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Re: Free Trial Code for Xbox LIVE Gold - http://oliverchua.com/wordpre...
"Sorry, I don't have any codes right now, but there is a free weekend coming up next weekend. (not this weekend) Look for the McDonald's McCafé promo in the Spotlight channel for more info."
- Oliver Ortega Chua
If a Pirius is so green, why does it have leather seats? Reminds me of those dumbasses who put "Save the planet" on their SUVs. #posers
Because cows pollute too! :)
- CAJ, somewhere else
I've heard some crazy things about their eco-footprint. But +1 CAJ.
- SAM
I'm gonna ask BrighterPlanet - those guys rule.
- Mona Nomura
You don't have to be a vegan to be an environmentalist. If you're gonna eat the cow, you might as well put the skin to good use!
- Oliver Ortega Chua
Although, beef is the most expensive way to turn plants into meat... Hmm.
- Andrew C
What Would 9-11 Be Like in the Age of Social Media? - http://digg.com/tech_ne...
"I remember that day very well. I was on the social media site MetaFilter. (http://www.metafilter.com/) Lots of people were posting any little bit of info they could gather. Some of the people posting were from nearby buildings."
- Oliver Ortega Chua
You should list your phone number in Facebook. I agree with @steverubel that because of the new iPhone app it's become my best address book
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It's weird to me why so many don't list their phone numbers. I've done that for four years and always it has brought me good things. Yeah, a few crank calls here and there but there's ways to defend against that:
- Robert Scoble
me too
- Jesse Stay
1. Only accept calls that have caller ID turned on.
- Robert Scoble
2. Keep your contact list up to date. On my iPhone it shows me the name of someone who has called me before if I put them into my contact list.
- Robert Scoble
I've been using it as my phone book on my ye ole Palm Centro since I got the device. Besides, you should list it on Facebook anyway so you can guiltlessly avoid joining all those "lost my phone" groups that keep popping up; or is that college-age only thing?
- Aram Zucker-Scharff
3. If someone crank calls you, or you get a spam call (I am getting more of those) I change their name to something derogatory and I never accept their calls anymore.
- Robert Scoble
Google Voice number listed in my Facebook profile. No worries.
- Dave Roth
I rarely get calls from strangers even though my number is listed on my blog and on facebook. In fact, it's listed everywhere.
- Shaine Mata
Shaine: it's rare I get calls from anyone, which is just great.
- Robert Scoble
Google Voice number listed. nice touch
- Barry Peters
TrapCall.com check it out!
- Eric
Problem with caller id is cell phones don't broadcast caller id
- Jesse Stay
TrapCall unmasks the caller ID
- Eric
Shaine: but when you need to call someone it works great.
- Robert Scoble
Jesse: it does on mine. I don't know why yours is blocked.
- Robert Scoble
Robert: Do you use TrapCall?
- Eric
Robert: on mine the names only show up if you're in my address book for some reason
- Jesse Stay
You get a cell phone call that's caller ID blocked, TrapCall works great! Does anyone know of any other services that unblock the caller ID?
- Eric
Maybe I'm wrong, but that's what I thougt was happening
- Jesse Stay
I actually called you once in Austin for SXSW. I got you lost. The guy next to me freaked out..."You just called Robert Scoble?" Me: "of course, his number is on his blog".
- Shaine Mata
I wish Google Voice could auto-forward calls that are blocked to a custom voicemail though
- Jesse Stay
Jesse: oh, caller ID only shows the number. Mine will show 425-205-1921. It will only show a name if you've associated that number with a name in contacts.
- Robert Scoble
There is a service called http://www.inumbr.com that provides you with a FREE disposable number, and then http://www.TrapCall.com unmasks unidentified callers.
- Eric
ah, yes - that's exactly what happens to me.
- Jesse Stay
I do like that the new iPhone firmware shows the location of the number though
- Jesse Stay
First time I dont agree with you :)
- tevfik bülent öngün
tevfik: why not?
- Robert Scoble
I agree, the new FB iPhone app is great, good idea about using it as an address book.
- mark taylor
mark: it's really cool because it shows you which of your friends have put their phone numbers in there and gives you an icon you can click on, and you can make the call right from Facebook.
- Robert Scoble
Does it allow you to sync with your phone's address book? For all its glitches, the BlackBerry storm has been syncing contacts across apps for months now. It's pretty cool to see my contacts' facebook icons pop up when I get phone calls.
- Daniel Philp
Daniel: nope, I don't believe it's syncable. But because people keep their Facebook accounts up to date it's the best way to keep your accounts up to date. I wonder, though, if it syncs with Plaxo.
- Robert Scoble
PJ: my number has always been public and nothing bad has happened.
- Robert Scoble
robert: I think that's not much safe for girls and children. please rethink about the abuse and etc
- tevfik bülent öngün
@Daniel - I believe that retrieving phone numbers and email addresses is forbidden by the Facebook API TOS.
- BeauGiles
@tevfik - List it on there, then protect it using friend lists. Eg, only let Family and friends see it. Or, add people you don't know to a friend list and then restrict that friend list from seeing that phone number or other details.
- BeauGiles
Yeah, I've been using this with the Facebook app on BlackBerry. It's a great feature, though only about a quarter of my friends have their number listed.
- Oliver Ortega Chua
@BeauGiles. yeah sure i can do this. but will children care about this?
- tevfik bülent öngün
@tevfik I encourage my friends to do it. Makes it really easy for them also when they get a new phone; stops all of these silly 'I lost my phone; what's your number' groups - they could just pull up the Facebook phone book and grab the numbers from there.
- BeauGiles
tevfik: girls and children are attacked most often by people who are already in the house or who are personal friends. I totally disagree that putting a phone number up will lead to that kind of abuse.
- Robert Scoble
Sekhemets: name one time that someone was attacked because they had their phone numbers put up in public. Just one. Did you realize that in the US we all used to have our phone numbers listed in the phone book? I think the paranoia is crazy.
- Robert Scoble
Wow, I think this is something to think about, Have had my phone on my blog for a few years... never been a problem! Also like the idea of listing my Google Voice number, and may do that...
- WalterAkana
Robert, my AT&T rep said that spammers have every single AT&T phone number - it is clearly not that hard to get someone's phone number if these spammers can get it.
- Jesse Stay
Better yet, list your google voice number. Contribute to the phone book and maintain some layer of privacy/control.
- Drew McKechnie
Robert, syncing with Plaxo would be awesome. That, however, would require a change to the current policy of Facebook, which you and I both know has a history of restrictiveness around contact info sync!
