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shomat on Cracked 200 unique beers in just under a year! Cheers! - http://www.reddit.com/r...
"Currently I'm just storing the beer name, brewery name and location (via foursquare). Ratings will be the next addition. My thought is that inputting a record should be as painless and with as few fields as possible, then you can come back later and add things like ratings and notes when you have the time. There is CSV export so you can get your data back out (currently built but offline while I fix some stuff) and I will add CSV import as well. Statistics are most definitely planned. I want to see all sorts of cool stuff, like the places where I have my favorite beers, suggestions based on what I rate, and so on and so forth. Right now I'm the only person using the app regularly, and I want to build up a good amount of data in order to test out the various stats feature."
- Tom Harrison
shomat on Cracked 200 unique beers in just under a year! Cheers! - http://www.reddit.com/r...
"Nice job! I used to keep a spreadsheet just like this, but I wanted a way to update it instantly w/ my phone so I built myself a little web app called (MyBeerShelf)[http://www.mybeershelf.com]. I know there are sites like Untapped, but I wanted something that wasn't so much a social network and more of a utility for logging and discovery. I really hope this was appropriate to mention. I didn't come here to post this but I saw your spreadsheet and thought this was kind of relevant and others might find it useful, so I apologize if anybody thinks it comes off kinda spammy. Any other Redditors are welcome to use it and I'll be glad to build features anybody suggests, just request a beta key and I'll approve it right away."
- Tom Harrison
shomat on [For hire] - Help a web designer out? - http://www.reddit.com/r...
"Some friendly advice: 1. Multiply your prices by at least 10. A) you'll never pay the bills with prices that low, and B) potential clients may not take you seriously. 2. Don't publish your pricing. Even if you work at a set hourly rate, every project is different. You have no idea how long a job will take and what it will cost until you work out the details with the client."
- Tom Harrison
shomat on Diets don't work. Lifestyle changes do. - http://www.reddit.com/r...
"+1 for giving up the soda. I grew up drinking it with every meal but gave it up when I moved away to college in order to save money on groceries. 10 years later and even if I am surrounded by people drinking soda there isn't even an inkling of temptation, not a thought in my mind. It's one of the best health-related decisions I've made. RE: diet soda, I'd rather just drink water. I don't crave the taste of soda so drinking it would be pointless for me. Perhaps synthetic sugar is debatable, but I just don't feel good after drinking the stuff."
- Tom Harrison
shomat on Best way to get better at running? - http://www.reddit.com/r...
"I tried it for a while, wasn't really into it. Maybe I'll give it another shot at some point, but I like the simpler method of going out and beating one goal."
- Tom Harrison
shomat on Best way to get better at running? - http://www.reddit.com/r...
"I'm in the same boat: would like to be able to run well, but I'm terrible at it. I just started going out for 2.5 miles 3x week, running a portion and walking the rest. Every time I go out, I run farther than I did the previous time. Went from a quarter mile to a full mile without stopping in 4 weeks. After I finish increasing my endurance to the full distance, I plan on shifting the goal from beating my distance to besting my previous time."
- Tom Harrison
reddit is offline in protest of PROTECT IP and SOPA - http://www.reddit.com/
"submitted by reddit to blog."
- Tom Harrison
What Do You Call a Carbonated Soft Drink? [US regional differences; enlarge map] - http://bigshottexas.blogspot.com/2009...
Ron Bailey, Mike Nencetti, Iván Abrego and 20 other people liked this
Pop
- Tyson Key
I have seen this before and find it fascinating especially the parts of the country where it's referred to as a Coke. What happens if you want a Pepsi or a Sprite?
- Kenton
Heh, good question, Kenton
- Tyson Key
It's always called a 'Coke' regardless of what the beverage actually is. At least that's how it is/was with my country Southern relatives.
- Derrick
But Derrick what I don't get is if you are in a restaurant that serves many different things, how would you order? I can see it if you go to someone's house and they say what do you want and you say Coke, you get what they have, but the restaurant part confuses me.
- Kenton
Strange but true: I checked http://popvssoda.com as part of my job interview preparations before taking this job in Memphis back in 2005.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
Kenton, they'd say they wanted a Coke, then the waiter/waitress would say what kind, then they'd say root beer, 7Up, whatever afterwards. I always just asked for iced tea.
- Derrick
LOL Derrick, that sounds like the safe thing to do.
- Kenton
I always say "soda" in hopes of avoiding the "you asked for Coke but all we have is Pepsi, is Pepsi OK?" question because I am happy drinking whichever. They always ask though, so I guess I need a new gambit. Worse, my parents like to pull out the old "were you raised by Yankees?!" when I say "soda" in their presence.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
Anyone know what an "other" might be?
- Frank Senseney
Frank: soft drink, fizzy, and cola come to mind.
- Mark Trapp
I WANT A LITER OF COLA: http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Daniel J. Pritchett
Fizzy lifting drinks!
- Yolanda
I think I say "soda." It's hard to say, because I generally call my beverage "DVC" (The right initials never stuck in my head when I switched from Diet Vanilla Coke to Vanilla Coke Zero, besides, VCZ is not as cool to say). I rarely ever use a generic term. My country-deepsouthern relatives say "pop."
- MiniMage, enterRUPPted
Here in Australia they are usually called soft drinks or fizzy drinks, as opposed to beer which if often called "piss". "Let's have a piss-up, who's going to get the piss?" Classy eh?
- jjprojects
The widespread emergence of using a specific brand of soda to refer to all types when many different types are vastly different from each other puzzles me. You can compare it to Xerox, but on the other hand you get the same result from a Xerox copy machine and a Lexmark copy machine while there's a drastic difference between Sprite, Coke, Dr. Pepper, et al. Reading the above comments I see how it's used, but how it's used seems like a waste of time to me.
- Tom Harrison
Pop is Michigan
- bcultral
The blog you cite is for invited readers only.
- John P
"Tonic" is one of the "others" in Massachusetts.
- John P
Stock Photo For Sale - You Took the Silver, You Took the Gold by Thomas Hawk - ClusterShot - http://www.clustershot.com/thomash...
Kol Tregaskes, ncg, ChiliMac and 27 other people liked this
Nice. Just sold my first photo (above) on Clustershot. I sold a license for $300 and get to keep $264. Gotta love the payout percentage to the photographer in selling work on Clustershot!
- Thomas Hawk
from Bookmarklet
Clusterstock was started by silverorange. Daniel Burka from digg is one of the investors. The idea is to let photographers set the price for their work and then give them most of the proceeds of the sale. Clusterstock pays out 88% directly to photographers vs. Getty/Flickr's 20% payouts. I really hope that they succeed in gaining attention with their catalog. You can link your flickr photos directly to clusterstock to import them and sell them.
- Thomas Hawk
I still think the name is a disaster that's gonna hold them back... but congrats, Thomas!
- Stephen Mack
Thomas - I thought you might be interested to know that this sale was generated by a Google search refer for the term ""stock photography Noe Valley". Oh, and it's ClusterShot not ClusterStock :)
- Dan James
ahhh, sorry dan, clustershot, clustershot. Why can't I remember that. Good to see that you guys are indexing well on Google Dan.
- Thomas Hawk
No worries. You should get pro-account with all of that money! http://www.clustershot.com/help...
- Dan James
Fascinating, I'm signing up today. Thanks for sharing Thomas. ^^
- David C. Cooper
will definitely check out the Pro account Dan. Seems like a good deal for $20.
- Thomas Hawk
Clustershot is great. Go get it.
- Håkan Dahlström
What kind of license does the buyer have to the photos they purchase?
- Tom Harrison
Nevermind, I looked around and got my answer.
- Tom Harrison
I like the way you've included the DMU tags too. Unsurprisingly, there are more of these http://www.clustershot.com/tag... than these http://www.clustershot.com/tag...
