Karthick R - Likes - FriendFeed

Hi Everyone: I'm looking to teach a course in distributed systems. The focus would be to look at what it takes to build Google, Amazon, etc; I have a tentative site at http://www.csd.uwo.ca/faculty.... I'm looking for feedback and to see if there is interest.

December 17 - Comment - Like - Share

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Sounds pretty interesting, my knowledge is actually fairly lacking in this area. - Michael Tighe

Michael Fidler

These are all done in Pencil.

March 18 - Comment - Like - Share

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Impressive - M F

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Great work! - Nia

I reshare this to Ideas & Inspiration room :) These are so realistic! - Kristian Salonen

I'm sorry but this is unbelievable:) I'll give credit to the artist upon more convincing proof! The photogenic look of the tiger and lion really helps the artist's case though:) - Roney Smith

I'm with Roney... I find this hard to believe... or maybe I'm just jealous that I can't even get stick people right! - Jasmin Smith

I don't believe it. Too amazing. - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah

I'm with Rah - Shey, Jamaican of FF

Only the lion looks like its drawn - embee

The bear and rhino look drawn, too. - Chris, Taskerrific Guy

very very talented. Wow they look like B&W pics you know photography. - Gabriella Sannino

These are amazing, were they done by you? - Angelo Rodrigues

Nice photographs - Rafael Robayna

@michael, if they weren't drawn by you, at least tell us who the artist is and the link - LouCypher

Link please? - Jason Wehmhoener

wow - Carolyn Chan

being slightly skeptical, i'm going to say these were done with pencil by a printer of some sorts... #justsayin - Enrique Gutierrez

they're beautiful, but skeptical as well - Jennifer Van Grove

Would need to see higher quality images to see if they are pencil or not - too many jpg artifacts to tell. - Luke Addison from twhirl

Stupefied. - Parth Awasthi

want proof - Jérôme Flipo

Wow!! Yeah it's pretty amazing what they can draw with a pencil nowadays, deviantART has lots of great pencil art. - Kol Tregaskes

Michael, who is the artist? - Kol Tregaskes

wow, cool! - Sarah Perez

you cannot win on the interwebs. draw some crap it doesn't get noticed. draw something amazing in pencil and people say it's not real. - Joe Breen

I'm really happy everyone liked these. They're my most liked entry to date, Thanks! There also seems to be some question about whether these are actually Pencil Drawings.I can assure you that they are.When I get home, I should have the links. I have more drawings, too. - Michael Fidler from fftogo

O_O WOW...Stunning - Anna Haro

Wow, these are stunning!! - Susan Beebe

Yes, especially the tiger. Reminds me of that "Tiger, tiger burning bright." - Melanie Reed

Alright, Mike - I believe you. These are awesome. Good job! - Enrique Gutierrez

HOLY CRAP. - Chieze Okoye

no way! - Mister Groonk

Thanks Enrique, I'll post some more soon. They are a little more obvious than these ones. As Luke points out; without being able to look closely it's impossible to tell. He's right; but up close it's more obvious. I'll upload the originals to Picasa later, and then you'll be able to zoom in with any photo viewer and see for yourselves. I can't believe how many people liked these. A few people have reposted them already. Thanks! - Michael Fidler

Absolutely awesome, Michael. You are extremely talented. Everyone should repost these pix and help to make you famous. You should be doing this full time - you obviously have some passion for this. Bravo. - Chris Loft

These are really beautiful, Michael. Do you sell them? - Shannon Jiménez

Chris, I would love to say they're mine, but it's not true. I've had them for a while, but I'll find the artists names. It will just require a little backtracking. Besides, they deserve the credit; all I did was find them:-) - Michael Fidler

Cut the bullshit! :) Photos are very good. - Burçak Çubukçu

I draw alot in pencil, but they are amazing, the best for me is the girl, that is the most photo-like one. :o) - Rob Sellen :o)

I agree Rob, the girl is amazing. My favorite by far! Wait until you see it close up! It's really had to tell, even up close! - Michael Fidler

Burçak Çubukçu If these were photographs, they would be very good. As Pencil Drawings,(which they are), they're amazing. - Michael Fidler

Wow, amazingly realistic - Threepwood

@Michael Fidler did you draw them? How can you so sure? - Burçak Çubukçu

That is my pencil drawing :) http://picasaweb.google.com/Burcak... - Burçak Çubukçu

dont look like it - Prakash

@ Michael Fidler don't push so hard :) - Burçak Çubukçu

@Burçak Çubukçu I can't tell if your serious now or just kidding around. I hope your just having fun! If you are serious, I've never given you a reason to question my integrity, nor do I ever intend to. However, the second set is up now, so judge them for yourself, but don't judge me! http://ff.im/1BJh5 BTW, I messed up and reposted the shot of the women again. Oh well. Hope you like them:-) - Michael Fidler

@Michael: try deviantART, not Picasa, to submit your artworks - LouCypher

WOW "I can't believe it's in pencil" - sofarsoShawn

LouCypher, I know it well, but I don't see why I would want to do that. I hope everyone knows by now that they're not mine? I'm sorry, but I can't say it any clearer than that. - Michael Fidler

nah, i don't believe it is done in pencil. i am sure it is photoshopped :) - hasin hayder

These would be great even for photos. - tomit

i'm not able to comprehend - Varun Shenoy

More comments here: http://www.bannination.com/comment... - donato

I'm finding this both interesting and humorous at the same time. There's a separate message board where this post is being discussed and it has another forty comments on it already. I think its great how this has created some lively discussion, considering that when I posted this I was doubtful if anyone would even like it. When I went to sleep last night there was only had 3 or 4 likes... more... - Michael Fidler

Very interesting. I would like to see them up close and in person...just to make sure. Bill said it's real and possible. Your 2nd set of picts look like pencil. Nice work in finding these! - LaFern Cusack

Kol, I can't thank you enough! Kol found another post which helps to prove that these are done in pencil. I had my doubts about a few of them because I collected them from several different sites over time, but the site Kol found has done a great job pulling together an impressive collection of these drawings and more. Take a look - http://www.flickzzz.com/2009... - Michael Fidler

Actually there are more than what this site shows. There's an entire set with the cats(little cats), which I have, and there's a new portrait set. - Michael Fidler

Found your post here, Michael. :-) I tried my best to find the artists. - Kol Tregaskes

Amazing and very very very good.... Very impressive ... - Linda Zeek-Bobinski

fake. http://lenscratch.blogspot.com/2009... Even if your not claiming to be the artist, these are photographs, well except the woman, thats pencil - james foor

Yeah we know, thanks though, James. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Excellent pictures - how long did it take you to scan the photographs into Photoshop and then edit them? The only pencil that has come into contact with these "drawings" is the Photoshop pencil. A tip - stop trying to fool people into thinking you are a "real" artist, because all you are doing is cheapening proper artist's works whom have spent hours creating real pictures as opposed to a few minutes on a graphics editing package. - The Wimp

A bell does ring here. And I am remembering why I was so attracted to the tiger...and the lion for that matter. These are exact replicas of prints I had in our bedroom when I lived in Dallas. I had bought the prints (in color) at a department store, - Melanie Reed

Actually, I have learned quite a bit about these drawing since I made this post. Not only have I discovered all of the artists, but I've learned more about how they are created. They are always copied from a photograph or painting, but usually a photograph. It is extremely time consuming and detail orientated work. There are many other artists besides the ones featured here who practice... more... - Michael Fidler

Most of them have portfolio's on deviantart.com and their work is truly amazing even if they are copies of other artists work. I suppose with this level of detail, they have to start with something. Nevertheless, I'm still in awe of their talent. Melanie, the animal prints you refer to are from a very well renowned photographer. The originals are B&W I'll look it up later but I do have... more... - Michael Fidler

wow; they're unbelieavably beautiful. - liladreams

digs: Hamza Ghandorh

Global Mobile U http://www.apple.com/iphone...

December 20 - Comment - Like - Share

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digs: Michael Tighe

Storing Data on the Internet is Ignorant and Silly!!! Well, at least according to this guy. When will we be able to trust the "cloud" enough to really use it? http://www.osnews.com/story...

December 9 - Comment - Like - Share

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So... what do you think of that article? I know you use Cloud Storage... ;-) - Gaston Keller

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I agree with it for the most part. I'm not comfortable keeping my files exclusively in the cloud... for me it's not a privacy worry, but a reliability and accessibility issue. I do use cloud storage, but it's used for sync between machines, and there are copies of everything on every computer I use (school, home desktop, laptop). I need offline access. I DO use gmail for all of my emailing needs, and that is cloud only... I would actually love to have a local copy of it all. - Michael Tighe

The author of the article isn't wrong but he seems to assume that most users (or their organizations) reliably store their information. Is it more or less reliable to keep things in cloud storage vs. local means. - Hanan Lutfiyya

It is an interesting read. As Hanan points out, the author makes an assumption that users reliably store their information reliably. Most of us don't even have a backup :). My confidence on cloud storage is increasing day by day. For me, the company is well equipped to take daily backups of the data or for restoring my data for that matter, as it is their reputation at stake. It can... more... - Karthick R

I'll agree, I'm pretty confident in the use of clouds as backup and synchronization. I'm not confident about using them as the only location of my information... besides the fact that I want to be able to access my files when I'm not connected to the internet, these big sites DO go down from time to time... gmail has gone down on me several times that I can remember, and it's frustrating. This is one of the things that keeps me skeptical about Chrome OS. - Michael Tighe

DeWitt Clinton

Google Code Blog: Introducing Google Browser Size - http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2009...

