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Re: Stick it to Supah Tuesday...my favorite day of the week.

anonymous — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:25:46 -0000

You sound Fat. The thin person inside you is not ready to come out yet, so why not have another cake?

Re: Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes

anonymous — Tue, 15 May 2007 09:01:02 -0000

Not to be rude, David, but Microsoft has been doing this for years. Here's Steve Ballmer in November 2004 talking how Linux violates 228 patents. Microsoft employs several hundred lawyers. I suspect that they could probably manage to file a lawsuit in the 2.5 years between then and now if they actually had any evidence, if their claim was actually in any way true.

So you're working for a company which out-and-out lies in order to damage the Open Source software community. Has a history of doing it, and continues to do it today, and will continue to do it tomorrow. Microsoft also funded the long-running SCO patent lawsuit & funding another company's lawsuit where it essentially claimed ownership of Linux and sued IBM baselessly. So Microsoft used a proxy to push a nuisance lawsuit designed to create FUD around Linux.

You need to think of your reputation. Personally, I would never hire an ex-Microsoft employee, just as I would never hire, say, someone who had worked for the KKK. I'm afraid that when you work for a company being fully aware of their proclivities, you have to take some ownership for their actions. I hope they're paying you well.

Re: Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes

anonymous — Tue, 15 May 2007 11:53:05 -0000

Let's try this again: the link to Steve Ballmer saying this exact same thing in 2004 is Ballmer in 2004 .

Unfortunately, the latest reporter from Fortune magazine was too clueless to ask Ballmer, 'Since you made this claim in 2004, you've taken no action to enforce these alleged patents and produced no evidence to back up your claims. Why should we believe you when you make this same claim in 2007?'

Re: Playhouse on Park Plans for an Active Summer

anonymous — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 23:35:10 -0000

I love this news, short, simple, catchy, and entertaining!

Whats going on in Bishops Corner? Is Edens and Avant leasing spaces? Whats the real story behind the disappearance of Mac Grille, and PetCo? Any new anchors going to take the PetCo space? ITS WHAT WE ALL WANT TO KNOW!!
That would be a great investigation.

Keep up the good work!

Re: Fred Wilson Dot VC

anonymous — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 06:24:07 -0000

It seems weird when folks are obviously taking their own picture yet pretending to be candid.

Re: Ultra-immersive, long-form video games from the past or future

anonymous — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 00:12:29 -0000

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principles_of_Phil...

Re: A speech delivered forty years ago tonight in Indianapolis

anonymous — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 22:55:21 -0000

There is still a small monument in Indianapolis on the site of the speech. As a former resident if the city, I came across it in a park on the west side of downtown Indy. Kennedy's speech was a small ray of hope in an otherwise senseless tragedy... We owe a great deal to MLK.

Re: "Everybody needs to grab a hose, and that's what Charlie Crist is doing here today." - President Obama

anonymous — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 19:54:45 -0000

The second I heard him say that, I knew you'd blog it. Sometimes an innocent phrase can speak volumes of truth.

Re: Exclusive cellphone contracts under review by Senate

anonymous — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 07:40:31 -0000

Two main points:

1. Exclusive contracts permeate nearly all industries. If you don't like it, start or invest in a company that makes a better product than the one you crave. It's capitalism and there's absolutely nothing wrong with it.

2. Even if the iPhone 3G or 3GS were available on a non-exclusive basis in the U.S., it would only work on the the slower GPRS/EDGE data network of T-Mobile and a few smaller GSM carriers. It could never work on the Verizon or Sprint networks, since they use CDMA 1X and EV-DO. You're not insisting that Apple spend money developing multiple versions of all of its platforms simultaneously, are you? With that kind of requirement, we'd never have any innovation.

I realize that this is a frustrating situation, but in this country, government intervention in these types of scenarios is simply untenable.

Re: Senate GOP health bill moves forward

anonymous — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 11:14:43 -0000

Here's the kicker: the Baucus/GOP-neutered bill will receive ZERO GOP votes. They keep pulling this compromise BS, and then they don't vote for it anyway. How can the Dems be so stupid?

Re: This just in: Obama supports the public option again

anonymous — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 20:17:45 -0000

I have an idea. Don't throw a fit every time you try to play mind reader only to be proven wrong. Obama and his advisers give honest answers to questions, and you and the wingers all go nuts. Relax. Look for results and stop hanging on every subtle word.

Re: Since you guys asked…

anonymous — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 14:24:13 -0000

About time!! Congratulations :-D - looking forward to reading it!

Re: This Old Post

anonymous — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 19:47:04 -0000

http://digg.com/tech_news/Molotov_Cocktail_on_t...

Re: CNN Documents Sarah Palin's Truthiness Problem

anonymous — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 09:23:52 -0000

These lies from Palin should be making headlines. To make such obviously false claims in your first three speeches in the national spotlight, you deserve to become known as someone who has a problem telling the truth.

Also, Feyerick said "aboriginal issues." Clearly she meant "eskimo issues." Do they not have editors and producers at CNN?

Finally, the story of the day is what TPM borke on the image behind McCain last night. It was Walter Reed middle school in CA, not the actual medical center in DC. McCain gave the first few minutes of the most important speech of his life in front of a giant picture of a random middle school because of his staff's incompetence.

Re: McCain's Lame October Surprise: Joe, The Right-Wing Loon

anonymous — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 12:18:24 -0000

Don't forget the state income taxes that he failed to pay, as reported by the Politico:

http://www.politico.com/blogs/jonathanmartin/10...

Oh, and he hates Social Security, just like John McCain! This is hilarious.

Re: CP+B's Gets Grief for Crowdsourcing Logo, Own Site Used Against Them - mediabistro.com: AgencySpy

anonymous — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 09:45:02 -0000

Yeah, people are talking about them, but not in a good way. This is not the kind of negative publicity a company wants. Besides, it was a dumb business move on CP+B's part. Now that businesses see that they use Crowdspring for their work, why would they bother to pay them? They could bypass having to pay CP+B and go straight to the source and submit their project on Crowdspring. Now it looks like CP+B is losing their big VW account. Sounds like tough times ahead for them.

