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Big news for me: I'm leaving InformationWeek and striking out on my own starting Jan. 1. Available for work mitch@wagmail.com
AJ Batac, Daniel J. Pritchett, Akiva Moskovitz and 8 other people liked this
Good luck on your future endeavors, Mitch!
- Admiral Anika
Love the domain name. ("Wah-geemail? No. WAG mail!")
- Kevin Fox
Thanks, Anika!
- Mitch Wagner
Kevin, I'm working on getting mitchwagner.com (which I own) configured for e-mail. In my line of work, you want to have an e-mail address that you can say easily on the phone, and people can't figure out how to spell "wagmail."
- Mitch Wagner
Congrats and best of luck to you!
- Derrick
Good luck in your new road, Mitch!
- N.G. Gordon - RadarSync
good luck Mitch!
- Allen Stern
Want a Google Voice invitation? I have 2 left.
can you invite me to google voice please, iman.rad@gmail.com thanks
- Iman Behzadirad
I'm sorry, iman - I've already used up my invitations.
- Mitch Wagner
from email
I'm live now interviewing "Occult America" author Mitch Horowitz on Copper Robot. Join us! SL: http://slurl.com/secondl... Web: http://copperrobot.com/video/
joshua fouts liked this
Fantastic show tonight!! On the Copper Robot. Mitch Horowitz was excellent. Grats @mitchwagner
- joshua fouts
Thanks, Joshua - and thanks for coming.
- Mitch Wagner
from email
What are your favorite iPhone health and fitness apps? I like Lose It, MotionX GPS Sport, and Weightbot. You?
Kevin Pedraja liked this
iFitness, MotionX, LiveStrong
- Kevin Pedraja
Thanks!
- Mitch Wagner
from email
Brian's 24 (3/5) - http://www.yelp.com/biz...
"Came here for a business breakfast. I had eggs over easy, Canadian bacon, tortillas, coffee, OJ. Food was fine--everything tasted like it came from a supermarket rather than…"
- Mitch Wagner
I did a half-hour on the treadmill today. That's about all I can stand before I die of boredom. I can easily walk outside for an hour though
Admiral Anika liked this
I can't stand the treadmill for the same reason. I think I need a video loop of a street scene.
- Admiral Anika
I've got a TV in front of mine, just put on a movie and try run the length of it
- Mo Kargas
We'll probably do that at some point, but I expect the weather to cool off soon enough, and Ill be able to walk outside any time of day. For now, if I don't get out by 10 am it's too hot afterward, and it's hard to get out by then.
- Mitch Wagner
Oh, I don't have a treadmill at home. I can use the one at the pool, but I'd only like that if I can look at pretty people.
- Admiral Anika
That's at least 25 minutes longer on the treadmill than I can do.
- Wirehead
Tumblr rolls out even more theming options - http://www.downloadsquad.com/2009...
vijay, RAPatton, Amy℠ and 3 other people liked this
"Last week the folks at Tumblr hinted that some changes were coming for the platform, and the first signs of that are emerging with a huge update to how users can customise the look and feel of their Tumblogs. For the less-technical minded there's now support for customised fonts, and images in themes that can be edited directly within Tumblr's Customise window and if you're a code-minded user, then the new options for Booleans will definitely come in handy, Having built a fair few Tumblr themes myself over the last few years, there's new options are some great additions to my favourite blogging platform."
- Derrick
from Bookmarklet
Posterous has taken my attention for awhile. i need to decide what I'm going to do with tumblr.
- jbrotherlove
I'm actually coming back to good ol' Typepad.
- Mitch Wagner
InformationWeek surveyed security professionals. I'm worried about 4% of them. Here's why:
The survey, which I am prohibited from reproducing in full, asked the security professionals about the type of IT security threat that worries them most. 4% of the survey respondents chose the answer "Robotic threats, in which a race of androids replaces our leaders and takes over the Earth." Hmm...on second thought, maybe that 4% figure is refreshingly low!
- John E. Bredehoft
You can't be too careful about robotic threats!
- Mitch Wagner
from email
Remind me to tell you some time about the disaster recovery plan I was asked to create that included what to do in the event of The Rapture.
- Andy Bakun
Inasmuch as those who were left after the Rapture are assumed to be condemned, I assume the instructions were to just move all the software to the supercomputer in Brussels, put the mark on your forehead, and carry on. (Lutherans are amillennialists, so it's academic to me.)
