Benjamin: The juices in Belize are amazing. They make fresh juices at road stands, and fill used 1 liter Sprite/Coke bottles. Water is amazing. Sharks and rays swam through our legs. So used to tourists, you can touch them. Budget place for water stuff (as is the Red Sea - around Egypt & Sinai Peninsula). Egypt was 10 Euro for an 8-hr boat ride (including lunch & snorkel gear). Forget how much Belize was...
- Mitchell Tsai
I had such a GREAT time in Belize a few years back! What a great trip. Have a most excellent time Benjamin! Be sure to check out "Dready's" on Ambergris Caye and stay away from the kids who feed chickens to 25' crocs! :D
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
Love the of the Blue hole, my home country Belize
- jamar78
Joel: What are your suggestions for Benjamin?
- Mitchell Tsai
We are only going to be there for 1 day (part of a cruise)
- Benjamin Golub
I would definitely visit Altun-Ha, a Mayan Ruin.
- jamar78
Joel: How does Altun-Ha compare to Caracol? I went to Caracol a few years ago. Met a guy from Houston who grew up there and never knew it was a Maya ruin until it appeared on the news ~5-8 yrs ago - "Hey, that's my hometown."
- Mitchell Tsai
I grew up in Belize City, I prefer Altun-ha
- jamar78
Thanks Joel! I'll check out Altun-ha next time I'm in Belize also. Have you visited Tikal or any of the Mayan sites in Guatemala? I was thinking about visiting Tikal last visit, but did the closer Caracol instead. When I visited Caracol, it had only been excavated for 2-3 years, so it was new..
- Mitchell Tsai
Unfortunately I haven't had the chance to do so. Have you ever been to the Belize Zoo?
- jamar78
Wow, how do you do something like that? Is there an elevated roadway next to the house? Because it looks like that car backed into the roof.
- Jason Huebel
@Jason: That car is coming out of the terrace.. Street Hawk style.. more destructively though ;P
- Deep Moni Hazarika
josh-not on bike yet. taking the car to an engine replacement place tomorrow, probably via tow truck. this weekend i'll get the carbs synched on the bike and have it up and ready for monday. But i gotta insure it and change the reg from non-operation to fully registered, so that might take a day or two. advice to all: don't go 100,000 miles on one oil change - even if you have a toyota camry.
- Morgan Haley
Oh man, you could have avoided it? You really are my brother.
- Josh Haley
I wish i could work some place that fostered creativity...
- Internet's Tad
i don't understand why more companies aren't creative in office space. google, pixar, etc. all the top companies know that old 50's cubes are out and new "open" "inviting" areas are in.
- Chris Harris
But but but, that's what FF is for! ;)
- Mona Nomura
.....why are there like 8 jars of peanut butter and like... ONE jar of jelly? BIZARRE
- Mona Nomura
Mona: Perhaps there are more varieties of Peanut Butter (Creamy, Chunky, Organic, etc), but everyone only likes Strawberry jelly.
- Justin Korn
JK: but only one jar? I would fight people to get to it everyday... Dude, this is in Emeryville. We should SO go check it out
- Mona Nomura
It wouldn't be that hard for Facebook. They're tiny compared to Google's massive campus. They don't even need a cafeteria. They could just hook up a deal with the restaurant that's next to them on the bottom floor or any of the other eateries around them.
- Louie
Mona: I'd be totally down to go check it out!
- Justin Korn
@Louis: but it's the THOUGHT that counts dude. @JK: I wonder if there're any FFers who work at Pixar... hmmmmmm
- Mona Nomura
i've seen this. pretty cool stuff. it actually makes one want to work productively
- Cee Bee
Mona: I bet there is, but if not, someone out there (Robert Scoble, Louis Gray, etc.) has got to know someone...
- Justin Korn
great pics. But that facility looks much more blah than I imagined Pixar to be
- Aspi
from twhirl
Got a buddy who works there and went on a tour... amazing place. They even have family oriented events in their quad area. Their movie theater gets special advance screenings of all the major blockbusters. Sadly, I'm still waiting for my invite... ;)
- Jericho
I worked next to the Pixar compound for 3 years. They have a lunch room, yet they kicked out one lunch spot and are still trying to get Semifreddi's to move. I like the movies, but it would have been nice (given their lunch room and roving cake cart) that they'd preserve lunch spots for the rest of us.
- AJ Kohn
"All has been quiet on the new tab front for the last couple of weeks. We’ve been up to two things in the process of getting the new tab ready for potential uplift into Firefox. The first is we’ve been working on an overview of how the add-on was designed including performance and security. If you’ve ever wanted to get a guided tour of how something like the new tab is implemented, check it out. The second thing we’ve been working on is finding a visual style that blends in with Firefox."
