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Re: Another Run Around the Sun

Rafael — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 00:58:20 -0000

40lbs! Nice.

Re: Experimenting with Vox

Rafael — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 14:48:07 -0000

Yes...I'm supposed to be on vacation.

Anyhow, I'm not seeing what's unique about Vox. LiveJournal for non-weird people. The neighborhood thing is kinda confusing.

Re: My Friend Reid

Rafael — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 18:47:17 -0000

Bugs me that Mitchell/Brendan or Frank isn't on that list.

Maybe another year or two before people realize that Mozilla has been at the center of the Web since '98.

Anyhow, vacation still going great -- porch is fixed :-)

Re: car

Rafael — Sun, 16 Jul 2006 00:22:28 -0000

If not a Lotus, I'd go w/ the Audi A3. Lois Lane drives an Audi A3.

The Lexus IS 350 would make you the cool dad on the block and it's really fast.

BMW 3 or 5 Wagon. Super practical.

Or just spring for the Honda Odyssey which you're destined for anyways. :)

Re: car

Rafael — Sun, 16 Jul 2006 00:23:58 -0000

Forgot. You're right, there really isn't much to be excited about. The cars I mentioned are pretty cool but hybrid cars as mainstream cars are just around the corner.

Re: no such thing as a perfect car

Rafael — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 15:43:16 -0000

Go for the Lexus. Though I still think you should get the A3 Quattro.

Re: Giant bug terrorizing Germany

Rafael — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 14:05:47 -0000

I hate the web. You just made me spend two minutes looking at a damn bug on Google Maps - resizing, hybrid mode, commenting on this thing. You can't go from Coup in Thailand to Giant Bug in Germany. :)

Re: typepad

Rafael — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 15:26:10 -0000

We'll you've probably already gotten this advice, but WordPress (maybe WordPress.com) might do the trick. It's definitely the most flexible, but not free. WordPress could be a lot of work. I've heard some good things about Vox but haven't played around with it that much.

Re: typepad

Rafael — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 15:27:29 -0000

Oh. There's migration support for WordPress I believe. Well, I had a MovableType blog and was able to migrate over to WordPress pretty easily. I'm guessing they have one for TypePad.

Re: typepad

Rafael — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 02:37:13 -0000

Condensing what Anil said: Vox is pretty good and worth checking out. It's a non-geeky version of Live Journal.

Re: There’s a Wocket in my Pocket, by Dr. Seuss

Rafael — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 16:27:56 -0000

Did you bust out with the Green Eggs and Ham yet? That's going to be cool for him.

Re: flying to china

Rafael — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 11:19:23 -0000

Are you blogging mid-flight? Cool if so.

Re: More pics from China

Rafael — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 14:02:20 -0000

That's a lot of bicycles. Wow.

Re: moving to wordpress

Rafael — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 23:19:35 -0000

Gallery would be my choice if it was easier to use. Makes much more sense to store photos on your own server. Flickr and the FAlbum plug-in is my set-up. Easy to upload photos and I'm not sure about integrating into your blog. May have spent way too much time figuring it out.

Anyway you go it's going to be aggravating.

Picasa is interesting and so is SmugMug. Write up what you decide if you end up evaluating the other ones.

I migrated from MovableType a while back. They're good about letting you import/export your data.

Re: Starbucks, with Chinese Characteristics

Rafael — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 23:32:50 -0000

Sorry to keep commenting, I just don't get to see you everyday :)

I had this conversation with friends of mine who just became parents. Middle class used to be (?) where one parent could work and the other could stay at home and watch the kids. That's no longer the case for middle-class, certainly in the Bay Area/Valley. If both parents *have to* work, that's not middle class.

Keep going on China if you have more stuff to write. Very interesting. (and ugh, Starbucks).

Re: jub.net?

Rafael — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 20:18:24 -0000

Go w/ jub.net. The other one is a little boring.

Re: kid privacy

Rafael — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 22:00:13 -0000

I was waiting to see when you were going to bring this up. There isn't a good technical solution here though VOX, flickr, and others try. On my blog, I'm the only guinea pig and I don't blog about family and also usually don't post up pictures of other people in it besides me.

