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Benjamin Golub posted a link
YouTube - Nike "Fate" Leave Nothing commercial w/ LT & Polamalu
YouTube - Nike "Fate" Leave Nothing commercial w/ LT & Polamalu
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22 hours ago - via Bookmarklet - Link
Awesome commercial I just saw while watching the NE/SD game. Polamalu is my hero. - Benjamin Golub via Bookmarklet
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Yeah, that's a great ad. I'm glad they're using 2 good guys this time instead of a guy like Merriman. - Jason Carreira
I just saw that one. That was awesome, to the point where I stopped everything to watch it. - Cyndy
I have a deep and abiding love of Troy Polamalu. - Megen Vo
Is Ben ok with that? - Jim Norris
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Mona N. posted a message
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That cow stole my haircut!!! - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)
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ha ha - Cee Bee
hahhahahahha TINA!!! - Mona N.
lmao Tina - Carmen
No, Carmen, it's lmoo!!! - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)
hahahah Tina! we should call him emoo instead of emo. - Carmen
HOW CUTE MONA AWWW - Caroline
I think I ran into that dude at an Arcade Fire show once. - Akiva Moskovitz
There is nothing cuter than a Highland Cow. - Miriam
Tina, LOL! But I quite like your new do - Sally Church
That is AWESOME! - Brian Norwood
LOL Tina. - Alex IHateMondays Scoble
Emoo - Josh Haley
Too funny. ;) - Daynah
Oh an highland coo! :) - Niki Costantini
emoo HAHA - Mona N.
EMOoooo! - Dave Q
hahaha that's hilarious! - Patrik Johansson
udderly preposterous - MiniMage LightBlueRanger
Emoooo hairy coooo ;-) - BeeLing
ridiculously funny! - Chieze Okoye
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YES!!
YES!!
October 4 at 3:27 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link
ha ha - Cee Bee
Nice! - Alex Vernon
awesome! - Faboo Mama
:)) - Anna Haro
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Tim Hoeck posted a link
SMILING JACK
SMILING JACK
October 3 at 10:22 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link
Awwwwww! - Lindsay Donaghe
Umm postmen... - James Tenniswood
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Louis Gray posted a message
“Matthew Loves His Bumpo Seat!”
Matthew Loves His Bumpo Seat!
Matthew Loves His Bumpo Seat!
Matthew Loves His Bumpo Seat!
October 3 at 10:56 pm - via mail2ff - Link
Matthew is getting bigger and is smiling and giggling a lot. He's just now large enough to sit in the Bumbo seat, and hold his head up without rolling around. You can see in these pictures how excited he is! Sarah might be at this stage in a few weeks. (BTW - Correction: Bumbo) - Louis Gray via mail2ff
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awwww. - Monique
Damn, it's fun watching our kids grow up on FriendFeed. - Robert Scoble
:))) - Anna Haro
Bumbo seats rule! - Michelle Martinez
His smile, LG! Just made my entire day!! Thank you kindly for sharing. :) - Mona N.
So cute! - JodyUnwired
great seats. we have a yellow one. - Chris Johnson
Yup. Got one. there should be a Bumpo group on Facebook ;) - David Jacobs
Cute! :) - Charlie Anzman
این و نگاه کن لوییس چه نازه :)))) - 1Fathi
Such an adorable babe!!! Now if only more adults could live life with such in-the-moment joy and get pleasure from the simple things like a Bumbo seat. LOL! ☺ - Mari Smith
چه قلمبه! - Farz∂d Zam∂ni
Louis you have all the coolest gadgets. All we have is a bouncy chair :-( - Jesse Stay
I've never seen someone so happy whilst trying to have a poo - James Tenniswood
با چه شادمانی تلاش میکنه چیز کنه! - Farz∂d Zam∂ni
اين عكسها رو هزاران بار بايد ديد :) - mhmazidi
He's so beautiful , even more than a Hamster pet !kiss kiss :) - Mr Jojo
cuteness! - Elvira
we just got one of these bumbo's for our son as well. his chubby little legs make it sort of difficult to get him out of it tho! looks like Matthew is really diggin it! - Neil Bernhart
man, those cheeks ! awesome! - embee
so sweet! I can almost hear the laugh! - Lindsay Donaghe
Are you sure it wasn't gas? ;-) - Mark Dykeman
**ADORABLE!!** Soooo cute and HAPPY!! - Susan Beebe
Great pictures!!! =) - David Cook
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Robert Scoble shared an item on Google Reader
5 Big Data Center Trends For 2008
October 4 at 2:05 am - Link
I'm surprised the blade number isn't even higher. We started deploying blades at the end of 2004 and never looked back. I would say we are closer to 50% blades, 25% virtual, and 25% standard rack servers in the data center. Now that there are dual and quad quad core blades, power 6 blades and quad 6 core servers for virtualization I would expect our blade and virtual numbers to increase at the expense of the standard racked server. When you have thousands of servers it really does make a huge difference in physical footprint. Thanks for sharing the article. - Michael Pardee
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Excuse my ignorance but why would you not just use more and more virtual servers rather than blades? - chet
