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Re: Silly image borders

Teresa Valdez Klein — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 12:08:43 -0000

Make your banner image background and use a block level link tag to render it.

No borders, no fuss.

Re: My favorite part of the Mahalo “how to get a good night’s sleep” guide

Teresa Valdez Klein — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 12:05:59 -0000

If they checked your IP, they WOULD know that. But that would make them kinda creepy.

Go tanning in the morning, or get one of those SAD alarm clocks. Those help.

Re: TV-Links.co.uk shut down, 26 year old owner arrested

Teresa Valdez Klein — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 21:34:53 -0000

This is many different kinds of annoying...

Re: The CES “It Won’t Stay in Vegas” Blogger party WAS off the hook

Teresa Valdez Klein — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 14:49:33 -0000

Heads up that the pianist's name is Dehner Franks and you can find him at www.denherfranks.com.

Re: Amazon should make an e-book reader app for the iPhone

Teresa Valdez Klein — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 21:03:56 -0000

OMFG! I would SMU if Amazon did something like this. :-)

I'll holler at @arjun_s about it.

Re: Yoga Fail

Teresa Valdez Klein — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 22:55:39 -0000

Jason, I love you. :-)

Re: The second best image on the internet — [Jason Preston]

Teresa Valdez Klein — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 01:28:18 -0000

Hahahahahaha!!!1!! This could only be better if you took some 24-point bold Impact font and put - "storm trooper fail" on it.

;-)

Re: It’s a girl!

Teresa Valdez Klein — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 07:01:58 -0000

Mazel Tov! I hope little Bridget likes the bees her daddy drew on her wall.

You know you set a bad example for her before she was even born. When she's 4, she'll start drawing on the walls and justifying it by pointing to those bees :-)

Re: The New Journalism

Teresa Valdez Klein — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 19:16:40 -0000

This study? You forgot a link methinks, Jake :-)

Re: Hillary’s Plan For Latino Votes In Texas: Exploit Little Mexican Boy

Teresa Valdez Klein — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 11:57:55 -0000

I honestly don't see a major problem with this. Is she exploiting a kid? No question. All politicians "kiss babies" at election time.

What's more, I don't see anything particularly racist about parading a cute little guy in full folklorico regalia around the stage. You see little kids dressed up that way quite often in Latino communities where the kids learn traditional dance. It's totally normal and honestly, that's a really cute kid.

Re: Mac blogger toolkit – Northern Voice 2007

Teresa Valdez Klein — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 18:17:53 -0000

Hi Stew! Thanks for coming by my blog the other day.

So you still want Quicksilver, even after using TextExpander. I've heard the two are similar in terms of workflow expidition. Do you think you could use both simultaneously or are they mutually exclusive programs?

Re: Ping.fm / Uploaded Image from baratunde

Teresa Valdez Klein — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 03:07:16 -0000

Wow! Where was this? Looks like Wyoming. Or maybe Arizona?

Re: Patrick sad at the price…

Teresa Valdez Klein — Wed, 11 Jan 2006 15:29:11 -0000

Has anyone else noticed that the MacBook is just plain fugly? It looks like a PC.

And I too think it's hilarious that Scoble's son loves Macintosh :-). Teenage rebellion does take interesting forms in the digital world.

Re: Secrets behind MySpace’s success

Teresa Valdez Klein — Wed, 22 Mar 2006 13:50:44 -0000

Andy: That's why I prefer Facebook. You can still stalk people to a certain extent, but it's not nearly as pronounced as MySpace - where you can see everyone, and everyone can see you.

Re: Secrets behind MySpace’s success

Teresa Valdez Klein — Wed, 22 Mar 2006 14:31:17 -0000

I wonder if MySpace could find itself susceptible to lawsuits because of its lack of protection for minors.

Re: CES BlogHaus, how to get in

Teresa Valdez Klein — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 13:21:59 -0000

Hey Robert. Truth be told, Steve's son Dalton came up with that "Beloggio" thing. And you may not like it, but I think it's GENIUS! :razz:

Re: The iPhone reality distortion field

Teresa Valdez Klein — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 12:26:44 -0000

Digital Hell: From what I understand, unlocking the phone won't be difficult, but unlocked phones operating on other networks won't support all of the iPhone's fuctions (like listening to voicemail in any order you want).

Nick: Not to be a Macsturbator or anything, but Jobs did say that one of this phone's great features was how easy it would be to change even after it was sold. I can imagine that Apple will monitor the consumer buzz and add new features that you can download via a software-update like system. If the interface is screwy, maybe they'll allow users to make adjustments based on the size of their fingers.

I'm not saying that I put my faith completely in Apple, but they really, really do get user interfaces. It's possible that they really have cooked up something revolutionary here. It is a pity that we have to wait until June to see it.

Re: “Default” racism

Teresa Valdez Klein — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 14:23:51 -0000

I think this is more race-consciousness than racism. The thing that happened in your neighborhood when you were a kid was racist. Your neighbor put enough stock in the potentially racist opinions of her neighbors to consider not selling her house to a black family.

