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Re: Honesty Is The Best Policy

Glen — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 00:31:56 -0000

Repeal HIPAA

Re: Video: the Tiger Woods “Jesus” shot

Glen — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 22:23:41 -0000

It's a shame he got a two-stroke penalty (he grounded his club in the hazard).

Re: Express yourself? Not on your life! (yet another 1st amendment post)

Glen — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 22:45:11 -0000

I'm not sure I follow your reasoning. The Constitution and the amendments apply to citizens, not to organizations. Citizens have the right peaceably to assemble; if there are American members of al Qaeda, then they have the right to assemble. That does not give them the right to break other laws, however. As far as the issue of "religious clubs" in schools goes, that's where the mutually exclusive "free exercise" of religion conflicts with the government "shall not establish" religion. And it's notable that the schools themselves have made different choices: some school districts allow student organizations of any faith, whereas others prohibit any religious organizations at all.

Re: louisgray.com: Forget the Bradley Effect. What About the "Get Off My Phone" Effect?

Glen — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 23:20:08 -0000

Wow, this is the best blog post I have ever read in my entire life up to now!

Re: Sure sign News Ltd is bleeding money: The ultimate ad sell out on News.com.au

Glen — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 03:24:18 -0000

I honestly think it's just the latest trend. Ad agencies pick up on this and they convince someone to sell it to them. It showed up on the celeb blogs first, but it's moving to the regular news sites (FYI, I work for Yahoo! News). I think one of the big early instigators was Apple, with their in-page "takeover" ads.

Re: A tale of two photos on Flickr

Glen — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 11:08:53 -0000

I think you're missing some important points. The "gaping void" photo is actually a much better image (in composition, not quality). It has the rhythm of the repeating columns and an eye-catching subject. The Bellagio picture, on the other hand, has no subject: what's it a picture of? Ok, so there's this hotel in Vegas—how many times have we seen that before. Even a person unfamiliar with gapingvoid.com could be attracted to that picture instead of the Bellagio one. Your promotion definitely helped, but IMHO its the image quality and composition that caused people to favorite it.

Re: This is one contest I don’t care if I lose

Glen — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 10:02:07 -0000

DonorsChoose.Org is a great organization; I've been very privileged to help teachers purchase materials to help their class learn math, as well as involvement in other projects. Since my wife is a teacher in a "high needs" school, I encourage others to participate as well.

Re: Help, I’m clueless about Web Service scalability

Glen — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 09:37:48 -0000

High Scalability is a good website to keep up with. They recently had a post on the "7 stages of scaling web apps." The problem is that so many of these smaller websites simply keep reinventing the wheel; very few of the problems they face are new, and there are known ways of scaling sites, especially at places like Yahoo! and Google that have been doing it for years.

I wrote a blog post on this issue last month at http://blog.broadpool.com/2008/09/23/it-goes-to... . I guess the biggest questions for most listeners would be, "How do I get there? I can't start from where Yahoo! starts, so how do I build a site so that it can grow over time?" The other question would be, "How do I handle success? What do I need to do to ensure that, should my web app be wildly successful, we don't die because of it?"

Re: Can Carol Bartz pull Yahoo out of its funk?

Glen — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 16:56:20 -0000

Just FYI, she hasn't called me yet. (I'm assuming I'm one of the smart people left; please don't correct me if I'm wrong.)

Re: http://blog.louisgray.com/2009/05/skype-hates-me-maybe-thats-because-i.html

Glen — Tue, 12 May 2009 00:18:35 -0000

I don't think it's Skype. I, too, use it on a Mac, and I sometimes spend several hours per day on it. Never had a problem at work; only occasionally at home (slow Charter cable connection). My guess would be your ISP.

Re: A Wingnut By Any Other Name

Glen — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 21:26:58 -0000

To use your definition, I am not a "wingnut," yet I find your use of the term offensive and derogatory. No, not to me—yet I find that it indicates a clear unwillingness on your part to engage in any useful or interesting dialog, and represents an attempt to foster hatred between various political groups. When I see "wingnut" in a post somewhere, I know that the poster has a closed, hate-filled mind, and has no interest in engaging in political discourse, but merely putting down another group and poking fun at them—it matters not to me whether they deserve it or not. It is a purely negative, pejorative term. It's saying, "You are a person of no worth, and your opinion doesn't matter, because I'm going to tell you what it is."

Steven, I really like most of what you post in FriendFeed, and I'm sure we could have a decent discussion in person, especially if accompanied by enchiladas and appropriate beverages. But so much of what you post is simply derogatory name-calling that I usually hide it on site.

Re: Droid, the phone that finally lets me cancel my iPhone — here’s why

Glen — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:40:39 -0000

As long as it lets me play all my music from iTunes, it sounds good. Oh, and has all the equivalent iPhone apps that I use dozens of times per day, and as long as I don't have to pay to repurchase them, it's great.