Tweets
June 2007
Saturday 6/9
3:42 AM At some point I'm going to have to learn how to get more than 4 hours sleep at a time again.
Thursday 6/14
8:05 PM Ahhhhhhhhh... it's starting to cool down now. Happily I won't have to empty the fridge out to make a space to sit.
10:32 PM Watching WarGames... Man I so wanted to have that computer setup at home (and to date Ally Sheedy of course)
Sunday 6/17
1:54 AM Just created a Facebook App for videos from the my.mowser.com social network powered by Ning...
3:10 PM @gaberivera: My aggregator doesn't rely on an algorithm, so it's easier to unsubscribe... (However, I do have to scroll through TechMeme qui
3:11 PM Watching Tiger at the U.S. Open... Cabrera is up 3 at this point, it doesn't look good for our man.
Monday 6/18
Saturday 6/23
10:53 AM Downloaded Galaga for the Wii and my 5yo munchkin is now intensely zapping aliens. How many quarters did I spend on that game?
Tuesday 6/26
12:56 PM I remember, I remember when I lost my mind, there was something so pleasant about that place.
Friday 6/29
2:11 PM Just watched as someone with an iPhone in New Jersey hit my site looking for free porn wallpapers. It's an hour early!
10:28 PM Just walked in with the iPhone. Palo Alto store was a 10 minute wait...
Saturday 6/30
2:06 PM Still waiting for iPhone activation... la-da-di-dum... twiddle.... twiddle...
9:42 PM still waiting for AT&T to activate my iPhone... I have a shiny little iBrick sitting on my desk. So cute.
July 2007
Sunday 7/1
10:45 AM @grbr: Good thing it wasn't me next to Steve... After genuflecting, I would most likely have given him a bitch slap.
11:02 AM @rodrigo1971: invite me. :-)
Wednesday 7/4
1:41 AM Tell the world: An iPhone hack to type a period! http://tinyurl.com/2zwvvo
Thursday 7/5
11:31 AM My twitters aren't ever very interesting... I'm going to start making stuff up.
11:32 AM Recovering from post a post heroin binge.
Saturday 7/7
6:58 PM I can't believe I just watched a Rock Paper Scissors competition on ESPN. But I did... And it was pretty good.
Sunday 7/8
10:34 PM watching How It's Made marathon while reading about Django...
Monday 7/9
11:26 AM just dropped the munchkin off at daycare. Yes, it's almost lunchtime... but there were legos to be built, people!
11:34 AM testing out beejive for iPhone. Looks and works great!
Saturday 7/21
7:34 PM Watching Soccer with the Munchkin... Waiting for Beckham to play his first game for the Galaxy..
September 2007
Sunday 9/2
9:22 AM I haven't updated Twitter in a long time... people keep adding me though. Hello.
December 2007
Wednesday 12/19
1:35 AM My first twitter since July...
1:38 AM Okay, so I turned IM notifications back on and added the Twitter bot... I feel like a year has disappeared somewhere... Wasn't I doing ...
12:02 PM Going off to pick up the munchkin from Kindergarten.
2:20 PM How can my parents' scanner and printer break *every day*?!? How is that possible?!?
9:58 PM W00t... Toys R Us is open until Midnight!
Thursday 12/20
12:16 AM An hour and half shopping in Toys R Us trying to find the right combo, and someone steals my cart when I look away for a minute.
4:34 AM http://tinyurl.com/29ps49 Stop Letting Google Transcode Your Content!
Friday 12/21
12:35 PM Helping the kid write numbers and letters. How do you use a pencil again? I'm almost not sure...
10:19 PM Twas four nights before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.
10:31 PM Wow, those invites from Loic went fast.
10:31 PM It just dawned on me what they were...
10:32 PM Ooh, I have invites for Mowser too. It's a special code you type in that text area in the top of your browser... http://mowser.com
Saturday 12/22
12:52 PM Ahh, "I Am Legend" is actually some twisted Christian propaganda flick. I was wondering why everyone said it sucked.
5:03 PM Lego Star Wars is super mega fantastic.
7:07 PM Watching Empire Strikes Back with the munchkin, it's his first time... we're stopping every chapter to play it in Lego Star Wars. Cooles ...
11:15 PM Whenever I buy a tub of half chocolate/half vanilla ice cream, I always end up with 1/4 tub of chocolate left.
11:20 PM Trying to figure out the best way of incorporating Twitter into my blog... just the feed? sidebar? Should I use the API?
Sunday 12/23
12:18 AM Wow! 599 different users have tested 711 urls in Mowser Compare! http://pub.mowser.com/compare.php
3:27 AM The stampede of unsubscribers has begun! The unbearable pain of Twittering is too much for them.
3:27 AM Wrapped presents, watched McLaughlin Group, going to bed waaay too late.
12:43 PM /me is watching Scoble's Qik with fascination.
5:27 PM just sat down at the computer to another dozen messages about tweets in my main feed. What a debacle.
11:18 PM Best xkcd ever! http://xkcd.com/361/
Monday 12/24
11:36 AM @JeffClavier - I'd love an invite! :-)
12:36 PM @JeffClavier THANKS Jeff!
11:15 PM Life: You believe in Santa. You don't believe in Santa. You are Santa. You look like Santa... (About to pull out the presents for the mo ...
Tuesday 12/25
10:26 PM Kid's in bed, I'm wrecked.
Saturday 12/29
1:36 PM They repossessed my car again. 3 days late, including Christmas, and they took it last night sometime. (I'm not sure if I have the energ ...
1:36 PM Everyone should live this way for a while, to see how badly the bottom 1/3rd of the US are treated.
1:37 PM While the top third enjoy counting and re-counting their money on Wesabe. Yay.
January 2008
Saturday 1/5
1:00 PM holy thunderclaps batman.
Sunday 1/6
1:25 PM When is Twitter going to implement hashtags natively... it's a no brainer.
Monday 1/7
9:07 PM Watching them count votes in Dixville Notch. I grew up 30 miles away from there...
Friday 1/11
6:52 PM Adding Sandy to my twitter list...
Tuesday 1/15
8:22 AM Hmm. I wonder if anyone is going to do some sort of live streaming of the keynote...
Thursday 1/31
11:49 PM testing Twitter just to see if it's live... yep. :-)
February 2008
Sunday 2/3
12:23 AM Testing a new twitter thing, daily blog updates...
12:43 AM Writing a daily PHP script... I should do this in another language to learn, but it needs to be compatible with my blog software... LAZY.
12:44 AM I should throw some < markup in here as well, just to test... and some 's.
12:58 AM Okay, all cronned up and ready to post at 11:59 p.m. every day... I wonder if people what people will freak out about this time...
6:52 PM Doesn't look good for the pats...
7:10 PM It seemed so quiet around my apartment... like it was near midnight. Now the game's over and it's chaos. Cars, people, noise... wow.
7:31 PM I need to turn the TV off now.
8:39 PM Watching the commercials: http://tinyurl.com/3xxjnu
Monday 2/4
12:51 PM Watching a Google video instead of working: (What's wrong with Gravity) http://tinyurl.com/3du4pw <http://tinyurl.com/3du4pw>
4:10 PM Messing with Seeqpod's API... very cool
7:04 PM New Mowser feature, mobile MP3 search: http://m.mowser.com/mp3/u2
8:40 PM @marshallk Wow! Thanks for the link love! And the comment - like I said, you know better than me about those widget tools! :-)
Tuesday 2/5
3:00 PM @twhume - I can't imagine the Venn diagramm of Twitter users, Mac heads and Geneva has much overlap.
4:54 PM Obama +1 : http://tinyurl.com/3xc65h
8:48 PM Watching Obama... he's such a rock star.
Wednesday 2/6
9:36 AM The munchkin is home sick today... watching Dragon Tales and drinking hot chocolate. Being 5yo rocks.
10:06 AM Twitter IM is on the fritz again... At least it is for me.
Sunday 2/10
8:23 PM Twitter is freaking out and forwarding everything to my phone... (Hello IM Bot... I'm here!)
8:34 PM Today's culinary tip: Safeway brand Rice Krispies taste just as good as the real thing. The bargain Ritz crackers don't though.
Monday 2/11
12:56 AM @jhstrauss - open your email client, and write your thoughts to a friend. And then instead of sending it, copy/paste it into your blog. :-)
9:53 PM I just installed Twitux for Ubuntu... my first Twitter client. I should look and see what other ones are available... any suggestions?
Tuesday 2/12
1:32 AM I fixed the damn Orkut login bug. Thank god. 50 problem reports a day were killing me. You'd think Google would make a mobile version, no?
10:34 AM Twitter just woke me up via SMS... it's not supposed to be sending them to my phone, but it is.
5:46 PM O BA MA! O BA MA!
6:26 PM Is your blog or website mobilized? If not, then use Mowser! I'll help!
7:29 PM @marshallk - "UNSUPPORTED PLATFORM ERROR:
This video is not supported on the current platform" ... meh to CNN. :-)
8:38 PM I'm *so* sick of eHarmony commercials - those fucking fundamentalist christian, homophobic assholes should be run out of business.
Thursday 2/14
6:49 PM Hmm... been ranting a lot lately, I'll have to be more upbeat for a bit. Yay!
7:01 PM Was looking to try that heart thing, but roughly 8 of the 189 people following me on Twitter are women, and I don't know them well enough!
7:02 PM I think my Facebook contacts have a similar M/F ratio. I need to get out of the house more.
Tuesday 2/19
6:32 PM Twitux suddenly won't log in... tested my username/pass on the APIs from curl and it worked no problem. Weird... Back to flaky IM.
7:24 PM Ahh, my keyring daemon wasn't running for some reason, hosing Twitux.
7:24 PM I actually think I like the IM interface better. I just hope Twitter realizes I'm online. It likes to stop sending stuff to IM periodically.
7:28 PM @derricks - I actually went through and manually turned on just about everyone for notifications a while ago as an attempt to fix it.
11:54 PM UNBELIEVABLE amount of spam tonight. Spamassassin is just missing tons of stuff... god I hate email.
Wednesday 2/20
1:49 AM Did all of #mobitopia just move to Twitter en masse? jim, martin, gustaf, moof, erik, vero!?!?
11:29 AM It's "ski-week" at my kid's Atherton (read psychotically rich) elementary school so I have a new office mate this week.
11:29 AM Ski week is different from Spring Break which is next month... Being a teacher in Atherton is a good gig.
11:31 AM Alex is currently "heads-down" on the Windows PC working away at some Backyardigans online games. http://www.nickjr.com/playtime
12:48 PM Safeway $2 frozen pizzas rule.
1:16 PM I just mapped F4 to "Clear Scrollback" in Pidgin on Ubuntu (Gnome rocks like that). Works awesome - equivalent to "mark all read".
7:01 PM installing wine from winehq rather than Ubuntu's repositories... in theory I can run Safari that way. http://www.winehq.org/site/downloa ...
7:07 PM Wow, it worked!
Thursday 2/21
8:03 PM @derricks - The lego MMO is two years away though! :-( I guess my kid will be 8 when it hits, which will be just about perfect though.
10:28 PM Spilled a glass of water on my desk...
10:30 PM Well, it probably need a cleaning... and my wallet.. and a few phones... some bills... my notebook... my n800... a chocolate bar...
11:49 PM Jumper was pretty good... I liked how it ended. I hope they make another one. Hayden can't act, but we all knew that.
Friday 2/22
11:40 AM @cksthree - checking out your post about Gears of War II - just noticed you're working at Mahalo, but your Top 50 Mahalo Pages sidebar i ...
11:42 AM @cksthree - Mahalo looks pretty good through Mowser... Are you guys going mobile at some point?
5:14 PM Just got the final minikit in Lego Star Wars II with the munchkin. It's been like 3 months solid of playing this game. Finally!
Sunday 2/24
2:48 PM Just posted about Twitter! http://tinyurl.com/2scblt and now I'm twittering about it!
Monday 2/25
Thursday 2/28
2:04 PM "Lookit! R2D2. I think that bad guy likes him a lot because he's so shiny!" - my son watching Return of the Jedi.
2:07 PM "The bad guys like the robot good guys because they don't have any zappers."
2:08 PM "Woah, I think they like R2 a lot."
2:09 PM "I saw Boba Fett! There's Boba Fett! Awwww, you missed it!"
2:10 PM "Ewwwwwww!" (upon seeing Jaba eat a slimy thing from a bowl).
2:11 PM "ChewBOK... that's what he called Chewbacca"
2:11 PM "Lookit! There's Boba Fett."
2:13 PM "Lando Cal-riz-ean... that's the guy that was in cloud city. Look, they put Chewbacca in jail..."
2:14 PM "I think that's Luke. That has to be Luke. Oh! I know it's Princess Leia! It's Princess Leia for real!"
2:15 PM "That's where... um... behind that little thing is the bad guys."
2:16 PM "I wonder where her zapper is?"
2:17 PM "There's Han Solo. Put in jail."
2:17 PM "Luke's going to come in in a second."
2:18 PM "I think that's Luke right now. That has to be Luke, he's the only one that's not here. It's really Luke."
2:19 PM "R2 has Luke's light saber so it can be safe. No one can open those blue rectangles."
2:21 PM "I think Luke is going to cut off his arm."
2:21 PM "He's going to get him with the door."
2:24 PM "He's really sad."
2:25 PM "Hey, I rode on those before in the video game... Oh! I love this part!"
2:26 PM "Luke lived in this place."
2:27 PM "That's a pretty hard thing to zap."
2:28 PM "Well... not yet he's gonna die. R2D2 has his light saber!"
2:29 PM "He used his rocket!"
2:29 PM "Boba Fett got eated! Yay!"
2:30 PM Ate, Alex. "He got ated by the monster." No, no... Eaten. "Eaten."
2:32 PM "R2D2 sprayed electricity!"
2:32 PM "R2D2 likes C3PO, so he falls down with him."
2:33 PM "The X-Wing Fighter was following the Millenium Falcon.."
2:33 PM "He wants to get more powers!"
2:34 PM "Those red protector things were in the video game. Remember those guys?"
2:35 PM "The storms troopers are like a ton of them. They keep coming and coming, and they never stop coming, ever. "
2:35 PM "Except when the emperor dies."
2:36 PM "Yoda's going to disappear. Because he's so good at the force."
2:36 PM Lunch is almost over... and it's gorgeous out. Time to get this kid some sun.
March 2008
Saturday 3/1
12:04 AM What's the little "lock" symbol next to some people's names in Twitter for?
12:05 AM @derricks I just saw your t-shirt comment (I need to check replies more often). Wow, that's a seriously old shirt. Look, Listen, Learn! :-)
1:56 PM So has anyone actually started development on an "Open Twitter" server yet? Or is it still in the talking/hand-waving phase?
2:55 PM I'm going write up an OpenTwitter prototype... Python or Ruby? (I could do it quicker in PHP, but everyone would say, "eeeeww! PHP! sukz"
3:00 PM It needs a name... Chirper? Pinger? Warbler? Chirrup? Peep? (The last one is fun because it's also "peeple"...)
3:14 PM @neuraxon77 Erlang?!? LOL. Craig, I just want to create a prototype. And I want to actually get it done. :-) Python is scalable "enough".
3:31 PM I'm always amazed at how fucking bad Python documentation is. http://tinyurl.com/yxwmtx
3:33 PM @derricks You should try to give something away for free sometime. I emptied my garage last summer and it took minutes.
3:35 PM One guy showed up to pick up a futon/couch. The entire back of his minivan was covered in loaves of Wonder bread. No idea why.
3:36 PM I thought he was going to put the futon on his roof or something, but as I was helping him, he just put it on top of the bread...
3:37 PM Not being able to resist, I said, "Wow, that's a lot of bread." And he asked me if I wanted some... "Um. Ahh. No... Thanks though!"
3:37 PM You meet all kinds of people on Craigslist. :-)
3:47 PM I have no idea what I'm doing with Py... Starting with a tiny web server... next I'll thread in a chat bot: http://rab.cc/download/peep.py
3:48 PM @neuraxon77 I was sorta thinking SQLite... Or maybe just a normal hash that's serialized. I'm boring like that. :-)
3:50 PM ooh... someone has already written a gTalk "conference bot"... interesting! http://tinyurl.com/8v57b
3:55 PM Woops. I'm going to have to learn how to spawn a thread or something in Python. 3 minutes in and I'm over my head. :-)
4:03 PM Okay, found another project - chatbot plus http server already. May be easier to expand on it: http://tinyurl.com/34kfo5
5:01 PM Okay, I've got a simple echobot tied to a web server that's spawned. Not sure how to get them to talk yet...
5:06 PM Oh... that was easy. Global methods... duh. :-)
6:00 PM Almost ready to test posting from Peep... but Twitter's going down soon... doh!
6:16 PM This is a test from Peep
6:35 PM This is a test from Peep... again
6:37 PM I can't believe @mc just fixed my code by telling me to get rid of my tabs. Gotta love Python!
10:13 PM Just watched Hoosiers... and then of course went to Wikipedia to learn about the real history, which is different but not horribly so. :-)
Tuesday 3/4
2:59 PM I haven't cleaned yet. I neeeeeeeed to clean.
5:01 PM Obama wins Vermont, the state of my birth! Go Obama! (I'm #1 on Google for that expression, just FYI). :-)
5:06 PM Ever notice how m.twitter.com is actually pretty nice even on a desktop?
5:07 PM You can open it in the sidebar like a widget... Works well...
5:08 PM Some greasemonkey hack to refresh it every minute or so would be perfect...
5:18 PM crap... this should be a simple script... it won't work.
5:20 PM Ahh, got it working... Twitter sets a flag for the mobile version...
5:23 PM rats, Greasemonkey doesn't work in a sidebar. :-)
7:03 PM What the hell is wrong with Ohio. First they give us Bush in 04, now they vote for Hilary over Obama? The whole state sucks.
Wednesday 3/5
12:53 AM @orchid8 I was just playing with Seesmic and saw your post about the 6 hour caucus session! Way to go! (Go Obama!)
12:54 AM Seesmic would be more useful to me if I could post the videos on my blog as well (like I can with Twitter posts).
12:55 AM The Twitter Greasemonkey hack is actually pretty great... I can use the website as a "full-featured client"...
12:55 AM Just do this: setTimeout(function() { document.location.reload(); } , 60000);
1:01 AM @loiclemeur - Great to hear! I have to say, just going through the public video conversations so far is pretty fascinating even still...
1:03 AM @prash - It's a simple one - create a new Greasemonkey script for twitter.com, and add that setTimeout I posted which just refreshes...
1:18 AM 36 minutes until my laundry is done. I hate living in an apartment complex... I feel like I'm 20yo again (in a bad way).
1:34 AM 20 minutes until my laundry is done... Isn't this fun? :-)
1:53 AM 1 minute until my laundry is dry! Yay!
2:20 AM My laundry is folded. One of the dryers didn't work well, so half of everything is damp... suuck.
Thursday 3/6
12:24 AM Ray Ozzie is my hero. I just wish he didn't work for Microsoft.
12:02 PM Just woke up... wading through the iPhone hype...
12:07 PM "HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 500 Error WebObjects" Apple seems to be having some issues keeping up with the SDK demands...
9:09 PM Watching the iPhone announcement video: http://tinyurl.com/2j8m6u
10:42 PM When does sxsw start? In other words, how long before Twitter goes down for good?
Friday 3/7
12:04 AM He "open sourced" an idea... Someone kill me.
