Disqus - Latest Comments for quirkyalone

Re: Google Earth changes our perceptions

quirkyalone — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 06:42:08 -0000

Swastika in itself is a positive thing, meaning "big luck". It's just Hitler misused it for his own gain.

Re: Is this what online news has come to?

quirkyalone — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 09:56:21 -0000

I think the print newspapers have the same problem, but it is not so noticeable since you don't buy every newspaper to compare if they run the same story. Often they do. On Internet it seems worse just because technology allows us to harvest all those links and show them on one place.

From another perspective, every techblog has its own audience. Shouldn't it post some news just because other were quicker?

Re: Should I get an iPhone or an Android?

quirkyalone — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 07:40:05 -0000

I am waiting for Android, since the platform is open and Google is able to innovate quickly.

Re: Is It Just Me, Or Has Steve Pavlina Been Replaced By Someone Else?

quirkyalone — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 06:28:19 -0000

Yes, the same feeling here. I can't help, but as soon as I visit his website, I start to feel uneasy...like some kind of negative energy is flowing from the pages to my head. No, I am not joking.

Re: Laziness can be a great virtue!

quirkyalone — Fri, 16 Sep 2005 09:49:16 -0000

Hello,
Pocketmod looks cool, I printed one myself, but is it really that usefull in real-life GTD implementation? For example, if your calendar is already full and you need another pocketmod, do you rewrite your unfinished next actions into new pocketmod?

BTW, don't you know about Microsoft Word template, where I could add my own text?

Re: How Do You Know When She’s the One?

quirkyalone — Thu, 15 May 2008 09:37:41 -0000

Nice. This accurately describes my marriage and I agree with every point.

Re: Asking a Woman’s Father For Her Hand In Marriage

quirkyalone — Fri, 16 May 2008 03:49:14 -0000

I followed this custom and I am glad I did, now my parents-in-laws respect me more. In my country the tradition says one should ask both parents, so I did. But the act was shorter as proposed in this article - I didn't explain why I want to marry her, just stated my intention directly. ;-)

So, I recommend to follow this custom.

Re: Tired of Beer? Become a Soda Connoisseur

quirkyalone — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 15:00:15 -0000

Good idea, I always prefer non-alcoholic drinks myself. ;-)

Re: Quit Coddling Your Kids

quirkyalone — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 15:02:27 -0000

I was not coddled when I was a kid (although I didn't have to work), and I thanks my father for that. It's very easy to spoil a child by doing so. Great article!

Re: The Man’s Guide to the Perfect Marriage Proposal

quirkyalone — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 06:07:43 -0000

Maybe some would find it strange, but I personally didn't make a formal proposal. About 2-3 months of dating, we started to mention in our conversations that we just should stay together the whole life...afterwards, sometimes my wife would refer to me as "my future husband". After some more months, we went to a local church office and applied for marriage (but I asked for parent's approval before that).

Re: The Gentleman’s Guide To Tipping

quirkyalone — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:14:39 -0000

I usually give tips, but not always - when I don't feel satisfied with the service, or consider it expensive enough, I don't tip. When I was an "European tourist in USA", I felt very uncomfortable with their system of "mandatory tiping". I consider it completely unnatural. I think tip should be something like a bonus, not a part of the basic wage.

This mandotory tiping system implies that I should be feeling guilty when I don't tip, and I am not personally willing to play that game.

Re: GiraffeSoft | Welcome to smarter web app development.

quirkyalone — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 12:50:42 -0000

Ok, I met the first point only, now I have to install Linux to be a great hacker by your definition. ;o)) Or rather not, thank you. ;)

I tend to use debugger less and less, but I wouldn't say that it doesn't help understand code...why not? It actually does.

Re: Lost Remote: The Business of Journalism

quirkyalone — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 09:00:13 -0000

Sure. Her HuffPost would not survive without them, anyway... ;-)

Re: Microsoft’s real problem

quirkyalone — Fri, 02 May 2008 07:14:28 -0000

If I would be Ballmer, I'd propably just pour more millions into Search, since that's where the ads money will be. MSFT inability to compete with G is a huge disadvantage in the fight of online ads dollars.

