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OH, on the California side of the phone conversation "Please don't say anything about the Michigan game. We haven't watched it yet." From the Michigan side: "Don't bother." ... WTF

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What's your "TL;DR Threshold" for FriendFeed comments? If you see the dreaded little italicized "124 more comments" message, how many of them will you actually read before you comment yourself?

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I'll admit I tend to read the first 10-20 and the last 10-20, but those 100 in the middle...oy. - Ken Sheppardson

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at that point, I generally won't comment at all. after 50+ comments there is rarely anything that I can add that hasn't been said already. - chrisofspades

In general, threads like that are political enough that I wouldn't want to get involved anyway. *Usually* I prefer to read all of them before making a comment, which is why I don't jump into too many threads that long. - i80and

If it's something I'm interested in or care about, I'll read/skim most of it. Otherwise tl;dr - Maxamad (Amazigh)

It's tough being a latecomer to a thread like that, however interesting it may be. - LogEx

I don't think the comment count itself has ever dissuaded me from expanding comments, but the content of the first few comments will sometimes stop me from reading further. - Victor Ganata

*placeholder lest I get trapped in middle* - Micah Wittman

*This comment has a high probability of being read in this thread even if the relative substance approaches zero* - Jemm from fftogo

____*eye-catching placeholder*____ - Maxamad (Amazigh)

The more comments there are on a post I find interesting, the more likely I am to expand them. - Slippy "Threadsbane" Lane

After only eight years of reliably running 24x7 my faithful Sony SAT-T60 DirecTV+TiVo box is now rebooting every five minutes. It'll be sad to see it go, but it probably deserves to be put to rest.

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Well, it's dead. Time to revist that whole DirecTV vs TiVo vs Comcast thing again. Sigh. - Ken Sheppardson

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I dunno if this helps at all: http://www.engadgethd.com/2009... I'm waiting to see how much those Ceton cablecards end up costing. - Richard Lawler

Nice, Richard. And timely :-) I so dread the thought of going to Comcast, and I don't know what's worse... waiting for the past five years or so for DirecTV and TiVo to get their act in gear and make up or waiting for a cable card tuner I can drop into my own W7 Media Center box. Heaven forbid DirecTV and Microsoft do anything this century that'd bring satellite to Media Center. - Ken Sheppardson

I suspect I'm probably going to end up slinking into Best Buy and picking up whatever the absolutely cheapest choice is from DirecTV to hold me over until I figure this all out again. - Ken Sheppardson

One spare hard drive, $25 for the latest InstantCake image, and 15 minutes with a torx driver later, the SAT-T60's back up and running. You've got another six months to get your act together, DirecTV/Microsoft. - Ken Sheppardson

ffcheck Bookmarklet - http://ffcheck.com

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The ffcheck bookmarklet gives you a quick way to find out if there are any existing items on FriendFeed related to the web page you're viewing. Simply drag the bookmarklet onto your bookmarks toolbar, then whenever you click the link a list of FriendFeed items will be overlaid onto the page you're viewing. - Ken Sheppardson from Bookmarklet

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coooooooooool - Dobromir Hadzhiev

perfect! - Patrik Johansson

is there a way to go through my contacts only? - Dobromir Hadzhiev

Dobromir: Not that I know of. It's not authenticating at all, i.e. it has no idea who you are. In fact, you don't even need to be a FF user to use it. I don't know if the API allows you to retrieve a filtered list. - Ken Sheppardson

Also, that sort of circumvents the intent. [ Well.. my intent at least :-) ] The idea is to promote discovery and connect you with folks you might not know otherwise. Rather than have 30+ people all start threads on an item (as shown in the screen shot), this lets you join the existing conversation instead of resharing something. Your Like or Comment will put it in your followers' stream without you having to reshare it. - Ken Sheppardson

so I though, I asked because feedly can do something very similar, but again it searches the whole friendfeed instead of the users home feed, anyway cool enough :-) - Dobromir Hadzhiev

