Disqus - Latest Comments for Jamie Thingelstad

Re: In Praise of SIDUX

Jamie Thingelstad — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 16:22:17 -0000

Hadar,

Do what I did and just get a bunch of Macs. ;-)

Re: Delectable Duck!

Jamie Thingelstad — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 22:37:56 -0000

Hey -- I've eaten duck at that place with you guys! it was pretty amazing -- a return trip may be in order. I've never been able to recount the name of the place.

Re: I’m a Phone Weenie

Jamie Thingelstad — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 22:39:35 -0000

Twitter anyway? :-)

Re: Rediscovering Live Music

Jamie Thingelstad — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 21:45:16 -0000

Winnipeg Folk Festival. It's three great days outside in nature surrounded by fun people and great, varied music.

It would be a real culture shock from the east coast, but you guys may like it. :-)

Re: XM Radio

Jamie Thingelstad — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 21:46:57 -0000

Wow! I'm kind of surprised that you like XM Hadar. We had it in our new Honda Odyssey and they gave me a great deal to keep it for a year. I decided to go with it "just cuz". I never found the programming to be to our liking.

When I tried to cancel the service XM quickly ratcheted up a number of reasons why I wouldn't use their service. They employ every sleazy tactic AOL ever dreamed up to try to keep me from canceling the service. Ugh.

Re: Twitter

Jamie Thingelstad — Wed, 16 May 2007 23:33:49 -0000

Okay -- first off -- I'm commenting on your blog from your living room. This is wierd. :-)

The scale issues I guessed at were very true. Twitter has grown like nothing else, and the Rails framework under it has shown some stress. It's famously been debated in public on various blogs. It started with a comment from one of the Twitter guys and then responded to by David Hanssen on his site.

It's been an interesting debate to watch, just in that it shows some of the stresses with scaling open source stuff. You are on your own ultimately.

Re: Welcome Wordpress 2.3

Jamie Thingelstad — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 23:01:35 -0000

Jealous. Downside of the super custom theme with dozen plugins. I'm being careful and waiting before upgrading to 2.3. Also going to move hosting providers at the same time.

Re: Grado vs Bose Quiet Comfort 2

Jamie Thingelstad — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 16:06:45 -0000

I wrote about it a while back.

Re: Grado vs Bose Quiet Comfort 2

Jamie Thingelstad — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 16:18:04 -0000

The other thing I've read about on the NC stuff is there is some listener dependency. Just like certain projectors and some people see the "rainbow" effect and others don't. Some people have ears that are more sensitive to the pressure, etc.

Re: White Out Conditions in Westchester

Jamie Thingelstad — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 15:03:23 -0000

I'm reading this on my iPhone stuck for 90 minutes on the tarmac trying to fly out of La Guardia. Ugh!

Re: Cool Christmas Gifts

Jamie Thingelstad — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 22:03:35 -0000

Dude! That shirt is totally cool. I saw it and heard about it for the first time on Scoble's blog (there I go admitting to reading Scoble again, ugh).

http://www.kyte.tv/ch/6118-scobleizer-sponsored...

[can you believe he puts the sponsored in the URL too.. wow]

Cool t-shirt. I hope to see it the next time we have dinner. I'll wear my Twitter t-shirt.

Re: Lost - Seasons 1 and 2 on DVD

Jamie Thingelstad — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 22:05:14 -0000

Okay -- I have sort of on purpose avoided watching Lost. Some good reasons, some bad. For some reason the show put me off from the very beginning. I've never seen an episode.

But, reading your writeup makes me want to go buy Season 1 on iTunes and sit down in front of Apple TV. Tempting... thanks for sharing.

Re: Roundabout Discovery of Scorpions

Jamie Thingelstad — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 22:19:41 -0000

By the way, I'm glad you finally "outed" me! I was going to start to complain about lacking a link back and giving some blog-cred pagerank-love my way. :-)

By the way -- I'm not giving up that easy on getting you over on a Mac. That was just the first attempt to move the needle.

And -- I'm still pondering if I really think it's a good thing that I introduced you to the Scorpions. I'm pretty hot/cold on that one. :-)

Re: Wordpress with Apache and NginX

Jamie Thingelstad — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 22:54:39 -0000

I'm just curious -- is it worthwhile to do all this work for static files when you could just set the expiration date way in the future and try to only serve those files once?

Re: I want to public domain my RAW photo files

Jamie Thingelstad — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 19:53:34 -0000

Before you worry about size and storage you need to worry about sharing RAW. The file format is too specific for this purpose. Step 1should be to convert them to DNG. Lightroom makes this a breeze.

Note, I don't use DNG because I don't share RAW files. But sharing is one of the use cases where DNG is absolutely critical.

Re: Bring On The Techies: How Silicon Valley Can Help Save Newspapers

Jamie Thingelstad — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 18:46:35 -0000

Nice article Nathan - good call to arms. I'm hopeful that we will see a new round of great journalism after the industry (or what is left of it) makes it over this crevice.