12:04 AM watching Anderson on Charlie Rose...
12:22 AM Woops. Either Twitter's down or no one is talking any more...
12:22 AM Oh, it may have been actually the latter...
12:25 AM Watching @TechCrunch on Charlie Rose...
12:31 AM Arrington is talking mobile. PLEASE, PLEASE KILL ME.
12:56 AM @dayjah oh, I don't think he's any more of a jackass than the rest of us, I just dislike the kingmaker vibe.
Saturday 3/8
9:28 AM W00t! Posting using Snitter on Adobe AIR for Linux Alpha.
11:52 PM @gartenberg - The number of Java devs vs. Mac/Objective C devs, and the dollar value of the J2ME games market alone answers your question.
Sunday 3/9
12:47 AM I admit it, I'm desperately in love with Megan McCormick... http://tinyurl.com/qncyv
3:12 AM What the hell time is it?!?!
3:56 AM @psd I taught my kid how to ride 3 days ago... that tip would have saved me about 4 hours of jogging in circles holding him by the scruff!
10:10 AM I can't imagine any of the hipsters at SXSW not having an iPhone, but just in case: http://tinyurl.com/35gybj
10:23 AM @JamesPearce - heh, I didn't even notice that. :-) I owe you an email too. I suck at email...
4:36 PM at the park with the munchkin and his friends. So hot in the sun!
Monday 3/10
12:00 AM is there a way I can be more bored?
12:01 AM not being productive, no news from my 200+ feeds, nothing on TV, no movies I want to see... not ready to sleep... arrrrrghh!
12:02 AM I need a vice.
12:04 AM GlobeTrekker is on, but sadly Megan isn't the traveller this time...
2:09 AM Just signed up for SocialThing using the @TechCrunch invite code. They want passwords for all my accounts... Fuuuuuuck that.
2:21 AM Testing out Twhirl using AIR for Linux Alpha... much more responsive than Snitter... not sure why.
3:17 AM @marccanter4real - Peep is not anywhere near done yet. It's just a proof of concept as well... it'll be a long while before it's "real" :-)
3:19 AM I just added Jaiku and Pownce to my Twhirl client... I hope I remembered the passwords...
12:50 PM Mobile Monday Silicon Valley tonight at Google! - Topic: Automotive Apps - http://www.mobilemonday.us/
6:05 PM @martinlittle - I'm a AIR for Linux Alpha tester. It's not released yet. Now that I told you, I may have to kill you. I'll check the TOS...
Tuesday 3/11
1:47 AM @JeffClavier re: mobile focused startups... Really? Beyond the Twitter clones, what have you seen?
6:47 PM @cksthree Watching SSB... wondering if I should go get it for my Wii... It looks like pure chaos.
6:50 PM @cksthree What's the use of a UStream chat you can't take part in? "You are not allowed to participate in this chatroom."
8:01 PM I just volunteered to help chaperone my kid's Kindergarten field trip to the SF Zoo. Should be a total blast. (Note: need tiger repellent)
8:08 PM Obama wins Mississippi, ahead in delegates 1607 to Clinton's 1476... 2025 needed to win.
8:43 PM Just saw @danah on Frontline... without the hipster glasses and goofy hats, I had no idea who it was until I saw her name/title...
8:44 PM Another reason I don't wear glasses in photos. :-)
8:53 PM Watching "Good Eats"... I just learned that Corned Beef has nothing to do with actual corn.
9:02 PM Good Eats is over... man I need a TiVo again.
10:00 PM Huh... I'm watching the World Series of Poker on ESPN, and Calacanis is actually playing somewhere..
10:01 PM Everyone seems to have a fulltiltpoker.net shirts on... what a horrible domain name. I mean, "full tilt?" and the .com wasn't available?
Wednesday 3/12
1:00 AM 1 a.m. Hmm. Now what?
2:48 PM Welcome to the middle of my day. The kid is eating pizza and watching Ice Age... I'm reading Twitter. Productvity abounds.
2:54 PM Did you know that the page= URL in Twitter goes beyond 10? Just edit it in the toolbar and go back as far as you want.
3:01 PM @rodrigo1971 Oh, only 45? So only ~450 messages back? I hadn't gotten that far (I want to retain some sanity). Thanks!
6:11 PM Got back from Gamestop. Wii, plus 6 games, 3 nunchucks, 3 wiimotes, 2 classic controllers and a charger == 1 New XBox 360 Pro + Halo 3...
Thursday 3/13
3:03 AM 3 a.m. Hello. If you're in California, like I am, GO TO BED!
2:40 PM 2:40 p.m. Hello! (Wow this tweet is almost exactly 12 hours after my last one...
2:43 PM @timbray - I've turned off those notifications. Once in a while, I go check out my followers. Also I let all the @ messages go through.
2:45 PM I'm using Firefox 3 on Ubuntu... Haven't noticed much (except the super-annoying drop down on the address bar).
2:52 PM Upgraded to Twhirl 0.7.2...
2:54 PM @miker and I have decided to convert Mowser into a contextual advertising social widget startup, interested VCs should DM mike.
3:02 PM Why did OpenAds change their name to OpenX? That's the stupidest name change I've heard of in a long time.
3:04 PM @Rits It's too verbose (2 lines per entry) as well as too long (25 entries), includes searches as well as URLs - in a URL address bar.
3:06 PM Got through my news reader... I'm not ready to be productive yet....
3:07 PM Some PR moron just emailed me about Business Week's article about the iPod Touch. Who are they working for? BW or Apple? And why bother?
3:08 PM I was actually going to link and write about it, but not now. Stupid fucks.
3:13 PM @Rits Just trying it again - part of the problem is the way type-ahead is done - one letter gets any result with that letter in the title!?
3:20 PM Let's share XBox Gamertags! Yay! Mine is Russe11
3:37 PM @jhstrauss Is it what I'm saying, how I'm saying it, or the frequeency? Twitter rocks for non-sequitirs!
3:41 PM @jhstrauss LOL - you need to follow more people. Then the tweets sort of join together into a flowing white noise... :-)
3:56 PM @ethauvin - that column is nonsense. *Both* parents have to be US Citizens *and* you were born on US soil to be "natural born"? Stupid.
3:58 PM If you're a citizen and you haven't been "natural-ized" then you must be "natural". Pretty straight forward.
4:26 PM Alex is playing Burnout: Paradise City Demo on the 360... and is having waaaay too much fun just driving around the city, open map style.
4:52 PM Weird - I just got some direct mail (like in my actual mail box) for a company called Credo Mobile that I've never heard about before.
4:55 PM @ethauvin Yeah, honest to goodness paper. I was surprised... It's sort of like Boost, but with some sort of integrated charity donations
5:03 PM I just noticed Alex driving by a huge VIZIO billboard in Burnout... so I checked it out. Interactive Advertising hits its mark. :-)
8:34 PM Holy crap, where'd the last 4 hours go?
Friday 3/14
2:05 PM Franklin is getting on my nerves today. What a whiny, lying, deceitful little turtle. What is my kid supposed to be learning? Dishonesty?
2:52 PM Okay, let's see... 261 followers right now.
2:52 PM I'm going to embark on an experiment prompted by Jonathan's reply to me yesterday... :-)
2:55 PM If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, an what my lousy childhood was like,
2:56 PM and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into
2:56 PM it, if you want to know the truth. In the first place, that stuff bores me, and in the second place, my parents would have about two
2:57 PM hemorrhages apiece if I told anything pretty personal about them. They're quite touchy about anything like that, especially my father.
2:57 PM They're nice and all--I'm not saying that--but they're also touchy as hell. Besides, I'm not going to tell you my whole goddam
2:58 PM autobiography or anything. I'll just tell you about this madman stuff that happened to me around last Christmas just before I got pretty
2:58 PM run-down and had to come out here and take it easy. I mean that's all I told D.B. about, and he's my brother and all. He's in Hollywood.
2:59 PM That isn't too far from this crumby place, and he comes over and visits me practically every week end. He's going to drive me home when I
2:59 PM go home next month maybe. He just got a Jaguar. One of those little English jobs that can do around two hundred miles an hour. It cost him
3:00 PM damn near four thousand bucks. He's got a lot of dough, now. He didn't use to. He used to be just a regular writer, when he was home. He
3:00 PM wrote this terrific book of short stories, The Secret Goldfish, in case you never heard of him. The best one in it was "The Secret
3:01 PM Goldfish." It was about this little kid that wouldn't let anybody look at his goldfish because he'd bought it with his own money. It killed
3:01 PM me. Now he's out in Hollywood, D.B., being a prostitute. If there's one thing I hate, it's the movies. Don't even mention them to me. Where
3:02 PM I want to start telling is the day I left Pencey Prep. Pencey Prep is this school that's in Agerstown, Pennsylvania. You probably heard of
3:02 PM it. You've probably seen the ads, anyway. They advertise in about a thousand magazines, always showing some hotshot guy on a horse jumping
3:03 PM over a fence. Like as if all you ever did at Pencey was play polo all the time. I never even once saw a horse anywhere near the place. And
3:03 PM underneath the guy on the horse's picture, it always says: "Since 1888 we have been molding boys into splendid, clear-thinking young men."
3:04 PM Strictly for the birds. They don't do any damn more molding at Pencey than they do at any other school. And I didn't know anybody there
3:04 PM that was splendid and clear-thinking and all. Maybe two guys. If that many. And they probably came to Pencey that way. Anyway, it was the
3:05 PM Saturday of the football game with Saxon Hall. The game with Saxon Hall was supposed to be a very big deal around Pencey. It was the last
3:05 PM gameof the year, and you were supposed to commit suicide or something if old Pencey didn't win. I remember around three o'clock that
3:06 PM afternoon I was standing way the hell up on top of Thomsen Hill, right next to this crazy cannon that was in the Revolutionary War and all.
3:06 PM You could see the whole field from there, and you could see the two teams bashing each other all over the place. You couldn't see the
3:07 PM grandstand too hot, but you could hear them all yelling, deep and terrific on the Pencey side, because practically the whole school except
3:07 PM me was there, and scrawny and faggy on the Saxon Hall side, because the visiting team hardly ever brought many people with them. There were
3:08 PM never many girls at all at the football games. Only seniors were allowed to bring girls with them. It was a terrible school, no matter how
3:08 PM you looked at it. I like to be somewhere at least where you can see a few girls around once in a while, even if they're only scratching
3:09 PM their arms or blowing their noses or even just giggling or something. Old Selma Thurmer--she was the headmaster's daughter--showed up at
3:09 PM the games quite often, but she wasn't exactly the type that drove you mad with desire. She was a pretty nice girl, though. I sat next to
3:10 PM her once in the bus from Agerstown and we sort of struck up a conversation. I liked her. She had a big nose and her nails were all bitten
3:10 PM down and bleedy-looking and she had on those damn falsies that point all over the place, but you felt sort of sorry for her. What I liked
3:11 PM about her, she didn't give you a lot of horse manure about what a great guy her father was. She probably knew what a phony slob he was. The
3:11 PM reason I was standing way up on Thomsen Hill, instead of down at the game, was because I'd just got back from New York with the fencing
3:12 PM team. I was the goddam manager of the fencing team. Very big deal. We'd gone in to New York that morning for this fencing meet with
3:12 PM McBurney School. Only, we didn't have the meet. I left all the foils and equipment and stuff on the goddam subway. It wasn't all my fault.
3:13 PM I had to keep getting up to look at this map, so we'd know where to get off. So we got back to Pencey around two-thirty instead of around
3:13 PM dinnertime. The whole team ostracized me the whole way back on the train. It was pretty funny, in a way. The other reason I wasn't down at
3:14 PM the game was because I was on my way to say good-by to old Spencer, my history teacher. He had the grippe, and I figured I probably
3:14 PM wouldn't see him again till Christmas vacation started. He wrote me this note saying he wanted to see me before I went home. He knew I
3:15 PM wasn't coming back to Pencey. I forgot to tell you about that. They kicked me out. I wasn't supposed to come back after Christmas vacation
3:16 PM on account of I was flunking four subjects and not applying myself and all. They gave me frequent warning to start applying
3:16 PM myself--especially around midterms, when my parents came up for a conference with old Thurmer--but I didn't do it. So I got the ax. They
3:16 PM give guys the ax quite frequently at Pencey. It has a very good academic rating, Pencey. It really does. Anyway, it was December and all,
3:17 PM and it was cold as a witch's teat, especially on top of that stupid hill. I only had on my reversible and no gloves or anything. The week
3:18 PM before that, somebody'd stolen my camel's-hair coat right out of my room, with my furlined gloves right in the pocket and all. Pencey was
3:18 PM full of crooks. Quite a few guys came from these very wealthy families, but it was full of crooks anyway. The more expensive a school is,
3:19 PM the more crooks it has--I'm not kidding. Anyway, I kept standing next to that crazy cannon, looking down at the game and freezing my ass
3:19 PM off. Only, I wasn't watching the game too much. What I was really hanging around for, I was trying to feel some kindof a good-by. I mean
3:20 PM I've left schools and places I didn't even know I was leaving them. I hate that. I don't care if it's a sad good-by or a bad goodby, but
3:20 PM when I leave a place I like to know I'm leaving it. If you don't, you feel even worse. I was lucky. All of a sudden I thought of something
3:21 PM that helped make me know I was getting the hell out. I suddenly remembered this time, in around October, that I and Robert Tichener and
3:21 PM Paul Campbell were chucking a football around, in front of the academic building. They were nice guys, especially Tichener. It was just
3:22 PM before dinner and it was getting pretty dark out, but we kept chucking the ball around anyway. It kept getting darker and darker, and we
3:22 PM could hardly see the ball any more, but we didn't want to stop doing what we were doing. Finally we had to. This teacher that taught
3:23 PM biology, Mr. Zambesi, stuck his head out of this window in the academic building and told us to go back to the dorm and get ready for
3:23 PM dinner. If I get a chance to remember that kind of stuff, I can get a good-by when I need one--at least, most of the time I can. As soon as
3:24 PM I got it, I turned around and started running down the other side of the hill, toward old Spencer's house. He didn't live on the campus. He
3:24 PM lived on Anthony Wayne Avenue. I ran all the way to the main gate, and then I waited a second till I got my breath. I have no wind, if you
3:25 PM want to know the truth. I'm quite a heavy smoker, for one thing--that is, I used to be. They made me cut it out. Another thing, I grew six
3:25 PM and a half inches last year. That's also how I practically got t.b. and came out here for all these goddam checkups and stuff. I'm pretty
3:26 PM healthy, though. Anyway, as soon as I got my breath back I ran across Route 204. It was icy as hell and I damn near fell down. I don't even
3:26 PM know what I was running for--I guess I just felt like it. After I got across the road, I felt like I was sort of disappearing. It was that
3:27 PM kind of a crazy afternoon, terrifically cold, and no sun out or anything, and you felt like you were disappearing every time you crossed a
3:27 PM road. Boy, I rang that doorbell fast when I got to old Spencer's house. I was really frozen. My ears were hurting and I could hardly move
3:28 PM my fingers at all. "C'mon, c'mon," I said right out loud, almost, "somebody open the door." Finally old Mrs. Spencer opened. it. They
3:28 PM didn't have a maid or anything, and they always opened the door themselves. They didn't have too much dough. "Holden!" Mrs. Spencer said.
3:29 PM "How lovely to see you! Come in, dear! Are you frozen to death?" I think she was glad to see me. She liked me. At least, I think she did.
3:29 PM Boy, did I get in that house fast. "How are you, Mrs. Spencer?" I said. "How's Mr. Spencer?" "Let me take your coat, dear," she said. She
3:30 PM didn't hear me ask her how Mr. Spencer was. She was sort of deaf. She hung up my coat in the hall closet, and I sort of brushed my hair
3:30 PM back with my hand. I wear a crew cut quite frequently and I never have to comb it much. "How've you been, Mrs. Spencer?" I said again, only
3:31 PM louder, so she'd hear me. "I've been just fine, Holden." She closed the closet door. "How have you been?" The way she asked me, I knew
3:31 PM right away old Spencer'd told her I'd been kicked out. "Fine," I said. "How's Mr. Spencer? He over his grippe yet?" "Over it! Holden, he's
3:32 PM behaving like a perfect--I don't know what. . . He's in his room, dear. Go right in."2 They each had their own room and all. They were both
3:32 PM around seventy years old, or even more than that. They got a bang out of things, though--in a haif-assed way, of course. I know that sounds
3:33 PM mean to say, but I don't mean it mean. I just mean that I used to think about old Spencer quite a lot, and if you thought about him too
3:33 PM much, you wondered what the heck he was still living for. I mean he was all stooped over, and he had very terrible posture, and in class,
3:34 PM whenever he dropped a piece of chalk at the blackboard, some guy in the first row always had to get up and pick it up and hand it to him.
3:34 PM That's awful, in my opinion. But if you thought about him just enough and not too much, you could figure it out that he wasn't doing too
3:35 PM bad for himself. For instance, one Sunday when some other guys and I were over there for hot chocolate, he showed us this old beat-up
3:35 PM Navajo blanket that he and Mrs. Spencer'd bought off some Indian in Yellowstone Park. You could tell old Spencer'd got a big bang out of
3:36 PM buying it. That's what I mean. You take somebody old as hell, like old Spencer, and they can get a big bang out of buying a blanket. His
3:36 PM door was open, but I sort of knocked on it anyway, just to be polite and all. I could see where he was sitting. He was sitting in a big
3:37 PM leather chair, all wrapped up in that blanket I just told you about. He looked over at me when I knocked. "Who's that?" he yelled.
3:37 PM "Caulfield? Come in, boy." He was always yelling, outside class. It got on your nerves sometimes. The minute I went in, I was sort of sorry
3:38 PM I'd come. He was reading the Atlantic Monthly, and there were pills and medicine all over the place, and everything smelled like Vicks Nose
3:38 PM Drops. It was pretty depressing. I'm not too crazy about sick people, anyway. What made it even more depressing, old Spencer had on this
3:39 PM very sad, ratty old bathrobe that he was probably born in or something. I don't much like to see old guys in their pajamas and bathrobes
3:39 PM anyway. Their bumpy old chests are always showing. And their legs. Old guys' legs, at beaches and places, always look so white and unhairy.
3:40 PM "Hello, sir," I said. "I got your note. Thanks a lot." He'd written me this note asking me to stop by and say good-by before vacation
3:40 PM started, on account of I wasn't coming back. "You didn't have to do all that. I'd have come over to say good-by anyway." "Have a seat
3:41 PM there, boy," old Spencer said. He meant the bed. I sat down on it. "How's your grippe, sir?" "M'boy, if I felt any better I'd have to send
3:41 PM for the doctor," old Spencer said. That knocked him out. He started chuckling like a madman. Then he finally straightened himself out and
3:42 PM said, "Why aren't you down at the game? I thought this was the day of the big game." "It is. I was. Only, I just got back from New York
3:42 PM with the fencing team," I said. Boy, his bed was like a rock. He started getting serious as hell. I knew he would. "So you're leaving us,
3:43 PM eh?" he said. "Yes, sir. I guess I am." He started going into this nodding routine. You never saw anybody nod as much in your life as old
3:43 PM Spencer did. You never knew if he was nodding a lot because he was thinking and all, or just because he was a nice old guy that didn't know
3:44 PM his ass from his elbow."What did Dr. Thurmer say to you, boy? I understand you had quite a little chat." "Yes, we did. We really did. I was
3:44 PM in his office for around two hours, I guess." "What'd he say to you?" "Oh. . . well, about Life being a game and all. And how you should
3:45 PM play it according to the rules. He was pretty nice about it. I mean he didn't hit the ceiling or anything. He just kept talking about Life
3:45 PM being a game and all. You know." "Life is a game, boy. Life is a game that one plays according to the rules." "Yes, sir. I know it is. I
3:47 PM And that, ladies and gentleman, concludes the test for today. :-)
3:47 PM The first ~14,000 characters of The Catcher In The Rye.