Just made a quick fix. Should work with Chrome now. - Ken Sheppardson

Brilliant thanks, Chrome needs it :) - M F

Another fix, and it works on Safari as well (all on Windows XP). IE7's being a bit more temperamental... - Ken Sheppardson

took me a minute to find the close 'button' maybe also a [X] in the upper right? - Chris Heath

Chris: Yeah, Micah suggested that earlier today. Just swapped the [close] out for an [x] in the upper right. - Ken Sheppardson

cool... i like ... this bookmarklet will come in handy - good work @kshep! - Chris Heath

I just grabbed ffcheck.com and moved this over to http://ffcheck.com, so if anyone is so inclined they can delete the bookmarklet that points to kshep.net and grab it again from there. - Ken Sheppardson

sweet! - laura

Great tool for discovering other FFers who are interested in a topic. You can click on entries within the page ffcheck produces. Or you can print the page. Well done, Ken Sheppardson. - Polly Potter

Thanks for posting this. It will come in useful to see who else on FF is talking about a link I find interesting. BTW, I like it better than the Feedly function. - Alexander Grundner

[edited] FF Share code can be found here: http://chrisheath.us/friendf... (this can also be found on friendfeed itself) - Chris Heath

[edited] FF Check code can be found here as well: http://chrisheath.us/friendf... (also can be found at http://ffcheck.com thanks to Ken) - Chris Heath

to clarify: the FF Share is the bookmarklet that the ff team developed (i guess) and the 'FF Check' is Ken's great bookmarklet - Chris Heath

and don't you love it when the code doesn't really make it in the comment box? - Chris Heath

ok so i went thru the trouble to make a page with both ff bookmarklets on it - totally 1990's html but here goes anyways: http://chrisheath.us/friendf... - Chris Heath

not sure why i did all that or when thru the 'trouble' to do it... if you're reading this years from now don't expect my links to be valid - Chris Heath

Does ffcheck still work? Just asking because I haven't gotten it to work in a few days, even after dumping cache (which usually fixes weird transient JS errors.) - Andrew C

I hope so. It's still useful to me. kshep, did you intentionally pull it down? ffcheck.com/javascript/ is 404'ing. Also is the code here: http://userscripts.org/scripts... a current or an old version? - Micah Wittman

No, I didn't pull it down... it's needed two clicks in my dev channel version of Chrome to work, but other than that it was cranking away... or so I thought... let me take a look... - Ken Sheppardson

nice! - .LAG liked that

Should be back. Sorry about that. - Ken Sheppardson

I should note that in Chrome 4 (My default browser...I'm on the dev branch) you have to click the bookmarklet twice. I've been putting off resolving that in the ffcheck code, but it's probably time to dig into it. - Ken Sheppardson

Great! Thanks, Ken. - Micah Wittman

The code at userscripts.org is pretty old. I branched off from that for the version that's hosted at ffcheck.com. As it says in the "About" page there on userscripts, it really just demonstrates how the API works. Honestly, I haven't touched this in forever. Y'all are going to make me try to remember how it works, aren't you? :-) - Ken Sheppardson

I always thought it should be a core part of the tool because it worked so well, too many fragmented discussions get started without it!! - Chris Myles

I think that in chrome you've had to click twice for a long while... since version 2 of chrome or something (i think) - oh and if you do mess with the code a bit of animation would be nice while it's loading... even if it's the most simple of blinking periods - just to indicate that it is working and not stuck - Chris Heath

Thanks Ken! - Andrew C

So what's the most efficient way to split a Windows 7 install between a 30GB SSD and a pair of 1TB drives in RAID1? Is it worth using the SSD? Hm.

