Can you elaborate? I'm not sure I follow you. The "Show X more comments" link goes to a permalink of the entry in questions which contains all the likes and comments for that entry. - Benjamin Golub
But of course I ended up typing it as a FriendFeed entry instead of as a search. As a result, I ended up with a FriendFeed entry "who:danielha [anatomical reference]" - you can bet I deleted THAT quickly. - Ontario Emperor via fftogo
Probably the worst thing I've typed online. Well, this year, anyway. (Needless to say, I think highly of Daniel.) - Ontario Emperor via fftogo
I knew a guy named Dick, nice bloke, wonder what happened to him. - Duncan Riley
Thinking through my present friends, I can't think of one that goes by the name Dick. I can only think of the famous people: Van Dyke, Cavett, Ebersol. (And yes, this is another example of the importance of context.) - Ontario Emperor via fftogo
Sorry Ontario...I realize that form looks an awful lot like a search form. Not sure what to do about that but for the moment deleting entries works. But apparently Louis is just too fast for us mortals. - Benjamin Golub
Congrats Tim! I heard you might be close to purchasing a house too? - Benjamin Golub
We have two that we really really like. One is smaller but is gorgeous from the outside and inside, with a great back yard, and in a phenomenal location. The other is much larger with a gorgeous inside but not in a great location (side of the house faces a busy street). Both are the same price. We're leaning towards the smaller one but we're going to go out looking a few more times. This process is tougher than I expected. - Tim Costantino
Have enjoyed an excellent experience w/Adhost. Seattle based. Good live support. - Dave Martin
You will find someone who will glow and people who will trash nearly every hosting company. I have yet to find one I am thrilled with - Douglas E. Welch via twhirl
Can't beat Slicehost assuming you know (or want to learn) how to setup your own server. They have excellent articles to help you out to. - Benjamin Golub via fftogo
MediaTemple for easy point and click hosting and Slicehost if you know what you're doing or want to learn about setting up and managing a server. I've had no problems whatsoever with either. - Brandon Titus
I've been using Dreamhost for a few years now and have never ever had a problem. - Chris
Been happy with Aspnix - asp and php all in one plan - agree with Douglas though, there will be both sides no matter what you choose - Virtual Bird's Eye via twhirl
I've been using Siteground and have been very pleased! - Mary-Lynn
Used to love Dreamhost. Then I was one of 3k users that got hacked + they are immature in their customer outreach. Moved to MediaTemple - I figure if they can handle Starbucks website they can handle me. - Andy Wibbels
Squidhost FTW! I've had some bad experiences with a couple of the ones listed above... due to various contractual reasons, I can't say which one it is. - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
Shey-I've been pretty pleased with Dreamhost adfter 2 years. None perfect so just gotta try and hope for decent. I mean even Amazon went down once - Mark Forman
Dreamhost. Transparent, friendly, and stable. Never had a problem, either. - flammable
Textdrive/Joyent. However, I got in when they were cheap. Their hosting plans are pricey now. - Morton Fox
I would have to say Surpass Hosting http://surpasshosting.com I've had a couple enterprise level dedicated servers with them as well as their shared and reseller hosting accounts. The support has always been great and they have an active community @ http://surmunity.com - Brandon
I'd avoid dreamhost, they once took it upon themselves to robots.txt block search engine spiders on my sites because "I was using too many resources". They massively oversell shared hosting. It's ok for small sites, but anything resembling good traffic and they ride the fail whale - Duncan Riley
Understanding that almost ALL shared hosting has problems now and then, I can't really recommend one, but I would say to avoid some of the bigger names (GoDaddy, Dreamhost, iPower). You get what you pay for in cheap mass hosting, really. - Bryce Moore via twhirl
I use to be on MediaTemple, now I'm running my own server on SliceHost. I recommend Slicehost. - Michael Narciso via NoiseRiver
