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Re: September 20th, 2009

G Orwell — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 10:47:23 -0000

"The Italian Coffee Company" is in Futura, which tells me you stole them from a Wes Anderson set.

Re: blog.iphone-dev.org | Flash!

G Orwell — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 13:19:04 -0000

I had my Mail app crashing like that too. Solution was to delete back-up in iTunes then restore. If you don't delete the backup it will keep restoring the screwed up mail settings.

Re: Still cranking away...

G Orwell — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 16:29:17 -0000

Yes please.

Re: Facebook Launches Data Storage Service

G Orwell — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 09:28:50 -0000

Very interesting indeed. It could help those developers who are worried about their apps becoming too popular.

Re: Another Facebook Domain Lawsuit Coming?

G Orwell — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 13:07:04 -0000

Well as long as they have a Google AdSense account it can be traced to a real person.

Re: HAVE THRILLING RACES AT HOME!

G Orwell — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 21:47:47 -0000

I got a record just like this as a child in the 80's. Probably still have it. Neat to see that they were around for decades before my time.

Re: Chain Prevents Dropping Shaver

G Orwell — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 21:51:00 -0000

Hey! It's a Nintendo Wii controller!

Re: Open Theater Has Directed Sound

G Orwell — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 20:38:23 -0000

My local drive-in had a speaker for each car, until just a few years ago, when they finally got an FM radio system. I didn't realize there had been a drive-in with one huge speaker for the whole lot.

Re: Slot Machine Vends 25c Sunburns

G Orwell — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 20:51:01 -0000

It was probably cheaper to go see a two movies with a newsreel and a Bugs Bunny cartoon.

Re: Builds Playhouse From Oil Cans

G Orwell — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 05:28:16 -0000

Wonder how much lead is in that thing.

Re: TOBACCO SMOKE NOT HARMFUL ACCORDING TO MINE TEST

G Orwell — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 04:01:53 -0000

Well, that settles it, then.

Re: Man of Future to Have One Eye

G Orwell — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 11:10:21 -0000

Even in 1934 this was nonsense. Darwin himself knew better.

Re: New Devices FOR THE BUSY HOMEMAKER

G Orwell — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 15:18:43 -0000

Cigarettes and asbestos, together at last!

Re: New Ingenuities

G Orwell — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 07:54:55 -0000

A bull fight with an electric cattle prod is just not sporting.

Re: Wallpapering Your Floor

G Orwell — Fri, 16 May 2008 16:49:48 -0000

A hardwood floor would not have surprised me, though. You can see on home renovation TV shows, a lot of great hardwood floors got covered up by ugly carpets & stuff back in the 70's. They go in & out of fashion.

Re: THE GUN THAT REFUSED TO DIE

G Orwell — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 08:30:21 -0000

It's so much fun to watch them fire these guns in old westerns. One hand on the trigger, one on the hammer.

Re: Off to go to Dublin, Disconnects between Blogosphere and Real World

G Orwell — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 09:36:05 -0000

Go read some teenagers' blogs, they are almost TOO real! They talk about their friends, people they hate, how drunk they got last weekend. They don't link to anything, they don't really want more than one or two people reading their journal anyway.

Re: Dave Winer: how RSS can break through

G Orwell — Sun, 05 Feb 2006 12:32:06 -0000

The other 20 per cent? Just ask him.

Re: Bill Gates in Fortune, but we noticed something small on his desk

G Orwell — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 19:18:43 -0000

Bill's office looks surprisingly normal, except that it's probably inside a secret lair in a hollowed-out volcano.

Re: Xbox’s still in high demand

G Orwell — Wed, 05 Apr 2006 11:03:23 -0000

I didn't know 360's were selling for such a low price in Japan, but the number of units sold is tiny. Less than 1,500 in a week. See this:

http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php...

Re: Eye-Fi: Solving the digital photography pain

G Orwell — Tue, 25 Apr 2006 21:10:00 -0000

I would love to know how this works. Does the SD card appear to be a shared folder on the network? Or maybe it's the world's smallest HTTP server.