Re: Google to AdSense users: Please don’t dump us in crap economic times

anonymous — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 16:11:41 -0000

Adsense now pays about 5% per click to publishers what it paid a few short years ago. It's at the point where publishers should charge google a flat fee just for the privilege of of showing Adsense ads on their site.

Re: BUJUN GNSBB YVNZ Decrypted

anonymous — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 15:14:05 -0000

ROT13

Re: Moonlight 1.9 and Ogg - Miguel de Icaza

anonymous — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 15:54:46 -0000

Miguel, is it possible to write moonlight apps with ruby?

Re: flashtogo: featured web sites - Based on the Portfolio 40 Series, number 13.

anonymous — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 08:28:49 -0000

What a beautiful designS. Congrats!

Re: U Can't Touch This.

anonymous — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 06:30:34 -0000

I don't agree, they are volunteers. You can't tell the dev-team what to do, they are doing a great job they just need some time.

So EVERYONE stop whining and use a hardware SIM mod if you want to unlock your iPhone.

Re: Two steps forward...

anonymous — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 09:58:31 -0000

Thanks for the update! I DO like these technical updates. You guys are doing a great job!

Re: Sunday is a funday!

anonymous — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 05:22:51 -0000

You guys ROCK!! and are doing a great job!

Re: Netflix Demos Silverlight Watch Now

anonymous — Wed, 02 May 2007 01:08:29 -0000

Both IE and Windows Media Player used to run on Mac too, until Microsoft discontinued them. Why do we think it will be any different this time around with Silverlight?

In the past, Microsoft has actively developed a product up until it takes enough market share to be entrenched. Then they just let it fester and use it as a weapon against other platforms. They need to do A LOT more than just a dog-and-pony show with some Macs to show that they've changed their ways and that they plan to actually develop this as a first-class, robust, cross-platform environment for the next decade.

Re: Conventions Aftermath: McCain closing the gap on Obama

anonymous — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 16:07:06 -0000

Watch McSame win in November.

The problem is that America has just enough retards to keep electing GOP scum over and over.

Re: Rants heard 'round the Community ver. 10

anonymous — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 07:24:40 -0000

No one gives a shit about having to download drivers in windows because a user can install drivers in windows.

None of this linux bullshit where you need the kernel to be recomplied to use a different printer.

Re: Firefox 3 Bookmarks (My god, it’s full of stars…)

anonymous — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 23:51:31 -0000

Just two things:

1. Mozilla should start the new "social" by creating spaces for people to sync their bookmarks across computers saving their bookmarks online, then other stuff will come for sure but that is just a start.

2. Is there a way to standardize a meta tag for "tags" in web pages so this one click bookmarking feature adds the tags by itself?

Nice blog btw!

Re: One Way to Monetize Apps? Get Acquired!

anonymous — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 18:48:01 -0000

Hi5 is worse then Facebook indeed.

Re: 10 Things HR Needs to Do in an Economic Downturn: Redux

anonymous — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 08:34:44 -0000

Um, that'd be $800 Buh-buh-buh-billion!

Re: A Roundup Of Leopard Security Features

anonymous — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 14:25:46 -0000

Thomas: I don't understand why you think using signing to protect the keychain is "irrelevant"? You argued for dozens of posts back in April that it was a really big deal that you could use (a now closed) vector to get access to a user's keychain:

http://www.matasano.com/log/809/a-little-challe...

Either protecting the keychain is important or it's not. You can't have it both ways. If you want to argue that signing should be used for even more purposes, fine. But you can't argue that this is an "irrelevant" feature unless you want to argue that your entire exercise back in April was just an exercise in idiocy.

As an academic researcher myself, I understand that your default instinct is to be critical wherever possible. But you should at least try to be intellectually consistent in your criticisms.

Re: A Roundup Of Leopard Security Features

anonymous — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 15:55:56 -0000

Thomas, I think I may have confused you when I mentioned "now closed" vector. That was a reference to the fact that Input Managers are better protected now (a crucial component in your previous hypothetical attack). It wasn't referring to LD_PRELOAD.

Your 9:40 am post states that you agree code signing is helping protect the keychain. Nobody said that it would reduce the probability of an exploit to 0. That would just be stupid.

So my question remains: In April you made a big fuss about gaining access to a user's keychain. Now you say it's not worth protecting. Which is it?

(My personal opinion is that it's worth protecting, but that's not the question.)

Re: A Roundup Of Leopard Security Features

anonymous — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 14:35:21 -0000

Thomas: Don't be silly - nobody ever said that reducing vulnerabilities was bad. Well, nobody except the straw man that you made up.

I did say that it is impossible to engineer a system with zero probability of exploit. This is just trivially true - if you believe you can reduce the probability of exploitation to 0, you reject the fundamental laws of mathematics and the universe in which we live. But I'm sure we both agree that reducing vulnerabilities, and thus reducing the probability of an exploit, is a good idea.

I wish you would just give a straight answer on the keychain rather than continually dancing around and trying to have it both ways. At this point I don't know if this is supposed to be a security forum or a legal forum. If you don't think Leopard does anything at all to protect the keychain, why did you write, "protecting nothing but keychain was a bad security call on Apple’s part (or a necessary tradeoff with the same effect as a bad call)"? Were you wrong at 9:40 am, or are you wrong now? It's got to be one or the other.

Re: Revolution blahg

anonymous — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 03:15:26 -0000

Just save yourself the trouble and go with emacs now, once you get used to its power you'll never want to go back.

Re: Bilan de l’opération EEEPC chez SFR : Un flop monumental ? - By Pierre Lecourt - - Blogeee.net

anonymous — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 06:10:43 -0000

Je suis aussi assez étonné sur ce qui se passe en france (je suis belge). Chez nous, pas de vente forcée du tout, ce qui veut dire :

on paye nos portables plein tarif (et c'est très bien) comme ça on peut mettre n'importe quelle carte sim dedans.

Je pense que SFR a voulu considérer que l'EEE était un téléphone, et que comme les téléphones, quand on a un abonnement il est moins chez. C'est à la fois un avantage et un inconvénient.

Si vous protestez contre ça, protestez aussi contre la vente forcée de GSM ou d'abonnements GSM, protestez contre la vente d'OS (Windows, Apple et maintenant linux - qui devrait être gratuit)

Sans ça, mon EEE est super, mais j'ai pas adoré Xandros, alors j'ai mis eeeXubuntu excellent.

