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Re: Joining Sosh.com

Rod Begbie — Wed, 06 Nov 2013 18:10:23 -0000

Looking forward to you being here!

Re: Mysterious Art Project Takes Over Entire Block of Divisadero | Haighteration

Rod Begbie — Sat, 24 Aug 2013 21:41:01 -0000

Absolut actually said "there will be no vodka branding on the street level or the artwork", which I believe they've stuck to.

Re: Mysterious Art Project Takes Over Entire Block of Divisadero | Haighteration

Rod Begbie — Sat, 24 Aug 2013 21:25:32 -0000

On the billboard that until earlier this week was advertising Tecate?

Re: Chris Messina

Rod Begbie — Fri, 02 Aug 2013 17:09:30 -0000

Morbidly curious -- Any of the Neonmob team ex-of-Alamofire? Seeing a lot that reminds me of Iconbuffet, Packrat & Gowalla.

Re: Long live cable… ESPN buys college football playoffs rights through 2026

Rod Begbie — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 17:54:07 -0000

I'm going to vote for "Not in the next 10 years". ESPN is estimated to get $4.69 for *every* Comcast cable subscriber in the country (and presumably similar figures from the other carriers), so it makes less than no sense for them to do anything that might jeopardise that relationship. (Source: http://www.adweek.com/news/...

Re: Bond 50 Giveaway: Snag Massive Blu-ray Box Set Celebrating Half-Century of 007

Rod Begbie — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 01:39:49 -0000

Sean Connery, Blofeld

Re: http://www.emptyage.com/post/6992274399

Rod Begbie — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 21:01:01 -0000

Of course, it would be unfair not to note that MLKSHK is a web-only app, which requires users to hit a webserver to see, whereas Color is a mobile app with little-to-no web presence, so website unique visitors isn't a good comparative metric.

But with that said… Phoo-ee, Color is a stinky big pile of goatcocks.

Re: It's all about the Jeffersons

Rod Begbie — Thu, 26 May 2011 19:29:52 -0000

http://www.wheresgeorge.com/ does all the OCD for you.

Re: LeBron James

Rod Begbie — Mon, 16 May 2011 04:24:29 -0000

Posterity double-fail :)

Re: Hipmunk’s Official Round: $4.2 Million Led By Ignition And A Group Of Online Travel Experts

Rod Begbie — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 22:41:52 -0000

You're my hero.

Re: Hipmunk’s Official Round: $4.2 Million Led By Ignition And A Group Of Online Travel Experts

Rod Begbie — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 14:30:02 -0000

Misreading your comment leads to a request: A picture of the Hipmunk shooting things with his laser eyes.

Re: Bikes of San Francisco

Rod Begbie — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 19:03:30 -0000

This is from where it originates, claiming "as seen on Laughing Squid and SFist"!

http://torweeks.com/index.p...

Re: San Francisco Gets a Dis*Loyalty Card

Rod Begbie — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 16:39:37 -0000

There's a pile of them at the counter of Coffee Bar, presumably at the other coffee shops too.

Re: http://venomousporridge.com/post/2958967487

Rod Begbie — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 22:44:27 -0000

What's the opposite of "Security by obscurity"?

Re: Wow, Sony’s Google TV Remote Looks Like Ten Thousand Button Nightmare

Rod Begbie — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 22:16:28 -0000

Dunno about TiVo, but the Boxee Box remote is supposed to have QWERTY on the back: http://blog.boxee.tv/2010/0...

Re: Twitter Permissions & Security

Rod Begbie — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 15:03:53 -0000

Yes! I've complained about this since the beginning (http://www.mail-archive.com.... When you give "read & write" access, you're giving permissions to do everything to an account bar change its password.

Re: LeBron James

Rod Begbie — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 02:11:41 -0000

Posterity fail: http://skitch.com/rodbegbie...

Re: I love Sonic.net already

Rod Begbie — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 19:59:12 -0000

The thing that surprised me the most when I joined Sonic.net -- The $50/month service costs me: $50 a month. No extra "fees" or "government compliance charges". Just the price they quoted.

I forgot that that's the way things SHOULD work!

Re: Health Care Reform Bill

Rod Begbie — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 23:15:29 -0000

Truefact: In the UK, the only prescription that has no prescription charge attached: The contraceptive pill.

Everything else: flat fee of £7.20 (roughly $11)

I miss *real* socialised healthcare, and wish that "the public option" had made it through, but I still think that today's bill was a big step forward.

Re: Artist Bio and Statement

Rod Begbie — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 21:05:01 -0000

"That's not Arial"

Re: BTO vs. Build It (kinda) Yourself

Rod Begbie — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 03:10:14 -0000

Don't forget that the Apple store charges sales tax, so that's really $1699*1.095.

Re: alert debugging — Mockingbird, Cappuccino, and what really matters.

Rod Begbie — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:31:33 -0000

Howdy.

First up, to clarify who I am and where my background is: I am not a Flash, standards, Microsoft or any other kind of zealot. (OK, bit of an Apple fanboy, but I don't think that affects this discussion). Also, my day job is building inaccessible Flash & JS & HTML web apps that are as guilty of what I complain about!

Also, IMO, Cappuccino and Objective-J fascinate me. They're hugely clever, and thumbs up for open sourcing them. But freetarded-politics aside, I don't see them as offering a particularly better experience than Flash (for developers or for users).

You're absolutely correct that I was hung up on Gruber's description of Mockingbird as a "true web app" and Mockingbird's bragging marketing copy. Your screen shot of Mockingbird on an iPhone is lovely. I accessed the site prior to my post. Then I tried to click on anything on the screen and was unable to. Hence my use of the words "completely unusable".

And allow me to supply a screenshot of my own: http://skitch.com/rodbegbie...

So in comparison to the proud claim of the marketing website "Nothing to install or download, and you (and your clients) can access your mockups from anywhere.", it's closer to "you can access your mockups from anywhere, so long as you're actually at a PC, and aren't running the web browser used by ~50% of web users".

A developer looking at a Flash vs. Cappuccino decision is facing a classic case of pros and cons. Flash offers a consistent platform that behaves the same way without any further download on 99.9999% of PCs available today, but which rely on Adobe not fucking you over. Cappuccino offers some 'purer' tools which work in (mumble) percent of PC browsers (and require cross-browser and cross-platform testing on the part of the developer)

Anyway, I need to get back to work hacking some JavaScript to create DIVs exploiting cross-site JSONP to load data to call into Flash ExternalInterfaces.

Rod.

Re: iPhone OS 3.0: Push notifications might be killing your battery

Rod Begbie — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 04:17:34 -0000

What are you using to do the charging? An official Apple cable or something else?

I've seen the "Push Notification stops charging" when my iPhone's in my Bose SoundDock, but never when connected to my laptop or the official Apple charger.

Re: The Facebook iPhone app has been reworked and open-sourced

Rod Begbie — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 23:07:51 -0000

You misread the "3.0" in Hewitt's article. It's version 3.0 of the Facebook app ("Facebook for iPhone 3.0", not Facebook for "iPhone 3.0")

Re: 100 more things: The new iPhone 3.0 features

Rod Begbie — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 16:42:39 -0000

Are there any apps currently which live stream video? I'm only aware of ones that download and play pre-recorded clips. (eg. the MLB At Bat app)