3:48 PM 252 Followers remaining...
3:52 PM What this proves, by the way, is that most people don't get Twitter via SMS. As they'd have been nuts to keep following me...
3:53 PM Also, it's pretty impossible to read any sort of longish material as it starts to just munge together...
3:54 PM Okay, I've got this script just sitting here... what *else* should I automagically start tweeting? :-D
3:59 PM @danbri - no worries. There's very, very little I will have said here that could have changed your life for the better anyways...
Saturday 3/15
4:25 AM Halo 3: Team game played at Sat, 15 Mar 2008 11:09:02 GMTPlaylist: Ranked Big TeamOne Bomb on Last R.. http://tinyurl.com/38etj6
5:32 PM I'm going to spend the rest of the afternoon/evening playing Halo... piping my results here... Bungie.net's stats site is amazing.
6:27 PM Halo 3 Ranked Big Team: Big Team Slayer on Last Resort: Team game played at Sun, 16 Mar 2008 01:09:32.. http://tinyurl.com/yucqwa
6:50 PM taking a break... Halo amazes me... there are currently 361,627 people playing matches online.
6:51 PM If Halo was a "Web 2.0" site, it'd be on the front page of Techmeme every day.
6:51 PM God I suck at it though. :-)
6:54 PM Unlike all the web stuff, this isn't free. In fact, those 360k people (which is just a portion) paid over $400 in order to play...
6:57 PM 361,627 x $400 = $144,650,800 flowing through Microsoft/Bungie, just for those people I can see right now. Let alone the rest..
6:58 PM @derricks - XBox live costs $50 a year, or $7 a month (which is what I'm doing at the moment on my teenager-like budget. :-) )
7:00 PM @dsilverman - you just need "feedback" not specifically tactile feedback. The iPhone does that by clicking when you type. It works well.
7:03 PM Halo 3 Ranked Big Team: One Bomb on Valhalla: Team game played at Sun, 16 Mar 2008 01:23:32 GMTPlayli.. http://tinyurl.com/yw6hsr
7:03 PM Halo 3 Team Objective: Multi Flag CTF on Isolation: Team game played at Sun, 16 Mar 2008 01:32:22 GMT.. http://tinyurl.com/29qme6
7:03 PM Halo 3 Team Objective: 1 Flag CTF on Last Resort: Team game played at Sun, 16 Mar 2008 01:48:31 GMTPl.. http://tinyurl.com/2m65ok
7:04 PM Hmm, using Twitterfeed isn't going to do it for Halo updates... in bunches every 30 minutes sorta misses the point of the live sharing...
7:06 PM Not sure why exactly I want to twitter how I'm getting my ass virtualy handed to me by foul-mouth teens all over the world... but hey.
7:12 PM @dsilverman - You can debate "performance" - my point is that the iPhone keyboard would "suck" only if there was no feedback at all.
Sunday 3/16
5:02 PM My subscribers are climbing again. What am I doing wrong? ;-)
9:31 PM 80% positive reviews from rottentomatoes.com for Horton Hears a Who - seems they didn't destroy it like the other Seuss films. w00t!
Monday 3/17
12:15 AM Just watched Horton via Google Video... it dawned on me that the story/movie promotes religion. Bleh. Maybe we won't go see it.
12:21 AM It's a good movie though and isn't some Christian-right brainwashing flick, which is refreshing. The Bush years must be waning.
8:34 AM Another week off for my kid, which means another week of waking up around 7:30... ugh. I need to find a more draconian school district...
2:33 PM "What is this? Drops of rain frozen into ice crystals? I shall harvest their energy and RULE THE WORLD!" - Plankton (of Spongebob fame)
2:34 PM Yes, it's lunch time... And the TV is back on while my child eats his ham sandwich (w/mustard), Ritz chips, carrots and chocolate milk.
2:39 PM Alex is laughing so hard, I'm afraid he's going to choke. Nickelodeon has some serious Kid-Fu going on...
3:10 PM The voice of Ruby (of Max and Ruby) is actually Samantha Morton - the mom with the crewcut in "In America"... Amazing.
6:57 PM Just made a fruit salad. Just one apple, an orange, a pear, a banana, 5 strawberries and 3 pineapple slices makes a *massive* bowl.
6:59 PM It's not really blending though... hmm. Either the chunks are too big Or I'm missing a vital ingredient. I tried some honey... no quite.
7:01 PM Lemon juice is recommended to bring out the flavor and prevent browning. Too bad I don't have any...
Tuesday 3/18
2:13 PM Obama's speech is jaw dropping: http://tinyurl.com/32a2vv
Wednesday 3/19
12:16 AM Just posted an update on Mowser's search for funding: http://tinyurl.com/2r92v8
4:10 PM A piece of my banana fell on my foot, so I used a hackey-sack move to pop it up into my hand to throw away. Years of practice useful at last
10:35 PM wrong person.
10:36 PM Yep. I'm a moron...
10:38 PM Trying again: Great post about the Middle Web: http://tinyurl.com/3b3ndq
Thursday 3/20
12:15 PM Just had a Peanut Butter and Honey sandwich. There's a few moments of bliss right there... I wish I owned a dog.
8:34 PM How can you not start laughing at a line like "next... the rat on cocaine." ROFL http://youtube.com/watch?v=RjlpamhrId8
Friday 3/21
9:58 AM Is Easter this Sunday?!? Holy crap, that would not have been good for the Easter Bunny to skip our house because he forgot...
2:57 PM We're only 5 years away from 2013! The triskadekaphobs out there are going to have a *really* bad year.
5:27 PM Finally there's some noise about the fact that Clinton can't win: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0308/9149.html
10:09 PM 700+ Free Games from Mowser, just launched! http://mowser.com/games
Saturday 3/22
7:36 PM Did it have to be color "war"? What about color contest? Or color quest? What about color charity where 2000 people go do something good?
7:38 PM Give colorpeace a chance!
10:46 PM If this lingering headache I've had all day is a brain tumor, I hope it's one of those John Travolta kinds that give me special powers...
Sunday 3/23
12:52 AM hiding eggs...
1:09 AM Mmm... I bought some Cadbury Eggs for me. Disgustingly good... I wonder how many years off my life each one of these sugar-bombs takes.
10:07 AM Happy Spring Equinox! WATCH OUT FOR ZOMBIE JEWS!!!!
11:12 AM @gerikson - well, a certain religion has appropriated Winter and Spring festivals, so I want can re-appropriate them.
11:21 AM Okay, the munchkin is off with his Mom and the house is quiet... I can't figure out if I want to play Halo or get some work done...
11:37 AM Something reminded me of Riki Tiki Tavi... I haven't seen this in 20 years: http://tinyurl.com/2h78zh
Monday 3/24
2:45 AM Resetting...
Thursday 3/27
4:52 PM I just signed up for CrazyBlindDate.com because it's amusing as hell. How it would possibly appeal to women, I have no idea.
4:53 PM I'm giving it a 1% chance of actually working...
5:08 PM I actually deleted all the people I was following in Twitter the other day...
5:08 PM Lots of noise and distraction... Not that deleting everyone helped. It just moved it around.
5:32 PM Friendfeed has tons of noise... I can't imagine any of this appealing to anyone outside of the Web 2 Hobbyists...
Sunday 3/30
12:20 PM ...
April 2008
Sunday 4/13
6:36 PM I un-followed everyone to cut down on Twitter noise... But now I'm going to re-follow only those that @reply to me now. Say hello! :-)
6:36 PM In theory I'll then be left with an actual give-take community of Twitterers...
6:45 PM @lmorchard - Les! Since we've never actually spoken in person, I always feel shy about inviting you into a Halo session. :-)
6:48 PM @jblanton - people keep following me for some reason. It freaks me out. I used to just follow them... so this is sort of a reset
6:51 PM @suncatcher - Thank god there's no more Cadbury eggs... I bought like two boxes of them and almost put myself into a diabetic coma... :-)
7:04 PM @suncatcher - thanks... It's been hard to *not* blog since that post where I said I wasn't going to blog as much any more. :-)
7:14 PM Wow - amazing pics of pre-WWII in color: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/12/7/04913/9030/204/278472
7:23 PM @IRTurkey - You're now followed... though I'm not sure what the opportunity is. Following me plus $3.50 will get you a cup of coffee (maybe)
7:25 PM @suncatcher There's a lot of noise out there though - I don't want to just keep adding to it... Less posts will probably be much better.
7:25 PM @suncatcher - who are you, btw? Your Twitter page doesn't have any links. :-)
7:26 PM Mmmm... Someone's cooking something with Teriyaki sauce nearby!
7:27 PM Hey @georgechen! :-)
9:35 PM @suncatcher - I started blogging when I lived in Spain, but the pictures aren't anything exciting, believe me. :-)
Monday 4/14
2:32 AM MIDgets ROCK!: http://tinyurl.com/634bgo
Tuesday 4/15
8:06 AM Going to the @sfzoo with my kid's Kindergarten class. Should be a riot. (How cool is it that the SF Zoo Twitters?) :-)
9:59 PM Alright! So after a day of insane blog frenzy... Mowser mobile traffic is DOWN ~3,000 page views from the same time frame yesterday.
10:00 PM No one, it seems, before or after taking the time to blog/comment/pontificate... actually bothered to take out their phone and try it.
10:02 PM The blogosphere is pretty much a tiny little microcosm of loud people saying nothing and doing less. :-)
10:02 PM But we knew that. Hehehe
10:06 PM @jockm - without doubt! Have you used Tweetscan.com? Very good way to find out how much people say so little. :-)
11:16 PM @aqualung - It'll work for a while longer. Hopefully we'll get someone to pick up the site and you won't have to change at all.
11:23 PM 60 emails left to respond to re: Mowser... holy crap.
11:35 PM Just denied three PayPal donators who wanted to buy me dinner... Really nice gestures, but hey, I actually *like* buttered macaroni!
11:41 PM @amcdey - did you get my email? I can't seem to direct message you on Twitter... Not sure why your email to me bounced either...
11:49 PM 50 to go! If I can respond to each in around a minute, I should be done by 1 a.m.
Wednesday 4/16
12:36 AM made it to 41 emails... Start again tomorrow...
12:37 AM What does talking to people exhaust me so much? Talking *at* people (like now) No problem. Actual dialog though kills me.
11:29 AM ValleyWag actually drives traffic? So sad.
11:32 AM I wonder how someone at Y! could be so deluded to misunderstand what a strategist/evangelist was, or to think my site is somehow related...
11:15 PM I finished my emails. Thank you, thank you.
Thursday 4/17
1:43 AM Ha! See, this is why we use the Lb. still in the US: http://tinyurl.com/6bp5ju
4:41 PM I've got to get my contacts system in order. Wait, scratch that. I've got to actually use a something to organize my contacts, period.
10:06 PM @mobivity - saw your TechCrunch post. A network of 200 sites is generating 1/10th of just Craigslist's monthly pageviews?
10:11 PM Reading the Infocom story: http://tinyurl.com/5su79h
Friday 4/18
8:48 AM Made breakfast for the munchkin, who's now watching Dora. Today and Monday are school holidays (again). Insane.
9:09 AM The Backyardigans continues to amaze me with it's graphics/music. However, their names are still asinine.
9:11 AM Nick Jr. has a commercial every 10 minutes for some kid-band singing "I don't wanna go to school." What the hell are they friggin thinking?
9:14 AM Ahh, Backyardigans was made in Canada... thus the Royal Mounty uniforms at times, rather than American blue-police style. I was confused.
9:31 AM Oh-oh. TV is off and now the kid is insanely bored... and it's only 9:30. Long day ahead.
11:45 AM It's a nice day out, we're still inside though. I wish I had a house/yard.
11:46 AM My son is my new co-worker... He's to my right on the spare Windows box working hard on NickJr.com .
9:55 PM Yep, the day was as long as I expected it was going to be. A round of mini-golf helped... but wow.
Saturday 4/19
10:34 AM Wow, HTML5 looks like a steaming pile of unparsable, unsupportable tags, with random trendy attributes thrown in for good measure. yay.
11:59 AM Was just informed quite seriously that Anakin Skywalker doesn't wear Finding Nemo underwear, but definitely Sarge instead. Who knew?
5:36 PM Such a weird past couple of days - it's been desolate near my apartment. SILENT. And now it's cold and windy like it's Autumn, not Spring...
Sunday 4/20
10:10 AM There's an online Pokédex... just in case you were in need some day: http://www.pokemon.com/Pokedex/flash.asp
11:09 AM Woops, newest Hardy kernel wouldn't boot. Had to move back to 2.6.24-15
11:10 AM Getting myself out of "mobile" thinking. I just wacked all the mobile specific feeds in my news reader (50+ feeds)
11:14 AM I'm on a panel at the Web 2.0 Expo on Thursday... no idea if I'll make it. I seem to have a free conf pass, which I can't use.
11:26 AM How I like to participate in a panel: Arrive 5 minutes late, drunk, fight incoherently with the moderator, sulk, abusive in Q&A, stalk out.
11:27 AM I find that's usually the best way to keep discussion going in the hallway and I like to do my part.
3:37 PM We went kite flying, it was awesome: http://www.russellbeattie.com/blog/touching-the-sky
5:25 PM Weird! My 2 month old Twitter post is on the front page of Del.icio.us *now*.
10:05 PM Just finished reading another chapter in Beyond the Deepwoods to the munchkin. http://tinyurl.com/54gz8d
11:45 PM Facebook just turned on the chat app... of 223 friends - 4 are "online", only 1 is "active".
Monday 4/21
4:00 PM Today's life lesson: There are no good or bad Pokemon, just good or bad Pokemon Trainers. Words to live by indeed...
4:27 PM I just went through and started following everyone who's following me again... too curious about what others were twittering.
4:55 PM Oh, twitter is having some sort of brownout today... amusing.
8:41 PM Watching a Paul McCartney concert on PBS - suddenly there's a Steve Jobs clip where he compares Paul to Bach. Jobs is such a hippie... :-)
9:19 PM Holy shit - I just saw a Cadillac commercial with the music from Hum's "Stars"... http://songza.com/z/nm48nm
Tuesday 4/22
2:46 PM DHH is such a jackass. Such stupid, Euro-style thinking. Go back to the old world and start a shoe shop, you fucking moron.
3:07 PM @patphelan I lived in Spain for 4 years, I have a pretty clear grasp of the business culture there. Build something world changing? Absurd!
3:08 PM Why use other people's money? To do something big and important. Anyone can create a boutique corner shop selling tampons and toilet paper.
3:08 PM Which is essentially what 37 signals does.
3:15 PM @patphelan - did Spain move continents? :-) @whump Not everyone can be Google either, obviously. Wtf is John Norman?
3:16 PM @jhstrauss I shopped at that Safeway for years and never once picked up a date. Well, OK that's normal for me, but I also didn't witness it.
3:19 PM @patphelan - In my experience, all European businesses in general have an abnormal aversion to risk.
3:19 PM This is shown in everything from lack of VCs, to unwillingness to work with small companies.
3:25 PM @patphelan - exactly opposite of my point, which is the entrepreneurial culture here is unique and has a purpose, and DHH should fuck off.
3:35 PM @jhstrauss - in fact, I remember women at that Safeway on are on high alert and will give you the stinkeye for any sort of interaction.
3:35 PM "Excuse me... No. I'm not hitting on you, I'm just trying to get past you to get some damn butter. Thanks."
3:36 PM I'm on a Twitter roll today. I should turn on Twirhl...
4:43 PM @marshallk - Snarky comment: "Actual business models?" Real comment: "Vertically integrated components and 'official' partners".
5:40 PM @IndustryMinute I like your icon. :-)
10:44 PM I continue despise Microsoft. Ozzie's my hero, but I'm not able to see the Mesh stuff because it's in Silverlight and I'm on Ubuntu.
10:48 PM Ahh, found alternative links on "Channel10" - all good now.
10:48 PM I mean, I still hate Microsoft, and Silverlight especially...
10:54 PM So I'm actually watching a "hands on" and not Ray speak... I wonder if I can figure out what the embedded .wmv file is...
Wednesday 4/23
10:27 AM Hmm... I wonder what the facebook "sleep" icons mean... that someone has a facebook open in another tab and they timed out?
10:59 AM Ray Ozzie is obsessed with C's. First it was communication, collaboration, coordination. Now it's content, community, commerce...
11:33 AM Hardy is still buggy as fuck. Plug in a USB memory stick, and my USB Keyboard and Mouse drop out. Doh.
1:13 PM I just modified the root "home page" to be my Twitter stream, rather than a redirect to my blog. It's still there, just secondary.
1:49 PM Testing out Alerty thing...
1:51 PM Hmm. It's a bit slow on Air for linux alpha
1:53 PM Yeah, I prefer Twhirl... I like being able to erase the read messages...
2:18 PM Interesting, I can't seem to figure out what I need to send in the APIs to get the Twitter "source" link to change. Is there a blessed list?
2:22 PM @dayjah Ahh, that makes sense. I was going to just abuse it with a personal link anyways. :-)
2:26 PM You can pass some X-Headers it looks like, I was thinking of doing some sort of "listening to xx" sort of thing. A "meta-tweet" in theory...
2:35 PM Impact is *not* a verb. Impacting is not a word, except maybe in dentistry.
2:45 PM I've decided my cravings for Krusty Kreme can no longer be denied, and will shortly be making a pilgramage to see "The Machine".
5:38 PM Only 1 @ reply to my Krispy Kreme twitter? What are you people, fascists!?!
5:39 PM I have procurred the delights. However, sadly, The Machine turns on at 5:30 p.m. so they were neither warm nor gooey.
5:51 PM @cksthree - I can respect that. My almost 6yo was berating me for eating junk food along the way. (He prefers salty snacks, the traitor)
11:21 PM I went to Shoe Pavilion today and got some really funky Giro sneaker/sandal things for $20. Bright orange trim... fun.
11:29 PM Giro's site doesn't mention anything about shoes though... weird. Looking up "Kouro" doesn't retrieve much either.
11:30 PM Ahh, here's a pic of some light blue ones: http://tinyurl.com/6gorpe
11:32 PM It's a very important purchase, as I've worn through to the cork on my pair of Birks I bought back in 2004...
11:41 PM Enjoying a Cream Soda. Add this to my list of my perfect woman attributes (along with being a nightowl, Tetris player and NPR fan).
11:43 PM Reading about the PodShow name change to Mevio. In 1999 I needed to decide between "vedio" and "avedia" and chose the later. Stupid.
11:50 PM Avedia.com is now owned by a Tawainese systems company it seems. Wild.
11:50 PM They're probably not worried about being confused for a hair salon. (I used to get emails about shampoos gone wrong).
11:52 PM Archive.org still has my old logo! Fun! http://tinyurl.com/5dhtrl
11:53 PM I used to own 3Jam.com as well. I wonder how many more of my old domains are actual thriving businesses now... :-)
Thursday 4/24
12:18 AM Downloaded the new Twhirl.. not sure what's new...
