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Re: MacBook Pro Tradeoffs

Mike Cohen — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 13:17:41 -0000

I replaced my Santa Rosa MacBook Pro with a new 2.4 GHz MacBook. I wanted a lighter machine, but the Air isn't powerful enough. The new MacBook is ideal. It weighs about a pound less than my old MacBook Pro, and with the 320G 7200 RPM drive I added, it's faster and has a larger hard drive. I can live without FireWire in exchange for a smaller, lighter, faster machine with a higher capacity drive.

Re: Silicon Valley Sightings: Sand Hill VC Parking Lot

Mike Cohen — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 20:04:15 -0000

I really got a kick out of it when 2 other Priuses parked next to mine :)

Re: Why Starbucks Coffee Conversations Podcast Failed

Mike Cohen — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 09:43:32 -0000

The music should have been "Busting up a Starbucks" by Mike Doughty :)

Re: Bad news gets worse

Mike Cohen — Thu, 11 May 2006 10:12:01 -0000

This is a very difficult thing to go through. I just lost my mom in December. She was diagnosed with lung cancer in late October and was in & out of the hospital since then. Finally the doctor suggested putting her in hospice care & a few days later she died. The last two days she never woke up, but I sat there and talked to her.

Re: Bad hosting day blog

Mike Cohen — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 23:54:24 -0000

I've had fewer problems with DreamHost than I've had with other web hosts I've used. The people at DH know what they're doing and they're honest about what's going on. One hosting company I used went down for a few days and when they came back up all the MySQL databases were gone. Thankfully I keep local backups.

Re: The call…

Mike Cohen — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 15:56:19 -0000

I'm sorry to hear about your loss. I just lost my mom in December.

Re: I’m sorry about Apple hype

Mike Cohen — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 17:34:10 -0000

This is WWDC, a DEVELOPER conference. Apple doesn't announce consumer products like the iPod at WWDC. This was all about the Mac and Leopard has some major new features. Time Machine is one of the most important advances. Most people don't make backups, so Time Machine makes it automatic and lets you revert to any previous version or undo a big mistake. There's also a lot of other cool stuff in Leopard.

Re: Ze, this picture is for you

Mike Cohen — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 13:35:50 -0000

Re: "Terrorized that they’ll take away my electronic equipment on flights."

My feelings exactly. I'm not afraid of a terrorist attack when I fly - the miniscule danger barely enters my mind. I'm more annoyed with the lines for screening, taking off my shoes, and taking my laptop out of the bag and hoping it doesn't get dropped or stolen. I'm sick of the hassle. I saw a huge difference just between flying to San Francisco for WWDC last week and flying home Saturday.

As long as flying remains such a hassle, I'm not flying again. If I do go to MacWorld Expo in January, I'll just take an extra week and drive cross country in my new Prius (which will benefit from such a long trip to fully break it in).

Re: GoogleTalk updates

Mike Cohen — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 21:38:51 -0000

GoogleTalk also works with iChat as a Jabber service.

Re: Web 2.0 logo generator, but where’s the stickr generator?

Mike Cohen — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 11:15:50 -0000

Don't put a sticker on your MBP - it looks perfect unadorned. I do have a sliver MacPad (macstyles.com) that matches the original color very closely to protect the finish, so the paint won't get discolored like my old PowerBook G4 did.

On the other hand I do have a white Apple sticker on my Prius (which I consider essential, along with a Darwin Fish, on every car I own).

Re: Why conferences don’t allow kids…

Mike Cohen — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 21:04:29 -0000

MacHack, which unfortunately shut down after last year, always encouraged kids. There were always lots of brilliant kids there. I've seen 12 year olds who were intimately familiar with Darwin kernel code. Patrick would have had a great time there.

Re: Scoble family news

Mike Cohen — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 19:51:39 -0000

I already did the battery exchange for my MacBook Pro, despite DHL temporarily losing the shipment. Yesterday the AC adapter for my MBP died so I went to the Apple store today to buy a new one. I'll try to get Apple to replace the old one so I'll have a spare.

