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Sanjeev Singh favorited a video on YouTube

Freeman Dyson on Global Warming 1of2 Bogus Climate Models

September 17 at 10:41 am - Link

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Dyson: we haven't done enough basic measurement to understand what is going on with CO2. It's premature to trust computer models based on our current understanding. - Sanjeev Singh

only 7mins, btw - Sanjeev Singh

For those of us who don't have the patience for videos, I posted a nice long article on my feed. - Jim Norris

Robert Scoble posted an entry on Scobleizer -- Tech geek blogger

Useful travel web sites

September 7 at 3:41 pm - Link

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This is a list of useful travel sites that Twitterers contributed to. Got any others to add? - Robert Scoble

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Oh how many posts did you write today! : ) Thanks for again. - Erhan "peanut" Erdogan

Erhan: I'm done now until tomorrow morning when 100+ companies release all their news on us. Whew. - Robert Scoble

Wikitravel, Yahoo Trip Planner, TripAdvisor for research and ideas. TripIt feeding iCal data to Dopplr (mostly works). - Jauder Ho

Haven't used it but this http://www.tripharbor.com is interesting - Brian Sullivan

Robert's been a busy boy today! :o) Thanks for the good reads! - Susan Beebe

Don't forget http://www.offbeatguides.com/ for personalized travel books. Still in private beta, but more to come soon. ;-) - David Sifry

i use tripit and that's about it these days. most of the times i can buy a plane ticket cheaper from the website of the airline i'm using then kayak and orbitz you can follow my trips on tripit if interested, same username - Jonathan Jesse

especially as it works on my moblie phone - Jonathan Jesse

wouldja add UpTake.com to the list? (and before u bash our home page only 5% of our traffic starts there lol) - Elliott Ng

www.tripntale.com - darwin

http://www.goldentulip.com, working for this chain though.. - Marcel van der Laan

How could I have missed this post? Wego @ http://www.wego.com . Disclaimer: I am a Web Developer with Wego. - Winston Teo

yowtrip.com - luca Filigheddu

http://www.wolpy.com - For tracking your travels - Ana Belén Ramón

http://www.viatribe.com - a travel writer community, and a great resource for quality reviews - Dana

http://www.londontown.com/hote... - All London hotels on a map, real time bookings - James

The easiest way to find where to stay is http://www.seeyourhotel.com. Which is a site we did. For flight it's http://www.kayak.com. - Jean-Francois Noel

This list (+FF thread) is awesome! I also find it entertaining that for once instead of retweeting Scoble, he referenced my tweet :P - Abbas Haider Ali

I'll also add in my vote for TripAdvisor, I don't go anywhere new without checking there first. And Hotwire for hotels (if trip is 100% confirmed). I get ridiculous deals on Hotwire for 5 stars hotels in great 'hoods in specific cities like Atlanta, Toronto, Montreal, and London. - Abbas Haider Ali

This is a great list. I'm happy to share our recently launched company, www.AirBedandBreakfast.com. The international, peer-to-peer travel site allows you to book rooms with locals, instead of hotel rooms. In addition to saving money, the host becomes your guidebook, offering a local perspective on things like nightlife, coffee shops, events, and sites to see. - Joe, co-founder - AirBed & Breakfast

I use VMlive.com on my blackberry. The ability to forward the itinerary from my AMEX based corporate travel dept. and have all the details of flights, rental car and hotel at my finger tips is great. The feature of how it integrates with blackberry is particularly valuable. Check it out! - Tim FitzGerald

Abbas, I like TripAdvisor too. That's why UpTake searches TripAdvisor, Yahoo!, Virtual Tourist, and 1000 other sites with reviews all at once. Try it out! (disclosure: I am UpTake co-founder) - Elliott Ng

For course Kayak but Vayama flight maps are great and some internatinoal flights are picked up that aren't on kayak. http://www.vayama.com. Priceline bidding for hotels, especially 4 star in city centers. International Travel: http://Booking.com and http://www.hotelpricebot.com. Agoda.com was helpful for Asia. Favorite boutique hotels site is http://www.i-escape.com - traveldragon

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Choosing the Best Neighborhood for Your Buenos Aires Hotel & See Your Hotel&8217;s Blog

July 28 at 9:52 am - Link

Best Neighborhood for Your Buenos Aires Hotel, useful info. - Jean-Francois Noel

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Choosing the Best Neighborhood for Your Buenos Aires Hotel & See Your Hotel&8217;s Blog

July 28 at 9:52 am - Link

Best Neighborhood for Your Buenos Aires Hotel, useful info. - Jean-Francois Noel

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The Turkish Delights of the Grand Bazaar, Istanbul & See Your Hotel&8217;s Blog

