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Re: Fred Wilson Dot VC

Voyagerfan5761 — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 19:29:10 -0000

Heh, analog Twitter. :D Nice.

Re: http://venturebeat.com/2008/08/07/first-android-phones-pushed-to-2009/

Voyagerfan5761 — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 08:14:22 -0000

lol, touche.

Re: http://venturebeat.com/2008/08/07/first-android-phones-pushed-to-2009/

Voyagerfan5761 — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 01:29:51 -0000

I don't know about that pic... A bigger Google logo would have covered the "iPod" better.

Re: Google Knol: The Future of Spam

Voyagerfan5761 — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 06:26:30 -0000

A minor point: Wikipedia also marks external links as rel="nofollow". Whether you didn't know that or just elected to leave it out, I thought I'd mention it.

As for Knol, I never really saw how it's useful. It's just another place to publish things, which can easily be done on Blogger, Google Page Creator (or its successor, Google Sites), etc. Is it the centralized repository idea that is a draw? Hmm...

Re: The BurstCMS Blog Has Been Set up

Voyagerfan5761 — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 07:35:04 -0000

Side question: Has k00pa's project manager (Collabtive) been scrapped? Are we using Google Code now, officially?

Also, the Disqus styles here need tweaking. White text on a white background (links, headers)? You're a better designer than that. :P

Re: Dear World, Please Stop Saying Linux Is Hard to Install.

Voyagerfan5761 — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 17:26:55 -0000

Interesting, then, that i80and recommended Slackware...

Re: Dear World, Please Stop Saying Linux Is Hard to Install.

Voyagerfan5761 — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 15:40:31 -0000

Glad I have Linux-using friends like you. :-) The jury's still out on whether or not I can even use this computer. But I'm going to keep your comment in mind come the end of the summer, when I'll hopefully have time to actually think. Thanks for clearing things up!

I tried to upmod your comment, but since this is your blog (I guess) it won't let me. Oh well.

Re: Dear World, Please Stop Saying Linux Is Hard to Install.

Voyagerfan5761 — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 15:18:44 -0000

I get the distinct feeling that this was prompted by my discussion about moving the server on my computer to another PC... In case it was, let me explain why I'm not setting up Linux right now. (If it wasn't, well, you can ignore this comment or even delete it. ;-)

My computer has to go back to my school in the next couple days, so the server on it (which I set up when I was taking a Web Design course, that now carries two website test directories and a personal wiki) has to be moved. I'm also leaving for Evanston, IL, next week for a five-week theater program at Northwestern University. On top of those, I have ~20GB of data to transfer, several events and social gatherings, and shopping to do.

So, finding the proper Linux distro, downloading it, installing it, finding the drivers, compiling and installing all the server software and helpers, and getting everything configured properly is just not something I have time to do right now. I want to set up exactly what I have on another Windows PC, transfer the files and configurations, and just leave it until I get back in August.

I know Ubuntu has a wonderful GUI installer, as do many other distros, but in the interest of time I'm sticking to what I've used for the last ten years. Starting with server stuff on a Windows PC was probably a mistake, but it was what I had.

Hope that clears up my reasoning, if this post was indeed inspired by my tweets this morning. :-)

Re: Why Being Anonymous Isn’t a Bad Thing

Voyagerfan5761 — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 11:58:29 -0000

DMed you on Twitter about it. :-) Thanks, BTW.

Re: Why Being Anonymous Isn’t a Bad Thing

Voyagerfan5761 — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 01:36:00 -0000

I just had to upmod your comment because it was so awesomely written. :D Especially the part about The Mysterious Shroud Of Mysteriously Shrouded Mystery. ;-)

Re: Digg this: Reddit goes open source

Voyagerfan5761 — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 10:52:09 -0000

Die, spammer.

Re: Why Being Anonymous Isn’t a Bad Thing

Voyagerfan5761 — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 10:49:14 -0000

I'm guessing this post came up because of that lengthy discussion in my FriendFeed (which has 1670 comments and 2954 Likes at the moment -- ha! :P ) about me not using my real name. People made cases for both sides of the issue, and I'm no closer to deciding when I should come clean. Perhaps remaining anonymous would be the easiest choice for now, considering the sheer number of accounts I've built up using -- and the huge amount of data associated with -- this name.