December 16 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

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"We are now making this tool available to the public on Google Labs. To try it, simply visit browsersize.googlelabs.com and enter the URL of a page you'd like to examine. The size overlay you see is using latest data from visitors to google.com, so this should give you a pretty good indication of what parts of your UI are generally visible and what aren't." - DeWitt Clinton from Bookmarklet

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Visit the kickassitude at: http://browsersize.googlelabs.com/ - DeWitt Clinton

There is an odd perception bias with pages that have a floating width layout. If you visit the tool in a very large screen, it makes it seem as though the content is out of the normal view, but if you re-size the browser down to that view size, the content floats back into the visible range. - Bill Strathearn

why is this not part of the Google Analytics suite? - Gabe

Gabe, that would be awesome. However, Google Analytics currently only includes stats for screen resolution rather than browser window size. - Tony Ruscoe

Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah

Did you mean: friendfeed

November 21 - Comment - Like - Share

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Yep...this should get FriendFeed hopping again...LOL - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah

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FTW! - chaz2b

Boo-YAH - Josh Haley

Mine doesn't say that. :-( - Jason Huebel

*whistles innocently* - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah

LOL - John (a.k.a. dendroica)

heh heh - Kamilah Gill

Iz ze New Wave ? - Desirade

hahah awesome! :D - Susan Beebe

Oh man if Google bombs weren't terrible terrible things, that would be an awesome one. However, they are terrible so don't think about it. - EricaJoy

OMG Google does know everything! It sees through the PR Spin: the same but different *eye roll* - sofarsoShawn

DeWitt Clinton

Real Time Search - http://www.youtube.com/watch...

December 7 from YouTube favorites - Comment - Like - Share

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See http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009... for the (holy cow that's awesome!) details. - DeWitt Clinton

I like the music. Very dramatic. - Benjamin Golub

Shazam, *not* Google, tells me it's "Tempo" by Gianni Gandi and José Martillotta. - Jérôme Flipo

Paul Buchheit

Google Acquires AppJet - http://etherpad.com/ep...

December 4 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

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Congratulations! "We are happy to announce that AppJet Inc. has been acquired by Google. The EtherPad team will continue its work on realtime collaboration by joining the Google Wave team." - Paul Buchheit from Bookmarklet

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I've been waiting for this :) - Benjamin Golub

Congrats to the team (http://etherpad.com/ep...) - Merry Xmas FFeeders - AJ

I'm sad that they're shutting it down though :( - Paul Buchheit

Shutting it down?! why? - Susan Beebe

No etherpad or alternative for the next 18-24 months :( - Peng-Toh

This freaking sucks. - Eric Florenzano

if the technology gets integrated with google docs, it would be as good as the current etherpad - Mike Chelen

Yeah, I'm not sure what I'm going to do now for jotting down notes...I guess back to email - Benjamin Golub

google docs still works nicely for most document tasks, including sharing or publishing as needed - Mike Chelen

I knew it! Docs really needs some Etherpad awesomeness http://blogoscoped.com/forum... - Jérôme Flipo

Google docs is my friend :) - Susan Beebe

Even Wave's playback needs some Etherpad's time-slider sauce. - Jérôme Flipo

if Google works as fast trying to figure out what to do with Etherpad as they did for Jotspot or Jaiku, just to name a few, one can say goodbye to Etherpad and stop using it. This is bad news actually. - lelapin

SO this is like FF - another talent grab - Google's acquiring more smart talent - Susan Beebe

I hope Google announces some way for us to create new pads, my online learning classroom will not be the same without etherpad :-( - Shakeel Mahate

Ouch. - Адский Блондин

Oh noes! I'm with Shakeel...I need EtherPad for my high school Digital Media students. It's one of the few collaboration sites that isn't blocked at the district level. - Shea

Shutting down etherpad is a travesty. Fucking Google, keep it open. - Mitch

I had a feeling this would happen... Etherpad is basically a simplified proto-wave. - Fa La La La Lindsay

I loved etherpad. Simple and great for code sharing. I don't think there is any other web service like etherpad out there. It will be missed. - vivekian

During one of my phone screens, I was so frustrated with writely that I switched to etherpad. - Piaw Na

creative - ★ Soner Gönül

Google MUST keep Etherpad open after March 31st. I fear that this will be the new JotSpot, and there's no simple alternative around. - Jorge Martins Rosa

Adding new application interfaces like the EtherPad is the right next step for Wave. They need to move beyond the current Wave app interface towards multi-application document interoperability. Otherwise they will end up being categorized as just a really confusing chat services. - David Lounsbury

Yet another example of why you shouldn't use the cloud for anything remotely important. - Gabe

In abstract I would agree with you but there are previous examples, in the past, when Google acquired start-ups and literally did nothing with them. The ideal situation would have been acquiring Etherpad before Wave was created let alone released and build something with it as basis. Now what do you think is going to happen? Best scenario would be Etherpad's people being listened to and... more... - lelapin from email

lelapin: Thing is, if they acquired Etherpad before Wave was created, Etherpad probably would have cost more to acquire. I'd say the long term potential of Wave having similar functionality, and more, devalued Etherpads product. In announcing that they will open source Etherpad, Google seems to be acknowledging this. Seems like a good outcome for everyone, Etherpad employees, Google and their users. - Andrew Perry

Andrew: I'm just glad Etherpad (probably following the outcry that their earlier post provoked) made public pads possible again and is to be released as open source for anybody to grab the code and create something out of it. I'm not the slightest concerned about the price at which Etherpad would have been acquired had not Wave existed, it's Google we're talking about here. - lelapin

Matt Cutts

Google launches Public DNS: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009... Set your DNS server to 8.8.8.8 and you'll get faster/safer DNS resolution.

December 3 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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Faster than? - Brian Sullivan

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Faster than the one you get from your ISP. - Joel Webber

or OpenDNS - \(*_*)/

How fast is it going to be once everyone starts using it? :D - Victor Ganata

Not sure how I could test/measure this but it seems to work just fine for now (I was using OpenDNS before). How it will stand up to the inevitable increase in load caused by the inevitable more and more users remains to be seen. My 5 machines are now using it. - Brian Sullivan

Victor, I think the team can handle a lot more queries per second. http://www.manu-j.com/blog... says that DNS resolution internationally is especially good, although it's only a small test. - Matt Cutts

The blog post being updated real time: Results have come in India, Argentina, UK, Slovenia, Brazil, Germany, Netherlands, Italy and various US cities - Manu

i am from Ukraine but host my sites on Bluehost, Utah. Is it make some sens to try Google DNS experiment for me? Thanx. - Andrey Stefanenko

If you have a mac and want to make the web even faster, try http://glimmerblocker.org/ (ad blocker) :). - Orlando Pozo

Johnny Worthington

I love FriendFeed so much... and by FriendFeed... I mean you guys...

December 2 - Comment - Like - Share

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I'd give you a slightly uncomfortable lingering hug if I could. - Akiva Moskovitz

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I second that emotion. - Bren -- feeling merry from iPhone

Akiva... Side Hug? - Johnny Worthington

No way, man. My hugs are full-frontal. - Akiva Moskovitz

And we ♥ you as well, Johnny. - Louis Gray

So are your publicity shots. - Sparky

Love you back big guy. (even after the nekkid Hoff) - aden

♥ - Merry Xmas FFeeders - AJ

Johnny, you are a gentleman & a scholar. Love back to you. - josh neff, geek at large

"Love" is a bit strong. I'd give you a terrorist-fist-bump tho. - Jeremy (on vacation)

Ho - Josh Haley

right back at you Mister Johnny 'Boom Boom' Worthington. I'd say more, but I'm getting all misty. You rucking fock! - Morgan Haley

I needed that. Thanks! - Junebug (aka Sarah Jill)

let's bump uglies, JW. - Derrick

Derrick... You're first in line sir - Johnny Worthington

LMFAO@Akiva's 1st comment. Agreed. - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah

Love you right back, J-Wo. - Jim Addz No Value

::::blushes:::: Ahhhh come here big guy!!! Squeeze! - Nurse Katie

How do you specify relationship status on Friendfeed now that they're owned by Facebook? - Jesse Stay

Back atcha. You know you helped me launch my product, don't you? You king of Ustream tech support, you? - MaryB, BrandingBroadOfFF

canımsın. - ruhöküzü.

and we love you to Johnny. Tx - Thomas Power

Johnny, you've said it with more than words so well all along, so we already knew. And how sweet it is. <3 - Micah Wittman

we too :) - ★ Soner Gönül

*hugs* - Fa La La La Lindsay

You're the MAN!!! - Judy Jones

Love you too, Johnny! - David Cook

Paul Buchheit

So I finally tried Wave... - http://paulbuchheit.blogspot.com/2009...

November 28 from Paul Buchheit - Comment - Like - Share

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Integrating into Gmail -- never thought of that as a possibility before. - Brian Sullivan

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Think of it as "live email" - Paul Buchheit

The only problem I see is that advertising may not be the best way to make money from it. - Brian Sullivan

@paul, Is it correct to replace email? - Hasan Ozgan

Hasan, I don't understand your question. - Paul Buchheit

A wave-gmail integration sounds like quite the challenge. Perhaps the real-time text updates will happen and will be useful, but I can't see the conversation fragmentation of Wave being a good thing for Gmail. - Mitch

While I admire the approach of releasing something that's pre-beta, it seems there is quite a risk that people will think, "oh, I tried Wave and didn't get it," and they will not come back to it for a long time. - Laura Norvig

Laura - Google wants developers in there making cool stuff in the lead-up to the public release. If it were only developers trying out each others tools, things would be stagnant. - Mitch

I live and work in Gwave - business partner could not access wave due to inferior connections in Manchester and working in docs again was such a backward step! - Callie O Farrell

That's true, Mitchell, I forgot about all the gadgets people are developing. Also, Gina Trapani pointed out that the one interface that most of us see when we opt in to "try wave" is not the only interface available. I would love to see some samples of simpler/different interfaces. - Laura Norvig

@paul will wave ever replace email? - Hasan Ozgan

Hasan, no, it will augment email. - Paul Buchheit

The fact that Google Wave was not part of Gmail's roadmap and in fact is positioned as "the future of e-mail" was a sign to me that Google is now large enough to suffer the kind of organizational dysfunction that has done in its predecessors. As you mentioned, e-mail will be with us for a long time. It would have been better to position it as "the future of collaboration" and indicate... more... - Dare Obasanjo

Speaking of gmail-wave integration: http://www.engadget.com/2009... - Mitch

There was shortage of wave invites when it came out but now people are waiting to give wave invites. I didn't see any of my friends returning to wave after they used it once. I log into wave everyday just to see if there are any improvements. - ashish