- John McCrea
Sekhemets: there is not a good case to be paranoid about phone numbers. There IS a good case to be paranoid about other personal information, like location or home addresses. But phone numbers? Give me a break.
- Robert Scoble
I get a few calls and several texts every day from people who have discovered my number (I have a tendency to reveal it accidentally on the air). I'd be careful about publishing your number.
- Leo Laporte
If someone calls your phone and stalks you, you have their phone number to give to police.
- Robert Scoble
Leo, do you use Google Voice? That's the only number I ever share, but I'm happy to share it.
- Jesse Stay
Leo: OK, I'll stop stalking YOU and sending you all those texts. Heheh.
- Robert Scoble
Sekhemets: my friends who don't make their phones public still get sales calls. I get crank calls once in a while. I just hang up. It's not that big a deal. But I do get that being a woman is a bit different. It's just that once you get a call from a number that isn't good you would stop answering. It's that simple.
- Robert Scoble
PJ: I guess if you are going to turn into a spammer then you might not want to put your phone number out there.
- Robert Scoble
I don't post my number because I don't like using the phone - just a communication medium that does not fit me well. My wife and kids and my boss have my cell-phone number. Corporations (those that may remind me if I am late with a bill) get the landline number which I never pick up but check the messages about once a day. If you google my name you can find a dozen other ways to contact...
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- Bora Zivkovic
Bora: I am just like you. I hate the phone. But there are some times when only a phone call will do. And I've seen so many of those times that I've come to believe that anyone who doesn't share their number with their friends is leaving themselves out of lots of opportunities. I remember the time I got on the BBC. Why? They told me they couldn't get anyone at Microsoft PR to wake up but found my phone number.
- Robert Scoble
Good point. I will have to rethink. For someone so public and constantly online, I need my moments of privacy to be private, emotionally, as in 'incommunicado'. It may miss me some opportunities but I feel I need that for mental health. But have to have my cell-phone with me in case my family needs me.
- Bora Zivkovic
Bora: you don't need to answer your phone if you need some away time.
- Robert Scoble
True that. Hard to break the habit of answering automatically whenever it rings.
- Bora Zivkovic
Bora: part of that is having an iPhone which makes you look at it to answer it. That makes you decide whether or not the call is something you need to take right now. My wife and family have their pictures on the phone, so theirs always get answered, if I'm available.
- Robert Scoble
the facebook app is on blackberry too ^_^ also google mobile sync http://www.google.com/mobile... is a similar good product
- Mike Chelen
Bora: if only they supported ringtone sync as well :D
- Mike Chelen
Once I get a Google Voice number and get familiar with the Google Voice features, I may list it as a public phone number. At present, however, my business phone number is only semi-publicized at best, and my home phone number is unlisted. I had some harrassing phone call issues years ago, and another family member had them recently, so it's not worth it to list the more private phone numbers.
- John E. Bredehoft
While Facebook proves that a distributed contact database in which my contacts update their own info is great, I hope that Google Contacts someday will let me give Write authority to everyone in there such that they can update (only) their own records anytime. Then, I'd have a clean, simple updated-by-them Contacts database for all of those folks -- not just my Facebook folks and without all the other Facebook stuff like photos, games, etc. and etc.
- Joel Bush
In addition, I email via Gmail probably 100x as often as via Facebook. Keeping Gmail contact info up to date is key. If I could have the contacts take care of that themselves, as with Facebook, that'd be helpful. Lastly, Gmail search has meant freedom from (Outlook-era) hierarchical folders, so keeping everything in Gmail is fantastic, and receiving forwards from Facebook (with its no-reply) just isn't as clean. So, Facebook proves contact-self-updating cool; let's hope Google goes there, too.
- Joel Bush
Joel: replying through email is one friendfeed feature that facebook could well include. and that is a good point about having contacts update their own info
- Mike Chelen
The automatic sync between my Palm Pre, Google contacts and Facebook keeps my contacts almost flawlessly up to date. Case in point: my friend recently got married and changed her name. When she updated Facebook, My entry for her in my phone automatically updated.
- Mike
I'm in 100% agreement with this. I use a Blackberry, but feel the same way. People keep their info up to date on Facebook for the most part and it sync's to my phone. So do events and birthdays. LOVE it.
- frank barry
I think for this to work for most people, you would need either better trackability from the phone companies, or some kind of screening service integrated into something like Google Voice. I really don't think society is ready for this kind of open information sharing.
- Fergal Barry
"Problem with caller id is cell phones don't broadcast caller id" - umm, then how do you know the incoming number? Maybe you mean the name - ICLID is delivered to your cell phone, CNAM is not, but your cell phone's CNAM is delivered to landline phones. Which can lead to quirks - the name on our family cell phone account is mine, so my wife's cell phone delivers my name to landlines.
- John Craft
I sync my iPhone with GMail contacts, and it works nicely. I also sync it with Facebook, but Facebook's Terms of Service prevent apps from getting my friends phone numbers and putting them into my phone directly. That kinda sorta sucks. Both MyPhone+ and Fex can sync names, birthdays, address info, and photos though. That works nicely.
- Otto
@ochua1 and you did it? don't let them do that!
Yeah, I was pretty sure that's why he was asking me to back up, but I didn't even have to ask. He offered me that info. If they were one of our clients, I may have said something to corporate. ;)
- Oliver Ortega Chua
well i suppose they have to be desperate to do it. but the whole point of how that negates the whole goal-setting thing just bugs me. i do think their corporate people need to look at ways to motivate their employees to do something more productive than get customers to help them cheat!
- (dot)lizard kelly
Re: 70+ Beautiful & Stunning Photographs of City Skylines Around the World - http://techxav.com/2009...
"Love the pics, but where's Los Angeles, San Diego and Las Vegas?"
- Oliver Ortega Chua
Everytime my daughter hears an announcer say "Lady GaGa" she YELLS "LADY GAGA???" and bursts into hysterical laughter
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It's also funny to us Filipinos because "gaga" roughly translates to stupid, or idiot.
- Oliver Ortega Chua
I had a hard enough time digging Kajagoogoo back in the 80's; I just can't go Lady Gaga...
- Joey Gibson
Wrote to Mensa AG registration inquiring about day passes.
I didn't know you were a Mensan. We had our RG last month but I missed it.
- Oliver Ortega Chua
About to try the new "Authentic Tacos" at Taco Bell's test store (HT @FastFoodMaven) - http://brightkite.com/objects...