- James Myatt
Wow, nice. Never heard of them until this...
- Anthony Citrano
nice
- ncg
My http://www.mathewballard.com redesign has been finished and is up for the world to see! I would great appreciate it if you would take time to check it out and leave some feedback, both positive and negative.
Dobromir Hadzhiev, Lysender, Kol Tregaskes and 11 other people liked this
i would suggest removing that iframe. ;-)
- AJ Batac :)
There is no iFrame. Do you mean the content background?
- Mathew™ aka Youngblood
I think he is referring to the div holding your main content, which uses scrollbars to handle overflow. It appears to be a frame (but is not).
- Tom Harrison
Also, check IE6 (yes, I know. IE.)
- AJ Batac :)
I hate IE6. Can I even DL IE6 anymore?
- Mathew™ aka Youngblood
blame Drews Cancer?
- AJ Batac :)
I'll be honest. If you are still viewing my site on IE6 I don't want to work for you. IE7 or higher, Firefox, Chrome or Safari please...oh and Opera too I guess.
- Mathew™ aka Youngblood
btw, it's ok to hate IE6. But don't forget your audience. Trash to you, gold to them. ;)
- AJ Batac :)
IE6 is still fairly widely used, IMO. I know my former employer still doesn't allow any other browser except IE6. And it's a major business (10,000+ employees).
- Rochelle
The trick is to catch older browsers, at request-time if possible, in client-side scripting if no other way. Redirect them to a page that exhorts them to upgrade, but sets a cookie that lets them visit the site normally if they don't want to. But warn them of the suck they'll get for using a such a shit-ass browser.
- Chris Charabaruk
I just don't understand how you can't update to IE7 at least on accident.
- Mathew™ aka Youngblood
If a lot of sites stop working with IE6, businesses will pretty much be forced to upgrade whether they want to or not. Peer pressure.
- Chris Charabaruk
Yea, I do have a script that I keep meaning to implement that will prompt them to upgrade from IE6.
- Mathew™ aka Youngblood
So, any other feedback about my site?
- Mathew™ aka Youngblood
At my former employer, we couldn't upgrade to IE7, even on accident, because the computer required admin rights to do that and only IT staff had admin rights.
- Rochelle
And yet no one in IT upgraded the computers to IE7? That is what I Just don't understand.
- Mathew™ aka Youngblood
Mathew, the IT people said anything above IE6 was "a security risk". They also had no idea what .docx was... Not exactly highly educated individuals. They're also still using Office 2000 for the same "security" reason.
- Rochelle
Yea, that is ridiculous. And if you are going to use that argument you should realize that IE6 is a security risk as well. Every browser pretty has some security flaw at one time or another.
- Mathew™ aka Youngblood
I love how this thread went from me asking about my site to me ranting about IE6.
- Mathew™ aka Youngblood
Heh, yeah. I'm just trying to point out that everyone using IE6 isn't necessarily doing it by choice.
- Rochelle
Mat... Adobe's new BrowserLab server may help you in seeing how your design looks in IE6 without having to install it: http://bit.ly/OM8IZ
- .LAG liked that
Thanks, I'll check that out!
- Mathew™ aka Youngblood
@pea No, and my business card isn't going to look like that anymore. Since then I have changed a lot of things.
- Mathew™ aka Youngblood
@LAG Doesn't look like I'll get to use it.
- Mathew™ aka Youngblood
test your site in different browsers http://browsershots.org/
- Alfredo 亜瑠布れっど
Thanks, now that I can use.
- Mathew™ aka Youngblood
@Alfredo It keeps giving me this error, "cannot read www.mathewballard.com/robots.txt.".
- Mathew™ aka Youngblood
your web server has a robots.txt file and it's not letting it do it's thing. i can't help you there buddy. i would try a different service because it might take you a while figuring out what caused that.
- Alfredo 亜瑠布れっど
try this one http://ipinfo.info/netrend...
- Alfredo 亜瑠布れっど
To me, the buttons look like something you downloaded from a free web buttons site. Not sure why but I think it's the big borders and the speckled background.
- Kenton
Nice design. I'm in the middle of doing a re-design myself......
- Roberto Bonini
@Kenton I can assure I made those myself.
- Mathew™ aka Youngblood
You missed a t in matthew. :p
- Rich
Just got some great feedback over the phone about what wrote up in my about section there. If anyone has the time would you give it a read and tell me what you think about it. In all honesty that is actually the hardest part of all this, writing up that section.
- Mathew™ aka Youngblood
@Mathew I wasn't accusing you of stealing them, just that that's what I see when I look at them.
- Kenton
Oh I know. I just wanted to make sure I said that they were my creations.
- Mathew™ aka Youngblood
Well you asked for it: I think the drop shadow around the frame and the rock/metallic buttons are old, certainly for someone presenting themselves as a graphic designer. Especially because there´s yet another font used in the button captions. Maybe also use a lighter background like your business card (which it looks like you´re emulating) because the gray, grayish green and the bg...
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- ɯɥøq sɐɯoɥʇ
Who rides a bicycle? What type of bike do you ride and where do you cycle? To work, for pleasure, what's your favourite places?
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I have a Giant XTC mountain bike which has been used for both work and pleasure. I rode to work when living in Berkshire which was virtually all along a canal. I used to get out every weekend morning too to a ride around town but not done much since moving to Kent.
- Kol Tregaskes
I ride a Charge Duster. I've been a bit busy this year, hardly been out at all this year. i think next week I'll risk life and limb on the roads and cycle to work.
- Ho
Kol, depending where in kent you are, there are nice rides around. even if you have to hop over to Surrey.
- Ho
I do. Trek Soho Urban 3. Love it, when it's not being stolen (or run over with me on it.) mostly around Venice / Santa Monica / Marina Del Rey area...
- Anthony Citrano
from BuddyFeed
I have a red bike that's a hand me down from my mom. :) I'm not a bike fanatic, obviously, but I like to commute when it's not raining, run errands, and ride for fun.
- Elizabeth
I have a Rodriguez U2 (see http://www.rodcycle.com/) that I ride to work every day, all year round, and on errands, and for some recreational rides as well. With Schwalbe Marathon Supremes, I can handle the road, gravel trails, and even hard-packed dirt trails.
- Tommy Williams
Ho, more details please? :-) I'm on the Kent/Surrey border.
- Kol Tregaskes
I have a Giant Defy road bike. I use it for pleasure. I am actually doing a ride this Sunday, and then a century ride on June 14th. My favorite place is this trail around here that is called the WO&D trail. It use to be train tracks that they turned into a trail.
- Shevonne
I ride to school and back every day. It's about a four minute trek. The route is rather idyllic: nice houses, cool breeze, and plenty of shade from trees.
- Carlton Prest
My wife and I have these (http://radio.weblogs.com/0127028...) -- so called "comfort bikes" - we regularly do 60km per week during the summer on urban (Toronto) bike trails and rail trails. Last year we also biked the Niagara Circle (~150km) and this year will do the "P'tit Train du Nord" trail in Quebec.
- Brian Sullivan
My wife and I have Specialized comfort bikes. Just take it around our neighborhood and park trails every now and again.
- ronin
I just replaced my 20 yr old mongoose with a Trek 3900.... I love it. I live biking distance from Devil's Gulch and other sweet trails, even a nice paved 11 mile loop trail along the Columbia River. My town loves bikers.
- suzanne
I have a Fuji Nevada 3.5... which is really just the Fuji Police bike with the "POLICE" lettering covered up with a sticker. I bike to work and ride all over the silicon valley area for fun, starting to average over 100 miles per week.
- Wirehead
Dahon Speed D7 folding bike. I ride it to work. about 3 miles each way.
- John Wang
Do any of you take part in any events or tournaments?
- Kol Tregaskes
Not me -- I am generally anti-social (at least when it comes to lots of people).
