I did that, but I was heading vertical, school had a vaulted ceiling and I went running, stepped on a chair right were it dropped, on impact both shoes fell off, one hit a guy in the face.
- Jimminy Fuller
wonder if that kid had aspirations of being a stunt guy... "dignity, always with dignity" ;)
- alphaxion
If I weren't afraid of going right through the wall, I'd probably still try that. I know I would have done that (and did similar things quite often) when I was much younger.
- Curtiss Grymala
This is still superb this morning after. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Defining the line between brave and stupid?
- Eoghann Irving
If I did that, first the wall would collapse, and then the floor. (So, you see, it's not that I *couldn't*... I just choose not to, for the protection of others.)
- Mark "DerBingle" J
You're right. I don't have the guts...and I'm proud of that.
- Tammy Marshall
I hate Telus, I dumped them for Rogers when the iPhone came out and will NEVER give them one cent again.
- Simon Tracey
from BuddyFeed
I've never willingly gone with Telus wireless. Involuntarily they claimed me when they bought out Clearnet ages ago. Before Telus was BCTel, and somehow they were an even bigger mess. :)
- Micah Wittman
I had Telus when I lived in Northern BC. Limited choices at the end of the road. Apparently Rogers finally showed up so now Telus has some competition in the Canadian hinterlands. :)
- Sheryl
"Civil rights and community activists in Richmond are protesting a banner on a downtown strip club depicting President Obama as the Joker from Batman. Representatives from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the Nation of Islam and other groups gathered outside Club Velvet at noon Monday to protest what they called an affront against the nation's first black president and "veiled attacks on all African people." At a news conference that was part street theater, a dancer from the club walked through the crowd with a sign that read "Strippers for Obama" as a drummer kept a steady beat. Club owner Sam Moore said the banner is not racist. He said he's simply unhappy with Obama's policies."
- Thomas Hawk
from Bookmarklet
If you'd prefer to be simply termed misguided and ill-informed instead of racist you should probably bang that drum harder.
- Richard Lawler
I really wonder if the owner put this up because of his disagreement with Pres Obama's pollicies or just to get a stir up around his club. If he really has an issue with Pres Obama's policies I think this is a dumb way to try and win people over.
- ChiliMac
I am so tempted to make the 1700km drive to Petaluma for this
- Jon Poeschek
Well, hot dang, Leo! Me too!! In fact, I just got my notice AS I WAS READING THIS ENTRY!! Awesome!!
- WazNeeni
Wish I could be there! Unfortunately, the distance along with the fact that I have to work, since it's a Thursday, prohibits me from attending... Live streaming I hope...!
- Chris
*looks over at canoe*... If I start paddling now...
- Johnny Worthington
Heh, that has to be the nerdiest thing ever. And what will you do at this Launch party? Install Windows 7? Oh, Bravo, Microsoft. Great marketing strategy. LET'S PARTAY AS THE LOADING BAR FILLS UP! OH WEWT! ...I bet it'll be a blast with Leo Laporte, though. :D I would totally go. But I'm in Kansas, where nothing happens, except the occasional tornado. Yee-frikin-haw.
- Danny Minick
I wish I could go, Leo, but I'll be at my own party. Have fun!
- Eric Geller
You think I'd drive all the way to Petaluma for Windows 7, are you crazy? Oh wait, there WILL be cake, well then, THAT is different (in best Rosannadanna voice).
- Richard Bitting
I'm in, but it make take a while to get there from London
- James Tenniswood
James: you still got a month, use it wisely... :)
- Holger Eilhard
I love how the image title reads: "Leo — Fastmail (39204 messages, 4238 unread).jpg" Good luck with inbox zero, Leo! :-)
- Holger Eilhard
I was going to invite you to my party like you said on the radio show. Now who can I get? Any other tech-related celebrity radio hosts I can call? I wonder if Kim Komando is hosting her own party...
- David Sheneman
Hey Leo I got my Finalist note. I'll invite you and we can set up a skype link. You can be a hub that shows not just your party but connect to other parties around the world.
- Paul Wirtz
"Maybe Columbia will agree to host him again. After all, it worked out so well the last time." - Israel Matzav: Helmsley Hotel cancels banquet because Ahmadinejad on guest list - http://israelmatzav.blogspot.com/2009...
Thanks, we're having lots of fun except for getting woken up after three hours of sleep. :-)
- Robert Scoble
Beautiful , thank goodness for photography ,, more special moments to come .. congrats robert and family
- johnpiercy
that is one very alert kid Robert. Congrats again.
- Rhys Amos
Just awesome, Robert! Do you have some stats? Weight? Length? Give my best to your wife :)
- Robert Couture
Oh and I don't see an iPhone in those little hands yet :)
- Robert Couture
Robert: 7 lbs 13 oz. Born at 11:32 pm. on Sept 19, 2009. 20.5 inches long.
- Robert Scoble
He's adorable. Also I notice Sequoia Hospital puts their name on the onesie. Thats smart; just a bit of free marketing, in everyone's new baby photos.
- DGentry
Gratz Robert, and welcome to the world Ryan!