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Wait, what? What's an authentic taco doing at Taco Bell?
- Derrick
right...
- ha3rvey (doesn't dance)
Crazy, huh. The steak actually did taste "authentic." I wasn't a fan of their chicken taco though. Maybe next time I'll bring a bottle of Tapatio with me. LOL
- Oliver Ortega Chua
from IM
Or you could hit up the taco truck. Man, I miss the carne asada fries down in San Diego. *burp*
- Derrick
Yeah, but I've had ties to Taco Bell so I thought I'd check it out. There's a taco shop we go to for carne asada fries; about 2 1/2 miles from our place. Too bad taco shops in SD aren't open 24 hours like they are in LA though. I don't know about where you live but you can find carne asada fries in SGV. Just as good as SD, IMHO.
- Oliver Ortega Chua
Unfollowed some. I am interested in what you have to say but lately Twitter has turned into a "book of quotations." (Not talking about RTs.)
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I unfollow those who just broadcast on Twitter. Actually, I don't bother following them in the first place.
- Morton Fox
For the most part, I do that too but I used to find some of these people interesting. The trend now seems to be using other people's words; many times uncredited too. #quotes
- Oliver Ortega Chua
from IM
KFC was a smart name change. (Cut out the "Fried.") "The Hut" is just lame. http://blogs.moneycentral.msn.com/topstoc... #pizzahut (HT @LtGenPanda)
I saw the new name/logo on their pizza box the other day. Nice, clean box. Still not feelin' the new name though. (I should've taken a picture.)
- Oliver Ortega Chua
It's one thing to cut me off with a left turn but...you're making a U-turn! Wow.
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Uh...no.
- Helen Sventitsky
There was no one behind me either. Apparently he/she couldn't wait 5 seconds for me to pass.
- Oliver Ortega Chua
i know this wasn't in Texas, but that happens all the time here as well.
- Joe Silence is not Santa
You must have been on Camino Del Norte. LOL
- Steve Ruge
OMG, my avatar is doing the Roger Rabbit! #xbox
Now that I think about it, it could've been the Running Man, or even the Cabbage Patch. Hmm.
- Oliver Ortega Chua
Anyone ever use an online fax service? If so, which one?
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I used to use RightFax a lot. Seemed to be fine! I never had issues with it. Edit: This is software. Now I think maybe you mean an online service, not software.
- Rochelle
Is it free?
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
Not sure. I used it for work, so my employer installed it.
- Rochelle
Just found a Lifehacker article with a good list of services in the comments: http://lifehacker.com/219570...
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
I use myfax for $10/ month
- tiffany
I used to use MyFax.com for outbound (and inbound). For inbound only, I have the free eFax plan.
- Oliver Ortega Chua
Used eFax something like 10 years ago. It worked.
- Mike Reynolds
Sorry, Laker-haters, the Lakers are back in the finals (for the 30th time)!
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So, is it just me or are the Lakers the Yankees of basketball?
- Akiva Moskovitz
The team that everyone hates? The team that everyone wants to beat? The team that hasn't won anything in long while? Pretty much. Except maybe for the payroll disparity, although the Lakers do have a pretty big payroll.
- Victor Ganata
It ain't just you, Akiva.
- Alex Scoble
Oh, and Laker fans aren't anywhere near as loyal as Yankee fans. If you looked up "bandwagon fan" in the dictionary, you'd see a random guy wearing a purple-and-gold jersey
- Victor Ganata
I'm sure that we see it more since we live in SoCal, but the Lakers don't exactly have a lock on "bandwagon fans." I can't even remember the last time I saw someone wearing a Bulls or 49ers jersey (in SoCal). BTW, if I was more of a baseball fan, I'd probably be a Yankee-hater too! ;)
- Oliver Ortega Chua
Has lived in SoCal his entire life and couldn't care less about the Lakers -->
- Derrick
I don't think you are really sorry.
- s t e v e
$2M For Woman's Death On Hospital Floor - http://www.cbsnews.com/stories...
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The family of a woman who died on a hospital floor, struggling to get up while staffers ignored her, has settled a wrongful-death lawsuit against the city for $2 million.
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
from Bookmarklet
Green, a 49-year-old psychiatric patient, had been in a waiting room at the city-owned hospital for nearly 24 hours when she collapsed on June 19, 2008. Neither fellow patients nor the hospital's staff moved to help her, even as she thrashed her legs on the floor and tried to get up. Two security guards and a member of the hospital's medical staff can be seen on the video stopping to look at her briefly before walking away.
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
very sad -- and it's on video too
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
It's sad when even the hospital doesn't think mental health is a priority. Waiting 8 hours for *ER* care (down from 27!) is unacceptable.
- Oliver Ortega Chua
Dennys Restaurant - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
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I could so go to Denny's right now and kill that. Matter a'fact, I might snatch it right out cho hand. ;)
- Derrick
LOL It's been a while since I've been to Denny's at this hour. The late night menu rawks!
- Oliver Ortega Chua
Who was your first email account with? Moi. Hotmail...God, that was/is awful.
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karoo for me.
- alphaxion
America Online...wait...no. Prodigy!
- Candace
WebTV.
- Rochelle
sciboard.louisville.edu or iglou.com, both about the same time.
- Tsali, The Native of FF
Local ISP, until I realized the value of webmail. Then yup, it was Hotmail.
- Bradley McSpinn
AOL.com, back when Windows 95 was so money it didn't even know it.
- Tyler Hayes
First e-mail account was with Sprynet when it was CompuServe's Web-only ISP -- before the AOL buyout!
- Jared Smith
wisc.edu
- Dave Winer
ecu.edu
- Beebo Wallace
Prodigy.
- Oliver Ortega Chua
citiz.net
- yagami
i don't even remember i think it was planet something or i dunno something like that no wait i don't know why i'm thinking earlyalert.com i don't know i'm probably wrong lol
- Cardeen Martinez
crikey, i've never even heard of some of these...
- Zee.
A BBS in Morgan Hill.
- Rodfather
1st public internet email was via easy.com ... my own domain via ISP I started in 1993. 1st corporate email was 1978 ish internal on our private global DECNET, connected to public Internet in about 1984.
- Don Strickland
A shell account in '92, I forget with who. Was BBS'ing for years before that, and they sort of had email.
- Bob Morris (polizeros)
wow, very impressive Jason...and Don!
- Zee.
Hotmail was my first email provider.