Chet, we will. Our decision path is virtual, then blade, the "regular" server. But we use a ton of Citrix and arecjust now starting to see some respectable performance when running it virtually, but it is still not as fast as running it on it's own box. Same with SQL server, we run multiple instances on the largest iron we can buy and cluster it for availability. We are just starting to play with SQL on VM. We'll get there some day, if not for space and power gains we'll get their for the ease motion brings for recovery and transparent failover. - Michael Pardee
Thanks Michael. Makes total sense. What's interesting to me is how virtualusation totally changes the make up of data centers and remote offices requiring very different strategies. The flexibility it gives you is awesome as you mention. - chet
Chet: There's nothing stopping a customer from putting a virtualization on blades too! I work for HP as a Sales Architect, and most of my time is spent teaching customers how blades and virtualization (not just hypervisors) can all be integrated together. Moving virtual workloads from hardware to hardware, and moving the hardware OS from blade to blade are all part of the plan for a dynamic datacenter-what we call Adaptive Infrastructure. - Michael Saul
Michael Saul - great point. I am an Infrastructure Architect and agree completely. On of the reasons we tend to go with bigger boxes for virtualization is all the additional slots for various ports. The HP blades are definitely making some big pushes to change our minds about that. So who will get the conversation started about VDI next? - Michael Pardee
James Hamilton of MS has good stuff in this area. Particularly: Why Blade Servers Aren't the Answer to All Questions (http://perspectives.mvdirona.c...). It seems to have something to do with power density and cooling. - todd
I lead a Virtualization solutions practice for a $ 17B solutions distributor (http://ats.avnet.com/virtualiz...). Blades, Virtualization, green all fit squarely in our wheelhouse. In addition to the key trends mentioned. We are seeing significant increase in VDI solutions being developed in VAR's. Additionally, we are seeing in increase in mgmt and security focus. - Tim FitzGerald
Todd: I took a look at what James Hamilton is saying, and for the most part I agree with him, but I think he is missing some of the most important aspects that blades bring to the table. He is correct in saying that DC managers need to start looking at cooling and power with a more careful eye, but if they are monitored and tracked, they can be controlled and planned for more effectively. Power and cooling are just 2 resources that should be monitored and migrated around the physical space. - Michael Saul
Tim, security is a big reason we are looking at VDI as I'd like to see data never leave the facility unless we specifically want it to. Flexibility is next. Provisioning on the fly looks interesting as well. - Michael Pardee
@Michael Saul, what has been your experience with PolyServe, and what do you think of the LeftHand acquisition? - Louis Gray
(cont.) Just as memory, processor, etc. are relocated to balance loads in a virtualization layer. What is gained in ongoing management and a servers understanding of it's physical location are well worth the relatively small premium payed (especially when you begin to factor in port count in the core fabrics). - Michael Saul
Louis Gray: I have not worked directly with any of the Polyserve products, but I have heard from one customer who is using the NAS product with a very large NAS application that it is absolutely essential to their success. The corporate customers that I work with are mostly focused on FC SAN and are more eager to transition to FCoE as a single fabric solution; though that is still at least 2 years away. As for LeftHand, I am still researching the products and haven't really formed an opinion yet. - Michael Saul
the increase in virtualization is a no-brainer. not sure about blades. as for linux, the question is projected 8% "adoption rate" at the expense of what -- are they eating market share out of some other OS (e.g. Solaris) or just growing? - Karim
@Louis Gray, we use polyserve and are extremely happy with it. Finally a distributed lock manager fir windows. Why MS didn't listen to DEC all those years ago about this I'll never understand. No more spending time trying to tune pagepool, etc. The only flaw we have found so far is the time it takes for the entire env to recover if you lose a node varies on how large you make your poly cluster. Since we centralize as much as possible in the DC we can't afford outages and polyserve has brought us a level of availability that windows clustering will never match as long as it is totally dependent on a simple heartbeat. We rarely lose the heartbeat and almost always lose rpc communication so we had to manually get windows clusters back online anyway. They are fine for hardware failover, planned maint, and rolling upgrades, but we're all about performance and availability and we had to go to polyserve to get there. - Michael Pardee
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MG Siegler posted an entry on VentureBeat
Facebook 2.0 for the iPhone, tastes more like regular Facebook
September 30 at 2:45 am - Link
much better. And of course, I learned about the new release on friendfeed. - Michael Pardee
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eve shot first posted a message
“Thanks to FF, I now want a cinammon bun, cupcakes, and to TALK LIKE THIS FOR NO APPARENT REASON.”