- Brian Sullivan
It's a skateboard all the way for me - 2 wheels bad, 4 (urethane) wheels good.
- Iain Baker
I have a Raleigh road bike that I use for running errands around the neighborhood.
- Tom Harrison
2 years ago, I did 50 mile Tour de Tendring, in preparation for a charity bike ride from Colchester to Aylesbury (100 miles). I would like to do a 12 or 24 hour endurance mtb ride one day, but getting a group together is a bit tough.
- Ho
Need to find inexpensive housing for fall/winter around New York City for an internship I am doing there. Never even been there! need help!
There are parts of Queens, Brooklyn and New Jersey that are close to Manhattan but are safe and affordable.
- Tom Harrison
Jeffrey Friedl’s Blog » Jeffrey’s “Export to Flickr” Lightroom Plugin - http://regex.info/blog...
edythe, Carlos Ayala, Mathew™ aka Youngblood and 3 other people liked this
Does anyone use this plugin? Any suggestions for other Lightroom-to-Flickr tools or plugins?
- Rochelle
from Bookmarklet
I used the Flickr exporter that came as a developer example for a while, until I stopped using Flickr.
- Brian Johns
I use it and like it just fine. One downside for me is that I have to do photos 1 at a time because I want to give them real names before uploading, and prior to export they are just default named .dngs. One feature I wish it had was to some how tag photos that is uploads so I could easily see in my catalog which pictures have or have not been uploaded to Flickr.
- Andy Roth
I use it "ALL" the time, and you "CAN" batch upload pictures with unique names and unique tags. The plug-in is very rich in customizing features just click through some of the options. The only negative in my opinion is the lag time it takes to make contact with flickr, otherwise a priceless tool for frequent Lightroom/Flickr users.
- Vox
Andy Roth: Flickr should read your photo's names if you enter them into the "Title" metadata field under "Library" view, no?
- Tom Harrison
Give your picture a name in the Title field, a description can be added in the caption field, add your tags. Export - under File naming keep file name selected. Under Meta Data Management choose Basic Title and Basic Caption. You can also add a "unique" tag there as well good luck.
- Vox
Another satisfied user here
- Mel Buckpitt
Thanks for the tips. I'll check it out.
- Andy Roth
I use it and it works fine for me
- Michael
IM - This is a no-brainer. Anyone that’s telecommuting should be “always-on” with their IM client, but likewise, the party you’re telecommuting with should also have their IM on whenever they’re at their desk. This is basically just a replacement for turning around and talking to someone while at the office. If someone’s not at their desk, you... - http://steph.tumblr.com/post...
If one is willing to do this, respecting the "Away" status is important. Receiving an IM in the middle of doing work is an incredibly costly distraction.
- Tom Harrison
Deny This, Last.fm - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
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I stopped using last.fm after the original story broke. Even after the denials I never went back. Sounds like that was the right choice.
- Tom Harrison
Not having anything to hide doesn't mean you shouldn't stand up for your right to privacy.
- Tom Harrison
Life is Simple - http://blog.justinkorn.com/index...
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10 Worst U.S. Cities to Raise a Family - http://www.qualityhealth.com/childre...
What are the graduation rates based on? Public school? New York City has many fine private schools with near 100% graduation/college attendance rates.
- Tom Harrison
Alan Grayson to introduce Paid Vacation Act - http://www.politico.com/news...
sean808080, Jessie, Tracy Benham and 2 other people liked this
Rep. Alan Grayson was standing in the middle of Disney World when it hit him: What Americans really need is a week of paid vacation. So on Thursday, the Florida Democrat will introduce the Paid Vacation Act — legislation that would be the first to make paid vacation time a requirement under federal law. The bill would require companies with more than 100 employees to offer a week of paid vacation for both full-time and part-time employees after they’ve put in a year on the job. Three years after the effective date of the law, those same companies would be required to provide two weeks of paid vacation, and companies with 50 or more employees would have to provide one week. The idea: More vacation will stimulate the economy through fewer sick days, better productivity and happier employees.
- Eric P
from Bookmarklet
Why did it take so long for the bulb to go on in America ? "Under Part III, employees are entitled to two weeks of vacation with pay for every year of employment. After six consecutive years of service, they are entitled to three weeks of paid vacation per year. The amount of vacation pay is 4% of wages earned during the year, increasing to 6% of yearly wages after six consecutive years of employment." http://www.hrsdc.gc.ca/eng...
- Peter Dawson
I feel so sorry for you guys when I see even very senior engineers with 2 weeks holidays a year, some of which is forced fixed to some days when they close the plant. Ridiculous. Of course people will end up spending half their day on friendfeed with so little holiday
- Iphigenie
IMHO, this is a fact of life that doesn't get nearly enough attention - Americans have less leisure time than any other industrialized nation. Even the Japanese work less than we do.
- Eric P
Happier employees do better work. We need more vacation time for the same reason that I produce better results when I get a good night's sleep and wake up early rather than coding until dawn.
- Tom Harrison
Wow, I had no idea there wasn't this kind of legislation in the US. No wonder Adam didn't win Idol, all those "middle-Americans" need a vacation...
- Kenton
What's another good computer parts store online? TigerDirect and ???
NewEgg.com
- Tom Harrison
I need to buy another hard drive for one of my Drobos. $95 for a 1TB Seagate drive seems like a decent deal: http://www.amazon.com/Seagate... Anyone think I ought to buy something else instead?
Dr. Apps, Kevin Johnson, Justin Hopkins and 11 other people liked this
I need one, too. and I guess the 1TB are still the best choice. 1.5TB is still overpriced.
- meckimac
The Western Digital Green line is pretty good too and about the same price. http://www.amazon.com/Western...
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
I am a HUGE fan of the WD green drives. I have 3 of their 750s and they are fast, quiet and cool. I am happy to pay a little more for them.
- matthew john ernisse
Although in this case, they are $5 cheaper. :)
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
what about that one: http://www.amazon.com/Hitachi...
- meckimac
I've always been pretty happy with Seagate. They seem to be more reliable than other drives that I've tried. All things being equal or close to equal I typically buy Seagate. Plus they sponsored Scobleizer for a long time and I liked that as well. I've never bought a 1.5 for the Drobo. Always 750GB or 1TBs. 1TB seems to be the sweet spot for pricing right now unless I'm missing something. Anyone feel strongly that Western Digital or Hitachi are better than Seagate?
- Thomas Hawk
Not strongly, no Thomas, but WD is what I have in my system and my 250GB WD drive has been running constantly for about 4 years now without any problems. My other drive is the one I linked to.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
I have 3 Hitachi 750Gb drives. They seem to be pretty good. A bit noisy ( specially at defrag)
- Roberto Bonini
Seagate = crap; go with Western Digital instead.
- tabbr
Why do you say that tabbr. I've probably got 30 of them or so and I've been really happy with all of them. I think I've only had two of them fail and one was within 1 year and Seagate replaced it.
- Thomas Hawk
I have 2x 1TB Seagate Barracuda drives in my Mac Pro, no complaints. I recently put 2x 1 TB WD Green in my Home Theater PC and no problems there either. The WD Green is currently $89.99 on NewEgg.
- Tom Harrison
Western Digital for me, but it's a personal choice. Go for what works for you.
- Peter Kruit
I have no recent Seagate experience, however I am still a little sketched out by Hitachi -- they inherited the IBM Deskstar drives a few years back which had some horrible reliability issues. That being said my Lenovo has a Hitachi SATA laptop drive and seems to work ok. I can't stand Maxtor and they are on my DO NOT BUY list due to their failure rate. They replaced all the drives under...
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- matthew john ernisse
I've had problems in the past with Maxtors as well. But I wonder if how they make their drives has changed since Seagate bought them. I haven't bought Maxtor in years. I just went with the Seagate drive. Thank to everyone for their input on hard drives.