- Andrew Trinh
aol
- ♥patricia♥
mail.com. Alternative back than was only hotmail (I think, can't remember about yahoo) which totally sucked. I think mail.com is extinct now, but they used to have multiple domains. And I had about 5 different accounts. 4, 5, or 6MB, can't really remember exactly. Wow, the days... This is one example (of many) where I'm very happy we are where we are today.
- Vlad Bobleanta
I can't remember. Possibly Yahoo, but I think Yahoo may have come later...
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
Compuserve, then "Niftyserve" the licensee of Compuserve here in Japan. We have it so good now!
- Rick Cogley
Hotmail, way back in 1998 (although before that I had an ISP email through Frontier)
- Brandon Mendelson
AOL.
- Laura Lou Who
AOL. I shutter at the thought
- BCK
PSU.edu, 1989
- Dave Roth
Toronto FreeNet.
- Chris, Taskerrific Guy
Michigan State University
- Steve Lowe
Yahoo mail. Still have it but its been so spamefied I hardly use it anymore.
- TkFromWestSide
My employer - Tualatin Valley Fire & Rescue - circa 1984.
- Gary Walter (gwalter)
Hotmail
- Tim Keneipp
Prodigy in 1991, followed shortly thereafter by AOL 1.0 for the Mac, then Compuserve. And finally a POP internet dialup with Chicago's Interaccess in about 1992 after getting Adam Engst's Internet starter kit book that came with a copy of the Mac/TCP control panel on a 3 1/2" floppy.
- Adam Turetzky
Prodigy, then AOL
- Robert Kenney
My first was at work. heamin@sunshine.vab.unisysgsg.com -- no joke. Then I had an alumna account with Virginia Wesleyan, and then I think I picked up a yahoo account. My first web site was on geocities, and it was so kewl for its time, too. :-)
- Ladybug Heather
AOL
- Derrick
<- AOL
- Costa Walcott
AOL then Juno
- Violet Mae Lim
drexel.edu and compuserve
- Peter Ghosh
Technically, my first email address was on an internal mail service for a large corporation back in 1991, but it was possible to email other people on the internet with a byzantine series of pipes, slashes, gateways and hostnames. My first personal email on the internet proper was with a regional dialup service called pics.com in 1992.
- dthree
Pixi.net
- Trish Haley
I forget the exact name, but it was local and called Charlotte's Web. I live in Charlotte, NC.
- Matthew
75106,3139
- Leo Laporte
I want to say Compuserve
- BASEnet
whats 75106,3139?
- Zee.
74127,2227
- Christopher Barnes
aol
- Computerwhiz1
Those are Compuserve addresses Zee
- Adam Turetzky
AOL
- Gabe Diaz
Prodigy
- Nick Smith
Oof. CompuServe!
- Akiva Moskovitz
ah, interesting - thanks Adam
- Zee.
My first was a VAX server at lamar.edu but I quickly shifted to an Ultrix machine also at lamar.edu. So, lamar.edu.
- Akiva Moskovitz
webtv.
- Nation Hahn
Yay Nation Hahn!
- Rochelle
aol
- Russ Jackson
76020,702 lol, had to look mine up!
- Adam Turetzky
I had brlewis@mit.edu in 1986 way before there ever was such a thing as spam. Now there's probably not a single spammer's list out there that doesn't have that address. I still log in there occasionally.
- Bruce Lewis
netcom
- Scott Slade
A tiny, local ISP here in Vermont call Kingdom Connection. I was one of the first 25 subscribers I think, and I still have my original e-mail address. Scary.
- Bob M. Montgomery
Mine was AOL. Man that was a long time ago..
- David van Sunder
from Nambu
Hotmail for me as well. Recalling this alone makes me nauseous. ;-)
- Dan Dashnaw
I had a Hotmail account as well. Never again.
- Diego Espinoza V.
columbia.edu
- Morton Fox
geez... I can't even remember.
- Jim Is Not Smart
umich.edu
- Ken Sheppardson
Prodigy. Then AOL. Then Berkeley.edu followed by Earthlink.net, Home.com, ATTBI.com, and then Mac.com. (Also in there, GMail, Excite, Netscape, and work accounts, etc.)
- Louis Gray
Hotmail - Sometime in 1997 I think. My first email account for work was in 1998.
- David Yarnell
AOL. I was so excited to get Hotmail because at the time, it was cooler than AOL. Heh. Then Yahoo and now Gmail. And that's it, not counting work/school accounts.
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
Prodigy.
- Admiral Anika
tamu.edu before that I was on some BBS's with RelayNet mail. In 1988 I got a 9600 baud modem and I'm telling you it was so fast.
- Jeff
crap whatever we had at college before the internet had pictures or an internet. :) We could send messages between colleges though
- Steve C
Probably Mindspring.
- Gunny doesn't side-hug™
Mine was AOL over my 2400 baud modem.
- Allen Blair
<student id>@<sydney university undergrad domain), then something at extro.com.au which was the Sydney University dial up provider then good ol iname.com. I thought that would be my non service provider bound email address, till they decided to charge for it. Thank god for gmail.
- Tom Horn
Compuserve was my first Internet email address.
- Gary Walter (gwalter)
from fftogo
email.com
- Alex Scrivener
Hotmail I'm ashamed to say.
- Daniel Drysdale
from Nambu
web mail? Gmail. Otherwise Carleton U
- Capn' One Eye - adrift
Hotmail as well :(
- Drew Lucas
Genie
- Randy Caldwell
yahoo - oooh forgot about Juno!
- BEX
Actually, my first email was with MCI*Mail. NOT internet email. The next one was Compuserve. Still not internet. My first internet account was on a server at my employer in Austin.
- Mistletoe Glen
My math prof gave me an account on a NeXT box.
- Hiro Asari
ISP provider, bellsouth.net, I then upgraded to Hotmail. lol
- Sharon McPherson
@MSN.com.. Yup MSN was my first provider. It was them or AOL, and I knew better.
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
Compuserve was my first "email" (not internet) and nassau community college was my first internet email address
- Bastard Operator From FF
A local ISP called Jetlink.
- Stan Augustyniewicz
Alta Vista
- Brent - Loving Life
My first email address that I used, but didn't control was gmail. My primary address and everyone I've had has been in my own house.
- Dustin Sallings
Hotmail. 2MB. Remember that?
- David Damore
Mississippi State University. 1990 or 1991... (might have been 89)
- Chrimmus Tad
rocketmail.com
- James Beake
AOL
- Kim Landwehr
from BuddyFeed
stanford.edu
- Paola Bonomo
aol
- David Dudley
Yahoo - haven't used it for many years now.
- Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
my very first was in the early 1980s at Uof Penn, my first online email was hotmail
- Monique
Hotmail.
- Steven Perez
University in '94. didn't know what email was before that.
- mikepk
*.syr.edu '90ish. bbs handles since 80s
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
Back in Romania, when the whole Internet thing was just showing up there (1993?), a VAX/VMS machine (roearn.ici.ac.ro, also ROEARN on Bitnet)
- Tudor Bosman
Prodigy. Before that I was on BBS which was my first chatroom, a lot of people trying to log into a room that would only fit 8. Good times.
- zephyrlily
deeptht.armory.com, a local SCO box. still have the account: http://www.armory.com/~peter/
- coffee
AOL of course
- Keith - @tsudo
Well my first email was hotmail in like 2004, but before that, our family account was yahoo which was around 94/95 (which i think it was better UI then vs today) now i use gmail for everything!
- Bryce Campbell
yep hotmail
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
usa.net
- Petr Buben
The University of Leeds in 1997, closely followed by Yahoo Mail in the same week. I still have the Yahoo account but only use it to log into Flickr.
- Martin Bryant
Compuserve...over and over again with those 30 day trials :)
- Mark Krynsky
usa.net (netaddres)
- Toni @ NavinoT
On the WWW it was msn.com but I was on BBS before then and the address was something like portofcall.net
- Kol Tregaskes
Back at my college (ISU) in the early 90's. Used Pine on a Unix server.
- Ward Seward
Hotmail for me too. Amazing that it's still so popular
- Gee Ranasinha
Why is everyone hating on Hotmail? Oh yeah, I know, it's cool to bash MS. It was and is one of the better webmails out there. My first was yahoo.co.uk
- Matt Hall
not for sure but i am guessing hotmail maybe yahoo
- (jeff)isageek
AOL.
- teh Dork Knight aka Kenny
yahoo
- Alfredo
Luukku, it's finnish email service. Not really good...
- Kristian Salonen
AOL for sure -- had one under my parents' account, probably early to mid 90s. Signed up for Hotmail in 1997 when I was in college (still have that account, though I really never use it). Of course, I had a standard-issue "geneseo.edu" college account starting in 1996 when I started college.
- mark
umich.edu
- DGentry
cmich.edu
- l.m.orchard
from twhirl
Actually, I lie, cmich.edu was my second - some funky FidoNet address leading to a BBS was the first.
- l.m.orchard
from twhirl
erols out of Maryland then hotmail then gmail with an occasional visit to yahoo mail cause they made me have a yahoo mail account for yahoo IM and other Yahoo properties (flickr).
- Dan Morrill AKA Techwag
AOL, then freeserve! *1998 face*
- Iain Baker
Internal mail in my high school in 94, using Pegasus. Signed up for Hotmail in 95 I think.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
I think it was yahoo or usa.net
- Shamir Ramjan
worldnet (does not exist anymore, french provider)
- Olivier
CompuServe (72740,114) c. 1989, ysu.edu c. 1993
- Michael McKean
Mine was with Hotmail too. :-/
- Ben LaMothe
Compuserve, then Demon and well.com
- Fraser Smith
It was "pobox.sk" <- clever name for an email for that time :) abandoded them after some other guys has offered pop3 for free. History long gone.
- Dušan Šimonovič
Local ISP and then Hotmail.
- Kevin Bondelli
OMG am I as old as Leo Laporte? LOL no, but I had an email account at Rutgers Univ that was numbers (I don't remember what it was though) & then Prodigy was my first - PCChick. funny I'm a mac girl now.
- Lynette Young
Local ISP then Hotmail and Yahoo! mail.
- Ninh Nguyen
Hotmail, at the time it was good compated to everyone else, then went down the toilet fast, it's better these days but I prefer my Gmail account thank you.
- Eric Fisher
Compuserve. I AM NOT A NUMBER!
- John Craft
yahoo...still use it, but hate its non-existent spam filter...gmail is still the best at spam cleaning...i have hotmail for msn, but recently they've improved the mail feature, so i use more often now
- brainno722 (Peter)
Compuserve (73000,673 if memory serves me right)... and some other obscure usenet type account through a local BBS.
- Carlos Granier-Phelps
CompuServe in 1979 (70040,104).
- George Brickner
BTW, the CompuServe addresses were known as PPNs (Project Programmer Number).
- George Brickner
Hotmail
- Damond Nollan
prodigy, if I remember correctly
- Chieze Okoye
yep, I was on prodigy too for a couple of months, then Rjcc @aol and i've been using that nick for 13~ years now
- Richard Lawler
AOL, back in the day
- Matthew Allen Horton
hotmail
- Rudolf Olah
Promenade aka AOL, probably. But I've had Hotmail for 10 years -- I got an email celebrating my decade with Hotmail a few weeks ago.
- Tamar Weinberg
AOL
- Nurse Katie
Hotmail :(
- Mitra_s
uchicago.edu, then nytimes.com finally got my deasil.com address about a year after school and have had that ever since. :)
- felix
mine was hotmail too.
- Thom Allen
Used excite for a long time, until yahoo and google started theirs up and actually offered some sort of spam protection.
- Matt Thompson
from fftogo
Juno
- Martha
Hotmail. Agree it was awful! I can't believe I ever thought it was okay for the first page of my email client to be a page filled with ads, as opposed to the actual inbox.
- Jess Lee
Compuserve. I don't think it was possible to send formatted text outside of Compuserve back then.
- howard shippin
TSO, which started out as tso.uc.edu but eventually became tso.cin.ix.net.
- Wirehead
UUCP email account at Bell Labs, reached via something like ucbvax!ihnp4!...!fcy Then an account at mcs.net, a Chicago area ISP.
- Fred Yankowski
MyOwnEmail.com. I don't know if they're even still around.
- James Ferguson
I can't remember if I did juno or hotmail first. I think juno....
- EricaJoy
Mine was with netins.net because they offered toll-free dial-up access in the Spring of 1995
- Michael K Pate
My first email was at my job at Sybase in 1993.
- Lisha Sterling
from twhirl
aol when I was in 5th grade. Username: hawaiiman2. Cuz hawaii is like cool and stuff.
- Daniel Morgan
cix UK
- John Francis
cs.berkeley.edu
- Piaw Na
I guess my first e-mail account was with my ISP, but the first web based e-mail account was good ol' hotmail.
- Jeremy
AOL *facepalm*
- Mike Lewis
I think it was AOL or Compuserve
- Shevonne
AOL, Delphi or Compuserve, dunno - I partied a lot between then and now.