Re: New Sony, Old Sony

G Orwell — Mon, 01 May 2006 03:18:33 -0000

Looks like Sony is still putting Memory Stick slots in their HDTV's, but no SD slot. It's the same deal as my Sony from 3 1/2 years ago. Seems that the Playstation 3 will actually have SD though.

Re: Outside the 53,651 bubble

G Orwell — Mon, 15 May 2006 06:33:03 -0000

You do end up in a rut when all your friends & acquaintances are part of a very small minority of America. That is not something one can change easily.

Re: The questioning of career, life, family, love follows grief (taking a week off of blogging)

G Orwell — Fri, 26 May 2006 11:14:33 -0000

Robert, I hope you don't regret buying the car. Thinking about my own mortality just makes me want to get rid of my possessions -- you can't take them with you.

Re: See Windows Vista site goes viral

G Orwell — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 20:08:27 -0000

The first time you boot Vista, you will get a 45-minute interactive training video starring Wilford Brimley

Re: The car of the future?

G Orwell — Sun, 16 Jul 2006 01:55:29 -0000

The host makes a SARS joke. That made me do a double take!

Re: McLaws is right on Windows Vista ship date

G Orwell — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 04:27:01 -0000

Robert, you imply that the Windows XP UI is drawn with the CPU, but it has been accelerated by the GPU for many years. The menu fade-in/fade-out effect is particularly agonizing on an integrated video chip that doesn't handle it.

Wish I could comment on Vista performance but I've only run it in a virtual machine.

Re: On the grid at OffTheGrid

G Orwell — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 07:59:41 -0000

You can tell they're on vacation because their shoes are off. These guys know how to relax!

Re: Scoble says half of all Live Spaces aren’t blogs*

G Orwell — Sun, 20 Aug 2006 22:49:15 -0000

I think pretty much any online publication that lets the readers post comments counts as a blog. Maybe we should vote on this, now that would be funny. The International Astronomical Union is currently taking a vote on the definition of "planet" and I'm sure the space nuts are just as nutty as the blog nuts.

Re: Feedless bloggers frustrate

G Orwell — Wed, 23 Aug 2006 17:50:22 -0000

The Persian RSS feed is unfortunately encoded with UTF-16. Safari would understand if they changed to UTF-8, which is really the universal standard for XML files.

Re: Feedless bloggers frustrate

G Orwell — Wed, 23 Aug 2006 17:55:37 -0000

Feedburner saves the day... It cleaned up that feed and it's Safari friendly.
http://feeds.feedburner.com/shimahamedanian

Re: Watching movies on laptops

G Orwell — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 17:12:10 -0000

Not sure about Windows, but on the Mac you can play Quicktime movies full screen with Real Player (which is nice & doesn't have the annoying crap-you-have-to-disable that the Windows version has) or iTunes.

Re: ScobleShow post mortem (wow, Ask blog search rocks!)

G Orwell — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 18:58:21 -0000

Glenn Fleishman of Wifinetnews.com also recommended CastingWords. It uses Amazon slave labor & gets surprisingly good results.

Re: Smart person’s debate of OSX vs. Windows Vista

G Orwell — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 13:03:01 -0000

How about Tina Fey, she was the head writer for Saturday Night Live, and I think they were all into Macs. And people in real life might care what she thinks.

Re: AppleTV: Xbox without the “X?”

G Orwell — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 14:46:37 -0000

Jobs said that Apple is shooting for 1 per cent market share with iPhone in its first year. Fair enough—it’s nice if you want to pay for the privilege of being tied to your job 24 hours a day.

Re: EXCLUSIVE FIRST LOOK: UrbanSeeder (tour of CERN up too)

G Orwell — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 16:21:58 -0000

So, I can go to a bar, lure someone away to a private corner, reveal myself gradually, and plant my seed. Interesting.

Re: I had a good blog post planned but then…

G Orwell — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 17:23:53 -0000

Yep, crashed Safari for me too! Safari is smart enough to know that it's bad for us!

Re: Another lame idea or next “million dollar pixel” site? Or both?