Normal people just email pics of their kids to their friends and family and give updates. Also, the whole kids pictures on Christmas cards is the way to go.

Blogging about your son's childhood probably should be kept private/require log-in. I can understand why parents would want to blog about their kids though. It sucks that people have to think twice about doing it.

Re: sigh.

Rafael — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 16:44:16 -0000

No sighing allowed. You guys are kicking ass. In terms of L10n, keep the products craigslist/google simple. Changes to web site/products are hard to do globally without a strong simple foundation.

Anyway 60 minutes did a segment on Kurdistan recently: http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/i_video/main500251.shtml?id=2491526n

Re: moblog test

Rafael — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 00:06:29 -0000

Dude. He's huge!

Re: hearts on sleeves

Rafael — Wed, 16 May 2007 19:59:38 -0000

Great post. You're going to hate me but my question is what's happening with Thunderbird? A decision for it is taking quite long and really want to see what a full team around it could do.

Re: iHmm…

Rafael — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 12:42:24 -0000

Don't do it. If you get one you can probably expense it though right? It's checking out the competition...

Re: posting from my iPhone

Rafael — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 03:53:25 -0000

So typing all that was ok on the iPhone?

Re: More on VMWare Fusion v Parallels

Rafael — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 03:33:38 -0000

How much is each? And then you have to purchase a separate Windows Vista license right? I guess I could look this up. Install straightforward for both, correct?

Re: welcome to the web, NYT

Rafael — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 12:48:54 -0000

Actually, NYTimes has a bunch of blogs these days off of WordPress. They spoke at a WordPress conference and was impressed.

I thought they were doing some stuff with SilverLight too. They're pretty far ahead.

What's surprising to me is that they're doing video.

Re: Mozilla & Firefox Market Share

Rafael — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 15:54:46 -0000

Now if you apply either $1, $4, or $40+ per user per year, that $80MM a year is kinda chump change.

Nice problem to have though.

Ask Adobe or Emmy for total number of Web users. They're within 5-10% of having every user on the web world-wide. They had been public about the numbers in the past.

Re: my new job at mozilla

Rafael — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 21:04:14 -0000

Congrats and have fun. It's Mozilla after all.

Re: mozilla talk at stanford

Rafael — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 17:56:15 -0000

Excellent.

Re: Thinking about Print

Rafael — Sat, 11 Feb 2006 01:36:06 -0000

Jimmy Wales is thinking about this now as he's trying to do the same thing for wikipedia, as text books for kids. We can probably ask him what he's doing. And I don't know what's worse, you thinking about this on a Friday or evening, or me responding...and thinking about Firefox marketing in football terms.

Re: MDC’s Birthday

Rafael — Wed, 15 Mar 2006 14:59:40 -0000

Woohoo! That's very cool and great stats. It's really becoming the definitive place to go for mozilla app and general web site/app development.

Good stuff.

Re: Eat local

Rafael — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 00:58:42 -0000

Here's 10 more reasons: http://fogcity.blogs.com/jen/2005/08/10_reasons...

The fact that local, organic food just tastes better is reason enough. For some reason folks don't value the quality of food. People like it sweet, need to eat fast food, and like eating the same things over and over again.

Food politics is scary.

Re: Help verify some bustage?

Rafael — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 17:21:11 -0000

Yup there's bustage. Not sure if I can help with the fix.

Re: Sounds clueless, but isn’t (always)

Rafael — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 03:10:31 -0000

I think there are many of us in the same boat, par for the course w/ software. Certainly think blogs is another good way to go.

I was just about to post about this too...

Re: Looking for a photo-sharing system

Rafael — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 02:46:06 -0000

I'm using Flickr, w/ the unofficial Flickr uploader tool for Mac OS X, and then FAlbum plugin for WordPress. Flickr's been improved a bunch lately and all the other stuff around it (all the unofficial stuff) makes it more palatable.

Re: Looking for a photo-sharing system

Rafael — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 19:43:00 -0000

Can you let us know what you decide to use w/ a follow-up post?

Re: Reclaiming my fragmented attention-stream

Rafael — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 17:37:01 -0000

I did this a long time ago. http://www.rebron.org/toolbox/email.html

I still kind of follow it.

Good luck. There's a lot of information to parse through on a daily basis.