- Mark Essel
Welcome to the our small world Ryan "happiness" Scoble!
- N.Onur ATAHAN
Congrats Robert! He looks beautiful.
- Devon Govett
Welcome Baby Ryan!!! My baby Ryan (17 years!) and I are honored to welcome another superstar to our planet! Love, hugs, and lots of kisses to Baby Ryan, Mommy Maryam, Dad Robert and big brothers Milan & Patrick and of course Grandma!!! My guess on Ryan's arrival (predication) was only 23 hours off. I thought he would arrive on Friday, Sept. 18th at 11:45 pm. Love to all, Kelly & Ryan Kim
- Kelly S. Kim
What a moment, eh? I remember when my daughter came into this world, it was so exciting there were no words for it. Congrats on your wonderful baby boy!
- Michael J. Carrasquillo
Congratulations! Welcome to the world, Ryan. :-)
- Yvette Ferry
Congratulations Robert and Maryam! And welcome Ryan. If I was having a baby today, I'd begin a blog for him/her straight away as an online diary they could look back on when grown up.
- Sandra Large
الهــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــی چقده ناز نازیه.اینو فارسی نوشتم مریم جان بخونن ....راستی به باباش که نرفته:)) خوشگلتره:)) پس به شما رفته
- joupy
I was a c-section six week preemie in an era when that was seriously life-threatening, they didn't know if I would make for the first week. It always gets me a see a c-section / preemie come howling into the world. Welcome, little guy!
- Bob Morris (polizeros)
from iPhone
Beautiful baby! Congratulations daddy man :)
- Gary
:) Congrats Robert... best wishes to your family! Get her name in twitter and ff!
- Business Blogger【ツ】™
Right ON! I am so happy for you. I have 4 kids of my own and they are my greatest joys. Take care and I hope all goes so smooth for him and mom.
- Robert Anderson
Congrats! I wish a long and healthy life.
- Muammer Okumuş
Robert, you newest addition is too freaking adorable. I hope you and Maryam are doing well. Congratulations! Here's to a long, prosperous future!
- Mike Nayyar
davewiner: @scobleizer is camped out at Sequoia Hospital awaiting the birth of his third son, Ryan S. Scoble. Let's name a format after the kid! :-) - http://twitter.com/davewin...
moon: On the day Maryam and Robert @Scobleizer have their second child, @Lorika13 and @Chuckumentary get married. Love is a wonderful thing - http://twitter.com/moon...
Between baby pics from relatives I don't know/remember, chain mails, life lessons from the good lord, and advice on ________, I'm done. Stawp it. :(
- Derrick
Are you sure we're not related? Sounds like what's been flooding my inbox lately.
- Sally: baby flier
This kind of thing annoyed me a lot more until I realized that my grandpa's email inbox is his social network. His "forward" is my "like." And so I "hide" whatever comes through and try to keep my purist "Inboxes Aren't Facebook/FriendFeed!" tendencies at bay.
- lris' ghost
Whats really annoying are those forwarded email chains with hundreds of email addresses. I wonder if these folks know how much they have made themselves wide open to spam farms.
- earl wallace
from twhirl
It seems it's the only thing my in-laws know how to do! I'm thankful for the FW: at the beginning. It's a real time saver.
- R1CC1
Seriously, it's so loud that the strange mulleted lesbian across the hall got up and slammed her office door shut. There's ka-chinging of money and honking of horns and a sound eerily close to that of a bleating sheep. Unless she's watching the world's most obnoxious PowerPoint presentation, that bitch is gaming at work. And she's one who is always complaining about being overworked! ARGH.
- tinypants - Hagitha of FF
Shameful. She should be re-loading FriendFeed with the rest of us.
- s t e v e
dear tinypants' co-worker: one word will save you: 'mute'.
- Morgan Haley
Sounds like she is playing on Pogo.com. Time to block it! ;) (Edit: learn to type what I am thinking)
- Robert Couture
LOL @Steve: what's funny is her job isn't so different from mine, but I manage to actually get all my tasks done ahead of schedule, so I can afford a tiny bit of FFing time (I'm actually waiting on reports to finish spooling right now). I used to be confused as to how she's unable to ever get her stuff done on time...and now I know why! Tsk.
- tinypants - Hagitha of FF
U.S. Government Finds $20 Trillion Buried By Absentminded Reagan In 1987 | The Onion - America's Finest News Source - http://www.theonion.com/content...
"In what government officials are calling a stirring testament to the leadership and foresight of late U.S. president Ronald Reagan, nearly $20 trillion in low denomination bills were discovered this week buried in the White House Rose Garden. Sealed in hundreds of old mason jars, crumpled shoe boxes, socks, metal tins, and oven mitts, the financial windfall is believed to have been stashed away by Regan, then 76, during his second term. "Our economic worries are no more," announced a jubilant Barack Obama, who claimed that the remarkable find would sustain the struggling nation for the next two decades. "Not only did President Reagan manage to anticipate a crippling recession 20 years ahead of time, but it appears he left behind all of the resources we would need to overcome it.""