- mjc
from Bookmarklet
HAHAHAHA! When I was playing Most Wanted I would inadvertently swoop near every passing car for "near-miss" points. Took some hairy rides before I got it out of my system. :)
- vijay
Yup I think they've had this for at least a year now if not more. Definitely pretty nifty. Still doesn't make up for the crap pizza though. ;-p
- ronin
its no Pizza Schmizza and i hate to sound like a total dork but i'll probably keep ordering Dominoes because i think that is so cool lol
- Marco(aureliusmaximus)
Actually this is really cool. It says a lot about your presence on the web. John Jantsch just wrote a posts about the dubmenow service to send your contact details direct to someone's cell phone via txt or email.... The problem I have with this is that a business card does a lot more than just give contact details, it tells the person something about you or your brand.
- Alistair (alpinefolk)
I like this idea better. Especially if your blogs and Soc Net profiles dominate the search results like mine do.
- Corvida
Corvida, from the perspective of getting lots of good relevant content I agree with you, but from a tech coolness factor I don't.
- Mark Krynsky
This is stupid and gives a horrible first impression. Who do you think you are? If someone gave this to me, I would not take the time to Google, sift through search results and or all the Social Media profiles to find contact information - that said, Mark's idea IS better, however w/ no URL how am I supposed to know what "@xxx" means?
- Mona Nomura
and what happens if someone manipulates the results to put an entry titled "and this is why you don't want to hire [insert name]" onto the first page? it's something totally out of your control ergo a bad thing to use as a card!
- alphaxion
It adds an extra step for a potential client to try to find you. Wouldn't you be better off just putting your URL on there?
- Lindsey is Fierce!
Lindsey, but is just a url as cool as a google beta? =P
- vijay
This works if you have good Google results, but you are branding yourself with Google rather than your personal brand. My personal domain is the #1 hit on my real name, but I think I'd still more likely go with my personal domain and nothing else on a card if I wanted pure simplicity.
- LogEx
Please change the google logo layer's blend mode to multiply.
- Noe Ruiz
Mona, first thing I would prob do if I got a card with @xxx is go to Twitter and type Twitter.com/xxx and assume that's the persons user name at most social media sites. Once again before everyone takes this too seriously the idea is to have this as an additional vanity card to supplement a more traditional one with.
- Mark Krynsky
Multiply would work only if the google logo bg was white not gray Noe
- vijay
Mark - there are still many many people that will not automatically correlate "@xxx" to Twitter. Yes, they are main stream, but the world is A LOT bigger than the Twitterverse. ;) The one thing I would never want to do, is to make someone I just met feel as if I know more than them by a business card. Especially, since people don't ask questions!
- Mona Nomura
Once again, I wouldn't hand this vanity card to anyone in the mainstram. I would take it for distribution to a tech conference such as SXSW where I know that hopefully 99.99 percent of the recipients would get it.
- Mark Krynsky
Vijay, give it a try, actually looks realistic.
- Noe Ruiz
Thanks for the reiteration but I can read ;) Just saying, assumptions are dangerous.
- Mona Nomura
Mona yes, I know assumptions are dangerous. I saw the Bad News Bears. When you assume you make an ASS out of U and ME. (wish I could find the video to point to)
- Mark Krynsky
I think I would dump a "Google Me" business card straight in the trash, unless I was motivated enough to rip it in half right away.
- Andrew C
Seems pretentious. And requires the recipient to go on a scavenger hunt. Why not add @blah to the business card? Besides, are you sure they will like what they Google?
- Ernie Oporto
I think this would be cool if your card was the screen cap of an actual Googe vanity search showing correct information. This... not so much...
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
I like tweetdeck for monitoring multiple streams but everything is too big, requires so much space. twhirl is a little rough around the edges but everything works the way it should. url shortening plus analytics API key and access to multiple twitter accounts + friendfeed + laconica + seesmic + ping.fm? Wow. Twhirl has the upper hand.
- Glenn Batuyong
Glenn, the observation I made in the post: as a Twitter client, Tweetdeck rocks, but for multiple service support, no contest it's Twhirl. I'm running Tweetdeck now, but I may switch back. It's really a hard call
- Duncan Riley
until Tweetdeck can let you change the font size it is a no go plus I don't know why but AIR apps for Twitter all want to open links as a text file in notepad - that makes no sense
- Steven Hodson
I prefer the Tweetdeck interface but use Twhirl because of support for multiple Twitter accounts, FriendFeed, etc.
- Herb Hernandez
Steven, Im a reformed Windows user as you know, but I'd guess there's a file association issue somewhere in the Windows settings. You should be able to tell we it opens somewhere there
- Duncan Riley
very weird .. for the past while I have had the link problem but now I just tested with both again and it works fine <shrug>
- Steven Hodson
I have used both and I have switched to TweerDeck full time
- Rob Cairns
Duncan, I've gone back and forth forever for some of the same reasons. I'm pretty sure I'm staying with Tweetdeck this time (each time it grows on me a bit more). FF on Twhirl kinda sucks, and I'm not using Seesmic at all these days, so the multi-service utility just evaporated over time.