October 28 - Comment - Like - Share

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Just start the install onto the SSD but move the Program Files and Users directories to the array? - Ken Sheppardson

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Do you have a large hadron collider on hand to perform a split like that? - Micah Wittman

Heh. Shouldn't really be that hard. Seems like somebody online must have done this before. Googling is in order. - Ken Sheppardson

I'm sure ken could get one. He just needs a country the size of swizerland and 15 Billion smackers. - Roberto Bonini

pagefile.sys could certainly live on the SSD. Adobe scratch disks... maybe the browser cache files... there must be a FAQ for this... - Ken Sheppardson

Cool... "Windows 7 Move the Users and Program Files Directories To A Different Partition" -- http://tuts4tech.net/2009... - Ken Sheppardson

50 Years of Space Exploration - http://www.flickr.com/photos...

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Just found one of those "OMG, I can't believe I never caught this before" bugs. I'm an idiot.

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aren't those just lovely! but I don't think you can call your self a working coder without at least one of those a year :) - bear (aka Mike Taylor)

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Yeah, this one's particularly embarrassing. Folks had been asking "Why isn't this doing X?" and I kept saying "Probably because A. Let me tweak that". Time would pass... "Why is it still not doing X?" and I'd say "Must be B. I'll take a look". Time would pass, etc. Turns out it's 'cause I'm an idiot. - Ken Sheppardson

*solidarity* - Micah Wittman

I hate those and love them at the same time. They're the type that just make you feel better once you realize it. - Jesse Stay

Video: 'Numa Numa Guy' takes over Spartan band - NCAAF - Yahoo! Sports - http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa...

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"If you would have completely comprehended this clip on its own, with no introduction to Brolsma or "Numa Numa," I humbly suggest that you should seriously reexamine your life. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go back to calculating Kirk Cousins' completion percentage on third-and-long." - Ken Sheppardson from Bookmarklet

Makebelieve Help, Old Butchers, and Figuring Out Who You Are (For Now) - Merlin Mann - http://vimeo.com/7192517

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I guess I should stop watching this one and go watch the other one first :) - bear (aka Mike Taylor)

Dishwasher Detergent Soak Cleans Dishes Overnight - Cleaning - Lifehacker - http://lifehacker.com/5385784...

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This looks a whole lot easier than hanging them outside to be blasted clean by the blowing sand. I'll have to try it. - Ken Sheppardson from Bookmarklet

The saddest part of this whole Colorado balloon incident is next time a six year old boy really DOES get stuck in a runaway experimental helium balloon nobody's going to believe it.

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or a box... - Johnny Worthington

Or that a "Wolf" really interviewed a "Falcon" - Micah Wittman

Indexed » Needles and haystacks and such. - http://thisisindexed.com/2009...

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Daring Fireball Linked List: GitHub Flavored Markdown - http://daringfireball.net/linked...

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"I created Markdown for my own use, and, well, I know the formatting rules pretty well. For use in situations like user-submitted comments, GitHub Flavored Markdown is a superior variant. It changes just three rules from regular Markdown, all of which make for a better set of formatting rules for people who don’t even know the rules." - Ken Sheppardson from Bookmarklet

Nice... paraphrasing, "I built this, but somebody else improved on it, so you might want to look at theirs." Refreshing to see this these day... - Ken Sheppardson

I figured I'd do a little desktop system renovation work before I upgrade from Win 7 RC to production (my motherboard only supports 2GB RAM) but I'm not sure I have 40hrs to invest in catching up on the state of PC hardware... sigh...

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check out the pc perspective web site - they have amazing resources. - bear (aka Mike Taylor)

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http://www.pcper.com/ - bear (aka Mike Taylor)

Yeah, I'm just starting to dig in... If I wanted to just start from scratch, I'd probably just pick components off the PC Perspective leader board and be done with it, but I'm sorta trying to fit in a new motherboard and memory around my old Core 2 Quad Q6600 and video cards. I'm trying hard to avoid the "While I'm at it..." trap. - Ken Sheppardson

did you see the MSI board with "OC Genie" that Ryan showed on TWICH last night? press a button and got 700mhz in just a few seconds with a hardware overclock! -- here's the initial review from sept: http://www.pcper.com/article... - Chris Heath

although i don't think that mobo fits core2 cpus... only i5 and i7 (i think) - Chris Heath

