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Cola: Real-Time Shared Editing
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It amuses me that they impliment an Orc. That's my geek. - Alexander Williams via NoiseRiver
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I'd like to learn Nihongo, where should I start? Hiragana, katakana? or even Kanji? I badly need an advice :) - directeur via NoiseRiver
Tad was learning Japanese for a while. I think he started off with the Pimsleur audio tutorials and then started learning the written language... eventually he got a tutor. I was using Pimsleur too and I would recommend it even though I never got nearly as far as Tad. - Lindsay Donaghe
Thank you Lindsay for the details! :) I actually can't afford (will explain someday) the Pimsleur method myself, so I started with the NHK lessons: http://www.nhk.or.jp/lesson/en... But from my 2 days research I'm stuck with so many opinions : one says that I have to learn all the kanjis, another says that learning the kanjis should be a contextual matter... :( Not very encouraging I admit :'( - directeur via NoiseRiver
Go look at your local library - ours had the full Pimsleur. Once you have all the CDs in your hands, what you do with them is up to you... - Tad - just Tad
Well, actually I went to the part of town with the highest Mormon concentration - they send missionaries all over the world and they had tons of complete Pimsleur sets... - Tad - just Tad
Thanks Tad :) But I'm from a "poor" african country. I won't find the method even in the town libraries. I thought that I can learn online actually. Anyway, how was/is your own learning experience? - directeur via NoiseRiver
When I was in college I started dating Foreign exchange students..it seemed to have the right motivation to learn complete words and sayings :) - Fred Grott
@Fred: Thank you! You'll laught but I swear we don't have any japanese living here :) So I subscribed to livemocha ( http://www.livemocha.com ), I think it's a nice way to make online foreign friends - directeur via NoiseRiver
i'm late to offer advice, but you may want to try learning hira/katakana and learning the kanji by reading things like comics. i know that's not proper, polite, textbook stuff, but texts read by young people often have the kana written next to the kanji because the person may not have learned the kanji yet. i've forgotten what that practice is called ... anyway, i specifically say comics because i have a lot and could scan some for you to study. it won't teach you everything, but it's fun! - idnan
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I just finished watching a great anime called "Mahoraba - Heartful days" in japanese (with french subtitles) and told to myself: Boy! Look! What you're missing! - directeur via NoiseRiver
I have to admit: I'm at the same time very excited and affraid! I'll have to learn hiragana, katakana, and hundreds of kanji and still to listen, read, write and speak. this is really something BIG! I already love 日本語 :) - directeur via NoiseRiver
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Toots Thielemans and Bill Evans: This is all I ask
Toots Thielemans and Bill Evans: This is all I ask
August 15 at 7:37 pm - via NoiseRiver - Link
Very very enjoyable! Really! - directeur via NoiseRiver
so happy to subscribe to you. You need an audio stream. Thanks for the tunes man. - Brad Nickel
Thank you Brad! :) - directeur via NoiseRiver
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Dean Martin: Mambo Italiano
August 15 at 6:50 pm - via NoiseRiver - Link
Good ol' Dino! :) - directeur via NoiseRiver
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August 14 at 8:08 pm - via NoiseRiver - Link
WELLCOME BACK - Akiva Moskovitz
glad to have you back! :) - Tad - just Tad
yeah. Welcome back to the river of noise directeur :) - Brian Daniel Eisenberg
Welcome back - Anthony K Valley via twhirl
THANK YOU! :) - directeur via NoiseRiver
Nice to see you here again, Directeur! Cheers :) - George The Writer
wondering where you went! :) - Tim Hoeck
I had an idea something was missing - Rahsheen
We thought you went to the dark side :-) - AJ Batac
Oh! Thank you folks! Didn't knew people could miss me that much :) - directeur via NoiseRiver
welcome back :) - BeeLing
so what is the app :)? - Adam Loving via StumbleRead
Did you have withdrawals? - Charlie Anzman
mmmm. New apps are fun! : ) Don't forget to fill us in. - Brandon Titus
Yes, what's the app? :) - Mike Reynolds
