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http://bluefive.pair.com/alarm... - alarm clock, just download it. You can use your favourite song as alarm sound)), and you don't need internet conection, just your PC is being worked all the time. - obolonskyi

Misha, did you just said the word "download"??? - Orli Yakuel

What's this download thing you're talking about? - Amit Morson

Nice programming exercise but you really don't want to count on this to wake you up. So many things can fail - your connection, your ISP, even your OS ... Nice for quick reminders to turn off the oven or something. - Yuval Atzmon

atzmon, you can always use something for back up (or use this as back up to alarm clock, mobile, etc.,). - Orli Yakuel

@Orli -Yes)) - obolonskyi

Well, if I use another (more reliable) device then this web app is redundant. Nicely done though. - Yuval Atzmon

Brilliant. During exam time I set up as many alarm clocks as I can. Gnome Alarm, Amarok, my iPhone, physical alarm clock, and now... kukuclock. When 4 months of grueling work comes down to waking up at 7:20 am... the more clocks the better :) - Derick Valadao

cool and simple. But does it work when the internet connection failed over night? Should be no problem. I think these widgets has no permanent connection to the outside?! - Ryo / Fuck Facebook

I've used this a few times as a quick egg timer - Jason Cazier

This might come in mighty handy at work... - Mark Edwards

totally agree with you on this one - Xavier Bartholome

Yeah, just turn it off. You'll be sealing yourself into a nice tight box, though :) - Rahsheen ™, Coach of FF

I love that feature. But, yes, you can turn it off. - Yolanda

you can also turn it off (well, hide at least) on a case by case basis. That way you get to judge each one of your friend's friends. - Judgy McJudgerson. - Laura Norvig

By default I've disabled friend of friend & last.fm, that keeps things manageable - Steven Cains

Here's a how-to on hiding: http://tinyurl.com/ffhide. Choose "hide all stuff from friends-of-friends" - Louis Gray

erm... i've just spent ten minutes looking to see how to turn it off... am i missing something obvious? - Dean Whitbread

Click Hide (next to the 'like' button) --> See more options --> Select 'hide all stuff from friends-of-friends' , Loic :) http://img.skitch.com/2008082... - Mona Nomura

thanks so much :) - Dean Whitbread

And I just love to get the info from FoF (= friends of friends). It's taking me to news I otherwise wouldn't pay attention to, wouldn't notice either. Besides that: it's probably worth looking at, because otherwise friends wouldn't 'like' it or comment on it. It's a great invention of FF. - Ton Zijp

thanks, will turn it off to see if I miss it - Loic Le Meur

Interesting that the people who say this usually are treating FriendFeed as a way to get messages out, but aren't participating in FriendFeed as much. I understand that in Loic's position, since he is CEO of Seesmic and probably wants to spend most of his participation time over on Seesmic instead of over here. To turn this feature off, just use the "Hide" feature. I personally LOVE finding new friends through this feature, though. Please keep liking your friends who you want me to see! - Robert Scoble

FoF and the general feed overflow with time get kicked with the selective attention bias. In cognitive terms, it's the same when you're in a cocktail party and block all the other noises to listen to the interesting talk in your group. With time, we'll get used to FoF and learn to block what doesn't matter. - Armando Alves

Who is Loic Le Meur, and why is Scoble sending me messages from him? - Morgan Warstler

Robert, you know how much I love discovering new friends, please note I still have the autofollow on my twitter ON so I follow 10000+ people there... I am very active on Friendfeed this is why I am trying not to follow that many people here. To discover new content I use more Twitter, to get the content that is super important to me I use more FF. Two different choices. I am experimenting, this is clearly not perfect. - Loic Le Meur

Morgan: funny. Loic Le Meur is CEO of Seesmic. - Robert Scoble

Who is that Robert Scoble I keep getting noise from in my Friendfeed? :P - Loic Le Meur

You can say that agin. I really don't like that little feature. Have I missed where to turn that off? - Niklas Pivic from twhirl

Niklas: yes, you click "Hide" and then click it again to get all the options. Turn off Friend-of-a-Friend. - Robert Scoble

@Loic : 1 solution find 1 friend which have a maximum of friends in common with you and only subscribe to this one. Or head to http://ffapps.com/ and install the Greasmonkey script Friends & Group which allows you to define...well...groups of friends which will be displayed as tabs (et désolé si l'anglais est pas parfait) - Olivier