Re: Newsflash: 98% don’t use RSS

Mike Cohen — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 20:45:02 -0000

That's understandable for Windows users, since until now there was no system-level RSS support. Most average users (non-power users) probably stick to standard applications so they most likely won't have an RSS reader.

The percentage of Mac users who use RSS is a lot higher, since several standard applications have RSS support built-in. Safari comes pre-configured with several RSS feed subscriptions and one of the screen savers displays RSS headlines. In Leopard, Mail can show RSS feeds as mailboxes.

Re: Little duckies head to Flock

Mike Cohen — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 20:24:09 -0000

If you want to get that song out of your head, see "Ghost World". Since I saw it a few days ago, I've had this song stuck in my head.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyEnG_DEB1I

Re: My 9/11 history was erased

Mike Cohen — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 14:16:30 -0000

That morning I was still thinking of the events of the previous Friday, when my company (Teaching Network) laid off more than half of their staff including me. I slept late and woke up when Fedex knocked on my door around 9AM to deliver my CodeWarrior update. At that time I turned on the TV and saw what was happning.

Re: Why I’m disappointed with Zune and latest iPods

Mike Cohen — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 21:41:53 -0000

The PSP would be the best mobile device around if it had an 80GB hard drive instead of a memory stick. Even a 2GB memory stick can't hold many movies.

The PSP has a beautiful 16:9 screen and it's also a great mobile web appliance. Unfortunately it's very picky about video formats (although the latest firmware improves that) and it won't play videos purchased in iTunes Music Store. Sony's new MYLO (is that what they call it?) looks like it's going to be interesting. It can play movies & do most of what a PSP does except play games plus it has a keyboard, which will make it even better for web browsing.

Re: Dreamhost getting sucky PR out on blogs

Mike Cohen — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 14:47:28 -0000

I've been very happy with DreamHost. On the few occasions I had to contact support they were helpful and resolved the issue in less than a day.

DreamHost had some major failures recently, but they were completely honest & open about it. Their blog told all the gory details about what went wrong and their status page kept us notified about what was happening. Most importantly, I've never lost any data. Some of the previous hosts I used were completely down for several days with no explanation, and in one case all of my data was wiped out.

Re: Google acquires YouTube for $1.65 billion

Mike Cohen — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 18:09:40 -0000

I hope they combine the best features of Google Video & YouTube. It would be great if YouTube would let you download videos the same way Google Video does.

Re: Windows Vista’s licensing pretty tight

Mike Cohen — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 17:50:34 -0000

I'm running XP under Parallels Desktop on my MacBook Pro, just so I can use Outlook, VSTS, and a database app. I won't be able to do that with Vista.

I do have Vista RC1 running under Parallels, but I find it much slower than XP with nothing that improves productivity. It feels like a "dumbed down" Windows.

Re: MySpace should buy this to protect kids

Mike Cohen — Sat, 21 Oct 2006 10:43:07 -0000

This should be included in Leopard's parental controls. It would be even better if AOL, Google Talk, etc. incorporated it into their own networks.

Re: Can a corporate blogger use the "F-word?"

Mike Cohen — Sun, 22 Oct 2006 21:55:09 -0000

When I got my first blue & white G3 in my office (I wasn't blogging at the time) I described it as "fucking fast".

Re: Retrevo gang tests out Microsoft Zune OOBE

Mike Cohen — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 17:48:40 -0000

What does Patrick think of it? That could be a good indication of the general reception it would get.

Re: I love reading feeds

Mike Cohen — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 21:36:43 -0000

I tried Google Reader today and fell in love with it. After trying it I switched from NetNewsWire.

My shared items is: http://www.google.com/reader/shared/09833560235...

Re: Apple rebooting problem hits us…

Mike Cohen — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 00:00:13 -0000

I have an early MacBook pro 15" 2 GHz and I've had no problems with it. My AC adapter died, but I was able to get it replaced.