It's still in early dev stage - I'll share the very first alpha version I promise :) - directeur via NoiseRiver
@directeur: I'm sure you missed us rabble lot riding your butt while you do live development. ;) - Alexander Williams via NoiseRiver
@Alexander: Oh YES! I did! ;-) - directeur via NoiseRiver
WB! - Shey
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Pierre Bachelet: Marionettiste
August 15 at 5:53 pm - via NoiseRiver - Link
This is one of my favorite french songs... I miss the days when I was madly and stupidly in love :( - directeur via NoiseRiver
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Paul Desmond: Take Ten
August 15 at 5:19 pm - via NoiseRiver - Link
Of course you know "Take Five" by Dave Brubeck :) - directeur via NoiseRiver
Welcome back, sir! :-) - Mathew A. Koeneker
Thank you Mathew! :) - directeur via NoiseRiver
Thank you, directeur! And welcome back! - Harvey Simmons
most excellent! - Nathan Rein
Thank you Harvey and Nathan! :) - directeur via NoiseRiver
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Eddie Higgins Trio: Dear Old Stockholm
August 14 at 9:04 pm - via NoiseRiver - Link
This interpretation is also delightful :) - directeur via NoiseRiver
Love the jazz piano - BeeLing
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Bud Powell: Parisian Thoroughfare
August 14 at 7:47 pm - via NoiseRiver - Link
From "Bud Powell in Paris" album - I love this one :) - directeur via NoiseRiver
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Bud Powell : Dear Old Stockholm
August 14 at 8:24 pm - via NoiseRiver - Link
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August 14 at 8:20 pm - via NoiseRiver - Link
I am listening to Bud Powell's one, and I admit that I like Chet Baker's one, even more than Miles Davis one :) - directeur via NoiseRiver
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Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong : Cheek To Cheek
Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong : Cheek To Cheek
August 4 at 6:55 pm - via NoiseRiver - Link
A last one before I go off. I love this duet and I LOVE even more when Ella says: "Oh I love to climb a mountain and reach the highest peak" - directeur via NoiseRiver
Dedicated to you karen2 :) - directeur via NoiseRiver
thanks, Directeur! :-) Don't work too hard while you're away. - karen2
You're welcome karen2 :) I'll try not to not work hard, though it's hard to not work hard for a workaholic like me :) - directeur via NoiseRiver
delightful. I never tire of Ella's voice - Duncan Riley
IMHO, there has never ever been two comparable artists to these since. Strong statement I know, but especially in the case of Armstrong. - Mo Kargas
i am listening these days while creating to louis and ella. magical - Danica Radovanovic
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Toumani Diabaté: Queen Bee
August 11 at 3:25 pm - via NoiseRiver - Link
Relax and... open up :) - directeur via NoiseRiver
prachtig nummer, staat op de cd Kulanjan, een van de laatste cd's die ik nog gekocht heb. Zij zingt: We love each other, I'm going to see my lover, when i go to sleep at night, I think of you (uit het boekje). Mocht je het niet verstaan ;) - Ninia
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Abdullah Ibrahim: Did You Hear That Sound
August 1 at 6:50 pm - via NoiseRiver - Link
I've allways loved that story about him and Duke Ellington! - directeur via NoiseRiver
There's a Dutch expression: het swingt de pan uit. I Like. - Peter
I'm sure this has been mentioned before... but do I have to do anything special to get those audio buttons to play? I click them and then they disappear everytime :-/ (oh yeah, Ibrahim is grrrrreat!!) - Robert DeBord
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August 7 at 8:03 pm - via NoiseRiver - Link
If usual naps are software, then the one I need is an Operating System - directeur via NoiseRiver
I need a frivolous nap. - Nathan Rein
Please do that :) - BeeLing
What? directeur? Has it been 10 days? - Anthony K Valley
@Anthony: :) Well... not, yet, just came to post a jazz tune, and stayed a little bit :) - directeur via NoiseRiver
He isn't actually directeur, he just plays directeur on FriendFeed. - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)
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Chet Baker and Stan Getz: All the things you are
Chet Baker and Stan Getz: All the things you are
August 7 at 7:09 pm - via NoiseRiver - Link
