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Or if http://www.wireless.att.com/learn... was available in the bay area. - Vadim Spivak

I'm sure it will be soon, but it seems unfair that I'd have to pay for a microcell in order to give AT&T the privilege of using the bandwidth I pay Comcast for, without any sort of discount to myself. - Kevin Fox

Sorry to ask this very obvious question, but do you have wireless turned on? (I keep it off on mine in order to conserve battery) - Tudor Bosman

Yes I have it turned on just in order to get the update. But no update :( - niniane

You can manually update it over USB - Vadim Spivak from iPhone

I just used Skype for the same reason while in Europe on my last trip. Also, Skype on the iPhone over wifi is really nice. - Vadim Spivak from iPhone

"This single statement, apparently written by some sub-contractor they had outsourced admin interface programming to, cost them millions of NOK in lost sales." - Vadim Spivak from Bookmarklet

Interesting video.. that's a lot of hardware (http://blog.wolframalpha.com/2009...) processing 80qps. - Vadim Spivak from Bookmarklet

Only got a 25/33 :( .. Sadly that's better than the average score of an elected official (44% - http://www.americancivicliteracy.org/2008...). - Vadim Spivak

I knew Vadim would like that... :) - Derek Collison

They have an emacs key-mapping to select from built in, probably won't feel the same but may save time. - Jesse Kuhnert

Tried it http://stevegarfield.com/Site... Only hearing audio. Now chatting with Google to see why. - Steve Garfield from twhirl

I'll take a look at walking up the frame hierarchy when it's on the same domain. Usually iframes are not on the same domain for security reasons. - Vadim Spivak

"Google has been hosting some of the popular AJAX libraries for awhile, and we’re pleased to announce that YUI has now been added to that roster. Now, you can choose between yui.yahooapis.com and ajax.googleapis.com when you evaluate your hosting options for YUI files. We’ve added Google as an option in the CDN section of the Dependency Configurator; it’s easy to configure your implementation and switch the generated URLs from one source to the other." - Vadim Spivak from Bookmarklet

I got almost all my ski gear there 2 years ago. - Vadim Spivak

Let me know what you find. I've been thinking the same thing. When they accidentally double-bill their entire customer base for a year's services I like a little more maturity than "Oops, heh. Funny story: We pressed the wrong button." - Kevin Fox

Still having dreamhost problems but not sure I want my own root access provider. Anyone offer dreamhost-like non-root service? - Stephen Foskett

That sucks :( I haven't met a single person who had a pleasant experience with the INS. - Vadim Spivak

Perhaps shuffle the Website Idea Generator http://blogoscoped.com/ideas/ or pick a cell from the Technology Mashup Matrix http://blogoscoped.com/matrix/ , or look up a random word in dictionary on the day, then brainstorm what app could come out of it. - Philipp Lenssen

Now that I think about you could generate a lot more usage if the app simply showed the predictions that were due for today and let you see which predictions would be due on any given date. - Adewale Oshineye

My first iPhone App.. Word puzzle game in which the goal is to find the 3-6 letter anagrams (similar to TextTwist.) - Vadim Spivak from Bookmarklet

For anyone interested in numbers: took 4 weekends to write/test, submitted to the AppStore on 10/17, approved on 10/20, downloaded 250 times in 6 hours (stats from 10/20, app approved @ 6PM PDT) from 4 countries (US, Canada, Mexico, and Chile) - Vadim Spivak

QB tackled by a ref - Vadim Spivak from Bookmarklet

Funny story, I wonder if it really happened. - Vadim Spivak from Bookmarklet

"The depression of 1929 is the wrong model for the current economic crisis" - Vadim Spivak from Bookmarklet

Compare how Biden and Palin answer the same question.. - Vadim Spivak from Bookmarklet

"After noting Roe vs. Wade, Palin was apparently unable to discuss any major court cases. There was no verbal fumbling with this particular question as there was with some others, the aide said, but rather silence." - Vadim Spivak from Bookmarklet

"An Alaskan hockey mom becomes Vice President in the wackiest family comedy of the year! Sound familiar?" - Vadim Spivak from Bookmarklet

"CNN's Jack Cafferty rolled tape of Sarah Palin's interview with Katie Couric. Couric asked Palin about the expense of the White House's Wall Street bailout proposal. Palin gave a rambling and non-responsive answer. But what came after is even more startling." - Vadim Spivak from Bookmarklet

Sorry, Vadim - a bug I thought we had pushed, but apparently not. Will be fixed tomorrow. - Bret Taylor

Awesome, thanks! - Vadim Spivak

"Amazon customers, as we know, read widely and often buy books that don't necessarily fit their own views. Books aren't votes, and a map of book purchases can reflect curiosity as much as commitment, but we hope ours will provide one way to follow the changing political conversation across the country during this election season." - Vadim Spivak from Bookmarklet

"Sen. Hillary Clinton told a gathering of supporters last week that she's looking for a "strategy" for her delegates to have their voices heard and "respected" at the Democratic National Convention -- and did not rule out the possibility of having her name placed into nomination at the convention alongside Sen. Barack Obama's." - Vadim Spivak from Bookmarklet

"What's better than making a drag/drop effect in Javascript that's compatible in all browsers? Not making a drag/drop effect in Javascript that's compatible in all browsers. Save your ninja-code for another day and use the JQuery UI plugin that is now hosted on our AJAX Libraries API! As usual, your users will get a performance boost when you use JQuery UI through our API, so get started by checking out the docs." - Vadim Spivak from Bookmarklet

Ha, ya beat me.. :) - Derek Collison

"There's no question about it," Bush said. "Wall Street got drunk, that's one of the reasons I asked you to turn off the TV cameras. It got drunk and now it's got a hangover. The question is how long will it sober up and not try to do all these fancy financial instruments." - Vadim Spivak from Bookmarklet

What's up with the busted YouTube links? - John Harding

I didn't favorite any video last night.. http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds... - Vadim Spivak

Garnett finally won his ring! - Vadim Spivak

I'm just so happy it happened for Pierce. Been following him since his rookie year and man he's fought through a lot. - DeWitt Clinton

"Using the APIs from your Flash or Server Side framework couldn't be simpler. If you know how to make an http request, and how to process a JSON response, you are in business." - Vadim Spivak

"The life of 20-year-old Emine, and her 24-year-old husband Ramazan Çalçoban was pretty much the normal life of any couple in a separation process. After deciding to split up, the two kept having bitter arguments over the cellphone, sending text messages to each other until one day Ramazan wrote "you change the topic every time you run out of arguments." That day, the lack of a single dot over a letter—product of a faulty localization of the cellphone's typing system—caused a chain of events that ended in a violent blood bath (Warning: offensive language ahead.)" - Vadim Spivak