- William Harryman
from Bookmarklet
After handing over the cash to 8 major banks, the Treasury Department revised their estimate of how long the money would last from 20 years to 15 minutes. "We don't know where it went".
- Greg Guitarbuster
Flickr User Shepherd Johnson Says Yahoo Security Officer and Former FBI Agent John Zent Threatens to Call Police on Him After Flickr Nuked His Account - http://thomashawk.com/2009...
And this is where things get weird…. After being totally ignored in his attempts to resolve his account deletion issue with Flickr/Yahoo staff. Johnson says that today he finally did receive a call from someone at Yahoo. Only it wasn’t someone from Flickr’s customer care division at all. it was from someone named John Zent, apparently from Yahoo’s Legal Department’s Risk Management Group. Zent identified himself as a security professional for Yahoo as well as a former FBI Special Agent, Johnson told me. He told me that Zent threatened to have him removed from Flickr for TOS violations as well as have his IP address banned from the site. Zent went on to accuse Johnson of harassment and said that if he did not stop calling Yahoo that he would call the Sunnyvale Police on Johnson. “I was astonished that he had threatened to call the police on a customer who merely had an account dispute which he wanted to have resolved,” said Johnson.
- Thomas Hawk
Jason Khoury from Yahoo PR just emailed me back the following response from Yahoo on this matter: “It is Yahoo! policy that we don’t discuss members’ accounts and their activity.”
- Thomas Hawk
"Its Yahoo! policy that we are always in the right and you have to sue us to get anywhere. Best of luck with that. We have more lawyers." - Unseen Phantom Yahoo Exec that doesn't exist.
- Uncle CW™
I'm still trying to figure out if there is some way I can use the FOIA to try and obtain any email correspondence from the Whitehouse to Flickr and vice versa. I'm not sure if that sort of thing is easily obtained or not. Surely they've at least had correspondence in terms of setting up the account and I'd assume even brief conversations about what they and flickr might expect from this...
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- Thomas Hawk
Poor reflection on Yahoo. May it rebound on them.
- winckel
I thought to request a FOIA, you have to know it exists to be able to ask for it.
- Uncle CW™
Spread this far and wide FFers. we need this to go viral so the backlash will get some heads rolling!
- Robert Couture
"Online we’re used to getting great services for free wherever we are in the world. So, it’s incredibly frustrating when a particularly hot service is locked to a particular region. Here are five of the most in-demand region-locked services, including how (if possible) to try them out and when you might be able to use them legitimately."
- Martin Bryant
from Bookmarklet
hulu was supposedly becoming open for access in the UK this month.
- alphaxion
They moved it back to January. There's a link to the news from a few weeks ago within this post.
- Martin Bryant
from iPhone
it's a shame distribution rights are all encompassing, special provision should be made for the internet due to its cross borders nature - broadcast TV will always be around as many people still want the experience, of course you will always have some who won't. It'd be a great way to combat piracy and the various other not quite legal streaming sites.
- alphaxion
"Microsoft has been haunted for years by the ghost of Windows XP -- the 8-year-old operating system that many big businesses still view as good enough for their purposes and far less painful than upgrading to its successor, Windows Vista. More than 200,000 people supported InfoWorld's "Save Windows XP" campaign, and corporate tech buyers have mastered complex "downgrade rights" to stick with it. Now, with the new Windows 7 available for large enterprises to use, the company's conversations with those customers are starting to sound like someone counseling a friend stuck in an unhealthy relationship: Get over it! There's something better out there for you!"
- LANjackal
from Bookmarklet
Hehe. Yeah well the transfer wizard is mighty useful. I'm going to be using it soon whe i upgrade to win 7 rtm
- Roberto Bonini
Now, there might actually be a push for third party driver manufactures to develop drivers for Vista/Win7.
- Wizetux
Not providing seamless upgrade from XP was a mistake by Microsoft, though. It's that one little extra incentive not to upgrade, as it's going to cost enterprises to do it.
- Roberto Teixeira
Seemlessly upgrading from XP -> 7 is nowhere near a trivial development task, especially since a LOT changed under the hood between the 2. I don't think MS (or anyone) for that matter could have produced an upgrade process between the 2 that would be reliable across diverse configs
- LANjackal
from IM
"You can see the entire Milky Way at once in this panorama painstakingly stitched together by French photographers. A much larger, zoomable version available from the European Southern Observatory lets you visit any part of the galaxy ( http://www.eso.org/gigagal... ) . Working in the dark, dry highlands of Chile with a Nikon D3 digital camera (50 mm lens open at f5.6), Serge Brunier and Frédéric Tapissier patched together 1,200 photos of the night sky into the composite that you see above. While many of the most stunning space images come from huge telescopes or Hubble, Brunier wanted to create photographs of space that were closer to the commonplace human experience of just going outside and looking at the sky. “I wanted to show a sky that everyone can relate to — with its constellations, its thousands of stars, with names familiar since childhood, its myths shared by all civilizations since Homo became Sapiens,” Brunier said in a release. “The image was therefore made as...
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- winckel
from Bookmarklet