- Thomas Hawk
Historically, I've had the best luck with WD. Seagate is a close second... but Maxtor and Hitachi are no-buys for me.
- Roger Benningfield
http://slickdeals.net/permade... $84 for WD green just popped into my Google Reader
- Benjamin Golub
I'm looking at getting a drobo -- are you happy with it?
- Paul
I really like my Drobo, but the DroboShare sucks ass. With one connected user on a low-traffic GigE connection it's slothlike at connecting and initiating transfers, and pretty slow once things get going as well.
- Kevin Fox
Another vote for the WD green drives...they are very quiet.
- Ryan Kaisoglus
woah, 100 WD's in drobos? at 4 drives a Drobo that's 25 Drobos. Crazy. And I thought I had a lot of Drobos with four. What in the world are you storing on all those things?
- Thomas Hawk
I got a 1.5 tb on sale at Fry's for close to the same price
- paul terry walhus
Just wondering. Is a Drobo worth getting?
- Peter Kruit
Peter, personally I think replication of primary storage is really important. Drive failure is probably the number one way people lose data and replicating that data across 4 drives helps protect you against drive failure. It doesn't protect you against fire or theft, but it's a good start for storing bits if you don't feel that you can lose them. The drobo is an easy to use consumer product that does this today. I can't imagine not using one myself.
- Thomas Hawk
While I don't have a Drobo, I've had hardware RAID for my primary storage for the last 7 years or so and in that time have survived 3 or 4 hard drive failures. As such I cannot throw enough support behind Thomas' assertion that data replication for primary storage is important. Drobo has a really good reputation and some extremely smart people I know have them.
- matthew john ernisse
Have you checked out the the LaCie hard drives? They feature 1 or 2 TB, but I'm not sure about availability stateside, though they're really popular in Canada
- The Real sofarsoShawn
I bought 3 LaCies, years ago. Every single one of them failed very shortly after buying them. I think I wrote a blog post entitled LaCie drives are crap, crap, crap a few years back. They had other problems besides just drive failure as well. Like the drive would not be recognized by the computer and the only way to get it to show up again was to power it down unplug both the USB and power cables and reconnect them in an exact specific order. Super annoying.
- Thomas Hawk
based on this thread at least it seems like Western Digital has the best reputation followed by Seagates.
- Thomas Hawk
I agree but they're soooooo much improved now, check em out there's no longer an internal fan amongst other improvements plus they're cross-platform data storage exchange. But most externals suffered from the same problems back then
- The Real sofarsoShawn
I just had a LaCie 1 TB fail - about 2 weeks out of warranty. Turned out it wasn't the drive (which was fine, fortunately) - it was the power supply. Appeared to be working fine, lights on, etc - just didn't have enough juice to actually start the disks! New power supply ($25) solved it. I stumbled across this tip about the power supply while doing some searches on LaCie - and it worked for me! But, that's the last LaCie product I'll ever buy.
- Scott Loftesness
K sounds like your LaCie's a Fail, I stand corrected though I can concur I've only heard WIN about WDs
- The Real sofarsoShawn
For data duplication and versatility, I built a simple Windows Home Server. Used a spare PC, bought the software for $99, and voila, media sharing across the network and to the XBox, full computer back-up with easy restore, and data duplication across multiple drives. It's a nice alternative to a Drobo-type setup.
- Robert Kenney
I currently have 3 RAID5 sets (900GB, 1TB and 4TB). I was looking into eSATA enclosures but the Drobo looks like a good alternative.
- Peter Kruit
Robert and Peter, those both sound like good setups as well. It think the appeal with the Drobo is though that it is so simple. It's just plug and play. Vs. more complicated set ups of building things yourself. If I had the inclination I might play around with those solutions as well.
- Thomas Hawk
What do you folks do for off-site backups? I have a remote mirror I keep up to date with Unison, but RAW files are too much to upload, so I just keep a couple spare copies on external drives, updated manually every now and then. My primary storage is just the laptop's internal drive. I'm not worried about drive failure, because everything is backed up. Do you guys just have too much to fit on a single drive?
- Seth
Seth, I need to do a better job on offsite backup. At present I've got a fair chunk of my images (especially my most sentimental valued family photos) on hard drives with my parents and brother. Additionally I upload full sized images to both Flickr and Zooomr, so a lot are theoretically there as well. I haven't used any cloud storage options yet because they simply are too expensive.
- Thomas Hawk
Seagate has always been my drive choice due to their 5 year warranties in the past. Thomas, look into Crashplan for offsite backup. Can back-up both to their own service as well as to your friends and family computers automatically.
- Kevin Kuphal
Go for whatever works for you. That said I have a mix of Seagate, Western Digital, Hitachi and Samsung drives. But I just ordered some 1TB Caviar Blacks from NewEgg for $95 a piece. I also grabbed some 640GB Cavier Blacks for $70. See here: http://promotions.newegg.com/NEemail... We'll see how it turns out. I've seen my share of failed drives from every manufacturers... that's how mechanical goes... :)
- Dr. Apps
from twhirl
I also grabbed one of these (8 bay Sata enclosure): http://www.newegg.com/Product... for $270 free shipping with promo code EMCLSMS48. The WD 1TB Cavier Black promo code is EMCLSMR23 and the 640GB promo code is EMCLSMR24. Good luck in your decision making. And yes, Cavier Blacks are 5 year warranty.
- Dr. Apps
from twhirl
Here's what I'm up to in New York. Sorry, if you are on Twitter I find friendfeed a far better place to TALK with you. Talk about NY:
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Today I'm working on my talk for Kleiner Perkins CIO Summit. Gotta give a talk at about 3 pm today.
- Robert Scoble
After that I'll be on KSCO Radio at about 6 p.m. (Eastern Time).
- Robert Scoble
I LOVE NY. What do you have planned outside of work? :)
- Daynah
I would love to do a friendfeed meet up after that, say at 7:15. Anyone want to do one?
- Robert Scoble
On Thursday I have a stack of meetings. 8 a.m. with Fred Wilson. 9:30 a.m. with Allen Stern.
- Robert Scoble
I would but I'm in CA. :) But I'll see you at Wordcamp SF? :)
- Daynah
Daynah: actually I will be on an aircraft carrier then. I'm very bummed about missing that.
- Robert Scoble
But when Guy Kawasaki gets you a tour of an aircraft carrier that's doing exercises and he also has Steve Wozniak along, you go. ;-)
- Robert Scoble
Are you going to broadcast your talk on Kyte? Hope I can check out the radio interview too
- Stephen Pickering
Stephen: I doubt it. The talk is a very private invite only thing with CIO's from the world's largest companies. I'll try, though.
- Robert Scoble
This is totally off the wall... But while you are in NY can you ask a designer to offer a new logo for friendfeed?
- Dave
Anyway, would love to do a friendfeed meetup on Wednesday or Thursday evenings. Anyone else interested?
- Robert Scoble
i just got back from NYC to be on cnet.com! I had such a blast! Can't wait to go back! Wish I knew you were gonna be up there. I probably could have stuck around.
- LizMoney
Dave: I like the friendfeed logo. Funny, though, we're doing a logo for building43 and it's really hard to come up with something everyone loves.
- Robert Scoble
Wow, the a geeky aircraft tour sounds fun too! Maybe you can stop by the Wordcamp Anniversary party at night on the Pier 38.
- Daynah
Daynah: the aircraft carrier is 145 miles out to see off the coast of San Diego, so I won't be in SF that weekend. Sigh.
- Robert Scoble
Liz: sorry we missed each other.