PS : j'ai commandé chez LDLC jeudi à midi pile, et je l'avais en Belgique vendredi matin à 11h30. Chapeau bas ! Mais bon il était à 340€. Mais on a rien sans rien.

Bravo Blogeee cependant, excellent blog !

Re: Des batteries 4800 mAh au lieu de 5200 mAh ? (Sondage inside) - By Pierre Lecourt - - Blogeee.net

anonymous — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 06:36:45 -0000

noir LDLC 5200 eeepc4g-bk011

Re: Le Médion Akoya en août en France, fin juillet en Suisse ? - By Pierre Lecourt - akoya, disponibilité, E1210, france, medion, mini - Blogeee.net

anonymous — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 03:52:17 -0000

ROMAIN : Tu aurais des adresses, url à donner, je trouve rien ...

Re: Le Médion Akoya en août en France, fin juillet en Suisse ? - By Pierre Lecourt - akoya, disponibilité, E1210, france, medion, mini - Blogeee.net

anonymous — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 04:45:50 -0000

Merci pour l'info Romain - bon la queue devant un ALDI; ça sera pas pour moi, même si la suisse c'est petit, ça fait ch***r de devoir traverser tous les cantons !

Je pense qu'il vaut mieux prendre au maximum son mal en patience : les plus courageux seront récompensés.

Re: Political Irony › None of your damn business

anonymous — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 03:55:08 -0000

It serves the hypocrites right.

Re: endlich vorbei. Rückenschmerzen.

anonymous — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 18:39:04 -0000

Meistens liegen Rückenschmerzen an einer falschen Sitzhaltung oder zu wenig Bewegung. Gegen Rückenschmerzen kann man zu 80% aller Fälle leicht etweas tun einfach mal informieren.

Re: Brittany Bohnet

anonymous — Tue, 19 May 2009 13:33:21 -0000

Cute.

Re: Spec Work Is Evil / Why I Hate CrowdSpring | Andrew Hyde - Humble Yet Bold

anonymous — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 23:55:11 -0000

I took a look at CrowdSPRING. My favorite was a buyer upset that a design didn't look professional enough for their Fortune 500 company. I couldn't help laughing. If they are wanting a professional design, then why aren't they sitting down with a company and working on it with them? This process is shoddy, lacks any real communication and to be honest, looks cheap. I run a company and I can't imagine getting something from there. I might as well use those ugly pre-packaged Microsoft templates. I'd save a bundle. LOL

Re: Spec Work Is Evil / Why I Hate CrowdSpring | Andrew Hyde - Humble Yet Bold

anonymous — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 23:08:34 -0000

It all comes down to the old saying that you get what you pay for. I think not only are designers being lazy but so are the companies that want the design. To get a true identity that stands the test of time takes a lot of work on both sides. These designers and companies want to go the easy route. So be it. The work they receive looks cheap and they have no one to blame but themselves.

It's not surprising since we have been losing fine craftsmanship in all industries for many years. People want quick, fast and cheap. Just look at our automobiles, new homes, clothing, furniture, etc. There's a reason why everyone wants "retro" because the things being produced now could never live up to the products from the past.

Re: New seat! Works amazing!

anonymous — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 18:45:36 -0000

Nice chair i had a similar one in white but i got strong backpain from it :(

Re: 2006/06/01/myfeedz-social-news-overload/

anonymous — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 18:01:10 -0000

Sounds like they're trying to sneak into Attensa's territory!

Re: 2006/09/01/breaking-myspace-to-sell-music-from-3-million-bands/

anonymous — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 01:41:29 -0000

I think we need all checkout www.SoundLoud.com. They are already way ahead of MySpace on this.

Plus MySpace does not have 3 million active unsigned bands. More like around 100,000 at most.

Re: Does A Wolf Shave Its Tail?

anonymous — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 18:36:57 -0000

agreed, she could lose her job for talking back to customers. please stop doing that and don't encourage others to do it. touching people uninvited (especially those you are paying to perform a service) is really uncool.

Re: Does A Wolf Shave Its Tail?

anonymous — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 18:51:51 -0000

regardless of the setup, she's the waitress, you're the customer, that's potential sexual harassment, and it's rude (at the very least) to touch strangers uninvited. you might think you know where the line is, but sorry to say, you're not a girl, and yes, it is different. i don't mean for you to feel to attacked by my comment, i hope you really think about it. I don't believe you meant any harm, but these sorts of things can get out of hand and ugly really quickly.

Re: Does A Wolf Shave Its Tail?

anonymous — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 19:04:39 -0000

it's a bummer that you feel like this is about censoring your blog and not about being a little more considerate towards fellow human beings.

Re: GoDaddy Domain name Customization for blogger blog

anonymous — Thu, 07 May 2009 08:25:23 -0000

N.P.
Thanks very much for this info! It helped me fix my issue!!

Re: How to Stop Chain E-mail Forwarding from Relatives & Coworkers

anonymous — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 23:05:52 -0000

Better than what a friend does...

He uses a different unconnected email address and 'replies' to the email with a request to be removed, as well as CC'ing any email address that was visible ih the original forwarded email, but this time, he changes the original forwarded content (leaving all the >> and stuff alone). He changes it to something that is extremely personal ("Have you tried XYZ to deal with your herpes? blah blah blah")

Usually people on the email stop forwarding them.. but I think your way is better and more direct.

Re: Administration Official "Chrysler Bankruptcy Could Last Two Years"

anonymous — Sat, 23 May 2009 15:19:15 -0000

Is there a list of what is considered "good" and "bad" Chrysler buildings?

Re: Vota por los juegos para los WCG2009 Guatemala!

anonymous — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 22:38:03 -0000

Los felicito! por fin cambiaron de organizadores, ojala esta gente si tenga el concepto y el punto de vista de un gamer; y no como lo miraban los organizadores pasados que no tenian una !@#%$^ idea de lo que significaba el juego o la competicion en si :/, ni estaban seguros de las reglas ni nada jaja me recuerdo de la senora el pasado año solo los puso a jugar a todos y ni sabia como era el asunto, creo que mas lo miraban como un negocio que recibian de Samsung para que organizara las eliminatorias sin tener una idea de la base de gamers que tiene Guatemala y lo que organizaban era una pobreza de eliminatorias.

