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BenTrem tweeted on 2008-02-29

February 29th, 2008 by | No Comments »

I must be mad; tickled pink re-finding a Functional Pgming blog in my History … time to start busking again. #
@pureCaffeine I’ve had 3 Toshibas and 2 IBM, but the longest-lived (apart from the over-engineered IBM ‘486) was Dell LatitudeXPi. Ace box. #
/Everything/ about MySpace is lame. Let me enter the comment, let me click send, then tell me "Have to be logged in!". As bad as LinkedIn. #
Great set of Obama-related articles at Slate > http://snipurl.com/20odq [www_slate_com] < . . . #
Creepy thesis #42: "social software" is means to expand the "I’ll confirm your facade if you confirm my facade" personal dynamic. #matrix #
*blink* Clintonites would have us believe that /Hillary/ represents the working class?! > http://snipurl.com/20oxt < #oligarchs #

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BenTrem tweeted on 2008-02-28

February 28th, 2008 by | No Comments »

"Innovation" where? City of Seattle even throttles buskers. "You can innovate, so long as we get lion’s share." Enterprise2.0 yaaaa right. #
"Disruptive technologies" … what a joke. Rich kidz using hi-tech to tell each other the location of the nearest Starbucks. So screw IPCC. #
Looking at what we haven’t even started to do over the past dozen years leaves me really really really cranky. A-list buzz-bullshit. #
Pete Seeger on PBS. The musical heritage of social justice sure does show A-list buzz-crap to be pathologically narcissistic. #
Exxon’s still fighting compensation for the Valdez spil; buzz buzz buzz? "Social software" is designed to drown out any sign of sanity. #
Bloomberg on frank talk: "politics being what it is, candidates seem afraid to level with [people]. > http://snipurl.com/20kgz < N … #
@technosailor Mebbe stick that into a comment somewhere in the blog? (I assume /somebody/ in HQ reads blog comments.) #
"1% of WikiPedia members produce 50% of edits" > http://snipurl.com/20lte < echoes 1% initiate,10% contribute, 89% "participate" #

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BenTrem tweeted on 2008-02-27

February 27th, 2008 by | No Comments »

Funny: talk sugar-coated bla-blah, get tons of reaction. Talk citizen participation in policy discussion … total silence. No responses. #
"more than 80 followers? following more than 70? then you are in the Twitter minority at about 10%." -Biz #
Dump my tweet, then fail to refresh. meh … #
Mic test 1, 1, 1 2, 1 2 3 … #
Re-Tweet: back-stage w/wonks in Obama’s policy shop > http://snipurl.com/20hwh [www_tnr_com] < "Audacity of Data" #
What does "Web2.0" bring us? peek top-10 swikis: http://www.eurekster.com/news_room … incredibly revealing. Sad, and revealing. #
@stevegillmor Re-Tweet: back-stage w/wonks in Obama’s policy shop > http://snipurl.com/20hwh [www_tnr_com] < "Audacity of Data" #
Albright on Daily Show … the old brawd is starting to win me over. Only starting, mind, but … #
Looking at OpenSocial widgets on Ning … how utterly pointless. #
Web2 is social? Sure. Like a biker bar is social, or a crack-house. WhatI see is phony cocktail-party schmooze, smiles & hustle. Buzz=fix. #
Hillary C’s solution? The worst kind of wooly-headed jingoistic bullshit. "Our best days are ahead of us". Web2.0-style politcs; buzz-crap. #
"Hillary Clinton: a snotty arrogant bitch for snotty arrogant people". Her campaign advisers must be insane, totally insane. #

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BenTrem tweeted on 2008-02-26

February 26th, 2008 by | No Comments »

Kotke is the shiet >http://snipurl.com/20el6 < [kottke.org/… /design-and-the-elastic-mind] Should go to WP-Hackers, that. #
@ITGeek - [moma_org] > http://snipurl.com/20elg < Via Kotke.org > http://snipurl.com/20el6 < _?Parlez-vous PoMo?_ ;-P #
Anybody know "The Deck"? Vague memory from an earlier time? > http://www.coudal.com/deck/ < - > http://snipurl.com/20er9 < … #
How old am I /really/? Just came across notes re: Caspar Weinberger’s prediction of Pentagon spending "later this decade". Yaa … Reagan. #
@thattalldude Get the guy 1K following so he can say "Gee look at me I got 1K following"? Just the sorta guy I won’t follow. Tks/warning. #
"Ads by google" at wiki.com: "Photos of Cute Girls Browse photos of Lesbian Twins near you. Chat, IM and Date free!" … geeeezus. #
Had to blog this right away > http://snipurl.com/20f4a < a plugin transforms WordPress into a forum … feature-filled! #
@Ross Like cloud/mesh? Async JS and Redundancy? *meh … not funny … it’s late, sorry* #