- Robert Scoble
My Mom's in town visiting from NY...and seriously, Robert, like every 5 seconds she keeps telling me how much I'd love it up there, based on the music and websites and social media I'm into. What would you say? Is it just a sweet a place for geeks as San Fran? (I'm in Colorado though) lol
- Carlton Hackett
Oh Robert, you'll be in my area, when I heading up to yours. :)
- Daynah
I'm waiting for you to get tired, hungry, need to pee etc. to hear you say -- "Talk amongst yourselves." You are after all in NY
- Kim Feraday
Robert, do you ever make it up to Boston at all? I noticed some folks from Rackspace are at MIT this week, was wondering if you ever get a chance to make it up this way (or think you could this summer/later this year)?
- Sam Houston
Sam: once in a while. I don't have current plans to go to Boston, but since MIT is there and lots of interesting things are going on in Boston, would love to come again.
- Robert Scoble
> Carlton: New York is an awesome city, but for geeks? I still think SF wins and wins big.
- Robert Scoble
Carlton: with one exception: NY is the media center of the world, so if you want to be in TV, advertising, music, etc then it'll be hard to beat NY. I know some geeks who do nothing but write software for the digital signs you see in Times Square, too. Hard to do that anywhere else in the world.
- Robert Scoble
Ahh, that makes sense then. I think I'd love the cultural aspect of NY, but I'd probably have a better "geek" time down in Cali. ;-) Thanks!
- Carlton Hackett
I might be down for a FF meet-up tonight.
- Tom Harrison
Good luck mofo! Have you decided on your power point alternative yet? Going to Scoble TV the action live?
- The Real sofarsoShawn
if schedule allows be glad to show you around our tower today :)
- mike "glemak" dunn
Photo meme, I'm a pyro! I shot this last night at our neighborhood BBQ. Something about fire is captivating. Thomas Hawk, you got any fire?
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Inflammatory post.
- Sean Oliver
OK, I won't go too crazy with friendfeed's "Add: Photos" feature. Heheh.
- Robert Scoble
So what is this, the pun thread? ;)
- Nate Pilling
I'm a pryo too - nice photo Robert
- Chris Heath
Nate: put your puns on a stick and let's make some smores!
- Robert Scoble
Robert, I didn't know you had a fire for art photography.
- Zach Landes
Roasted pun does taste good this time of year.
- Nate Pilling
Zach: I like all photography. Sometimes I just like abstract stuff. It usually doesn't get posted, though.
- Robert Scoble
Well, really cool shot. What were you cooking? I need me a good hamburger but its hard to barbeque in the middle of London.
- Zach Landes
great pic
- Harscoat
Zach: last night I cooked Chicken, Strip Steak, Hot dogs, but this fire was just for warmth. We had a block party last night and we all gathered around this fire with some wine and had good times.
- Robert Scoble
I have heard of this block party in popular films and televsion. But never knew anyone throwing one or going to one...jealous!
- Zach Landes
It's actually a good metaphor for friendfeed. Light a fire, grab some wine, tell a story.
- Robert Scoble
It all comes back to FriendFeed with you doesn't it? ;)
- Nate Pilling
Nate: absolutely! Why wouldn't it?
- Robert Scoble
Are you a pyro..or...are...you...the DEVIL????
- Anthony Papillion
Thinking angels & demons - vaughn fry liked it.
- Carolyn Wood
I agree... http://snipr.com/i7xbr
- Scott W.
Nice fire Robert, check out one of my last BBQpix: http://tinyurl.com/oo4jdk
- Jorge
The eternal flame at the 9/11 memorial in Battery Park: http://www.flickr.com/photos...
- Tom Harrison
A fire we built to keep warm while hiking the Appalachian Trail: http://www.flickr.com/photos...
- Tom Harrison
A trash can on fire in Harlem, from the NYC photowalk in Dec. '07: http://www.flickr.com/photos...
- Tom Harrison
nice one. yeah, I've got a set called Fire, Walk With Me: http://www.flickr.com/photos...
- Thomas Hawk
Robert, you should be on my Fireground Action Photography podcast! http://www.firegroundaction.com
- Craig Durling
Really, Robert? You're starting a flame war?
- Ken Sheppardson
I learned as a kid from "Cosmos" that fire is a plasma, not an element. OK, what is a plasma?
- Stephen Pickering
Here's a wonderful poem entitled "The Phenomenon of Combustion" by Jack Myers my former Poetry teacher at S.M.U. and a Texas state Poet Laureate. http://www.stephenpickering.com/...
- Stephen Pickering
Christopher, Carl Sagan said it was a plasma on "Cosmos"
- Stephen Pickering
Patrick posted on the world's oldest Twitter user here: http://friendfeed.com/nextweb... She's 104. Let's see who the oldest and youngest FriendFeed members are. Post your age in this thread.
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I'm 41.
- Thomas Hawk
39 here. I have to wonder what technologies we'll see if I live to 104!
- Kevin C. Tofel
Ok, I'm winning as the oldest friendfeed user so far since I'm two years older than you Kevin.
- Thomas Hawk
There's a FFer in his 70s on here, I just can't remember who it is...
- FFing Enigma
20.
- Evan Travers
Tina, he must be present to win. OK so far Evan's the youngest at 20 and I'm the oldest at 41.
- Thomas Hawk
I confess to be 62
- Gilbert Harding
Gilbert that's awesome! So so far Evan Travers youngest at 20, Gilbert Harding the oldest at 62.
- Thomas Hawk
We have a FFer here who's 73. I'm 36. I'll go out on a limb and say Michael Forian is our youngest active member.
- Anika
who is 73 Anika? He/she's gotta post in this thread. So far Gilbert and Evan are winning.
- Thomas Hawk
55, Gilbert has me beat by a few years.
- Jack&Cleo
When my baby is born, I'll sign 'em up for FriendFeed. ;)
- Tamar Weinberg
I don't remember, Thomas. We just did an age thing last week and he posted. I think it was in Alp's thread.
- Anika
does friendfeed have an age requirement in order to have an account like Flickr and other sites?
- Thomas Hawk
Jack DeWitt Smith is 73 so he says. Damn it I thought I was going to win a prize here.
- Gilbert Harding
37
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
So Jack's 73 as the oldest and Evan's the youngest at 20. I can't believe that there are not any octogenarians on FriendFeed. You folks need to get your parents and grandparents on here.
- Thomas Hawk
I am 32.
- Louis Gray
Thomas: my son Patrick is on friendfeed and he's 15.
- Robert Scoble
Michael Forian is 14
- FFing Enigma
Ok, So Michael Forian's the youngest at 14 and Jack DeWitt Smith's the oldest at 73. I just did the math on all mentioned in this this thread and the average age so far is 43.1 years in age.
- Thomas Hawk
I am smack in the middle at 38
- holly #ravingfangirl
fetus.
- Kevin Murray
Bumping the average up a little - 59
- Brian Sullivan
Bringing the average age down a bit :) I'm 21
- Roy Herrod
25.
- James Ferguson
Kevin, I've never met a fetus who can type. Ok the high low are still Michael at 14 and Jack at 73. The average is now 40.125.
- Thomas Hawk
Thomas: Milan can turn on an iPhone, can select the icon of his favorite game, and can play a game. He's not yet two years old. So, expect him to lower the friendfeed bar pretty low pretty soon.
- Robert Scoble
35. Looks like I'm right in the wheelhouse.
- Mike Lewis
21.
- Kevin Mohr
36
- edward volkert
Robert, would FriendFeed let Milan have an account? Is there an age requirement? I think Patrick got kicked off of Second Life for being too young didn't he? Mike L, Kevin, Josh and edward just dropped the average age down below 40 to 37.6
- Thomas Hawk
33 here...
- Sean Simkins
38
- Mykl Roventine
Thomas: I don't see why my son wouldn't be allowed to have an account. I'm 44 by the way.
- Robert Scoble
average now = 37.70. Michael the low at 14, Jack the high at 73.
- Thomas Hawk
21
- Roberto Bonini
quite difficult to type, still waiting on some fingers. also as a fetus i dont know much but am questioning the term "FFer", sounds short for something else.
