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Re: I Prefer Safari to Content Apps On The iPad

jottos — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 02:48:20 -0000

I don't think the content apps are for people like us, we're 5 sigma outliers

Re: Claiming My Right to a Purpose-Centric Web: SideWiki

jottos — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 12:05:59 -0000

I think that this service has a shot, commentary on blogs can and do provide additional value and this idea seems to have at least that much going for it. BUT, there are holes it can fall into.
1. I would not want to all of a sudden start seeing ads pop up in the commentary
2. the content might drift towards the inane or worse (just look at the comments on any Youtube video of a Fox news broadcast), while this might be considered entertaining by some, it would seriously damage the value of the commentary to many

What I am hoping to see is that this has a flavor of the Wave ideas folded in over time, so that I would have control over the commentary I see, in fact I would be able to see what pages people I know have commented on, etc.

I'm optimistic

Re: Claiming My Right to a Purpose-Centric Web: SideWiki

jottos — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 12:00:45 -0000

I agree with your observation, Dave, that much of the created content will be of little value or even harmful, but I think goolgle will try to use aggressive filtering based on your own social networks and use preferences to remove the content you do not want to see

Re: Unicycling Madman

jottos — Mon, 11 May 2009 14:04:11 -0000

Ive seen him a couple of times. Next time I'm going to wait and see how he actually does the uphill and more puzzling how he manages a downhill stretch w/o killing himself

Re: tumbléo

jottos — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 12:36:47 -0000

this is phenomenal, when it first came out last month, it got crushed by traffic

Re: FaceBookConnect generating browser errors

jottos — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 16:44:00 -0000

yes, I was wrong (writing as abaqus) I had not noticed that the buttons for facebook were missing since I'd never seen them. Once I was able to load a page FaceBook failure free I noticed that the previous page loads had in fact failed.

I still don't have a handle on what is causing Facebook connect load failures.

Re: Continuous Deployment

jottos — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 14:48:54 -0000

thanks for this post, I've been wanting to increase our ability to deploy beyond the every 1-2 weeks we can currently manage. Being a really small shop it's not so easy. While automating the push isn't so hard, finding the right people to talk to who have the experience in developing the automation has been hard for me. For example I'd love to know more about how I can get the browser tests automated. The second and more practical limitation is that 15k tests may represent more engineering time than I've had total to build out the product. I admire these guys though, they had the vision to build this out, fought for it and now its part of the culture and the are reaping the rewards.

I'd love to hear Timothy Fritz on a Technometria podcast

Re: Using Grep and Find

jottos — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 02:18:43 -0000

I must agree here find grep is hardwired into my own wetware as well.
For any one using emacs M-x find-grep and for the dyslexic M-x grep-find
will get the output into a buffer. I've got this command wired to a function key and I use it *a lot*

Re: Is there any way to get thread associated with the page it located on by search engines

jottos — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 01:53:04 -0000

Thanks Andrew. I am presuming that you mean a plugin for the back-end of my application. FYI
I'm using Disqus with a custom application we've built to showcase personal GeoData and media so
rolling our own is the only way to go.

if the wordpress plugin source is available to use as a template?

Re: santa cruz walk at the beach

jottos — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 16:15:07 -0000

loving the pictures of Santa Cruz! Great shot of the surfer and the sunset is fantastic

http://www.mygeodiary.com/g...

Re: Ridges on the Muir Trail

jottos — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 04:49:14 -0000

Sweet views of our Sierra backpacking trip on the Muir Trail up to the ridges.
It was a hard hike up to 10,600' but well worth the sacrifice. The larger pictures are stitched as there's no way to get that much into one shot.

Check it out... http://www.mygeodiary.com/g...

Re: Hicks Almaden Loop

jottos — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 22:11:59 -0000

Hey guys, I had a great time on the ride today!

Re: Oneil Forebay

jottos — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 18:42:23 -0000

definitely by the sharper mini tweek off the point. I meandered back trying this area and that on the way in.

if you zoom in you will see me zig zagging about trying to land that fish

Re: path tracker test 1

jottos — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:05:15 -0000

this is a comment to see what the title is - we are hoping to see "path tracker test 1 new title for disqus" which is what I changed it to before I added this comment - if it doesn't end in "new title for disqus" then the rename didn't take

Re: Sunol cruise and back

jottos — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 13:13:50 -0000

Steve, looking forward to seeing your ride posts!

Re: Facebook Rumors, Religion, and the LDS Faith

jottos — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 20:00:58 -0000

I completely agree that the original post has the smallest amount of street "cred"
and I don't fault you for trusting your sources, but I've been in a situation where
a corporate sale was taking place and multiple folks that I trusted all were
able to say "nothing is going on" with a very convincing straight face. :-)

Re: Facebook Rumors, Religion, and the LDS Faith

jottos — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:22:04 -0000

OK, so perhaps those who blogged this should have thought 'just a little' about whether it made
sense, but I have to ask... isn't is just a little improbable that if the LDS church were to try to make
a purchase of FaceBook that they would actually tell you? Deals like that are kept to the smallest
of circles regardless of whether it's a church or General Electric. You, or Phil could have asked
until you were blue in the face and you would have been told that "there's no deal" until the second
after it was announced

Re: Unicycle

jottos — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 18:57:38 -0000

Kevin, this is the short ride to St. Josephs. It's about 1 hr round trip and has great views of the valley
at the top. Use the goolge link bottom right side of the page to get a printable map.

Re: Open Source and The Gap

jottos — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:14:49 -0000

TB rocks! I'm a big Barnett fan and found his first two books some of the best non-fiction I've ever read. A buddy of mine who's been involved at the highest echelons told me that Barnett pretty much had it nailed.

The wall came down along with a bad form of governing in eastern Europe in large part to a more enlightened populace that were trading in audio and video tapes so they could see what was going on in the world. Internet connectivity is essential for development of the non-core.

Your point made that terrorists use technology while denying it to the citizenry is the hallmark of a repressive totalitarian regime. These folks are just the current set of bad guys that just happen not to control a state.

Re: picplace1

jottos — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:33:37 -0000

yo, i just gotta tell ya I love this stuff

Re: picplace1

jottos — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:29:53 -0000

this is a second track that I just love, watch the bouncy markers on one of my favorite lunch rides

Re: Train to SF created 29 May 2008 14:05:44 GMT

jottos — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 18:12:55 -0000

Shaili, I think I've got the setup of the comments good to go for version 1, your original set of comments is now not accessible from this page because the title has changed. I thought that the URL would have been the UID that gets us back but it doesn't look like it.

When you get to this page add another comment so I know you are getting this stream.

Re: Am I Done with Facebook? Twitter FTW!

jottos — Thu, 22 May 2008 18:22:10 -0000

Great point about the network effect!

Techcrunch's read on the twitter scaling problems (http://tinyurl.com/5j9lzg) is that Twitter did not understand the nature of the problem. I think that this is an astute observation. This post nicely points out that this type of complexity is new to web heads and twitter was caught in old school "linear" thinking that scale problems were going to be caused by a hockey stick growth and not very early on by geometric growth in traffic by a relatively small user community.

Re: Bigger Monitors Boost Productivity

jottos — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 22:13:30 -0000

Real estate is king. I have a dual head 19"ers and a laptop with as many pixels I could get on the model. It's not just pixels either, it's also number of heads. For example I often run apps full screen or a VM in a monitor. I find that allowing a full screen to support and app many time s figures into to productivity as well.