One of he recent firmware updates was supposed to fix that problem on MacBooks. I've never heard of it in MacBook Pros.

Re: Never piss off a 12-year-old

Mike Cohen — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 22:24:13 -0000

I've had my MBP since early 2006 with no problems.

Is the problem heat related? If he didn't already try it, Patrick should run one of the utilities that monitors the CPU temperature. He can also try adjusting the fan speed using SMCFanControl to keep the machine from getting too hot. Mine usualy runs about 145F.

Also, check the console logs for any messages related to the reboot.

Will you and Patrick be at MacWorld Expo next week?

Re: Never piss off a 12-year-old

Mike Cohen — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 22:25:53 -0000

P.S. Patrick might enjoy the ThinkPad more if he installed Ubuntu on it :)

Re: Saturn has hot car at Detroit Auto Show

Mike Cohen — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 11:37:54 -0000

I bought my Prius 6 months ago and I love it. The gas mileage really is as good as they claim, but that's not my favorite thing about it. I really enjoy driving it. It's roomy and comfortable with a very quiet, smooth ride. I feel like I'm driving a car of the future.

Once you've experienced the pushbutton start & smart key system, other cars seem primitive. I never have to fumble for a key; I just keep the fob in my pocket. I simply touch the door handle to unlock & open it and then push the power button to start it without ever taking the fob out of my pocket.

Re: I hate eggplant

Mike Cohen — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 11:15:02 -0000

Happy Birthday!

Re: Vista on a Mac? Not easy

Mike Cohen — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 10:19:30 -0000

I've been using RC1 with Parallels and it works OK, although it's painfully slow. I don't like boot camp since I don't want to have to reboot to run windows.

Re: Did Calacanis just call me fat?

Mike Cohen — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 10:17:04 -0000

I'm 5'11 and weigh 153 pounds. In 2003 I weighed 205 pounds. I lost 50 pounds on the South Beach diet and keep it off by going to the gym regularly.

Re: Another Stanford University Startup coming September 2007

Mike Cohen — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 15:56:54 -0000

Congratulations!

Re: All Hubble data on 120 new Seagate hard drives?

Mike Cohen — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 09:45:22 -0000

I'd get two of them and set them up as RAID 1. Right now I'm using a Buffalo TeraStation which uses 4x250G drives, which I have configured as RAID 5 for a total of 750G.

Re: I love my new Mac (list of cool utilities from Twitter)

Mike Cohen — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 23:46:59 -0000

I just posted my list, http://mcdevzone.com/2007/04/05/my-must-have-ap...

Re: I dare you to not cry

Mike Cohen — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 23:14:48 -0000

I saw it last night (via Metafilter) and I couldn't stop crying.

Re: It’s a boy

Mike Cohen — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 11:13:56 -0000

Congrats!

Re: I’ve lost control of my comments…

Mike Cohen — Tue, 22 May 2007 11:35:29 -0000

I had one day of over 1000 spam comments (almost all pharmacy spam) and after I deleted all of those in less than an hour I had about 50 more. That was exceptional; it must have been some major spam attack. It does seem to come in big waves like that. Usually I get about 100 a week. Since I started, Akismet caught 12,336 spams.

Re: Oh, danah!

Mike Cohen — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 11:28:15 -0000

MySpace is great for indie musicians. I helped Jimi M'baye set up a Myspace page ( http://myspace.com/jimimbaye ) after I started hosting his website. I also ended up setting up my own myspace page to promote WorldBeatPlanet ( http://myspace.com/worldbeatplanet ). Not too long after Jimi set up his page, I notice a lot of other Senegalese musicians joined him. Thanks to myspace, Jimi sems to have more exposure online than Youssou N'dour, whose band he plays in.