- Kevin Murray
45
- Peter Dawson
37
- ororodc
Kevin I'm not buying that you're a fetus. Is it warm in the womb?
- Thomas Hawk
24, need to bring that average down a bit.
- Michael
I'm 26 years, one month, and three days.
- Chris Charabaruk
27, so in the younger half.
- Rochelle
41 here, and coincidentally just created an account for my son last night (2 1/2) playing with streaming his photos/activities for the grandparents.
- Rick Bucich
hmmm.. Rick I'm not sure that this counts if he's not controlling the account. New average is 36.27, we're getting younger. I think that's a good thing maybe.
- Thomas Hawk
25 Here, a whole quarter century
- Brandon - BWC Games
venti ocho
- chrisofspades
I'll bump it up at 51
- Sandra
warm yes, but pretty spotty wireless coverage.
- Kevin Murray
30 here (at least for another month)
- Justin Korn
52/2
- Lokei Atikus™®
getting younger. Average age now 35.57. I'm starting to feel pretty old at 41.
- Thomas Hawk
Akiva is AFK, but he's 37.
- Rochelle
I'm 28 and I'm carrying a fetus. But I'm the one doing the typing.
- Tamar Weinberg
I'm 33 and I'm carrying a fetus too! :p
- Zulema ⋅ spicy cocoa tart
Farty one, going on farty two ...
- Rene, Pro Button Pusher
33 here. Tad is 40.
- Lindsay
35. Remember back in the day when that was old.
- Chris Nixon
from BuddyFeed
26 - Not breaking any records here.
- Tom Harrison
No way. You have to guess
- Martha
I'm 56. You got a problem with that?
- Ted Gilchrist
Over 200 comments with age info here: http://friendfeed.com/tweetfe...
- Micah
52
- Leo Laporte
38
- meckimac
average age now: 35.67
- Thomas Hawk
man, I'm getting old... over average..
- meckimac
38
- M F
41 - Tied with Thomas Hawk ;-) Update...I lied! I'm 40! for 15 more days!
- scherbi: bottom dweller
31
- Peter Kruit
37
- LB shining
22
- Asankhaya Sharma
39
- Gordon Corte
I'm 21
- Charley M
25 ----->--
- vijay
32
- clarke thomas
new average = 35.15, still getting younger.
- Thomas Hawk
46
- Hanna Wiszniewska
26
- Blake
51
- Fred Yankowski
44
- John Francis
49 (just)
- JCunwired
49
- Bonnie Wren
28
- Karl Knechtel
39- My son Arvin is 2yrs old and he is about to tweet
- Jacque
40, but act 20s ;)
- Rui Pereira
I'd love to see more data, and then a graph.
- Ted Gilchrist
34 myself
- Andy Tinkham
17.
- Zach Flauaus
43
- Dane Findley
29
- yagami
I've got my fingers scrabbling at the edge of 39 like James Tiberius Kirk on the cliff. Unfortunately, the laws of physics require that I eventually fall. Crap.
- MiniMage, enterRUPPted
35 - which makes me... Average :(
- James Macgill
Phew....worried I might be the oldest, but I'm just a mere 61! :)
- Bonnie Foster
29. NOT looking forward to the next birthday.
- Lis
26
- Alejandro
I'm 41. My 95-year-old great aunt sends emails and receives weekly FriendFeed email, but doesn't post here.
- Bruce Lewis
22
- Paul Stamatiou
Not feeling too old being 40 now :)
- Ruud van Wijngaarden
38
- Lu Tao
25
- Mo Kargas
42. Apparently that number is somehow significant...
- Sue Radd
LOL @ Sue
- Roberto Bonini
26
- The Amber
36 up in here.
- Derrick
40
- metalerik
37
- Bitch
Still 58.
- Russellreno
43 in 2 weeks.
- Mark Krynsky
I'm 21 (again)
- aflow
I'm 39
- Royce Fujitani
23
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
44
- Larry Kless
30
- Alisha Vargas
31
- Christian (Simply X)
This is about the third time this question get's the best-of-day. I ran a poll last time at http://www.s-consulting.no/polls...
- Frode Stenstrøm
58
- Nick in Manila
Hey, I might win! [update: oops, tied]
- Nick in Manila
21! On another note.. this question wouldn't be a problem if frienfeed had extensive profiles.. but I don't want it to become a social networking site though!
- Kris
54 and getting younger day by day!
- johnny
NewsGang Live! Get your butts over here, and bump up the average!
- Ted Gilchrist
44
- BEX
35
- (jeff)isageek
13 - I might be close to the youngest. :)
- Alex
I'm 47. Probably the oldest...
- Karen Mohler
I'm 38. The youngest 38yo in the world.
- LouCypher
33-year-young
- Jemm
I'm 27.
- Colide81 (James)
from fftogo
21
- Lizunlong
I'm 42. Nowhere near the oldest. More the average.
- Jeffrey Allan Boman
28
- Lasse Johnsen
day late and dollar short as usual :) 58
- comix aka martha
26
- Marco
I'm not the youngest or the oldest.
- David Cook
73 here among the youngsters
- Jack DeWitt Smith
OK here's the chart: http://img.skitch.com/2009051... Thru Jack DeWitt Smith post.
- Nick in Manila
How about oldest parent of a young child, 60 here with 7 yr old
- Howard Feight
Howard: 58 here with 1 yr. old. So how do you compute winner?
- Nick in Manila
a young whipper snapper at 39 ;)
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
If you blog, how many posts do you have in draft mode right now?
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Me, I have 18.
- AJ Kohn
I more than 10... wanted to just publish them all. Sigh
- AJ Batac :)
Probably around 20. I get good ideas sometimes but can never quite get them down to my satisfaction.
- Mark H
6, but 3 of them need to be deleted because they're old news. Oh wait, I forgot I have 4 more in my browser's blog editor too. Blaaargh! I need to just post them. Too lazy to finish them.
- Anika
Eight. Most of which I probably won't publish. Should mine them for stuff to put into newer posts, though.
- Jandy
I actually just cleared out my drafts the other night. Although I have 1 saved draft email that I want to type up into a post, but all I have is the title.
- James Ferguson
None.
- Louis Gray
Far too many.
- Dan owns Comicsforge.com
Does anybody use Google Docs for editing his posts? Is it worth?
- stanjourdan
Maybe one or two - "draft mode" for me usually means in my head. I usually have a lot of posts scheduled though... sometimes up to 15 or 20.
- Tom Harrison
@ajkohn currently I have two post in draft...
- Kevin Tunis
Stanislas, I have used GDocs for writing posts, when I knew I was going to need to be working on them in two places (and didn't want to use the web interface because I write for a group blog and didn't want other people to see it until I was ready to post). I prefer using a desktop client like Windows Live Editor or MarsEdit if I'm not going to use the web interface, though. They...
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- Jandy
Thanks Jandy! (and sorry for the non-directly related question)
- stanjourdan
Twitter Deletes Fake Kanye West Account After Kanye Freaks Out - http://www.businessinsider.com/kanye-w...