- jcunwired
LOL @Leo!!
- jcunwired
My first public email account was with MCI Mail (in the eon of X.25). My first email on a TCP/IP network was with Netcom.
- Lorin Olsen
not sure, usa.net or hotmail.com
- Gökmen Karasu
Compuserve, then when AOL bought them, Netcom, which was bought by Mindspring, who then was bought by Earthlink
- William Harryman
The US government.
- Alex Scoble
Hotmail, not msn hotmail. just "Hotmail"
- irfan ÖZTÜRK
Same here: pre-MSN Hotmail.
- josh neff, geek at large
MSN.com -- I was a beta tester for the MSN network during it's Windows 95 Launch. I had FREE dialup access during the extended beta testing period.
- Anthony K. Valley ©
AOL - I HAD MAIL!
- Mona Nomura
Mine was a free email account from a local ISP (community.net).
- Beau Liening
oh shit... it must've been Compuserve, although I don't remember if I had real email in there.If not, Yahoo Mail was the first portal mail I had (and I had jungleg@yahoo.com, but then lost it for some reason and couldn't get it back)
- Jorge Escobar
uh.edu, then hotmail.
- Arlan Koizumi
UUCP email on unix .. circa 86
- Peter Dawson
comunista@aol.com - i thought it was funny.
- mike
starwarsbuff@hotmail.com - yeah, that was back in middle school. LOL
- Mike Templeton
Mindspring.com
- Darrell Bell
from twhirl
hawaii.edu
- Josh Haley
aol
- Amber, Random Time Lord
Aol huuuh
- Marie Jubin
from Nambu
Admittedly - AOL.
- AJ Kohn
@tamu.edu
- Carlos M. Gomes
AOL > Compuserve > Burntmail
- Kevin Pruett
USA.net
- Helen Sventitsky
Prodigy! Oh wow. That was a long time ago. I remember I had some 25 cents an e-mail plan. I used to get in trouble from my parents when I went over my allotted amount. I can't imagine paying 25 cents an e-mail today.
- Jennifer Mitchell
execpc.com. haha.
- David Chartier
from BuddyFeed
Hotmail, and I think it was 1995.
- cecily
Compuserve
- Bryan R. Adams
pitt.edu, then netaxs.com.
- B. Hatin
Penn State University
- Ernie Oporto
My graduate school, University of Kentucky. It was on VMS.
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
hotmail
- Dane Findley
angelfire
- Rachel Lea Fox
Hotmail, but they closed it due to inactivity. I wish I still had it, though. It's impossible to get my name anywhere now.
- Michael Fidler
Yahoo. Now I'm in gmail and I love it...
- Amy H.
Local ISP, Connect2 I think was the name. Haha. Didn't even have 56K internet speed yet at the time. First web based email was Hotmail before Microsoft acquired it.
- Rolf Schewe
Other than my Bell Labs account? Delphi. Fun-ky...
- John Blossom
AOL and then Hotmail....two real winners.....not!
- Bonnie Foster
hotmail 1995
- Muge Cerman
mail.com *shrug* XD
- 'Like' robot (frɐnc)
AOL -> Yahoo -> gmail
- imabonehead
Hotmail for me. I haven't used it in 3 years.
- Michael Forian
My first emailaddress was at my own designstudio: hoofdcommissaris@cops.nl (meaning 'chief of police') And brought me my nickname Hoof (or Hoof99).
- Ruud van Wijngaarden
hotmail
- Bill Hice
@msstate.edu, my university in 1996?
- Phillip Stewart
Messaging on the Univac in late 70s probably, at the college. BITNET, HEPNET, ARPANET in late 1980s. (Ignoring the BBS phenom of 80s.) EDU & GOV 1989+ My own domain I hosted around 1994. NEVER AOL or that fake-Internet stuff of the mid-90s. Ewww! After years of GOV, moved to COM at work in 1999. Started using GMAIL for all my personal mail when that was in Beta. I now have about 20 domains forward to GMAIL.
- John Johnson
not counting university and school, or BBSes? My first email account would then have been jnebbe@ibm.net (back the first time when IBM did internet services) - they were one of the few to have reasonable dial up plans with a multi-country presence - and I was using OS/2 a lot then too. After it got bought by ATT and they changed the address, I decided that I would always have my own domain for email, so I would never lose people because I lose an email. Hosted it myself for years, now it's all with fastmail
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
Yahoo. God bless Gmail!
- Özgür Akman
"pipeline". anachronistic friend still has email account with them.
- Marg Uerite
it was either aol or nyonline
- Lynne d Johnson
Hotmail. Still have it.
- MVB (Grinch of FF)
Hotmail...then I transferred to Gmail
- Nicholas James
AOL for me... horrible.
- Michelle
Yeah, hotmail. Not great is it...
- Rich
yahoo, broke before I could use it then got a Hotmail
- Yant
I think "RT" should be when you ReTweet verbatim, and "(via @)" should be when you rewrite a tweet but keep the link. #tweetie
Brome, Roberto Bonini, Victor Ganata and 2 other people liked this
I agree, perfect standard.
- Neal Jansons
I use "HT" (hat tip) when referencing someone else's idea/link.
- Oliver Ortega Chua
HT is usually for blogs, and i don't think too many people use it any more either.
- Roberto Bonini
I'm curious what the distribution of Mac to PCs on Twitter is. I'm betting it's heavily Macs.
Kol Tregaskes, Tracy McLaughlin, Dobromir Hadzhiev and 18 other people liked this
Mac here. Though I still have a PC at home, my Macbook has become primary
- Christine Chan
I was a pc, now i am a mac
- Kiran Patchigolla
pc here
- (jeff)isageek
I'm a PC.
- Oliver Ortega Chua
2x Mac (Macbook Pro & iMac)
- Sterling Okura
Surprisingly enough, 60% of traffic to TweetStats is PC. Didn't expect that...maybe it says something about my audience. ;)
- Damon Cortesi
unlikely, there's more PCs than Macs total so i would assume there are more PCs. In any case it doesn't matter. The real numbers will come from a new wave of platform agnostic users. Most people on this planet have never seen a PC or Mac and i suspect will probably never see one and it will never matter. They will see Google, Facebook and Twitter though on mobile phones or Techcunch's tablet and/or similar things.
- Tweet Feeds
Damon, I was wondering if you could tell that. We're about 50/50 on SocialToo
- Jesse Stay
PC.
