If you use the FriendFeed Facebook application make sure you've configured it properly. We are switching to a new method of publishing in the not too distant future. If you see this message at http://apps.facebook.com/friendf... just click on the link to provide the proper permissions. (via http://friendfeed.com/bgolub...)
A little late on the info as I deleted this link last week at I was told I was pushing all of my FF to FB people were not happy.
- Ed Mason
I took mine off as well, Ed. Aside from the excess amount of FF content on my FB wall, I also didn't want my IRL friends to pry TOO MUCH into the rest of my online.life. :D
- Helen Sventitsky
why do you not post the link comments from friendfeed to the wall? just the links loses 80% of the value.
- Gregor J. Rothfuss
I'm tired the FriendFeed Facebook app. keeps asking me to fix "the problem" so it can post to my wall. I don't want it to post to my wall! Contacts on Facebook and FriendFeed are different types for me. On Facebook it's about being friends in real life, on FriendFeed it is about interests. At least that is how I use FF and FB. My Facebook friends would probably feel I was spamming uninteresting stuff if my FF posts where copied to FB (well, at least if I used FF so intensive as I want to:-))...
- Stig Nygaard
Please let us select what to publish on FB from FF? I'd rather have tweets not appear on FB, particularly as I post from Ping.fm to FB and Twitter.
- Kol Tregaskes
New publishing method? I hope nothing will change for those FF users who don't use Facebook. (am I alone here?)
- Olivia Lovag
from twhirl
I agree with Gregor ... By not having the comment sent with the link, it's just plain and boring and I'd rather just post directly to Facebook. Unfortunately, however, this would negate the very useful benefit of using the "Share on FriendFeed" bookmarklet.
- Dewade Fowler
"Leo Laporte Right. Johnny I’m so glad you could call in, I know you’re practically always there in our FriendFeed room. Johnny does a really great FriendFeed podcast called FFundercats, and where would we find FFundercats? Johnny Worthington FFundercats is at ffundercats.com, that’s two Fs for awesome. Leo Laporte Two Fs for awesome. Johnny Worthington Yes. Leo Laporte ffundercats.com. Johnny it’s great to talk to you and I’d like to add, we are starting to do something on the network where we do world news check ins, we call it our Tech World Beat and I’d love to add you to that list of people so we can, as we call around, talk to people… Johnny Worthington I’d love to be on it. Leo Laporte Thank you, Johnny, really appreciate it. Johnny Worthington from Brisbane"
- Josh Haley
from Bookmarklet
"Security expert Bruce Schneier nails the core incompetency: "For years I've been saying 'Only two things have made flying safer [since 9/11]: the reinforcement of cockpit doors, and the fact that passengers know now to resist hijackers.'""
- CW™
from Bookmarklet
"Sadly, this does mean that in the future we can expect one out of every two round-trip flights to Neptune to be hijacked." <== Hijackers and Neptune ? I thought we where worried about bombs around Uranus.
- Eric Logan
None of the new restrictions are even logical. They're obviously theatre, and I just hope I don't have to fly anywhere until someone comes to his/her senses.
- MaryB, BrandingBroadOfFF
from iPhone
No one will come to any senses. It would show the Govt in a bad light that they made bad choices and that in fixing it that the Govt can do wrong things. Therefore you have to just continue to live with the situation and consequences until something else happens to where things can be stricter but for a completely different reason.
- CW™
LOL. "The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary." http://bit.ly/25T2v
Some writers also beat English unconscious and leave it for dead, so the other languages shouldn't feel too bad about it.
- John (a.k.a. dendroica)
I don't care so much about vocabulary as I do consistent grammar which is where most people fail.
- Akiva Moskovitz
hey, this leads me to one of my favourite English language rants: the idiocy of the no-split-infinitives 'rule', something created by morons who looked at Latin with its one-word infinitives and figured that in English, splitting the infinitive would therefore not analogize to proper Latin.
- Andrew C
It's really funny how a lot of people have these quibbles about certain supposed word usage errors, only to find out that people have actually used those words that way since the 16th century.
- Victor Ganata
"The meaning of a word is its use in language." -- Wittgenstein. I like this view because it allows for language's organic nature e.g. 'wicked' can go from being 'wicked' to 'wicked', you know?