Re: Twitter blames its users

quirkyalone — Fri, 30 May 2008 17:08:31 -0000

Nice cartoon. ;-)

Anyway, let's see how Friendfeed will scale when more user will join.

Re: Patrick graduates to high school

quirkyalone — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 15:05:05 -0000

Congratulation! I just remembered to my graduation. Soooo long ago ;-)

Re: Mike Arrington and Steve Gillmor don’t use Firefox 3.0

quirkyalone — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 15:06:42 -0000

I use FF3 as my primary browser from about Beta 4. I think it is a best browser so far, although the game is far from over yet. Let's see what IE8 would bring to the table.

Re: 3,003 “Likes”

quirkyalone — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 06:18:14 -0000

Andy: Yes we care, but for different reasons. I am not Robert's friend, and he is not my friend. But I follow his FF feed, just for the reasons he describes in the blog posts.

I agree that Robert may have some narcistic aspect in his personality, but is that a crime? I couldn't care less - everyone has his or her own quirks, so what.

Re: First hour with Google’s new browser

quirkyalone — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 16:51:42 -0000

I like it. I spent quite a few hours of my life fiddling with FF extensions, but I realized that I just can go without them.

Two things I am missing so far: F11 - Fullscreen mode (handy at my 10" laptop) and also Chrome doesn't remember when I increase font on some website. But I think they will sort of stuff like this later on.

Re: Is It Just Me, Or Has Steve Pavlina Been Replaced By Someone Else?

quirkyalone — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 06:28:19 -0000

Yes, the same feeling here. I can't help, but as soon as I visit his website, I start to feel uneasy...like some kind of negative energy is flowing from the pages to my head. No, I am not joking.

Re: Creative Commons: A Great Concept, I’ll Never Employ

quirkyalone — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 06:37:51 -0000

>> Richard Wong: I mean, if you want to let educators, remixers, or other artists use your work for non-profitable purposes then how hard would it be to just say all rights reserved and have them contact you if they want to use it? They just email or call you, you say yes or no. Very simple.

Re: Creative Commons: A Great Concept, I’ll Never Employ

quirkyalone — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 06:39:38 -0000

[Richard Wong: I mean, if you want to let educators, remixers, or other artists use your work for non-profitable purposes then how hard would it be to just say all rights reserved and have them contact you if they want to use it? They just email or call you, you say yes or no. Very simple.]

But this is not always practical or doable. For example, I am editor of an online news portal, and the pace here is very quick. I get new articles, and my task is to find appropriate photos to illustrate them, and then publish asap. When I don't find a rigth photo in agency photo-archive, I head right away to flickr creativecommons section. I just don't have time to email or call the owner, wait for the answers, etc. I really don't. (Regretfully, neither do I have a budget to pay them...)

So from my perspective, CC is a good thing, but it would be great to fix the grey areas, like whether editorial use is commercial or not.

I hear a lot of critique about CC and most of it comes from pro photogs. But not all photographers are pros, some do it as a hobby and it's their right to release their photos as CC. Nobody is forced you to use CC, so what the heck?

It is like someone would frown on hobby programmers that they are releasing their work as open source and eating the lunch of profesionals.

Re: Creative Commons: A Great Concept, I’ll Never Employ

quirkyalone — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 13:56:42 -0000

You can gain at least some exposure. For example, some prominent blogs like zenhabits.net use CC images from flickr as illustrations to their posts, and the credit link leads directly to photographer portfolio - so they may become more known through their work.

Another issue is, that when the photo is fully copyrighted, I as an online publisher would not ask the owner if I can publish it for free - it just doesn't sound right, does it? Moreover, I may even get accused of trying to use other people work to benefit myself. So I am interested only on those photos, whose author clearly states that he wants nothing more than credit for it - and CC license provides just that.

But you are right about the potential legal ramifications - and my opinion is that the solution is in further polishing the CC license and solve the "grey" areas.