Re: The worst iPhone Web page: Google Reader (UPDATED)

Mike Cohen — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 19:43:35 -0000

I've gone back to using NetNewsWire, since GReader can't subscribe to feeds that require authentication (such as Daring Fireball's premium feeds). I never liked NewsGator online, although it's starting to improve. Unfortunately it sucks much worse than GReader on an iPhone.

Re: iPhone stops people

Mike Cohen — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 00:05:43 -0000

The real killer feature of the iPhone is the web browser, and to a lesser extent email. Safari on the iPhone is the best web browser on a mobile phone.

Re: Comparing N95 to iPhone

Mike Cohen — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 00:10:55 -0000

Try syncing the iPhone pictures with iPhoto. When you post via email from the iPhone, the pictures are only 640x480, but when it syncs to iPhoto, you get the full resolution of 1600x1200.

Re: iPhone stops people

Mike Cohen — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 11:38:52 -0000

Michael M, I got a similar reaction to my Prius at first. People still ask me about it.

Re: Comparing N95 to iPhone

Mike Cohen — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 13:47:08 -0000

I find that full resolution photos from the iPhone (after importing into iPhoto) look really good and the color balance is a lot better. Here are two, without any color adjustments:

http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=6972796...

http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=6973199...

Re: Don’t try to use your iPhone inside an Apple store

Mike Cohen — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 22:26:26 -0000

I took pictures at the grand opening of the Galleria store, and I've seen pictures online of almost every Apple Store grand opening.

Re: What happened to ICQ?

Mike Cohen — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 10:32:53 -0000

My old ICQ number was 33005448. I got a ton of spam, so I disallowed requests.

Since ICQ is part of AIM, you can add ICQ contacts to your AIM buddy list. I've added the 2 or 3 people I want to talk to on ICQ to my AIM list so I never have to log in to ICQ any more.

Re: Google Reader + Facebook Application = Digg killer?

Mike Cohen — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 06:31:34 -0000

If Google Reader could synchronize with NetNewsWire and/or supported authenticated feeds I'd use it. I tried it for a while but ended up going back to NNW after I subscribed to Daring Fireball which requires a username & password for member feeds.

Re: Are you a hypermiler?

Mike Cohen — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 21:43:50 -0000

It isn't a matter of driving slower; keeping a steady speed really helps your MPG. Also, avoid short trips. I find that my mileage is around 25-30 for the first 5 minutes, and after that goes up to 50 and levels off around 70-75 after 15 or 20 minutes.

Taking advantage of regenerative braking helps a lot. Instead of braking suddenly, anticipate red lights and brake gradually. I can usually get it to switch to electric by accelerating to 40-45 and then backing off the gas *very slightly* so it doesn't slow down more than 1 or 2 MPH.

Re: Apple press conference (the blue monster goes to Cupertino)

Mike Cohen — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 11:44:44 -0000

David Pogue gave one of the most entertaining sessions at this year's Macworld Expo where he did two great songs about Youtube and music downloading.

Re: Why Mahalo, TechMeme, and Facebook are going to kick Google’s butt in four years

Mike Cohen — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 23:36:45 -0000

I consider SEOs one step above spammers on the sleaziness scale. The right way to build traffic is with quality content, not by gaming search engines.

Re: Danah is confused by Facebook’s fans

Mike Cohen — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 18:42:50 -0000

I'd like to be able to join two city networks. I live in Ft. Lauderdale but my company is in Vancouver (I telecommute). I'd like to be able to belong to both networks, since I have more friends in the Vancouver network than my home network.

Re: 7,200 Google Reader lockins

Mike Cohen — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 13:41:36 -0000

I use NetNewsWire because I prefer to use a desktop application rather than read news online. I find that I can go through hundreds of unread items a lot faster in NetNewsWire than anything else.

I can't stand NewsGator online, though. I really wish NNW could sync with Google Reader instead.

Re: Baby’s on the way…

Mike Cohen — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 21:00:54 -0000

Congratulations! I've been watching your twitter stream for the big announcement.