Well, I thought that I'll be off friendfeed for 10days straight, but sharing things like these won't hurt :) - directeur via NoiseRiver
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August 4 at 6:32 pm - via NoiseRiver - Link
Ok, I know you lazy folks won't listen to anything that is not a tease. So, yeah, I'm going to work on a nice app and I need to concentrate my efforts :) - directeur via NoiseRiver
and it takes 10 days directeur ? - A.Diba
is it too much Alberto? :/ - directeur via NoiseRiver
10 days w/o FF == 2 months w/ FF refreshes at 15 minute intervals, right directeur? - Aviv
In my opinion, ten days is shocking. Is it just me that takes forever to get something done? - possible248
Aviv, Exactly! You rock in maths! :D - directeur via NoiseRiver
possible248: hum... well a first usable beta at least. I adopt the Samouraï coding style and it works fine for me... For eg. the first version of NoiseRiver was done in less than 10 days, a week maybe :) - directeur via NoiseRiver
directeur : I don't know... Just good luck buddy! CU - A.Diba
He'll be back - Charlie Anzman
Alberto Memnoun Rafik (as you say in Farsi :) ) - directeur via NoiseRiver
Charlie: Oh sure! a complete sevrage is almost impossible! ;-) - directeur via NoiseRiver
Well, but the true pronunciation of that(buddy) is "Rafigh or Rafiq"(like in saying Iraq) - «Just to remember» ;-) - A.Diba
@Alberto: Oh sure, just as in "qhalam" (a pen in arabic) right? :) - directeur via NoiseRiver
right dude!, sure to learn so soon, you are such a clever guy! - A.Diba
Thank you! :) - directeur via NoiseRiver
May the curly braces be with you young Jedi! :P have a great time coding! - Brian Daniel Eisenberg
Heh! I love your comment Brian! Thank you! :) - directeur via NoiseRiver
Curl_init() lmao - Igor The Troll
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Just logged in twitter (web UI) and was redirected to an account named STORED! :/ What's this?
August 2 at 4:44 pm - via NoiseRiver - Link
Anyone has seen this before? - directeur via NoiseRiver
Shit! Twitter is going FAIL! They deleting accounts! - Igor The Troll
Never heard about that before. Weird! - fbrunel
Yes, that's weird ! First time it happens for me, plus I wasn't on the "STORED" guy's page before logging in :/ - directeur via NoiseRiver
Have you been able to login to your Twitter account or not yet? - Igor The Troll
I'm in Igor :) Just surprised to be redirected to that account - directeur via NoiseRiver
Good for you! I was thinking Napalm Twitter! - Igor The Troll
Is that Martian for FAILED? - Bwana McCall
wait, wait, I bet this is how some accounts had many followers last week without having a single one in return! Look at that STORED guy, he's followed by 679 people without a single update... - directeur via NoiseRiver
That's scary, that reminds of a similar problem with justin.tv some time ago when people logged into strangers accounts... - Oli Kenobi
You want to know what it is? It's twitter - Gordon Swaby
As leased it's stored ... it could have been lost - Charlie Anzman
I hope you do not have nightmares now! Can you imagine to wake up and your Twitter account has been deleted? I mean all this stress! You have spent years building your followers on Twitter and one day it is all gone. Time to sue Twitter for emotional distress! - Igor The Troll
Igor, well yes, that'd be bad, but I can survive... I will survive yeah yeah... (Sing with me) - directeur via NoiseRiver
I wonder if Robert Scoble would survive Twitter Armageddon? 25k followers gone over night! Wow suicide time! - Igor The Troll
revenge... ah sweet revenge. don't like my feeds eh people? well panopticons is laughing at your deleted accounts now - Noah David Simon
Yes I got "Stored" before... and I was as confused :P - BeeLing
Yes, sir! I got STORED this morning. I saved the screenshot but didn't post it. - Anthony K Valley
At 8:43 AM CST, STORED had 739 followers with 0 updates, following 0 people - Anthony K Valley
I'm wondering how people follow him?! - directeur via NoiseRiver
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Duke Ellington: Do nothing till you hear from me
August 4 at 6:15 pm - via NoiseRiver - Link
I think that it's Ella Fitzgerald who's singing it. Not sure. Nina Simone and Billie Holiday's voices are different... - directeur via NoiseRiver
Oh and I wanted to say that I'd be off FriendFeed for a week or 10 days. Yes I have some "serious" coding to do -- So do Nothin' till you hear from me :) - directeur via NoiseRiver
we'll miss you, directeur! I've gotten accustomed to the great tunes you share. :-) - karen2