12:19 AM @vero I've registered easily 150 domains... but most are gone now. Still, I had to spend $60 today renewing a bunch of personal ones...
12:19 AM russellbeattie.net, for instance, was coming due. No idea why I want it, but I do.
12:25 AM Ooh... nice. Integrated TweetScan. WTF doesn't Twitter have a search already? They need to get it together, really.
12:28 AM @IRTurkey I don't have a tray icon, but at the bottom of the "configuration" menu (the wrench) is a button for the Accounts stuff.
12:30 AM The menu items for replies, direct messages and archives don't work for me, actually... Could be a Linux thing though.
12:32 AM I'm procrastinating like a mad man right now. If there were a Procrastinating Olympics, I'd be like the Mark Spitz of procrastination.
12:36 AM Ahh, hmm. I had disabled the @ replies and dm 's in the "network" setting. But the Archives button still doesn't work for me.
12:41 AM Fun! I hadn't seen TwitPic before...
12:52 AM Marissa Mayer was on Forum today: http://tinyurl.com/5fdp8e
12:56 AM Oh... it's pronounced like Oscar Mayer... I don't know why I always said it like "mare". Duh.
1:02 AM I always forget in Twitter to fill in the details for other readers: SlideShare is under the DDOS attack: http://tinyurl.com/3kq6st
1:04 AM Listening to the deep sultry voice of Marissa... talking about tagging content. Geek porn... I feel like I should be paying by the minute.
1:10 AM @tarek I'm on Twitter a lot today at least... :-) Then I'll wonder who the hell everyone is again and move back to IRC.
1:14 AM @jhstrauss I may switch from procrastination to complete loafing in a minute on the couch... That will help your stream. :-)
3:40 AM I should go to bed now. In fact... I will.
8:46 AM Good morning... Up early to go to my munchkin's Science Fair. Why can't they hold these things from 9-11 *PM* rather than AM?
8:48 AM His class made Earth Globes from what I understand. He's actually going to be attending little workshops more than showing off anything
8:50 AM Eating a Krispy Kreme bought yesterday. I'm thinking that buying a dozen may have been a mistake.
8:52 AM Happy Hardon Herron Day!!!
8:57 AM 97 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 131MB of archives. After unpacking 135kB will be used.
8:57 AM Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] y
9:00 AM 9 a.m. I really need to leave my computer now and join the Real World for a while. Kids, Teachers, Parents...
9:03 AM @martinlittle I use aptitude actually... which is apt-get for pedantics, if I understand it correctly. :-)
9:05 AM "18% [13 openoffice.org-style-tango 1187359/3096kB 38%] 37.6kB/s 47min26s" ... Oof. The servers are getting hammered.
11:11 AM Back from the munchkin fest. I need a nap.
11:11 AM @tarek There's an alpha version of Adobe Air for Linux. I think it's available on their dev site.
11:14 AM Ubuntu is done updating... it wants a restart...
12:02 PM Ubuntu upgrade: Pain with display drivers and new kernel. PAAAAAIN. Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow!
12:53 PM Okay, I've been messing with this for an hour... no joy. For some reason the newest kernel is making all the restricted driver die.
5:46 PM What a long day. I probably should have gotten more than 4 hours sleep last night.
5:49 PM Munchkins are here coloring. Discovering that white crayons don't really show on white paper.
5:50 PM @suncatcher Oh, I won't venture in there any time soon - it'd be chaos. I'll try to mess with it later - it's usable enough for now.
6:03 PM @suncatcher It's something to do with the restricted drivers not activing. I think it's just a multiple upgrade issue more than anything.
6:04 PM @suncatcher Are you using Ubuntu? :-)
6:18 PM @suncatcher Ubuntu has been an absolute pleasure. Best OS I've ever used. Once in a while there are some issues like today but worth it IMHO
6:41 PM Okay, the wunderkin is at his Mom's house and I'm back at the computer wondering if I should take a nap before starting in...
8:15 PM Annnnndd.... I'm awake. :-)
8:17 PM Naps rule. Calvin Coolidge, Lyndon Johnson and John Kennedy took naps.
9:53 PM Success! I had a million old linux-kernel and linux-modules that weren't happy. Cleared out the cruft and *bam* Ubuntu is happy! Yay!
Friday 4/25
11:08 AM @martinlittle Clearing out the Ubuntu cruft- use Synaptic and choose the "Installed (local or obselete)" list. Start cleaning. :-)
11:09 AM @martinlittle Also, do a search on "2.6." which will bring up all the kernel and module installs. Get rid of anything < 2.6.24-16.
12:25 PM I had to resort to tickling to get my boy to admit that I'm the Super Expert of All Pokemon. Yes, I'm a big bully. That's okay though. :-)
12:26 PM @pacificleo I was in the bookstore the other day and passed by the Belgariad by David Eddings, which I haven't read for years. Try that.
12:27 PM @lunarmobiscuit All tweets have URLs already. http://twitter.com/lunarmobiscuit/statuses/796950197
12:33 PM @gerikson Pokemon is a money pit, but also pretty brilliantly done. Right now Alex isn't playing games - he's just enjoying the little guys.
12:34 PM I'm only a Pokemon expert because I have instant access to the Pokedex: http://www.pokemon.com/Pokedex/flash.asp
12:40 PM I went to Toys R Us the other day (without the munchkin to explore in peace) - the Pokemon cards and figures are *insanely* expensive.
12:41 PM A starter kit of cards costs $15 - then $10 "booster" packs. The new "Trading Figures Game" costs $18 for 4 figurines. (But you need 8!)
12:43 PM I settled on a $10 pack of 4 Pokemon figures (not part of a game) and that was a good decision. He's been playing with them for days now :-)
12:57 PM Looking in my drawer for a bottle opener to pop the cap off my IBC Cream Soda and found one with a Topix.net logo on it. No idea I had it.
1:00 PM I'm going to try Gnome Do again and see if it slows my computer to a crawl like last time, or if it works...
1:35 PM @sharemefg Not Gnome, but "Gnome Do" - it's a Quicksilver like app launcher. It uses Mono, which doesn't like my setup for some reason.
2:39 PM Twitter needs to stop being stupid and put ads in the stream. Every 20 messages or so. Then add a "Pro" pay account to take them out.
3:11 PM Testing out Gnome Do's Twitter plugin
3:11 PM t
3:12 PM Ooh, I can type whatever I want, not just selected text. Rock!
9:52 PM Wow, there's a tangible difference between the latest Hardy beta and the release. So wild. Stable and fast... nothing crashing. Rock on.
Saturday 4/26
1:12 AM Holy spam storm. My inbox is just getting filled with crap right now.
2:12 AM Eating some Honey Graham Ohs, which really are just Captain Crunch for grown ups. (And it doesn't lacerate the roof of your mouth).
10:49 AM Looks like its going to be a really nice day! I wish I had some clean clothes.
11:04 AM @gerikson - I probably won't go naked... I'll just end up choosing the "second tier" clothes we all have, but don't like for some reason.
5:56 PM What a gorgeous day!
9:01 PM Aaaaah!!! HOT!!! HOT!!! Garlic chicken Chinese food! Gah!!!!
Sunday 4/27
8:13 AM Woah... woke up early. Weird.
8:50 AM Did you know you can buy 3 *liters* of Bubble solution for $3!?
9:24 AM @jimh - actually, you need glycerin to make the bubbles last. I drove all over town the other day looking for it and couldn't find it.
9:25 AM glycerin is like the magic ingredient... 12 parts water, 1 part Dawn Ultra, 1/2 part glycerin. Otherwise the bubbles just pop 2 secs later.
9:32 AM Laundry day. I have about 8 or 9 loads to do... which means I'm just going to have to go to a laundromat to get it done.
9:32 AM The problem of course... what to wear to the laundromat?
10:48 AM I want to start a Twitter Meme. Who's with me?! Sunday should be "quote" day... where everyone throws out non-sequitur famous quotes.
10:56 AM "Hunger is the best pickle." - Benjamin Franklin
1:48 PM laundromat was empty. Massively parallelizing my wash.
1:54 PM I suspect there will be a post processing bottleneck, however.
2:45 PM Back from the laundry... definitely in need of a new co-processor.
4:21 PM Reading NYT story about iPhone... didn't get past the first paragraph. http://songza.com/z/t97ava
4:39 PM It's hot. I don't feel like working on the stuff I should... exploring Songza annoying my neighbors. http://songza.com/z/95eyub and
8:25 PM Woops, it got chilly fast! Reminder to myself that I live in the Bay Area still.
9:14 PM Firefox 3 added Control-Shift-T to re-open the last closed tab!!!! YAY!!! I constantly accidentally close tabs.
11:32 PM Food Network is now on in HD! That means Everyday Italian will be on in HD! Awesome!
11:36 PM Actually I need to just delete the Food channel all together... watching Diners, Drive Ins and Dives makes me insanely munchy every time.
Monday 4/28
9:35 AM Good morning! Seems that FF2 had the Control-Shift-T feature... Either I just noticed the menu option, or it was just added though. :-)
10:33 AM That xkcd is *freakin hysterical*.
11:40 AM I generally dislike everything Clay Shirky says. We're all going to stop watching TV and start editing Wikipedia now? I wish.
11:42 AM Someone in Dallas just requested my mobile business card (text RUSS to 41411)... I see SPAM or a voicemail in the near future.
11:46 AM @penguintux just saw your tweet about Spiegel. Google does an amusing job of translating the article. :-)
11:51 AM And another contact request (most likely from the recent Tweet) from New York City...
1:35 PM "Hi Russ... read your idea on SMS business cards. I like it! We were thinking the same thing when we designed LegiText" See? Never fails.
1:38 PM Dear PR people, I'm not going to write about your POS product/service. EVER. Please stop pitching me.
1:39 PM There are so many useless fucking blogs out there that will repeat any Press Release they get, why do they have to bug ME?
1:40 PM My last blog post as a picture of my kid flying a kite. Isn't that a hint that I'm not some "pro" tech blog?
2:22 PM @cshirky Sorry, but your historical and cultural perspective is as faulty as your knowledge of 4 year olds.
2:58 PM Hanging out with the munchkin who is busily working on coloring Pokemon. Only about 500 more to go. :-)
7:48 PM Reading the GigaOM article about PopCap Games, so I tried Peggle on Ubuntu using WINE... Works like a charm!
Tuesday 4/29
1:02 PM My baloney has a first name...
1:20 PM "deus ex machina" is an improbable character, device or event introduced suddenly in a story to resolve a plot. FYI... I always forget.
2:56 PM The Flip camcorder is awesomely simple. It's something you'd expect Apple to make. It does one thing, and does it really well.
5:19 PM Fascinating interview on NPR about US Imperialism: http://tinyurl.com/59jrg4
5:21 PM The largest company in the world is in Beijing, the richest man is in Mexico, the tallest building in Dubai, the largest casino in Macau...
6:11 PM Listening to NPR analyz GTA4... I like video games, but I still don't see the appeal myself.
6:12 PM "Preaching to the choir... PLR: Public Liberty Radio. Lulling you to sleep with liberal soft pedaling."
6:16 PM Playing Peggle... When you complete a level it plays Ode To Joy and sets off fireworks. This may be the greatest game ever! :-)
6:54 PM If Apple does in fact launch a $199 3G iPhone, it'd be like a bomb went off in the mobile industry.
6:55 PM Oh, wait, I see... AT&T will subsidize it down *to* $199, it's not starting there. I was thinking essentially free iPhones with contract...
8:29 PM Must. Stop. Playing. Peggle.
Wednesday 4/30
10:09 AM Good morning...
12:01 PM It's noon, do you know where your sanity is?
4:42 PM The Pidgin guys are complete jerks - I'm so glad its been forked. (Yes, I love having my passwords stored in plain text... assholes.)
4:51 PM @TheSteve0 - I read the post about it already... is there something else in the video? Like the audience guffawing openly?
8:00 PM Tried to use the Windows box (with the firewire port) to burn a DVD of some old baby videos. No joy. Copying 17GB to my Ubuntu box now...
8:03 PM Why bother shipping DVD Maker with Vista if it doesn't actually, you know, make DVDs that work?
10:33 PM Peggle download: http://tinyurl.com/5kpcqo Because I don't want to be alone in my addiction. :-)
10:51 PM Wow, Adobe is opening up Flash! Very cool!
10:58 PM The US media is useless. Clinton should have been absolutely eviscerated for her "totally obliterate" Iran comment.
11:14 PM Re: Joel's latest rant. The world would be a better place if we were all using Lotus Notes, and Ray Ozzie rules. (Too bad he's at MSFT).
May 2008
Thursday 5/1
12:14 PM It's mid day again!?!?
2:35 PM Lego Indiana Jones looks awesome... http://www.lucasarts.com/games/legoindianajones/
2:36 PM Wasn't there a startup that created "G" versions of movies? I need one of those for Indiana Jones... it'd scare the shit out of my 6yo.
2:39 PM Dammit... Gametrailers is broken on my FF3/Ubuntu... http://tinyurl.com/64ksly
2:41 PM Ooh, downloadable HD .mov file: http://tinyurl.com/63msj2
9:43 PM Holy 500 errors, Twitter! Ruby on Fails again?
11:28 PM My dad called from East Coast - can't sleep. I got him to install Peggle. :-)
Friday 5/2
11:03 AM Waking up...
5:18 PM I've played GTA4 and it's honestly *so fucking boring!* What am I missing?! Watch cutscene, get mission, beat someone up, repeat. That's it?
10:07 PM Plusmo got funding. Fucking amazing... Mobile widgets are asinine, and not even close to being an actual business. Incredible.
10:09 PM Me? Bitter much? Noooo...
Saturday 5/3
11:49 AM Watching torrented Pokémon episodes with the munchkin... the first season is quite illuminating on wtf is going on later.
11:55 AM Wow... Amanda Congdon has an impressive rack. Amusing how she leans over for the camera while saying "non sexual"... Yeah, sure...
12:06 PM Okay, read my news, the munchkin is visiting a friend... I need to stop procrastinating now.
5:26 PM Yahoo! Wins!!! W00T!!!!!
10:01 PM @majornelson Wow, that code went fast.
Sunday 5/4
10:55 AM I prefer Mercurial to Git, but Github is soooo nice.
11:26 AM "Clinton dismisses "elite" economists on gas tax" - Now she's just being fucking stupid. WTF is wrong with voters that 'elite' is bad?
11:59 AM @mbuckbee I've decided to move back to Python. I like the community better, even if the language is a bit funky. And AppEngine is nice too.
1:49 PM W00t! Go Celtics!
5:55 PM Hello! I am bored today. I am nice girl that would like to chat with you.
6:16 PM I get a dozen of those fucking spam messages a day, and I've yet to figure out how to get SpamAssassin to notice them.
6:17 PM The amazing part is, they wouldn't be sent unless morons respond and then somehow get sucked into paying for something.
6:20 PM My head hurts... Not sure why. Caffeine? Food? Sinus? Stress? Sleep? How's your head doing?
8:38 PM Messing around with Kino... I have no idea how to use a video editor.
Monday 5/5
1:46 AM My first attempt using Kino: http://tinyurl.com/6blbzd
9:47 AM Look at that! YHOO is at $24.69 and edging up! Screw the stupid fucking naysayers piling on. I hope the shorters lost their shirts.
10:51 AM I'm thinking about writing up a PHP prototype of a personal Twitter clone... one based on feeds rather than Jabber like I wrote before...
10:52 AM I wonder if you could duplicate the functionality by sending http pings to all your subs... sort of a reverse aggregation.
11:08 AM @lmorchard - Your story of starting and stopping your own Twitter a dozen times is not encouraging, as I see myself doing the same thing.:-)
11:08 AM Everyone is just overthinking this stuff though, really... Does a *personal* Twitter *have* to scale right away?
11:10 AM Any solution that requires a Jabber server or dedicated bot just isn't going to get far. Simplicity wins every time.
11:16 AM Is there a PHP clone of Twitter (i.e. a microblogger) out there already? It seems like a 20 second thing to do.
11:40 AM 20 minutes from Kindergarten pickup... need to shower/shave....
11:55 AM @lmorchard Ahh, interesting... I added it to my wordpress.com test account: http://russellbeattie.wordpress.com/
12:24 PM @jrobertson Yay! Just what the world needs, another Ruby on Fails Twitter clone! The original didn't cause nearly enough problems... :-)
12:25 PM Just another month of school - you can tell things are winding down: Field trips, open houses, etc.
1:21 PM Great quote in this 2005 WSJ Article on SMS: http://tinyurl.com/5wnczm
1:46 PM Wow! Sitting at the computer with the munchkin we found this *COOL* video of an elephant painting: http://tinyurl.com/2mdwus
2:19 PM @torgo Yeah, even though the elephant was trained to do the drawing, it's still pretty amazing how accurate and smooth it was!
10:19 PM Contemplating.
11:05 PM I have 10 invites to Evernote if someone wants one...
11:44 PM Listening to Marketplace and playing Peggle.
Tuesday 5/6
10:25 AM Good morning...
1:46 PM I can do about 4 of these things: http://tinyurl.com/658fex
6:57 PM Adding photos of me to my Facebook account after getting pinged by an ex-girlfriend...
9:19 PM My analysis of the IN vote: Obama finally put Wright behind him, and made the right call on the gas tax.
11:10 PM I broke the cardinal rule: I went to Safeway while hungry. Doh!
11:54 PM Is there anything actually chemically special about Febreze? Or is it just marketing?
Wednesday 5/7
8:28 AM Can someone get me a Brightkite invite so I can see wtf everyone is going on about?
8:31 AM Thanks Vero!
8:41 AM Using Brightkite... there were 2 posts (18 days ago) in my 4Km vicinity... which considering I live next to downtown Palo Alto isn't great.
8:42 AM If I want to keep up with the folk in Suffolk or Cardiff, UK... I seem to be styling though. :-)
8:56 AM Trying the iPhone Brightkite version... just realized that you can't attach a photo to a new email. I'll have to memorize the upload address
9:01 AM Yep... Brightkite confirmed for me once again that Location info is a completely useless feature except in the most rare situations.
9:31 AM @patphelan I'm not sure I see the wisdom in wasting time and money investing in a bunch of urls containing other company's trademarks.
9:57 AM AARRGggh. I'm still not awake. Maybe I should go back to bed.
11:27 AM Going back to bed didn't work... I'm going to try mass amounts of caffeine now instead.
11:29 AM EA branded it's casual games stuff: "freestyle" *Great name!
11:33 AM I love clearwire's logo. The first time I saw it a few years ago, I liked it as well... Wordmarks rule.
11:48 AM After the most unproductive morning on record, I am now off to pick up my kindergartener. Well, showering/shaving first... but then.
12:44 PM Err... secede.
Thursday 5/8
10:35 AM Okay, okay. I'm awake. I'm awake.
3:36 PM Reading my news... $30MM for Rupture?!
8:57 PM Why isn't there a Web 2.0 version of eBay? This happened to me as well: http://tinyurl.com/55hprp . eBay needs competition.
10:21 PM Holy shit, HRC has just gone outright racist... http://tinyurl.com/64vpy5
10:46 PM I can't believe it's almost 11 p.m.
11:45 PM I have to stop watching the Food Channel in the middle of the night. I'm now *craving* meat loaf.
Friday 5/9
12:01 AM @jamespearce - are you really getting a lot of interest in your hints?