Por otro lado pienso yo que lo justo es que le llegue la hora a Counter-Strike despues de tantos anos de que el antiguo organizador lo dejo a un lado por los costos :S dejando a un lado que es la comunidad mas grande y organizada de guate ( www.esportsgt.com ), muchos gamers de CS decepcionados que los dejaban a un lado año tras año se han ido haciendo a un lado por otros juegos u otras actividades, espero que con esto se reviva toda esa gente que teniamos hace algunos años.

Suerte al nuevo organizador! y por favor que no nos vaya a defraudar como nos han venido haciendo todos estos años.

Re: Jakob Nielsen gives us blog design advice

anonymous — Tue, 18 Oct 2005 05:14:54 -0000

Jakob Nielsen is an pompous windbag. I have been reading your blog for years and have had no issues with your style or the calendar navigation.

Re: Why I’ll always support open and cheap public education

anonymous — Mon, 24 Oct 2005 11:33:05 -0000

Pretty Amazing how much Ca$h the US college system extracts from parents that are cajoled into getting their kids into school. When I was in college, one of my professors decried the poor quality of kids coming out of the High Schools, and promptly quit to write a book about Gore Vidal. There are a few good schools ou there, and a lot of great students, too bad the Liberal bias in colleges is destroying our work ethic. Imagine a 7% radical minority teaching almost 95% of the College classes. disgusting.
Why go to college at all when you have MSN, Google and all these resources? Scoble open up a free online University, like MIT is attempting. see how fast the corporate raptors settle on your carcass.

Re: Oh, geez, my son is blogging…

anonymous — Thu, 27 Oct 2005 05:43:53 -0000

Yeah, Smart, Interesting and Nice, what a crock! Irans President was quoted as saying: "no doubt the new wave [of attacks] in Palestine will soon wipe off this disgraceful blot from the face of the Islamic world”.

“Anybody who recognises Israel will burn in the fire of the Islamic nation’s fury,” he said, in remarks aimed at Arab states.

He is not alone in these thoughts. How can Microsoft help them?

Re: Vint Cerf says he’s a weird old fart

anonymous — Thu, 27 Oct 2005 16:36:52 -0000

I think the Department of Defense invented the internet. Vint Cerf just made it approachable, WWW style!

Re: Sitting here with Buzz talking about Google’s Zeitgeist conference

anonymous — Fri, 28 Oct 2005 05:34:37 -0000

I really love it when I hear or read about things that say, "Don't Blog this OK?". Come on. This is ridiculous. The Ivory Tower of the Technology Business not wanting to be exposed to the blogger. I would blog the hell out of it! I wouldn't be invited back, but that's how they get you, threaten your relationships for telling on them.

Re: Vint Cerf says he’s a weird old fart

anonymous — Fri, 28 Oct 2005 05:37:15 -0000

I stand corrected. I was thinking of Berners-Lee. Thank you. Sorry for that one!

Re: Chris Pirillo’s favorite browser company is blogging

anonymous — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 13:16:39 -0000

I used Maxthon B4 firefox, and now after using firefox, I am using Maxthon again.

Re: Ross doesn’t trust Microsoft’s approach to Web

anonymous — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 05:58:22 -0000

I would have to consider using OpenSource if I were starting a company, after all who wants to hire someone just to understand the Microsoft licensing scheme. For instance, when I deploy a Microsoft Server product, the first thing it asks me is if I want to run it using a per processor license where each client needs a license, or do I wnat to run it in per client where each connecting client needs a CAL? WTF? I want to buy a server, turn it on and have the owrld connect to it for one price, the price I paid for the damn software! Has Microsoft considered the impetus behind the rise of opensource? Hmmm could it be the fact that MS licensing has gotten so restrictive, ala the ACTIVATION scheme? Imagine all the servers running unlicensed out there 10 years ago compared to today. I am guessing there are less unlicensed servers today, and you are squeezing nickels out of your loyal customers, but you aint spreading your software the same way as you used to. Microsoft in someways was the original shareware, much to their chagrin, however consider the HUGE profits made in the early days when software wasn't so locked down, make weird sense doesn't it. Microsoft helped create the opensource market, where people like me, well smarter than me are building their own software and hey guess what, it works well enough.

On the other points, I work with opensource vendors, and believe me they make it up on consulting dollars, where with Microsoft products and tools from ISV's I can implement a solution in a few days, I see my opensource vendors struggle sometimes for weeks rewriting code. They also suffer when trying to scale out PHP applications to handle thousands of simultaneous connections, CHOKE! They often don't know why, opensource is supposed to be so good? Microsoft, IBM, Oracle these companies have all been down the paths of customers needs, at the levels that I am talking about. Amazon, Google, their solution seems to mostly be throwing single purpose hardware at their scalability needs, which lately has become cheaper than licensing Micrsofts expensive software to manage capacity. Now I have done it, I have talked myself in to open source. Sorry Robert!

Re: WordPress.com was down for about half an hour

anonymous — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 05:55:25 -0000

One word "APACHE".

Re: Talk Technorati to me, baby!

anonymous — Tue, 08 Nov 2005 05:14:05 -0000

Yeah, TMI, Blog Search Porn is too much.

Re: #22: Guy says “this is the coolest thing since the Macintosh”

anonymous — Mon, 14 Nov 2005 16:23:14 -0000

About as exciting as placing a banner ad engine on your desktop. Boring, and intrusive. Guy Kawasaki has truly hit bottom.

Re: #21: EE Times survey reports engineers believe America's tech leadership in decline

anonymous — Mon, 14 Nov 2005 16:26:40 -0000

What other nations in the tech race lack is imagination, which Americans by and large still have a firm grip of. If you want crummy code, in a short time, do what my employer did, outsource. Then I can kick back and rake in my paychecks fixing their crummy application. Which I could have written 5x faster if they had just asked me.

Re: #39: Flash Troll Generator

anonymous — Thu, 17 Nov 2005 20:58:32 -0000

Flash sucks period.