- John E. Bredehoft
I'm only going to be gone 54 hours, but I packed enough to last two years in the Antarctic. I don't know how to travel light.
Penguin It's Cold Outside, Nathalie, Dreamer of FF, John (a.k.a. dendroica) and 2 other people liked this
I'm already thinking of what to bring on trips on going on next year. I only want to take a carry-on. I figured I need at least 4 pairs of shoes for the various events and I wear a size 12! I'm going to need to get some really thin clothes, just to make space.
- Admiral Anika
How long will you be gone for? I'm traveling with three pairs of shoes for this two-day trip, including the pair on my feet right now.
- Mitch Wagner
from email
One trip is 3 days the other is 4 days. I figured for shoes I need dressy casual for the conference, my running shoes, heels for evening events and flip-flops for the pool.
- Admiral Anika
Check out onebag.com. I started there and made my own packing list.
- ha3rvey (chee-la-key-les)
That's something like what I'm bringing for my two-day trip: Dressy for an evening event where I have to wear a suit, I'm wearing my dressy-casual shoes now, and exercise shoes. I don't expect to see the pool except for possibly going by it at a brisk walk.
- Mitch Wagner
from email
Re: Why the police came to our house just now - http://mitchwagner.tumblr.com/post...
John (a.k.a. dendroica) and Admiral Anika liked this
"Glad to hear they at least caught the guys."
- Mitch Wagner
Dear Apple: You look stupid when you slap an NC-17 rating on apps that can access the Web, just because the Web has adult content.
WarLord, Alex Scoble, Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah and Admiral Anika liked this
Wow, that *IS* stupid as hell.
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
I mean, seriously, what next? Will they slap an NC-17 label on the Camera because it can be used to take pictures of naked people? On the Maps, because it can drive to where naked people are?
- Mitch Wagner
from email
Really isn't it time for Apple to unlock the big door securing the app store?
- WarLord
Every time I get asked abt being a woman in tech, I cringe. Bad feminist? Maybe. Prefer to skip the convo & lead by example (as best I can).
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OK, I'm hoping this is not TMI, but I'm Making A Point here: I'm Jewish, and like most Jewish men, I was circumcised when I was eight days old. I am sometimes asked my opinion on male circumcision, and whether it reduces sensation, etc. My response is always the same: I have absolutely no idea. I have nothing to compare it with.
- Mitch Wagner
.@feliciaday from "The Guild" gets asked a wildly inappropriate question. Be sure to watch to the end for Vork's response http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Penguin It's Cold Outside and WorldofHiglet liked this
She handled it very well - the look on her face when Sean explained what it meant was priceless - but it was a crass question.
- WorldofHiglet
I can't believe people fly across the country and pay hundreds (thousands?) of dollars to ask questions like that.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
I know! Social media like Friendfeed allows you to be rude to people without leaving the house!
- Mitch Wagner
from email
56K Modem Emulator (via @pnh). I want to make this my iPhone ringtone. - http://www.lazylaces.com/56Kmode...
After I heard this thing dial, I still instinctively held my breath to see if it would get a connection.
- Mitch Wagner
from Bookmarklet
Killing time and brain cells at Fisherman's Wharf. Now that the kids have seen the sea lions, I never ever have to go back there.
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I knew it was a tourist trap, but we really walked around and WOW that whole entire strip made me exceptionally cockpunchy. I have a weakness for watching tourists in areas like that, but it was really more than I could handle.
- Admiral Anika
Nice pics, Anika. We will be there in a week's time with our 3-year old. Will make sure to avoid this place. Anything else to avoid? And does one really need to have a sweater around (as some of my friends keep telling me)?
- Vinay | विनय
Well, I live in LA, so I've been freezing up here. I'd bring a light jacket, maybe a scarf/shawl. But you know what's funny. Yesterday I wore a tank top for most of the day. People who live here were scurrying to and from work in heavy wool jackets and scarves. Yet, I get mocked for saying it's cold. Other places to avoid...I don't know. I don't like touristy places and I loathe...
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- Admiral Anika
Thanks. That helps. I basically want to avoid those very kind of traps. We will have only a couple of days there and shopping is certainly not part of our plan.
- Vinay | विनय
I suggest going to the Palace of Fine Arts. Walking around Berkeley is a always good. When I go places I tend to walk around neighborhoods and eat. So I know that walking around Tenderloin, I've found some great Pakistani restaurants. Breakfast in Pacific Heights is good. Lunch in the Mission area is passable. Walking about Chinatown and North Beach is always great for sensory overload....
