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Think you pay too much in Denmark? Try moving to US. Check. - Jesper Joergensen

Danish meatballs are fried too, at least in my family. Size varies with family as well. I personally like smaller ones... - Jesper Joergensen

My two former bosses link up. - Jesper Joergensen

LOL, it's not an easter egg. - Eddie O'Neil

that is called branding to your developer audience -- notice the corp site at www.gnip.com is "delivering the web's data" - Shane Pearson

Let me know if it works! - Jesper Joergensen

I wish I could just get the ruby part without the rest. It feels like it takes over my Eclipse and I really only do plain ruby scripting these days... - Jesper Joergensen

As I now consume all my written news from Google Reader and the print Economist, I've thought about how these formats could converge. Clearly GR still stinks as a reading experience, but I get the content I want. I just wish I could read it in the same format as the Economist. Doesn't have to be physical paper although it clearly still holds advantages (no battery required, super light weight, you can add notes in the margin, hey, someone should consider marketing this paper thing more aggressively...). I digress. NYT is making an attempt. I am interested. - Jesper Joergensen

Have fun there! - Jesper Joergensen

how's Brazil? - Jesper Joergensen from IM

Oh. get it now. He went over to @kentdickson's gig... - Jesper Joergensen

The DC United lounge sucks big time. At least you found a window... - Jesper Joergensen

The steel story is very instructive. - John E. Bredehoft

"Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold". - Daniel J. Pritchett

I don't think it counts as sales until you've purchased something. I am guessing it corresponds to signing a consulting contract. Until you've delivered what you've promised, it's just cash flow (assuming you've been paid, otherwise it's deferred revenue), not a booking. - Jesper Joergensen

Congrats to my good friends at Zendesk! - Jesper Joergensen

You mean like the authentication dialog box that is triggered by a WWW-Authenticate header? It's been there all along, so better start thinking about why it's not being used more. - Jesper Joergensen

PUT for creating a new customer? How is that idempotent? - Jesper Joergensen

Edwin, thanks for sharing that. Very helpful ... - Erwan Arzur

"His displeasure leaked to the public, but what hasn't been reported is exactly how Paulson flipped the seasoned banker so quickly. In what an observer in the room describes as a "true Godfather moment," Paulson told all the assembled bankers, "Your regulator is sitting right there" - actually the industry's two biggest overlords were in attendance: John Dugan, comptroller of the currency, and FDIC chairwoman Sheila Bair - "and you're going to get a call tomorrow telling you you're undercapitalized and that you won't be able to raise money in the private markets." For Kovacevich this broadside was the horse's head on his pillow. He and his bank were in an unfamiliar position of vulnerability. Wells had just agreed to buy Wachovia, a bank it had coveted for years, and it needed the government's approval - and, critically, the ability to raise money - to complete the deal. Reflecting on the episode with righteous indignation, Kovacevich points out that each of his warnings to Paulson was later validated. Ye" - Paul Buchheit from Bookmarklet

Fascinating stuff. It was easy to blame the bank executives back in the autumn when this was unfolding. I am happy to see Washington take their share of public scorn. - Jesper Joergensen

When you comment on a Twitter entry there will be a checkbox below the comment form to "Also send this comment as an @reply on twitter" - Benjamin Golub

Auch, missed that! - Jesper Joergensen from IM

Thanks - Jesper Joergensen from IM

In a perfect world, this wouldn't be necessary. But I guess "post-install scripts" requirements will just never go away. - Jesper Joergensen

My wife would disagree. She'd like her netbook to be faster and with a bigger screen, but she still spends hours on it every day. She prefers it over a heavier and clunkier laptop and while she loves her G1 (and would never touch my iPhone), she wouldn't dream of using the phone for her surfing and video watching at home. - Jesper Joergensen

Is Mark Perry twisting the facts as he claims others are? It's easy to find studies showing that the sum of melting and accumulation is a net melting, e.g. here in Nature: http://www.nature.com/nature.... I would expect an Economist to be a bit more balanced... - Jesper Joergensen

Have always liked the idea of a time dimension based view of data. In fact, I registered the domain timedj.com a year ago thinking that I might put something together. But easier to get ideas than actually work on them. Didn't renew the domain this year... - Jesper Joergensen

AMEN! - Jesper Joergensen

"It makes sense, given the company's established relationships with forward-thinking clients. Unfortunately, salesforce is breaking into this space just days after Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) rolled out Azure and years after Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN) won over the IT citizenry with its booming Web Services. It's the right company with the right product, only it's coming in at the wrong time." - Do these pseudo stock analysts do any research whatsoever? It wouldn't take many seconds to find out that Salesforce.com started this whole thing and is years ahead of Microsoft. - Jesper Joergensen from Bookmarklet

Why is that a problem? It supports the campaign message perfectly: If you create ads like this, you might need a Mac, but everybody else are happy with their PC. - Jesper Joergensen

I had the exact same reaction to this article. - Mark Radigan

Interesting. I have two things to say to this: 1) A lot will change even without government regulation. This mess will (likely/hopefully) change American's appetite for reckless spending for some time (not forever). 2) I think we should be talking much more about a collapse in the moral fabric of Americans as the reason behind this mess than lack of government oversight. If you borrow money more money than you think you can repay just because your neighbor did it and your banker says it's ok, then you have a problem. If you don't think you understand the consequences, then you probably shouldn't be doing it (whether it's buying a house or investing in stock, etc.). Same this goes with the CEOs on Wall St. What happened to caution, prudence, healthy scepticism? What happened to going against the flock? These are simple human qualities that would have kept us out of this mess at so many levels (oh and that goes for the Bush administration too) - Jesper Joergensen

Actually, a good time to read it would have been Nov 2007 - Mark Radigan

Yup. I read it Dec 07. At that point it wasn't looking like a full-on black swan event yet. - Jesper Joergensen

""Georgia is a sovereign nation, and its territorial integrity must be respected," Bush said". Sovereign just like Iraq? Or does US have a special permit to invade countries? Whether the Iraq war was a good or bad idea for America, Bush should realize that he's lost the moral high ground by waging it. - Jesper Joergensen from Bookmarklet

Another difference that the author doesn't mention is that the Japanese live an on-the-go lifestyle and they're not driving much. When at work, I think they still prefer to be on Mixi from their phone rather than work computer (to keep work separated). This is quite different from the American pattern. - Jesper Joergensen from Bookmarklet

Good post. I agree. I hadn't thought of describing this effect using narrative. My more simplistic conclusion has always been that if you want to be heard you should stay on topic. But yours is a better way of describing it and the causality makes more sense too: My topic naturally interests me, so I blog about it. Not: I choose a topic to get an audience. - Jesper Joergensen

Peter - I can't go post-by-post with some of these guys. Generally, if someone has been "on it" for a while and consistently delivered a strong narrative, they're probably worth following. Here, I think Scoble does a good job with his Google Reader shares. Pre-FriendFeed, people tended to subscribe to his shares. Another example of this is Sarah Perez's favorite GReader shares (http://www.sarahintampa.com/sarah...). - Hutch Carpenter

Do you buy the 85% growth? That sounds pretty good and more than I would expect. - Jesper Joergensen