Paul - Great insights! I too feel Wave is most suited as a team collaboration / productivity tool. The biggest hurdle is loss of context and convo structure. Once the wave team better organizes the UI, then it can go mainstream. Wave integration with gmail would be super cool and highly useful, plus it greatly would speed up user adoption. - Susan Beebe

I just posted my comment above on your blog, facebook and here - LOL :) - Susan Beebe

Mitch - cool share, thanks - Susan Beebe

"The chronological flow of the conversation is lost." That's exactly the issue. Playback tries to address it but doesn't quite. I think there are other ways to do this, that will be tried both inside and outside Google. I'm thrilled that Google didn't force the Wave team to be part of Gmail from the start, because that would have added all kinds of unnecessary constraints. This way Wave can try lots of new stuff and Gmail can adopt what sticks. - Daniel Dulitz

It's Sharepoint started from the web side instead of Office - Nick Lothian

I had assumed that at some point Google would merge Wave and Gmail. It seems the natural progression. Also, I think the linearity problem will be addressed when they can figure a way to easily mark the new replies so that you can quickly see them - maybe in some from of selectable overlay or view of the wave - Martha

Don't we think they should merge Gmail and Wave because we don't check our waves as often as our emails? What if we all had a cross-browser and mobile notification system for both Wave and email? Since I have installed the Chrome checker extensions for Wave and Gmail, the question of a merger doesn't make any sense. I can easily email and wave the same way I use Facebook, Friendfeed and... more... - Jérôme Flipo

PS: here's the Wave extension I use http://www.jeremyselier.com/entry... - Jérôme Flipo

No, I think Google should merge Gmail and Wave because many times in the middle of an email conversation I wish I had wave functionality. Because the conversation has gotten hard to understand and I want to play it back. Because different subthreads have different people on them for no good reason. Because an idea has turned into a proposal and the words aren't quite right. - Daniel Dulitz

Here's a specific type of merger I think could work. Wave "merges" with Gmail, GChat, and Docs, in that whenever you create an email/IM/doc you are creating a wave. Anyone can see that wave in its full realtime nonlinear glory from the product Wave. Any wave you have (whether started from Docs or email or...) can be seen in Wave. But Gmail, GChat, Docs, etc. provide only some functions... more... - Daniel Dulitz

@Daniel Dulitz sounds somewhat like how social networking aggregator such as friendfeed works. This way Google wave will aggregate all the activities of gmail,Gchat, docs and other "google activity" in one place. - ashish

I am not so sure about Gmail or Gchat and how you would integrate them-- as Wave seems to have similar and some cases superior functionality that supplants them but being able to collaborate on the production/editing of Google docs in real time perhaps using Google voice conferencing would be nearing a game changer. - Brian Sullivan

That would be great, Daniel. But I think it would require *a lot* of work for some teams at Google and some good explanations to users. I'm sure we'll find specific usages for Wave. Personally, I would let the service grow by itself, without complicating other services. Imagine if I start a Wave and some of my friends participate in it through Docs, some other from Gmail: many troubles... more... - Jérôme Flipo

@Dare: I disagree that Wave is evidence of organizational dysfunction (not saying there *is* not such dysfunction, but Wave certainly doesn't prove it). Whether you love it or hate it, and whether or not you think it will be successful, I believe it's evidence of a company that wants to continue to take risks and innovate in the face of organizational momentum. Why wasn't Wave part of... more... - Joel Webber

It seems like the only big issue is the non-linearity of Wave. So, instead of merging other products to offer alternative (somehow), why not let the creator/owner of a Wave choose if blips should be linear? - Jérôme Flipo

Well Paul, I also think Wave is very clever. Yet I see a few problems regarding the launch process: 1. They launched it exactly like Gmail, by reducing invitation supply & delaying invitation delivery. Yet, unlike an e-mail account and a web based e-mail client this is a collaborative tool that you can not use alone. That's the main reason most influencers and early adopters are... more... - Cem ARGUN

Regarding my proposed merger... I think part of the problem of Wave is that it has too much capability for many people, but real experts (may) like the full-on experience. So let's make everything a wave. Experts interact with those things in Wave or some other full-on experience. But people in the slow lane can interact with _the same wave_ using "views" they are more familiar with --... more... - Daniel Dulitz

Jérôme, in addition to "linearity" there is also the issue of edits versus replies. Also, what do you mean by allowing the creator to choose if blips should be linear? Transforms are sequential today; the whole question is how to extract "(conversational) linearity" from "mere sequence." Linearity is a UI issue. Why allow the creator to specify the reader's UI, instead of leaving it up... more... - Daniel Dulitz

My definition of linearity is rather basic, as is my English :) I meant "non-threaded" conversation, just like here. I think most of the confusion comes from realtime hierarchical conversations: we can't determine easily where the discussion is going at a given moment. As a doc, a Wave must support sub-threads, but as a conversation it may be helpful to oblige participants to respond to... more... - Jérôme Flipo

Keep in mind that's there's a difference between the Wave Protocol/Architecture, and the Wave client, just like there's a difference between SMTP/IMAP and Outlook (vs Gmail). If the UI is not streamlined for a particular use case, then perhaps other clients can be designed which leverage Wave infrastructure, but provide a more optimal experience for a given problem space. - Ray Cromwell

Jérôme, in my view not even email obliges people to respond only to the most recent email in the thread. Maybe Wave should always show a compressed "timeline" view of every event. Perhaps a very zoomed-out icon of the whole wave in the upper-left corner of the wave, showing its blip structure, nesting, etc., with hotspots everywhere there's a change you haven't read yet. To the right of... more... - Daniel Dulitz

Paul Buchheit to Paul's feed, Clare Dibble

Hacker News | What should I choose, PhD or startup? - http://news.ycombinator.com/item...

November 27 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

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for Clare :). The comments are kind of amusing. - Paul Buchheit from Bookmarklet

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Thank you for putting up this post. I'm going through the same thing. I can't decide whether to get my PHD or start working. - Maryam

"Lots of choices in life is about choosing one or another, and it will never be clear which was the best, and there is no "scientific" way of choosing, lots of luck are involved too." - Clare Dibble

FunkyRose, what did you take from the post? what is your field? - Clare Dibble

I'm an MBA student and I'm almost done doing my degree. - Maryam

In the case presented , I would pick the startup. But otherwise , I would say pick a PhD, it gets difficult to do one later in life..and its generally a rewarding learning experience. - Hari

There are also arguments that startups are also difficult to do later in life. :-) Not that I agree with either premise. - Piaw Na

Paul Buchheit

Open as in water, the fluid necessary for life - http://paulbuchheit.blogspot.com/2009...

November 20 from Paul Buchheit - Comment - Like - Share

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When is Facebook going to give people open access to the address book? :) - Bindu Reddy

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They already do. My DROID syncs with my Facebook and Google contacts, converging them both for the same contact on either network. Don't ask me how that's done though - LANjackal

You mean your DRIOD can get to the email addresses of your facebook contacts? - Bindu Reddy

Yep, as well as any numbers, addresses or work positions they have listed on FB - LANjackal from IM

There's a reason contact management on the DROID has been praised as the best implementation thereof in the smartphone arena, if not anywhere period - LANjackal from IM

""Open" is a great thing. Everyone likes it." Maybe everyone you know ;) - Clare Dibble

a friend of mine has a bb storm and it integrates w/ facebook (when i call him, my facebook avatar shows up... etc etc) -- the Droid being able to combine contact lists and merge them when applicable sounds like the next step - Chris Heath

It's still not open. That data is locked into the built in contacts app and you can't get it at an api level. Android 2.0 has a complete (well, half-baked) contact model that allows aggregating contact info. Not to mention that when I entered my contact info into facebook that I understood it was going to be shared that way. But from an end-user standpoint it's great! - Hayes Haugen

@LANJackal that sounds great... I guess my information is dated than.. - Bindu Reddy

Very great post. One of the best. This share remember me with two other great peoples described by Katie Hafner is his book (Where the wizards stay up late): Vint Cerf (you known what i mean) and Dave Clark (by his famous quote : "we reject kings presidents and voting. we believe in rough consensus and running code.") With an "open" mind like yours, they make with days, months, years, a very great open life fluid. I'm very happy to follow you. As Louis Gray says : Please keep blogging. Thank you. - Guy Vander Heyden

Just like with any other activity, the intention behind being open is very important. If somebody wants to manipulate or mislead, then it can be dangerous to follow them. We just have to be aware of extremes. That said, I have learnt a lot from following you and thanks for sharing your ideas so eloquently. - Shakeel Mahate

Hey, thanks for the mention - I'm glad you're enjoying Alfie Kohn's book. He makes me think. - Laura Norvig

Thanks Laura. I've actually "outsourced" the reading to April, but she tells me about it :) - Paul Buchheit

Heh, see this is the type of efficiency mindset you've developed by running a startup. - Laura Norvig

No, I've always been lazy :) - Paul Buchheit

lazy like fox! ;) - Susan Beebe

digs: Gaston Keller

On behalf of the Program Committee, we are happy to inform you that your contribution 30107 ("Replication and Migration as Resource Management Mechanisms for Virtualized Environments") has been accepted at ICAS 2010. =D

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Paul Buchheit

Confidence required - http://sivers.org/confidence

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"It was all very humbling. So humbling, that I found it hard to do anything at all. I had designed and announced my new company. I was psyched for it to exist. But when it came down to doing the necessary work, I hesitated and procrastinated. “Who am I to be starting another company? I’m just going to fuck it up like last time.“ After all I’ve learned, I can’t believe anyone actually thinks they’ll succeed in the complex world of business. Don’t they see all the really smart people who have tried and failed? I can’t believe how foolish I was to start my first company. Just me in my bedroom with no experience, making a little website, when I was up against giant IPO-funded competitors. I was an over-confident punk, thinking I had the answer, and everyone else didn’t. But it worked." - Paul Buchheit from Bookmarklet

Wow, that's pretty interesting for a student like me. :) - Angely

Sefa Karapinar to Sefa's feed, Fotograf, Photography United, Photo Gallery, Photographing, Photography as Art, Photoshop

Signe Vilstrup photographer - http://viacomit.net/2009...