August 31 at 8:18 pm - Link
WHAT WHAT DO YOU MEAN - Akiva Moskovitz
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YAY! - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)
FF, soon to be responsible for a rise in obesity :D - Mo Kargas
THIS IS ALL AKIVA'S FAULT. - Yolanda
YEP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - Akiva Moskovitz
SOMEONE BRING CUPCAKES OR THE CONSEQUENCES WILL BE DIRE. - eve shot first
DID YOU SEE THE SIZE OF THAT CHIKIN - Akiva Moskovitz
CREAM OR EVAPORATED MILK? - Yolanda
I JUST ATE A MANGO - Shey
KORN ON THE BLOG. - Yolanda
GIMME SOME BACON. I CRAVE BACON. - Kaia is a party pooper.
BACON SALT! - Rochelle
ROBERT SCOBLE - Akiva Moskovitz
HA! *drops dead from laughing so hard at this thread* - Abby Martin
YAH YAH YAAAAAAAH....YAAAH YAH! - Rah™
I AM MORE AWESOME THAN RASHEEN. - Kaia is a party pooper.
HEY, LET'S NOT GO GETTIN CARRIED AWAY...LOL - Rah™
LOL OMG FRIENDFEED IS ALL I NEED (HDTV) - Akiva Moskovitz
RAHSHEEN ON HDTV - Rochelle
MOST RAHSHEENS GO UP TO 10 BUT THIS ONE GOES UP TO 11. - Akiva Moskovitz
(literally crying laughing) - Rah™
RASHEEN+BACON+HDTV = CRAZY DELICIOUS!! - Kaia is a party pooper.
NOW I WANT TO COMMENT EVERYWHERE WITH "@RAHSHEEN: +11!!!" - eve shot first
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Robert Scoble posted an entry on Scobleizer -- Tech geek blogger
“The bloodiest, sickest game from EA”
August 8 at 3:50 am - Link
Looking forward to hearing more about this. The ROI of a hit video game is very good news for EA shareholders, especially when it doesn't involve a huge licensing deal like their sports franchises - Cains
That game looks pretty sweet, I'll definitly have to give it a try. - Not Not Geoff Schultz
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11 iPhone Tricks You Might Not Have Known
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Louis Gray posted an entry on louisgray.com
Relax, Bloggers: Nobody Is Keeping Score, and There's No Quota.