- Chris, Taskerrific Guy
Just one more sign of Twitter going mainstream
- Jesse Stay
2.5 Macs (iphone is definitely half a mac, runs OSX and everything, about the speed of an original iMac!), 2 PCs, 2-3 openbsd boxes, and vast arrays of linuxen...
- mjc
Twitter looks like the world now, not a bunch of early adopters like us. I bet it's overwhelmingly Windows. It would be interesting if Twitter shared this information.
- Chris Baskind
Mac here.
- Kelly W.
I'm a PC
- Nicholas James
PC
- Nurse Katie
Mac for me.
- Tom Landini
Mac for me b/c my Macbook Air is insanely portable (w/ my "rocket stick I've net access anywhere) & with Unbuntu it runs smooth as butta
- sofarsoShawn
Mac ..
- johnpiercy
Mac Daddy since 1987
- Phil Boiarski
Two Macs at home, but I travel with my Dell laptop for work. Still haven't tried tweetie at home, though.
- ha3rvey (doesn't dance)
former mac user here (not a heavy Twitter user). I have an iPod. I may have a mac again in the future when I have the money.
- Kamilah Gill
My iPhone is my main social network machine. Macs at home and work.
- Robert Hafer
Mac here as well. All the way.
- Drew Lucas
PC here.... but don't know for how long. The enthusiasm of mac users are mildly annoying, but making me wonder if its really all that. Maybe I should get a Mac to see what I'm missing.
- Peter Efland
PC. It's not that I have a problem with Macs. But I have two very very VERY staunch Mac users in my life who never waste a single opportunity to ridicule me and berate me and insult me for not using a Mac (I should add - these attacks are unprovoked). And out of pure principle, I avoid Macs at all cost.
- tinypants - Hagitha of FF
Mac.
- Iván Abrego
Mac (though I have 2 PCs, too)
- WorldofHiglet
All PC all the time. Work, home, and portable. Even the eeePC is running Windows (at least for now).
- Nine
Mac.
- Brome
PC
- sean percival
PC x3
- Admiral Anika
Mac at home; PC at work
- Shevonne
Mac! But unfortunately PC at work :/
- Peter
PC!
- Daniel J. Pritchett
computers here - I'll use anything that gets the job done. have a macbook for final cut express, 1 laptop with windows and 1 with ubuntu, an XP desktop for TV, gaming and general use, a windows server to control my network, 3 more windows pc's (2 of them are laptops without their screen) for TV viewing in different rooms, 2 x PC's for testing purposes and a linux based embedded NAS device for storage.
- alphaxion
PC and PC.
- Aram Zucker-Scharff
Have Robert Scoble post a link and throw some Google Analytics on it. Should give you a nice subset of the entire friendfeed audience. (Mac at home, PC at work)
- WiseYoda (aka Patrick)
Mac for sure .. going for the new iMAC but have 2 HPs as well..
- Nicholas Martini
Pc,pc, and iPhone.
- Roberto Bonini
Mac and iPhone :o)
- Jason
Mac, Mac, iPhone
- Gaby K. Slezák
Mac is killing PC here amongst Twitter users (who I sent it out to): http://socialtoo.com/survey...
- Jesse Stay
I like my wife's Mac all right and I'd probably be pretty comfortable with it. That said, I use a (sometimes frustrating) $700 vista laptop. I don't think Apple sells that low.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
Mac, PC, IPhone
- Jamie
Mac at home, PC w/ Windows & Linux at office.
- clarke thomas
mac, iphone and work PC ;-p
- dromologue
its funny how many people run Mac for a personal machine yet they have Windows machines at work.
- Thom Allen
PC x 2.
- Ken Stewart | ChangeForge
Thom that's because PC was designed for the enterprise, while Mac was designed for personal use
- Jesse Stay
from IM
PC here.
- Samuel Driessen
Mac
- Pat Hawks
Mac
- Kevin Whalen
@Jesse naw, I don't think so. Mac has the iMac which is a great enterprise computer. It's just as comparable to a Dell desktop in any class. Same with their notebooks. It's price that keeps Mac out of most enterprises.
- Thom Allen
i use Linux, and Android (which is just more Linux).
- Rishabh Mishra (p248)
Linux PC
- Grant Bierman
Mac here.
- Mathew™ one of a kind
I'm a PC
- MicahBear78
Mohomed yes, but which ones do you run Twitter from?
- Jesse Stay
Mac and iPhone!
- Guru Panguji
Mac all the way
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
I have both, but I lurves my Mac Pro and hates my Vista lappy.
- Joey Gibson
Mac here :-)
- Burak "cyrus" Bayburtlu
Mac here too.
- George Hall (Australia)
Mac, GNU/Linux, and Symbian/S60.
- LonelyBob
PC here. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
I'm a PC
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
Mac. And iPhone.
- Kevin Pedraja
PC on Linux
- Arvind
Why yesterday's protests were stupid - http://www.dailykos.com/storyon...
Some interesting observations on protests (in general).
- Oliver Ortega Chua
I am beginning to question my mania with Linux. I still think it is the best OS on the planet, but am wondering why I am so crazed about it.
Andy Lewandowski, Sarah Peterman, edythe and 5 other people liked this
Because it's rapidly coming of age, and in years to come, we can say we were there, we were PART of it. Sad old geeks that we'll be.
- Slappy Line
Slippy, I think you made me cry with tears of joy. :)
- Rishabh Mishra (p248)
Yeah, I don't think mania for an OS is a good thing. It's the foundation for the tools that let you work or have fun, but it isn't the thing that you use to work or have fun with.
- Alex Scoble
Surely the available UIs are at least a little better than what they had in the '80's? I mean, I'm not *crazed* about them, but they're different, aren't they? (And sorry for calling you Shirley.)
- Victor Ganata
$100 says that Chris will say Solaris.
- Alex Scoble
Chris, 20 years ago, my nontechnical friends didn't contemplate using BSD.
- Rishabh Mishra (p248)
20 years ago, you couldn't run UNIX on commodity hardware. But I guess NEXTSTEP did come out in the late '80's.
- Victor Ganata
My parents are starting to learn how to use computers and I installed Ubuntu for them the other night. (I decided to update their hand-me-down Win98 PC without spending any money.)
- Oliver Ortega Chua
I will have to disagree with you there, Chris. Whether or not it is better than KDE or Gnome is a matter of opinion. Personally, I dislike working in a Mac. i find it at least slightly confusing. In contrast, I feel that KDE 4.2 can outshine the Mac in user experience. however, i dont think there is a way to prove either of us correct.