Re: This guy just won a “mint”

Mike Cohen — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 23:54:48 -0000

Yes, Kevin. I didn't sign up because I'm a bit leery of giving them all of my bank info. My biggest concern is how well they protect the information. A breakin at their site would be a lot more damaging than a single bank site if I have everything stored there.

Re: Testing Nikon’s new Wifi camera

Mike Cohen — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 20:06:24 -0000

I didn't really see the point in having WiFi, since it's so limited.

I really like my L5, except for the long time it takes to get ready for a shot.

Re: Testing Nikon’s new Wifi camera

Mike Cohen — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 20:07:40 -0000

@Nate & @Josh, you don't need iFlickr or anything like that. If you assign an email address in Flickr, you can simply email pictures to that address from the iPhone.

Re: Testing Nikon’s new Wifi camera

Mike Cohen — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 23:01:24 -0000

Robert: I never use the cable, I just take out the card and use a card reader.

I had originally looked at one of the L series that had WiFi, but decided on the L5 because it has higher zoom and better resolution.

Re: Apple has a PR nightmare brewing…

Mike Cohen — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 00:14:39 -0000

Mine worked fine. I didn't lose any data. I previously had Installer.app and a few third party applications, but I did a restore before upgrading to 1.1.1. The iPhone did show the activation required screen for a few seconds, but it went away.

Re: Lots of news coming tonight

Mike Cohen — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 22:29:53 -0000

Patrick's photos are really great, and so are yours. You need to take more pictures of Milan; you haven't been taking that many since he came home ;)

Re: Dave Winer’s Flickr box

Mike Cohen — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 10:56:32 -0000

Instead of an AppleTV, I have a Mac Mini connected to my TV. I'm using Elgato's EyeTV 200 as a DVR, and with the latest software I can also watch recordings from my other computers. I only have an older G4 mini which doesn't support Front Row, but a new x86 mini should be even better than an AppleTV.

Re: Think Different Apple

Mike Cohen — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 14:54:55 -0000

I suspect Apple will open the iPhone (and most likely iPod Touch) to developers at next year's WWDC.

Re: Steve Ballmer still doesn’t understand social networking

Mike Cohen — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 16:44:37 -0000

Look what a huge success "Squirting" has been. Don't we see people squirting music from their Zunes everywhere ;-) That's Microsoft's idea of social networking.

On the other hand, MySpace is the best way for a band to get exposure and spread their music. Almost every band has a MySpace music page. There's very little high tech about it - the community is what makes a difference.

Re: Coming in 2008: iPhone battery rot?

Mike Cohen — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 23:49:20 -0000

No problems here. With average use (about 1 hour a day email/web/phone & 30 minutes or more music playing), I only plug in my iPhone every two days or so and it still has nearly 1/2 charge.

Re: All about the conversation

Mike Cohen — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 19:56:02 -0000

This is a really great shot. I looked at both and I find that SmugMug loads really slowly. I definitely prefer Flickr.

Re: I love my friends but why am I between them and you?

Mike Cohen — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 00:11:36 -0000

I just found out about Lijit when I read about it here. It's great! It automatically found all of my profiles just from my usual nickname, including some I forgot about like ma.gnolia & StumbleUpon.

Re: John Edwards drops out of presidential race

Mike Cohen — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 13:41:45 -0000

Good choice. I voted for Obama yesterday. Unfortunately Hillary won our meaningless primary which means no delegates.

I think Obama would be the best person to unite the country and improve the rest of the world's opinion of us. His speech at the 2004 Democratic convention is still one of the best political speeches of recent times.

Re: I want to public domain my RAW photo files

Mike Cohen — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 21:06:58 -0000

Picassa won't do it. Their uploader will open a Nikon NEF file but it gets converted to JPEG when uploaded. Flickr's uploaders seem to do the same.

Re: Obsolete skills

Mike Cohen — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 21:33:42 -0000

I was without electricity for 10 days following Hurricane Wilma. We quickly learned to cook *everything* on a charcoal grill.