August 6 at 9:22 pm - Link
" to not forget why you started blogging in the first place" Excellent advice. It is easy to forget this at times. Thanks Louis. - Michael Pardee
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very well said Louis - if you have nothing to write about because you didn't have a great idea or because nothing interesting happened, then just don't write. The hardest thing about being a paid blogger is having to come up with interesting things to write about every day (but my threshold for amusement is pretty low, so that typically isn't a problem :) - Frederic
Well written...I was wondering when you were going to write something on this :) - Justin Korn
@Justin, one part of relaxing is knowing you don't have to write about every meme either. I was going to let this one go, but decided to pile on this evening. - Louis Gray
Good advice Louis. It triggered a rarelengthy comment from me that can't be handled here on FriendFeed. Hope it helps others http://www.louisgray.com/live/... - Mark Krynsky
blogging is like golf - its a challenge and reward for the individual. you don't play or write to keep up or pass others, it really is a very personal experience. trying to do it as a competition is the best way to lose your way, lose your passion, lose your audience... - Morgan
I have kept a schedule (not on purpose) for the most part, but haven't posted in a while. I was starting to get that anxious feeling, like when I miss a workout. I realize that I don't expect something new every day from my favorite blogs. I like the quality, not the quantity. This is just what I needed to see today, Louis. Thanks. :) - Rah™
Somehow this feeling to meet the quota is a built-in feature of blogs. Think of the calendar that highlights and links the days where you have posted an entry, think of the reverse chronological order of blogs - if you're pausing, the topmost content will start to age -, think of all those measurement systems that we use. All those things make it hard to persuade oneself that nobody's keeping score. - Benedikt Koehler
From what I can see inside every blogger is a gamer yearning to be free. And everybody keeps score :D - Earl E Morningwood
True say Louis. I haven't posted in probably a week, for various reasons, but I'm not fretting over it. - Shey
I'm at the moment posting photos to break the silence between rants. Which is the point of a blog, no? Wish I could get my hands on the FF widget Sconle has on his blog. It would bring FF and my blogging closer together. - Roberto Bonini
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Mike Fruchter shared an item on Google Reader
So You Think You’re Gonna Be Famous Eh?
August 3 at 5:39 pm - Link
this is an instant classic post. Sums up so much of the baggage that people bring into blogging. I was thinking about this earlier in the week ... http://linkman77.tumblr.com/po... - linkman77
I love Steve's closing "Welcome to the technology blogosphere – it can be a real bitch but then it can also be the best thing since sliced bread." - Mike Fruchter
As I thought, I've been doing pretty much everything wrong since 2002. Everything. Fantastic post. Great stuff. - Michael Pardee
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Mona N. posted a link
Fun inna Photo? photofunia dot com -Obscure sites FTW « Pixel Bits
Fun inna Photo? photofunia dot com -Obscure sites FTW « Pixel Bits
Fun inna Photo? photofunia dot com -Obscure sites FTW « Pixel Bits
August 3 at 2:37 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link
Make your own! http://www.photofunia.com/ - Mona N.
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neat! cool share Mona! - Susan Beebe
thank you, Susan! It's SO easy and it makes avatars too YEAH! - Mona N.
Perfect for a famous-wannabe! :) - Oli Kenobi
cool, I need to change my avatar soon! - Susan Beebe
here is for those who want their photo in a museum http://www.dumpr.net/museumr.p... - Baard Overgaard Hansen
nice! - Mona N.
Hmm..guess what snapshots tells me when I mouse over the link on Mona's blog http://tinyurl.com/6lz9pb :). Was feeling sleepy. Now all refreshed and inspired. - /(bb|[^b]{2})/ (Kamath)
This sight is making me consider actually using my face in an avatar. Dagnabbit! - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)
Kamath: HA @Stupid Blogger: go for it! ;) - Mona N.
That is AWESOME!!! That site is incredible!! I have my girlfriend believing that somewhere in another part of the world there is a building being built with her face on the site of it! :-D - Robert DeBord
image manipulation = new chocolate??? Robert: this makes me so happy that I shared. Thank you for the feedback :) - Mona N.
@Mona, I call these kind of things "webtoys". I've collected links to them for a long time. Have fun browsing through these (recent ones I'm sure you'll recognize): http://delicious.com/bluecocka... - Lindsay Donaghe
Lindsay, omg! GOLDMINE!! Thank you SO much for sharing! - Mona N.
Some crossover with webtoys, but also a lot of fun stuff here: http://delicious.com/bluecocka... - Lindsay Donaghe
@Mona I think after I showed her the dress made out of Polaroids of her picture she started to be a little disbelieving... :p Thanks for sharing that link though, it's fantastic!! :D - Robert DeBord
This was very cool. Thank you. - Michael Pardee
I played around with this...funny! --> http://flickr.com/photos/susan... - Susan Beebe
OK, fine, I gave in and my av here now includes my face. Stupid fun photo site! - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)
Great find! haven't seen it on http://generatorblog.blogspot.... - Majento
Actually when I did a search, I noticed Baard Overgaard Hansen and Nir Ben Yona found them earlier! Two more resources in lieu of trolling around the net ;) will link when I have cut and paste access! @majento: ty for the link! - Mona N.