Yup. Saw that. And that's exactly the sort of "While I'm at it..." stuff I need to avoid :-) Just looking at Socket 775 boards at Newegg, it seems like if I pick up a Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3P for $135 and a pair of 2GB(+?) sticks I might be all set. - Ken Sheppardson

sounds good to me... i'm still hoping that i'll win that cyberpower giveaway in the pcper contest... that would be a sweet pc - Chris Heath

YouTube - Welcome to the Microsoft Store - http://www.youtube.com/watch...

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So did those same people who did the "Hammertime" dance in the clothing store just dress up in colored shirts and take over an Apple store? - Ken Sheppardson from Bookmarklet

Apartment market moving on up - San Francisco - http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin...

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"'Landlords who have been waiting to exhale can breathe a sigh of relief as renters slowly creep back into the market to fill up their empty units,' says Novato's RealFacts, a database company that analyzes apartment rental numbers nationwide. Bay Area landlords might not be entirely thrilled, having seen their rents drop by an average of 7.5 percent over the past year, compared with 3.7 percent nationwide, according to the report, based on figures up to Sept. 30. Still, not so bad in light of the 17.3 percent increase they enjoyed over the past four years. In San Francisco, rents dipped 5.6 percent over the past year - studios and one-bedrooms showing significant drops - compared with an overall 26.4 percent increase in the past four years." - Ken Sheppardson from Bookmarklet

Facebook, MySpace Divide Along Social Lines : NPR - http://www.npr.org/templat...

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"Social media researcher Danah Boyd has heard a lot of conversations just like this. In her work for Microsoft she's spoken to teens all over the country about their use of social media. She thinks the online social world is dividing up, just like the real world." - Ken Sheppardson from Bookmarklet

So when will everybody have access to Twitter lists?

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NCC-1701 Bridge

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Oooooh! - Janice

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my question is this: did he go to his bookshelf to get that blueprint or find it on the net :) (honest does make me say that my own Star Trek set of blueprints is in a storage box so it's not handy) - bear (aka Mike Taylor)

My set is stashed somewhere along with my Technical Manual, Concordance, and Medical Reference Manual, so I had to resort to Google/Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos... - Ken Sheppardson

I don't have a set of Star Trek blueprints... :( - Janice

The real question isn't whether FriendFeed is dead or not. It's very much alive. The real question is how much of what's keeping it alive is people starting the exact same thread about whether it's dead or not over and over again.

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Stock market gurus call that the dead cat bounce ;) - Eric Logan

Dell Studio 14z - http://www.dell.com/us...

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I've finally retired my Latitude D600 and replaced it with a Studio 14z. It's a pretty darn slick machine, but my brain's having a hard time switching from good old 1024x768 to the 1600x900 screen. It's so... wide... - Ken Sheppardson from Bookmarklet

Some Pictures Don’t Need The Family | Progress City, U.S.A. - http://progresscityusa.com/2009...

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"Family pictures are important but a few go a long way. The same picture without the family clearly shows the submarine they just cruised on ... better for storytelling back home." - Ken Sheppardson from Bookmarklet

With FriendFeed dying, maybe we should all move over to Jaiku. It looks pretty spiffy.

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that's mean! :D - pea ♥ fierce as a woozle

Migrate-schmigrate. I just unpacked. - Michael Markman

Delaware State never should've played Michigan | MLive.com - http://www.mlive.com/wolveri...

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Delaware State didn't just lose 63-6 on Saturday and give up 727 yards (a new Michigan record) to five different quarterback... they went from 1-3 to 1-5. - Ken Sheppardson from Bookmarklet

Damn. - Derrick

Go Blue! - DGentry

I will never do business with Abe's of Maine again.