12:25 AM This video shows how insanely bad the name "Live Mesh" is... it looks ridiculous at the end: http://tinyurl.com/5opox2
12:30 AM @jamescoops It depends on what time it is in Ireland... :-)
12:32 AM Nokia wants to be more like an Internet company!? How about being more like a company that can put phones on US store shelves first?
1:03 AM @JamesPearce Hooray! (It'd be nice if the .mobi domain resolved... yeah? :-) )
1:18 AM Yep, Mowser is now Mowser.mobi !
12:39 PM Good morning... Off to the kid's eye doctor today. He hates those drops, I hope they don't mess with that again.
1:12 PM I can't help myself, I think Valerie Plame is hot: http://tinyurl.com/6z2dgh Spies are sexy!
1:20 PM Just for the record, my thoughts on dotMobi in 2005: http://www.russellbeattie.com/notebook/1008531.html
1:20 PM My thoughts on dotMobi in 2006: http://www.russellbeattie.com/notebook/1008931.html
1:20 PM My thoughts on dotMobi in 2007: http://tinyurl.com/6d6vxg
1:21 PM Surprisingly consistent...
4:10 PM Earlier in the car listening to acoustic Stone Temple Pilots... "when the dogs begin to smell her..." Alex says from the back seat: "EWW!"
9:46 PM Ahh, BBC World News: A day's worth of bitterness and cynicism in one half hour radio program.
Saturday 5/10
12:00 PM Awesome Nike soccer commercial: http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid1370868150/bctid1534502629
5:52 PM I almost forgot! I have money to send flowers to my Mom now...
6:12 PM Ooh. A How It's Made marathon on the Science Channel! I may not leave the couch for the rest of the day.
6:13 PM Baby chicks on a conveyor belt... as fascinating as it is disturbing.
Sunday 5/11
2:08 AM This is amazing! Molecular Visualizations of DNA: http://tinyurl.com/5elq6x
3:41 PM Torrented Speed Racer to see if it was suitable for the 6yo... It's a bit violent, but nothing too horrible. Purely INSANE visual effects.
4:07 PM For god's sake Twitter! Put some ads in this damn thing, rate limit and add a pro account!
9:34 PM Carbonated water, high fructose corn syrup or sugar, natural and artificial flavors, soduim benzoate (preservative), calcium disodium edta
9:59 PM Importing old video from MiniDV tapes - I can't believe it has to be done in real time... soooo sloooow!
Monday 5/12
9:12 PM I turned off all @replies... Twitter is much calmer now. Just realized also that an @reply only works if the @ is first in the message.
Tuesday 5/13
9:12 AM Are they really forecasting it'll be 99F on Thursday in Menlo Park?!! http://google.com/search?q=weather+94025
Wednesday 5/14
1:50 AM Considering I'm posting this at almost 2 a.m.... how accurate is *this*: http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive/phd051208s.gif
2:13 AM Detailed popular vote count: http://tinyurl.com/2hbf4a
2:17 AM West Virginia doesn't bode well for Kentucky... Obama is still up from 300k to 700k, but that could be erased.
2:26 AM Amusing that at least half the flag's corporate logos have changed :-) https://secure.adbusters.org/orders/flag/bigcorporateflag.gif
7:24 PM I just discovered I'm on the first page of Google results for the term "fuck you". Hooray!
8:02 PM Almost got a sunburn today... I'm pinkish.
8:10 PM Saw that Bush doesn't use a computer in the White House. Not surprising... But how crazy is it to think of a future Prez reading your blog?
8:11 PM Hmm. What's the White House's IP address range? I should grep my logs for it...
9:32 PM I'm watching CNN... anyone else? There needs to be a "TV Chat" site where you can go to chat with others while watching TV...
10:12 PM Wow, my apartment will not cool down! Watching TV in front of a blasting fan...
11:37 PM Flash 10 pre-release includes Linux! Very cool... I absolutely love the idea that Linux is becoming mainstream.
11:43 PM @talios Yep - I just installed it too, but does the demo page detect it for you? http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/demos/
Thursday 5/15
12:07 AM Well, I can see the Flash 10 videos now at least... I used to work with Justin at Yahoo! He rocks. :-)
1:47 AM Bedtime for Bonzo...
5:10 PM Wow, it's *hot*. We just got back from being at the pool for the past 4 hours... Inside a very dark house, fan blowing... watching Pokemon.
5:42 PM It's so hot... trees are whistling for dogs. (Click Here: http://www.instantrimshot.com/)
9:15 PM It took me all day to hear that the California Supreme Court struck down the ban on gay marriages! W00000t!
Friday 5/16
10:00 PM Oof, my apartment won't cool down!
Saturday 5/17
7:36 AM Happy Birthday Alexander! 6yo today! :-)
10:45 PM Wow, that was a long day.
Sunday 5/18
9:14 PM Watching 2007 World Series of Poker... You know, there should be a Twitter PokerBot using direct messages for the initial cards
9:22 PM I turned on the IM updates for Twitter, and am getting *completely* random messages. I don't even follow these people!
9:33 PM Ah-ha! I think I was tracking the term "iphone"...
9:33 PM ... and "mobile"
9:38 PM @MDCore I think the last time I tried the IM interface and tracking, it was before the Twitter inflection point... :-)
9:41 PM I wonder how Twitter Poker could work... I guess everyone could follow each other, or the "dealer" could @ reply to everyone after each bet.
9:43 PM @mdcore - yeah, I'm wondering about the start and chip tracking actually... at the start the dealer would send a DM to each player with ...
Monday 5/19
1:18 PM It's a bit chilly today! Noooo! I'm sorry I complained! Bring back Summer! Please! I'll never say a word about being too hot again!
Tuesday 5/20
3:28 PM Avoiding laundry, dishes and other cleaning duties.
Thursday 5/22
12:45 PM I just discovered that if I click the home button twice without unlocking the iPhone, it pulls up a play/reverse/forward iPod control...
1:02 PM @natekoechley The double-home click for unlocked mode is adjustable in the settings, but I hadn't seen the locked functionality before now.
1:06 PM Ah-ha! It only works if you have "iPod Controls" switched on in the Settings -> General -> Home Button section.
Friday 5/23
1:05 PM I can't believe McCain was in my neighborhood yesterday. Republican are such assholes - it's so sad I have to live near an enclave of them.
Sunday 5/25
4:12 PM The Phoenix lander is arriving on Mars in 45 minutes!
9:20 PM Apple's new iPod commercial with Coldplay is awesome. The song is pretty great: http://songza.com/z/y7anqa
9:32 PM Phoenix is sending back images already: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/phoenix/images.php
Monday 5/26
12:20 PM Good morning... woke up late, contemplating laundry while reading news feeds.
2:00 PM It's too bad the spammers have ruined the .info tld... I own beattie.info and it would've been nice if that was a more legitimate URL...
2:18 PM Geeks who use Macs annoy the hell out of me on principle alone.
2:58 PM I think I may have to go back to blogging regularly... 140 characters is starting to constrain me too much. I need room to rant adequately.
Tuesday 5/27
5:09 PM Got my Obama bumper stickers today! I have now turned my car into an Obamobile...
Wednesday 5/28
1:57 PM Yahoo! has to get out of the habit of pre-announcing stuff. It's really annoying. Their stuff is *never* ready when they first talk about it
2:09 PM Dough-Nu-Matic: http://www.thinkgeek.com/homeoffice/kitchen/a2d2/ I must have one!!!
3:54 PM I love how Google gets a free pass on the iPhone-clone Android GUI. WTF were they doing for 3 years? So much for the vaunted GOOG innovation
Thursday 5/29
12:32 PM Listening to Pandora... it's pretty freaky how well they pick out music you like based on just a single band.
5:17 PM It suddenly dawned on me that Pokémon is really just an elaborate, fantastical form of cockfighting for children.
Friday 5/30
1:32 PM @avernet If Nokia hadn't screwed up and lost 99% of their US market share, they'd might have a viable platform. They made their own bed.
2:46 PM Urgh... reformatting a 40GB laptop drive with NTFS... It's been completing 1% PER HOUR? Holy crap. ~2 days to format a drive? WTF?
3:28 PM Apple's Mobile Me seems like the realization of my "Dot Mob" idea from 5 years ago: http://www.russellbeattie.com/notebook/1002277.html
June 2008
Sunday 6/1
2:19 PM Woah... Explosion at my datacenter (ThePlanet), happily my server hasn't been affected.
8:03 PM I bought a countertop dishwasher for my apartment (http://tinyurl.com/69fogu)... Easily the best $200 I've ever spent in my life.
10:54 PM Watching "Beautiful Girls"... they're singing Neil Diamond's Sweet Caroline. I love this movie.
Monday 6/2
2:26 PM Has Yahoo! lost its mind? Driving down to Santa Clara there was a freakin plane with a banner flying overhead advertising careers.yahoo.com
3:03 PM New rumors about the 3G iPhone! It comes with a free blow job and/or a pony. Lines are forming now in Palo Alto, and Steve Jobs is there!
11:36 PM Thinking about laptops around $600-$700... Toshiba? Dell? HP? Lenovo? Acer? Sony? Anyone have a recommendation?
11:49 PM The lappy would be running Ubuntu of course... I should probably start with that in mind, now that I think of it.
Tuesday 6/3
1:36 AM Taking a trip down memory lane: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_3.0
2:06 PM Slashdot posted about the TRS-80 Model 100... I actually have one. :-) http://tinyurl.com/2e2ppv/06/03/1653237&from=rss
6:10 PM 2119 baby! Obama! Hillary's speech in a few minutes... PLEASE PLEASE concede! And for the record, I hope she's the VP pick.
Wednesday 6/4
3:31 PM Went to BestBuy to get Lego Indiana Jones (w00t!)... I didn't realize they had Dell laptops now so I was able to check out the Inspirons.
3:45 PM @cpinto - I was with my impatient little boy, so I didn't get to check out much more than the form factor and keyboard. (Good and so-so).
4:01 PM Every single 60 second pitch I've seen on TechCrunch has made me cringe and click next ASAP. What's worse? I know I sound the same or worse.
6:54 PM Woah, latest update and Gnome MPlayer changed it's UI... much nicer no more "Get the latest Quicktime" message at Apple trailers site now.
Thursday 6/5
12:36 AM "Gore and Cheney made the job meaningful by carving out their own niches. (Gore’s niche: the environment. Cheney’s: running the country.)"
11:50 AM I just noticed that Twitter/Facebook integration doesn't include the "is twittering" text any more. Nice.
12:42 PM Thinking about blogging again... I need a better outlet that 140 characters.
12:56 PM Is it just me, or do Qik videos start and stop like crazy for everyone? They play for a second, pause for 2 or 3, play for a second, etc.
1:18 PM The iPhone needs a little red blinky light or something to tell you when you've got a missed message/voicemail.
3:10 PM "You can’t spend much time socializing in the Silicon Valley web scene" http://tinyurl.com/4vf7fs (I never socialize, what true geek does?)
8:50 PM I'm absolutely loving Celtics v Lakers. Old-school NBA Finals... Go Celts!
11:10 PM A Gen zdv uine Un yxu ivers bd ity Deg lc ree in 4-6 we xep eks!
Friday 6/6
2:24 PM New blog post: http://tinyurl.com/56lync
8:32 PM 1 Tuscani Meaty Marinara Pasta with breadsticks - Family Size Serves 4, 1 Dr. Pepper, 1 Boneless Wings Order - Ranch
9:11 PM They forgot the breadsticks! Those bastards!!!
11:45 PM New blog post: Starting up again. http://tinyurl.com/63vcpn
Saturday 6/7
12:36 PM It's absolutely surreal to see HRC saying, "We need to help elect Barack Obama our President" over and over again.
1:40 PM Just checked out the Firefox 3 screencast... OH! That's what the star in the address bar is for! Too bad it's sort of hidden afterwards...
5:56 PM Went to get a slow leak in one of my car's tires patched, ended up leaving with 4 new tires instead. I needed them, but arrrrgghh!!!
10:42 PM New Blog Post: Reading The Audacity of Hope http://tinyurl.com/6omn6j
11:38 PM ESPN2 is actually broadcasting Euro2008 Portugal vs. Turkey. I've seen the score already, but that's okay.
11:44 PM Wow! Actually, ESPN and ABC is broadcasting all the Euro2008 games live! http://tinyurl.com/44lahc Germany v. Poland at Noon PST tomorrow!
11:55 PM @topgold I'm a bit starved for international Soccer here in the U.S. - so I'll take what I can get. :-)
11:57 PM @timbray GOODle news? That's a good example of the problem with those tinyurl type services...
Sunday 6/8
12:09 AM USA vs Argentina tomorrow at 4:30 PM PST. Holy crap... I could spend all day watching sports ending with the Celts kicking LA ass again.
12:16 AM @IRTurkey Yeah, the US Game tomorrow is on ESPN Classic... It sorta sucks as I don't think it's in HD.
12:47 AM Trying to figure out the differences between Pentium Dual Core and Core Duo
10:49 AM Good morning... watching Euro2008...
10:54 AM I backpacked through Austria 10 years ago this summer. It was insanely gorgeous... filled with xenophobes, but the trains ran on time.
10:57 AM I just caught the end of the Austria/Croatia game... but it seemed the Croats were playing pretty dirty.
10:58 AM @NicoleSimon ESPN/ESPN2 and ABC are broadcasting Euro2008 in the states: http://tinyurl.com/5sc6ju
11:03 AM @tarek Germany and Poland have a rivalry? I honestly have no idea how good the Polish team is.
11:03 AM @NicoleSimon And USA v. Argentina later as well. :-)
11:10 AM Watched the highlights of the AUT/CRO game... I hate games that are decided with penalties.
11:12 AM I also dislike the tendency in soccer for goals to be scored from free kicks. The referee decides way too much of the fate of the game.
11:38 AM The first person NikeSoccer.com commercials are awesome.
11:50 AM @girlarsonist Arby's curly fries rock... but hockey?!?!
12:17 PM @laughingsquid HOLY SHIT. That's insane if it's not a hoax. (Popping popcorn with mobile phones: http://tinyurl.com/6gf8z5 )
12:19 PM Why can't they play the Euro2008 matches at night? It's mid-day! I'm having a hard time concentrating on watching it...
12:43 PM ESPN2 HD just stopped working for me suddenly. WTF?
12:46 PM Okay, it's back. Crazy weird.
1:15 PM Missed the 2nd goal because Comcast started freaking out again. WTF!!
1:34 PM Okay, turning off the TV for a few hours. :-)
3:37 PM Drove to WeirdStuff to find a keyboard for my old Toshiba laptop... sadly I couldn't find a replacement. http://tinyurl.com/64dttj
3:38 PM Every time I go there, I have to resist walking out with arm loads of ancient computer stuff... Mac SE for $35?! An old blackberry for $2!
4:49 PM Go USA! (I can't believe I've spent most of the day watching soccer....)
4:54 PM This video is SO BAD. It's like I'm watching a webcam of the game. The digitization is screwed - anything that moves is badly pixelated.
5:31 PM The soccer coverage is soooo bad. The video quality is shit, and the camera guy can't seem to follow the ball...
8:09 PM Go Celts!!!
8:43 PM I can't watch!
9:44 PM @om Just to be clear - you're worried about AT&T's external connectivity, yeah? 3G should be more scalable/robust than GPRS to the handset.
9:47 PM July 21st 2004... the day I was most likely the only UMTS user in San Francisco: http://www.russellbeattie.com/notebook/1007928.html :-)
10:19 PM I have to admit, I'm pretty eager to hear what Apple has in store for tomorrow.
Monday 6/9
10:15 AM Just woke up... Amazed to see Twitter is still working. :-)
10:39 AM I'm listening to the keynote by watching http://ustream.tv - it's pretty good, but I'm very distracted by Cali Lewis. So cute!
11:04 AM Jobs is currently justifying not enabling background processes. Asshole. I hate when he engages in Orwellian doublespeak. Bad is good!
9:34 PM New Blog Post: MobileMe - What took so long? http://tinyurl.com/5h7jem
Tuesday 6/10
12:44 AM The real question is, "Is Nick Carr stupid?" That guy is such a consistent jerk, I'll just assume he's being an asshole naysayer (again).
1:21 AM Doing laundry and watching TV... I thought they put the people behind the "male enhancement" commercials in jail. Why are they still on?
1:32 AM Maybe it's the demographics... I'm watching Poker on ESPN Classic. Is that a prime spot for penis enlargement scams?
11:02 AM Just watched Spain demolish Russia 3-1. Spain needs to learn to stop relying on the offsides judge. They bitch EVERY TIME down the field.
9:28 PM Heh... I called this: http://tinyurl.com/6lb7hm (It helps that I had lunch with Fabrizio a couple weeks ago though...)
10:36 PM Watching World Series of Poker again... I finally looked it up: The 2008 No Limit event is July 3rd. $10,000 to buy in.
10:39 PM @JasonCalacanis should buy in and Twitter it. That would rock! :-) http://tinyurl.com/2z7fuj
10:42 PM I have some Poker chips here like they use... I can't figure out how they do all those tricks. Flipping, stacking, shuffling with one hand.
Wednesday 6/11
12:30 AM @mashable I've played that exact same game on a flight from JFK to Spain. It took them until 2 a.m. to cancel the flight and hours to rebook
12:34 AM @dalmaer Spot on on all counts! How about the room key has to be in the slot by the door for the lights? That seems pretty common as well.
12:52 AM Chatting on IRC: #mobitopia on freenode.net (I wonder if there's a good way to make that into a clickable link?)
1:26 AM Comedian Joe Rogan is hysterical! "If I left you alone in the woods with only a hatchet... how long before you could send me an email?"
1:43 AM Devolution Of Stupid People http://tinyurl.com/2pbxc5
1:17 PM In San Francisco for the first time in a long time. There's two new skyscrapers!
1:19 PM SF is warm today, what the he'll? I brought a jacket as per my previous 6 years experience living here.
1:33 PM My meeting got canceled. Getting a haircut at the place across from the BofA building.
1:35 PM Man, I miss San francisco. If the weather was always like this I'd move back instantly.
1:37 PM Hmm, should I get a Specialties sandwich on fresh baked bread, or Henry's Hunan?
9:05 PM Tapulous?
10:20 PM Why aren't people in San Francisco holding Nancy Pelosi's feet to the fire on the impeachment issue?! She's THEIR Representative!
10:22 PM Do you live in San Francisco? Call Nancy Pelosi: (415) 556-4862 . Bring the Articles of Impeachment to a floor vote. (Pass it on)
Thursday 6/12
6:20 AM Last day of Kindergarten! Wow!
4:35 PM Yahoo! will *not* come up for me. My local cache? Connection? Browser? Something is totally screwed...
4:55 PM And the Wii Fit Girl won't play for me either. My connection to the Internet has completely failed me today.
4:59 PM Back outside into the sweltering heat...
9:29 PM Go Celts!
Friday 6/13
6:12 AM Early to bed, early to rise... makes me wonder wtf Ben Franklin was smoking. :-)
9:19 PM Just read another half-chapter of the Hobbit to my son before bed. Tolkien is a long winded SOB... great for putting him to sleep. And ME.
11:04 PM Jesus was a morning person? (Yet another thing to dislike about Christianity.) http://tinyurl.com/5hva9c
11:28 PM "So this is what being a morning person is like, I thought. It's like being 80 years old." ROFL
11:33 PM And now... having woken up at 6 a.m. again this morning. I go to sleep. :-)
Saturday 6/14
9:57 AM I said Oh!!
