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Re: The HODINKEE Team Picks: Our Favorite Watches Under $5000

rklau — Mon, 17 Aug 2015 14:42:15 -0000

Love this post. It was Hodiknee's articles about Nomos that led me to buy a Zurich Weltzeit - which I was surprised didn't make the list (but I'm biased!). Going to put several of these on my wish list.

Re: Pete Stark Is Fighting for His Seat in Congress and His Opponent is Using His Atheism Against Him

rklau — Sun, 28 Oct 2012 19:23:55 -0000

You're right, Stark's record does speak for itself:

http://www.petestarksaidwha...

Full disclosure, I got involved with Eric's campaign as I learned more about Rep. Stark's record. Rep. Stark's baseless accusations in this election cycle (against Eric, against journalists, against other politicians), his refusal to debate Eric, his misleading campaign mailers, not to mention the fact that he hasn't even lived in California in more than 20 years: this is not a man who's fit to represent his district.

Re: Blowing Up Stark

rklau — Fri, 04 May 2012 14:43:42 -0000

I live in the district and hadn't heard of Stark before this race. Started looking into it and was appalled by his past behavior; what he's done in the campaign has been inexcusable. I reached out to Eric Swalwell to get to know him, and found him to be a far better alternative to a Stark who hasn't lived in California in two decades.

For those like me who weren't aware of Stark's penchant for bizarre (but quotable) behavior, I put a site together documenting some of the more incredible ones: http://www.petestarksaidwha....

I'm excited about Eric's campaign - really hoping we can send him to DC in November.

Re: Blowing Up Stark

rklau — Fri, 04 May 2012 14:39:50 -0000

I've

Re: Stay N Alive: Why as a Developer, I Switched to Blogger.com and Why I'm Staying With It

rklau — Mon, 09 May 2011 15:22:00 -0000

You have complete control over all content you put into your templates, including javascript, flash and anything else. Blogger not only supports Amazon Associates code in posts - I led the direct integration between Blogger and Amazon in late '09: http://buzz.blogger.com/200...

Re: Some Thoughts On Comments

rklau — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 20:37:40 -0000

Fred, fantastic post. I threw up a reaction post here:

http://tins.rklau.com/2010/...

A point that a co-worker made after reading the NY Times piece was that the primary issue with newspaper site comments isn't that they're anonymous, it's that there's no community. Consequently there are no real norms to enforce, and things rapidly devolve to the point that there's no value whatsoever. Contrast that with your site, or that of other highly-engaged communities, and I think it's an important counter-point to the papers' moves.

Re: Hello Technorati, old friend

rklau — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:28:32 -0000

Don't know the specifics yet, their "claim" process simply looks for a unique key - once crawled and verified, they then manually review sites to ensure they're not spam. At that point (I think) they start crawling the site, topically sorting blogs and surfacing content for visitors to their site.

Re: Google Buzz monitoring

rklau — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 02:34:12 -0000

Hey David - been playing catch-up this week, sorry for the delay in getting back to you. I'll pass this on to the Maps team, thanks for letting me know. My guess is that the resolution available is dependent on what the satellite image companies make available, and those are often population-dependent. But I'll find out.

Re: Sonos S5

rklau — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 15:44:12 -0000

Ha! And I put Android folks in touch with Sonos. I think we'll both see good results this year... :)

Re: Google Buzz monitoring

rklau — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 01:04:36 -0000

The results are ordered by last activity on the Buzz, with the most recent being at the top.

Re: Google Buzz monitoring

rklau — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 02:35:34 -0000

Yep, we'd love to see that too. These comments are actually managed by Disqus (a third party), so the first they knew of Buzz was last week. :)

We'll get there.

Re: Turning off Blogger FTP

rklau — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 21:51:21 -0000

And I had the flu, followed by a family commitment for the next few days. My
team is covering and I will check back in when I'm back.

Re: Google Sites - your online resume

rklau — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 20:29:44 -0000

Hey Steven, I'm trying out Disqus (www.disqus.com) as the commenting system as a replacement to Blogger's default commenting setup. Disqus lets you login using OpenID (which technically your Google account is, but nobody knows that), but I'll suggest to them that they explicitly call out the Google login. Good catch!