i am an idiot.. Pair.com not PairNic for hosting. d'oh! - Paulo via twhirl
Contegix, Contegix, Contegix. Honestly, just try it. They are so amazing it's not even funny. They are a managed hosting company, so you will pay more for their services, but they literally can replace most of your IT functions in your company. It's crazy how good and responsive they are. They also do a lot of great stuff for open source (hosting opensymphony.com, openqa.org, springframework.org, various Apache projects, etc). They are good people. - Patrick Lightbody
Godaddy.com cheap. Arizona Hosting Provider!! - Alex Sauceda
If you are looking for Windows hosting and you need a SQL Server database and are considering GoDaddy, be aware that they do not let you connect to your db with Enterprise Manager so your only choice if you ever want to make a backup or change hosts is to pay more than $100 to have the make a backup for you. Otherwise the hosting there is ok. If you need Windows hosting with good SQL Server access look at CrystalTech.com. - Lindsay Donaghe
Whatever you do, don't go with AITcom.net. Their service really sucks! I've had nothing but problems with their Windows server with Front Page extensions. I have had decent service with a Linux server from them though. They do have 24/7 support, but if they are having a global issue, good luck getting through to tech support. - Jeff P. Henderson
Bluehost is fairly good shared hosting. They're cheap and beginner-oriented, but advanced users on a budget can quickly get used to the Bluehost way of life. - possible248
Nice! One quibble, though. Once you get to the detailed view of a specific item (with all comments exposed), it's not obvious how to navigate back. I've had to use the back button. - Ontario Emperor via fftogo
Is it hard to use the back button on your phone? Works well for me (moto q9c) - Benjamin Golub via fftogo
Despite my console/video gaming rig eating up more and more into our living room, I got to have GH World Tour as well as RB2. Make sure to watch the last video on the site of the devs performing Van Halen's "Hot for Teacher". GH WH's drum kit seems to be the one done right. Btw, the new guitars look even slicker. Gosh, I must sound like thirteen. Can't. Wait. - Mustafa K. Isik via Bookmarklet
What's different about the drums? (mobile and thus can't watch video). I despise the RB drums - Benjamin Golub via fftogo
@Benjamin The drums are supposed to be quieter, bouncier and feature a two level arrangement. - Mustafa K. Isik
What do you mean by refresh? Do you mean re-login? Some people have had trouble with fftogo and cookies; haven't figured it out yet. - Benjamin Golub
When I open the bb browser, I have to select the refresh from the menu to see the latest updates. The fftogo page shows the last page I was looking at. This is even after closing out the app. - Dylan McIntosh via fftogo
well yes. fftogo has no automatic refresh because most phones don't support that javascript. sorry - Benjamin Golub via fftogo
are you complaining that it doesn't hurt enough? - Bjorn Tipling
No; but I remember it being the worst thing in the world when I was like 8 - Benjamin Golub
Things that would make me freak out when I was 8 are now no big deal. Cuts, scrapes, bruises, extremely hot water... none of it phases me anymore. When I was 8? I'd have gone off the deep end at any one of them. - Akiva Moskovitz
I agree; JSON is barely human readable. - Roger Jennings
But on huge sites, JSON may make sense from a price & performance perspective. - Jim McCusker
why use xml? and more generally what type of API? - Rob Diana
How 'bout you provide options so developers can use what's appropriate for their application? - Ken Sheppardson
If you are doing an API that will be accessed from a browser use JSON. XML is the wrong answer. But most people ought to just offer both. It is trivial to offer your API in several formats. - Sam Pullara
XML isn't supposed to read by humans, it's supposed to read y machines. But I like Same Pullara's point. Returning data in various types isn't that difficult. - Chris Jones
XML is more generic, but really its only presentation - make it as easy as possible for people to use by offering the output it in multiple formats (RSS, XML, ATOM,...). - martin english
JSON please. But really it's pretty trivial to do both - Benjamin Golub via fftogo