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Oh. NSFW. - Rochelle

Just a bit, Rochelle. - Derrick

Peki, nolcak şimdi? - Esasburak

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Matt Cutts

Lots of Google stuff this week. My fave four: 1. Chrome OS released as open-source. 2. US caselaw added to Google Scholar. 3. Real-time translation as you type at translate.google.com, plus romanization and text-to-speech. 4. Auto-captions (speech recognition) on YouTube and auto-timing (upload video transcript, get accurate time code alignment).

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Links: 1. Chromium OS: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009... 2. US caselaw: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009... 3. As-you-type translation: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009... 4. Auto-captions & Auto-timing: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009... - Matt Cutts

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And a bonus video: http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2009... More detailed Google Earth models based on StreetView imagery. - Matt Cutts

I love the new Real-time translation. I found less usefull the new adsense panel layout (you know.. now i have to wear glasses to check the old things.. but it's only a css issue, so...). :) - Seo (ignobile) Guru

I think it would be nice of Google Translate offered an automatic reverse translation. Also, if I type in my language and get something translated into a language I don't speak, what good is the text to speech version to me? I can't understand it. Am I supposed to record it and post the sound file somewhere? - SuezanneC Baskerville

If you translate something into a language you don't speak, it might be a helpful aid for learning to speak a new language. I can read and understand some italian, and more if I hear it, but what I know when reading it isn't the same as what I know when I hear it, since I can't associate the way it sounds with how it is spelled at the same time. This might help me with that. - April Russo (app103)

didn't know about text to speech thanks for letting us know, real time translation is good and is like the translate page/site - ffcode

digs: Michael Tighe

Eucalyptus http://open.eucalyptus.com/, an open-source cloud implementation. It's not BRAND new, but if you haven't checked it out, take a look. It is the technology running the Ubuntu Cloud platform in Ubuntu 9.10. I haven't looked too deep, but they have a couple of papers, docs, and source code for dl. I say we build ourselves a cloud ;)

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You mean... in the lab 336, as Mike (Bauer) suggested yesterday? =D - Gaston Keller

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yes, yes I do. - Michael Tighe

I've heard that the Ubuntu makes this pretty easy now provided that the target machines have enough resources. - Hanan Lutfiyya

This is a 2008-paper that talks about the process of building an actual _private cloud_. Flexiscale - Next Generation Datacentre Management (http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/dcspaul...). Maybe we can take some ideas for building our own _private cloud_. =P - Gaston Keller

Check CERAS (https://www.cs.uwaterloo.ca/twiki...). In theory, they have a private cloud for their research. In practice, I haven't read of it yet. =P - Gaston Keller

Bret Taylor

A clock made out of browser scrollbars - http://toki-woki.net/p...

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superb! - ashish

That's awesome but completely locked up my iPhone. I should've known better than to try it in a browser without scrollbars... - Tony Ruscoe

Paul Buchheit

Imagine that you are about to be reincarnated (as a baby human) and can pass along 140 characters of advice. What would you say?

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Assume that the baby will be born into circumstances similar to your own, if necessary... - Paul Buchheit

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Wow, that's a stumper of a question! :) - Susan Beebe

Learn all that you can, be noble, true, humble, love much. Seek wisdom from your family and friends - Susan Beebe

I would say: pls take a picture of me using your iPhone and post it to Posterous and capture that 12sec video of reincarnation process : ) - victed from iPhone

I wouldn't need 140 characters: "in whatever you do, strive to do it as well as you possibly can." 64. - Bren -- feeling merry from iPhone

Floss. :) - Merry Xmas FFeeders - AJ

"It's mostly an illusion" - Paul Buchheit

Never stop learning, enjoy the little things, cherish friends & family, try your best, keep an open mind, and indulge yourself occasionally. - Nathan Chase

chase your passions, the rest follows. observe everything. work, love and play hard. change happens. live full and balanced. 3 - Charles Ying

What goes around comes around. - imabonehead

I think Nathan has it! At least he said exactly what I would have written. :-) - Victoria Plautia

Don't panic. - Penguin It's Cold Outside from fftogo

Risk is not an option. And eat your vegetables. - Micah Wittman

Study Thomas, he has more answers than anyone else you will read. - Alex Scrivener

Number to a Swiss bank safe containing cash, guns and numerous passports. Yes, it is from a movie. - Peng-Toh

.....so are we trying to guess the meaning of life here? essentially I think that's what this question boils down to. I only need two characters: - Ⓐ ☠ slayerboy ☠ Ⓐ

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Fear the fail whale. - Jim Norris

"If you think you already know the answer, you will never know the answer" - Paul Buchheit

Alex, which Thomas? - Paul Buchheit

Plastics, my boy. - MVB (Grinch of FF) from iPod

You're a towel! - Raphael, Raphael

Don't fear the fail whale. - Paul Buchheit

Do unto others as you would have them do unto you, if you were in their position. - Ruchira S. Datta

Everything is transitory. - John E. Bredehoft

Don't tell them I told you this. They'll think you're nuts! - Larry Hosken

"There's always an easier way" - Paul Buchheit

I'm surprised no one's quoted Kurt Vonnegut yet. :) - April Buchheit

April, is that your advice or an observation? - Clare Dibble

Observation. - April Buchheit

Stay away from the mohel. - Leo Laporte

Crush the enemy. See them driven before you. Hear the lamentations of the women. - Chrimmus Tad

"Think big. Code small." - Paul Buchheit

For April: "There's only one rule that I know of, babies—God damn it, you've got to be kind." - Paul Buchheit

Phase 1: Collect Handerpants; Phase 2: ?; and Phase 3: Profit - imabonehead

Just wing it. It'll be cool. - April Buchheit

Let's git rid of 140 chars nonsense limid. - Petr Buben

"Reasonable men adapt to the world around them; unreasonable men make the world adapt to them. The world is changed by unreasonable men." - Paul Buchheit

Paul, try telling April that next time she is frustrated with you; I'm sure it will help ;) - Clare Dibble

Just told my son this tonight -- Leave the earth better than the way you found it. - Joe

Don't be such an asshole, asshole. - Rodfather

@Paul, Aquinas - Alex Scrivener

"Don't believe it when people say you can't do something. Prove them wrong." - Cristo

Assuming my reincarnated self has wifi and a smartphone, I might point him to Des'ree's 1990s pop hit: http://www.youtube.com/watch... - Doug Beeferman

Treat others with respect. Feed your intellectual curiosity. Don't accept limits others place upon you and often, patience is required. - Louis Gray

"Nobody else knows what's really going on either." - Amber, Random Time Lord

LCD is better than plasma - Alex Scoble

"Its not that bad, stop sh*tting yourself, ;)" - chaz2b

++Leo, that sounds like very useful advice. :) - Ruchira S. Datta

In the end it really doesn't matter, enjoy it while it lasts, do what makes you happy, try not to sabotage the happiness of others. - April Russo (app103)

Don’t sweat the small stuff. It’s all small stuff. - Laura Norvig

"Dear Reincarnated Self: my head is frozen with the Life Extension Foundation. To get cool advice pls unfreeze me at ur earliest convenience." - Philipp Lenssen

"Dont be afraid to take chances or march to a different beat. In the end only the soul counts, don't sweat the small stuff. Listen, learn." - Grant Bierman

Dr. Cable. Watch it. ;-) - 'Like' robot (frɐnc)

I dare you to do better. - Charles Ying

"Please ask the next generation to increase maximum message length." - Ray Cromwell

BTW, Commander Data was able to get away with sending only 2 *bits* of information into the future/past to break out of a 'groundhog day' scenario. The message: 3 - Ray Cromwell

There once was a site called Twitter. It was worth a billion dollars... - Sean Kelly

Exercise every day, learn to program asap. I have discovered a truly marvellous proof that these are the right things to do which this twee - j1m

"I've finally discovered the secret to a contented and effective life, which for you, begins now. This joy can be yours. Just claim it by t" <snipped by character limit> - Kurtiss Hare

Search for the will of the creator. Prefer the heaven of love to the hell of power.Every moment is unique.Train empathy. Give. [ yeah, I kept in the character limit! Twitter is like life sometimes, only, hu, more limitted :-] - Willi Schroll

L^2>∞ love of life is greater then time and space. Compassion destroys the destroyer peace above me below me around me down me radiate peace - Robert Higgins

That's easy: Join friendfeed as soon as possible. - Jim Addz No Value

don't sweat it kid, you just got a do over... - J. Abdul-Qahhar

H4sIABnpA0sCA+3KOw2AMBQAwB0VTwEeWHFRPhOFEgghdU91kFsvN+Qcb7m2SMcSR4kzpxp72tY7 xjQ3juVpZSq1j8F1Xdd1Xdd1Xdd1Xdd1Xdd1Xdd1Xdd1/327D0m3yMZIHwAA - Edward Coffey

"Propose multiple solutions to every problem. Or choose your own life." - Ivo Danihelka

Learn Math. - Alternating Reality Books

"Context is everything." - Bruce Johnson from BuddyFeed

@RayCromwell - see my first comment ;) - Charles Ying

"Listen." The other 133 characters are superfluous. - Bruce Lewis from fftogo

Like to quote Einstein on this one," As the circle of light increases, so does the circumference of darkness." - ashish from iPhone

Ray Cromwell has said it best *rofl* please increase message length!! It doesn't get any better than that! Words of wisdom!! :) - John Tastad

Seek truth - Shakeel Mahate

Love always wins. Don't sweat happiness: find joy. (ponders how to translate the "becoming a man" speech from Secondhand Lions into 140 characters...) - Ladybug Heather

Remember to save often...data and money. Live life like you have a reset button. - Brian Merriman

Ignore advice. You'll figure it out. - Todd Hoff

I won't develop the ability to type until years later, so I guess my only advice is "Ga Ga" and "Ball." - Fleagle

Frankie says RELAX - VAL D. Zone

It's not just you, they're all crazy. Make as many friends outside the family as you can. You'll want to leave home. Do it. Don't look back. (this is a seriously awesome topic!) - Lo