I think that, when I reveal my true name (which will happen, I'm sure of it), I'll just put notes on my blog, Wikipedia user page, etc. but keep this nick.

Re: Digg this: Reddit goes open source

Voyagerfan5761 — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 13:18:54 -0000

It's nice that they even integrated Trac with the Reddit accounts system.

Re: I Have a Ton of Beta Invitations - Want One?

Voyagerfan5761 — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:06:01 -0000

I wouldn't mind a BrightKite invite, just to see what it's like in there. You probably already have me in your contacts (I seem to recall), but I'll send you a message anyway.

Re: My Idea: the Dual Tutorial

Voyagerfan5761 — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 04:16:51 -0000

As soon as you started talking about databases, I immediately thought about the two different ways to handle connections. You can do OO-style and procedural style (the difference between $dbc->query( $sql ); and mysqli_query( $dbc, $sql ); ). For some reason I thought of that instead of the differences between MySQL and PostgreSQL.

Re: What new service should FriendFeed add next?

Voyagerfan5761 — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 22:45:35 -0000

Google Book Search "My Library" feature. It has RSS, so importing as a blog works, but it would be nice to get a special icon and the other "official service" amenities.

Re: | CodingExperiments.com

Voyagerfan5761 — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 07:52:18 -0000

Digg's "Friends' Activity" is often inaccurate, though. I've seen it say non-zero integers only to click through and find a "no results" message.

Edit: BTW, your timezone settings are off. I'm seeing times an hour ahead of Central. Thought I'd let you know.

Re: Why There Are No Good Ideas for Twitter Replacements

Voyagerfan5761 — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 05:43:14 -0000

Well, there's also the little issue of Twitter already having -- what is it, five? six? -- tabs upon tabs of options. Why not simplify the interface for those, too? But I digress...

Re: This site will have ads for one day

Voyagerfan5761 — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 05:24:44 -0000

Ah, there we go. The comments showed up now. I just proved your point about Adblock Plus. One of the filters was malfunctioning; must be the subject matter of this post, whose title is included in the URL of the Disqus embed. False positive; disqus.com now whitelisted.

Re: Friendfeed Excels at WWDC

Voyagerfan5761 — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 17:56:16 -0000

The FriendFeed API allows for posting pictures directly to the site. It's just not exposed in the on-site UI.

Re: Why Voice-Activated Technology Will Fail

Voyagerfan5761 — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 07:47:09 -0000

Re fingerprint scanners: Add the Mythbusters to the mix.

Yeah, I was going to link, but... i hadz a utube link but they eated it

Re: Respect My Authority!

Voyagerfan5761 — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 07:24:42 -0000

Nope, not me. :-) Wish I could take credit, but I haven't been editing much in the past month or two, beyond a few anti-vandal patrol sessions. But it's really cool that you've been cited.

Ah, a little digging through the article's history and I found the edit that added the reference. Editor, thy name was White 720. If I'm lucky, this comment will be update-worthy. ;-)

It's nice to see a good half-joking post about a citation in Wikipedia representing authority. :D

Re: Google launches Gmail Labs tonight

Voyagerfan5761 — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 05:27:06 -0000

It's also mildly irritating that Superstars changes the default star icon but doesn't change them all. Old starred messages still have the old icon, so you end up with a lot of inconsistency.

Re: Plurk Review: Plurking Away

Voyagerfan5761 — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 07:08:52 -0000

Jaiku allows for comments on messages as well, so that's not exactly anything new...

Re: 34 stocks closed at all-time lows

Voyagerfan5761 — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 05:32:19 -0000

I see a whole series of these posts, and none of them have the percent signs placed correctly. The % should be on the right end of the number, e.g. 5% (not %5). Perhaps not worth fixing in your archives, but maybe something to take note of in the future.