCore"; webinar tomorrow 11EST > http://snipurl.com/1yfw0 < #
    • @Pistachio @ev FWIW I’ve been aggregating coders on @ITGeek #
    • Skype GroupChat for #DataPortability > http://snipurl.com/1yfwi < #
    • Cold? You wanna talk "cold"? -31C … and that’s w/o wind-chill #
    • @newmediajim Soooo dish, bro’ … whatdja bring home as a souvenir from UAE etc? #
    • One more year of InformationWeek! *claps and cheers* #
    • -31C … with wind-chill: -45C #
    • Pain is: futzing with .htaccess to allow fetching resources from outside webroot. *Yeeks!* #
    • Gawd software is pathetic! Yahoo!Pipes (again) … I added 2 more sorts, to sort by 3 different types of date data … still randomly ordere #
    • TechCrunch calls it a "Twitter Tracker" > http://snipurl.com/1yg3x < TweetMeme > http://tweetmeme.com/ < cheers @stut #
    • "Tweeters’ Blogs" from @ITGeek now has 139 listed … who’s gonna be #140?! > http://snipurl.com/1xi4o < #
    • So if I type reading google, Johnny River, eggword, Web2.0, time for design … my tweet will be listed in 6 or 8 memes? @ITGeek #
    • @newmediajim Ooooh … ooooh-wooo! This dawg _mucho_ canhaz dates?! I can only imagine. *swoon* #
    • @revtriste "Cold? You wanna talk cold? -31C" " -31C … with wind-chill: -45C" I don’t see how you can read that as "warm". #
    • This to show what makes much such a fun and perky kinda guy: http://groundplane.org/cwid/cwid.html #
    • @ink_slinger Go for it! In the words of de Bergerac: "Panache, panache! Toujours panache!" Communicative gesture, ehh whot? #
    • @strutting I’ll suggest my http://twitter.com/itgeek/with_friends … coders. #
    • @gapingvoid And it it works: someone here was saying how one tweet by an A-list type lead to many many blog reads (IIRC 200 … possible?) #
    • "Less hippie"; that’s bound to draw a lotta support. Whassit mean? Keep on ignoring Indymedia Global and the World Social Forum? *pffft!* #
    • @davefleet Congrats … you’re the 140th blogger in @ITgeek’s Tweeters Blog List > http://snipurl.com/1xi4o < #
    • "Impeachment Resources" from AfterDowningStreet > http://snipurl.com/1ygcp < Buzz: Kucinich is going to introduce articles? #
    • What you don’t want to get on WikiPedia: "We could not process your edit due to a loss of session data." #
    • Worse than getting "We could not process your edit due to a loss of session data." on WikiPedia is getting it repeatedly. #
    • @stoweboyd @chrisbrogan Reading just now: "Is XMPP the Future of Cloud Services?" (InfoQ) > http://snipurl.com/1yghr < #
    • "The AppGap" … sponsored by IntuitQuickBase … why "A New Corante Blog"? > http://www.theappgap.com/ < #
    • Incredible … NetVibes with a dozen tabs; NP. Yahoo!Pipes; NP. RWW? Bog. Mashable? Bog. #
    • Gawwwwwwwwwd A-list types are insane! A hugely popular Web2.0 blog, talking about what Web3.0 would be … can’t put links in comments. #
    • @JasonCalacanis FWIW I registered last week. It occurred to me that a systematic SW approach to niches might be *cough* rewarding. #
    • Great posts to reply to! "Blurts on web2.0/3.0" > http://snipurl.com/1ygqy < (I wish CoComment would work for me.) #

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  5. BenTrem tweeted on 2008-01-27
    January 27th, 2008 by | No Comments »
    • #braindamaged http://feeds.feedburner.com/yahoo/AceBlogs is ncie, but not deterministic. I add "Truncate 5" and *ting* same results. toyz! #
    • I add "truncate 5" but get a full stream. I changed it to "truncate 2" and *ting* get 2 posts in the stream. #braindamaged #toyz #
    • Wunnerful - been chasing my tail with item.dc:date; turns out Yahoo!Pipes transforms it to item.pubDate. No reason. Dunno where/why. meh! #
    • @acarvin I hear the white vote was pret’near a 3-way split. #
    • Confirmed: Yahoo!Pipes processes are #braindamaged with latency; I rejig things for 48 posts … the RSS still shows 4, from last version. #
    • @acarvin How often do we really ever have a chance to actually fail? I mean to play a big game, flat-out, and fall short. /Serious/ downer. #
    • "Badly formed response; failed to Save" Geee, thanks Pipes! … for a moment there I thought I was gonna get something done. #
    • Real IDE VS toyz: a real IDE doesn’t choke and discard your changes. Yahoo!Pipes is refusing to Save after a complex mod. Arse, totally. #
    • @bronwen Hi - nice of @dpn to cite my Davos tweet. That gang knows no limits when it comes to self-congratulation! cheers -ben #
    • Oooh, this can’t be good: "The Pipes engine request failed (504)" … Yahoo getting /.’d? Not a good sign. At least it let me save changes. #
    • Pipes! - from "fire hose" to water fountain; feeds throttled, filtered, sorted, and governed > http://bentrem.sycks.net/pipes.html < #
    • One of my favoritest of all times animated GIFs; who can but love little froggies?! > http://snipurl.com/1yc9o < #
    • @Pistachio Abhidharma 101: neither resent insult nor be pleased by flattery (File under "equanimity / impartiality") #
    • How is it that I can have NetVibes and Yahoo!Pipes at once NP … but Mashable and/or RWW cause FF to bog? #