- Jennifer Van Grove
Jennifer, my issue as well. I'm not using the sub-services on Twhirl, particulary not FF because it does suck in Twhirl. Still, I'd like multi-account and Ping.fm support in Tweetdeck, what make it a killer.
- Duncan Riley
The last time I used twhirl it didn't support groups. Until it does I'll continue to use Tweetdeck.
- Keith - @tsudo
Louis, I think it's ahead as a Twitter client, but it misses stuff. Like play a sound on a @reply or DM only. Or simply an archive option. But in everything else directly Twitter related, yes. cleaner, more friendly. If I wanted something more, Twhirl still wins.Reality is besides multiple account support, I didn't use Twhirl for other services (I had them there, but didn't actually use them)
- Duncan Riley
Having used Twhirl for some time, I found Tweetdeck to be a breath of fresh air, as it makes it easier to track different conversations. I don't feel the need to aggregate everything into one app either, especially if separate apps serve my needs better.
- Sam
i'm with tweetdeck. it's changed how i use twitter and has made it a lot easier to scan
- Snipergirl
from Alert Thingy
i like tweetdeck but it takes too much estate. i would love twhirl adding groups and different window colours for groups/search/account
- Ouriel Ohayon
Hate way Twhirl scrolls one story at a time rather than smoothly - makes it unusable on small screens because you can't ever read the whole entry!
- Rich
DestroyTwitter: more compact than TweetDeck, less annoying interface than Twhirl.
- Ian Betteridge
DestroyTwitter can put lots of information in its clean interface without looking cluttered, I like Tweetdeck but it only shows a few tweets at the same time
- João Almeida
I use both! Tweetdeck for catchup first thing in the morning using the groups (pals group for instance), and then twhirl thereafter during day. Tweetdeck hogs a fair of memory I found out to my cost.
- bairnpunter
from twhirl
i use neither - i use the twitter.com site
- Allen Stern
DestroyTwitter is brilliant, and gets better with every update. A very nice clean interface.
- Chris Nixon
I love TweetDeck, but I'd love it even more if I could have columns stacked on top of each other, as well as miniaturizing columns temporarily (instead of having to delete and later recreate them).
- Chris, Taskerrific Guy
I'm stuck with twirl because it supports multiple accounts and that's the only reason. If I had my druthers, and it added a few features, I'd use twitterific, or destroy twitter if they supported multiple accounts.
- Rick Powell
Tweetdeck is unbeatable when your monitoring evens like the plane crash yesterday, but for casual tweet monitoring, and tweeting.. Twhirl is hard to beat. And I just figured out that you can change the theme of twhirl to black as well. Only thing I don't like about tweetdeck is how it's capable of slowing down my brand new macbook pro, withs 2 gigs of memory. If that wasn't an issue, I'd be running it constantly and not switching between Twhirl and Twitterific
- Sebastiaan van den Akker
I love tweetdeck, mostly for the grouping and column layout, but have been making an effort to use the new twhirl so i can get integration into FF,Linkedin and FB (via ping.fm). If only tweetdeck would have that integration i would stick with that..
- John McBride
from twhirl
Anybody using the destroy twitter app? Do you like it?
- John McBride
from twhirl
While I have a spare monitor (actually, a spare laptop) available I'll be using TweetDeck. But if screen estate is ever an issue, I'd switch to Twhirl.
- Jalada
I like DestroyTwitter because it's very clean and reliable. I had lots of trouble with Twhirl here at work. I also really like the "away" button, which makes it easier to see what's happened when I go away from my desk for a while. Also, DT is very customizable, allowing for either a "wide" view or standard narrow view, and the popup notifications are very nice.
- Alex Conner
I'm with Tweetdeck. What will really be amazing is Tweetdeck as an iPhone app ---- AND, if that syncs lists with the desktop Tweetdeck.
- Sonya Smith
What turned me off about Tweetdeck: no keyboard shortcuts.
- Sean McBride
I just started using both Tweetdeck and Twhirl, and both have advantages and disadvantages. I use the former for its groups and to check my replies. The latter posts to http://ping.fm/ and allows me to follow FriendFeed. Before this I was using TwitterFox which I just found irritating. In my browser I use, TwitBar, PowerTwitter and TwitKit. @seanmcbride the keyboard shortcuts in Twhirl are nowhere near complete, but these are an advantage over Tweetdeck. Running both = running into the API rate limiting.