They have a cool technology there! Great find! - Winston Teo
I cant leave that site now, thanks :-) - Mike Fruchter
...so addicting... - Pete Delucchi
Expand the thread! Lindsay and Mojento have provided AWESOME resources, as well! :) - Mona N. via fftogo
ah more time for me to waste! - BeeLing
Ahh no! Now I'm addicted to this :D - Mo Kargas
that's pretty cool. you're super cute mona - Cee Bee
CeeBee: :| thank you... thats my duckface. quack - Mona N. via fftogo
Had a go hehe http://reactiondynamics.com/wp... gonna be playing with this all day ! - Mo Kargas
Mona this is too much fun! - Anna Haro
What a beautiful portrait - imabonehead
this makes me smile. - Bren
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Very funny! She's great - Shemp DeYoung
I wish there was a way to multi-like something. 'Cause Shyamalan could learn a lot about twist endings from her. :) - Roger Benningfield
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Robert Scoble posted an entry on Scobleizer -- Tech geek blogger
You are an idiot if…
July 29 at 9:44 pm - Link
Good point about the .NET development. It would make a lot of sense. - Kevin Bondelli
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Robert, I wish they would let go of the legacy code and pull a Classic to OS X migration with Windows. Microsoft takes a huge public beating, but they have some very talented people there that I bet would love an opportunity to start fresh. - Michael Pardee
I don't know if they'll ever make good on the promises they made at PDC in 2003 for .Net and Windows BUT I have to say I've been very impressed (and excited) to see the changes they're making in ASP.Net so that you have the option to do REAL Ajax development via an MVC framework. They have been studying Ruby on Rails I think. And the things they've done with LINQ for .Net 3.5 are pretty dang awesome too. Once all that becomes standard for enterprise then it won't really matter what OS you use anyway. - Lindsay Donaghe
I can't say when or if this Midori thing will be released, but application compatibility is easily handled through virtualisation - either through Virtual PC, or by running the app in an isolated silo using Softricity. - Stuart Maxwell
I've said that the OS would be obsolete (in that it wouldn't matter which one you choose to run on your hardware) in 5 years starting about 2 years ago. I stick by my assessment. With virtualization progressing like it is, we'll just run software on whatever platform is available in VMs eventually. - Lindsay Donaghe
Liking to come back to this later. - Akiva Moskovitz
How about "You are an idiot if... you build on a single OS platform on an OS that's slowly starting to lose market share" I don't care how good .NET is (and here's a hint, not actually any better than Java, and significantly worse in many ways) being Windows only is a non-starter (and the first person to mention Mono gets the old "point and laugh" treatment). - Jason Carreira
Arguing if they should go open source or not LOL - Mona N.
If Gates is against breaking support for ancient software then Apple’s recent advances in marketshare won’t be just a near-term surge they will be cumulative. Microsoft cannot continue to invest resources in this manner eventually Apple will overtake them due to the growing waste of human resources at Microsoft. Also I believe Microsoft needs to go to a yearly release cycle like Apple. Im not interested in their products & 5 years of waiting between releases to get innovation. Not interested in the least. - Roger Kondrat
Innovation? Like Vista? - Jason Carreira
@Michael I think MS shouldn't announce they are leaving behind the legacy code until they have a beautiful demo to woo the audience. I think people would complain but if the product is compelling like Apple's was, they will drink it up. - Roger Kondrat
@Michael you took the words right out of my mouth about a Classic/OSX style change. That is where Apple really did right. At some point, you NEED to break application compatibility to improve the product. They seem to have done it to an extent in Vista, but not the extent I was hoping. Since businesses rely on the fact that their crappy old software will run, they will continue to upgrade. MS needs to FORCE the change, otherwise we'll continue to be stuck in the Win 3.1 compatible world. - Tim Hoeck
@Tim @Michael totally agree with the Apple approach was only referring to the PR. Also @Tim I think it is MS's responsibility to ensure the marketplace their lifeblood progresses which means it is in their best interest to every couple decades (minimum) to make a radical step forward as you both point out like Apple did. - Roger Kondrat
Great. Yet another reason I'm an idiot. - todd
todd, I won't think you're an idiot until Robert actually backs up his statement with some arguments. His post is basically "I say it ain't so" with nothing behind it. - Ian Betteridge
Microsoft should buy Sony to compete with Apple in the living room/digital lifestyle. 360 and Vista Media Center built into every Vaio HDTV. - Andrew Smith
yeah u r right - zos
Writing a kernel in .net is something I wouldn't want to undertake, maybe the layers above will be written in .net... They would be better off first writing a new micro kernel and then start from bottom up rewriting stuff and choosing the appropriate language whether this is .net or something else. It's just not economically feasible to keep using different kernels etc. - Robbie van der Blom
it just shows how destructive management can be for good minds - Gregory Lent
Not totally ure what "rewrite" means but I am guessing Unix/Linux today vs Unix from early 70's is not a "rewrite" either. - Brian Sullivan