Re: Video break

anonymous — Fri, 18 Nov 2005 08:15:00 -0000

Robert, I have noticed a fresher outlook and more interesting content. Not tlaking about the leader in the industry forces one to look at what is new and upcoming. Oh and you should add A for Apple to your mix. I personnaly find Vlog and Podcasting to be as hard as watching professional sports, I just don't have the time, with textual information I can scan and quickly read items of interest.

Re: My PPT deck

anonymous — Sun, 27 Nov 2005 15:48:22 -0000

Love the way you apologize for using your companies own products, your such a tard.

Re: What do geeks do in Paris?

anonymous — Tue, 06 Dec 2005 15:35:47 -0000

You are getting boring, talking about your junkets, dinners and rubbing elbows. You are worse than a politician. How about creating some interesting content on your blog, I am gonna delete your feed unless you start suppplying YOUR market some quality content. BTW Microsfot Max hosed my machine and caused me alot of distress.

Re: What do geeks do in Paris?

anonymous — Wed, 07 Dec 2005 07:58:42 -0000

Scoble is getting more self absorbed than usual. It must be some sort of mania. I don't understand alot about what he writes sometimes, too many internal references, however he sometimes has moments of brilliance. It has been an exciting time at Microsoft, they released alot of great stuff lately, do they have more coming, perhaps, but the way Scoble is acting on his blogs, the excitement seems to have abated.

Re: In Brussels, Microsoft Local goes live

anonymous — Thu, 08 Dec 2005 09:15:53 -0000

Yes this is quite good, I hope they improve the UI it is a bit tricky to navigate around, also the Business search and street searches aren't to clear, they should have one text box for both. Plus when you get the birds eye view, the street names are gone.

Re: Paul reviews latest Windows Vista build

anonymous — Sat, 24 Dec 2005 08:59:17 -0000

Wow the Registry is still there in all of it's Glory. I thought Vista was something special. Just another version piled on top of the old version. Makes me smile when I load Windows XP up from my original disks, and they talk about all the advanced features, then I really smile install 50 plus patches on top of that. I am willing to bet that a patch comes out for Vista within one week of it's release.

Re: Paul reviews latest Windows Vista build

anonymous — Sun, 25 Dec 2005 15:38:51 -0000

I tried watching the Video on channel nine but it croaked at about 14 minutes. I don't like the registry, one, becuase even when I "unInstall" something artifacts remain in the registry, I love seeing all the entries for AOL even though I have NEVER installed anything from AOL on my machine. Why doesn't the registry unload these old paths to nowhere? Half of my speed issues come from bad registry paths, why doesn't microsoft make a decent tool to fix the registry? Why should I fork out $25 bucks to a third party to keep Microsoft software working? I hope Vista addresses these issues. I really really hope they do because now that I have Ubuntu running on my VMware Player (took about 20 minutes to install everything) it's a matter of time before the free or cheap desktop becomes reality for millions more people.

Re: Om talks about Apple 2006

anonymous — Wed, 28 Dec 2005 09:40:24 -0000

He will unveil the MacTel. Then encourage his mindless minions to BUY, BUY, BUY! Even though the machine will cost 2x as much as similar hardware. He will then introduce the iPod . What I wish is that he would announce .NET for the Macintosh platform, like MS has done for their developers, wouldn't that set the world on it's ear?

Re: 30 boxes to beat the big guys with Web calendar?

anonymous — Sat, 31 Dec 2005 14:24:05 -0000

I wish someone would do something original. All of these web 2.0 products (few exceptions) do the same thing as an existing application. It's like the software industry is stuck in the same trap as the movie makers. Remakes. Can someone come up with something original? I mean really original. That should be the challenge. Software Challenge 2006 - Do something ELSE! Not all of us are bored twenty-somethings with no-lives living on mySpace and organizing our eVites on our iCalendar looking at Pr0n on Mobog or Flickr.

Re: Hell’s weather report: cold and colder. Beattie switches to Windows

anonymous — Mon, 02 Jan 2006 09:09:30 -0000

I switched from Mac to Windows in 2000, I have never looked back, however Ubuntu is quickly gaining my interest. Ubuntu and VMWare are making a potent threat to WindowsXP in my household. When I decomission my Laptop from XP, I will install Ubuntu Breezy to do a deeper dive. Microsoft are you listening? How about a Windows-stripped down for free...show the world you aint scared, give it away!

Re: A little more on mobile Websites

anonymous — Tue, 03 Jan 2006 08:10:54 -0000

Hey looking at your new site (wordpress) on my Blackberry t-Mobile I get nothing but a blank screen. Perhaps you should look inward and discover what you can do to help!

Re: Hell’s weather report: cold and colder. Beattie switches to Windows

anonymous — Tue, 03 Jan 2006 08:32:14 -0000

I am not an OS-Trend-Hopper. I simply look at the market. I have had so many vendors using the LAMP methodology on their Servers, that I would be ignorant and a bad business person to ignore it. I started out on the IBM PC-JR, then went to AMIGA, then it was MAC for 10 years at home/PC at work. I will continue to use the Wintel platform at work, at home, my wife constantly bitching about the Slow-as-hell Windows-XP machine, do I want to fork out another $500 for another machine? No. I need to reinstall Windows-XP becuase it has become almost unusable, why does the hard-drive spin forever? Why? What the hell is it doing? Why can't I open my email. Why can't I burn a CD? Why doesn't Microsoft release a new OS? It's hard to explain these issues to my wife. She wants to go online, do some stuff, get her email, that's it. i am not getting the happy shiny feeling from MS, I have been hearing that Windows-Vista may ship in 2007, is this true? Are they waiting for the hardware manufacturers to lower their price points on new faster hardware? Why can't a HUGE corporation like MS get their act together? I have been using VS 2005 for a few weeks now, I am NOT IMPRESSED. This software has so many bugs, try installing SQL Express on a remote server, go ahead try!

Re: Phil has MSDN and VSTS 2005 to give away

anonymous — Wed, 04 Jan 2006 05:58:59 -0000

Just thought I'd comment. I left my pathetic plea for free over on Phil's blog. After I posted I figured out that if I would win I may need to buy some hardware to implement the free software. Do you know of any free hardware vendor MVP's that would be willing to send me free stuff?