Sites, btw, used to be Jotspot. Probably should have noted the irony that back when I worked at Socialtext, I competed with Jotspot... only to end up working for Jotspot founder Joe Kraus when I joined the Blogger team, and eventually replacing a home-grown wiki with Jotspot's successor at Google, Sites. :)

Re: Turning off Blogger FTP

rklau — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 01:20:30 -0000

Kent, thrilled to hear your migration was painless and can't thank you enough for such a clear walk-through. We're going to be doing some videos and Q&A for users that explain what our migration tool will do, but additional posts like this will help users completely understand what their options are. Thanks for sharing the write-up, and let me know what other questions you have.

Re: Turning off Blogger FTP

rklau — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 15:22:18 -0000

Kent - you certainly can. That entails a CNAME for www.errbear.com, and then pointing the A records for the domain to our IP addresses. It's nearly instantaneous, depending on DNS propagation. More details:

http://www.google.com/suppo...

(Both the CNAME and A Record instructions are there.)

Re: Blogger Pages - finally!

rklau — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 23:11:04 -0000

It's available by going to http://draft.blogger.com and clicking on "Edit Posts | Pages".

Re: Turning off Blogger FTP

rklau — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 22:09:21 -0000

Kent - it bums us out too. Please let me know if you have any questions about whether our custom domain option is right for you - we host hundreds of millions of page views per day on Blogger blogs, and experience none of the intermittent publication issues that are endemic to trying to FTP to thousands of FTP hosts.

That said, I don't mean to minimize your concern or frustration - let me know what I can do to help.

Re: Blogger Pages - finally!

rklau — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 14:17:15 -0000

Ramiro - they were re-enabled last night around 9:30pm.

Re: Thoughts on my Nexus One

rklau — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 19:14:57 -0000

Checking with the team, will follow up once I have the right person.

Re: Thoughts on my Nexus One

rklau — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 15:22:03 -0000

Yep, I've talked with the Android team about a Blogger app (which would include "share to Blogger" for photos and videos). We're trying to get it done. :)

Haven't tried Blogaway, will check it out.

Re: Home networking - advice sought

rklau — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 18:52:06 -0000

Huge thanks to everyone on the thread... this was a big help. Going to report back once I update some of the equipment!

Re: Home networking - advice sought

rklau — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 01:05:08 -0000

OK, the Netgear unit is the GS105, which according to the product page (http://www.netgear.com/Prod... is a 5 port gigabit ethernet switch.

The Linksys unit is BEFW1154, which Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/Links... suggests is a hub.

From what I can tell, the D-Link unit (model DIR-625) is a 10/100 switch.

So far, Ryan appears to be right - my best course of action would be to swap out the Linksys for a gigabit switch, and probably add a gigabit ethernet switch in the bedroom closet, then run all connections through it (as opposed to splitting between the D-Link and the Sonos). This D-Link 8 port switch seems like it'd do the trick for $32 (after rebate): http://bit.ly/8jD2oQ

@Will - both HD TiVos have wired connections; it's the non-HD TiVo that's on WiFi. While I agree that the Comcast upload speed is a bottleneck (sort of, I have ~20megs down and ~3megs up), I'm more concerned about transfers within the network: from TiVo to TiVo (which has seemed slower than it should, given two wired connections) in particular. Haven't done enough with the PS3 to really know whether it's suffering.

@Steve - Thanks for the inssider link, going to fire that up on one of the Win boxes to see if that helps anything.

Appreciate everyone's input so far. I've already learned a ton!

Re: Our RSS feed has moved

rklau — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 11:44:03 -0000

Dan - in "Settings | Site Feed" you should just update that to your FeedBurner feed and everyone will be auto-routed to the new address without any manual changes on their part.

Re: louisgray.com: My Top Ten Favorite Google Products

rklau — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 18:48:05 -0000

Hey Rex - there are a number of ways to disable the navbar, though we have a number of improvements planned that we think will make it a nice win for users. But in the meantime, if you have a blog on Blogger where you want to disable it, this site lays out the steps:

http://www.bloggertricks.co...

-- Rick Klau (Blogger PM)

Re: http://blog.louisgray.com/2009/06/google-gets-serious-about-blog-search.html

rklau — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 01:58:05 -0000

Shows what I know. :)

Thanks for the specifics - I'll check back with the search team and report back.