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Re: New house smell

Derek Lakin — Sun, 30 Apr 2006 11:39:03 -0000

Grrr! You're using the skin I was going to mod and use for Web 2.0 Blog (http://web20blog.com)!

Welcome to your new home anyway ;)

Re: FeedHenry needs you

Derek Lakin — Tue, 16 May 2006 14:43:38 -0000

If you need some freelance help just let me know. My rates are very reasonable ;)

Re: Bland as fake snow

Derek Lakin — Thu, 18 May 2006 03:49:08 -0000

I haven't listened to Snow Patrol much but I completely agree with you on The Kooks. Inside In Inside Out is an awesome album.

Another one you might like is "A Fever You Can't Sweat Out" by Panic! At the Disco.

Re: Mojizu

Derek Lakin — Fri, 19 May 2006 11:34:01 -0000

Thanks for the link buddy :) Any chance you can use http://blog.polyceta.com in future though? I'm phasing out the old one; maybe sooner rather than later because it runs out next month!

Re: JavaScript function queue

Derek Lakin — Fri, 19 May 2006 12:48:31 -0000

Take a look at the event system in dojo. That may be able to do what you want.

Re: POTD #001

Derek Lakin — Fri, 26 May 2006 04:34:54 -0000

Great light and atmosphere. It would be interesting to read your reasons for choosing it as your POTD, though.

Re: How about some cash 2.0

Derek Lakin — Mon, 19 Jun 2006 10:35:00 -0000

Some interesting points well made and certainly something for me to mentally chew on.

Re: Brian heads for the New World

Derek Lakin — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 15:25:06 -0000

Congratulations Brian! Good luck on the other side of the pond :-D

Re: To digg

Derek Lakin — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 03:46:19 -0000

Before the likes of del.icio.us, BlinkList, et al came on the scene we all used to just "bookmark" a site. These services are still letting us bookmark websites, the label just denotes which service you are bookmarking it to.

We will only get to a ubiquitous name for bookmarking again, when you can easily exchange and access bookmarks from different services. In the same way that your email provider does not limit you to sending/receiving emails to/from people that use the same provider.

Re: To digg

Derek Lakin — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 07:01:05 -0000

But why would you want to use the term "digg" if you're not creating a bookmark at digg.com? I get the point that Digg are protecting the term, I just don't see it as being the best term to use.

I agree completely that a single term that everyone uses would be great; it's just not going to happen until the data store for your bookmarks (or whatever you want to call them ;-)) becomes irrelevant.

Re: To digg

Derek Lakin — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 15:04:28 -0000

There was a big difference between "mail" and "eMail", but all we did was put an "e" in front of it. Perhaps we just need to an "e" in front of bookmark :P (jk)

Maybe in these <strike>Web 2.0</strike> days we should call them "bookmarks 2.0" :-P

Re: To digg

Derek Lakin — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 15:33:01 -0000

It;s great to see this conversation branching out and reaching other people. Great to read other people's opinions.

I agree with Shog. If we want to change the world, then we have to do something about it. The change has to start somewhere, and where better than here?

I guess it's got slightly out of hand with the example you gave, but I get the point. Digg have their term and other similar sites have their own term, and yes it would be great if there was just one term that was independent of the data silo.

The problem is that there are many different companies offering the same or similar services. Bloggers wanting to get their posts noticed add "digg this", and so on links to several sites, to get more attention, because there is no way of saying link this post to whichever bookmarking silo you want to use, unlike email.

Re: To digg

Derek Lakin — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 05:26:10 -0000

I may be historically inaccurate, but wasn't the term blog (short for WebLog) in popular use already before blogger came along and offered a blogging service? In which case, even if they'd wanted to, they couldn't have trademarked the term "blog" anyway :P

Re: Internet Explorer on Mac OSX

Derek Lakin — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 17:03:17 -0000

Oh boy! If you can get VS2005 running on a Mac then there really is no obstacle to me making the switch.

I wonder how much money I can save by buying one while I'm here in the States ;)

Re: Native Mac OS X controls in Firefox 3

Derek Lakin — Wed, 23 May 2007 04:42:08 -0000

So when do the rest of us mere mortals get to play with millifeed then?

Re: 28 Years Later

Derek Lakin — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 06:54:06 -0000

Sorry I missed it buddy. I was on holiday at the time. Happy belated Birthday :)

Re: Thinkpad vents some Air

Derek Lakin — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 07:35:53 -0000

You're beginning to sound like an Apple FanBoy these days, Paul ;)
Funny though the video is, I have to admit, that on the occasions that I am mobile, I rarely need any peripherals besides a single external hard disk.
That said, the ThinkPad fits in the same envelope that the MacBook Air does ;)

Re: Thinkpad vents some Air

Derek Lakin — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 07:36:54 -0000

P.S. It's a shame I can't use my OpenID to leave comments on your blog like you can on mine :D

Re: Welcome to Earth

Derek Lakin — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 03:36:59 -0000

Many many congratulations to you both. Leah is a beautiful name for a beautiful girl. You look every bit the proud and happy parents that you must be :)

Re: Hello world!

Derek Lakin — Wed, 05 Oct 2005 10:04:43 -0000

Does that mean that all the previous entries to the "re-style Scoble's blog competition" will be discarded and forgotten :( or will you try again but WordPress specific this time?

Re: News! Companies are hiring!

Derek Lakin — Wed, 02 Nov 2005 08:24:17 -0000

I agree with Kosso. There may well be more jobs than you can shake a stick at because everything is so exciting in the States, but here in the UK it sucks.

What sucks worse is how difficult it it to get a Software Development job in the States if you don't already live there. I've been trying to leave this country for years and the problem has always been getting a job elsewhere.

It doesn't matter how young, talented or bright you are or how much you blog, if you're in the wrong country then you're stuffed.

Re: The red poppy

Derek Lakin — Thu, 10 Nov 2005 04:38:59 -0000

Here in the UK the Royal British Legion run an annual Poppy Appeal and have done since 1921. The money raised is used to help support ex-Service and Service men and women and their dependents.

More information here: http://www.poppy.org/About_Poppy_Appeal/Why_don...