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Re: Commuting to Silicon Valley…by Gyroplane

Bryan Price — Sat, 11 Jun 2005 04:54:05 -0000

Weird.

Re: I Follow Pornstars On Twitter? [Stop Auto-Follow]

Bryan Price — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 21:09:28 -0000

I never turned it on. And the amount of people that want me to follow them is ridiculous. I only follow those people that I think may interest me, or are local. Anything else, and I decline to follow and delete the invitation regardless.

I'm not trying to be a w***e and get a bazillion followers, I'm after quality before quantity, and if I'm only following 200, and I only have a following of 200, that's just fine with me.

Re: Firefox 3: Impressions, Issues, and Verdict

Bryan Price — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 20:17:51 -0000

That's why I went to portableapps.org, downloaded portable Firefox 3.0, and tried to install all my extensions. Tab Mix Pro still isn't ready. My theme (Noia Extreme 2.0) isn't ready, and I haven't found a good theme I like that runs on FF3 yet. So I'm still running FF2 until these items get resovled.

Re: Post MCSE Bootcamp Report

Bryan Price — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 21:18:43 -0000

No, I'm leaving a comment, not email you. :-P

That was pretty good. I'm signed up for a bootcamp (this one is in Miami) and while I've been out of work for the past six years (I became Mr. Mom), I really had no idea of what it was really going to be like. And I'm glad to hear that somebody that's good with NT 4 doesn't have a whole lot more to get up to speed.

I'm already running 2k3 as a workstation, and have run some of the virtual machines that MS provides. I've still got a bunch of studying to do. But I already knew that. So I haven't just let myself go stale.

Thanks for sharing!

Re: Ever Been Deposed?

Bryan Price — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 17:00:33 -0000

I've only had to give a deposition about two employees that I was supervising at the time. A rape case no less. After having no credibility on both sides after that, I moved myself to another non-supervisory position, and moved on with my life. Yeah, like you get training for that kind of crap.

Re: The anti-RSS hype

Bryan Price — Sun, 01 Jan 2006 22:48:04 -0000

Well, by my count, it's currently 780 public blogs according to http://www.bloglines.com/public/bytehead/

Evidently I'm strange. Of course, I tried aggregate reades a few years before. On dial up, it really sucked, as all of a sudden, page loads would start crawling, because the aggregator decided to grab all of the updates, and proceeded to suck all my available bandwidth away from me.

Which is probably one reason why I'm really hooked on Bloglines, and web-based aggregators. I'm not sucking all that bandwidth through my system. Updates that I don't care about, not my bandwidth/problem.

Re: Blog networks changing history?

Bryan Price — Sat, 11 Feb 2006 11:11:45 -0000

Nope, I didn't read this article at http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/ . But I did read it at http://www.bloglines.com/myblogs/ .

Then again, I read it knowing that it did come from the scobleizer, so attribution was still kept.

And I agree it's a problem.

Re: Google’s local search impresses on “notary” search

Bryan Price — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 08:28:50 -0000

See what happens when bandwidth is cheap? :-P

Of course, I can still remember when having a US Robotics HST was the **** for file transfer. When Fido ruled the world, gateways everywhere.

Now I can't live without my cable modem, always on, always fast (mostly) and still at the same price as an additional POTS line and dial-up ISP.

Yes, I'm an old fart. (Google or Yahoo, that's me in the first position)

Re: Glenn Reynolds saw a Saturn Aura…

Bryan Price — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 13:35:16 -0000

My bought a 2000 Saturn LS, first year for that model. First strike. The interior after six months wasn't in great shape, but 4 kids probably had more to do with that. My new Hyundai is almost a year old, and while not immaculate, it certainly is still in better shape. But that's with two kids. :/ Not a strike, but an observation. My old '90 Grand Marquis had a similar destruction of it's interior once I moved in.

After the warranty ran out, things started going bad. A/C compressor blew, requiring a replacement. Due to cost, we didn't go with the factory compressor, nor with the dealer. Problem was, there were three different parts for the one part that did have to come from the dealer, with absolutely no way of determining which one it was. Yep, it took three tries (and each one the dealer had to order) to get the right part. Strike two. If you have to engineer three different parts for apparently no reason (I really don't want to know why), then I certainly have my qualms.

Various recalls, including the last one where the back lights have to be replaced because when you turn the lights on, the brake lights behave irregularly. We reported this problem three years before they finally decided to do the recall.

It's a manual transmission. Currently it's fine around town, but driving it on the Interstate is a problem because the clutch refuses to engage (evidently because it's too hot) when trying to exit the highway. It may (or may not) be an issue with the slave cylinder for the clutch. 14 hours of time to tear apart, fix if possible, and then put back together, over $1000 just to maybe fix that. Strike three.

I really wanted to replace the Saturn before I replaced the Grand Marquis, even though it had 100,000 more miles on it. But the A/C compressor was shot in it, and it had developed it's second short, the first of which the person who thought it wouldn't be a big deal, finally broke down and just rewired the problem wire.

So we donated it, and bought a new Hyundai, based on others reports of others who rented them on a regular basis, and more research on the web. We've been extremely happy with it. It is a fun car to drive, but not as fun I'm sure as your BMW. I used to drive a Merkur Scorpio, and that was a fun thing to drive, especially on the curves.

Good luck with the Saturn.

Re: Code of conduct or not?

Bryan Price — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 11:48:04 -0000

I don't like^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H disagree with all six points.

http://www.bytehead.org/blog/2007_04_01_archive...