Re: Geoff wants Microsoft to get its Digital Photo act together

anonymous — Wed, 04 Jan 2006 06:07:51 -0000

I can see it now, headlines in 2007: Windows Vista susceptible to new hack, exploiting the META-DATA in image files...A recently discovered flaw in the way Windows handles the META-DATA in the way an IPTCJPG stores it info as allowed hackers to entirely compromise Windows Vista....

Re: Things I don’t do

anonymous — Thu, 12 Jan 2006 06:15:31 -0000

1.) I won't ever vote for a Democrat again after watching the hearings.
2.) I won't buy a MacBook
3.) I won't buy an iPod
4.) I won't buy an American Car
5.) I won't EVER hire a consultant who knows less than me.
6.) I will never believe that Google is better than Microsoft.
7.) I will believe Oprah knows what she's tlaking about.

Re: Things I don’t do

anonymous — Thu, 12 Jan 2006 06:16:18 -0000

Umm make that NEVER believe what Oprah is talking about :)

Re: Blogging jumps the shark on at&t ads

anonymous — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 05:47:45 -0000

What at&t doesn't mention is that their service sucks. Long distance is dead, they are they same old phone company. I hate at&t and no amount of advertising, especially this lame campaign is going to change my opinion about them. Perhaps if they had a billboard that said "VOIP" Delivered or "IPTV" Delivered, but really "Blogging?" c'mon, they don't create content, that's like the power company claiming to deliver your computer because it supplies power. Power to Vonage, power to Word Press, Power to SKYPE, power to all the companies that actually deliver.

Re: Blogging jumps the shark on at&t ads

anonymous — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 19:53:27 -0000

I am saying that they should offer these things as services. I am saying that they are *just* repackaging the same ol' same ol'. They continue to worry more about image than service and quality. They are more of a NETWORK company, true, however delivering a BLOG, who cares. Combine the over-bearing ad campaign with something NEW! Overpriced, crap is what at&t is selling.

Re: Blogging jumps the shark on at&t ads

anonymous — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 19:54:40 -0000

Plus, Scoble, Jumping the Shark is frakking lame.

Re: Gay rights bill passes

anonymous — Sun, 29 Jan 2006 09:21:48 -0000

The Northwest is so full of themselves. The whole left coast is insane and this proves it. Why don't people in the Northwest put more energy into better schools? How about the great traffic problems on Avondale, how is this going to help that? How is the Gay rights bill going to help your Suicide rate or Meth problems? How is this law going to address the fact you can't even build a simple monorail? Priorities are so crucial, the Northwests seem to be in disarray.

Re: Gay rights bill passes

anonymous — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 05:56:36 -0000

Uh, Hello Mr. Random, I don't care how much legislation the Peoples Republic of Washington put out, making this law will be as effective as the other laws. People will choose to obey it or not, the lawyers will get richer, and everyone will lose in the end. The amount of energy expensed on idiotic protections is out of control. Most people don't care what goes on behind closed doors as long as the rent is paid, and the job is getting done. What people don't like is legislated morality. These laws do no good, and one day it will become crystal clear.

Re: I’m returning my Cingular card

anonymous — Sun, 19 Feb 2006 10:10:38 -0000

I have used the EVDo card from Verizon for 6 months. Remeber NOT TO INSTALL the Venturi-Software piece, it is an accelerator that messes up VPN connections, if you accidently install it, disable it otherwise you will be miserbale.

Re: Project Management Software Maker tries Memetracker approach

anonymous — Wed, 22 Feb 2006 06:58:56 -0000

Any company trying to upsell installation services for $395.00 deserves to sell it's software for $5. Can you imagine Microsoft giving away Visat for $5 then charging the poor schmucks $395 to make it work correctly? Nice try, but I won't even part with $5 for this stuff.

Re: PivotTable this video

anonymous — Wed, 22 Feb 2006 07:17:02 -0000

Office 12 will be a success, Microsoft must be licking their lips in anticipation. Proof? If Google Desktop Search is any indication of user stupidity.

How many idiots have installed this crap on their computers? This evil app came preinstalled on my Dell the other day, just say NO!

Link: http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/sec...

...

Google Desktop 3 is the latest version of Google Inc.'s desktop search application. The software's "search across computers" feature allows users to search for information stored on other PCs and servers. To do this, Google stores an index of files contained on a PC running the software for 30 days, promising that the information is encrypted and accessible to a limited number of Google employees, according to Gartner.

...
Love that part about being stored for 30 days, long enough for the government to subpoeana them? To de-crypt the contents of your hardrive. I can see a whole new class of spyware coming soon. Any hacker worth his salt will be creating their own versions of desktop search, this makes user acceptance so easy. How hard would it be to create your own version of Google Desktop search? Brand it the same, hell name it the same, but send the information to your own servers? This stuff is getting outta control.

Re: Nighttime at Microsoft

anonymous — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 09:04:55 -0000

When I first read this post, I thought, Open Source Windows? Then I read further. But, I was thinking an Open Source or Free version of Windows, nothing fancy, just something that does basic things, like Email and Web, doesn't support applications, just Live.com or such things, sorta like an applicance, but installable on any machine.

Re: Why the pro journalists deserve our respect

anonymous — Sun, 12 Mar 2006 20:47:13 -0000

Seems as though you are only a real journalist if you report the bad stuff. News is all about bad stuff happening to people. Putting their lives on the line, to show us bad stuff. Why are we so interested in this crap, it's nothing more than snuff-tv. I really don't watch the news anymore, local or national. I just read blogs about things I care about. The Pro's as you put it make money, they make their bosses money...it's all about money. Someone get's their head chopped off, it's gonna make someone some money.

Re: Why the pro journalists deserve our respect

anonymous — Mon, 13 Mar 2006 05:45:33 -0000

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Re: Why the pro journalists deserve our respect

anonymous — Mon, 13 Mar 2006 06:30:57 -0000

Looks like your ping backs are causing the WordPress server to go down. Word Press prolly uses PHP and mySQL which choke on weird characters. Why not use ASP.NET and SQL Express, at least foreign web pages won't bring down the server! Hey while I am at it, why doesn't Google return searches on http://www.thepeoplescube.com, try it, it doesn't return anything, how's that for censor-ship? Yes I agree it may be a ploy to get their website out there...It's funny though.