Yeah I said Oh!!
I came to make a bang
Oh!!
Sunday 6/15
8:43 AM "Together again, hey?" "Wouldn't miss it!" "How we doing?" "Same as always..." "That bad, huh?"
9:27 AM Can't think of many logos I dislike worse than Google's. The font is horrible, and the colors make no sense. Where's orange and purple?
10:07 AM Star Wars Disco Mix! http://songza.com/z/7dvpbn - It's a really long version... I don't think I've ever heard the whole thing before!
6:04 PM In case you were wondering, Master Shifu is a Firefox (i.e. Red Panda). :-)
Monday 6/16
9:46 AM Dropped son off at daycamp, now puttering while watching US Open playoff. Heh... puttering... watching golf... hehehe
5:26 PM New Blog Post: Still Struggling with Social Networking http://tinyurl.com/45e6ye
10:13 PM New Blog Post: How I think Watch Phones should Work http://tinyurl.com/6fvwm2
Tuesday 6/17
10:27 AM Wine 1.0 is out! W00t! Wine Rocks! It's what I use to play Peggle on my Ubuntu box. 'Nuff said.
12:15 PM Is it just my FF3, or does SproutCore's Popup Menu and Dropdown Menu not work? http://tinyurl.com/6l5z9h
12:18 PM I had an Egg McMuffin this morning. Today is a good day.
12:47 PM I wonder if doing an update via apt-get counts for FF3's download day?
12:51 PM Look at me I'm your fabulous weapon, I'll hit your target girl so use me well. I said Oh!!! I came to make a bang, I said Oh!!!
2:24 PM I used to rule the world
Seas would rise when I gave the word
Now in the morning I sleep alone
Sweep the streets I used to own
3:34 PM filling up... $4.56 a gallon. Ouch!!
5:12 PM Office Depot seems to be consistently good in their closeout laptop deals: http://tinyurl.com/5hb4qy My third Toshiba laptop in a row.
5:16 PM @Rits When I lived in Europe, the Euro was 70 cents to the US dollar, and I didn't own a car so I never had the pleasure of Euro gas prices
6:27 PM @mashable Your story on alerts.com doesn't have a single fucking link to alerts.com in it. Are you that desperate to keep readers trapped?
6:31 PM Installing Ubuntu on the new Toshiba... Completely wiped Vista off it. BEGONE! (I booted it once - *filled* with shovelware and crap.)
6:45 PM Ubuntu is installed - 15 minutes flat, and working perfectly: wifi, power, sound... So far so good!
6:58 PM GO CELTS! #17 tonight!!
9:28 PM Suddenly a sword flashed in its own light. Bilbo saw it go right through the Great Goblin as he stood dumbfounded in the middle of his rage.
9:29 PM They had called it Orcrist, Goblin-cleaver, but the goblins called it simply Biter. They hated it and hated worse any one that carried it.
9:36 PM It's funny how one thinks... at first I thought, "It'd be great if the Celtics blew LA out of the water." Then later, "Gosh this is boring."
10:06 PM Which is "faster", a P4 HT 630 @ 3Ghz, or a Pentium Dual T2370 @ 1.73Ghz ?
Wednesday 6/18
10:41 AM Returned the Toshiba A205... it did end up having WiFi issues, and after a while I realized it was a TANK. I need a 14" lappy not 15"...
11:15 AM New blog post: Riddles in the Dark http://tinyurl.com/5779fy
1:10 PM it's a bit colder than last week in SF, but still nice!
10:01 PM Took a full hour to read "Riddles in the Dark", but the munchkin stayed awake for the whole thing. My preciousssssssss...
10:23 PM @JasonCalacanis (I asked this before) Are you going to buy in at the World Series of Poker in Vegas in 2 weeks? You should and Twitter it!
10:37 PM Firefox seems to like pegging my CPU to 100%. Something's wrong... not sure what yet.
Thursday 6/19
11:23 AM My brother still uses his rocketmail.com address as his primary email. Amazing how things come around in a decade...
12:00 PM How the HELL can people use text editors with light characters on dark backgrounds like Textmate? I'd go blind seeing stripes after...
9:51 PM I wonder if all the anti-Yahoo! assholes are having fun piling on? Do they want a monopoly in Search and one less major player on the Web?
Friday 6/20
11:50 AM New blog post: Believe in Yahoo! http://tinyurl.com/625mjm
12:59 PM Am I understand the Solstice right? It occurs today, June 20th at 23:59 UTC... i.e. roughly midnight GMT, or 5 p.m. PST
4:26 PM Yep, it's hot.
6:37 PM Went swimming in the pool. It was very refreshing... my apartment, not so much.
6:38 PM Seven Nation Army: http://songza.com/z/c0jc2t (the unofficial song of Euro2008 it seems...)
Saturday 6/21
9:31 AM Good morning! The munchkin is at his Mom's... trying to figure out what to do with myself today.
10:02 AM My apartment has been hermetically sealed, shades drawn. Current temp at my desk: 82 (Thinking seriously about making a DYI A/C thing)
11:05 AM Current temp at my desk: 83.5F
11:11 AM Alt+F2 "free the fish"... cute!
11:12 AM Homebrew A/C: http://www.gmilburn.ca/ac/geoff_ac.html
11:31 AM Netherlands is going to crush Russia... (Adjusting the TV to lower the intensity of hunter orange on green grass...)
11:41 AM I'm gonna fight 'em off, a seven nation army couldn't hold me back...
12:33 PM If they can make orange soda without any coloring, why don't they just *do* that normally? Who needs that coloring crap?
12:58 PM Hate to be a fair weather fan, but Russia is kicking ass. Great goal!
12:58 PM Current temp at my desk: 84.4F
1:47 PM @gerikson Um... I signed up for the "official" Twitter app a long time ago. Happily they removed the "is twittering" from the text. :-)
1:48 PM I don't know who to root for! I think I'm going to root for Russia as I'm in love with Maria Sharapova... Go Russia!
1:49 PM Plus I think Russia is playing better anyways, and deserve to win. I hate goals from set pieces.
2:06 PM Go Russia! Two great goals!!
2:20 PM @OnkelSchark Sorry! I was convinced the Dutch were going a bit farther myself before the game. But they didn't play well at all.
2:22 PM Spain v. Italy tomorrow. The battle of the worst fakers and divers. Who will feign agony and pain the best? OH! My leg! My leg! THE PAIN!
2:31 PM Current temp at my desk: 86F
2:35 PM ESPN Classic has a Sumo Wrestling Marathon! God knows when this was recorded... Akebono was still competing (he retired in 200).
2:40 PM Bored, bored, bored. And hot.
3:20 PM Current temp at my desk: 87.3F
11:33 PM Current temp at my desk: 78F
Sunday 6/22
7:26 AM Good morning... backing up my /home dir... What a sesspool of random data that is.
9:36 AM Imagine if Twitter and 2Chan had a baby... The simplicity and APIs of Twitter, the anonymity and images of 2Chan.
11:56 AM Go Spain!
12:13 PM OMG is this match boring.
12:26 PM OOH! THE AGONY! THE PAIN!
12:26 PM OH THE HUMANITY OF IT ALL!
12:28 PM Sorry... that's supposed to be my team. WHAT A CRIME! WHAT A BLATANT HORRIBLE FOUL!
12:55 PM Spain/Italy: zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...
1:19 PM Played with an Eee PC 900 this morning... The screen is much nicer than the original, but it was *hot* to the touch just sitting there.
1:23 PM Spain seems to be dominating right now... if they can just convert. The ref is awful though, and Italy's goalie is impenetrable.
2:18 PM Casillas is an awesome keeper.
2:21 PM SPAAAAAAINN!!!!!!!!!!!
2:23 PM Horrible game, good result. :-)
4:35 PM Copying over home dir to new lappy which is more powerful than current desktop. 200k files, 95GB? What do I *have* in there?
5:46 PM I got a Sony Vaio VGN-NR385E/W this morning from Best Buy for $599. http://tinyurl.com/5oh4yl I like Sony laptops, and this one is nice.
8:57 PM @om "3. Minimum 5 years of battery life." YEARS?!? ;-) Also I think $300 is too low, $399 is reasonably below the "ask the wife" threshold.
Monday 6/23
10:09 AM Good morning... on the new laptop watching Wimbledon. Someday I'm going to go see that live.
11:44 AM Switched the TV to Olympic trials (muted). New laptop is still on battery. Hasn't heated up, CPUs at around 20%. Yay!
1:40 PM 100 years from now? All new people.
2:14 PM Every 4 years NBC fucks up the Olympics - delayed coverage, no non-US coverage, stupid announcers, and now requiring Silverlight. Assholes!
11:14 PM Packed up my desktop... So many cables and crap!
Tuesday 6/24
9:14 AM Good Morning!
10:32 PM Just flashed my N800 to the latest version: http://tinyurl.com/2m7ygq
10:34 PM Facebook, Wayfinder, Wikipedia and MP3tunes.com are pre-loaded links in the new N800 browser. MP3Tunes?!
Wednesday 6/25
9:16 AM TOO MUCH CAFFEINE!!!!!!!!!!!!! TOO MUCH CAFFEINE!!!!!!
10:49 AM Dammit the MicroB hack for paging doesn't work in the N800 update. http://tinyurl.com/647w83
1:24 PM Coverage of Euro2008 is complete screwed. Just missed Germany's 2nd goal.
1:38 PM What a game... wish I could have seen it.
5:04 PM Whatever you do, do not get the cheapest basketball stand/hoop at Target. Spend the extra $20 and get the next better. You've been warned.
5:17 PM Fascinating article on the genetics of homosexuality: http://www.slate.com/id/2194232/ And I learned a new word: "fecund"
7:43 PM This is why I was bitching about Euro2008 earlier: http://tinyurl.com/5vl6vu
Thursday 6/26
7:01 AM Oooh! Look at me! I'm a Morning Person! I'm going to go for a jog, do some yoga, read the paper with my coffee, and watch morning news!
9:24 AM I smell the smoke from the forest fires...
10:57 AM I bought a watermelon last night. It's massive. I'm afraid of cutting into it, I'm going to be eating it for a month.
11:31 AM Spain's going to need to ramp it up today... Russia was awesome the last game.
12:00 PM Wow, it's pouring in Vienna! 10 minutes in and its already a better game than Italy/Spain, happily.
12:11 PM Wondering if I should become an analyst... Anyone work at Forrester? http://tinyurl.com/63pw5l
1:26 PM #3 WOW! GAME OVER!!! Viva España!
2:31 PM Mi limón, mi limonero entero me gusta más...
7:15 PM WALL-E is getting insanely good reviews, but I want to know if anyone has seen it with a 6 yo.
Friday 6/27
11:33 AM Discovered /b/ today. I no longer fear for the human race, I wish for its destruction... (just kidding). /b/ is like Twitter in Hell.
11:36 AM I think some sort of cross of 4chan (anonymous forum w/pics) and Twitter would be interesting. (Despite the insane level of obscene content)
11:43 AM Popular Forums ranked by members: http://tinyurl.com/jfh4a
11:46 AM Interesting to see that MySpace Forums are highly ranked. Facebook doesn't have an equivalent, does it?
12:40 PM Just re-read of the best posts I've ever written - Anonymity: http://www.russellbeattie.com/notebook/1008640.html
2:20 PM Ahh, Wikipedia has been updated with the full plot of Wall-E...
3:56 PM About to watch WALL-E with the munchkin. Theater is pretty empty, perfect!
Saturday 6/28
8:31 AM Good morning! Just made some toast with strawberry jam and chocolate milk for my trouble maker while he watches Pokemon...
4:06 PM Last post on Twitter until I hear that it's become a solid, reliable service. See you then. :-)
July 2008
Thursday 7/3
6:07 PM While you're waiting for Twitter, try Foozik: http://foozik.com - I've tweaked the Laconi.ca code to have markdown and double the text size!
Saturday 7/5
11:20 AM It's quiet. Too quiet.
1:38 PM Name rush! I just snagged my TinyURL: http://tinyurl.com/russellbeattie !!
7:07 PM Moral dilemma: Exchanged my broken cable box, now I get NO regular channels, but ALL the premium ones... Should I call to fix it? Decisions!
7:54 PM My BRAIN won't turn ON. I need more caffeine. And chocolate. Also, I keep thinking it's Sunday.
Sunday 7/6
12:21 AM New blog post: http://tinyurl.com/65efl5 (1800+ words... I may have pulled something).
9:27 AM Some bastard on Twitter ratted me out to Comcast! All my movie channels disappeared! (OK OK, so maybe the box reset on its own...)
9:28 AM Subscribe to my FriendFeed: http://friendfeed.com/russellbeattie
Monday 7/7
5:34 PM Testing Ping.fm ..
7:43 PM I need a job.
11:55 PM I was testing v4l2 for the first time, and I think I killed Seesmic.
Tuesday 7/8
12:03 PM I need a job: http://tinyurl.com/5r28m2
5:47 PM "Lively is not ready for your platform. Lively requires Windows Vista or XP ..." I wonder if it works in Wine?
8:45 PM Thinking about a Big Mac...
10:07 PM Watching Poker.
10:11 PM Having some Breyer's Strawberry ice cream (just like my Nana used to give me) in the summer. :-)
Wednesday 7/9
11:52 AM OK! 24 hours later and no real leads on a job. The days of my blog as a career accelerator are long past, I fear. :-)
Thursday 7/10
9:04 AM Awww crap, I have to haul out the Windows machine from the closet, update iTunes and sync my iPhone to get the 2.0 stuff. Bleh!
11:26 AM Our Steve, which art in Cupertino, hallowed be thy IPhone;
thy corporation come; thy will be profitable, in 22 countries as it was in 6.
11:26 AM Give us this day our 16GB.
And forgive us our Google Android,
as we forgive them that install Windows against you.
11:28 AM And lead us into a 2 year contract
but deliver us from MSFT.
For thine is the IPod, the IPhone, and the ITunes,
For ever and ever. Apple.
11:30 AM I think I may have to turn off my news reader for a day or so until everyone realizes that 6 weather apps on their iPhone isn't a big deal.
11:31 AM I didn't make the iPhone prayer up - it came from here: http://macenstein.com/default/archives/1487
11:32 AM Hypocritically, I'm pulling out the Windows machine right now to upgrade my phone... :-)
11:43 AM VentureBeat had an orgasm while reviewing the iPhone Appstore. zOMG!!!! "the excitement still hasn’t worn off". (I feel vaguely dirty.)
11:44 AM I need to just let it go. I think it's because I was geared for the idiocy tomorrow, and it caught me off guard today.
11:47 AM Top 27 MUST HAVE Apps for the iPhone!!! http://tinyurl.com/2w4apm
3:07 PM Tweeting from my iPhone.
9:02 PM Watching LA Galaxy v. Chivas USA... Is it me, or are LA's uniform's identical to Real Madrid's?
Friday 7/11
10:49 AM Summize is amazing. I just checked the current line status on the Palo Alto Apple store with a simple search.
10:56 AM Argh. I slept like crap, woke up hours late, have a massive headache AND I have stuff to do today, unlke most of the past month. BLEH.
11:02 AM Oh... just learning that the American iPhone 3G launch is a disaster. Woops.
6:47 PM People are still in line, wow...: http://summize.com/search?q=apple+store Last year it had cleared up by now.
7:05 PM SuperMonkeyBall should be called SuperMonkeyBubble... The graphics on my GBA were better and more responsive. I paid $10 for this?
7:09 PM iPhone game demos would be nice. When will we see a AppStoreReview site to review and ranke this stuff I wonder...
7:56 PM I have to say I'm pretty impressed with the iPhone Facebook app [http://www.facebook.com]...
Saturday 7/12
3:10 PM Done with errands, now hanging out on a summery Saturday afternoon with the munchkin... Who is, predictably, somewhat bored.
11:40 PM Trader Joe's Peanut Butter Filled Pretzels. Mmmmmmmmmmmmm.
Sunday 7/13
11:38 AM God I hate Prairie Home Companion. I need to set up some decent podcasts again for the car.
9:36 PM "Man escapes mountain lion attack in Palo Alto". Holy shit. Those people in line at the Apple store are like sitting ducks!!!
10:37 PM Someone had the same idea I did: http://tinyurl.com/Supercalifragilisticexpialidoc
Monday 7/14
11:17 AM In line you know where.
12:27 PM In and out in an hour and 10... not bad.
2:47 PM Parallels lost a sale today: http://tinyurl.com/5dkk3l Now trying VirtualBox or VMWare instead...
8:51 PM Great, VirtualBox hosed my sound and wireless networking on Ubuntu. FUCK. I blame Apple. (I need iTunes, thus Windows, thus VirtualBox)
9:43 PM Found the answer in a "VirtualBox destroyed my desktop" thread. Reinstalling the proper linux-ubuntu-module fixed it. Fuckers.
9:50 PM The most amazing thing about the new iPhone is the USB converter plug... How did they *do* that? The other one is 3 inches across.
11:07 PM Hmm. Wondering what I should do with the old iPhone...
Tuesday 7/15
12:25 AM Playing with tweetdeck before I go to bed. white text on black gives me a headache.
12:42 AM @loiclemeur Ideas: Video craigslist, MST2K style overdubs of online vids, screencasting lessons, 2 person posting, talking avatars, gifting
12:45 AM @loiclemeur Provide a video library of the days news, so users can include sound bytes in their post to spur discussion (a-la 24 hour news)
12:48 AM @loiclemeur With the infrastructure already in place, no reason not to expand to video-email with some sort of Outlook plugin...
12:48 AM Okay, iPhone is finally restored/synced... should go to bed now.
8:11 AM Wow. $2 = £1
11:06 AM Twitter buying Summize is an insanely smart thing to do.
1:28 PM I didn't realize Provigil was so free flowing. If anyone has any extra, I'll take it.
11:22 PM I love Texas Hold 'Em on the iPhone. :-) I suck, but it's fun.
11:45 PM Statistically King-Jack suited will win just under 19% of the time, but unsuited it drops to 15%.
11:46 PM 7-2 off suit is considered the worst hand in Texas Hold'em. They are the lowest two cards you can have that cannot make a straight.
Wednesday 7/16
7:08 PM My new experiment: http://roomatic.com
7:36 PM #roomatic Thanks! I'm glad you like it... though I need to improve the Javascript foo in the posting process, I know.
7:58 PM #roomatic I need to add in some more Javascript to test for the presence of username/password, and if they're valid on Post. As well as ...
8:09 PM #roomatic Okay, I added in the blank user/password check...
8:51 PM #roomatic @aqualung - hmm.... it looks fine to me right now, but let me tweak the settings a bit. Scrolling is a pain.
9:26 PM #roomatic The password passes through my server, but isn't ever stored/cached, etc. It should be for usability tho...
9:31 PM #roomatic Interesting... the Javascript polling works fine on the iPhone. Not sure how to tweak the form though.
9:41 PM #roomatic I saw and responded to that last message using just the site... eatin' the ol' dog food... :-)
10:37 PM #roomatic testing from the iPhone
10:38 PM #roomatic I can't believe it works. :-)
10:50 PM #roomatic Okay, I added in the 'not post empty tweets' detection. :-)
10:51 PM #roomatic You'll need to refresh... Changing the button doesn't seem like a bad idea either. Done.
