Disqus - Friends of Kyllei

Re: UPS Opinions and Choices

Wolfman-K — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 20:16:18 -0000

APC is the only way to go, I tried the "energizer" one from that silly bunny company and it was terrible. Never works right doesnt even provide a backup. just aweful.

Re: What Do Geeks Eat for Dinner on Saturday Night?

Wolfman-K — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 00:18:12 -0000

Spaghetti was the meal of choice this evening, home made with some toasted cheese covered garlic bread.

Re: Your Favorite Ice Cream Flavor

Wolfman-K — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 20:22:56 -0000

Current Fav... soft vanilla chocolate swirl, but will eat most any flavor. The most bizarre ice cream I have ever had was dippin dots. not so much a flavor as a type. If you don't have them in a mall near you, they are super cooled lil balls of ice cream, that they'll mix together for you in about any flavor combo. They are so cold when you first get them that they will burn your tongue.

Re: Replay-Spring VON Blogger Panel

Wolfman-K — Wed, 30 May 2007 15:06:51 -0000

Wow, this was a very cool event I'm glad you posted it. I don't get a chance to get out to most of these events, thanks for sharing. :)

Re: Replay-Spring VON Blogger Panel

Wolfman-K — Wed, 30 May 2007 15:08:15 -0000

Wow I sounded like a gushing stalker fanboy there, heheh still it's a cool video.

Re: NEWS: Real Networks Takes YouTube (and other Flash) videos offline

Wolfman-K — Thu, 31 May 2007 18:22:44 -0000

I like the fact that they are pushing the envelope, but likely all this will do is force the other players to add the same functionality. Which, don't get me wrong, is great. Tools and third party apps have been able to do this for a while but there is nothing lake in player support.

But for Real this is just a first step to clear their name, a good first step, mind you. But they will have a lot more to do before they come close to regaining their wid 90's dominance.

Re: Calacanis Says Mahalo

Wolfman-K — Thu, 31 May 2007 18:30:27 -0000

It's a great concept and even if it only serves to improve the Google Algorithm or search engine AI it will be a success in my book.

It's on my Firefox bookmark toolbar. I'll be helping everyone put it through its paces. If I lived on the west coast I might even stop buy for a job interview. Good Luck Jason.

Re: ASUS Introduces New Eee PC for Complete Mobile Internet Enjoyment

Wolfman-K — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 05:01:35 -0000

This is a pretty sweet lil portable. Two concerns.

1) No Blue Tooth? This will need to have blue tooth for cell phone broadband connectivity.

2) Why is the Battery Life so low? It's all solid state right?

Re: Google executive helps catch shooter

Wolfman-K — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 10:06:49 -0000

Too many people turn their head and ignore situations like this. Many Kudos for Chris for doing the right thing, and standing up for whats right. :)

Re: iPhone to Support Third-Party Web 2.0 Applications

Wolfman-K — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 06:10:09 -0000

but what if your *gasp* somewhere without signal, or like a plane where you have to have your radios off. Then no soup for you.

Oh and by the way, Steve Jobs has no control over what web based apps you use in Safari. So him claiming that he has opened it up for that is like me taking credit for the weather today.

This is lame. Windows mobile has 3rd party apps, Nokia's Symbian has 3rd party apps.... and all these run on multiple carriers, so its not the carrier's fault.

Is apple afraid of this platform being hacked? I don't get it. They claim its real OS X powered but it's at least a stripped down version, most likely its completely rewritten from the kernel on up.

I am an Apple Fanboy and I say this is lame Apple.

Re: No Java, no Flash, no .NET/Silverlight for iPhone?

Wolfman-K — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 12:26:23 -0000

If it runs full blown Safari just like OS X, then Jobs has no control over what web apps are possible, but it was nice of him to say he's "allowing" them. It doesn't look like you'll be able to download and run Java apps, or anything of the sort, but Javascript (AJAX) stuff should be possible in safari, as long as its all in the Safari sandbox its has his Steveness's blessing.

lame.

Re: On Safari

Wolfman-K — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 23:23:51 -0000

Bingo, you just nailed it. There is no other reason for this other than to get Safari recognized by web developers for Mac, iPhone and maybe even future versions of AppleTV

Re: Better than a Magazine Subscription?

Wolfman-K — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 21:12:22 -0000

Wordpress can do this, if you click a category it can bring up just the posts or that category and I think there is a feed for them. However I don't think many people use it that way.

for example http://net-k.us/blog/?cat=4 shows just my Apple related posts (forgive my shameless promotion on your site, Chris but its relevant.)

I read in the neighborhood of 50 or so feeds a day, from some pretty prolific sites, looking for stuff to blog about on my site. (engadget, Scoble, Gizmodo, Digg, etc...) but I don't read every post in the feed, how could I?

I could just subscribe to specific posts or categories, but I'd rather see it all and filter it myself. I never know when something off topic will catch my eye and why limit yourself.

Re: Steve Jobs is not an idiot

Wolfman-K — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 16:20:19 -0000

Actually my theory is a bit different. I'm guessing that the OS of the iPhone is too close to that of the iPod, so opening up the iPhone to developers would put the iPod at risk of hack, and they can't really have that. It's the back bone of the corporation.

So they can't open up the iPhone to developers, at least not until they get a chance really lock down the kernel and the OS, which they haven't had a chance to do since they have rushed it to market.

I Predict there will be a bevy of patch and security updates to the iPhone OS this year, and then, maybe they will open it up.

I posted this theory on my blog today, but I don't exactly ge the Scoble traffic. :)

Re: Jaiku/Twitter/Facebook/Kyte/Plaxo = something happening you should pay attention to

Wolfman-K — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 12:57:02 -0000

I'm loving how all these websites have the ability to aggregate your RSS feeds and info, but now that creating some interesting problems with having content multiply.