Re: I gotta take more days off

anonymous — Wed, 15 Mar 2006 08:38:18 -0000

I like the comment. "Days off of what?" Seems all you do is go out out to dinner, enjoy yourself and travel. What is your real job?

Re: I gotta take more days off

anonymous — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 08:18:09 -0000

"Fourth, there’s my day job. That’s Channel 9. Ever try to keep fresh content coming nearly every day for more than two years? That requires calling, emailing, networking, and more." --

Okay - I get it, I was wondering what your CORE job is. I think you need some help. Microsoft should have a Scoble support team, or quit Microsoft and then start ScobleSoft consulting, hire a few people who know their stuff and share your similar passions. You will then be able to work your own schedule. Make Microsoft your first customer. BTW I evangelize MS at work, so much so that one of my bosses goals for 2006-2007 is for me to get training in other software products, I asked her, "Like what?" the only thing she could muster is, "Oracle".

Thanks for keeping it real!

Re: Why is Vista better than XP?

anonymous — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 06:03:58 -0000

Here are some Facts, not published facts, but facts about my life since switching to Windows, from Mac.

Fact: My wife doesn't call me everyday complaining how the "Mac" just died, froze up, or couldn't shut off.

Fact: I was making less than 1k year using my "Mac" for computer related jobs, now I am happily in Six-figures, in a job related to the use of Microsoft Software.

Fact: Windows XP has never crashed my machine(s).

Fact: I have never had a virus.

Fact: Form over function eventually loses.

Re: Guy sucks down (follow these rules, they’ll help you get ahead in life)

anonymous — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 06:55:56 -0000

What I found dis-ingenuous (sp?) about Guy's post is that I have heard the bags to Paris thing in the past, from my wife who was a flight attendant (5 + years ago). I am not sure who his friend is, but I highly doubt this is true. It's a good way to set up a post about the topic, but why not tell it the way it is.

Re: Guy sucks down (follow these rules, they’ll help you get ahead in life)

anonymous — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 14:22:53 -0000

I agree that some people act out their insanity on airline personnel, however they are the front line of a giant faceless corporation. They are usually the only people who "HAVE" to listen to you. I read, I think in Tom Peters "Things I Believe" that you should always take prospective candidates for employment out to lunch, and observe there interactions with the staff. The way they treat the staff is probably how they will treat you or others in your organization.

Re: Run XP on a Mac? Cool!

anonymous — Wed, 05 Apr 2006 15:59:51 -0000

I think Windows Vista is actually named Leopard, Steve Jobs and Bill Gates announcing their baby together to combat the scourge of Linux, UBUNTU anyone?

Re: Daily Kos crashes Microsoft’s gate

anonymous — Sat, 08 Apr 2006 10:16:27 -0000

If you want to see a real political blog, one that is banned by Google News: http://www.littlegreenfootballs.com

Re: Booker likes to sing to the trains.

anonymous — Mon, 21 Mar 2005 07:03:37 -0000

Booker sitting rocks! Oh and living at a beachhouse for three weeks isnt too bad either! :-)

Re: Booker likes to sing to the trains.

anonymous — Mon, 21 Mar 2005 08:23:46 -0000

He is 6 years old i think.

Re: 1 Year of No Smoking!

anonymous — Tue, 22 Mar 2005 11:32:36 -0000

Thanks for all your comments! I definetely will NEVER go back. Truly though I couldn't have kicked the habit wihtout Duncan's ongoing support and encouragement (he threatened to end our relationship over it which I am now thankful for!). Congrats to Patty as well who is over a year now smoke free! Cheers!

Re: Real estate’s worst nightmare: RedFin

anonymous — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 08:38:46 -0000

Man, I am sorry Redfin is not available in Texas. It kills me to give a complete stranger 20K just to sell my house. They should prosecute the REALTOR association with the RICO statute.

Re: A conversation with the inventors of Sun’s ZFS

anonymous — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 08:47:46 -0000

Funny thing, my Relatives are being laid off by Sun. They were asked to train their replacements somewhere in South America. Fuck Sun, they SUCK!

Re: Is Microsoft trying to capture photography market?

anonymous — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 10:26:21 -0000

You forget millions of photoshop users like me who will never switch to M$ even if they cure cancer. They have done too much damage to the whole industry and they have to pay with blood.

Re: Exclusive - Yahoo Using Dirty Tactics to Switch Google & Firefox Users?

anonymous — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 17:54:58 -0000

Confirmed.
YIM try to upgrade IE to IE7 (yahoo version) without permission and switch all settings from google to yahoo.

Re: links for 2007-07-22

anonymous — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 13:28:48 -0000

I heard the news today, oh boy...

...say it ain't so...

Re: Review Hosting Elvsoft sau cum sa pierzi fisiere de pe server cu tot cu backup

anonymous — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 01:54:33 -0000

de acu puneti linuxu pe calcu propriu si lucreaza mai intai local

Re: First Look at Tom Welling in the Supersuit from Smallville?

anonymous — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 20:51:30 -0000

this season he gets caught as a flasher

Re: HVCC: Who Is The Least Interested?

anonymous — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 09:28:35 -0000

Justin,

Good post. You make a lot of valid points. Most important is the one that you start with: the appraisal management companies don’t have a financial stake in the transaction, and that’s a good thing. In fact, the same could – and should – be said for appraisers in general.

The emotional aspect that datadude mentions is a very influential component in any real estate transaction, one that in no small part led to artificially inflated prices bringing the bubble to the point of bursting.

One thing that troubles me about this whole controversy is the way in which all AMCs are being painted with the same broad brush.

There are quite a few large and reputable AMCs that have been in the business for decades and whose business model and assignment criteria haven’t changed one iota since HVCC. They only use certified and/or licensed appraisers and use geographical competency as the primary assignment criteria.

I know several appraisers who work for these companies, and they’re extremely capable, knowledgeable folks who work hard in markets they’re intimately familiar with. Their pay scale hasn’t changed post-HVCC, nor has their commitment to USPAP, nor their professionalism.

Of course, HVCC has created a financial opportunity and incentive for a lot of new AMCs to enter the business, and some of these may indeed be randomly selecting appraisers from a pool and assigning them without enough consideration as to their experience level or geographical competency.

