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Re: Movie Notes: 2 Days In Paris

engtech — Fri, 09 May 2008 15:54:03 -0000

Remember when I said you should see "Paris J'Taime". I got the name wrong. This is the movie I meant. :)

Re: Sharing presentations is fun — really

engtech — Thu, 08 May 2008 18:08:51 -0000

Don't forget confreaks

http://confreaks.com/

Re: Attention Bloggers: Track Who Is Writing Notes About Your Posts

engtech — Wed, 07 May 2008 16:43:30 -0000

Might want to put in a better 404 page:

http://www.rssmeme.com/source/internetducttape....

Re: Twitter: IRC with a new shade of lipstick

engtech — Tue, 06 May 2008 17:58:13 -0000

one big disagreement: twitter's value add wasn't putting HTML around IRC.

It was abandoning channels and letting everyone control who they are individually listening to.

It completely killed the +ops crap that made IRC get on your nerves after a while.

Re: Movie Notes: The Science Of Sleep

engtech — Tue, 06 May 2008 17:17:29 -0000

"french romantic comedy"

Give Paris J'Taime a watch. Pretty good flick.

Re: Does Twitter need to be killed or fixed?

engtech — Mon, 05 May 2008 21:43:32 -0000

"Twitter needs to be decentralized and standardized because it’s as important as the DNS system behind the Internet."

say it with me now... I-R-C

Re: Movie Notes: Bulletproof Monk

engtech — Sat, 03 May 2008 15:13:03 -0000

I mean, he was so amazing in those two movies he did with the Rock.

Re: Movie Notes: Bulletproof Monk

engtech — Sat, 03 May 2008 15:12:36 -0000

So what you're saying is that a Seann William Scott movie could be bad....

Never!

Re: Movie Notes: A Guy Thing

engtech — Fri, 02 May 2008 18:53:44 -0000

Apparently it wasn't a guy thing.

Re: louisgray.com: Should Bloggers Open Up Their Statistics?

engtech — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 21:19:35 -0000

Maybe we need to start a secret cabal. :)

openstats.blogspot.com

Re: louisgray.com: Should Bloggers Open Up Their Statistics?

engtech — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 20:16:13 -0000

"Talking about visit counts can be seen as off-limits as one's salary."

Actually, talking about visit counts can be seen as being boring. :)

I use to do this all the time when I started blogging ( http://internetducttape.com/category/statistics... )... then I realized people who aren't also bloggers don't really care.

It's like how most sidebar widgets benefit the blogger instead of the reader. Your stats are interesting to you because it's your blog. Other people? Not so much.

Re: 4,000 new users - someone pass the aspirin

engtech — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 00:43:28 -0000

If they're using the same security set up as their unix base then they should be inherently more secure because you aren't running as administrator - ever.

It's really hard to do long term damage to an OS without admin access, although you can still trash all the user data.

But yeah, that's kind of boneheaded move. There probably going to be at least two months of lost productivity because of the new OS... I wonder how many of those 4000 have never used OSX?

Re: How to get Twitter some S BUX

engtech — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 23:05:39 -0000

There's still a lot of Starbucks out here in Ottawa

Re: GReader Shared Links - the new territory of self-promotion

engtech — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 20:42:19 -0000

So true.

I try to save promoting my posts for a "this is really awesome!" moment, and it's amazing how often what I think is an awesome post doesn't match the reality of what the rest of the world likes.

What I find works better is stepping aside and letting other people tell you what they like of your content via links/comments. Then throw some promotion juice behind what's already been socially vetted.

Re: Video comments - another case of "just because we can"

engtech — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 17:47:42 -0000

video comments only make sense if your readers are young and hot.

Re: Put A Spin On Your Lifestream With Dipity

engtech — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:42:38 -0000

Here's mine: http://www.dipity.com/user/engtech/timeline/Eric_T

Kinda scary the amount of time I spend interrupting myself online.

Re: intelligent automatic follow/block script for Twitter - Digging in a Habari sandpit

engtech — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:04:45 -0000

I'll write it, but I get to use the description. :)

Re: 5 Simple Ways To Keep Up With The Rails Community

engtech — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 14:42:31 -0000

There's a http://friendfeed.com/ruby also.

Re: Twitter-storm: Blaine leaves, blame flies

engtech — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:53:38 -0000

Doesn't that TechCrunch article seem more fitting for ValleyWag?

Re: Twitter-storm: Blaine leaves, blame flies

engtech — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 17:49:13 -0000

Ugh.

What a reason not to work at a web startup... I don't think any programmer wants this kind of publicity. :)

Re: Reducing Social Site Pollution

engtech — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 04:51:18 -0000

I try to share my own stuff only if I really like it. But it happens. :)

Re: Yo! .. 3rd party developers for web apps

engtech — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 04:43:34 -0000

I'm surprise more people don't use pagerization for Firefox.

It gives infinite scroll on almost every website. Google search results. Flickr. Friend Feed. Pretty much anything.

I don't even know where the next button is on most websites.

Re: MEDIAdeluge - Twitter vs. FriendFeed

engtech — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 18:16:27 -0000

I wrote an app that imports your Tweeps to Friend Feed:
http://internetducttape.com/2008/04/21/import-t...

Re: Just don’t short circuit yourself

engtech — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 20:30:42 -0000

This is an ingenious product. To cut costs, make it always say "not-pregnant".

Because anyone using a USB pregnancy test hasn't gotten laid in a while.

Re: Considerations in moving to web mail

engtech — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 20:05:26 -0000

I second the idea of putting gmail on your own domain. Then you can switch it out and keep the address if you're unhappy about it.

The biggest productivity enhancer of gmail is realizing you don't have to sort mail by folders. Just search.