July 21 at 8:17 am - Link

Nice travel article with a video of Istambul pictures. - Jean-Francois Noel

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The Turkish Delights of the Grand Bazaar, Istanbul & See Your Hotel&8217;s Blog

July 21 at 8:17 am - Link

Nice travel article with a video of Istambul pictures. - Jean-Francois Noel

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See Your Hotel&8217;s Blog

July 8 at 7:37 am - Link

A travel blog about hotels in good locations - Jean-Francois Noel

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See Your Hotel&8217;s Blog

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A travel blog about hotels in good locations - Jean-Francois Noel

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If you watch one video today, this is the one to watch

June 27 at 2:49 pm - Link

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so, so funny. and so so true. - ron k jeffries

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halfway through and rotflmao ... - Dan Haley

Is this from the You Suck at Photoshop guys? - Vince DeGeorge

donnie is back today, maybe the competition made him show up again - Dobromir Hadzhiev

"what email?" "you just powered off the exchange server" "just the letter a" "don't use aol" "salesforce.com was on the right testicle" - Ranjit Mathoda

That was a good use of ten minutes. I'm smiling again. - Russellreno

Ok, after watching the new YSAP - This is much much better - flavor of the week to be sure. - Vince DeGeorge

hahahahahaha - michael arrington

"you can't arrange them by penis" - michael arrington

I'm crying. The details in this were just great. I don't work in IT but I know this is what people must put you folks through... - Kamilah Gill

That's hilarious! - fbrunel

that's brilliant. and i'm about ti run out of battery power here, and I won't bookmark, adn I'll probably 4get about these guys 4eva. what a shame!!! - john conroy

You mean he rebooted the webserver without submitting a Change Request Application with work procedure and rollback steps to the Change Advisory Board for review at their next weekly meeting? ;-) - Stuart Woodward

Hilarious!! - Satya Boora

amusing.."how many times did u reboot?" ... - Jaimini via Alert Thingy

I love the part where he deletes all his files and the guy thanks him for putting his desktop back the way it was. - Dave Hussein Winer

LOL you can't arrange Icons by Penis - Chris Saad via twhirl

He just kept shooting him in the crotch over and over and over LOL..... - Avery Tingle

this is hilarious! - Michael Stearne via twhirl

Yeah, who hasn't known this IT guy? Too darn funny. - Jim Kukral

and so absolutely true - Jeff Evans

"This is going right onto Boing Boing." Hilarious! - Adam

On the Fedora installation, why is the guy running as root? - possible248

nice - Anthony

Arggggg! - bill giltner

yup - Marc Canter

:)) I was getting very frustrated with FF's best of the day page, showing mostly meta-links about FF itself all the time. And then this. Once in a while, there is one single link that makes all these page loads worth it :) - Yaniv Golan

Did this win some kind of award? - Dave Hussein Winer

That made my day - Greg Goodwin

that video kills! cant wait to show the rest of the techs at work - Mark Schulz

"What's BoingBoing?" - very funny. - Maury Estabrooks

http://www.arvadaharvestfestiv... - Dave Hussein Winer

LMAO for most of the 10 min. Will fwd to several IT peeps I know...and maybe a few peeps at Twitter. Wonder if they'll think it's funny. - Cathryn Hrudicka

Excellent.... - David W

makes me want to rearrange my desktop more creatively - Pete Delucchi

This video was freakin great thanks for sharing - Michael Narciso via twhirl

that was hilarious. wow! - David Adam

Rofl that's a ton of likes! guess I gotta! - Frankie Warren

Absolutely hilarious. - Richard Totaro

LOL, really great ! That's why my website's so slow :)) - Heimana

lol. too funny - Alexander Marktl

Way too realistic. :-) - Doug Kaye

you can't arrange by penis - Tyler Gillies

excellent. thanks for the post Dave. - Kevin Doohan

STUPID WEB DUDE. he should have asked the sales guy to check if the website is up on other computers or in a different department. - Hanan Cohen

So funny, I truly have not laughed so much in such a long time. tyvm :) - David Smith

wow!! So unreal!! And I now know what happens with all the network mgmt software I develop! - Shivanand Velmurugan

"Maybe that's not what I meant." - Kawika Holbrook

The realism of this thing is just awe-inspiring. That techie behave pretty much like any techie I've ever encountered who's been asked to do a stupid task. And the sales dude is lethally real too. This is Dilbert meets The Office on steroids. Thanks for the link. - Roy Blumenthal via twhirl

A Classic - Ken

Alexander van Elsas posted a message

“Typical. Mozilla tries to set a world record helping ALL of us have a choice when it comes down to the web browser. And when they hare having trouble keeping up the pace the Elite screams "FAIL"? I don't think the elite appreciates enough what Mozilla has brought us! I say Firefox is the best!!!!!!!”