Follow your heart. Don't worry about failure because apparently reincarnation is real. Snooches! - Kevin Fox

Dont let others decide for you what is good and right for you. Not even this message. - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

Learn your math. Especially Geometry. It will make your coding SO much more compelling! - Joe Nickence

"Don't tweet"? - Marcos

Actually, I prefer FF.. - ★ Soner Gönül

Well I won't list all 140 but 1 I will is: Do not live your life to live..Live it to die. In other words, prepare for death because all life is about is another chance to get it right so you can end Samsara. - Merlyn Seeley

"In your past life, you never understood why people liked Twitter." - Ryan Kaisoglus

the world is made of atoms - bob

Crawl back in? - dannysullivan

Use the force. Search your feelings. Live long and prosper. - Charles Ying

When the time comes, cut the blue wire. - David Gaw

There's always something bigger than you. - Daisy

Dear new self: whatever you do, don't make all the same mistakes with your life that I did with mine. For example, you should never ever try [MAXIMUM MESSAGE LENGTH REACHED] - s t e v e

Don't put twinkies on your Pizza. - Will Higgins™

You, are fine. To hell w' 'em if they think you're not pretty/funny/smart/rich enough. - Summer

Find Stuart Diamond and take his negotiation course when you're 16. Love yourself so you can love others. Also, reincarnation exists, and you were a geek in your previous life. - Daniel Dulitz

Don't wish for what you aren't. Life will be far more interesting than you could ever expect. Play with the cards you're dealt, and have fun - Bette Cooper

don't play safe gamble every day - WarLord

Focus, be patient. Never give up. Timing is crucial. - JSNFLMNG from iPod

"Next time, duck." - Otto from iPhone

Call me Stewie, bow now and pay later. Put another coal in the power plant so you can continue watching this homage and choke on the fumes. [140 and referenced Family Guy, ideology, commerce, ecology, choice, and lost will.] - William 'Bill' McPhe

"Tom Cruise must be stopped. By any means necessary." - Otto

Otto, you have room to add "--your mission, if you choose to accept it." - Micah Wittman

Life is all about ass. You're either covering it, kicking it, kissing it, busting it, laughing it off, or trying to get a piece of it. - Mona Nomura

Mona, you forgot the part about being one. - April Russo (app103)

live! - barbarars

Be kind to animals, nature, others & yourself. Do what you love. Love what you do. Never stop learning about the world around you. - Bronson Harrington

Try to find the 140 characters you would pass along to your reincarnation. - Eszter Susánszky

Nap. - A Mitchell

Gary Burd

"interesting parallel between the decline of rock music quality and, of all things, the decline in US oil discovery and production" - http://www.overthinkingit.com/2008...

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So if we can get Bill and Ted together the world will be all right? - Uncle CW™

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There has to be some sort of birthday paradox around graphs. Given a large enough library of graphs, you will find a strong correlation between two. - Joe Beda ()

Mean global temperature correlates quite well with the decline in the pirate population, after all. Actually, we can test causality now -- will the rise of Somali and Asian pirates bring the temperature back down? Or are the required to wear 17th century pirate regalia? - Joel Webber

This also confirms my conjecture that there have been no new good artists since 1975. - Gabe

This is why we must start drilling in Alaska. - τorƍue

Will drilling in Alaska improve rock music? - Gary Burd

Speaking of birthdays, I think a histogram of the birthdays of music critics would probably look a whole lot like the red graph... shifted 13-18 years or so. - Ken Sheppardson

'Songs in "Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Songs of all Time,"' huh? That's some ground truth for ya. - j1m

I'd like to see the graph for Pitchfork, but the lists are segmented by decade. - Gary Burd

@Ken - "predicting oil production by music critic's birthdays". Who'd have thought we could solve the whole running-out-of-oil thing by getting Rolling Stone to hire 16 year olds!!! - Nick Lothian

Ken: I think you might find more correllation with a histogram of drug use than age of critics. - Gabe

Plenty of good rock out there: http://www.lala.com/#album... http://www.lala.com/#album... http://www.lala.com/#album... -- though can't argue that we're not in an age of decline - Christopher Galtenberg

digs: Gaston Keller

Go, a new systems programming language coming out from Saint Google: http://golang.org/ . Here you have somebody describing it: http://scienceblogs.com/goodmat... .

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The creators of Unix (Ken Thompson and Rob Pike) are behind this.. This was a curious bit.. Ken Thompson fixes O_CREAT in Go. I wonder how many years he has been wanting to do that? - http://code.google.com/p... (via http://ff.im/bjpvQ) - Karthick R

Paul Buchheit

Google hopes to remake programming with Go - http://news.cnet.com/8301-10...

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This could be very good! "Google software luminaries such as Unix co-creator Ken Thompson believe that they can help boost both computing power and programmers' abilities with an experimental programming language project called Go. And on Tuesday, they're taking the veil of secrecy off Go, releasing what they've built so far and inviting others to join the newly open-source project." - Paul Buchheit from Bookmarklet

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What do you think, Paul? I know it's early, but Python latched on at Google... Think this is a response? And just on a lark, do you think Go may be headed for the browser at some point (to replace javascript)? Many of us have wondered if Chrome will take a stab at reinventing/reworking the web stack. Go feels more like a back-end tool, but wondering what came to your mind when you saw this... - Christopher Galtenberg

Christopher, Python is nice, but we need a new system language, something high-performance to replace C/C++. This may be it. - Paul Buchheit

Yeah, I was remembering your thoughts from here, Paul: http://friendfeed.com/paul.... Wonder how the ooc folks feel today... - Christopher Galtenberg

My first reaction was oh yay, another C like language with brackets to make it acceptable. Having Rob Pike and Thompson on the team is impressive but makes me think of a plan9 resurrection. Using CSPs though is pretty cool and it looks like it supports mobile tasks. - Todd Hoff

"Specifically, Go uses a technology dating back to the 1960s called CSP, or communicating sequential processes, that handles interactions among a set of cooperating programs, Pike said. The technology made an appearance in programming languages such as Occom and Erlang, but it generally hasn't been applied in systems programming." - Paul Buchheit

If Google uses this for internal projects, that will give it a big advantage over something like plan9 in terms of being practical (not to mention the fact that it's free software, which plan9 was not, and a programming language, not an OS). - Paul Buchheit

I am very excited about this, it's not genius or rocket science but it maybe the language to put alongisde C/C++ for real. I thought it was going to be D, maybe this is it - Lawrence Oluyede

D seems too fragmented to be usable. All my hopes are on Go now :) - Paul Buchheit

And note that the language is designed to be IDE independent. - Piaw Na

Plan9 was a set of composable tools. In this case Google is providing the OS and the tools. - Todd Hoff

Go is NOT an OS! - Piaw Na

Where's the link to it? - Gabe

http://golang.org/ - Lawrence Oluyede

Please ; at the end of lines... (I hate languages without ; for some psychological reasons) - Ozgur Demir

I am no fan of language features designed to ease parsing but i suppose that's important for a system language? But it's hardly a user (i.e. programmer)-centric design. I think they should have drawn more from Scala (for concurrency model) and Io (for a beautiful syntax) instead of the messy, old languages they chose. Luckily, it's not designed for my needs so i'll never have to worry about it. - ·[▪_▪]·

@ozgurdemir I agree. Either require them or don't. Don't make them optional in some cases. It confuses what programmers generally expect of a programming language: consistency. - ·[▪_▪]·

Just checked and hated it. Sorry guys, it's not about the rest of the language.. it's just the ;'s. - Ozgur Demir

while checking it, I noticed how much I love C / Java syntax and how lame to trying to change it just for to make a new product different. - Ozgur Demir

@Paul you should know better than to confuse a language with its implementation! The people working on this all hail from the C/Java lineage and I don't know...may be fast but generally C is a hassle and Java is too dumbed-down. Trying to fix the mistakes they made in the past. Wonderful... - Rudolf Olah

For god's sake, who cares what the syntax looks like? What matters is whether it solves useful problems or not. It's designed to clean up a lot of the problems stemming from the legacy of C[++], compile fast, execute fast, be appropriate for systems programming, and have good primitives for concurrency. Those are good goals in my book, and they fill a much-needed niche. - Joel Webber

I do care. - Ozgur Demir

I thought it was kinda weird the way the video highlighted how fast it compiles. Compilation speed is great, and the vid was impressive, but I've never seen a language launch where that was highlighted so much. "Look, it compiles fast!!!!!! Oh, BTW, we are trying to solve concurrency". - Nick Lothian

@Ozgur: Sure, but as long as the syntax isn't broken in some way, or ambiguous (VB6 comes to mind), it's surely much less important than what the language is capable of (compile speed, execution speed, what can be expressed, etc). Syntax seems like a distant third- or fourth-most important aspect to me. - Joel Webber

@Nick: That kind of struck me as well when they first started talking about it. But when you consider that your main alternative is C++, and that compile times can get absolutely brutal (try compileing WebKit sometime -- it takes hours), it makes a bit more sense. - Joel Webber

@Joel. yea, I can't say you're wrong and I am right.. these are all preferences.. for me, syntax is an important aspect in terms of code readability that's why I care since it becomes a real pain in the ass on a midsize or bigger project. - Ozgur Demir

This thread is degenerating into rubbish. You know who you are - please stop. - Christopher Galtenberg from iPhone

@Joel yeah, I guess. But compiling something like that should take hours! Back when men were men and compiling a kernel on my 386 was a major undertaking success was so much more satisfying! Who are these young'uns Thompson & Pike and what do they know anyway! - Nick Lothian

Yeah, really! Real programmers had to swap disks multiple times to run a Pascal compiler on Hello World for the C64 :) - Joel Webber

Yeah, compilation speed doesn't mean too much. Would be nicer if they focused on the *thinking* part with regards to concurrency. - Rudolf Olah

Compilation speeds mean a lot when you're dealing with the google programming model. This is a company that invented code search for internal use. (See as an example: http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7613693...) - Piaw Na