And I almost choked to death when Dave Winer said over the first Twitter conference call about how everybody wants to be an A-lister. Not me! Before I could get a word out, we were already on a different subject! Sigh. Oh well. We introverts have to suffer with you extroverts.

Me? As somebody blogged in Gruntled Employees, the best blogging rule is the shortest: Be professional.

Re: Zawodny trying to define Web 2.0

Bryan Price — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 14:09:27 -0000

Considering for at least a couple of days, my Twitter home page is static, and only updates when I want to, that's still at the web 1.0 level.

Re: News tonight for developers

Bryan Price — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 14:11:46 -0000

Must hate us right coasties. I'm supposed to wait after midnight?

Re: The invisible audience shows up — on Facebook

Bryan Price — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 22:23:23 -0000

I have commented before.

Then again, the problem is that I'm not on Facebook!

And I think that you may be right about class division.

Re: Firefox on Macs giving people fits

Bryan Price — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 16:54:59 -0000

I have an issue with Google and Firefox. If I do a search under Google, there is some kind of javascript that that pegs the CPU (I'm double threaded so the computer isn't quite dead) and then finally times out. Under IE7 or Safari, no problem. I've tried the Javascript debugger, but whatever it is, it won't even let the debugger touch it. Gmail, Blogger and other Google properties aren't an issue. And it really only hits some of the time, but when that percentage is over 50, and it is, it's a pain. But when the javascript times out and I cancel, the page is fine.

I ran into this with Greasemonkey some time ago. It was nice, but when pages where taking 10s of seconds to load with a bunch of CPU taken up, I decided to uninstall it, and things went back to snappy for me.

But I've installed it on other computers, and they never have the problems that I've seen.

YMMV

Re: Firefox on Macs giving people fits

Bryan Price — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 16:55:33 -0000

PC here BTW. Knew I forgot something.

Re: Slight diversion into politics…why is Ron Paul getting blog hype?

Bryan Price — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 09:36:38 -0000

Robert, so now you're a Buddhist Liberal?? JUST KIDDING!

I think you're right. And another point after you have traveled in Europe (as have I) is that the dollar is being artificially held stronger than it should, which means it should be truly killer in Europe.

Chris, there are two minds out there about politics and blogs. If you are an A-lister, you're probably right. You could blog, but it needs to be a separate blog. But if you're not an A-lister, say Rand Simberg of http://www.transterrestrial.com/, that's probably a different thing. I read Rand for his space insight, but boy do I have to suffer through his political stuff. And he's OK with mixing the two. And yes, I've thought about transferring him from my Space folder to my Politics folder in Bloglines many a time.

And then there's me at the end of tail. I rant about whatever, the cats, the car, the computer, and the idiots that I see out there. I wanted to be a tech blog, but I seem to be coming across more as a political blog. Shrug.

I know that the Fed has been out of control since the inflation driven 70's, when it was obvious to my teenaged mind that the high rates back then were inflationary in themselves. But that's not an issue I'm paying any attention to myself. The war, the budget and health care are my big buttons right now. And I've only been blogging about the war, so you figure it out.

Re: It’s your business

Bryan Price — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 21:47:36 -0000

Good luck whatever you choose to do.

I'm not sure about living one's life digitally all the time. I know you don't do that with your personal life, and I don't quite see doing it in your professional life either.

Re: Bloglines doesn’t suck

Bryan Price — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 13:14:28 -0000

This just proves that Scoble is an idiot. Just like the rest of us! :)

Sexy video? Since when did you start doing porn! :-P

Re: Bloglines sucks

Bryan Price — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 13:29:15 -0000

Google Reader doesn't just work for me. Yes, I've tried it, when Bloglines fell off and stopped updating one weekend. It imported my OPML file just fine, but trying to get caught back up when you're reading 1000 feeds is a bitch. Especially when you think that you're almost done reading a folder and Google then proceeds to keep scrolling more new stuff at you. No demarcation of when I've stopped reading on one feed and started another. No real numbers, just 100+ or 1000+. No (obvious) way of collapsing feeds, and no (obvious) way to mark a folder read. Stuff that I scrolled by that was still marked as new (which was the most frustrating). Hell, I don't even like the beta Bloglines. Go figure. And I get updates on articles on those feeds that I want.

I can understand the frustration. You just choose the wrong target.

Re: Bloglines sucks

Bryan Price — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 17:04:33 -0000

Looking back, no wonder I've set some blogs to ignore updates this week. I already had you "ignored". ;-) Have no clue as to why. So it wasn't a biggie for me anyway.

I'm just surprised at the number of Bloglines readers there are. The 200 limit should also be a limit for Beta Bloglines, as that's the limit in the backend. I don't run into that as a problem except for my torrent feeds, which have become pretty much useless at this point regardless of reader. Just way too much to go through and weed out what I may want.

Re: One-Way Mission to Mars: Top 5 Items to Pack

Bryan Price — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 14:14:44 -0000

I would think my own NCC-1701 (original, A, B, C, D, E) would be a good investment. A Minbari Flyer would be a good choice. I'm just not sure that a White Star can make an atmospheric landing. Anything from Farscape though would scare me. Daedalus would be good as well.

A Star Trek replicator would be excellent, but an SG-1 Replicator would not.

The Star Trek Companion would be interesting, but then who wants to live forever?

And whatever it takes to make Romulan Ale would also be a good companion with the barley, wheat and grapes. Potatoes too for vodka.

And probably a tasp to pass the time away.

Re: First Coast News has a MySpace

Bryan Price — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 17:26:05 -0000

Interesting login date.

And I can't find it on MySpace. :-P