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- Admiral Anika
I'm gonna have to squeeze in a trip to SF soon. By hook, or crook.
- Derrick
Anika: Excellent tips! Thanks again.
- Vinay | विनय
Good lord, those are some cutie pie kiddos!
- Ayşe E.
Adrian looks as if his soul has been drained as well.
- Michael W. May
We lived in San Francisco in the 90s, and I got back to visit occasionally, but I haven't been back in a couple of years. I always liked Union Square for, as you say, the people-watching. Fisherman's Wharf and Pier 39 could be fun, but (as you say) a bit intense. When we lived there, the Tenderloin was scary. It wasn't just a bad neighborhood, it was dead, like it was abandoned. I miss...
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- Mitch Wagner
A friend of mine went to law school at UC Hastings, and actually lived in the TL. It's probably not as bad as it used to be, but every time I would talk to him on the phone, there would be a siren in the background.
- Victor Ganata
The Tenderloin is still just as bad. They love them some unsuspecting 1Ls. Anika, there's children's fairyland in Oakland, walking up telegraph in berkeley and seeing the street vendors (but school just started and shit is crowded.) The SF public library is a nice building to have a look at.
- Baroness Von SmashAHomie
Thanks, Kaia. We saw the Fairyland yesterday on our rushed auto tour of Oakland. My friend said, "Oh yeah, there's this in Oakland." *bitchlips* I asked her, "What the hell did you think I meant when I asked you want to do?" We are just wrapping up work and plan to walk about Oakland a bit before heading back to LA.
- Admiral Anika
If I didn't have a conference call coming up I'd offer to come play Oakland tour guide for y'all, Anika. Have fun (and an idea if you want to grab some road trip food - Bakesale Betty's has yummy fried chicken sandwiches).
- Maria Niles
Thanks for the tip, Maria. It seems we'll be coming back up soon. Considering how broke we are right now, I'm amazed we were able to pull this trip off. The kids like it up here and they like seeing old friends.
- Admiral Anika
Anika, that's how I felt about Fisherman's Wharf too. I didn't know about the sea lions before going there, so at least that came as a silver lining.
- Andrew C
Yeah, that was my 2nd time there. The first time was 6 years ago and we pretty much ate and left. I never understood why my friends up here talked crap about it. It just seemed like boardwalk park in Long Beach to me. Sure it's contrived and touristy, but whatever. Now, I understand their hatred. LOL
- Admiral Anika
Timely thread. We're planning to go out to CA for a vacation sometime soon, so I'm going to keep this thread handy. It's partly for a "real vacation" and partly so we can see different areas in CA because we're seriously thinking about moving out there. If anyone has any suggestions about places to live in CA, please comment here: http://friendfeed.com/jezlyn...
- Cheryl Jones
Can't believe I"ve missed you :( I was crawling around Fishy Wharf yesterday with another Laist last night!
- anna sauce
So I live right next to F. Wharf, and I have to say, it's nice to be around smiling vacationing people. I also love the people watching. The rule is to stay relatively West/North. the south bit is over the top random. Also, just walk fast. The slow-walk of tourists drive sme nuts. Hyde St. Pier is fascinating to me, and Ghirardelli Square, the Cannery are kind of cute and nice. But it...
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- anna sauce
@Anna: what is the going rate for house rentals in your neighborhood? Are there houses for rent, or are there more apartments?
- Cheryl Jones
Cheryl, I don't really have a grasp of it, I know it's dipped but not sure how much. Check zillow.com (that's what the real estate biz folks do)
- anna sauce
Thanks, Anna, I'll check there.
- Cheryl Jones
Maria, is Bakesale Betty's worth it? I have an aversion to sitting at an ironing board on the street. It's not kitschy enough for me to think it's cute. Or maybe I'm just a hater.
- Baroness Von SmashAHomie
Kaia, it took me a long time to check it out but when friends were emailing me from NYC to say they wanted to come visit so they could go there, I finally did. Now I'm a big fan of the chicken sandwiches and will brave the shtick for them (plus go early because they run out). I had heard a lot about the scones and baked goods (which are good but can be found elsewhere) before the...
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- Maria Niles
Yeah I have yet to check out bakesale betty's too
- anna sauce
We should all three go together. Perhaps interesting companions and conversation will make me not annoyed at standing in line. Well, I can't promise . . .
- Baroness Von SmashAHomie
from fftogo
but I bought some chocolate covered graham crackers filled with peanut butter from over there. :( :( Don't ruin my memories.
