Disqus - Friends of bradburnham

Re: RememberTheMilk To Do Lists

Graham Siener — Fri, 14 Oct 2005 09:41:42 -0000

Was about to reply to "although for some reason they do not provide RSS feeds for lists, which is crazy." But I see you changed it!

Re: Hula? Scalix? Zimbra? Bueller? Anyone? Anyone?

Graham Siener — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 10:23:51 -0000

So you're also tied to the sinking ship that is Asp-One, huh?

Re: AdaptiveBlue

Graham Siener — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 12:39:14 -0000

Great summary -- I really like the idea of developer tools bridging the semantic gap. Does this mean we'll start to see SAO (Semantic Analysis Optimization) services down the road?

Re: AdaptiveBlue

Graham Siener — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 12:39:14 -0000

Great summary -- I really like the idea of developer tools bridging the semantic gap. Does this mean we'll start to see SAO (Semantic Analysis Optimization) services down the road?

Re: AdaptiveBlue

Graham Siener — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 12:39:14 -0000

Great summary -- I really like the idea of developer tools bridging the semantic gap. Does this mean we'll start to see SAO (Semantic Analysis Optimization) services down the road?

Re: http://mattberther.com/2007/02/27/the-no-asshole-rule

Graham Siener — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 09:10:00 -0000

Thanks for the recommendation, just ordered it!

Re: Reddit+Adds+Ability+to+Create+Your+Own%26nbsp%3B%26quot%3BReddits%26quot%3B

Graham Siener — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 18:06:34 -0000

Would love to see one for alternative energy -- such a dynamic field these days.

Re: Time Waster - Bi-decade update

Graham Siener — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 17:05:55 -0000

Some Fun Facts:

- We drive a '94 Toyota 4Runner, imported from Japan. The steering wheel is on the right, and it runs on biodiesel w/o modification.
- Most mornings I join morning exercise at The Island School, at 6:30 in the morning. I ran a half marathon at the end of last semester, and am looking to shave 15 minutes off my time this semester.
- I usually commute to work via bike (5 miles each way), and I'm now obsessed with cycling. I did a 50 mile ride a few weeks ago, and am thinking about "upgrading" to a fixie.
- A pregnant cat now lives at the compound, and we've named her Meatface

Re: Time Waster - Bi-decade update

Graham Siener — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 21:44:47 -0000

Good to hear from you, Nigel!

Re: Time Waster - Bi-decade update

Graham Siener — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 21:52:40 -0000

Good questions. We can actually get a good start on things in the next year. The biggest hurdle is energy, and a megawatt scale solar plant could get us closer (maybe 10% penetration on a sunny day). The study is key to figuring out how to move forward in a profitable manner -- it doesn't make sense to do this at the expense of lots of jobs and security.

Re: Fuel consumption, 1 million gallons per year is a drop in the bucket -- maybe 1.5%. Even so, that's 1.5% less oil being imported, and that much less air pollution.

A fixie is what all the cool guys in Portland call a fixed gear bike. It's what people used before freewheels and gears...

Re: testing disqus

Graham Siener — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 22:38:01 -0000

It works! Hooray for the internet!

Re: Time Waster

Graham Siener — Tue, 06 May 2008 16:09:29 -0000

Ha! I also saw an article the other day about turning suburbia into vegetable farms. Imagine if everyone in Connecticut grew food on their oh-so-precious lawns?

Re: Those Xobni guys are ballsy

Graham Siener — Wed, 07 May 2008 14:11:32 -0000

Re: #4 I had the idea a few years back (before gmail) that it would be great to track all communications together (email + chat + comments + ?). I believe Microsoft Journal was a shot at showing visual history, but it never took off.

What scares me is you could take your example to the next level: You assign the "Mom" category to your mom's email, and it automatically writes thank yous and that happy mother's day email you forgot to send! How many of our relationships could coast on w/o user input?

Re: Looking Forward

Graham Siener — Thu, 15 May 2008 20:14:29 -0000

A fundamental issue with all of this thinking about technology is it hides the true savior -- conservation. I'm surprised there wasn't more talk about doing more with less: less water, less power, less food, less fuel.

Think about the water that goes into manufacturing and running all of those data centers powering the mobile network!

Re: Two Posts - One Comment Thread

Graham Siener — Mon, 19 May 2008 10:47:33 -0000

Agreed. Would love to see what sites like digg/reddit/etc. think of this sort of aggregation. If I see this thread on reddit and leave a comment there, knowing that it will be part of the collective conversation will be great.

But what if I can't stand the people that frequent Digg and don't want to deal with the noise of their comments? It seems like the moderation would take care of those, but who is the ultimate moderator in that situation? Will this be more effective as an opt-in or opt-out model?

Re: Time Waster

Graham Siener — Tue, 27 May 2008 20:40:05 -0000

Good idea. I think the reality is that they'll fall in line with
expectations. I.e., a bus will do better than a prius which will do
better than an SUV.

As for Amtrak - the US has a very flawed view of the importance of
rail. Warren Buffet evidently invests a lot in trains, which should
say something about their future potential. A trip to Europe
demonstrates what a train system should be like, but I think it will
take some big economic confluences to get to that point.

Re: convenience vs. economy -- we should look for opportunities that
satisfy both. Imagine if everyone biked because it was more
convenient than driving a car! You'd be in Amsterdam...

Re: simply cool

Graham Siener — Sat, 31 May 2008 21:07:39 -0000

Wow. This is like sci-li tetris only with style.

Re: How to Hack Boingo WiFi

Graham Siener — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 12:11:27 -0000

Wonder how long it'll take them to turn this off (a la Starbucks)

Re: To update or not to update?

Graham Siener — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 10:04:33 -0000

Crap, someone was playing with my 3G and did the update while I was gone. What are the chances that an unlock will work with 2.0.1?

Re: Posting from the gym

Graham Siener — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 16:01:59 -0000

"Apple Computers don't like to have more than one background process running at a time?"

Not sure where that came from, but given OSX's foundation of BSD, I would say that Windows is less able to handle multiple threads and processes (think status bar clutter).

The WWDC Keynote that introduced 3G and the SDK talks very clearly about the design choice to not have multiple apps running at once on the iPhone (vs. the task manager model for Windows Mobile).

A jailbroken iphone is the way to go if you want apps that can run in the background, but obviously Apple can't support or condone that. I agree that this is a big sticking point, and can also understand the choices leading to this decision.

Re: Time Waster

Graham Siener — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 09:48:17 -0000

Yeah, serious. We aren't getting Hanna until probably tomorrow, but
then we've got a couple more on the way. Good thing we stocked up on
movies and booze!

Re: Time Waster

Graham Siener — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 12:02:13 -0000

That is genius! I wonder how hard it would be to put that together...

Re: Beck: Modern Guilt (and thoughts on going mp3-legit)

Graham Siener — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 20:12:20 -0000

Was just listening to it this weekend and I have to agree. The first couple of listens were throw-aways, but most recently I was forced to marvel at how talented Beck is across a range of genres. Definitely hints of Sea Change (which has been in rotation recently), but with an almost Tom Waits-ian panache.

Re: Hi and a great read

Graham Siener — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 20:16:45 -0000

Tish - I just ordered this book for Kate based on your rec. It better be good!

Re: Being Contrarian

Graham Siener — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 21:08:59 -0000

Hooray, let's support coal! Can you throw in some oil and maybe gmo engineering just to round things out?

When will we attach a cost to the "inconvenience" of the environment? Forget renewable energy, we'd need a lot less coal if we were smarter about our behaviors and efficiency.