10:52 PM #roomatic Testing out a different color for the confirmation as well... :-)
11:28 PM #roomatic Trying to figure out how to return a confirmation of user/password from the ajaxed post. Presence is far, far down the list. :-)
11:37 PM #roomatic Changed the way that the top rooms are created (using Posts not Reads)
11:41 PM Mr. Jobs, after very careful consideration, sir, I've come to the conclusion that your new iPhone's battery life sucks.
11:42 PM Mister Potato Head! Mister Potato Head! Back doors are not secrets!
Thursday 7/17
8:37 AM .me domains are pretty tempting, though I'm not sure exactly what I'd want, nor do I feel like spending $40 for 2 years minimum...
9:01 AM Changed Roomatic to not use hashtags by default - "rooms" are now based on search terms.
11:51 AM July 17th and still no job. I'm going to have to start trolling Craigslist for random jobs. I wonder if In N Out is hiring?
12:06 PM "Some Days You're the Cowboy, Some Days You're the Clown" - on the front page of Amazon (for me). Interesting... and insightful.
12:16 PM My iPhone 3G's reception is screwed. I get 1 bar sitting in front of my powered *signal booster*. That's very wrong.
12:32 PM @vanderwal I have one of these: http://www.wi-ex.com/Page3427.aspx It's for the 800Mhz and 1.9Ghz bands.
12:55 PM Changed my avatar for a bit... What's are the birds that are lifting the Fail Whale called?
2:14 PM Actively looking for a job today... sending out resumes, etc.
2:45 PM "Your request for a Twitter source parameter has been approved.
4:10 PM Is that Double Double with onions or without? (Just practicing).
5:47 PM #roomatic New Watchmen trailer is out... looks very interesting, even though I never was into the original comics.
5:51 PM #roomatic Oh, sorry - here's the Watchmen trailer: http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/watchmen/
6:00 PM Looking at my 3G booster antenna right now, I noticed it wasn't tightened very well... So I tightened it. Low and behold... more bars! DUH.
9:26 PM Got an email from "certifiedofferservice.com" supposedly by Network Solutions with an offer for newfoo.com for $2,000. Is it a scam?
Friday 7/18
9:29 AM @netsolcares Wow, you're listening on Twitter? Amazing! Thanks for checking to see that offer was real, very cool!
9:38 AM Someone left a snarky comment today insinuating I said "mobile was dead." Do people think that?! I said XHTML-MP is a dead-end, not mobile!
11:30 AM Playing Tetris on the iPhone is like fucking with a burlap condom. Painful, inaccurate and ultimately not particularly effective.
11:32 AM I completely ♥ Aurora Feint on the iPhone. It's like PuzzleQuest, but it's got a different puzzle game in the center. Very fun.
11:43 AM Wow, the Nokia N810 is only $299 now! http://tinyurl.com/66sgus I'll have to wait a bit to replace my N800, but it's such a kick-ass device.
12:12 PM Video of moon passing in front of the Earth... *FANTASTIC*: http://tinyurl.com/57f7c4
1:43 PM #roomatic Testing out the new simplified Roomatic post interface...
1:45 PM #roomatic Much cleaner! Yay! Now I need a character counter. Also, it's nice to see that word is slowly spreading about the site...
1:58 PM #roomatic Weird, there's a bug in the URL room code... Not sure why yet. Debugging Javascript.
2:10 PM #roomatic Somehow the URL embedded in the document is freaking out JQuery... Firebug is helping a bit, and some urlencoding...
2:13 PM #roomatic Sorry for blathering as I test the app so I can see if I broke something as I change param names, etc. :-)
2:19 PM #roomatic And then Russell learned how relative and absolute URLs work. And all was good.
2:30 PM @martinlittle Weird - your last post is taking a looong time to get picked up by Twitter Search...
2:44 PM #roomatic JQuery's plugin system is amazing... I just found a one-line script to add a character counter to the Roomatic post form. Awesome.
2:46 PM @martinlittle I think you're blacklisted or something, my posts show up, but not yours. :-)
4:44 PM #roomatic @avernet - That's a good idea, I had a hover title with the raw date, but there's a prettyDate library that looks much better. :-)
5:14 PM #roomatic my new tweaked UI seems to be more reasonable on the iphone.
5:33 PM Gnip provides a bunch of URLs... Okay, but where's the actual data? Obviously I'm missing something.
8:42 PM American carousels go counter-clockwise so we can reach for the brass ring, European ones go clockwise because it's more proper.
10:00 PM Why is it that microwave burritos don't have a temperature state between frozen and burning napalm?
11:13 PM The 3:30 a.m. showing of Batman in IMAX is sold out. Holy crap.
Saturday 7/19
2:59 AM Goodnight Lynn! Sleep well!
9:54 AM Wow. LOUD jets passing over my apartment.
9:56 AM Facebook has a thing at the top of the minifeed today listing the 24 of my friends have installed the iPhone app. Spooky.
9:57 AM Remember when Mobile MySpace was a primary selling point of Helio phones? Seems like a long time ago...
6:24 PM was bored without the munchkin so I went to the ocean. Still bored, now cold.
8:00 PM Back from the beach. It was nice to look at the waves... however, I'm not sure I understand the people who insist on having BBQs there.
8:01 PM Pretty much the entire Pacific coastline north of L.A. is useless unless you have a rubber wetsuit and thermal underwear.
8:15 PM I drove by the new Tesla dealership in Menlo Park earlier... They were having some sort of shindig.
8:18 PM Hmm. Tickets for 10:20 showing of Batman in Imax are still available... Thinking....
Sunday 7/20
10:41 AM Good morning! I still need a hobby.
12:35 PM Wow, my feed reader is empty... Are people out enjoying the summer or something?
12:43 PM Keep track of people bitching about Amazon S3: http://roomatic.com/s3 :-)
12:44 PM Keep track of people bitching about S3: http://roomatic.com/s3 :-)
2:07 PM Must stop watching Diners, Drive-ins and Dives on the Food Channel! It makes me crave bbq that can't be found within 1000 miles from here.
7:44 PM My latest post made Techmeme... I guess I have to hard link to the a-listers more often if I want to make the cut.
Monday 7/21
10:17 AM The Big Picture is so cool... http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/
10:44 AM "If you're good at something, don't do it for free..."
11:33 AM I cannot believe how *cold* it is today.
1:32 PM Why do new apps installed directly from the iPhone take sooooo long to "install"?! DRM?
1:34 PM I removed all the Twitter apps from my iPhone. I'd rather use the web version. Same for the New York Times app. Still debating Evernote..
1:37 PM Did anyone find a really good .me domain name? I still can't think of anything I'd want to drop $40 on right now ($20 x2 year minimum).
2:00 PM Call me hard to please, but Evernote is fucking useless.
2:11 PM Appigo's ToDo app looks good... Not $9.99 worth of good though.
2:19 PM @spullara Thanks for confirming I'm not nuts. I've given it two tries and I still don't understand what it's supposed to do for me.
2:45 PM I still don't understand how to get content out of Gnip. Did *any* of the bloggers writing about how great it was actually use it? No.
3:12 PM Job update: No job, no interviews for job, not many returned emails from old contacts where I begged for a job, rent due in 9 days.
3:13 PM What kind of sauce would you like for those McNuggets?
9:18 PM Bull Durham is on... love that movie. "Charlie, here comes the deuce. And when you speak of me, speak well."
9:20 PM "Your shower shoes have fungus on them. You'll never make it to the bigs with fungus on your shower shoes."
9:37 PM Just came up with a new emoticon for sanguine: [:<≠>
9:38 PM Rockin' Freebird!
9:38 PM Rubbing cream on that thing I noticed last weekend. Doesn't seem to be working.
9:39 PM Quick! Does anyone know the age of consent in Kentucky?
9:41 PM Can you tell I got this month's Wired?
9:49 PM Wired covers 25th anniversary of WarGames: http://tinyurl.com/6xw36r
9:56 PM "For a legion of young WarGames fans, 20-year-old Ally Sheedy was a lust object second only to the Imsai 8080." Awesome... :-)
9:59 PM "Ronald Reagan did not find the WOPR crazy or silly when he saw the movie at a special Camp David screening during its opening weekend." OMG
11:29 PM Playing Halo for the first time in a couple months. Most adults would be having sex about now, if I remember correctly.
Tuesday 7/22
11:34 AM If you're keeping track of #tweb2 (whatever that is), use Roomatic: http://roomatic.com/%23tweb2
11:50 AM I added in some Javascript to make hashtag URLs cleaner: http://roomatic.com/#tweb2 ... let's see if it works. :-)
12:20 PM @robmills - Actually, I was fixing a date formatting bug that popped up because it's Tuesday, but I did add in the URL clean up as a bonus.
12:27 PM I was able to follow the Twebinar discussion quite well. I bet you next time there's a big event, Roomatic is going to get decent traction.
12:35 PM I have this urge to drive to Half Moon Bay and crash the Fortune Brainstorm Tech conference... Think anyone would notice? :-)
12:47 PM My N800 prompted me for a software update today... Very cool.
12:57 PM @rcousine Not needing software updates? Is there a platform on Earth that doesn't need them? I'd rather have ASAP, thanks, than not at all.
1:01 PM Barack's a lefty? That I didn't know... (Nice shot though). http://tinyurl.com/6zgflu
1:03 PM iPhone tip: Use double fingers to scroll overflow regions on a web page like in Roomatic. Bonus: hold down the . key to get a list of TLDs
2:40 PM Sending resumes to random Craigslist job ads. How many social startups are there?! Not sure if I'll be able to conceal my general antipathy.
6:09 PM WarGames 25th - at the theater, so cool. http://tinyurl.com/5qelzm/24/2008&wssaffid=11551_NationalCineMedia(NCM)&tid=AACFX
7:08 PM I've decided that I will be dining at Taco Bell this evening. I've made reservations and pulled out my least dirty t-shirt for the occasion.
7:13 PM A bunch of people wanted to connect to me on LinkedIn. I have no idea who most of them are, so I just added everyone.
7:14 PM How in the FUCK do people keep track of all these contacts in life? I worked with you in 1999... yeah? Great. Fuck if I remember.
7:17 PM Life should come with a database.
8:04 PM What a sunset... A glowing blood red perfectly round disc floating in the sky. Amazing.
8:41 PM Watching "Deadliest Catch"... at first I thought it was just another over-dramatized reality show, but it's absolutely fascinating.
8:56 PM The new Wired is packed with Sony Vaio ads, and I'm seeing Vaio commercials on TV. Vaios are the MacBooks for the rest of us.
9:02 PM Why is Apple pushing the iPhone 3G on national TV? There isn't enough demand already?
9:10 PM Ooh! Hudson Hawk in HD! This movie is completely under-appreciated. "If I don't get a cappuccino soon, I'm going strangle somebody."
9:55 PM Playing with Seesmic support in Twhirl. Rachael from newspop is gorgeous. I was thinking I could post video directly, but I guess not yet.
9:58 PM Still watching Hudson Hawk... "I'm being blackmailed into robbing the Vatican by a psychotic American corporation and the CIA."
11:18 PM Cognitive dissonance: Eating ice cream at 11 p.m. while thinking, "fuck I need to lose weight."
Wednesday 7/23
9:27 AM Good Wednesday to you...
9:58 AM Listening to Imogen Heap. http://www.imogenheapmedia.co.uk/audio/player/player.html
10:08 AM I'm not seeing any live tweets from f8... has it started yet?
10:10 AM I had no idea this was possible in bash: "for f in *.php; do cp $f $f.bkp; done" I'm going to have to try to commit that one to memory.
10:17 AM @fabricapo I tried to sync my iPhone using my.funambol but it just wouldn't take my password. Is it just me, or are there some issues?
10:23 AM @jhstrauss Even if you do get called, you have to get picked. There's at least 30 things about you that are undesirable to either side.
10:24 AM I wish it would get hot again. 10:30 a.m. in mid July and it's only 63F outside...
10:57 AM I printed out a PocketMod... http://www.pocketmod.com My life is now organized!!!
11:00 AM Someone needs to build an iPhone version of Pocketmod... Add in your own todo, notes, calendar, etc. Sort of like an iPhone HyperCard...
11:43 AM Looking at GoDaddy domain auctions... ZenCloud.com is available for $400. I don't have the cash, but I sort of like that name.
1:02 PM Keep track of #f8 on Roomatic: http://roomatic.com/#f8
1:34 PM Ubuntu is failing me today, I can't see the F8 stream... Urgh!
1:50 PM Installed Mplayer and can finally see the f8 mms stream. Not sure why Totem and VLC failed.
1:56 PM ##f8 Obviously since I made it, but I think Roomatic is perfect for this sort of event. http://roomatic.com/#f8
2:00 PM ##f8 Zuck seems nervous... talking fast. I have barely any idea what he's saying.
2:01 PM #roomatic Woops... there's a bug in the hash mark. testing...
2:04 PM #f8 I have no idea why I'm watching this.
2:37 PM #f8 I can't believe there's not more people using http://roomatic.com/#f8 ... or if you want to drown in tweets: http://roomatic.com/f8
2:50 PM OSCON is another good tag to watch today: http://roomatic.com#oscon
2:56 PM @fkoehn Yeah, Roomatic works okay on the iPhone... though you have to scroll the chat area with two fingers at first.
3:05 PM Diet Coke with Splenda... I like it.
10:05 PM there exists a multivariate polynomial with integer coefficients that takes on only negative and prime values when integers are substituted
Thursday 7/24
10:33 AM I had scrambled eggs. They were good.
11:19 AM My iPhone 3G appears to have two speakers on the bottom, yet sound only comes out of the left one. Is that normal or broken?
11:34 AM Debating installing Zimbra on my pristine Ubuntu box... it's a .sh file, and is inevitably going to throw files *everywhere*. I want a .deb.
12:22 PM Okay, I took the plunge. Zimbra installed everything in /home/russell/zimbra . Whew! Has a JRE and uses Jetty as the local web server.
1:26 PM @jhstrauss Thanks for the invite... if I find myself in Hollywood this Saturday, I'll be sure to drop by. :-)
2:09 PM Trying to figure out a way to sync Ubuntu with my iPhone's calendar. Not sure if it's possible.
5:51 PM I think I might be done with Twitter. It's sort of a stand in for real human social interaction, and I think I miss the real thing.
6:05 PM I've decided: The iPhone 3G is buggy as FUCK. Problems... App updates dying, weak 3G, WiFi dropping, apps crashing, re-arranging icons, more
6:28 PM @jhstrauss I almost forgot!!! WarGames tonight... I wonder if I should make an effort and go.
7:08 PM Okay, heading off to WarGames at the theater down the street from the Googleplex. Should be a high geek quotient there. :-)
7:25 PM Decent crowd at WarGames. lots of geeks.
9:38 PM I left WarGames early... I've seen it *way* too many times. The little documentary at the beginning was interesting though.
9:40 PM Now what?
10:06 PM Finally listening to Obama's speech in Berlin. Annoying that he invoked both WWII and 9/11... I wonder what the Europeans really thought...
10:21 PM I don't want to do laundry.
Friday 7/25
12:45 AM @jrobertson Fring? I don't jailbreak my iPhones. It just encourages developers to target Apple instead of more deserving open platforms.
1:16 AM I didn't do laundry.
1:48 PM Why is Firefox pegging my CPU?! Wait, where's the 2nd core? When the hell did I switch to a -386 kernel? Okay, better now. Virtualbox sucks.
8:27 PM Reading "The Cricket in Times Square" to the munchkin.
9:45 PM I still have to do laundry.
10:04 PM I think I'm going to take my boy to the Berkeley Kite Festival tomorrow... Seems like it'll be worth the traffic/parking craziness.
Saturday 7/26
8:00 AM Somehow I woke up before the munchkin today! Good morning!
8:39 AM Watching Alice in Wonderland... Old Disney movies are becoming harder to watch. I barely understand the references, let alone my kid.
8:56 AM Disney is sooo fucking evil. The first 30 min. of Alice in Wonderland was commercial free, now they're literally every 5 min. Turned OFF.
9:27 AM Wow, it's going to be at least an hour drive up to Berkeley plus parking... urgh.
8:43 PM Made some Rice Krispies marshmallow squares for the munchkin. I totally win.
10:51 PM You can't always get what you want... but if you try sometimes, you might just find...
11:33 PM Sitting in the dark, watching High Fidelity, drinking a cream soda while resolutely avoiding doing dish, laundry or going to bed.
Sunday 7/27
9:56 AM My munchkin is watch Animalia on PBS. http://www.animalia.tv/ It's *really* well done and pretty intense for a Sunday morning...
10:45 AM Long story, but I'm selling an *unopened* Wii + controller + Mario Kart. Going up on Craigslist today, but first - any takers on Twitter?
12:41 PM Only 100 Days until Nov. 4th?!?! I can't believe it's been 4 years since literally one of the most disappointing days of my life.
3:04 PM Despite being mid-summer, gas prices are *dropping*? Didn't that happen in 2004 as well? Putting on my tinfoil hat, I smell conspiracy.
3:06 PM Hanging out with the munchkin. Went swimming and now just hanging out. It might be a perfect day. Except I have to do laundry still...
3:11 PM @laughingsquid Email is dead. Or dying, wasted in the gutter of history wallowing in it's own excrement, waiting to be put out of its misery
5:12 PM Alert the media... I AM DOING MY LAUNDRY!! $3 a load to wash/dry... I've got at least 6 loads to do (2 at a time). Urgh!
5:34 PM The munchkin is playing Burnout Paradise with a little friend. Squeals of laughter during massive wrecks. Race cars and explosions == COOL
9:52 PM Spent the last 10 min. explaining what matches were for and why someone would have them in their house after a bedtime story featured them.
9:55 PM @jhstrauss That's from Madagascar. They're in NY and he looks up and says, "What a beautiful night, look the star is out. Oh, helicopter."
9:59 PM OMG, how many times am I going to have to read the words "Google Killer" in the next 48 hours? Please shoot me now.
10:15 PM Cuil isn't 10x better than Google. An order of magnitude "better" (whatever that means for search...) is needed to unseat a market leader.
10:29 PM Today I didn't even have to use my AK... I gotta say it was a good day. http://tinyurl.com/2ml7d3
10:44 PM @laughingsquid "Macintosh X" and "Giga Mac" amusing... Gravenstein "is a variety of apple native to Gråsten in South Jutland, Denmark."
11:06 PM Turning the daily Twitter post summary back on for my blog... preparing for the cries and wails of the whingers tomorrow.
11:47 PM Replaced the $10 chunk of bent metal in my IKEA bed frame today. Looking forward to sleeping on a level plane again tonight.
Monday 7/28
8:56 AM Good morning! Watching Clifford The Big Red Dog. You're jealous, aren't you? Admit it. It's okay.
9:17 AM Launchy for Linux is packaged as a .deb. W00t! http://tinyurl.com/5ogmv8
4:40 PM I want the past 8 hours back. I can't believe it's almost 5 p.m. already!
4:45 PM Attempting to quell munchies with Tostitos and IBC Cream Soda.
11:27 PM I think I'm going to bed. I know, it's not even midnight. What can I say... I'm getting old.
Tuesday 7/29
12:02 PM Earthquake updates are too much to keep track of in Roomatic! http://roomatic.com/Earthquake
4:47 PM Gazelle will give me $104 for my original iPhone 4GB...
Wednesday 7/30
9:15 AM @Darla You can't go school shopping in July!!! You have to wait until at least August. You have two more days!
