Disqus - Friends of andyswan

Re: Working on new editorial tools. (Scripting News)

dave — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 23:39:02 -0000

Yup, if you look at my tweetstream you'll see they're all there.

I even have a bookmarklet that grabs the url of a page I'm looking at,
shortens it, grabs the title pushes it into an outline heading, where I edit
it. When I'm ready to release I hit the Twitter button. If it's less than
140 chars it confirms I want to send it, if it's greater than 140 it
switches over to Twitter where I can edit it.

The workflow is absolutely honed to make it so I have to do as little work
as possible.

Re: Working on new editorial tools. (Scripting News)

dave — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:10:42 -0000

Yes, that's what I'm saying in the post.

I'm redesigning my entire web presence.

You can think of the current scripting.com implementation as "legacy" -- a
word that I generally don't like to use, but it fits in this case. Pretty
sure I'm going to transition away from this way of doing things.

Dave

Re: Working on new editorial tools. (Scripting News)

dave — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:00:46 -0000

Yes but...

Most aggregators won't do the right thing with that feed.

Here's the better feed to subscribe to, for now...

http://static.lifeliner.org/dave/rss.xml

However I gotta say there isn't even a single aggregator that will know what
to do with that.

It's very much a work in progress, "under construction" as they used to say.

Dave

Re: I want to divorce my iPhone (Scripting News)

dave — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:22:50 -0000

For crying out loud -- where have you been?

Re: I want to divorce my iPhone (Scripting News)

dave — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:19:38 -0000

I love the Droid.

Re: A social namespace (Scripting News)

dave — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:54:56 -0000

Ohhhhhh but they do make assumptions. :-)

I think there's even validators that enforce them.

Re: No support on Twitter please. (Scripting News)

dave — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:45:10 -0000

Yes, that works. Tweeting "Comcast sucks!" is likely to get you a "Wazzup"
from one of their support people.

Re: Coolest thing my father did (Scripting News)

dave — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:12:13 -0000

You realize this is the entire epitaph for Joseph V Cotter on teh WWW?

This incident with the wine is the only record that he ever existed.

Somehow I knew it would come to this, but of course at the time I didn't
know about the web.

Heh. :-)

Re: A superfast RSS subscribe (Scripting News)

dave — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:31:24 -0000

I don't know what Feedly is or what it has to do with this Bookmarklet.

Re: A superfast RSS subscribe (Scripting News)

dave — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:23:03 -0000

Sure it's possible. I'll do it if there's enough interest. Are you using
River2?

Re: A superfast RSS subscribe (Scripting News)

dave — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:14:34 -0000

Does it work with River2?

Re: Coolest thing my father did (Scripting News)

dave — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:35:22 -0000

Yes. I was drinking wine before school.

I was an idiot -- or put it another way -- I was 15 years old. :-)

Re: Coolest thing my father did (Scripting News)

dave — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 21:15:47 -0000

Pretty good chance I was also doing acid and smoking reefer too. But those aren't quite as obvious as drinking wine. And as I reported -- I stole the wine from my dad, he wasn't a beer drinker, and I thought, even then (for other reasons) that hard liquor was pretty unclassy.

Re: I got a DROID (Scripting News)

dave — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 15:14:51 -0000

Buzz is a funny thing, it might have been luck or the ads or Motorola. Timing matters too and the sense that it's going to be a while before Apple ships an exciting new iPhone

Re: Introducing listbrowser.org (Scripting News)

dave — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 15:11:13 -0000

Click on the name of the list at thetop of the page

Re: I got a DROID (Scripting News)

dave — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 23:31:55 -0000

Thanks! I just added you as an author -- which means you can create posts and publish them. Please write some cheat sheets and howtos! I'll continue asking dumb questions. :-)

Re: I got a DROID (Scripting News)

dave — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 22:50:31 -0000

Oy. It turns out I need your email address not username. Sorry for the runaround.

Re: I got a DROID (Scripting News)

dave — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 21:18:53 -0000

Here's the site.

http://droidie.com/

If you have a wordpress.com account, let me know what it is and I'll set you up as a contributor.

Re: I got a DROID (Scripting News)

dave — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:56:36 -0000

Okay, let's work on this.

I'll set the site up right now.

Dave

Re: I got a DROID (Scripting News)

dave — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 13:45:29 -0000

If I started a Droid blog on wordpress.com, would you be willing to post
that stuff there?

Re: Peek was worth a peek (Scripting News)

dave — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 11:36:03 -0000

That was my idea.

Hard to say, my eyes are only 54 years old, but they're not in great shape
and I had no trouble reading the screen.

The only way to tell is to try it out, I guess.

Dave

Re: I got a DROID (Scripting News)

dave — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 11:25:42 -0000

Thanks for the tips.

Is there a good website or book to read about Android from a user point of
view?

There's a lot of culture to absorb all at once.

A cheat sheet would be nice! :-)

Re: Twitter needs a command-line (Scripting News)

dave — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:51:38 -0000

Still need the ability to do a sequence of them.

Re: I got a DROID (Scripting News)

dave — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:12:31 -0000

Actually I'm really beginning to like the keyboard. I really like the way it
suggests words, much much much better than the iPhone.

Re: I got a DROID (Scripting News)

dave — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:01:44 -0000

Thank you! It worked. I can now see the DROID on my Mac desktop.