G Orwell — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 17:38:35 -0000

WTF is this guy selling?

Re: MySpace’ers learn harsh reality

G Orwell — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 14:11:37 -0000

I think it's OK for Myspace to block anything they want. If they make a bad decision the free market will sort it out.

Re: My Parental Heroes

G Orwell — Fri, 04 May 2007 15:14:56 -0000

Here is one of my favourite bloggers, a surgeon who often writes about the mercury/vaccination/autism nonsense.

http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/medicine/autism/

Re: RSS Mistakes people make

G Orwell — Sat, 05 May 2007 16:41:46 -0000

Odd problem 1: Some feeds have the wrong times on their articles, making them come from the future, or always at 12:00 midnight.

Odd problem 2: Some feeds mark their 10 most recent items as "new" every time one new item is posted.

The symptoms can vary depending on the feed reader being used.

Re: Firefox on Macs giving people fits

G Orwell — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 18:02:00 -0000

I think Opera is damn fast, though it has a weird UI. May be quite good when you get used to it. But I've never taken the time.

Re: Report from the line

G Orwell — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 15:37:10 -0000

I'd like to see some photos of the Apple store in Toronto, with nobody waiting in line.

Re: Apple working on Adobe Flash support for iPhone

G Orwell — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 04:55:23 -0000

Jump to 47:30 in this video with an Adobe engineer. I think he wanted to confirm that Flash is running on the ARM processor (which is in the iPhone) but he stops short of saying it.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-115611...

Re: The real Joost killer is Joost itself

G Orwell — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 21:21:08 -0000

I have created this special RSS feed that automatically turns Scoble & his son into Nokia fans! Hooray!

http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_id=1ERYp...

Re: What happened to ICQ?

G Orwell — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 18:12:13 -0000

My first IM network was called PowWow. But almost nobody was using it. Eventually I got on the ICQ bandwagon, but like a lot of commenters here, there was a mass exodus to MSN. These days I go weeks or even months without using IM. I seem to have gone back to email and phone calls. I feel like an old fart!

Another thing I stopped using was Slashdot. My number there is less than 1600.

Re: Hate my iPhone and Facebook yammering?

G Orwell — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 17:01:42 -0000

Courtesy of Yahoo Pipes you can turn Scobleizer into a Nokia lover!
http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=1ERY...

It's for anyone who enjoys the bizarro-world feeling.

Re: New Facebook course at Stanford University

G Orwell — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 09:49:26 -0000

I have been seeing a lot of partnership opportunities for Facebook developers on Craig's List. They are posted by people who have no business plan or programming skills. I hope we don't see lives get ruined.

Re: Microsoft’s new maps are stunning

G Orwell — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 17:34:23 -0000

I also got redirected to http://intl.local.live.com/ in Safari. That page has two text boxes. "What" and "Where". Neither one can find your address. Sometimes Microsoft is still f-ing hopeless.

Re: Where did Forrester get its Twitter data?

G Orwell — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 07:29:14 -0000

I reckon 0.25% if you're generous and assume 500,000 U.S. Twitter users out of 200 million online adults.

Re: Why are some bloggers turning on Apple?

G Orwell — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 10:33:49 -0000

This is all anecdotal evidence. Wait for the quarterly results on January 22 to see if they should worry. I suspect they are feeling pretty comfortable!

Re: Air is in my future

G Orwell — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 14:23:17 -0000

Be careful with your credit card. This may be the slowest computer that Apple makes, especially that iPod hard drive! Is it worth it?

Re: Air is in my future

G Orwell — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 03:56:27 -0000

The battery will be replaceable for $129. Just FYI
Reference: http://www.tuaw.com/2008/01/16/new-macbook-air-...

Re: Is Facebook doomed?

G Orwell — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 03:57:38 -0000

I keep my Facebook account because it helps some old friends find me. They could just type my name into Google and send me an email, but seriously, there must be people who don't even think to do that.

Re: Revver’s Downtime Results In User Loss

G Orwell — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 14:03:07 -0000

Revver hasn't paid anyone in a few months, so don't be surprised if the site never comes back.