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BenTrem tweeted on 2008-02-25

February 25th, 2008 by | No Comments »

*ponders* Are Obama-Dems as brittle and reactive as Hillary-Dems? I sure hope not … the republic is in jeopardy. #
re-tweet: "Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration" > http://snipurl.com/20bu4 [lsvp_wordpress_com] < . . . #
Gaaaaaaal dang but google’s getting clever. It popped up my notepad right when I needed it! *wh00t!* #
heh … ‘been draggin’ this sad little GIF around for a decade. Finally found it a home > http://snipurl.com/20c3i [bentrem_sycks_ne … #
@thattalldude Good eye! New business model: give away & profit > http://snipurl.com/20c3r [www_wired_com] < . . . #
@Floris heh … here it’s meow meow meow meow "Unplug and turn the lights off, it’s late!" ;-) #

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BenTrem tweeted on 2008-02-24

February 24th, 2008 by | No Comments »

@Documentally As an army of 1 I’ve /per force/ needed a more wholesome balance … less "social" and more "sane". #
"So strongly prototyped software components plug together like Lego" http://snipurl.com/209o6 [software-development-blueprinting_com] #
"Ready for Multi-Core" What The Experts Say" > http://snipurl.com/209pj [www_connectivelogic_co_uk] < #
@jkottke In the process of salad this moment. C/w quick fried veg and soft-fried egg. And spicey stewed tomato #
"Ready for Multi-Core" What The Experts Say" > http://snipurl.com/209pj [www_connectivelogic_co_uk] < #
@interstar "maybe we need dataflow languages" *Give the man a potted plant!* Ayup … stand-by, digging around for URL *whirrrking* #
@interstar I sooo hate losing track of b’mark. A truly geekish blog talking about just that c/w passing ref to Erlang. Dang! #
@sbspalding I collected a lot of coder-types; see ../ITGeek/with_friends/ … their blogs > http://snipurl.com/1xi4o < . . . #
I finally got it! Yuppies are Victorian! Not the contrary opinion offends their tender up-turned nose, it’s that someone _differ_. Period. #
Imagine: social skills in the name of civil society. W/o grandiosity. Not Obama for pres., Gates’ millions. Good PR for a righteous cause. #
@Scobleizer Matt may be cookin’, but http://atlargemedia.com/ is just boggin’. #
@rww BTW/FWIW I’ve been pestering Reuben Schwarz; his "Hobby leads to career for tech blogger" at Stuff.co is 404. #
"Ready for Multi-Core" What The Experts Say" > http://snipurl.com/209pj [www_connectivelogic_co_uk] < #
Hillary exits sanity with "Shame on you, Barack Obama" … say it again, Hillary! Rail, rant against the dying of the blight! #
@rww Thanks for the "ten brands" link; part says just what I wrote hour ago at your "Web3.0" > http://snipurl.com/20a73 < #
Stevie Ray Vaughn’s left hand is other-worldly. w/respect to others … it’s just, well, that. #
@Stammy Like firing a turbo-V8 engine at a granite wall then picking through the pieces … again and again and again. #
@factoryjoe Did I get this from your tweet-stream? In case not > http://www.commuterfeed.com/ < . . . #
@factoryjoe Apologies as needed / if this is duplicate > http://snipurl.com/20bhr [www_bart_gov] < . . . #
Lama Surya Das … nice guy. He gets it. > http://surya.org < . . . #

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BenTrem tweeted on 2008-02-23

February 23rd, 2008 by | No Comments »