Re: VMWare rocks…

Mike Cohen — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 10:56:31 -0000

I own both Parallels & VMware, but right now I prefer Parallels. I don't use Windows very heavily; I usually run Outlook, Visual Studio, and occasional MS Office apps. I find that Parallels integration is nicer and Coherence mode feels smoother than VMware.

My main use of Windows is Visual Studio Team Server for source control (yes, we maintain our Mac source code under Windows). I have my Mac home directory mapped as a network drive in Windows, which I use to check out files. I've always had problems with VSTS giving an error when accessing the Mac drive. The latest version of Parallels is the first time I was able to use either Parallels or VMware without any VSTS errors.

I've even removed my old Office X (which I never bothered upgrading) and I can now have office docs open automatically in Office 2004 in Parallels.

Re: The Joy of Tech is hillarious…

Mike Cohen — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 09:51:13 -0000

SearchEngines appears to be a comment spammer.

Re: Plaxo is better than new Google Calendar sync

Mike Cohen — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 09:28:51 -0000

I've had lots of trouble with Plaxo. It completely screwed up my addressbook & iCal calendars a few times. I finally got rid of it. I'd rather just subscribe to my Google calendars in iCal.

Re: Yesterday

Mike Cohen — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 16:53:34 -0000

The SDK places some very serious limitations on the kind of software we can develop. In particular, it won't allow us to create daemons that run in the background or download additional modules, which means we can't build the product we want to build (Lojack for iPhones).

Re: Guy Kawasaki calls Mike Arrington a hypocrite

Mike Cohen — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 16:42:46 -0000

Alltop really needs a mobile version. It looks terrible on an iPhone.

Re: How many services do we need?

Mike Cohen — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 00:01:33 -0000

One problem with all of these personal aggregators is duplication of items.

I use Tumblr to aggregate my blog posts, del.icio.us saved items, dugg items, youtube favorites, and newsgator clippings. I also have del.iciou.us post daily links to my blog. Friendfeed will show multiple copies of the same item from several of those sources.

Re: Facebook continues to suck

Mike Cohen — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 17:18:00 -0000

Why not use LinkedIn? It seems a lot more professional than FaceBook.

Re: Now you can cry over heavens

Mike Cohen — Tue, 13 May 2008 08:46:31 -0000

I cried when I saw the Mac system requirements. Windows XP or Vista running in Boot Camp. Not even VMware or Parallels? What a cop-out. Is that how Microsoft is going to support the Mac in the future?

Re: Patrick graduates to high school

Mike Cohen — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 10:44:37 -0000

Congratulations, Patrick!

Re: Which US Presidential Candidate has the best tech policy?

Mike Cohen — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:35:08 -0000

McCain admits he's computer illiterate. That alone makes him unqualified to be president, since he lacks an essential skill for living in the 21st century.

Re: If you get iPhone 3G: go for white

Mike Cohen — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 11:01:21 -0000

When I got into the store they had already sold out of black, so I bought a white one.

Re: Hello world from my iPhone

Mike Cohen — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 17:58:56 -0000

The iPhone app is great for updating your blog & posting photos, but it doesn't give you a full administrative interface. For full administrative functionality, WPhone is still the way to go. Even though it's web based, it still feels almost as nice as a native app (depending on the responsiveness of your server).

Re: The best Fortune Brainstorm Tech Talk: Neil Young challenges tech industry

Mike Cohen — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:03:40 -0000

Most of the time I'm listening to my iPod at the gym or while jogging with the standard earbuds, so any lack of sound quality isn't really noticeable.

Re: We get the journalism we spend our attention on

Mike Cohen — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:06:41 -0000

It's worse here. On many occasions, the top news story at 6PM and front page of the newspaper was who the Dolphins or Marlines hired or fired, or what celebrity is on what reality show. Meanwhile, there are wars going on & cops are getting killed.