Oh! Thank you Karen! I'll be back as soon as I achieve a big part of the project I'm working on :) - directeur via NoiseRiver
Love this song! And I just started checking out NoiseRiver :) - BeeLing
@BeeLing Poh: I'm happy to make someone happy at least for about 2 minutes and a half :) - directeur via NoiseRiver
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Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong: Dream a little dream of me
Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong: Dream a little dream of me
August 3 at 7:44 pm - via NoiseRiver - Link
Feeling tired. I need some sleep. Dream a little dream of me :) - directeur via NoiseRiver
lovely duet. thanks for sharing, directeur! - karen2
You're welcome Karen :) Yes, right isn't it? I dare anyone to come and give us a duet with such great voices! :) - directeur via NoiseRiver
Heavenly... - Anna Haro
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Nobel Prize Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn died today
August 3 at 6:36 pm - via NoiseRiver - Link
I remember those days when a friend of mine was reading Solzhenitsyn, Solzhenitsyn, Solzhenitsyn... and me Tolstoï, Tolstoï, Tolstoï... - directeur via NoiseRiver
A giant. - Chris Baskind
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My Wordle! :)
August 3 at 10:29 am - via NoiseRiver - Link
Thanks Tim Hoeck for generating it. It looks really gorgeous :) - directeur via NoiseRiver
I love the primary word in shared wordles... - "Czar" DJ Peterman
I like seeing others post information. Interesting to see what they are posting about. - Tim Hoeck via NoiseRiver
Yet wondering why JAZZ isn't very visible in this wordle. I'm overwhelming people with jazz posts here :) - directeur via NoiseRiver
its pretty big.. I found it. Compared to things like NoiseRiver and FriendFeed though, you know? I see Miles and Coltrane in there too :) - Tim Hoeck via NoiseRiver
@Tim: Ah yes! Found it too! I see Miles and Coltrane too! :) - directeur via NoiseRiver
hah! That's great! How did you get it to stretch out so long? - Lindsay Donaghe
@Lindsay: It's actually Tim who made it. Tim would you answer the lady!! :) - directeur via NoiseRiver
Lindsay: if you use the "open window" button in the bottom left of the applet, then resize the window to your liking, then refresh the Wordle, it will fill in to the size of your window. - Trent Olson
Cool picture! - Tim FitzGerald
It's really great how these wordles tend to sum our online persona up quite well. - Eric Florenzano
I must started a sensation today! I've seen 3 other Wordles today since I posted my delicious one earlier! http://friendfeed.com/e/8974b2... - Susan Beebe
Who's going around making these? I would love to see one of me, if thats possible. - Colby Olson
Boy directeur, you sure do like that "noiseriver" thing..LOL - Rahsheen
@Rahsheen: Man! I do! I love that NoiseRiver thing, I'm sure that the guy who made is so awesome (EDIT: +handsome) , smart and strong... that every friendfeed's gal dreams of marrying him ;-) - directeur via NoiseRiver
@Lindsay Donaghe (bluecockatoo): I do a couple things, I change the default # of words to around 300-500. The reason directeurs is streched more is because his words are a little more evenly distributed (with the exception of NR of course). In wordle, you can remove some of the bigger words to stretch it a bit more. - Tim Hoeck via NoiseRiver
@Colby Olson (colbyolson): http://img37.picoodle.com/img/... - if you want to make your own, here is your text: http://textsnip.com/932a19 - Tim Hoeck via NoiseRiver
@Lindsay Donaghe (bluecockatoo): what Trent said too! - Tim Hoeck via NoiseRiver
I got pissed when I saw mine had the big word twitter on it. I'm like f#(% NO! - Noah David Simon
@Colby Olson (colbyolson): yours is interesting :) - Tim Hoeck via NoiseRiver
I'm pissed at my own wordle. Big ass Obama right in my face next to twitter. I'm interested in my own demise. - Noah David Simon
Thank you so much @Tim, that is way cool. - Colby Olson
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August 3 at 2:22 pm - via NoiseRiver - Link
No really, sometimes I think to myself: Boy! What a luck, you just have to imagine a thing and make it alive ! :) - directeur via NoiseRiver
You're absolutely right, that a pretty awesome skill when you think about it. - fbrunel
that feeling is the one thing I miss now that I have stopped coding - Steven Hodson
@fbrunel: Absolutely! @Steven: Come on! Once a coder, always a coder! :) - directeur via