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Re: Confessions+of+a+Left-Handed+Technology+User

Evan Brown — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 17:13:25 -0000

It isn’t clear evidence in my book. I am left-handed and have always worn my watch on my left wrist.

Why? I don’t know for certain. Maybe because my right-handed father did it that way. I didn’t realize it was abnormal to wear a watch on one’s dominant hand until a schoolmate pointed it out to me when I was a senior in high school. By that time, I had been wearing it that way for years, and it felt natural to me.

Re: JumpstartLab - We Build Developers

Evan Brown — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 09:50:55 -0000

Well said.

Re: Mozilla: Internet Explorer 9 Isn’t A ‘Modern’ Browser

Evan Brown — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 10:53:02 -0000

Some things that Mozilla has contributed: They helped develop the WOFF format for web fonts, which the other browsers now support. They are constantly conducting forward-looking experiments that may eventually become web standards (things like multi-touch events, the -moz-any() selector for CSS, and a browser-based audio API). They are also usually one of the first to implement many features of future standards (IndexedDB, File API, etc.), which provides valuable feedback to improve the specs.

Re: Payback: I Just Canceled AT&T By Way Of Google Voice

Evan Brown — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 09:55:54 -0000

I agree about the landline. My parents have a home phone with a number that they’ve had for more than thirty years. They rarely use the landline anymore since they have cell phones, but they keep it for the phone number. If the number could be ported to Google Voice, they could have it forward to both of their cell phones and drop a monthly bill.

Re: Big Day For Facebook: New Pages, Memories, And Downtime

Evan Brown — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 17:02:13 -0000

Before I read this post, I actually thought it was down for just me because of that link.

Re: BREAKING: Google Acquires Video Compression Company for $106.5 Million

Evan Brown — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 10:03:26 -0000

That’s exactly what I am thinking. The obvious guess about Google’s intentions involves YouTube, but I think Google’s plans go far beyond that. Since Theora is based on On2’s VP3 codec, I’d bet that Google is considering opening up On2’s newer video technologies, thus allowing for major quality improvements in Theora.

Re: Complaint #384

Evan Brown — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 10:54:21 -0000

And not just any regular old piemaker, but a piemaker who can bring dead people back to life! How quirky! How original! How un-mainstream and therefore doomed to cancellation!

Re: louisgray.com: Why I Still Prefer Twitter and FriendFeed to Facebook

Evan Brown — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 16:56:21 -0000

I agree with all these points. The only reason I use Facebook is because practically everyone I have ever met is on it.

Re: You and Your Friends’ Facebook Updates are Public, After All

Evan Brown — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 14:00:29 -0000

More accurately, Facebook updates aren’t public, but they can be if users take a bunch of extra steps. The problem with that is the average Facebook user is not going to go to the trouble to feed their updates into another service like FriendFeed. So most people’s updates will continue to exist only behind the “wall” of Facebook.

Re: Evan’s Tumblelog - I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look...

Evan Brown — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 09:55:57 -0000

My father has said a variation of this for years.

Re: Guess what? Automated news doesn't quite work. - Techmeme News

Evan Brown — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 18:16:42 -0000

It’s good to see some flesh and blood being added to the news aggregation process. Having a human editor doing some manual corrections should make the news headlines on Techmeme even more relevant.

Re: Thoughts on President Obama

Evan Brown — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 23:34:35 -0000

Well said. I didn’t vote for Obama, but come January 20, he will be my President, and I will bestow upon him the honor he deserves in that office. I am certain other conservatives will do the same.

Re: Evan’s Tumblelog - Never spend your money before you have it.

Evan Brown — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 14:54:31 -0000

If most Americans followed this advice, perhaps we wouldn’t be in the economic debacle we currently find ourselves in.

Re: Evan’s Tumblelog - Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the...

Evan Brown — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:10:20 -0000

I need to do more of both.

Re: Why you should never buy Vista 32-bit.

Evan Brown — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 11:59:17 -0000

I saw that article this morning. All of my computers are 32-bit, and I am still running Windows XP (plus Ubuntu on a couple of machines). This confirms for me that there is no reason to upgrade my Windows OS until I am ready to replace my hardware.

Sorry, Microsoft. Vista just isn’t worth the money or the hassle.

Re: Idiot’s Guide to Economic Policy

Evan Brown — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 09:23:23 -0000

For someone who allegedly doesn’t know much about the economy, McCain seems to have a much better grasp of what it takes to grow the economy than Obama does.

Re: Palin is changing corporate media (Scripting News)

Evan Brown — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 14:29:23 -0000

I am merely saying that dodging challenging questions is a political maneuver used by all sides. It is no more a Republican tactic than a Democratic one.

Re: Palin is changing corporate media (Scripting News)

Evan Brown — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 12:10:54 -0000

Changing the subject is a "typical Republican tactic"? Funny, I notice Democrats skirting tough questions more often than Republicans.

Re: A Cone of Silence Without Legs?

Evan Brown — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 16:40:25 -0000

Had John McCain not performed so well at Saddleback, this never would have been an issue at all. Who cares whether the Senator was in a “Cone of Silence” or not? The real question is, “Did McCain cheat somehow by either getting the questions in advance or overhearing part of Obama’s interview?”. McCain says that he did not. Whether or not one chooses to believe him seems to be based primarily on one’s political persuation.

Re: How to Beat Louis Gray at the Early Adopter Game

Evan Brown — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 12:30:49 -0000

What’s funny is that I might never have seen this post had Louis Gray not shared it on FriendFeed.

Re: Google recreates Bookmarks in Notebook’s image

Evan Brown — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 20:49:20 -0000

Google really needs a universal bookmarking system. I have items marked with stars throughout all the Google services (Gmail, Docs, Reader, Groups, etc.), yet there is not a single interface to view all these starred items at one time. I hope that Google makes the effort to somehow merge these disparate bookmarking features in the near future.

Re: i am neurotic.

Evan Brown — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 00:45:12 -0000

There are clear benefits to the over-the-top method, so I don’t think desiring it to be that way necessarily qualifies as a neurosis unless one compulsively goes around changing the roll orientation in every bathroom.