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"Ah, that's okay. Coherence is overrated. :-)" - Brent Logan

"I'm a big fan of the ellipsis, use them all the time... ;-) I do try to use three periods and not just two. I also try to be consistent with my spacing around them. But that's just me... :-p" - Brent Logan

"Ha! You're just throwing in all those random periods to mess with me, aren't you? :-D" - Brent Logan

"Hey, I'm all for getting more girls studying STEM. Whatever works. But I'm not convinced that Millennials respond to careers as calls to duty. How about presenting STEM careers as a fun and important field to work in: it's great to understand how the world works and use that knowledge to make cool products, solve serious problems, and teach the next generation." - Brent Logan

"Pictures from planes are awesome! Clouds add to the fun. I've been known to pull out a camera below 10,000, but I'm not sure I'd post them on my blog... ;-)" - Brent Logan

"Thanks! The trip back tonight will be dark, so I'm not expecting to post any pictures from it. :-(" - Brent Logan

"Yup. The Motorola Razr i. Many years ago, I said my next phone would have Intel inside. Little did I know how long it would take." - Brent Logan

"Thanks! I must admit, when I'm at the beach, it's hard not to include some water in the picture. Here are a few pictures of mine from the beach yesterday -- there's water in each one. :-}" - Brent Logan

"Ha! Our weather might seem magical, but I'm not sure it rises to miraculous. :-)" - Brent Logan

"I believe the paper waste is being composted along with the food waste. I don't know how that fits within the recycling metric goal, but I hope it's helping. Reusable napkins is an interesting idea. I wonder how many it would take to handle a big Intel site." - Brent Logan

"Abso-freakin'-lutely :-) Though, I think I jerked the camera a little in the shot. It's blurry..." - Brent Logan

"I'm glad Feedly is working for you. It's still a little confusing for me. I guess I just need to spend some more time with it. Google Reader got so comfortable for me, I can really whip through posts quickly. I'll probably keep using it until Google kills it off for good, or Feedly unlinks from Reader." - Brent Logan

"This discussion on the WordPress Hackers list re a GSoC proposal for a JSON REST API might interest you." - Brent Logan

"Nice quote. It reminds me of the ADL's "Imagine" video. Thanks for sharing. :-)" - Brent Logan

"Don't let the "Lesters" get you down. Just support those who want to change the system and decrease the corrupting influence of concentrated campaign funding." - Brent Logan

"Gary, I hear ya. There are better things to do with my time." - Brent Logan

"The nice thing about URI.LV is that your subscribers will be subscribing to your feed and getting forwarded. Should URI.LV ever disappear, we won't lose our subscribers, just our stats. BTW, I'm not missing Google." - Brent Logan

"Yeah, I guess I could have at least provided a link to a Wikipedia article on thin-film interference. :-)" - Brent Logan

"I wonder how much gays being able to marry would effect the issues you raise. I'm not convinced there would be much. Thanks for dropping by! :-)" - Brent Logan

"I think option ii is interesting in that the debate would probably shift from the civil to religious arena. It certainly would not prevent gay marriage." - Brent Logan

""You must be the change you want to see in the world." --Mahatma Gandhi" - Brent Logan

"Our personal reactions can be anything we want them to be, but I'd like the state's response to be more reasoned and principled. And yeah, I saw the wink. :-)" - Brent Logan

"Hey, thanks for dropping by .. and for such a great service! I'm interested in my newsletter subscribers so any sort of notification email when one joins so I can backup my list would be great. Google decided RSS redirect with stats and email wasn't a viable business model for them, even though they gathered more information on their users to be able to server more relevant ads. What is your business model? Thanks again!" - Brent Logan

"Agreed. Google Glass will capture a ton of fail. However, I expect it to operate more as horndog stalker cam." - Brent Logan

"Yeah, the ADM-3A is pretty cute. :-) Simmons' description of RSS is interesting. A couple points: First, a lot has happened since Simmons wrote the article. The main walled-garden players now are working to kill RSS, not just client readers, but also as Internet plumbing. It conflicts with their business models of having a captive audience to pummel with ads. Fortunately, as long as there are bloggers (and there are 60+ million users of WordPress) there will be people pushing out feeds. Second, Twitter and Facebook aren't feeds; they're streams. When you look at the stream, you see what's flowing by. Stop looking, the stream keeps flowing. Pretty much like broadcast TV, including the soap operas, stupid pet tricks, and obnoxious advertising. Feed readers are like DVRs: choose which feeds you want to read and when they're updated, you can read them whenever you want. DVRs didn't become a hit until they got a lot easier to use. Remember all the VCRs blinking 12:00? Google probably did a..." - Brent Logan

"Organizing feeds is not the way to go if you're into quickly scanning. Don't categorize at all, just blast through them in one big list, reading if the title and/or picture captures your interest. If it's too hard to subscribe/unsubscribe to feeds, you're doing it wrong. As long as we have blogs, we will have RSS. There's no reason to strip it out. And CRT monitors? I still fondly remember terminals, especially this one. :-)" - Brent Logan

"Absolutely. Can you think of another way I could scan 228 feeds? I'm certainly not going to visit 228 sites daily, or even weekly, in an attempt to try to remember what I've already read. I'm not going to rely on Twitter, Facebook, or Google+ to inform me when something is posted. And email could be up to the task, should I want to slog through that many emails, but it's not near as efficient as a well-crafted RSS reader. I offer email subscriptions here because people never seemed to catch on how wonderful readers are. I guess you could just have easily asked, "People still have personal blogs?" ;-)" - Brent Logan

"Thanks! I like bark. I tried to take a picture of bark with even brighter colours last week, but didn't focus worth beans. :-( Here it is, small enough that it doesn't look too blurry... <img src="http://blogan.net/blog...">" - Brent Logan

"Mike, thanks for the kinds words. My curiosity makes me verify unexpected claims. And I'm no fan of misleading graphs." - Brent Logan

"John, haha! I bet I know someone... ;-)" - Brent Logan