Re: My Header is Broken

Mike Cohen — Thu, 24 Feb 2005 10:32:00 -0000

Of course the PHP code doesn't show up when I view source. I notice that the ending quote in the header URL changed to some other character which shows up as a block when I view source in Safari.

Re: Terri Schiavo

Mike Cohen — Sat, 26 Feb 2005 11:34:20 -0000

This is a family matter that the government had no right to butt into.

Re: What happened to “never again”?

Mike Cohen — Wed, 13 Apr 2005 20:32:55 -0000

So.. the deaths of 50,000-300,000 Africans are less important than the death of one brain-dead American woman. I don't see any of the "culture of life" people getting their knickers in a twist about this.

Re: Where are the “culture of life” people on Darfur?

Mike Cohen — Thu, 14 Apr 2005 10:32:25 -0000

Our administration seems to turn a blind eye to human rights violations or aggression in some countries if they're of no tactical interest to us, while obsessing over others. Was the situation in Iraq really so critical that it called for intervention? How many people died there as a result of Hussein's actions? Does the Saudi royal family treat their people any better than Hussein did? Was Iraq really a bigger threat than Korea? Why is it OK for Pakistan to harbor terrorists?

Re: I’m fighting comment spam

Mike Cohen — Thu, 28 Apr 2005 10:40:16 -0000

Comment Blacklist is your friend :) Just add the offending words related to gambling or pharmaceuticals to the blacklist and the comments won't even make it to moderation. Before 1.5 I used my own hack which checked the comment against a list of words and would die() with a nasty message if it contained any of those words.

Re: Army offers new recruiting incentive: duty

Mike Cohen — Sun, 12 Jun 2005 18:40:41 -0000

I'm going to puke.

Re: Good news!

Mike Cohen — Sun, 12 Jun 2005 18:41:43 -0000

This is excellent news!

Re: Coalition for Darfur: A prayer for the dying

Mike Cohen — Tue, 12 Jul 2005 20:48:51 -0000

Sheeeesh! This administration's solution to everything is to proclaim a day/weekend of prayer.

Re: Darfur at The New Republic Online

Mike Cohen — Wed, 20 Jul 2005 18:34:09 -0000

Do you read Global Voices Online? They had a good item about Darfur today - Link to item

GVO is becoming one of my daily must-read sites. Their collection of views from around the world is a refreshing change from US news coverage.

[blogan: I edited the link to shorten its display.]

Re: MySpace? Yup.

Mike Cohen — Sun, 18 Jun 2006 20:43:20 -0000

I made a myspace page to promote worldbeatplanet & I also helped Jimi M'baye set up his myspace music page. Now there seem to be a lot of Senegalese musicians joining myspace.

I find that Myspace pages often crash all of my browsers, including firefox & safari.

Re: Hypoallergenic Cats

Mike Cohen — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 22:49:33 -0000

I got both of my cats for free. One of them is a former stray I started feeding until he came to live with me. The first thing I did was have him neutered. He became very attached to me and he's now the most devoted pet I've ever had.

Re: Why Starbucks Coffee Conversations Podcast Failed

Mike Cohen — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 09:43:32 -0000

The music should have been "Busting up a Starbucks" by Mike Doughty :)

Re: Quicksilver: From A Better OS X To Even More

Mike Cohen — Wed, 23 Feb 2005 14:44:57 -0000

My favorite use of triggers with the iTunes plugin is to replace dedicated iTunes utilities like sizzlingKeys. I have cmd-opt-arrow keys for next & previous track, and cmd-opt-space as play/pause, so I can quickly pause iTunes when the phone rings.

Re: Why Starbucks Coffee Conversations Podcast Failed

Mike Cohen — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 09:43:32 -0000

The music should have been "Busting up a Starbucks" by Mike Doughty :)

Re: Twitter Idol Awards: Top 10 Funny Tweeps

Mike Cohen — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 10:40:41 -0000

You forgot @benhuh making funny with FAILblog, iCanHasCheezburger, Engrish Funny, etc.