The real lesson here is that lenders shouldn’t be shopping out appraisals to fly-by-night operations, but should instead be steering that important work out to AMCs that have proven themselves reliable over many years.

Like the blog. Keep up the good work.

Re: Thread

anonymous — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 17:30:00 -0000

Once you reach a certain size you just have to have middle managers. What really matters is their attitude. Avoid promoting people who get a buzz out of telling people what to do - IME the best middle managers are approachable yet quite humble. Go for people who see their job as providing the conditions for others to achieve. And avoid hype about "leadership" - if you set out to consciously lead, u r not doin it right. Leadership happens when you`re doing other things.

Re: My Thoughts on NoSQL

anonymous — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 13:00:00 -0000

> I don't understand how bigtable has a single point of failure

Really?

I refer you to Google's explanation of the recent App Engine outage: http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine...

Just because you have failover, doesn't mean it's not a single point of failure. Failover can break just like any other moving part.

Re: LiewCF.com is Dying?!

anonymous — Mon, 26 Jun 2006 03:52:19 -0000

John Wong, page rank is not related to revenue.

Liewcf, all the best to you. If it seems like a penalty, don't expect it to be lifted so soon. Try reinclusion request. And beware too of your text link ads, add rel="nofollow" to the link or else you might take the consequences of link buying, or at least don't let your readers go down the drain with u.

Re: Are 'Illegal' Immigrants Illegal?

anonymous — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 18:17:59 -0000

Broocks; People with a graduate degree don't try to enter illegally, because they couldn't find a job without proper documentation. I would strongly disagree that anyone (except Canadian graduates or those with political connections) is able to legally enter the US (to work) without waiting for a very long time, unless they win the Green Card lottery. The legal process takes years, and more money than many potential immigrants can make in their home country. Many choose to come to Canada, wait three years to get citizenship, and then enter the US under NAFTA. It's a cheaper and often shorter process that way.

I'm starting to realize that many Americans don't seem to realize how difficult it is to enter the US legally. I'll be working there legally this summer, but only by exploiting a technicality in the VISA requirements.

Re: Are 'Illegal' Immigrants Illegal?

anonymous — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 17:29:17 -0000

I believe the US courts have already ruled that social services can not be in any way restricted for legal immigrants. While such restrictions would probably be a great way to win over many anti-immigration-types, I just don't see it happening in America. I believe Canada does have something like this, though.

Re: Good Economics on a Favorite Silly Idea

anonymous — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 04:28:06 -0000

Muirgeo,

So what is stopping you? Solar panels, wind generators, and the rest are all available right now. Heck, I can remember plenty of articles 30 years ago in Mother Earth News describing how to achieve personal energy independence. I am sure there are a few hardy souls living in the woods right now who are energy independent.

To do it as you describe is still largely possible. All it would take is a significant part of your income and maybe all of your savings and a large loan. The movement could use a few early adopters to get things rolling. So what is stopping you?

Once you add it all up, perhaps the idea of opportunity cost would start to sink in. I suspect you are looking for someone else to do the heavy lifting.

Re: Good Economics on a Favorite Silly Idea

anonymous — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 08:13:01 -0000

Muirgeo,

"Did you watch the recent battle over the energy bill which would have ended the current $15 billion dollar subsidies to the oil industry just to continue present subsidies for solar and other renewables?"

I am no expert on the oil industry but I wonder what the net subsidies are after taxes. You are preaching to the choir here if you are arguing against government subsidies, but of course you are not. You just want the subsidy going to you and your pet interests.

"Can you imagine the price of oil if they had to get it on their own from THEIR own private property or from governments like Iraq or Iran that wanted to nationalize their oil industries."

You read this blog regularly and you still think that the price of oil is dependent on the cost to extract it?

"So please don't pretend that I'm anymore a socialist then those that run the oil companies."

So you admit you are a socialist but no more so than some others. Why so reluctant to embrace that label? Recognition of the problem is the first step to a cure.

Re: Feedburner en pocos pasos

anonymous — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 15:28:14 -0000

Por lo tanto no funcionarÃ¡ con servidores IIS?

Re: Farmville Coins & Farm Cash, vad är skillnaden?

anonymous — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 06:06:47 -0000

Nice blog. Jeg ser at du har gått for en HTC Hero, i den forbindelse lurer jeg på om den fungerer bra med dette meget avhengighetskapende spillet? Går også og lurer på Hero vs 3GS :P

Re: The Birthermercial

anonymous — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 11:26:37 -0000

So what is the difference between Islam and Christianity?

Re: TorontoFC vs. New England Revolution.

anonymous — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 15:16:38 -0000

Announcers are like politicians. They can pretty much say what they like. I mean, like, how boring would it be if they just stuck to monotones and stats the whole game, eh? It is the d*** referees that need to be impartial!! :-)

Re: Opera Mini Usage Trends In India: Social Networking And Content Are Key

anonymous — Tue, 20 May 2008 12:26:05 -0000

* Nikhil - I think socnet is the winner. You can put anything in the content. Top content destinations like rediff, etc are missing.

* I have not heard of a concrete data from indian website owners on the actual # of page views from mobile. there is lots of talk and hoople, but no numbers.

* Nikhil - Does contentsutra have a mobile site? how many page views does it get?

* I am specifically looking if mobile internet page views have crossed 1% of the total. Anyone any ideas on this .

Re: The Original Marty’s – Home of the Combo – on Pico

anonymous — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 11:09:30 -0000

I grew up nearby and used to go to Marty's all the time in high school. It's pretty basic stuff -- I believe the "Combo" refers to a hamburger that also has a hot dog in it. I used to get chili cheese burgers there and loved them -- don't know what I'd think of it now but I bet it's still tasty.

Re: Nuevo Theme para el blog…

anonymous — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 16:52:56 -0000

Bueno el tema es muy bonito, y el color claro es más facil de leer...pero el tipo de letra me parece demasiado pequeño,yo la subiría un poco.En cuanto a la manzana la pondria en negro (en sintonia con el arbol y los reflejos grises).

Por lo demás,con unos pequeños retoques te puede quedar muy bien.Un saludo