- Andrizzle Gizzle
Other jurors have remarked on the amount of crap I have brought with me to the courthouse.
Nate Pilling, Alex Scrivener, FFing Enigma (aka Tina) and Admiral Anika liked this
Like you're ready to move in?
- Admiral Anika
What did you all bring?
- Ryan
Best to be prepared. Besides, they are probably just jealous.
- Brent Smorgen Bleg
I brought two books, one heavier nonfiction, one light fiction, iPhone, earbuds in case I wanted to listen to something, vacuum flask of hot tea, bottle of water, sandwiches and carrot sticks for lunch, two apples, crackers and cheese for the afternoon, small notebook, and a couple of pens.
- Mitch Wagner
from email
by the end of the day, they will be jealous. :-)
- jerobins
I just spamblocked @SanDiegoCournal A new generation of annoying Twitter spam.
Admiral Anika liked this
Thank you for reminding me that I need to the same to @LACournal.
- Admiral Anika
Spambots are getting smarter with @mention spam. I find that both interesting and disappointing.
- Mitch Wagner
from email
It's really lame that I can't mention LA without getting spammed with some stupid site.
- Admiral Anika
This only seems to happen to me from Cournal. Are there others who target LA?
- Mitch Wagner
from email
Yeah, I don't remember which ones now, but over the past year, I've probably blocked about 8 of them.
- Admiral Anika
I've blocked more people in the past few weeks than in the preceding year. Far more people. We seem to be hitting some kind of inflection point, and not a good one.
- Mitch Wagner
from email
Agreed. I'm so over the keyword-bots. I feel like I'm blocking them more often. It sucks for me because I don't visit the Twitter website that often. When I see my followers have jumped I realized it's mostly because of bots.
- Admiral Anika
I only block them if they spam me with an @mention. Other than that I don't feel the need to bother (and I'm vain and petty enough to like big follower numbers, even while I know it's meaningless).
- Mitch Wagner
from email
LOL
- Admiral Anika
In other news: The word "s'mores" is in the iPhone dictionary.
Steve C and Adam Turetzky liked this
Yet the word 'dulp' isn't. Go figure.
- Akiva Moskovitz
It's a travesty! A travesty of a sham!
- Mitch Wagner
from email
OB Noodle House (4/5) - http://www.yelp.com/biz...
"My new favorite pho place (phavorite pho phlace?) in San Diego County. Great location at the edge of OB, tasty food, friendly atmosphere. Menus in plain English with explanation of what the heck…"
- Mitch Wagner
Holy crap. RT @LPT: http://twitpic.com/d302o - Gotta love Austin in August
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Admiral Anika liked this
That's almost 30 degrees warmer than Los Angeles. I need to move to TX.
- Admiral Anika
You want it to be 112 degrees? (As you can see, I'm now monitoring FF for comments—thanks for the tip!)
- Mitch Wagner
from email
This is me right now: http://friendfeed.com/fabooma... (and yay!).
- Admiral Anika
Heh. Individual tolerance to temperature varies. A British friend was complaining about the excruciating hot weather on his blog. He gave the temps in Celsius, of course, so I had to convert with Google—when I did, I discovered the horrible tropical temperatures he was complaining about were low 70s F. He came to visit here in San Diego in late July one year, I'm surprised he survived.
- Mitch Wagner
from email
HA! I get like that when I visit both San Diego and San Francisco. I think both areas are too cold.
- Admiral Anika
Julie and I argue about the a/c starting in July and ending in September. She wants it on when it gets above about 80, I want to wait until it gets above 90.
- Mitch Wagner
from email
Joss Whedon, Eliza Dushku on what's coming up this season's Dollhouse. http://www.wired.com/video... Eliza needs a sammitch.
Josh Haley, Kevin Pedraja and Rasmus Lauridsen liked this
Uhhh I'm so looking forward to the next season. sadly it hasn't been picked up over here yet, so I am going to have to go down the dark alleys to get a hold my fixes.
- Rasmus Lauridsen
I thought the first five episodes of Dollhouse were awful—and then after that I thought it was the best show on television.
- Mitch Wagner
from email
Mitch, Buffy was kinda the same thing. Took a little while to find it's groove, then improved rapidly.
- Kevin Pedraja
That's what I've heard from a lot of fans. I found the first episodes of Buffy enjoyable, although I watched them out of order–watched the last half of the third season first, then caught up with the first couple of seasons later.