@scobleizer: thanks, and thanks to @louisgray for the link on how to specifically do it! - Niklas Pivic from twhirl

sort of ironic, coming from a friend-of-a-friend, but I have to say: Amen. - Josh McHugh

those would even be fun to fall down on. - XDpaul

Note to self: Do not get drunk and try to go down these stairs. - Michael

...or up for that matter. - Corie

Corie- hee! Falling up stairs has been named my special gift by my sisters. A lifelong talent of mine. - Donna Mugavero

Beautiful death traps :D - Evan Sims

I really love the floating staircases. - Czar

Yeah, I think that's my favorite as well. - Corie

Me, too... but it scares me. - Donna Mugavero

These are really amazing. - Anne Bouey

Aesthetically, I am with Corie and Czar...but from a practical standpoint I love the bookcases! - Bren, Photophobe

Bren, I really like the staircases too. Sooo nice!!! - Corie

would be nice to have somewhere inconspicuous to keep all my books... - Bren, Photophobe

Same with me. I have a crazy amount of books. Someday I want to have a huge library with a rolly ladder. :-) - Corie

yay, rolling ladder...and walnut built-ins, and a great chair (maybe an eames lounger)... - Bren, Photophobe

It's like you're inside my head. LOL. - Corie

sympatico...great minds think alike - Bren, Photophobe

True that. - Corie

I can't believe I'm up at such an hour, discussing my future library. - Corie

just look at our last.fm convergence.... - Bren, Photophobe

That is true. Mos def some random music in common. - Corie

:) - Bren, Photophobe

Is it wrong to want to put some of these in a random frat house and record what happens? - Kevin Bondelli

Sounds like a great idea. Hidden cameras everywhere! - Corie

Kevin - As an age4d "frat boy", that would be both funny and mean. ;-) - Mathew A. Koeneker

I have enough problems with an 11-month old and regular stairs... - Chris Rivait

Beautiful! - Mitchell Tsai

I always thought it would be fun to have stairs and a pole (like in a fire station)! :-) - Corie

Not really that surprising, truthfully. Of course, as an old Gentoo guy, I'm used to being off the radar. ;) - Alexander Williams

Actually, I'm optimistic about Fedora's future. It has a lot of things to work on, but as my avatar says, I'm a big Fedora fan. :D - Rishabh Mishra (p248)

Oh yes! Your avatar! :) And btw Fedora started almost everything Ubuntu ships --troll ends here ;-) - directeur from NoiseRiver

I am a Debian guy. I don't really believe that any of those distributions are "dying"*, just that Ubuntu is the best pitched. If any of those dye, it will be slackware. - Marcos Marado

Marcos: Don't tell that to my Slackware friend. :D Actually, as soon as I posted that, I saw that the word "dying" really doesn't describe it. So what if newbie users aren't into Debian? It doesn't mean that they won't try Debian after having become experienced with Ubuntu. I even pressed the "stop" button in Firefox, but the post was published to the world... - Rishabh Mishra (p248)

Debian may be dying as a standalone distro, but many major distros, including Ubuntu, are based on Debian. - Michael

I'm sort of missing Gentoo linux, but I suppose that never was as main stream as I thought it was. ;) But yeah, slack is largely being "replaced" by distros that take its core foundation, and make it both more modern and more up to date (Arch Linux is one example). Debian has its fair share of children too. (Ubuntu being the most obvious one) I don't see them dying as much as I see them letting "their young go into the world". =) - Daniel Bruce

regarding debian, I have to say that not only debian derivatives benefict from debian, but debian beneficts from them (some more than others). Then, you have those derivative users that end up realizing that Debian is better O:-) - Marcos Marado

Man, I've seen so many posts being triggered by google trends, lately. - David Risley

I actually had this idea many weeks earlier, but I only got the impulse to write my own once everybody else had used up the idea. :D - Rishabh Mishra (p248)

well, one thing that came into my mind when reading your blog post was exactly: "why google trends? why not distrowatch?" - Marcos Marado

reminds that it is 17 years since I tried linux the first time (dont remember if it was 0.01, 0.02 or 0.03 though) :) - Amund Tveit

Marcos: A friend of mine added Distrowatch info - Rishabh Mishra (p248)

I actually kind of like Debian for a server distro. Hope it stays around. - Eric Florenzano

The fact that I made it onto Linux Today is more of a curse than a blessing. :D - Rishabh Mishra (p248)

Linux Today would explain the steady stream of referrals from your story to mine. I was sure it hit Slashdot or something... - Louis Gray

Linux ain't die. Specially Ubuntu. But other distros as well, ain't die. - Apostolos Papadopoulos

I still like TwitterFox on Linux. Familiar UX and easy setup. - Rudy Amid

@radix33, good suggestion. TwitterFox does look nice. - Czar