@mastermaq It is my sad duty to inform you that we here are enjoying the sort of glorious spring weather only Alberta can manage. ;-P #
An afternoon gleaning Web/E2.0 stuff (No, not 10 seconds per post!) I feel like I’ve been eating artificially colored sugar. By the bowl. #
Q: if my cohort’s so successful, why are they so deeply in debt? If they are so creative, why do they have so little control of their time? #
"Phatic"? No grok. "Talking deeply about simple things"? I get blank stares. Leading from behind gets tedious, after a while. Thankless. #
Migrating Plugins and Themes > http://snipurl.com/209im [codex_wordpress_org] The fun never ends! #
@edwardvielmetti I recall that scenario w/added attraction of rural distances. *ping* #
@factoryjoe .gov PortableData + WiMAX hyperconnectivity … gotta luv it! #
Missed this one: "An Interface of One’s Own" http://snipurl.com/209mj [www_nytimes_com] Magazine. Nicely crafted. #

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BenTrem tweeted on 2008-02-22

February 22nd, 2008 by | No Comments »

History buff? Podcasts Oxford Biographies > http://snipurl.com/204l6 [www_oup_com] < a new one each week. #
FaceBook and google being used for intelligence gathering?! > http://snipurl.com/204n5 < Golly shucks, tell me it ain’t so! *sigh* #
@pureCaffeine I know the team can count on you! Stay loose, stay real! ^5 #
Here’s my decades-long strategy: I would ace the abdhidharma (surviving poverty; my pick) then rejoin my "wealthy" cohort. Fatally flawed? #
I spend years studying impact of "phatic" on communications; others have not clue 1 what I’m talking about. heh #
@mashable A friend told me this: when she arrived in Canada she thought the bilingual packaging was part of an educational program. ;-) #
Who is acting as contact/lead PR for the shiny new startup? A very very nice person w/total of 0 web pages: no blog, no profile, _nada_ #

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BenTrem tweeted on 2008-02-21

February 21st, 2008 by | No Comments »

@pureCaffeine Apparently there’s no $$/cred in making things simple. Go figure. #
@SamLawrence BluePills served on a pink spoon … the stuff of much-needed extended metaphor. #
@ev You mentioned video earlier … I just peeked this > http://snipurl.com/1wbu6 [web_splashcast_net] < #
I think the way "kidz" do things is (passive aggressive) like gang shit: intended to turn others off / turn others away. Snotty; deniable. #
I just wrote an email. It was 6 or 8 paragraphs long. It carried maybe as many links. I don’t need 84K "partial attention". Old fool I am? #
OMG Ui design research shows we can understand our world! > http://snipurl.com/203bl [www_uie_com] #
Mebbe the best flash homepage evah > http://www.kartendesign.com < #
Migrating a large blogsite from MT to WP > http://snipurl.com/203ya [birdhouse_org] #
Variant of the old line from Confucius: "When A-list marketers create false needs, what is done need not be done, and real needs go unmet." #
@Mickeleh As a 60s era peace-nik / 70s-era peace-keeper I’m working on a platform for just that sort of discourse. (Bootstrapez-vous?) #
SuperDelegates; more than you ever thought you’d need to know. Maybe enough. Maybe. > http://snipurl.com/204ek [demconwatch_blogspot … #
Netscape Navigator down for the count? > http://snipurl.com/204fg [infoworld.com] < #
@JasonCalacanis I sputtered when I heard TED’s "motto" after my so long saying "Ideas worth spending time with" … another near miss! ;-) #
Folk think /I’m/ long-winded?! > http://snipurl.com/204il < back-story to DreamHost’s $7.5M "Uh-Wooops!" #

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BenTrem tweeted on 2008-02-20

February 20th, 2008 by | No Comments »

404s, inactive links, "Coming Soon" … the intellectual world is a scam playing out in a desert. #
Dear cohort-member: Notice how often you’re "too busy"? Notice you’ve time for A-list? Ever heard of Matrix? You enjoy BluePill? *insanity #
@mcwflint I’ve spent so much time on http://snipurl.com/1zzxf and related pages I saved them to HD! (No, not kidding!) #
@ev Someone mentioned a good app just coupla days ago. (I’m on Windoze so did not make a note.) #
Against the law to discriminate. But if you speak out against it, you can be fired. "Land of freedom and opportunity"?! #
GeekGoodness: "YUI Grids CSS" > http://snipurl.com/201xz < "offers four preset page widths, six preset templates, and the etc etc" #

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