Personally I think anyone trying to make predictions this specific for 20-40 years in the future is more likely to be the idiot, but I see your point. I tend to think, however, that hardware will maintain its exponential growth in speed and render the current issues with managed code irrelevant in less than 10 years. Shall we put it on longbets.com? - Ben Reierson
calling the author an idiot is a little over the top robert, he clearly stated that it is an incubation & research project and i (speaking w/ my enterprise technology hat on) personally like the way he wrote this article & the fact that msft is doing these sorts of greenfield r&d efforts... - mike "glemak" dunn
I'm old school here. At several fundamental levels C# is not a language I would pick to write a low level OS in. No surprise I would have said the same thing about Turbo Pascal. And the .NET runtime don't know why that would have to be preserved in an OS effort. That being said, I think MS's next step ought to be to derive their own version of C++ that's C# friendly and use that as the core. C++ could become a more efficient tool to use and it would follow along MS's success with C#. That's where I'd start. - Loren Heiny
Mike: my idiot headline is more aimed at people who picked up on his headline and started spreading it around as if this were a serious effort to replace Windows. I answered more over on the comment section of my blog. - Robert Scoble
Microsoft should just continue support for Vista if they are so worried about backwards compatibility. As long as the .Net-from-the-ground-up OS has siginficant advantages and reasons to get businesses switching and get applications for it, Microsoft should have no problem. Carrying so much legacy code merely hinders the overall progress and experiance. - Roberto Bonini
robert: yeah saw your comments afterwards, seems a number of others picked up on the same concept, good to hear you didn't intend to call the author an idiot - i do agree w/ your opinion that these sorts of research projects are very different than a full commercial production effort... - mike "glemak" dunn
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Dave Hussein Winer posted a message
“My new EVDO modem came, it works. I'm using it right now to post this. Heh. Pictures coming soon.”
July 24 at 2:36 pm - Link
How do you do the auto friendfeed thing? - Gavin
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In Pittsburgh the EVDO cards with Verizon rock. I've seen fantastic performance. - Michael Pardee
I have an app running on my LAN that does it. Yes, I plan to release it. - Dave Hussein Winer
Here's the UI for the modem. The GPS functionality is surprisingly simple and *very* useful and usable. They just launch searches in Google Maps with your exact location. Duh. Why didn't I think of that. http://images.scripting.com/ar... - Dave Hussein Winer
I've been using it on my Mac. Now comes the real test. Using it on the Asus EEE PC. - Dave Hussein Winer
Dave I wonder if the EEE PC would be suitable for a tech-shy mobile crisis team that is switching to electronic wireless data entry (medical records access/enter via secure wireless) on the road. Needs to be a sturdy device and easy to use. The alternative is regular laptops, which to me seem overkill and more likely to fail. Curious what you think now that you have an EEE PC. - Brian Rendel
usb or what? pickup a cradlepoint for it and share it... 3gstore.com, there are some command line scripts for the EEE I had a sprint novatel and you just invoke them from the command line. should work fine with verizon, some info here. http://forum.eeeuser.com/viewt... cradlepoint was not compatible with the eee for some reason. good luck - joey
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Robert Scoble shared an item on Google Reader
5 Desktop Wallpapers that will increase your productivity
July 24 at 1:54 pm - Link
Google Calendar + Remember the Milk + ActiveDesktop = geektastic awesomeness - Derrick Burns
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great ideas I never thought of doing that before might be cool to mix and match a pretty picture and one of these other alternitives - Charles Rice via twhirl
I'll stick with your nightime shot of the Whitehouse (currently parked on the big design display) and the Ester Dyson shot (on the MBPro). Thanks btw for open sourcing your photos! :) - Gerald Buckley
Great find... just got started on the GTD path, so this + your last WorkTV segment were very timely. THX again - Jericho
Active Desktop FTW. I've put myself together a tabbed page via Yahoo! UI tab view library, with things like Airset, remember the milk, various igoogle gadgets inc password generator, a tab with another set of tabs inside it for webmin for various servers, a tab for phpMyAdmin, one for site company wiki, one for company trac server, one for a tiddlywiki 'scratchpad'. All of this accessible with just two keys (WIN + D) = productivity++. - Mat
Great idea! - Ronald
I'm not a fan of wallpapers. I generally have black or some cool nasa image, currently of a hurricane from the space station. I do like to use an app called sideslide on the pc, for most of the same reason people put icons on their desktop. - Shawn McCollum
Finally proper use of the desktop! yeah...cool idea - Susan Beebe
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Mona N. posted a link
LEGO iPhone unboxing
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LEGO iPhone unboxing
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July 21 at 6:50 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link
See the Flickr set here: http://bit.ly/3YkZgI - Mona N.