- Mitch Wagner
from email
Re: Question for novelists, from a noob - http://mitchwagner.tumblr.com/post...
"Four novels? Impressive. What's his last name, I'll Google him."
- Mitch Wagner
Re: Question for novelists, from a noob - http://mitchwagner.tumblr.com/post...
"Ginger, sorry for your trouble getting here—how did you find this blog? What do you mean that you had trouble getting here. Thanks for your feedback."
- Mitch Wagner
Re: Mitch Wagner's Tumblblog - http://mitchwagner.tumblr.com/post...
"Ugh, that's almost as bad as "man bag.""
- Mitch Wagner
Re: Trying to get satisfaction for a crappy Bluetooth headset - http://mitchwagner.tumblr.com/post...
"Thanks, John. I'll give Blue Ant three days to respond, if that doesn't work, I'll contact Amazon."
- Mitch Wagner
TweetDeck: New Twitter AIR App With Summize Integration, Groups - http://www.louisgray.com/live...
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"TweetDeck offers four major columns in which to organize Twitter data: "All Tweets", essentially your friends' timeline, "Replies", showing replies to you, the equivalent of Twitter's replies tab, "Search", which will keep a running search window open for a term you've selected, and "Group", which lets you make a sub-set of those you follow on Twitter, and make a miniature timeline" [This seems like a hardcore Twitter tool. Lots of windows and activity. Seems to occupy an entire screen.]
- Bwana ☠
from Bookmarklet
"The recent strain at Twitter has resulted in the service reducing the number of API calls developers can make to get Twitter updates, and there, TweetDeck has you covered as well, so you learn if there's any slowness, where to lay the blame" [This alone has reduced my faith in Twitter apps to zero. The apps can only be as good as Twitter's API. It's current state is ridiculous. ]
- Bwana ☠
"While Jesse Stay and others have said Twitter's major issues have decimated the developer community's efforts around Twitter, there are still some looking to innovate, TweetDeck being a good example" [I hope for their sake that Twitter gets their act together. I would hate to see such an effort go to waste.]
- Bwana ☠
None of it will be wasted effort. Because a smart developer will see the larger vision of microblogging incl things like FF and identi.ca
- Tris Hussey
from twhirl
Bwana, I still think there will be innovation, I just know a lot of frustrated developers and it can't last long if it's taking time and effort. I was simply sharing some real life examples of developers leaving the platform because of this. Truthfully, I'm actually developing my own Twitter apps on the side - you better believe that the non-Twitter systems are on the back of my mind, and will be a backup though. I could pull away from Twitter at any time, and I'm sure they could as well.
- Jesse Stay
TweetDeck is the #1 trending topic on Summize. I love it. http://www.summize.com
- Louis Gray
Of course it is :) I'm only getting female replies. Naah ... must be me ...
- Charlie Anzman
Been using this a few minutes now - I like it a lot. I'm one of those people who subscribes to hundreds and hundreds of tweets -- more than I can possibly keep up with. I had a special, sooperseekrit account for following RL friends and other accounts for whom I didn't want to miss a tweet. This is a more elegant solution.
- Mitch Wagner
BUMP. Remember when TweetDeck was all brand new?
- Louis Gray
I think this was one of your first links to me, Louis - funny how things haven't changed though. :-)
- Jesse Stay
Wow, blast from the past... this is when I was using Feedly to annotate
- Bwana ☠
Re: Blogging: where it came from, where it’s going, what it means - http://www.mixedrealities.com/...
"Thanks!"
- Mitch Wagner
Re: Blogging: where it came from, where it’s going, what it means - http://www.mixedrealities.com/...
"Glad you enjoyed the program, Roland—thanks for attending and blogging. One minor quibble: Copper Robot is not an InformationWeek project, it's entirely independent of IW, something I'm doing on my own."
- Mitch Wagner
My wife opened a trunk of her grandfather's things that have been in storage since her father died 10 years ago and found—a Nazi flag.
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Was he in the service?
- Yolanda
Nope. He was too old—my mother-in-law would be nearly 100 if she was alive today. This was my mother-in-law's father.
- Mitch Wagner
from iPhone
*redacted*
- Joe Silence is not dead
my great grandfather on my mom's side was a booster for Kaiser Wilhelm II during WWI. made the family very unpopular at the time! :P
- Joe Silence is not dead
Back from Western NJ. Didn't rain the whole day but heavy rain on the drive back.
Where in western NJ? I used to live in Sussex County.
- Mitch Wagner
from iPhone
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