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Re: http://hitormiss.org/2000/03/28/john-has-been-slowly-getting/

Anil Dash — Wed, 29 Mar 2000 06:03:26 -0000

Can we do a mind meld so I can learn all of your accumulated knowledge? I've been stubbornly procrastinating the learning of PHP and MySQL myself...

Re: DeepLeap Beta Testers Wanted

Anil Dash — Tue, 18 Apr 2000 01:10:45 -0000

And the folks behind it are a great bunch of people, nice, smart, personable... exactly who you'd want to see do well

Re: Data vs. Music CD Recordables.

Anil Dash — Tue, 04 Jul 2000 19:07:22 -0000

The "music" CD's cost more because they've got a surcharge that's paid to the music companies as a royalty added to their cost.

No joke, it's a CD copying tax, but you can avoid it by buying the 100% identical product that is sold under the "Data CD" name.

Re: Looking for a digital camera…

Anil Dash — Mon, 16 Oct 2000 06:10:07 -0000

I've had pretty good experiences with my Olympus, the only problem is that (as of when I got it ~ december) it only had a serial port connection. Compared to USB photo downloads, it's terrible.

And the UI of the controls is bad. Fine once you learn it, but nowhere near as obvious as the Kodak. That being said, the picture quality is better than the Kodak.

Re: I finally bought a digital camera

Anil Dash — Mon, 23 Oct 2000 19:10:36 -0000

Dear God, is that a wood-grain TV? Isn't it blasphemy to sit a TiVo on that thing?

Re: In which Matt writes about sex.

Anil Dash — Tue, 23 Jan 2001 22:01:30 -0000

I'm happy for you, Matt, seems like this is a big step for you to take. Honestly, I don't talk about sex on my blog mostly because I know my dad reads it... :)

Makes me wonder what that says about me. Nice to have you as an impetus for me to challenge myself. Thanks!

Re: More programming…

Anil Dash — Sun, 28 Jan 2001 18:01:34 -0000

Hey, Matt, glad HotScripts picked up your instructions... I had submitted them right after you posted the page, and I was afraid they weren't going to post them.

Now all I gotta do is go inflate their ratings :)

Re: http://hitormiss.org/2001/02/02/wednesday-night-along-with-fifty/

Anil Dash — Fri, 02 Feb 2001 19:02:04 -0000

Hey, nice suit! :) You look very authoritative.

Re: In which Matt reflects on suicide

Anil Dash — Fri, 16 Feb 2001 11:02:00 -0000

It's a brave thing just to admit to having been there, and a big step to removing the stigma that is a big part of the reason no one talks about suicide...

I've been there too, had those same long nights, and I wish I had had words like yours to read. The upside of having these weblogs is that maybe more kids who don't feel they have a voice or anyone to listen to will find this medium an escape.

And in case you ever wonder, you've got a whole audience here to listen to if you ever need it today. :)

Re: Online ads that roam the screen

Anil Dash — Thu, 26 Apr 2001 13:33:23 -0000

I saw a Coke ad crawl across Ask Jeeves the other day. It made me want to drink a Coca Cola.

Re: http://hitormiss.org/2001/05/08/salam-ketabatoon-ghashang-ke-hichi/

Anil Dash — Tue, 08 May 2001 17:21:13 -0000

C'mon, we need some Hindi-speakers to rock this shit. Anybody...?

Re: http://hitormiss.org/2001/05/08/salam-ketabatoon-ghashang-ke-hichi/

Anil Dash — Wed, 09 May 2001 12:19:08 -0000

Yeah, well, sure it's not Hindi. :) Stupid me. I'm gonna go guess at Arabic as a second guess. Vis10n is smarter than me.

Re: http://hitormiss.org/2001/05/08/salam-ketabatoon-ghashang-ke-hichi/

Anil Dash — Wed, 09 May 2001 18:51:12 -0000

Heh, no I was corrected by Saima that it wasn't Hindi. And I felt dumb.

Re: http://hitormiss.org/2001/05/15/ive-finally-finished-moving-all/

Anil Dash — Tue, 15 May 2001 19:26:05 -0000

Mmm. I have tiny Inspiron courtesy of Dell Outlet and it makes yummy. And the price was small.

Re: Call for help:

Anil Dash — Wed, 16 May 2001 14:12:55 -0000

Dell will do it if you send them a specific request.

Re: http://hitormiss.org/2001/05/17/proper-email-cover-letter-etiquette/

Anil Dash — Thu, 17 May 2001 07:59:11 -0000

It figures, the one time I got press was when I labelled myself a spammer. And I had no idea the article was coming out until I got it in my inbox.