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dang, not even the LEGO construction crew can get ahold of a white, 16GB 3G iPhone. Sad. - Robert Seidman
Very Clever! - Jeff P. Henderson
yet again more funny pics from the LEGO fetishist... LOL - Cecil Sandus
Lego = kryptonite.. guilty as charged! - Mona N.
some people like humans you'd prefer Yoda with a lightsaber and LEGO's btw did you ever download the lego creator? - Cecil Sandus
Lego & Star Wars :D - Mo Kargas
Cecil: Lego creator? Mo: and bacon! LOL - Mona N.
@Mona: Ahh! Of course! :P - Mo Kargas
Where do u find this stuff? (keep doing it) - /(bb|[^b]{2})/ (Kamath)
i don't like. i love! - Christian Anderson
Kamath: it's just Googling and following links, or following links from my resources.. very anti-climatic, I know ;) @Christian: AGREED! - Mona N.
yeah there is a LEGO creator thing for Mac - Cecil Sandus
It's not the 3G. - Outsanity
Of course not, I can tell by the backing lol - Mona N.
want the link again for the lego thing Mona? - Cecil Sandus
Thanks Cecil.. but I probably won't use it =\ Real legos > virtual legos =( - Mona N.
Yes, that's how it's done! hehe - Daynah
fair enough just trying to help - Cecil Sandus
thanks anyway though cecil! seriously, i appreciate the thought :) but i'm um.. too honest for my own good sometimes =\ - Mona N.
yes you are but it's a good thing and if anyone gets hurt it's their own dam fault for being thin skinned - Cecil Sandus
Ahhh gotta love creativity. - Thomas Hawk
Very cool. That's a productive workforce! - ◄ Chris Nixon ►
The more I look at this, the more I love it. - Anthony K. Valley ©
Rule #35: if it exists, there's lego of it on the internet :-) - dario
@dario - like! - Jeremy Raines
Great! - Alexandru Savu
Jeremy, that should be LAW not a rule! - Mona N.
cool! - Dieter Schwarz
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July 17 at 9:02 pm - Link
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Clouds So Swift, Rain Won't Lift
Clouds So Swift, Rain Won't Lift
May 31 at 8:10 am - Link
Beautiful - Michael Pardee
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extraordinary shot and a great piece of work - is this the Bay socked in or is it a pair of slides coposed in Photoshop? - Gary Fredrick
The silhouetted bridge is gorgeous. - Andrew Dobrow
Made this my wallpaper for the summer. I even made a cropped version for my iPhone. - Steve Rubel
Hey, thanks much Steve! - Thomas Hawk
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Gmail Labs?
May 29 at 3:12 pm - Link
I like that a Beta product has its own Labs. It was once the case that products went to Labs, then Beta, then out of Beta, not the other way around. :-) - Kevin Fox
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sounds like just user beta testing for additional feature to me. pretty standard for a beta product :) - Tim Hoeck
Please - Folders - pretty please! - Victor Ryden
@victor - folders already exist... they are called tags! :) Seriously though, they did go to folders in place of tags in Google Docs. - Tim Hoeck
Maybe they are crowdsourcing the alpha testing now. ;-) After that they will be letting us code! "Say, Tom Sawyer, let me whitewash the fence a little..." - Karim
I'm interested by this, but I don't know what to make of it yet. - Slippy Lane
Sounds like draft.blogger.com - Geoffrey Wiseman
Tim - categorized is not the same as organized - Victor Ryden
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