Luckily it isn't named "goo". - Peng-Toh

@Piaw - nice example. I only skipped through it, but I can't see why something like that makes compilation speed critical. It seems similar in concept to static analysis - more speed is good, but the lack of speed doesn't break the model. - Nick Lothian

@nlothian: static analysis and compilation both include parsing. efficient parsing of C++ is rather hard to achieve, due to messy nature of multiply included files and macro substitutions. if code analysis takes hours (ok, half-hours), it ceases to be useful. - 9000

Lack of speed totally breaks the model. When you can get your analysis and search tools to respond in sub 500ms, the model for coding completely changes. You no longer remember where files are --- you just search for them and expect the search tool to remember for you. This enables massive code sharing, and allows small teams to be extremely effective, since they can now leverage other teams' work. - Piaw Na

Must be Google.. - ★ Soner Gönül

Why compile time matters: http://xkcd.com/303/ - Robert Felty

Use an IDE for iterative development of the components you are working on, make modules independent through interfaces, do a nightly build so the bulk of build products like libraries etc are available, then these compile issues go away. Justifying based on compile times is so 1990s. - Todd Hoff

Ah, but how exactly does your IDE allow you to do iterative development quickly? You have to be able to compile individual modules (whatever form they take) quickly enough to make this feasible. If you take C[++] as the de facto systems language, it fails badly on this front, because the only way to share interfaces among modules is via the preprocessor, and precompiled headers only get... more... - Joel Webber

Poor Frank McCabe and his ten year old "go!" language: http://www.reddit.com/r... - Daniel J. Pritchett

C++ allows for abstract base classes. No implementation. Compose systems this way and you minimize recompilation. And I'm assuming the initial subsystems are developed in a mocked unit tested environment and then within a very narrow scope, so interface changes are minimized until the system test phase is reached. The compilation argument would make sense if they were talking about a... more... - Todd Hoff

Sure, but you still have to define the abstract base class (interface) in a header file somewhere, and individual .cc files end up depending upon a large number of these in practice, so that any change to one of them tends to force you to recompile a lot of object files. As you say, there are some ways of reducing this effect, but in practice large C++ systems end up taking forever and a day to compile (try compiling WebKit; a lot of Google code has this problem as well). - Joel Webber

C++ templates are also implemented badly, which makes compilation slow. - Piaw Na

Only if you don't compose your system well Joel. I've worked very comfortably on systems that took 12 hours to compile across a cluster of 32 build machines. I'm not saying I don't want a language where you don't have to go through all these hoops, but to say it's inevitable in C++ is not so, you just have to beat make into submission and not create a big ball of mud, which is good practice anyway. - Todd Hoff

@Todd: Fair enough -- I'm definitely not saying you're wrong, and I have also worked on fairly large C++ code bases (mostly games) without everything going to hell in a handbasket. But you have to admit that it would be nice if you didn't have to wait many hours (or use a Google-sized build cluster) for compiling your code :) - Joel Webber

I've worked "comfortably" on projects where the full rebuild time was a few hours on my local machine, but I can't say that I was ever working optimally. Even in the instant-on environment I'm working in now, there are occasionally changes that I have to wait a full build/deploy cycle to test and it almost always takes me 2-5x as long to solve problems in that case. You can multitask while you wait, but it's just not the same (IMHO, of course). - Matt Mastracci

I think 12 hours to compile across 32 build machines is unacceptable. I want instant compilation. You know, the kind that Turbo Pascal used to have. - Piaw Na

I think that there's a dramatic improvement in developer productivity when the compile-link-run cycle time goes from a minute to a second. - Gary Burd

Piaw before you say what is or is not unacceptable you might want to take the trouble to know what problem is being solved. Turbo Pascal to a real deployed product like a unicycle is to the 5th fleet. - Todd Hoff

But any, good, modern IDE compiles incrementally and continuously so there's no noticeable compilation step. Compilation shouldn't be a _highlight_ of a new language. It's nice and the ease of building developer tools is a benefit to uptake but, in the end, the language has to be something developers _want_ to read and write since we have to look at it so much. Syntax matters. It's why so much sugar is added to languages. - ·[▪_▪]·

As stated before, modern IDEs don't scale to google-sized code bases. Go is not designed for your tiny projects that fit in main memory. It's designed for large scale development projects. - Piaw Na

@piaw You seem to assume that Google doesn't organize it's code. Any good project, regardless of size, especially for large projects, should be modularized. If Google has to load every piece of code into the IDE, they have more serious problems than Go will resolve. Trust me, I work on a project with tens of millions of lines of Java code and i've been responsible for analysis and... more... - ·[▪_▪]·

Well, Piaw actually did write a fair amount of the code at Google, so I'd give him a little more credit :) I know plenty of people at Google who *do* use Eclipse/IntelliJ on Google's code base (myself included), but you do have to break it into manageable chunks to make it work. That's sometimes easier said than done, to be fair. - Joel Webber

When I worked for a large company in the internet advertising business, I found that dependency creep was a constant problem. I spent more time than I would have liked trying to get fast compilation time in Eclipse/IntelliJ. I welcome a tool that helps with this problem. - Gary Burd

"I have already used the name for *MY* programming language" http://code.google.com/p... - Itachi

I think that time spent pruning and organizing your code and library is best instead spent working on better tools that make your development environment super fast and capable of scaling. That's the way Go was designed. - Piaw Na

If you want fast turnaround, eliminate compiles all together. There's no reason why a language can't support a double or triple hybrid model. Look at a language like Factor, image based like Smalltalk, you write a function, and can patch it into the live running app instantaneously, where it will run interpreted in combination with compiled code, until the runtime gets around to... more... - Ray Cromwell

I noticed that Go has an interpreter work-in-progress living in its source. The start of an instant-run mode? - Matt Mastracci

Smalltalk had a massive sharing problem --- you couldn't ever replicate what was in your Smalltalk image on someone else's machine. Eliminating compiles would be nice, but again, if you're solving problems at a massive scale, interpretation would be an order of magnitude loss in execution speed that you can't afford. That said, a Go interpreter would not be out of the question, or even hard to build. - Piaw Na

@Piaw - was just reading "Coders at Work" this week and Ingalls (http://www.codersatwork.com/dan-ing...) was saying the exact opposite. He said he pauses his Mac machine and sends his Smalltalk system state over to a Windows developer and they start right up, debug, and fix. - Daniel J. Pritchett

The point is not to have the production version run in interpretation, the point is to increase developer productivity by allowing a fast edit-run cycle, production builds can take as long as necessary. When you're in development mode, you often don't need full execution speed, you are checking for correctness. Take GWT for example. You can make changes to Java source, hit reload, and... more... - Ray Cromwell

What does production mean? An experiment that processes a large number of records so you can decide how to proceed with your line of research is hardly production, but it nevertheless has to execute fast over large amounts of data. You might think that it doesn't matter how quickly that runs, but the difference between 10 minutes and 100 minutes is huge in terms of productivity. - Piaw Na

Yes, if you copied the entire image over, you could replicate a smalltalk VM. The problem is, then you have to live with the other guy's image and customizations. Smalltalk is great, but it really was designed as a single-user environment. - Piaw Na

It depends how often you are running experiments over huge datasets like that. In the case where I needed some experimental data to proceed, yes, if after every edit, you had such an experiment, then maybe programming in a neutered language would be worth it, but I'd say that for the majority of developers, this is not the case, so being able to run unoptimized builds/interpretation... more... - Ray Cromwell

No, it is not for everyone. It's very much for large scale datasets that are encountered somewhat frequently on the WWW. - Piaw Na

Bret Taylor

Ken Thompson fixes O_CREAT in Go. I wonder how many years he has been wanting to do that? - http://code.google.com/p...

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Looks like he only fixed this yesterday :). - Private Sanjeev

Beautiful. The universe has been fixed. - Tudor Bosman

Reference: http://books.google.com/books... - Tudor Bosman

digs: Michael Tighe

I found an excellent app for managing research papers. It has a lot of great features for organization, tagging, automatic data extraction, adding notes and highlights to pdfs... it also allows you to store your pdfs and meta-data in the cloud for retrieval and synchronization from multiple machines. Check it out. http://www.mendeley.com/

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I like this. This could potentially be a very powerful productivity tool. - Hanan Lutfiyya

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http://mekentosj.com/papers/ is worth a look too. I think I am zeroing in for this with the files going into my dropbox folder, for automatic backup reasons..! Mendeley is impressive too, Papers just has more features, like in product search, reading, taking notes and in Mac Papers looks more stable! - Karthick R

mendeley has the reading and notes as well, and can watch a folder to automatically add new files as well. I would absolutely check out Papers, but alas, it is Mac only. - Michael Tighe

I was just told about this extension for Firefox: http://www.zotero.org/ . Useful? - Gaston Keller

could be, it was recommended to me by a friend of mine at Fog Creek, he said all the guys there swear by it. I took a brief look at it a little while ago and was annoyed by the in-firefox interface a bit, but that might just be my short attention span talking. Probably worth checking out. - Michael Tighe

Bret Taylor

Google Chart API can generate LaTeX equations - http://moultano.blogspot.com/2009...

November 9 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

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love! - Ashwin Bharambe

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Quite useful for some. :) - Daniel Schildt

Yay! - Simon

Am I the only person who absolutely despises Knuth's "Computer Modern" font? I don't know what it is about it, but it just looks awful to me. And I'm one of those people who used TeX for everything including drawing finite automata and analytic tableaux back in college. - Jim Norris

I'm with you, Jim. That's why, following the book _TeX Unbound_, I used other fonts in my LaTeXed thesis. From the colophon: "I used mathinst to make a mathematical font family of Monotype Bembo Semibold (from Agfa-Monotype), MathTime (from Y&Y), Chantilly (from Softmaker, similar to Gill Sans), Typewriter (from the Electronic Font Foundry), and a few others, with which I typeset this dissertation." - Ruchira S. Datta

I always had \usepackage{times} in my LaTeX documents. - Tudor Bosman

Times is almost as bad though. At one point I figured out how to use Adobe Garamond, but it was kind of flaky. - Jim Norris

I didn't like Computer Modern or Times. I used Century Schoolbook for my stuff, I think (\usepackage{newcent}). - Amit Patel

Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF

Dear Google: Please get rid of this page. Just add a setting so I can say "always use Google Reader for RSS feeds." (Or vice versa, or an option to always ask if someone uses both.) I've been going through this extra step for years now, and I am really tired of it.