- T. Brent, technopeasant
I can't tell you how many times people have tried to lay the not-ending-sentences-with-prepositions crap on me, only to have Winston Churchill flung in their faces. English teachers don't even know the real rules!
- MaryB, BrandingBroadOfFF
from iPhone
And we wonder why non-native speakers of English have trouble, eh? lol
- Rick Cogley
Our Latin teachers used to tell us English was the most irregular language in the world. Latin was certainly pretty regular.
- MaryB, BrandingBroadOfFF
English is not a Latin language, though it is influenced by Latin... the study of Latin, as a source of 'proper English', is a bit value-laden.
- T. Brent, technopeasant
I do imagine a dead language would be a lot more regular than a living language.
- Victor Ganata
to invoke a dead, regular language to 'regulate' a living language is to try and reach from the grave...
- T. Brent, technopeasant
What I don't like about English, or rather popular speech, is when people try and take common mistakes or slang and use it as proper English. Yes I can pwn noobs or go 2 teh lib b4 2nite, but I wouldn't tell my boss or even a coworker that. You have to have some amount of regularity to actually properly convey information. It's why multiple words that have almost the same definition/connotation survive, precision.
- Heather
But that's how language seems to evolve. Certainly it doesn't happen within a lifetime, but that may very well be what English really looks like 200 years from now. We're used to static orthography because of the printing press and its descendants, but standardized spelling doesn't really seem to be the norm before Gutenberg.
- Victor Ganata
That's nice...but nobody asked what you prefer and it's pretty rude to say something like that on a thread when someone is obviously on vacation in Jamaica.
- Alex Scoble
from IM
Glad you weren't on the plane crash in Jamaica. Looks fun!
- Robert Scoble
Hey, What do you know. I was in your neck of the woods last week. In the Domenican Republic. Always wanted to get to Jamaica. While you're there, check out the Olympic Bobsled team :)
- Roberto Bonini
Sorry for biting your head off, Jeunelle. Your comment rubbed me the wrong way and I went off. My apologies.
- Alex Scoble
Wow. I own property in Negril, believe it or not. My uncle used to live there and left it to my brother and me. I've been there many times. What hotel are you staying at?
- Dave Winer
Dave, he said the name of the hotel in the comment directly above yours. :)
- Rochelle
Rochelle, oops. I know that place. The locals make fun of the white people running around naked. They disapprove. :-)
- Dave Winer
"Cook oil and flour in a large Dutch oven over medium-low heat, whisking constantly, until roux is chocolate colored (about 35 to 40 minutes). Stir in celery, onion, and bell pepper; cook 7 minutes, stirring often. Add garlic; cook 2 minutes. Gradually stir in Duck Stock and next 8 ingredients; bring to a boil. Reduce heat, and simmer, uncovered, 1 hour, stirring occasionally. Add duck meat; simmer 15 minutes. Remove from heat; stir in oysters and fresh basil. Let stand 5 minutes. Serve over hot rice. Sprinkle with green onions."
- Admiral Anika
from Bookmarklet
I see Twitter being down, for many folks, like a power outage. Everyone stops... rubs their eyes, looks around, and eventually picks up a book. :)
- Louis Gray
Pretty much. I was polling people about something, but I guess I could go... uh...
- Jolie O'Dell
I am mainly curious to see if Google/Feedburner will automatically tweet my new blog post now. That's why I even found out, because I checked.
- Louis Gray
Yes, Atul. (See the Google Reader share on my feed)
- Louis Gray
Louis - my bad. Was lazy not to scroll down to the bottom of the screen :)
- Atul Arora
...and I'm sure FriendFeed, Facebook, and Google Reader are seeing increased traffic just right now.
- Claudio Sennhauser
I got an error from DISQUS when I posted to your blog
- Ankush Narula
Totally. Where else we gonna go? FriendFeed is, in that sense and to some people, like Twitter's less hot but totally more willing friend. Dang.
- Jolie O'Dell
Ankush, I got your comment, successfully.
- Louis Gray
Tech Crunch: "Update III: It is suggested that if you use the same password on your Twitter account with other accounts, now would be a good time to change your password on those other accounts. Because of the scale of this hack, it can only be assumed right now that Twitter has been completely compromised."
- David Damore
Louis, yes, it's practically required now - MaryB voted on it!
