Disqus - Latest Comments for garyburge

Re: It is.... BUILT!

Gary Burge — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 22:16:33 -0000

Congratulations, Dave. It's been a long but fun process watching you build the plane. I'm looking forward to the nextl step -- passing FAA inspections --so you can solo the fellow and use those beautiful avionics.

Re: OK Go: This Too Shall Pass

Gary Burge — Wed, 25 May 2011 13:42:43 -0000

Thanks, for the comment. It's a great video (http://youtu.be/qybUFnY7Y8w), isn't it?

Re: Scripting News: Looking for quake news feeds

Gary Burge — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 06:53:56 -0000

Google News - Earthquate Keyword (RSS): http://news.google.com/news...

Big Island Video-News (RSS): http://www.bigislandvideone...

Re: Compromising with Facebook. (Scripting News)

Gary Burge — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 22:02:51 -0000

Look at OpenLike (http://openlike.org/) It's an open source "like" button. without the monopoly.

Re: Writing down and sharing your life story

Gary Burge — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 08:05:05 -0000

Please do this now while you can.

I lost both of my parents: my father, when I was a child, my mother, later when I was a middle aged adult. I have some sharp memories of them discussing their lives, but many are just vague recollections. The kind where, if your parents were alive, you would say "Didn't you say once that...".

And don't forget to have them help you document your own life. With my parents gone, I now will never remember the name of my third grade teacher!

Re: bijansabet.com | a tumblelog by Bijan Sabet | Wellfleet Harbor. I love Cape Cod.

Gary Burge — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 21:21:06 -0000

And the Wellfleet flea market!

Re: del.icio.us question (Scripting News)

Gary Burge — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 17:04:22 -0000

See del.icio.us API description of 'Add' command: http://del.icio.us/help/api....

https://api.del.icio.us/v1/...

Add a post to del.icio.us

Arguments
&url (required) - the url of the item.
&description (required) - the description of the item.
&extended (optional) - notes for the item.
&tags (optional) - tags for the item (space delimited).
&dt (optional) - datestamp of the item (format "CCYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssZ").
Requires a LITERAL "T" and "Z" like in ISO8601 at http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mg... for example: "1984-09-01T14:21:31Z"
&replace=no (optional) - don't replace post if given url has already been posted.
&shared=no (optional) - make the item private

Re: Stats: Obama Still Winning On the Web

Gary Burge — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 17:54:40 -0000

Wait a minute. That Compete chart looks strange.

How can it be that an increase in visits to one candidate's website is met by an equal decrease in visitors to the other candidate's website?

Are these the same people, just endlessly going from one site to the other, like passengers on an ocean liner running from port rail to starboard and back (with the accompanying rocking of the boat back and forth)?

Re: Red Hat Sends C&D to DataPortability.org...Over Its Logo

Gary Burge — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 21:28:35 -0000

I thought the logo was "dP", you know, for Data Portability. Shows you what I know. If I was an attorney, instead of a designer, I would have figured that out all by myself.

Re: Google Reader needs GPC

Gary Burge — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 05:58:52 -0000

Robert, I think the issue with Google Reader is an exact parallel of the complaints that arose when Facebook began publishing status changes in other people's news streams. It was the same information that was on the individual's profile page, but it was being pushed onto friends' pages.

In the Google Reader case, people with whom you have chatted using Google Talk will "will be automatically subscribed to your shared items when they begin to use Reader", according to the text on the Reader settings page.

The "breach" of privacy, if one occurred, is in Google arbitrarily adding a subscription of your saved item feed to a chat friend's Reader list -- without your permission and without an action by your friend specifically requesting it.

It was this new and unexpected Google Reader "feature" that caused the "How Google Reader Ruined by Christmas" post in the Google Reader forum that started off this controversy.

There is a difference between shared Reader items being "discoverable" and the same items being unexpectedly published to a list of people with whom you are connected through a completely different context.

My enjoyment of Reader has increased since you and I began exchanging shared items. I have discovered blogs I wouldn't have known about otherwise, and on my part, I have started saving things because I think "Scoble should see this".

So the social networking part is fulfilling. It's the arbitrary and involuntary distribution by Google that is unwelcome.

Re: Google+To+%26quot%3BOut+Open%26quot%3B+Facebook+On+November%26nbsp%3B5

Gary Burge — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 22:12:26 -0000

Google took the first step toward open social network data Wednesday when they announced GData JavaScript Client Library for Calendar. This library allows AJAX read-write access to Google Calendar without an intermediate server.

What does this mean? As I wrote yesterday on my blog:

"What this means is that any web application can read an event from Upcoming, let’s say, and (with your AuthSub authrorization), create a Google Calendar event for you. A little Javascript to read Upcoming’s REST API, a little jQuery drag-and-drop onto a Calendar AJAX object, and Wam Bam, you’ve dragged data from Yahoo and dropped it onto Google. All without any round trips to the originating server."

"Think FaceBook applications. Then think about them interacting with one another — without them bogging down on some developer’s rented web host."

Re: Steal+Our+Site+Template+With%26nbsp%3BJimdo

Gary Burge — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 16:24:23 -0000

Great. An automated phishing program. Let's see, who shall we spoof today? Bank of America? PayPal? Just press a button and activate all those spam bots.