November 9 - Comment - Like - Share

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They want us to use the google page. It is really just spam. - Mark Horne

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If you use Firefox, BetterGReader extension let's you set a preference to bypass the choice. - LogEx

I'm pretty sure there's a gmscript for just skipping this page. Then again, it's just another click ;) - Itachi

LE, I might have to add BetterGReader just to do that. - Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF

annoyed the hell out of me too, but then i stopped using greader - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

I really wish they would kill it. I *NEVER* want to add a feed to my google homepage. I never go there. - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah

Exactly, Rah. I've never chosen the Homepage option. Google knows everything about me, they should know by now that this page is worthless to me. And seriously, now with Google's profiles and centralized accounts, a persistent setting for this should be a piece of cake to implement. - Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF

Agree, always on the Reader! Great tool! - John Tastad

Yes please! - Summer

Agreed! - Kevin Mohr

Feedly will skip this page for you ;) - Mitchell McKenna

Does it, Mitchell? I have Feedly installed at home, but I haven't noticed. I use Chrome at work, though. - Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF

Google Homepage just isn't needed for anything. I wish they'd pull the plug on that thing. - Matthew DeVries

that is why i use the google reader "subscribe" bookmarklet ;-) (edit: you can find it in your google reader settings) - Stanislas Jourdan

Jandy: there is a preview of feedly for chrome. If you are interested, please send me an email at edwink@devhd.com and I will send you an invite. - Edwin Khodabakchian

Agreed!! - Chris Myles

+ - zeroinfluencer

it's like you read my mind or something! - Loc

X-tra like! - Smeerch

i use better greader and it skips this for me. - Liz

Like Stanilas, I just use the bookmarklet. I haven't seen this page in a couple years. - Rob Haas from iPhone

Edwin, that's awesome! I'd love to give it a try - I'll shoot you an email. - Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF

Bret Taylor

Mockingbird - http://gomockingbird.com/

November 4 from Facebook - Comment - Like - Share

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That looks fantastic. - Kevin Fox

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Omg I love it! Lately I've been doing more wireframes than actual mockups, and I wanted them to be team-editable as well, so I was using Google Doc's drawing tool. This is way better. Great find! - Jess Lee

It's Hypercard! (edit: no it's not) - Hayes Haugen

Neat. It's a canvas app. - Scott Ludwig

Anyone had experience with Balsamiq? Wondering how mockingbird compares - Adam Kazwell

Nice, but I don't think many clients are going to enjoy being told to 'just upgrade to a PROPER browser!' when they discover they can't view the wireframes in IE - Duncan

"Proper: Of the required type; suitable or appropriate" Could have chosen a less aggressive word, but it sounds like IE isn't a browser of the required type, so the word is technically correct in this context. The question of whether IE *should* be improper is another matter. - Kevin Fox

I don't think it's a case of whether it's a proper browser or not, regardless of the definition; the usefulness of the app would be somewhat stunted if one half of team have problems using it. Or at least, I hope I'm not the only one who's had clients who still use IE6, and, for one reason or another, can't upgrade. Anyway, I'll shut up now, this is beta software, just hope that moving forward, they at least support IE8! - Duncan

There is no sane reason to be developing software for IE6 anymore as it's past for even Microsoft. Yeah, they still make some random updates to it but if some companies are stuck with IE6 (for other reasons than having some software that are binded to that specific version) some might ask if their security policy is working or not. - Daniel Schildt

It's good to develop software that works in most browsers but there is no good reason go get stuck in the past while creating something totally new. Mockingbird is meant as development tool and if some client does not want to have properly working browser, it's their problem. Wireframes are just the beginning part of UI development so there isn't need that have this kind of software working in ancient browsers (as if developers would still mainly develop everything first for IE6...). - Daniel Schildt

Paul Buchheit

javascript:void(document.body.contentEditable=(document.body.contentEditable!='true'))

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WHOA! Cool! - Merry Xmas FFeeders - AJ

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awesome! - siniradam

you just made my color blind self cry tears of joy - I can now click that to discover all of the links that some crazy color mad designer has "hidden" from me by their color choices - bear (aka Mike Taylor)

wow neat trick - \(*_*)/

is there a bookmarklet to make hackernews look good on the iphone? - Ivan Kirigin

Add this to FriendFeed and you've got Wave :-) - Jesse Stay

Reminds me somewhat of ClutterMe http://www.clutterme.com/ - they figured out how to make a whole page in-place-editable (javascript of course) - just click anywhere and start typing: http://www.clutterme.com/pages... - Christopher Galtenberg

Nice, discover links obscured by CSS - Orlando Pozo

Cute trick. Not being familiar with java script (at all) what is the void%200 statement there for? - Eric Borisch

Without the void 0, the browser will navigate to a page showing the result of the computation. - Paul Buchheit

Not grasping the %200, though - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah

But that's not the case when I just execute it in the (safari) address bar. I take it that's expected? - Eric Borisch

%20 is a space. I'm not sure about safari -- I use ff. - Paul Buchheit

Cool. This + FB + malcontents + screenshots = ??? - Eric Borisch

What is this supposed to do again ?-- it does nothing that I can discern in IE, FF or Chrome (on Vista). - Brian Sullivan

OK I see what it does on FF. - Brian Sullivan

But only in FireFox presumably? - Brian Sullivan

It works on IE - Merry Xmas FFeeders - AJ

So it does -- first time I tried IE8 crashed. - Brian Sullivan

Works in Chrome, too - Jan Ole Peek

It doesn't seem to work in 4.0.223.11 - Brian Sullivan

I'm still on Chrome 3.0.195.27 but it says no update detected... this is in Win7. Pretty sure my OSX Chrome is 4.0.223.11 though. - Jan Ole Peek

4.0.223.11 is the latest in the dev stream. - Brian Sullivan

Works on Chrome Mac version here. I added the script as a new bookmark in the menu. - Jesper Lind

Try this instead to avoid the %20 weirdness: javascript:void(document.body.contentEditable=(document.body.contentEditable!='true')) - Matt Mastracci

Doesn't seem to work either -- maybe a bug in the dev version? - Brian Sullivan

World's coolest bookmarklet, especially those who are creating demo apps. - Mike Reynolds

Wow, this is awesome (works perfectly for me in Firefox 3.5). Simple Bookmarklet code that makes Web pages "editable". Now if only there were save + back buttons or something = Instant Wiki. - Alex Schleber

I realized after playing for a while, some of the keyboard events stop working, like submitting form by hitting Enter .. (FF 3.5.3) - \(*_*)/

this is the fundamental line of every wysiwyg editor you use. for IE use allowEdit - Tzury Bar Yochay

Clicking it a second time makes it un-editable (and therefore it should respond to events and such). - Paul Buchheit

So how do you discover 'hidden' links.? - 'Like' robot (frɐnc)

Cool, worked for me (the box is Windows Chrome 3.0.195.27) - ǝuǝƃnǝ

I mean in all open tabs and windows, not just in editable mode. It stayed that way, still no keyboard events (not restarted ff yet) :) - \(*_*)/

Figured how to make it but what's it good for - pretending to rip other people's stuff to sh*t? - Michael Slattery

Michael - I'm thinking about possible use as a minor webdesign tool. Of course other tools are more powerful, but this is a nice simple one. - Deborah Fitchett

Ok, I finally get it - Michael Slattery

this is the worlds best website - Grant Rhoades

Kol Tregaskes to Kol's feed, Friend Birthdays!

I'm 33 years and a few hours old right now! Happy Birthday me. :-D

November 4 - Comment - Like - Share

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Happy Birthday! - Kenton

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Thank you, Kenton! :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Happy Birthday, Kol!! - Merry Xmas FFeeders - AJ

Happy birthday, Kolin! - Stephen Mack

Happy Birthday Kol. - Uncle CW™

No pressies yet. Guess what? They are delayed in the post, LOL. Thanks Royal Mail. Thanks for being on strike all the time. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

Kolgratulations! :) - Jemm

Happy birthday, sir. I hope you're having a great day! - pea

Happy Birthday Kol! Have an amazing one ! - Wang Yip

Thanks, AJ, Stephen, CW, Jemm. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Thanks, Pea. Well normal day at work, but I work for a games dev, so that's a pretty good day in my book. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

We're same age :) - diego morelli

Thanks, Wang! - Kol Tregaskes

Diego, it's a good age. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

I agree ;-) - diego morelli

It was actually a nice sunny day for the most part today. It's been dull and gloomy for ages. So the Sun came out for me today, hehe. - Kol Tregaskes

Happy birthday Kol! Have a great one! :) - Dee S.

Happy Birthday, Kol! Thirty three was a pretty good year for me and I have a feeling you're going to LOVE It :) Best wishes, congrats and go celebrate! - Holly Rae

Thank you v much, Dee. Hope you're well? - Kol Tregaskes

Thank you, Holly. - Kol Tregaskes

Happy Birthday! - joey

HB! - Spidra Webster

happy birthday :) - Deniz (bluesign) Edincik

Happy Birthday Kol! - OnuRC

Happy Birthday, Kol! - Anne Bouey

Happy Birthday, now come to the point where is the party? - ffcode

Ta very much, Joey, Spidra, Deniz, OnuRC, Anne and ffode. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Happy b-day Kol!! - Derrick

Happy birthday, Kol! - Joe Bonner

Off for a bit, back on in an hour or so. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Thanks, Derrick, Joe. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Happy Birthday, mate! - Adrian Scicluna

Happy Birthday Kol! Have a great one :) - Niki Costantini

Happy Birthday! - scott anderson

Happy Birthday. Only do things you want to today. - Jeremy (on vacation)

hb ff - daveccorey

Happy birthday, Kol! :) - directeur

Happy Birthday :) - Rodfather

Many Happy returns, Kol. 33? Oh yes, It was back there somewhere. Not a memorable one, but left to my own devices I don't bother about my birthday. - Ian May

Happy Birthday, President of FF! - teh Dork Knight aka Kenny

Happy birthday! :) - Tamara

Happy Birthday Ol'Chap! - Carlos Ayala

Happy Birthday Kol - Iván Abrego

Yay! Have a great Birthday :-) - 'Like' robot (frɐnc)

Happy Birthday, Kol!! - MVB (Grinch of FF)

HAPPY 33rd Birth year anniversary, Kol! - Helen Sventitsky

Doğum günün kutlu olsun Kol =)) - Kerimov

Happy day to you, Kol!! :) - JA Castillo

Kol, Happy Birthday!!!! - Mike Fruchter

Happy Birthday to the nicest guy on FF. (ew, that sounds so fake greeting card-like. It's true though, so I'm leavin' it.) - Jim Addz No Value

Happy Birthday! - vicster is...