agreed. XML is universal and has things like XSL, XSLT, XPath, XQuery that you can use with it. JSON has no such ecosystem, just a quick and dirty way to parse a string. XML is more than a string. Plus, JSON has no way to validate it, as far as I remember. - Eric Marden
I like JSON better. It's faster and easier to parse IMO. - Winston Teo
If you intend your API to be consumed by a browser then please provide it in JSON. Its just so much easier and faster than having to parse XML. And JSON being barely human readable? Um, isn't that why we have computers now? And wow, do I remember the fuss that was made over XML back in the early 90's how that wasn't human readable. We got computers to read it for us as well. - Troy Forster via feedalizr
I disagree. Libraries like simplejson for Python are what made writing my django-friendly (friendfeed app) so easy. I didn't have to muck around with all the nastiness that comes with XML. I just want to get a data dump, throw it into a method like simplejson.loads() and get out a python data structure. It's always been exceedingly difficult with XML. - Clint Ecker
What's the point of supporting both? - Bjorn Tipling
As several people have pointed out the best ideal is support multiple formats. JSON works best if your API is being consumed by a browser or similar platform where javascript is the language. If you're building a desktop app in something like .NET then the native tools to de/serialize XML are fantastic. RSS and Atom are XML with specific DTDs and there are tons of libraries optimized for these formats. - Troy Forster
DK much about "Heartbreaking Work...", but "Curious Incident..." was a good and fast-paced read. Excellent for travel. - Aprille
AHWSG was a huge book for me when I read it in early college; it may read slightly differently now that time has passed and the meta-memoir is a bit more common. They're two different books - what are you in the mood for? "Curious Incident" is, as Aprille said, a fun read :) - Jennie Lin
I forgot that we have the new David Sedaris; I'll be reading that instead - Benjamin Golub
Done. Now it displays up to 3 pieces of media per entry and only 1 thumbnail (should be the smallest) for each piece of media. It really was overkill for things like flickr/picasa (especially picasa which returns 3 thumbnails for each piece of media) - Benjamin Golub
"Normalization is not magical fairy dust you sprinkle over your database to cure all ills; it often creates as many problems as it solves" Here here. RSSmeme is certainly not completely normalized; if it were it wouldn't be speedy without a much beefier server. - Benjamin Golub via Bookmarklet
just had oatmeal bar on the go by quaker! homemade sounds better though - orionstarr
I have to say, they were pretty amazing. Owing mostly to a great recipe on the Quaker Oats website :) Mostly, I'm just glad my kids liked them. They'd never had them before! - Brad McCrorey
“Ever meet someone and they tell you their name but they don't look like their name so you remember them by the name they DO look like and then have to constantly remind yourself not to call them that? I do that with a guy I work with... His name is "Neal" but he looks like an "Eric" to me.”
I have to constantly remind myself to call people by their real name and not the nickname I made up for them in my mind. Especially applies to people at work that I see all the time but rarely interact with. - Tad Donaghe
i'm horrible with names so i usually try to rhyme the person's name with an object or feature from the first meeting. it sticks with me - Cee Bee
When I used to spend all my free time swing dancing, we would make up nicknames for the "celebrity dancers." Green sweater girl, tall hat boy, surgeon girl, rocket scientist girl (Honestly! She lives in Colorado...), etc. Some of them are now my friends and we continue to call each other by these nicknames. - Lisa L. Seifert
I think this is why my best friend's mom called me "Rodney" for a decade or two. Funny yet sad. - Anthony Citrano
I just don't use names... "Hey, how's it going?" - Alan Cheslow
the worst is trying to lead someone in a conversation so they can tell you their name, but it doesn't happen and you end up more frustrated and embarrassed than when you began - Cee Bee