June 17 at 11:22 am - Link

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I didn't scream FAIL. I just said it was down. Anyway, if you're going to have a contest and you can't keep up with the load that's both good (contest is going well) and notable (cause you didn't have enough server capacity or whatever to keep it all up). - Robert Scoble

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think about a world without Mozilla Firefox. Think about a world dominated by Internet Explorer. Think about closed instead of open. Who are we to judge them right now? They are doing a hell lot of more to make the Internet a better place than all these loudmouths out here! - Alexander van Elsas

Alexander: the loudmouths bring hype. Hype brings new users. It's all good. - Robert Scoble

Well I wasn't referring to you Robert ;-) But it is so typical. I love the browser and the dudes that are creating it together. If there isn't enough server capacity I can only hope it is because no one has ever even remotely tried to create such a shitload of downloads ;-) - Alexander van Elsas

Well said. - Russellreno

That's true Robert. - Alexander van Elsas

It's really easy to judge from the sideline, while at the same time MG Siegler and a few more are HAPPILY running their FF browser every day, thanking god and anyone else on their knees they don't have to use IE. I love choice, and choice is what Mozilla has brought us - Alexander van Elsas

well said, this wasn't planned well, but this is nothing like creating such a great web browser. - Hassan Ibraheem

I don't understand why nobody has put FF3 Release up on Bittorrent somewhere. I guess cuz it would affect the world record. - Rah™

I'd like to think of a world where people think in terms of "usability" and "meets demand" than terms like "free" or "open." If I can't save the world, princess, cheerleader, and the internet from the evil clutches of Lex Luthor, Ganon, Sylar, and Microsoft because I can't download your stupid software (you know the one you keep telling me is better than sliced bread?), it's not my fault, it's yours. Make your stuff work (that includes your delivery mechanism), then worry about saving us from evil. - Mark Trapp

@Alexander - completely agree that FF3 is the best browser out there - but if somebody tries to very publicly break a world record and their infrastructure can't handle it - then that's newsworthy (at least in our small tech world) - FAIL is just the meme of the day to go with it - Frederic

What's ironic Mark, is that Microsoft would be able to handle day 1 downloads better than this. People are quick to defend what they like, even if what they like is failing. :) The truth hurts. - Bwana McCall

I'm thinking there is a whole army of volunteers trying to to their best, while we sit back and have a laugh. Sorry guys, I'm not with you on this one. Sure they "might" have done a better job. But it is their world record attitude that got us Firefox. We should appreciate that a bit more. - Alexander van Elsas

In the same breath we're calling fail, we're advocating and spreading the word to go get it. It's not as black and white as you may think. - Bwana McCall

too bad that the enthusiasm and massive numbers that a call to download a piece of software couldn't be directed to a continued pressure on some *real* social issues .. you know those things that social media claims to care about .. but I guess software is more important. - Steven Hodson

Mozilla isn't some small, poor open source project, it's a very wealthy company with an army of employees. If Mozilla blew Firefox 1's download day, I wouldn't have criticized them. Today they are a big company, making more profits than most Silicon Valley-startups combined. One can expect more professionality than that. So yes, we know where we would be without Firefox, but that's no excuse for poor management. (I expect high uptime from Google, too, even though the world would be worse without them.) - sebmos

I happily scream FAIL. i'm forgiving to startups, but if a company like mozilla purposefully sets out to have everyone download their software at the same exact time to get a record that doesn't exists and its crashes their servers, that is a FAIL. -- and for the record, I don't use FF everyday. I prefer Camino, also made by Mozilla. - MG Siegler

@Alexander van Elsas I don't think any of us fail to appreciate the value the that Firefox has brought the world. But look, they wanted to set a world record and they couldn't handle their own success. MG is pointing that out. I think you're seeing bogeymen where there are none. Also, FF has been nearly unusable on my Mac (and many other Macs) for years. Yeah, Camino, like what MG said. - Eric Eldon

Eric, we all know stories of athletes preparing years for the Olympic games only to fail during the trials, or even teh finals. Who are we to say FAIL. They know that already. All we can do is admire the incredible effort they put into it - Alexander van Elsas

Alexander, I'm a reporter so it's not my role to admire everyone who tries anything -- although I also think the human spirit is a great thing. My goal is to be honest with our readers about what's actually happening in the world. As we're also a blog, we include opinions. MG and I happen to be underwhelmed by Firefox's performance. I don't think we're doing anything wrong here by being critical. - Eric Eldon

Eric, being a reporter is fin, being critical as a reporter is fine too. I just happen to have a different opinion on this. I think Mozilla has done something no one has done before. They have successfully melted down their servers because so many people in the world want to have that browser (I hope so!). The execution might not be the best (who knows though how much traffic they are getting), but I like it ;-) - Alexander van Elsas

Yeah, I definitely see what you're saying. I'm happy for them, too, in that sense. - Eric Eldon

Jeremy Toeman posted a message on Twitter

“hm, maybe i'm missing something. today's "firefox download day" but it's still an RC build??”