Race-consciousness is different. It's problematic for its own reasons, but it's not inherently deplorable. I don't have any more of a problem with asking, "is Obama electable?" based on his race than I do with asking "is Hillary electable?" based on her gender.

The real problem here is the overemphasis of electability. The Democrats focused on electability in 2004 an it got them John Kerry. They need to start focusing on a candidate who best embodies the platform they want to put forth as a party.

Re: Om, I’m having a heart attack

Teresa Valdez Klein — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 01:14:19 -0000

Thanks for the inbound link, Robert. You'll probably beat Andru as my top referrer in a matter of hours ;-).

It was a lot of fun to sit around in the basement with all you crazy funny smart people. Yes, even Broback.

It was great to see you and Maryam. I need to get my ass down to the Bay Area to hang out with y'all more often.

Re: Om, I’m having a heart attack

Teresa Valdez Klein — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 01:15:52 -0000

How utterly bizzare! I left that last comment on your post about the long chat we all had and it turned up here.

Is Wordpress.com having MySQL issues?

Re: Our SO’s were wondering

Teresa Valdez Klein — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 01:16:07 -0000

Thanks for the inbound link, Robert. You’ll probably beat Andru as my top referrer in a matter of hours ;-).

It was a lot of fun to sit around in the basement with all you crazy funny smart people. Yes, even Broback.

It was great to see you and Maryam. I need to get my ass down to the Bay Area to hang out with y’all more often.

Re: Our SO’s were wondering

Teresa Valdez Klein — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 12:35:03 -0000

Chris: It actually was pretty much like a college jam session. But can you honestly claim that our points don't make any sense?

Re: “Scoble’s silly,” Facebooker says

Teresa Valdez Klein — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 02:13:01 -0000

Hey, who am I to judge how you use Facebook? I think it's great to let people in.

But I have two points of clarification:
1) You're a man. You're not going to have random, creepy guys stalking you on Facebook. I feel like I have to be on guard against that, which is why I'm really careful about the information people can see in my profile.
2) For me, Facebook is a tool I've used for years to keep in touch with close friends who scattered after college. Now, I have a whole host of people that I know in other contexts who I am friends with on Facebook and I'd like to keep the information they see about me within that context.

I wish there were a way to create a "professional profile" so that I can share some information with people I know in a social setting and some information with people that I know in a business setting.

I wonder if Facebook is working on that.

Re: “Scoble’s silly,” Facebooker says

Teresa Valdez Klein — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 11:56:53 -0000

"Ignore the naysayers who still try to keep the web closed like a pipe that only serves to connect two people on opposite ends of a line."

Hoo boy! Joe, I am NOT a naysayer. I've just been using Facebook for a while and I'm starting to see that its purpose has changed a lot. I guess I'm going to have to reevaluate how I use it.

"It is not, nor has it ever been, possible for you to see someone’s profile based solely on the fact that you have a mutual facebook friend.">

Pete, I dunno how long you've been on Facebook. But I do vividly remember this privacy setting existing at some point in time. I'll have to ask some of the people I know from Facebook if my memory is flawed or not on that one. I'm certainly willing to admit I'm wrong, if I am in fact, wrong. But I'm pretty sure I'm not.

"But it demonstrates that you can get gainful employment, even after taking your shirt off at an industry party!

Anyway, seriously, there’s no such thing as privacy anymore, is there? What you all trying to hide?!?"

Robert, I wonder if you'd say that about me. I've been asking that question for some time. If I took my shirt off at an industry party, would I still be respected inside or outside the world of technology the next morning?

Perhaps things have changed more than I realized, but it used to be that any hint of sexuality from a woman in the workforce was an automatic strike against her. I've tested that limit to be sure. I've posted photos and videos of myself frolicking in bikinis on YouTube, FB and even *shudder* MySpace. And so far, I haven't met with any pushback or obvious judgment. But I'm curious to see whether it will ever bite me in the ass.

I've posted more about my thoughts on this subject. Check it out if you're interested!

Re: iPhone vs. Nokia N95 a month later

Teresa Valdez Klein — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 14:56:43 -0000

I really like how my iPhone enables turn-by-turn driving instructions. Just tap an arrow at the top of the screen when you've completed one instruction and the map zooms forward to the next intersection, while the instructions tell you where to turn and on what street.

I'm pleased to say that this feature has saved the day more than once for Andy and I.

Re: Maryam…

Teresa Valdez Klein — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 12:18:08 -0000

She really is a gem, no? Sunny and sweet and totally real.

Happy anniversary to you both :-)

Re: Why isn’t Scoble against ‘thought crimes bill?’

Teresa Valdez Klein — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 20:37:39 -0000

Robert, have you read this legislation. It sets up a commission. It doesn't even ban anything.

I don't understand why people are freaking out over this...

Re: What I was using to hit Facebook — unreleased Plaxo Pulse

Teresa Valdez Klein — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 11:35:37 -0000

That's not ironic, that's just retarded.

Re: Why we’re going to FastCompany.tv

Teresa Valdez Klein — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 03:37:15 -0000

This sounds like the perfect fit for you, Robert. I'm truly enthused to see what you'll come up with next. Mazel Tov!