I've been called Richard quite a lot. I'm not so sure it's because I look like a Richard though. I think it's because my last name is Nix and people seem to think Richard Nixon. And the fact that my first name is Robert, similar to Richard, probably doesn't help. Interestingly, I seem to be easily identifiable visually too since people tend to remember me (by looks, not name) if I've been somewhere before. There's nothing really unique about me. I'm not sure why that happens. Then again, maybe it's common. - nicerobot
I get called Heather a lot, even by strangers I talk to on the phone. Frankly, it rather pisses me off. A coworker calls me HR Puffnstuff. Strangely, I tolerate that more. - Helen
so it's not just me that does that? (good to know :-) - karen2
Had a very drunk night in a London pub where a girl I'd met at a party a week before corrected me when I called her the wrong 'look like' name - and I vigorously (well, dopey drunk vigorously) argued the point ... - Patrick Jordan
Had the opposite experience in high school. A girl thought I looked like a Kenny, and not a Jeff, so for 4 years she called me Kenny. Funny thing no one else ever used that nick name except for her and her best friend. - Jeff P. Henderson
ALL THE TIME. I just figured I'd been dropped on my head as a child. I rarely call my husband by his first name. I think all Jasons are blonde with blue eyes. - Cyndy
Yup! weird phenomenon huh?! I hate that... just means their parents didn't name them correctly - ha, ha! - Susan Beebe
People call me Matt all the time...like at least once a week. I'll introduce myself as Ben very clearly and they say Matt for some reason. Always Matt. Maybe I look like a Matt? - Benjamin Golub via fftogo
Benjamin: take it as a compliment ;-) - Matt Harwood
I am absolutely horrible with names. I've been working here for 12 years. People smile and say hello... maybe even have a small conversation. They walk away and I'll ask my friend "Who was that?". Always cracks her up. - Yolanda
Yes, yes, yes, yes, and yes. But you can't tell it by looking at me. :-) - Gregory Pittman
Noooooooooooezzzzzz Ok I CAN touch my toes, run (not THAT fast); jog...ah 3min straight! ha, ha!, bench wamer!, and squat on FriendFeed!!! yeah!! - Susan Beebe
Much like the original FriendFeed. If any entry has more than 5 likes then
fftogo will display a link to view the rest. If an entry has more than 6
comments then fftogo will inject a link to show the rest. - Benjamin Golub via mail2ff
You're welcome! The code isn't very pretty but Django templates can get pretty limiting when you want to start doing things like this. - Benjamin Golub
When I'm in fftogo on the Friends (0) page, listings will appear as "Joe Blow posted Obama is Kewl on del.icio.us." However, it isn't until I return to native FriendFeed that I realize that Joe Blow isn't one of my contacts. (Native FriendFeed will say "Joe Blow (friend of Jim Beam) posted Obama is Kewl on del.icio.us.") - Ontario Emperor
It would be nice for fftogo to show that certain people in your feed are friends of friends. - Ontario Emperor
On the other hand, perhaps this isn't desirable. It takes up screen real estate, and you can't do anything with the information anyway since the FriendFeed API doesn't allow you to subscribe. HOW DO OTHER PEOPLE FEEL ABOUT THIS FEATURE REQUEST? - Ontario Emperor
I *really* want to display friend of a friend information on fftogo but the API does not give this information. I've requested it in the Google group: http://groups.google.com/group... - Benjamin Golub
Thanks for fighting the good fight, Benjamin! - Ontario Emperor
The JS and XML outputs should now include a "friendof" element on the appropriate entries (as of sometime last week). - Paul Buchheit
cool! wow, that was fast Paul! Ok Ben... Go!! - Susan Beebe
"Dear CEO,
We are Shanghai CBSS Information Technology Co., Ltd, a domain name register organization in Shanghai, China. Now we have something urgent need to confirm with your company.
Today we received an formal application from YU-online (Hongkong) Investment company.Now they are applying to register "rssmeme" as internet brand keyword and CN domain names through us，which regarding your company's name or trademark. In order to prevent the 3rd party from utilizing the relative domain names on purpose , we hope to get your confirmation about the domain name’s registration.
Waiting for your prompt reply or calling directly.