- Daniel W. Crompton
I have an example of how I monitor one corporate Twitter account and handle other info using both Twhirl and TweetDeck. http://www.flickr.com/photos... (with notes)
- Glenn Batuyong
I just discovered the first issue with both, memory leaks. They have been running for a couple of days each and are both over 300Mb. Tsk, tsk, tsk...
- Daniel W. Crompton
@Jeff Haven't used twhirl long enough to notice it also has a memory leaks like tweetdeck. Maybe it's an issue with the air framework
- Sebastiaan van den Akker
Twhirl & Laconica Bar for identi.ca, TweetDeck for twitter, Firefox for FriendFeed. Did I mention my PC runs out of memory?
- Markus Merz
from Disqus
I'm one of the few people that really dislikes TweetDeck. Tried it many times. My biggest problem with it, no shortcut keys. I'm a keyboard nav person.
- tomit
For the inbox background color, if a light color is chosen it seems to get mixed with gray (e.g.–choosing white gives #e6e6e6). EDIT: It only lets you choose bgcolor for unread emails; wish we could also choose the color for read emails...
- Dan Hsiao
Kevin Fox must be rolling in his chair :-)
- Shakeel Mahate
In the 80’s I almost rented an Apartment on Florida St in San Francisco that had the same colored walls, except that green was a glossy black.
- Mike Reardon
Its like something out of Kings Quest III, or a menu out of an old Lucas Arts / Sierra game. Kinda like what Eric said, CGA ftmfw.
- Nicholas Kreidberg
Good. Now I can get messages from Tom about cool bands. And Tom's so young, too...
- Ontario Emperor
from fftogo
This is the second time that I've seen an unrelated comment about a computer virus grounding fighter planes. (Presumably unrelated, unless the virus randomly changes GUI colors or something.)
- Ontario Emperor
Yeah, I'd like it too. And to underscore the usefulness of such a feature I created this room with the deliberate intent of deleting it as soon as "delete room" becomes available. http://friendfeed.com/rooms...
- Dominic Jones
xkcd, indexed, Able & Baker, Married to the Sea, Toothpaste for Dinner, Jerkcity, ASCII Art Farts, Wondermark, Perry Bible Fellowship, Dresden Codak, Lackadaisy Cats... Hm. Guess I like web comics and not necessarily in that order.
- Akiva Moskovitz
questionablecontent.net, ctrl-alt-delete and I get cyanide & happiness forced upon me every so often... :)
- Vero Pepperrell
Yes, RTM is a superb app that deserves greater recognition. There is no sync program for my Palm Treo, but the mobile web app works great, and I also love the Gmail, Gcal, and iGoogle integration.
- Andrew Carpenter
from Alert Thingy
When i was looking for a todo list there was RTM or Hiveminder. RTM has more features but seemed harder to use and didn't have Hiveminder's braindump feature which I've found is great to just sit and hammer out tasks and then go back and organize them.
- Bryan
I liek RTM but the UI is a bit week. Hiveminder has some awesome features, but the ui is also dense and its in (gak) Perl. So it wont scale.
- Soulhuntre
from twhirl
@John the sound is a dealbreaker, its the first rule with kids and toys I learned (no sound=good), but I did just order two of the koopas (http://tinyurl.com/4w5nfz) and goombas (http://tinyurl.com/3ewsyj). My kids are gonna be such video game addicts when they grow up. They already give me a run for my money in Wii Sports.
- Aaron Krug
Aaron... indeed, My daughter is yet to learn how to put the batteries back in so I'm golden for a while :)
- Johnny Worthington
Open source project for visualizing the commit history of a software project. It's very interesting and intuitive to watch. Videos are up for Eclipse, Python, PostgreSQL, and Apache.
- xero
from Bookmarklet
this is really awesome. Like watching galaxies giving birth to new stars over time. +1
- tagami
Credit to @Hao Chen for initial find via Dr Dobbs and Vimeo
- xero
cute!! LOL - Louis you are really dedicated!!
- Susan Beebe
amazing what something new will make us geeks do :)
- (jeff)isageek
You're more man than I, Louis. It's the little things, like the Recycle Bin. Fellas, it's Trash, okay? If you wanna be Green there are other places to get all jiggy.
- Marko Bon
You're brave, I haven't been able to bring myself to do it yet
- Duncan Riley
Safari FTW and no i don't cloud it up with a bunch of crappy add ons i god forbid browse...
- Cecil Sandus
as did i...well i did most everything else on my MBP, just used the dual-booted iMac to browse the web most of the day.
- MG Siegler
I hope this ppgram makes the LS irrelevant.
- Andrew Warner
my iPhone typing is getting worse. I meant to say that I hope the OS becomes irrelevant.
- Andrew Warner
Ack! that's terrible! Did you wash your hands when you were done? No telling where that OS has been...Oh wait *runs to sink*...
- Anthony Farrior
I hadn't booted into Windows for weeks. Made me feel all strange...
- David Hulbert