For instance my tumblr reads my twitter, as does my jaiku. Now If I get facebook and have it read my tumblr (because I create original content there), and my jaiku (cause I create orginal content there). It will now double post my tweets, and thats before I even get to having facebook read my twitter feed.

We need some sort of smart feed system, that will update content only if it doesn't already have it elsewhere...

Right now engineering your own "noise" is becoming quite a task.

Robert, you have to be having the same problem... how do you deal with it?

Re: Pownce Invites

Wolfman-K — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 11:14:28 -0000

I'm looking for an Pownce invite please.

wolfmank[at]gmail[dot]com

thanks muchly and I will come back and repay the invites.

Re: Aspartame is Poison

Wolfman-K — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 16:22:25 -0000

I don't know about any brain or cancer related disease but I can you this from personal experience.

After using Aspartame, heavily, in college for several years. I was developing symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome, it was only on after overhearing a co worker tell someone else that a friend of hers couldn't east anything with Nutra Sweet in it that I discovered Aspartame was the cause. Within a week of kicking the stuff my symptoms were disappearing, but it took almost a year to get back to normal.

I sincerely hope there were no long term effects of it, but it's scary what the FDA lets slip through the cracks. My advice If you don't have to use the chemicals, its always better to use the natural stuff. All things in moderation of course, that is the hard part.

Re: Blogging Advice for the Next Level

Wolfman-K — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 12:50:00 -0000

Good stuff Chris, most of it is common sense but, its a good reminder for those of us struggling to get out own sites off the ground.

Re: Your Blog This Weekend

Wolfman-K — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 21:19:38 -0000

This is a fun roll reversal experiment Chris, thanks for the opportunity. I am posting something from my own blog archive, my blog is mostly tech and gadgets but here is one of the more esoteric posts from the last month. If I get a sec this weekend I'll write something new just for this experiment.

Archive for August 20th, 2007
There is a 20% chance that reality, is a simulation.

This is what happens when we let philosophers mingle with geeks. I mean its not a new thought, If you have ever seen the greatest movie ever, The Matrix, then this concept is even familiar to you. But still it seems a bit twilight zone-ish to see it being bantered about as a reality on the academic level.

Our Lives, Controlled From Some Guy’s Couch - New York Times

Dr. Bostrom of Oxford University, theorizes that there is as high as a 20% chance that out lives are merely artificial intelligence running in a humanity simulation made by what he refers to as “post-humans” though for the sake of argument you could also refer to them as future humans at least from our current point of view.

Computer experts are already predicting that we will have the processing power to do such extensive civilization simulation ourselves sometime this century.

So what’s to say that it hasn’t already happened, and that this reality, August 20, 2007, isn’t just part of a scientific study, of the the “posthumans” ancestors, or even part of a game.

Simulations like the Sims, Sim City, Command & Conquer and many others already occupy many of “currenthumans” or “simhumans” free time as a form of entertainment. Perhaps the world as we know it is just, a game.

Or just as we play with our own limited simulations, perhaps this reality is a nested simulation. It’s a simulation that some other sim made in his or her simulated world…

So the logical question is… What happens when the sims discover that they aren’t real? Does it matter that we aren’t real, as long as the “game” keeps running? Do we care? Or as Tom Merrit & Molly Wood suggest on the Buzz out Loud podcast, does this knowledge actually cause a cosmic buffer overflow, a blue screen of death on the “posthumans” computer, and the apocalypse here?

Personally, I don’t care. Just keep my program running long enough for me to have an effect on the simulation please. “Carpe Programme” as it were.

Via: Buzz Out Loud Show Notes - Humity’s runtime error - Alpha blog - alpha.cnet.com

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Re: How I Got Twitter to Answer Back

Wolfman-K — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 14:49:54 -0000

The only problem is that I was following your tumblr account which when you changed it to just being @chrisbrogan stuff filled up my tumblr dashboard with 4 pages of spam before I could see what my other tumblr friends were even up too.

I would recommend making a new tumblr account for this type of thing, if you have followers. Or t least giving your tumblr friends a heads up for the new prolific content that is going to be generated.

Re: And Here’s The $100 You Just Gave Me, Plus An Extra $50. Thanks, Steve!

Wolfman-K — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 10:00:55 -0000

Can't you just use the $100 credit to buy an itunes gift card from the Apple store? Therefor getting to use it on iTunes?

Re: A Dragonrider's Tale - Comments

Wolfman-K — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 16:30:30 -0000

Can you tell us how you managed to get comments on a tumblr site? I am looking to add comments to my own tumblr site over at http://Wolfman-K.com

Re: Top 10 Reasons Why I’m Twittering Again

Wolfman-K — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 11:44:15 -0000

Awesome, welcome back to the family Leo.

Re: Prism Prototype Now Available on Mac and Linux

Wolfman-K — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 12:23:57 -0000

I like this product alot, I don't want it to behave at all like a regular web browser, at least not without having to tell it too in options.

To that end the one feature I would love to see is to have it open links in your main browser instead of in Prism's own window. This will keepthe web app behaving more like a desktop application, which I think is the point.

Awesome so far, I can't wait to see where this goes.

Re: 400 Bucks Can Change The World

Wolfman-K — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 14:22:40 -0000

I've been covering the G1G1 program since it was first announced. i think it's a great opportunity for humanity to power this project instead of Governments.

However this is just a test program, we need to show OLPC that the G1G1 program is a great idea!

I ordered 1 (a pair) this morning, despite being in not great financial shape, I think it's that important. I encourage you all to do the same.