    • Kinda neat to look at ClustrMaps and know who’s where > http://snipurl.com/1ycak < I really don’t envy A-list excess. #
    • A first for me: widget in main column; looks good! (Though *cough* I used <table>.) http://tinyurl.com/yqj6n8 #
    • Reading: "AlphaDawg and Yahoo!Pipes - " (http://tinyurl.com/2va85r) #
    • Hate FF history.dat? Finally! A history utility. No repair, but create report, kill .dat, visit sites! > http://snipurl.com/1ydmq < #
    • 1140 googlesyndication records in History.Dat … "Do No Evil" yaa.right yaa.right yaa.right yaa.right yaa.right yaa.right yaa.right #

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  6. BenTrem tweeted on 2008-01-26
    January 26th, 2008 by | No Comments »
    • @josephgrossberg I’d like to talk NRC/TDD but since I cannot MSG you *shrug* HeyHo, and so it goes. signed, sihly aulde drunk #
    • 7.1B … was that EU or US$? my my my, nice to know banks have intelligently implemented BPM. Nothing for me to do, nope nope. #
    • NBT? D&D that allows macros. (Not a chance; no need, with toyz. FWIW I used WP5.1 and AWK in MIL-SPEC R&D *sez the aulde drunk*.) #
    • What a waste of space CA is. 18 minutes ago I had 15 feeds filtered. Now "Fetch Feed" fails. Yaaaa right. Fuckers are eating sushi in caf’. #
    • Things CA are like dealing with over-bred poodles. "Water bowl" … "Bowl", "Water", join! Yesss, gooood yuppie! #
    • Pipes! output Preview fails. Reinstall each and every single feed. All good! *clap hands, scratch ass, wipe nose, repeat* #
    • NB: if Yahoo!Pipes HQ is in OR then all is forgiven … I know anarcho-geeks are unreliable, but I’d trust them w/my life. (cliff climb?) #
    • Q; is software /in any sense/ fractal? *Warning - this is a trick quiestion.* #
    • All functions Fail. When I was young, I’d spend Fri. night producing $20K-$50K of IT. Now, with toyz, waste my fucking time. Grande? #
    • p.s. do 7 man/years work in 2.5 yrs … do the arithmuhtik #
    • RFE: zoom out in Pipes! Because everything’s gone to shit, I need to go from Input 1 to Output. Can’t … too big. #toyz #
    • Time for TV. 1st London Review of Books was swamping other feeds. Now? 0 output, though it validats. I fucking hate the industry. #
    • Problem found: the pipe is fine … the DeBug output is bullshit. *clap hands; scratch ass; wipe nose; repeat* #
    • !Funny: step by step I have to ignore "Preview Failed" in DeBug output. I peek the feed, and step by step, better. Someone got $$ for toyz #
    • Now http://opendemocracy.org/xml/rss/home/index.xml doesn’t respond. #toyz #
    • Has /anybody/ run latency tests on services? This is crap, folks. The intertubes is like somesorta ecstasy puppy-pile … foolish. #
    • "Cat" is 16. Q: what should I expect from him regarding sociability and manners? *Warning - trick question* #
    • !Prob I hacked Soviet birds&subs you didn’t. Prob: raised kids? climbed cliffs? rode bikes? busked? split wood? lit fires? Dang … ’sup? #
    • *Looking forward to clapping and scratching my ass and picking my nose, and I tweet this cuz I’m A-list so it matters* *Gack Ptui!* #
    • @hrheingold "Since when did I ever do anything for the bucks?" Good sir, you need a court jester; your "friends" serve you poorly. #
    • I say I didn’t buy that cottage on the coastal cliffs of OR cuz y’all have crazy gun laws. I lie. I didn’t cuz y’all are Americans. *sorry* #
    • 3 times I edited FeedBurner details. Still wrong. *Fuck!* My dad died when I was 7 … what the fuck is /your/ problem?! #
    • @ink_slinger We haven’t talked. It’s as though we’re in seperate cities; the AB dynamic. I /am/ angry. Punk yuppie kidz’ software sux. #
    • @bear It pains me that Matt is soooo busy. WP + WordPerfect macro programming language = world rule. #
    • What’s 300MHz Win98SE good for? 2 hrs on Pipes! = > http://snipurl.com/1xsg5 < but 2 minutes on FeedBurner locks me up hard. #
    • Study of Bush / senior aides’ 935 pre-war lies > http://snipurl.com/1y3bm < "War Card" > http://snipurl.com/1y3c2 < (Condi’ … #
    • @factoryjoe You wudda loved PoWow. #
    • No need for kidz to go to Davos for Marie Antoinette treatment, they only need to lust for a job with google! (Karik? Scobble?) #
    • @dpn URL for torrent? #
    • Q to my US "friends". Since justice is for $ale in your country, how can you hold your heads up? Nothing more. Just that. #
    • This is twitter, right? And tweets don’t count for much, right? Ok: truth … I’m a very very very good sniper. That means skill+patience. #
    • Don’t know the "Hillsborough Boys"? Don’t know John Grisham? So, really, Web2.0 is your licence to unfeterred ignorace. Ass!=star dip.shit. #
    • @davewiner Isn’t "pre-impeach" just shuck and jive? That’s a lotta cred to demean, Mr. Winer. #
    • @yourdon Ed, I’m right gun-shy after a time with NSA and such. How about we corral "discourse" and "dialectic"? Just BPM w/twist. Say you? #
    • Dig: Grisham is wealthy from sales of .25B books yet talks of "risk" from speaking out. Americans are in.sane . simpl