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Here's Kanye's all-caps blog post: (This spaz comes courtesy of losers making fake Kanye West Twitter accounts) I DON’T HAVE A FUCKING TWITTER… WHY WOULD I USE TWITTER??? I ONLY BLOG 5 PERCENT OF WHAT I’M UP TO IN THE FIRST PLACE. I’M ACTUALLY SLOW DELIVERING CONTENT BECAUSE I’M TOO BUSY ACTUALLY BUSY BEING CREATIVE MOST OF THE TIME AND IF I’M NOT AND I’M JUST LAYING ON A BEACH I WOULDN’T TELL THE WORLD. EVERYTHING THAT TWITTER OFFERS I NEED LESS OF. THE PEOPLE AT TWITTER KNOW I DON’T HAVE A FUCKING TWITTER SO FOR THEM TO ALLOW SOMEONE TO POSE AS ME AND ACCUMULATE OVER A MILLION NAMES IS IRRESPONSIBLE AND DECEITFUL TO THERE FAITHFUL USERS. REPEAT… THE HEADS OF TWITTER KNEW I DIDN’T HAVE A TWITTER AND THEY HAVE TO KNOW WHICH ACCOUNTS HAVE HIGH ACTIVITY ON THEM. IT’S A FUCKING FARCE AND IT MAKES ME QUESTION WHAT OTHER SO CALLED CELEBRITY TWITTERS ARE ACTUALLY REAL OR FAKE. HEY TWITTER, TAKE THE SO CALLED KANYE WEST TWITTER DOWN NOW …. WHY? … BECAUSE MY CAPS LOCK KEY IS LOUD!!!!!!!!!
- (jeff)isageek
from Bookmarklet
wow Kanye freaks out. The shock!
- Vicarbott
Needs to grow up.
- Pete Gilbert
Kanye is such a DIVA. Yes, I said it.
- Justin Whitaker
I don't know what annoyed me more, the grammar or the CAPS !
- Toby Graham
140 character limit would be a blessing...
- Aron Michalski
lol @ the endless kanye hate. Sure, being concerned that twitter would let someone continue to pose as him for such a long time is a sign of being the worst person in the world.
- Richard Lawler
+1 Aron
- Andrei M. Marinescu
who cares
- James Rowe
Ah... to be famous, egotistical, and self important... it must be nice.
- Kris Kelley
"EVERYTHING THAT TWITTER OFFERS I NEED LESS OF." This made me think. he really doesn't need publicity and that is really why we all are on twitter...at least to some extent. He has a point here.
- Freddie Benjamin
if this is the first time he 'talked' to Ev/Biz et al about the 'fake' account, then Kanye is lame. if, however, this was just the last in a series of moves by Kanye to get Twitter to pull this fake account then that's another story.
- MikeAmundsen
Wow, he loves the attention so much so that he pretends to hate it.
- Tom Harrison
Yikes!
- Michael Kinney
Biz Stone doesn't care about black people.
- Dustin Sallings
QOTD: WHY? … BECAUSE MY CAPS LOCK KEY IS LOUD!!!!!!!!!
- Melinda Roberts
to quote from "The Anchorman": LOUD NOISES!!!
- Can Koklu
I'd say that a thick skin is definitely a requirement for getting in to real discussions here on friendfeed.
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So is being intelligent and reasonable and truly interested. I think being open to different points of view is critical otherwise the discussion becomes black and white.
- Steve Olson
Thick skin is a requirement for life, I'd say.
- Tom Harrison
Wow, I submitted a comment once and it appeared 4 times.
- Tom Harrison
Yes, I saw that, Trish. :)
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
We should unionize ;)
- Jeff (Team マクダジ )
Some of the "jokes" are not jokes at all but nasty attacks dismissed by poster as a "joke."
- Michael Tefft
Yeah, I left after 3 or 4 days the first time I came on here because I got into a political discussion I should never have bothered commenting on anyway. Hated friendfeed for ages after that and then decided to give it another try. This time around I'm subbed to some pretty lovely and interesting people. Still need to work on my skin though :) Or just lay off the discussions altogether if I'm feeling heated!
- Charley M
Replace "friendfeed" with "anywhere on the internet" and it still holds true.
- Eric P
Too true, Eric.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
I've always wondered if hyper-sensitive people think that communicating on the internet will be easier, since they don't need to be face-to-face with people. But, the reality is that it is often more difficult b/c tone/voice can be hard to read. There are jerks online and IRL and they both prey on weakness.
- Katy S
You can't be thin-skinned in this joint.
- Dave "Freedom 35"
Katy, thats exactly what I thought. Then I realized that talking face to face *was* actually the easiest way for me to communicate. I seem to have far more confidence online though.
- Charley M
Charlie - it's something I'm acutely aware of, because I teach and study writing. I see so much of these issues in my students' papers - not "getting" how their words might come across to others, making jokes that don't come across, etc. However, I suspect most people don't think about it as much as I do.
- Katy S
Define joke? One person's joke is another person's insult
- rowlikeagirl
If one's person joke is your insult, then I submit that you aren't thickskinned enough to be on the internets.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
*blocks pea for ranting at alex and alex for failing to get it* =D
- FFing Enigma
I love how I say one thing and it gets extruded in to this whole other idea like a block of copper that was meant to be an expensive brick that instead gets turned in to wire for making car airbags.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
I'm grinning like an idiot now Pea. Needed that!
- FFing Enigma
how dare you sir
- Marco(aureliusmaximus)
That's only because you don't get what you say, Alex....
- David HC Soul
Pardon me sir, but I always get my own jokes! You take that back!
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
So, uh, what exactly IS a troll as defined by Friend Feeders? (assuming Trish is referring to the same post I read)
- Jess
Everyone has been uber polite to me in general, only one person has ticked me off in the time that I have been here, unsubbed in under 10 seconds, and ignored period. I find most everyone here polite. Guess I am missing the controversy. Dang. ;-)
- Dan owns Comicsforge.com
Dan, if you want, I can help you create some on your own feed.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
True dat.
- Derrick
And thick skin doesn't mean you have to put up with assholes either. But there's a difference between people having fun on a thread that goes against the grain of your conversation and someone being an asshole.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
@Alex - I am sure you can do that, and by all means feel free to say what you want. If you come up with something new I'll give you a prize. I have heard it all from my upbringing, to how I breath. Even been called lame by Robert Scoble :-) and still hanging in there. :-)
- Dan owns Comicsforge.com
Hehe, Dan, sorry but it sounded like you wanted some controversy in your life.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
ROFL, Jason.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
I'm on friendfeed because I DO give a crap what other people think. Even Alex!
- Vicarbott
Now that's scary enough to unplug from the internets...
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
I'm with dan i've avoided 90% of controversy probably because I avoid the politics stuff, but then I have managed to use Block for the first time in a year each of the last two days. I wouldn't blame everyone though it's either them or me or more likely the combination of the two. And actually I agree with Jim's thought I do care what people think but don't particularily worry about what they think about me. PS I'm probably a troll. Damn it all.
- SteVe C
@alex, no worries, I was trying to be funny and see if you could top what I have experienced in 7 years of blogging. You have to develop a thick skin when you blog, you have no choice. Same holds true for social networking. If you can not develop a thick skin, then maybe social networking might not be the right choice for you. Or you need to keep your social networking small amongst people you know (and even then that won't help when there is a personality blow out).
- Dan owns Comicsforge.com
Some of the biggest controversies you can get in to on the internets have nothing to do with politics. Some people are very very protective about their brands for instance, pretty much to the point of religion.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Pfffttt...I fart in the Texans' general directions.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
What? People are sensitive? NO! What happened!? I went to bed, kids were skipping hand in hand down the lollipop streets and now? It's one-dozen shivs a second and a taste of blood to boot! What a world...
- ‘-.-’ Tutivillus Grift
I'm afraid it's true, Tutivillus.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
*gives fistbump to Trish* Happens to the best of us, Trish.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Rutger, I think that all depends on how many drinks I had in me at the time. :)
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
What is skin?
- Mike Nayyar
It's that brown stuff (at least in your case) that is holding you together.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
You're wrong, Alex, I'm held together by hair and thin viscous fluids
- Mike Nayyar
Well, you'd die without your skin nonetheless, Mike...and really you wouldn't work at all. It would be quite messy.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Sorry Rutger i'm a complete asshat in public, worse than on here. I randomly throw headbutts around and bite puppies and newborns.
- SteVe C
Oh, it's messy already. Quite messy.