Kind Regards" - Benjamin Golub
Haven't heard of this scam before. Trying to get me to buy a .cn domain - Benjamin Golub
I stopped the FriendFeed app for Facebook from writing to the mini-feed because I reckoned my friends on there didn't need spamming any more than they already are! - Martin Bryant
New Facebook is so horrible it hurts... And who thought it would be a good idea to mix the mini-feed and the wall? Hope they have a legacy view... - Ross Miller
ugly, I only added a few apps to limit spam, now people won't even see them directly; it looks more like a myspace/twitter redux - clarke thomas
If you click edit, you can change from "one line" to "short"; hoping there's a global setting, though it's def annoying as a default (and that if i change the preference for one entry of an application, it doesn't set it for all) - Dan Hsiao
Short is definitely much nicer. Didn't see that option. - Benjamin Golub
We need to update our mini-feed stories - the titles had a different purpose before. Thanks for pointing this out, Benjamin - Bret Taylor
To avoid duplication, i've long turned off either Mini-feed updates or profile module for all apps. Now under comment integration at facebook, i should devise a new balance. - John Lam
“This weekend, the Shutter Priority mode on my 5D conked out. Doesn't work anymore, thinks it's in P and exposes fully. I hope it's not going to cost an arm and a leg to fix it...”
Ahh that sucks. The good thing is the repair facility is close (New Jersey.) Let me know if you need to borrow a camera for anything. I have my backup 30D available. - Mark Anderson
Rats, I thought maybe the more expensive cameras out there might come with longer warranties. My D40 is also just a year. - Benjamin Golub
Thanks Mark, that's mighty nice of you! I'll see how things come along. - Raoul Pop
Have you tried rebooting the camera (not sure how to do it, but I think you can) or just pulling the battery our and re-installing it. Also might try changing lenses to see if that makes any difference. Also check to see if you have the latest firmware and if not upgrade. I had a Canon D30 that used to hang once in a while and pulling the battery out would re-set it. - Jeff P. Henderson
I did try turning it on and off and removing and replacing the lens, but I didn't try pulling out the battery. Will do it right now and let it sit w/o the battery for a few minutes. I should also try to call Canon and see if they can do some troubleshooting over the phone. - Raoul Pop
There is a second button cell battery that keeps the clock running and probably keeps the settings in memory. If removing the main battery doesn't work, you might also try removing the button cell along with the main battery. - Jeff P. Henderson
Removed battery, switched lenses again, and still had the same problem. Then I looked through the Custom Functions, and discovered what a dummy I am. I'd toggled on the "Safety Shift in Av and Tv" function a couple of weeks ago, and that's what made the 5D "shift" the exposure in Tv. It wanted to correct under-exposure because that's what I'd told it to do... Thank you for making me think about it, Jeff! - Raoul Pop
Glad you found the problem, I'll take note of your solution in case I do the same thing inadvertently to my 5d some day. - Jeff P. Henderson
"I have no idea what it will tell us about colour or music - this is another of the themes from Dorian's list of possibilities - but I hope it will be fun anyway. I've been through the A-Z, and can tell you that all these songs have already appeared in previous lists: Kate Bush - the Red Shoes; Prince - Little Red Corvette; Dr Octagon - Blue Flowers; George Gershwin - Rhapsody in Blue; I Monster - Daydream in Blue; Booker T and the MGS - Green Onions; Lemon Pipers - Green Tambourine; Joni Mitchell - Big Yellow Taxi and Little Green; New Model Army - Green and Grey; Chills - Pink Frost; Psychedelic Furs - Pretty in Pink; Sun Ra Arkestra - Pink Elephants On Parade; Roots Manuva - Yellow Submarine; Cyril Tawney - The Grey Tunnel Line; Tori Amos - The Power of Orange Knickers." - edythe via Bookmarklet
Sammy Hagar: "Red", Billy Joel: "Blonde Over Blue", AC/DC: "Back In Black", Living Colour: "What's Your Favorite Color?" - Roger Benningfield