- Rishabh Mishra (p248)
Curious, I've been a linux user for too long now... but as for it rapidly coming of age. Do you think it's significantly improved relative to its competition on the server or the desktop as compared to 5 years ago? I kind of think it maintains the same size advantage. Possibly worse on the desktop since OSX came about. If that makes sense.
- felix
I guess the only thing that is significantly different is the fact that the OS is free and the hardware is cheap. But, yeah, there really hasn't been any significant technologic changes to UNIX or GUIs in the last 20 years.
- Victor Ganata
Victor, 20 years ago you could totally run UNIX on commodity hardware. Berkeley UNIX and System V ran just fine on x86 machines of the time.
- Alex Scoble
Alex, I thought 386BSD was the first BSD port to a generic x86 platform? Even though there were UNIX machines that were x86-based, wasn't the software and the hardware more tightly coupled, and more proprietary than it is today? You couldn't run HP-UX on a non-HP machine, or AIX on a non-IBM machine.
- Victor Ganata
who the hell uses classmates.com?
Oliver Ortega Chua, Amber, Random Time Lord and Karoli liked this
Not me. I'm on it but I don't *use* it. I'm not paying to read my messages. If old friends want to contact me, they can Google me.
- Oliver Ortega Chua
If you could only pick one, which would you choose? Battleship, Connect Four, Scrabble or Yahtzee?
Christian (Simply X), Michael Hocter, AJ Kohn and 2 other people liked this
CHess
- CW™
Thanks. It's for Hasbro Family Game Night on Xbox LIVE Arcade and those are the current choices. http://twurl.nl/selukc
- Oliver Ortega Chua
Battleship!
- Lisa L. Seifert
Scrabble
- William Harryman
My FriendFeed/Twitter totals so far are 2 for Scrabble and 1 each on the rest. Anybody else?
- Oliver Ortega Chua
Scrabble.
- Alex Scoble
Yahtzee
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Scrabs
- sofarsoShawn
Jason, yeah, but in this case these are digital pieces. :) http://twurl.nl/selukc
- Oliver Ortega Chua
Yahtzee!
- Bec Rowe @d0tski
Scrabble
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
Connect Four!
- Mona Nomura
from fftogo
That's easy. Scrabble.
- Rochelle
Scrabble
- Yolanda
Scrabble.
- AJ Kohn
Scrabble.
- Admiral Anika
Scrabble. I'm surprised by my own answer b/c I'm not huge on Scrabble in practice (but this on the other hand http://friendfeed.com/e... ), but we're talking a Life Boat choice here, and the natural language is the critical value add.
- Micah Wittman
Connect Four by far! Dunno why exactly. It's kind of mindless but I can play it for hours.
- Michael Hocter
Scrabble, saith the competitive Scrabble player.
- Great Scott!
So it's Scrabble by a landslide. Why am I not surprised! ;) Thanks everyone. BTW, the next games EA and Hasbro are releasing for Xbox LIVE Arcade are Boggle, Sorry! and Sorry! Sliders.
- Oliver Ortega Chua
Scrabble.
- Christian (Simply X)
I'm actually a big Yahtzee fan, but I wouldn't want to play it against a computer. For that, I'd go with Scrabble.
- Roger Benningfield
The Observatory - http://brightkite.com/objects...
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mike fabio and Derrick liked this
Hey, I hike up to that place!
- Derrick
My parents used to take my brother and me up here all the time when we were kids.
- Oliver Ortega Chua
Why Bristol Palin Is Different - http://jonswift.blogspot.com/2009...
Jonathan Lee liked this
"Why is Bristol Palin different? She is different because she is a conservative. It's different when unmarried teenage mothers come from conservative, wealthy Christian families. Although it would be preferable if her child had a father, even a white trash one, she will still be able to raise her child with the kinds of values that liberals, poor people, gays and non-Christians would not be able to give to their little bastard children who are destined to become our future criminals. Why are conservatives so reluctant to point out this obvious fact?"
- Alejandro
from Bookmarklet
And conservatives claim that liberals are elitist.
- Oliver Ortega Chua
For me, not that I read him all the time, Jon Swift is hit and miss, but this sounds like a good one.
- Andrew C
If you could make one backup of yourself, would you keep it in the cloud or locally?
Darren Heydon liked this
Totally in the cloud ready to materialize anywhere. One never knows when one needs an extra Tad.
- Chrimmus Tad
This question was more elegant earlier: "Would you keep your soul in the cloud?" Also, hat-tip to Cory Doctorow for the 'backing yourself up' concept.
- Kevin Fox
One? Locally.
- Mona Nomura
I'd mark the backup 'active' and relax in various location myself until needed
- Randy
Depends on the cloud. I imagine a cloud with data redundancy, distributed storage, etc. would be better than any solution I could provide.
- Jonathan Terleski
This reminds me of the old question "If you could choose between having the body of a 20 year old or the body of a 50 year old, where would you keep it?"
- Brian Johns
Locally, no question. Consider what happens when the cloud updates their TOS and claims unrestricted use rights on your backup... :)
- Jasmin Patry
Funny Kevin, I just read "Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom" by Doctorow (in ebook form on my iPhone). Oh, I'd totally want a local copy, but I'd want one in the cloud too. :)
- Ken Gidley
Cloud, definitely. My local stuff is less reliable than anyone capable of creating a cloud in the first place.
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
Since I basically "live" in 3 counties—SD, LA & OC—I'd want to be in the cloud for convenience's sake. I already keep my data on Amazon S3/Jungle Disk. (Driving 100+ miles when I need something is *not* fun.)
- Oliver Ortega Chua
Why not both? There is no real redundancy in keeping it local and I don't trust a cloud run by someone else. If I have the tech to make one copy, two is better for twice the price.
- Ernie Oporto
from Nambu
Masarap Restaurant (1/5) - http://www.yelp.com/biz...
"I'd like to rate it higher, but not even a month after the grand opening and the place is already CLOSED. (We tried to eat there on Saturday, 2/14.) The person I talked to said that a reopen date is…"
- Oliver Ortega Chua
Rear View Mirrors Adjustment - Blind Spot Fix - Free Mechanic Advice - Car Repair - Popular Mechanics - http://www.popularmechanics.com/automot...
Adjust the driver’s seat to the correct position. Lean your head and torso over to the left until your head contacts the window glass. Now, adjust the left-side mirror outward until you can barely see your own fender in it. Next, lean over to the right a similar distance, and adjust the right-side mirror so you can just see your own rear fender.
- Oliver Ortega Chua
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