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Back in September, after Amazon cancelled all the pre-orders of the Canon S90, I pre-ordered with Abes instead on September 21. Amazon apologized later, offered a discount, and I re-orded through them. - Ken Sheppardson

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On September 24, I emailed Abes to cancel my pre-order. On September 25 they replied "Dear Sir/Madam, Thank you very much for shopping with Abes Of Maine. Your order has been cancelled as per your request. We look forward to doing business with you in the future! Sincerely, Adi Reed Customer Service" - Ken Sheppardson

This morning I received email from "JACK" at Abe's... "We need to confirm some of the information on your order". I replied, "What order? I don't have any current orders with Abes". 10 minutes ago I got an invoice from "JACK" for an S90... - Ken Sheppardson

So.. I called. I gave the rep the order number, and explained that this order had been cancelled. He asked who I spoke to when I cancelled the order. I told him I cancelled via email. He said they don't cancel orders via email. I told him that they'd acknowledged that my order was cancelled via email. - Ken Sheppardson

He told me the camera was ready to ship, and asked if I wanted to cancel. Obviously I want to cancel it, I said. That's why I'm calling. "Next time call us to cancel, alright?" he said. "There won't be a next time," I said, and he hung up on me. - Ken Sheppardson

Too bad. I've made 3 purchases from them so far and all have been great. Although each time they did call me to see if I wanted to buy extra batteries and filters. - Benjamin Golub

Yeah, I've ordered from them in the past, and the process always gets held up when they email me or leave me voicemail asking me to call them to "confirm some information". The first time I returned their call, they just wanted to upsell/cross-sell me. Since then I just respond via email and ask them what it is they need to confirm, at which point they've said "nevermind... we've gone ahead and processed the order" - Ken Sheppardson

Go with Adorama. - Kevin Pedraja

Seems like yet another case of "As long as nothing goes wrong, everything will be fine." If you just want cheap stuff, they have what you want, and you don't veer off the basic transaction path, you're fine. But try to deal with an "exception", and things can get out of whack pretty easily. From here on out, I'm sticking with Amazon (which often means Amazon fulfilled by Adorama on photo gear)... just because I trust Amazon's "exception handling" - Ken Sheppardson

(i'm sure you already know this, but..) Customer service is all about when things get off track ... nobody cares about customer service when they're just doing a normal order and everything's normal and fine... customer service shines and makes an impression in these 'off the beaten path' situations (in a big way) - Chris Heath

Personally I will not buy camera equipment from anyone else over the web except Amazon, B&H, and Adorama. Just about all of the rest of the on NY based line camera stores are bait and switch scams. - Jeff P. Henderson

Here is a l ink to some information on NY based camera stores and their bait and switch tactics. http://thomashawk.com/2005... - Jeff P. Henderson

Ken / Jeff, we appreciate the recommendation, and your continued custom. If you ever have any queries concerning an order from Adorama Camera - or AdoramaPix - please do contact me directly. Helen Oster Adorama Camera Customer Service Ambassador helen.oster@adoramacamera.com www.adorama.com - Helen Oster

Delaware State vs. Michigan: The game that never should be played - ESPN - http://sports.espn.go.com/espn...

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"If you made a list of the 10 dumbest things ever done by university administrators, Delaware State's decision to play Michigan would be Nos. 1-5. It was so dumb that nobody from the school can (or will) explain the anatomy of a football deal that forces it to forfeit a conference game. DSU has to forfeit its Oct. 17 game against North Carolina A&T because school negotiators somehow forgot to rearrange the team's existing schedule." - Ken Sheppardson from Bookmarklet

Dell's distinction between "For Home" and "For Small and Medium Business" drives me nuts. How 'bout you just show me all the options and let me decide for myself?

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Love the symbolism of the signal-to-noise problem at #rtws No walls, 40ft ceilings, twenty simultaneous convos in one big space

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@brionv But from the glass half full standpoint, that means you can attend more than one session at once #rtws

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In buzzword overload defense mode at #rtws

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