Happy birthday Kol! - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

HBD - Babak (Tanxy)

Have a great day, Kol. - Kevin Pedraja

Happy birthday! - Stefania Cabitza

Happy bday - mikepk

Happy Birthday! - ‘-.-’ Tutivillus Grift

Happy 1/3 Century Kol! - Steve

Happy Birthday! - Chieze Okoye

Happy birthday Kol! - Itachi

Happy birthday, Kol. Wish you the best :-) - LouCypher

Happy Birthday, Kol! Best Wishes! Hope you have a great day - Andrew Terry

Gosh! Thanks everyone! Well I was going to thank every single person so... - Kol Tregaskes

Thank you Ade, Niki, Scott, Jeremy, Dave, Directeur, Rodfather, Ian, TehKenny, Tamara, Carlos, Iván, Franc, MVB, Helen, Porschebenimolsana, JA, Mike, Jim, vicster, Tina, Babak, Kevin, Stefania, Mike, Tut, Steve, Chieze, Mo, Lou and Andrew! :-) - Kol Tregaskes

And thanks for your comment, Jim. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Happy birthday Kol! I hope the future brings nothing but joy for you. - Beau Liening from iPhone

Happy birthday, Kol! - Alex Scoble

Ian, yeah I celebrate my Birthdays less and less. Hopefully a few games on the way though. - Kol Tregaskes

Thank you, Beau and Alex. - Kol Tregaskes

Happy Birthday Kol,Hope you have a good celebration ! Your thirties are great :) - Paul Downing

Happy Birthday! - Yolanda

Happy Birthday, Kol! - Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF

Thanks, Paul. Well I better make the most of my 30s. It's the 40s soon - not looking forward to that. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

Thank you, Yolanda, Jandy. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Happy birthday to ya - ardiba

Thank you, ardiba. - Kol Tregaskes

HAPPY BIRTHDAY -YOU ARE SAME AS ME :) ! HOPE THIS YEAR AND AFTER EVERYTHING WILL BE BETTER IN YOUR LIFE ... - matmazelange

Thank you, matmazelange. - Kol Tregaskes

Happy Birthday!!! - Amit Morson

Thank you, Amit! :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Hope you have a wonderful birthday, Kol! - LAMB

Just a normal day at work, Laura. Though got some B-day cards and a bit of cake back at home. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Happy Birthday Kol!! - Charlotte M

HAPPY B'day Kol.. !! Crap. am I the only Bloke who is pushing +45 on FF ? - Peter Dawson

Thank you, Charlotte, Peter. Peter, nah, I don't think so. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Happy Birthday! - James Myatt

really do you think is that the good age ?i m the 33 now but dont think so :( - matmazelange

Happy Birthday Kol! - Penny

matmazelange, it's better than 34, 35, 36... ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

Thank you, James, Penny. - Kol Tregaskes

Happy 33rd! :-) - Rene Wirtz

:))) u right - matmazelange

Thank you, Rene. - Kol Tregaskes

happy birthday kol! - chrisofspades

Thanks, Chris. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Bonne Fete! - Nathalie, Dreamer of FF

¡Feliz cumpleaños! - Lo

Selamat Ulang Tahun! - Joe Silence

Thank you, Nathalie, Lo, Joe. - Kol Tregaskes

happy birthday - Meral Alabaz

Aw, you kids are so cute at that age. - m9m, Crone of FriendFeed

Happiest of Birthdays..................33 years old ...........boy both my kids are older thinking as I type this I am getting older by the minute....................... - VAL D. Zone

Happy birthday! - Admiral Anika

Happy Birthday! - Tyson Key

happy birthday! One day I'll get down south and buy you a drink :) - alphaxion

Thanks, Meral, Val, Anika, Tyson, alpha. Hehe, m9m. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Happy Birthday :) - Farshad

Thank you, Farshad. - Kol Tregaskes

Happy birthday Guv'nor! (That's my lame British accent) ;) - Jorge Escobar

Hehe, thank you, Jorge. :-D - Kol Tregaskes

Happy Birthday Kol. - Carlos Sousa

Thank you very much, Carlos. - Kol Tregaskes

Happy Birthday! - Rachel Lea Fox

Happy B to the D...A...Y Kol. - Mark Krynsky

(((cabbage patching))) Yay!!! - rowlikeagirl

Happy Birthday!!! - Marco Fabbri

Happy Birthday to you Kol! - Thomas Hawk

Happy birthday, Kol! - Chris, Taskerrific Guy

Happy birthday! - browneyes from iPhone

HAPPY BIRTHDAY KOL :) You ROCK and make FF a great place to be, THANK YOU!! <3 - Susan Beebe

Happy birthday :) - Timothy Griffin

w00t! Happy Birthday, Kol! - Ayşe E.

Happy Birthday Kol ~ We're celebrating in Australia for you ~ hope the sun shines all day for you -/ - Chris Loft

happy birthday! - Bill Kinney

Happy birthday! - Kamilah Gill

Happy birthday, Kol!!! - Micah Wittman

Happy birthday, Kol! - Bren -- feeling merry from iPhone

Happy b-day Kol! - Shey, Jamaican of FF

Congrats on another year :) - LANjackal

Happy bday Kol! - imabonehead

happy birthday ^^, - zʍıɔ

Happy Birthday!! - Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕

Happy bday - N.G. Gordon - RadarSync

happy birthday kol, :) - chaz2b

Know I'm late, but Happy Birthday Kol! - Bonnie Foster

Happy birthday to you :-) - Mahdi Ebrahimi

Happy Birthday Kol! This year's gonna be great for ya! :D - vijay

happy birthday to you and me :) - Ahmet Soyata

Happy Birthday Kol and Ahmet :) - Bhowmik Shah

Happy Birthday Kol and other friends. - Mahmood Padura

your at 33 and I just turned 32 :) As of October 12th funny. - Ray Marr aka Knatchwa from IM

Happy Birthday! - SuezanneC Baskerville

Happy Birthday Kol! I hope you're having a wonderful day! - Michael Fidler

Thank you everyone! I'll thank you all individually when I'm back from home later today. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Oh and Happy Birthing Date - Hope the year ahead is even more exciting then the last. - Ray Marr aka Knatchwa

Yay! :-) - Mathew A. Koeneker

Whoa. Happy Birthday Kol! (My birthday's tomorrow - different age ;)) - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick

Happy Birthday Kol. The years go quicker and quicker from here on out :-) - Slappy Line

congrats on 33 - Robert Higgins

Don't let the decimal system get you down, in hex you're only 21 :) - Eivind

happy birthday Kol!! :-) - victed from iPhone

Happy Birthday! - MaryB, BrandingBroadOfFF

Happy Birthday Kol! - Garin Kilpatrick

Happy Birthday kol! long live the gamers! - Darth Farhad Sama

Belated Happy Birthday wishes... - .LAG liked that

HAPPY BIRTHDAY - Shevonne

Happy Birthday!!! - mridul

happy birthday - brainno722 (Peter)

happy birthday! (: - Mor Büyü ★

Happy birthday tregaskes, - Acharad Sami vanJoulee

Late but Happy Bhirtday Kol ;) - ★ Soner Gönül

As promised: Thank you Rachel, Mark, rowlikeagirl, Marco, Thomas, Chris, Susan, Timothy, Ayşe, Chris, Bill, Kamilah, Micah, Bren, Shey, LAN, imabonehead, zʍıɔ, Mohammad, Zulema, N.G., chaz2b, Bonnie, Mahdi, vijy, Ahmet, Bhowmik, Mahmood, Raymond, Suezanne, Michael, Raymond, Matthre, Ahsan, Slippy, Robert, Eivind, victed, Mary, Garin, Darth, .LAG, Shevonne, mridul, Peter, Mor, Acharad and Soner. - Kol Tregaskes

Happy Birthday! - Araceli from Nambu

Thank you, Aracedi. - Kol Tregaskes

Congrats :) - alfred westerveld

Thank you, Alfred. - Kol Tregaskes

Happy belated birthday! - Arlan Koizumi

Thanks, Arlan. - Kol Tregaskes

Kol, I need the "As promised" list in alphabetical. kthxbai! - Jorge Escobar

Pass. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Hoorah! - Ron Bailey

HAppy Bday - siniradam

happy birthday! - errorist

Happy b-day! - Zachary TG

Thank you, Ron, siniradam, errorist, Zachary. - Kol Tregaskes

Bit too late, but wish you happy then, to wish you anything anyhow. ;-) - Dutch Bloggies

Oops, that last one was the wrong account. It came from me. :-) - Ton Zijp

Pokey Polly just now wishing you Happy Birthday and many more! - Polly Potter

Whoa ... Missed this HB to Kol! (Man ... you're just a kid :) - Charlie Anzman

Thank you, Dutch/Ton, Polly and Charlie! :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Hehe, yeah should read "33 years young" ;-). - Kol Tregaskes

happy 33 and 2 days birthday - Morgan Haley

Thank you, Morgan! :-) - Kol Tregaskes

ugh 2 days overdue - happy belated kolbot :) - mike "glemak" dunn

No worries, thank you, Mike! :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Happy Birthday Kol!! - jcunwired

Thank you, jcunwired. - Kol Tregaskes

Happy belated birthday mate !!! - Nir Ben Yona

Thank you, Nir. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

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