Re: http://hitormiss.org/2002/01/23/why-is-it-that-straight/

Anil Dash — Thu, 24 Jan 2002 16:28:21 -0000

This seems an interesting parallel to my parents' firm conviction that any woman they meet willl be perfect, as long as her lineage traces back to the Indian subcontinent.

Yep, sucks all around. :)

Re: Kottke.org Moving to Movable Type

Anil Dash — Mon, 03 Jun 2002 10:05:53 -0000

I haven't used yer code yet because I am a bad, bad man! It's terrifically cool, though. :)

Re: http://hitormiss.org/2002/06/15/ive-been-thinking-a-lot/

Anil Dash — Wed, 19 Jun 2002 07:58:46 -0000

I do exactly the same thing, my own sidebar and my BlogTracker one. I'll have to steal your code (and we know how *that* goes) and make a system like your new one. :)

Re: http://hitormiss.org/2002/07/16/after-a-few-false-starts/

Anil Dash — Tue, 16 Jul 2002 20:18:32 -0000

Holy *crap*, man! That's awesome. You're fully converged!

Re: Email from another Matt Kingston:

Anil Dash — Wed, 28 Aug 2002 13:39:13 -0000

Ehh, screw that guy. You own the Matt Kingston brand! You are the premiere product in the MK space. Best. Matt Kingston. Ever.

Re: no hate

Anil Dash — Wed, 04 Sep 2002 04:36:39 -0000

Thanks for commenting on the tenor of the conversation at LGF. I have been very disappointed that so few others have spoken out against it, and I'm glad to see people are coming around and acknowledging how they feel about the generalities that are often made in the comments there.

Hopefully people will get involved in negating some of the stereotyping and generalizations that often go on in some web communities.

Re: http://hitormiss.org/2002/10/21/research-on-moving-to-new/

Anil Dash — Mon, 21 Oct 2002 11:01:58 -0000

C'mon, join us! I got my bearings in Manhattan by living in a dorm for a few months until I found a place. It's not a bad way to get settled at all. Everybody oughtta live here at least once in their lives.

Re: Crying over spilt creme fraiche:

Anil Dash — Wed, 23 Oct 2002 14:16:27 -0000

Jeff, you raise good points about IHT as a print paper, but what about their beautiful web site? Don't you think we should lobby for the site and its elegant design to continue as the Internet version of whatever future effort they put out? I'd hate to see that site shuttered in favor of the lesser offerings of any of the supporting papers.

Re: Anil Dash’s smear campaign

Anil Dash — Thu, 24 Oct 2002 01:15:51 -0000

Nice try, Richard. I wasn't raised on the Congress/BJP debate, I came to find out about it from my own research into my family's history before my parents came to this country. I was raised on American debates, as befits my heritage.

More to the point, you accuse me of not getting the point of Charles' site, which is blatantly false, as I consider the highlighting of religious extremism a necessary and important task. In fact, it's *because* I see it as important that I don't want it cast as the domain of bigots and zealots. What you seem to misunderstand is that a rational person, coming to Charles' site absent of context or advance knowledge, would see the news he posts and be rightfully alarmed and concerned by the threats he describes.

They they would proceed to the comments on each post, and see the vitriol, extremism, and odd fixation on the obscure glossary of a small Internet community, and would probably dismiss the news that's reported there as the rantings of some closed, out of touch, self-congratulatory community. In short, he does disservice to the message he's charged himself with communicating.

I think it's fascinating that you would deem to judge me unfamiliar with the effects of Congress Party policies, when my family was fighting against many of their efforts for decades. And how dare you call me a lost soul? You create the fiction that my anguish is faked? We've never met, never communicated and you see fit to judge me? I think that damns yours as a soul far more lost than mine.

I've never tried to suppress Charles' speech. I did accuse Charles of racism, and then retracted it in the same venue in which I made the charge in the heat of anger. I also categorically stated on my site that I don't believe Charles is a racist.

I agree the focus should be on stopping hatred, not just in the Middle East, but around the world, and I wonder why you don't chastize the people who agree with you and found it more important to threaten me and make up false accusations of anti-semitism and anti-americanism. Were they not trying to stifle debate? Were they not ignoring the fight against these threats from the Middle East?

Your hipocrisy is rank. I invite you to review the tone and tenor of the venomous attacks against me, and ask if that's the voice of reason. I invite you to forfeit your contempt for "web elves" who created the very tools you and Charles and others use to expound your messages. If I didn't believe in free speech, I wouldn't spend my life building tools, technologies, and companies that help individuals express themselves to a global audience.

By choosing rhetoric over reason, and by refusing to engage in discussion with your fellow Americans, you reveal that you'd choose your personal fixations over working with other citizens in a conversation that will find a useful solution. You feel that undifferentiated contempt for the millions of muslims around the world is justified, so it's no surprise that you'd be confused enough to think that contempt for rational Americans is somehow acceptable, too.