- Mike Nayyar
Outside of the dreaded election campaign, I think I've only offended in one conversation, and that was because I recently joked about religion. I don't offend easily myself, knowing full well that individuals find themselves totally empowered to say just about anything when their hands are hovering over a keyboard. I've only blocked one individual due to a sudden name-calling frenzy against myself and one of my friends here.
- JCunwired
I got a thick head. Does that count? :D
- Steven Perez
Yes, it does Steven. :)
- Mathew A. Koeneker
I haven't been on FF much these past couple of weeks. Since I started my new job and am much busier, I'm finding it harder to justify coming here to be called names by your brother, etc. I used FF to kill time, and now I have no time to kill! :)
- Dawn
So Apple (finally!) responded directly to Microsoft's Laptop Hunters commercials. This is getting good! http://movies.apple.com/media...
Cem Ozkaynak, Paul Stamatiou, Brian Milby and 55 other people liked this
oh snap
- Jay
can Apple really advertise "no crashes"? Microsoft's ads are leading too but damn
- Richard Lawler
She's cute
- Rodfather
Richard, the only things that ever crash on my Mac are Microsoft's office products.
- David Eedle
and my pc never crashes, we can all play this game. crashes and lockups happen all the time, on all different platforms. I just want to know who will have my refund when a kernel panic happens. If they said "less" it would be one thing, but they didn't.
- Richard Lawler
Yeah, I've managed to lock up my Mac Pro a few times. Not very often, but it's possible.
- Tom Harrison
I agree with Richard. I really honestly just don't understand the Mac vs. PC debate anymore. They're essentially the same thing now, you just get things done a little differently.
- Tyler Hayes
I'm a Megan
- Johnny
Tyler: it's not a Mac vs PC thing anymore it's Mac vs Windows (which can be reduced to Mac vs PC) but at it's core, it's apple vs microsoft ... plus the mac is a Personal Computer, but since Microsoft has given PCs a bad name they tried to brand the Mac as not a PC as to not muddle their brand's image.
- Chris Heath
Great commercial - it's that simple!
- Medical Alarm Concepts
That was great
- Abbas Haider Ali
I love it. I'm a PC ... but I want a Mac.
- Angela Schelden
the posted link is never working for me...Nevermind, found it on youtube.
- JoEllen
Dear Apple, I have a PC that also does not crash, doesn't have viruses, and is not a headache to deal with. It's called, Linux. Thank you, and I am a PC running Linux.
- Wizetux
Dear Apple, I have a PC that also does not crash (as long as I keep it free of dustbunnies), doesn't have viruses and is not a headache to deal with...It's called Windows XP. I'm a PC.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
This is funny, but continuing the same campaign isn't a big enough response. They need to come up with a campaign that resonates as well as the Laptop Hunters series.
- Stephen Mack
I'm a PC and I'll stay that way. I've built my own for about 15 years now and can't even remember the last time I crashed.
- JCunwired
I'm a PC. I like having that $1300 in my bank account instead of Apple's.
- Piaw Na
this is a pretty good response to the MS ads
- Jamie
MS cant compete with hardware or commercials. Apple always ups them.
- wowfreeze.blogspot.com
What are some of your saved searches?
Steven Perez and Iván Abrego liked this
anybody have any neat tricks?
- Alfredo 亜瑠布れっど
I don't have any saved searches :o
- Tamar Weinberg
...okay, now I do. Reputation management, of course.
- Tamar Weinberg
I like "unliked hot topic" and "hot topic from non-friends" to follow what's going on outside my interests and communities. Also, "my reactions" (from me, with comments but not mine).
- Jérôme
Cilantro and DYSP.
- Steven Perez
from fftogo
Most of them are filters for most liked and commented items in my friendlists (in case i missed somtehing) and top entries from everyone
- stanjourdan
Jérôme, i didn't manage to make a filter for items i didn't like. I entered -stanjourdan in likes but nothing happens.
- stanjourdan
(photowalking OR photowalk) AND (nyc OR new york)
- Tom Harrison
Stan, type "-like:stanjourdan". The operator for like threshold is "likes:" and for the liker "like:".
- Jérôme
ok thanks a lot :)
- stanjourdan
Too bad that Friendfeed doesn't use the same operator than Google: () for AND and {} for OR. That saves me a lot of characters in my Gmail filters. For instance, I have "from:{facebookmail friendfeed twitter linkedin}" instead of "from:facebookmail OR from: friendfeed OR from: twitter OR from:linkedin"
- Jérôme
well if you click the search box while it's empty you get the 'control panel' and change stuff there. i also found a nice room for saved searches http://friendfeed.com/ffss
- Alfredo 亜瑠布れっど
Final notice for warranty robo-calls? - Inside Bay Area - http://www.insidebayarea.com/oakland...
Niranjan Tulpule, Amit Patel, Alex Scrivener and 7 other people liked this
"NEW YORK — Unsolicited calls to home and cell phones warning of a final notice and an expiring vehicle warranty are a nuisance and harassment and should be the subject of a federal investigation, a U.S. senator said Sunday. Americans increasingly are receiving calls with a computerized voice saying, "This is the final notice. The factory warranty on your vehicle is about to expire," or something similar, several times a day on their cell or land lines. The calls come even if a person has signed up for the national "do not call" registry. Now, Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., wants a federal investigation into the "robo-dialer harassment." "Not only are these calls a nuisance, but they tie up land lines and can eat up a user's cell phone minutes, possibly leading to a higher cell phone bill due to overage charges," said Schumer. Meanwhile, officials in 40 states are investigating the companies behind the car-warranty calls. Michelle Corey, president and CEO of the Better Business Bureau in St. Louis, Mo.,
- Thomas Hawk
from Bookmarklet
Finally
- Robert Kenney
I haven't gotten any on my cell phone since I added it to the National Do Not Call Registry. They are so super annoying though. Hopefully they can get some legislation to put these people out of business.
- Thomas Hawk
http://www.reddit.com/r... for great justice.
- EricaJoy
818 870 5069 <-- robo-caller
- Carlos Ayala
Carlos Ayala: Are you sure that belongs to the robo callers? I have heard they are spoofing innocent people's phone numbers.
- Tom Harrison
I recently started getting these calls on my cell too, sometimes up to 2 per day. Last time I received one I made my way through their system and got an operator. They're very abrupt and aggressive. I offered no personal information but told her my number was a cell, and to not call again. She said she would add me to their do-not-call list and hung up. It has been about a week, and I have not received another call.
- Tom Harrison
@Tom thats a well known one. At least on the internet it is. if you google that # you will get many results repeating the issue including forum results with more results within. i get called from this number on my iphone and on blackberry at least 3 times a week and so do my colleagues. could it still be spoofed? sure. but if it were and nothing has been done after all this time...they almost deserve it.
- Carlos Ayala
i get them on my skypein phone number all the time. glad someone is doing something about it
- Justin Long
Two Great New Photography Videos by Marc Silber - http://thomashawk.com/2009...
Daniel Rowley, Russellreno and Robert Scoble liked this
The first video is a short one with pro photographer Chase Jarvis who talks about how important it is to just get out and take photos with your camera, no matter what your skill level and that it’s fine to simply shoot in program mode if you don’t know what you are doing. Too many people who take up digital photographer become intimidated by the complicated technology that sometimes comes along with the DSLR and photo processing world. Chase reminds us that far more important than any of the tech or nerd stuff is simply that you are out there with any camera framing images. The second video interview is a longer one and is with Senior Surfing Magazine Staff Photographer Jeff Flindt. Jeff is credited with 20 surfing cover shots for various surfing magazines. Surf photography is a whole genre in itself and it’s great learning about how Jeff has succeeded in that arena.
- Thomas Hawk
Great stuff! I really like Jarvis' tip about not letting the technical aspects of photography become a mental block. I've got no hesitation when it comes to using semi-auto modes... they are great tools.
- Tom Harrison
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