June 17 at 7:46 am - Link

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My Ubuntu install updated days ago to the final version of 3... not sure whats up. - Ben Hedrington

mozilla.com STILL says 2! whats the deal?? http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/f... - Jeremy Toeman

I got the final install a few minutes ago using the direct links over on my blog. http://scobleizer.com - Robert Scoble

@Ben Ubuntu is still with FF3 RC1, should take some time before RC3(final). - Jean-Francois Noel

Bindu Reddy posted a message

“I like how Paul uses his friendfeed to broadcast all his announcements :)”

June 11 at 11:23 am - Link

Mitchell Tsai, Jean-Francois Noel, Paul Buchheit and 2 other people liked this

He informed me that unless I am around to write a blog post, he is only using FriendFeed because he can do it from the command line (http://paulbuchheit.blogspot.c...). I still have nightmares about him launching a major redesign of the product through a FriendFeed message :) - Bret Taylor

@Bret: distributed product redesign accomplished when number of likes reaches a certain critical mass. :) - AJ Kohn

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Top 11 Deserted Beaches Around the World | The Travelers Zone

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Robert Scoble posted an entry on Scobleizer -- Tech geek blogger

Google about to drop the other shoe on Microsoft?

March 19 at 9:55 am - Link

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I dream of a day when our company's email will be organized by threads, and easily searchable. - Bill Bittner

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It took forever for stodgy old companies to switch from Lotus to Exchange... will it be any different switching to Google? Maybe even slower since Google isn't thought of as a typical software developer... - Tad - the Meme Maker

Terry: it will take a very long time, but Google can totally limit the growth that Microsoft is hoping to see. Remember, there are six billion people and only one has been on a computer. The next five are what matters to these tech companies. What's the likelihood that they'll get onto a Microsoft Exchange server? - Robert Scoble

My bets are on a leotard-clad flying Google man that flies into your office window and does an Irish jig. - Dimitri Glazkov

Ummmm... Hello? Zimbra? - Stephen Foskett

But aren't many companies (or some already) working to get rid of email and replace it with collaboration sites/wikis/etc? - Bill Bittner

I doubt the other 5 billion will ever own what we think of as a PC. I guess they'll still probably use email on their iPhone v3 or whatever. ;) - Tad - the Meme Maker

I totally agree, This change is everything but easy. But it is what people is asking for since years ago. So, no matter how difficult it'd may be, companies, at least, will consider it, and that's what MS should be afraid of. - Hernan Garcia

Whatever it does, I'll be happy to see someone turn the heat on Microsoft. - Yuvi

As bleeding edge tech geeks I think we all presume that everyone likes Gmail. However, this is totally not true. I've been trying to get my wife off Yahoo Mail to Gmail (and she prefers the old vrs too), but she just doesn't like it. "It's OK," she says, but Yahoo mail just works the way she's used to. I think this will be the same for Exchange/Outlook. - Daniel Shaw

@Daniel, yeah that was the case with LotusNotes too. It finally started looking REALLY dated and started smelling... - Tad - the Meme Maker

I think it's not about likes or dislikes, it's about who will be the next real threat to MS exchange. And I do not see anyone else on the horizont but Gmail. - Hernan Garcia

I tend to agree with Bill Bittner. I think Email, as it exists today, will be replaced with collaboration ... thingies. - Richard

Many of my big clients are still using Notes... I don't think they will switch for a long time. For small business that already uses it, this would allow them to grow and keep using GMail. - Jean-Francois Noel

Any gossip on them hitting the VAR channels? Most my Exchange servers I manage for my clients are 3-5 years old and I'm trying to get them to hold out on upgrading a little longer. I see Email being a totally hosted service in the SMB. The hosted service model is becoming as sophisticated as local software. - Christopher Dickens

What, nobody's biting on the flying-Google-man gossip? - Dimitri Glazkov

Been hearing the same rumblings. - Mike Reynolds

Bill - check out Xobni...threads together Outlook and features even more inbox organization (I've got one more invite, if you're interested) - Martha Shaughnessy

Xobni does look cool. And I did get an invite a while back. But I haven't installed it yet. However, I question IT approving it for use for our whole company. But who knows. - Bill Bittner

Come on guys, it's not a shoe. It's just a babystep towards killing of old M$. Babysteps! It'll take a lot of those to take over from m$. - Peter

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Pulling Digits out of Pi

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Google Docs - Maps Coverage

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THE WATCHISMO TIMES: Out of this World! The Richard Mille Planetarium Tellurium

August 23, 2007 at 7:04 am - Link