- Micah Wittman
Somehow, I just got a new Twitter follower 1 minute ago. :)
- Louis Gray
Well not completely. For my main use of Friendfeed, it's not. I use FF to update Twitter accounts (several) from Yahoo Pipes, and it stopped working almost 24 hours ago.
- Ignacio Rodriguez de R,
Skinny jeans are actually kind of nice for PNW weather (especially short ones) because they don't get soaking wet at the bottom, which is kind of like a miracle.
- joey
(Almost) everyone has body image issues. The girl selling me the jeans was gorgeous and curvy and was disappointed that I fit (barely or not at all) into their smallest size/style that she liked. I was disappointed that I couldn't wear their sexy jeans that she was sporting because I have no hips. We probably both looked good in our respective fits.
- joey
It's kind of worth it to have a nice pair of jeans instead of the (literally falling apart at the seams) pair that you stole from your sister a few years ago.
- joey
I wear the same size as I did in junior high, so I can probably pull out some of my old wardrobe from my parents' house. I'm not a hoarder, I just keep clothes as long as I can. I bought one pair that fits me perfectly now (but should stretch) and one that is a bit big so that as I gain my weight back, they'll fit. That's another thing...kind of awkward when people are like 'I'm jealous, you are so skinny' to be like 'oh, yeah. I'm sick.'
- joey
The first thing you mentioned is my absolute favorite thing about skinny jeans. No more soggy knees! Can't wait to see them :)
- Alexis Hope
Knees? Why would you have soggy knees? Do you hike funny?
- joey
This reminds me. I need to get off my ass and buy a new pair of jeans. Some of my jeans are developing holes in intimate regions. Been putting it off because none of my jeans fit right, in a variety of different ways.
- Wirehead
Soggy knees from too-long flares getting dragged through the puddles, and acting like a wick to suck up the rain?
- MaryB, BrandingBroadOfFF
Loving these comments and imagining my 216-pound self in your situation. More than half of that weight is below the waist.
- MaryB, BrandingBroadOfFF
Ah, Mary that may make sense. Mine do get soggy pretty high up, but usually it's the bottoms that drag the worst (especially bad for us short people). And I'm sure that they have the right jeans for you at one of these specialty shops. They seemed good at envisioning what would flatter just about anyone. Of course, they weren't $20.
- joey
I tried on a pair of Fox skinny jeans and was surprised at how amazing they were. The saying "If you wore the trend the first time don't repeat it" doesn't always apply. Also, American Eagle boyfriend fit is great. They have 00.
- R1CC1
My jeans double as a tent for normal sized people.
- Morgan Haley
My jeans double as a portable garage for humvees. :)
- CW™
Christo just called me and asked to borrow a couple pairs of my skivvies....Is that a bad thing?
- Morgan Haley
no, the water usually soaks all the way up to my knees! it's horrible. edit: yes, what mary said :)
- Alexis Hope
Once this got bumped off the first page it took like five pages to find it again. I was going to make some lame joke about holes in the poor goggie's bony arse, but I'd say the kitteh is in a first-class headlock of the dog-butt variety.
- MaryB, BrandingBroadOfFF
We were staying at my folks' house in NJ for a few days. We had just been out Christmas shopping. My parents hadn't purchased a real tree, so we got them one. We had just set it up, when...
- Jim in Real Time
My wife said, "We should put presents underneath it!" and left the room.
- Jim in Real Time
She came back with a guitar case that said Martin on it.
- Jim in Real Time
Instead of putting it under the tree, she put it in my lap. "Here, Jim. This is for you."
- Jim in Real Time
It was, is and probably always will stand as the best Christmas present I've ever received.
- Jim in Real Time
Okay. You made me all weepy. Had to delete my sarcastic comment. :-/ Do you play a lot...in a band...or something like that? I've got a Martin, but I've not played in years.
- Junebug (aka Sarah Jill)
Joy had bought it about a month before. She asked a friend of mine who was also a guitar player to go with her to try out different guitars. But she knew that I had always wanted a Martin, and what guitar player wouldn't.
- Jim in Real Time
She saved for, I don't know, almost a year to pay for it.
- Jim in Real Time
I used to play a lot, not so much anymore. I just recorded a little bit of the first song I played on this guitar to post along with the story, but it sounded awful.
- Jim in Real Time