9:20 AM Remember when I used to write a long thoughtful blog post, and then other blogs would write about it and link to it? Those were good days.
3:43 PM I accidentally turned on the mobile version of Twitter... I think I like it more than the PC one.
3:49 PM The original formula for Grape-Nuts called for grape sugar... this, combined with the "nutty" flavor of the cereal inspired its name.
4:51 PM Munchkin was a bit grumpy after day camp. I loaded him up with peanut butter crackers w/ marshmallows and chocolate milk. That should help.
9:58 PM Chester the Cricket has gone back to Connecticut. But Harry the Cat and Tucker the Mouse may go visit him next summer.
Thursday 7/31
9:10 AM Why the hell won't AppEngine let me register "russellbeattie", "russbeattie" or "beattie" as an appspot name? Are these all *really* taken?
10:37 AM BuddyUpdates is interesting... It's exactly the sort of simple featureful site that Yahoo! should have already launched.
12:00 PM @somewhatfrank Hehe - I'm always amazed at who's listening on Twitter! You should use http://roomatic.com/BuddyUpdates to keep track. ;-)
12:03 PM I, for one, will be happy to never type del.icio.us again in my life. That's it, that's the last time. Hooray!!! Long live delicious.com!
12:33 PM Out there... Theres a world outside of Yonkers. Way out there beyond this hick town, Barnaby, There's a slick town, Barnaby!
10:12 PM @cksthree I was thinking the same thing - though there's some Jabber-to-IRC servers out there which might work with Palringo....
10:18 PM 10 Skills you need to Succeed at Almost Anything: http://is.gd/197L . The fact that I have about 2 out of the 10 explains quite a lot.
10:24 PM Am I missing something? MIT announced a new way to produce cheap hydrogen from sunlight and water. Shouldn't we be partying in the streets?
10:32 PM 'Major discovery' from MIT primed to unleash solar revolution http://tinyurl.com/5uu53h
11:58 PM @jhstrauss - I can't believe I didn't take a pic of your 'stash. Here, for you: http://www.americanmustache.com/
August 2008
Friday 8/1
9:35 AM Welcome to August! Down to my last few hundred bucks and no job to be found. This should be an interesting few weeks ahead.
11:30 AM Checking out details of a Beach Boys concert on Eventful, noticed and actually clicked a Lego.com display ad. Luck or incredible targeting?
11:31 AM Death Star II Lego diorama is only $199 now! http://shop.lego.com/SalesAndDeals/ Damn, and I'm broke! (as mentioned earlier).
9:23 PM My boy is at his Mom's, so I'm reading. You know, an actual book... with pages made from dead trees and all that.
Saturday 8/2
12:05 PM I tried Vitamin Water today! I don't care about the vitamins, but it's lightly sweetened with cane sugar rather than HFCS. Very nice!
6:19 PM Like I keep saying, I need a hobby or a vice. Either or will do.
10:50 PM A check for $2,000 arrived from Network Solutions today for the sale of newfoo.com - I have no idea who bought it or why. But THANKS!
Monday 8/4
10:38 AM Good Morning!
11:09 AM Reading my morning news... Unread: Tech (78) Weblogs (14) Gadgets (38) Links (101)
11:51 AM Aigo's Atom-based MID is pretty gorgeous looking: http://tinyurl.com/6x2svn
1:06 PM I can't find either of my phillups head screwdrivers which is making me homicidal...
1:23 PM Crisis averted... A screwdriver has been found with zero casualties.
3:10 PM Summer is closing fast... 3 weeks until school starts.
5:50 PM Pulling out my Windows computer to update my iPhone. I need to just find a corner for it and keep it running. Urgh...
6:06 PM Great article on legendary keyboards, complete with snippets of famous songs: http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/17138
6:09 PM I just made a Pandora station based on "Angela" the theme from Taxi (the TV show). I wonder what sort of music is going to show up...
6:13 PM Answer: Light jazz. Oookay, not what I was thinking of. I was hoping for more flute and cool keyboard and less soft electric guitar...
6:17 PM Why are those women in the True.com Flash ads shaking their heads at me? What do they think I said? Is that what flirtatious women act like?
7:37 PM Descending into a bad mood.
Tuesday 8/5
12:32 AM Watching Poker while my iPhone ever so slowly updates...
12:25 PM Who turned off the heat? Fuck, it's cold outside.
6:40 PM Vince rocks! I swear, I almost wrote this exact post: http://tinyurl.com/6qq5fc
6:43 PM "Vince puts the Shamwow through its paces with the fluid dexterity of a three-card monte dealer." Totally.
9:08 PM It's raining.
10:10 PM @spullara 4hoursearch's links have titles with <b> markup in them, which at least on FF3 just shows the markup.
10:12 PM Pokerstars.net client app works in Wine, which is nice. Playing online with play-money isn't particularly exciting, however. Sloooowww...
10:16 PM "During current Hold'em session you were dealt 25 hands and saw flop a total of 7 out of 25 (28%)"
10:20 PM @spullara No problem... I'm keeping myself busy while playing poker. Which is odd, as one would think it'd be the other way around.
10:22 PM Dealer: Game #19398082810: RussAKQ wins main pot (5835) with a flush, Ace high
10:51 PM Dealer: Game #19398485455: RussAKQ wins pot (765) with a pair of Queens
11:04 PM Dealer: Game #19398668693: RussAKQ wins pot (2280) with two pair, Aces and Jacks
11:06 PM Dealer: Game #19398681114: RussAKQ wins pot (2956) with three of a kind, Queens
11:18 PM @jimh No, just practice. I've turned $1000 in play money into $10,000, but I imagine the competition would be better if it was real cash :-)
11:38 PM @jimh I think you can play for real money, I'm not sure as I don't have any actual real money. Besides, I'm down to $3k in like 4 hands. UGH
11:46 PM Dealer: Game #19399136176: RussAKQ wins pot (950) with a full house, Threes full of Jacks
11:48 PM I wonder if PokerStars has actually served 19 BILLION hands... Someone from Twitter should call them.
11:51 PM Wikipedia says yes on the number of hands: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pokerstars Also, they're located in the Isle of Man (0% taxes).
Wednesday 8/6
12:21 AM I just realized you can join more than one table at a time. Ahhh...
12:57 AM That was a bad idea.... down to $600 and falling fast.
12:59 AM Apparently in order to win at poker, you need to know the odds, understand possible hands and of course actually pay attention.
1:27 AM Dealer: Game #19400082549: RussAKQ wins main pot (1010) with three of a kind, Aces
2:13 AM BUSTED. Well, I could have added more fake money, but I decided to stop if I hit 0.
4:01 AM I'm still awake... not sure why, exactly.
5:11 PM Rejaw rocks. Everything that Twitter should have been by now. Conversations, multimedia, etc. Very cool.
11:13 PM Hence!
Thursday 8/7
2:00 AM Watching Olympic Soccer US v. Japan. I can't believe it's 5 p.m. in Beijing. Insane time difference.
3:00 AM I cannot believe NBCOlympics.com doesn't allow Silverlight video to be played full screen. What useless, greedy, slimey, stupid dickheads.
3:04 AM I predict that NBCOlympics.com is going to crash and burn in spectacular style, making NBC and Microsoft look like the assholes they are.
3:05 AM Sorry, I get cranky when I have to use Windows. :-)
1:30 PM Wow! I had no idea you can take screen shots of your iPhone by holding the home button and clicking the top button! So cool!
1:33 PM Reading this: http://tinyurl.com/6nodlf From the comments: Click corner above dock to switch home screens...
7:02 PM How does "Orange Sherbert" not have a Wikipedia entry?!?! Even if you spell it all fancy-pants 'sherbet' it's not there... It's criminal!
8:06 PM Hi there! I'm Shiva the Destroyer... I'll be your harbinger of doom for this evening.
8:11 PM The Cthulhu trailer is all the more strange if your name also happens to be Russell... http://www.apple.com/trailers/independent/cthulhu/
Friday 8/8
6:57 AM @nbcolympics Fuck You. I'm watching the Opening Ceremonies live online right now. Assholes.
7:11 AM Just saw a Twitter about how bad the commentary is. I was thinking how good it was compared to NBC's idiocy. No Katie this year, thank god.
7:33 AM Using Roomatic while watching Olympics opening ceremonies: http://roomatic.com/#080808 What a cool little site, who did that? Oh yeah!
8:49 AM kicking myself for letting molympics.com expire. I cannot imagine how much money I could have made from mobile ads in the next 2 weeks.
3:02 PM Torrent of Opening Ceremonies in HD: http://tinyurl.com/57nj88
6:48 PM Daddy week has arrived again! W00t! Off to Pizza My Heart with the munchkin for a slice.
8:17 PM Argh! The torrent isn't done, so I tried to watch NBC. What amazingly ignorant, xenophibic, racist, stupid, clueless assholes.
8:40 PM W00t! pTerm for iPhone is now in the AppStore. SSH baby! http://tinyurl.com/5zaxpc
10:52 PM Watching women's Judo live... The Russian chick is pretty cute, but Cuba is kicking her ass. I have *zero* idea what the rules are.
10:58 PM The object of Judo is to throw one's opponent to the ground, immobilize, or forcing a submit by joint locking the elbow or applying a choke
Saturday 8/9
8:15 AM Women's Beach Volleyball rocks. Lots of empty seats... Olympic organizers are always full of shit about being "sold out".
9:52 AM Just noticed Walmart has a new logo: http://tinyurl.com/6x7w3c
10:17 AM NBCOlympic video stream is down already.
10:23 AM Figuring out what I'm going to do today. The munchkin is already a bit bored.
3:51 PM At the park with my boy. Modern playgrounds suck. No merry go rounds or teeter totters or anything else that might be dangerous.
10:28 PM How the *hell* do Olympic swimmers breathe without getting lungs full of water?
11:20 PM It's amazing how NBC continues to just to be complete assholes... 3 Hour time delay here in California and it's still labeled "LIVE".
Sunday 8/10
12:04 PM Whoever thought of a game where incredibly fit women in bikinis from around the world get really sweaty and jump around a lot... bless you.
5:19 PM Just went swimming with the munchkin... Summer's winding up so fast! 2 weeks until first day of school!
5:26 PM http://excla.im/ Excla.im is very cool, and exactly why I want to do more Python development.
7:33 PM I just cleaned the bathroom. What a PITA. One would think that a place you pee in/on/around would have less nooks and crannies.
10:43 PM "The Spectral Wolf fears only fire. The Google Maps team can no longer help you, but if you master the Wolf, he will guide you. Godspeed."
10:44 PM "Tell Charlie the Dancing Stones are Restless. He will give you his van." OMG, I'm in tears. Best xkcd ever. http://xkcd.com/461/
10:48 PM Retweet: 这个地方好多讨论奥运的，不过都是外国人！http://www.roomatic.com/Olympics
10:48 PM "Many of the place to discuss the Olympic Games, but are foreigners" :-)
11:34 PM You know, I need a job like a motherfucker.
Monday 8/11
12:15 PM Wow, there's a Windows Remote Desktop app for the iPhone now too! http://www.iphonewinadmin.com/
12:18 PM Noticing that Tap Tap Revenge has fallen way down in the top apps. With the amount of hype it got, you'd figure it'd have more staying power
1:33 PM Unsubscribing from all the Web 2.0 news blogs. They've become old media, with daily quotas for their writers, filling up pages with crap.
1:40 PM How many uniformed opinions do "pro" blogs expect us to wade through every day? G.O.Y.A.K.O.D. like real writers do.
3:02 PM I need a change.
Tuesday 8/12
5:08 PM Just created Roomatic 2 by swapping out Twitter's API for Disqus. Try it out... http://roomatic.com/twitter
Saturday 8/16
5:26 PM Men's 100M!!! http://tinyurl.com/6a39ga (Fuck you NBC)
7:25 PM God forbid NBC preempt Access fucking Hollywood on a Saturday for the Olympics. And on CNBC? Boxing. If I had an uzi and a ticket to NY...
7:35 PM Craving a Cold Stone Creamery sundae...
11:32 PM Unbelievable... having to wait until 11:30 p.m. to see the 100M finals in HD. Assholes, assholes, assholes, assholes, assholes. ARRRGGHHHHHH
11:35 PM Several hundred million, if not billions, have seen this race before me.
Sunday 8/17
10:06 PM Spent a great day at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom with my son. Sunburnt and wasted... Now looking for some bootleg streaming Olympics. :-)
11:27 PM @timbray Thanks, Tim - we appreciate you rubbing your superior Olympics coverage in. ;-) (We're watching yesterday's Track and Field on NBC)
11:31 PM Jamaica is kicking *ass* in the 100M, Men and Womens... (But you knew that already, of course...)
11:32 PM Found a couple (Danish?) feeds of handball: mms://80.160.76.117/tv2niagara5a and mms://80.160.76.117/tv2niagara6a
11:49 PM Oh man, what's happening with US Track!?! Getting crushed in sprints and no 1500, long jump or high jump finalists. (Oh, yeah... BALCO).
11:52 PM According to Wikipedia, Marion Jones is currently in jail serving her 6 month sentence for lying to a grand jury. Interesting timing.
Monday 8/18
12:22 AM Bed
8:52 AM I just tried Jaiku for the first time in probably 8 months.... it's twitter and friendfeed combined... I wonder why it didn't take off?
9:26 AM Wow, lots of reaction to my random thought about Jaiku. I've got 19 invites left... just DM me with your email if you want one.
2:58 PM I've finally internalized (i.e. remember to use consistently) the command "sudo !!" ... so useful!
4:33 PM Updating my iPhone. Wish me luck...
5:14 PM At the park with my kid. swapped out my sim card into my flip phone and thinking the iphone is all hype.
5:18 PM Opera mini continues to rock, T9 is still fast and hey, actual 3g connectivity! Oh and Tetris is actually fun to play.
6:06 PM Wired bundled a "Fashion Rocks" magazine with my subscription this month... Is there some sort of Geek/Rock/Couture demographic out there?
6:23 PM iPhone 2.02 didn't fix jack... In fact, it may have made things worse.
7:03 PM "What separates [Red Digital Cinema] from other camera companies is that the vision guy is also the decision maker." Interesting...
7:25 PM @jhstrauss There's an article about Red in this month's Wired. I hadn't heard of it at all - and yet they even own red.com...
7:54 PM Why in the fuck is someone pretending to be me in a comment on a TechCrunch post? It makes no sense.
9:37 PM Misty May's behind is Internet famous. I was sitting here thinking to myself, "I bet there's websites dedicated to that." And I was right.
9:43 PM After playing Rockstar's Table Tennis video game, the real thing has lost it's amazement... Where's the slo-mo smashes and surreal lighting?
Tuesday 8/19
2:53 AM I need to go to bed. 3 hours ago.
8:04 AM And I'm up.
8:33 AM My son starts school next week, and thus is home with me all *this* week. He's bored already and it's 8:30 a.m. Long day ahead.
4:11 PM How to win a fight against twenty children... http://tinyurl.com/5lz68s
Wednesday 8/20
12:42 AM @spullara I think the end seems closer to them than to us... They're moving faster and in person. And, you know, they're tired. :-D
1:39 AM My brain hurts.
8:59 AM I've been on the same airline, same type of plane from Madrid to the Canary Islands... not surprising it crashed. Just a matter of time.
9:03 AM McCain is leading Obama? Jesus Christ this country is filled with complete fucking MORONS.
9:26 AM @racerrick I don't separate politics from my every day life and I don't respect people who can't think intelligently about their vote.
9:27 AM If you're a McCain supporter, please tell me so I can unsubscribe from your tweets, because you're obviously a fucking asshole.
11:07 AM Got an email this morning, teacher/classes will be posted at Alex's school tomorrow. Umm. WTF is wrong with an email or a web page?
11:42 AM Is it possible to have an unproductive decade? Actually, don't answer that, I know the answer.
2:30 PM Men's 200M Final: http://tinyurl.com/5jrdwm - It's hard to see the chaos that erupted for 2nd and 3rd place because the video is so blurry.
8:28 PM Testing out python-twitter...
9:01 PM >>> import twitter
>>> api = twitter.Api(username='russb', password='xxxxx')
>>> print len(api.GetFriends())
100
9:36 PM Race walking is both an oxymoron and a completely insane Olympic event.
10:11 PM Oh my starry eyed surprise, sundown to sunrise, I dance all night, we’re gonna dance all night, dance all night to this DJ.
11:56 PM So much for my admiration of the Women's Beach Volleyball team. What fucking clueless nutjobs.
11:57 PM The Python Twitter API is borked. And it sits on top of a JSON API that's also borked... Joy.
Thursday 8/21
2:06 PM Just back from Safeway. 1) Vitamin Water is on sale $1 a bottle 2) Stanford co-eds are back and stocking up 3) I forgot drinking straws.
7:37 PM I wonder if Qik can be sued for "tortious interference" by promoting their non-Apple approved iPhone app?
8:07 PM NBC is *rebroadcasting* the fucking women's Race walk race from yesterday!!!! UNNGGARRGHHHGLLLGGGRGGRLLL... *aneurysm*... acckk!!
8:14 PM NPR: "Track and field came into the Olympics battered by doping scandals... NBC made the pre-games decision not to show [it] prime time."
8:22 PM Wow, just saw the Women's Soccer results! W00t! Go USA!
9:17 PM OMG. US Track has just imploded. Both men and women's 4x100 drop the baton!? Insane.
9:40 PM Tug of War used to be an Olympic Sport! They *totally* need to bring that back... it'd rock!
10:54 PM Just saw BMX... holy chaos. Bikes and bodies all over the track!
11:27 PM CNBC has had fucking boxing on every night for 2 fucking weeks. Who knew there was that much Olympic boxing? Not me that's for fucking sure.
Friday 8/22
12:53 AM ★★★ I think I'm going to bed. Alert the media. ★★★
3:03 PM My pet peeve: "impact" is not a verb, and "impactful" isn't even a fucking word. http://tinyurl.com/6l6alm
9:28 PM Sitting down for the first time in hours, want to find out what was happening so I check Twitter Search. "Biden" seems to be the answer. :-)
10:20 PM Is something up with Twitter or the people I'm following. Only 12 updates in the last hour?!? Oh, wait. It's Friday night...
10:47 PM Not sure I understand choosing Biden. He's 65, so he's out for 2016 and he's from freakin' Delaware, which doesn't help the electoral map.
Saturday 8/23
9:39 AM Morning news about Biden: "big mouth", "criticized Obama in the past", "old school Washington"... I don't see how this helps the ticket.
9:43 AM WTF is everyone's problem with the Obama text message? Check Twitter Search - it went out at Midnight PDT/3 a.m. EDT.
9:55 AM The only people praising Biden are hardcore Democratic partisans. Everyone else is either critical or cautious. I'm not exactly ecstatic.
10:00 AM Going to San Francisco to see the Giants vs. Padres today with the munchkin. I can't tell from here if it's going to be cold in SF, or COLD.
6:11 PM Back from the baseball game. Weather was great, hot-dogs were yummy, Alex got a new SF cap, and the Giants won. Not a bad afternoon.
8:09 PM Telling elephant jokes to my son. Giggles for everyone!
10:54 PM CNN is using Facebook to get viewer comments... Is that new?
10:57 PM FUCK they're using Twitter too.
11:03 PM @ricksanchezcnn I just caught the end of a rebroadcast here in CA, but it's *very* cool what you're doing with Twitter/Facebook! Great job!
11:52 PM Wondering what to do so that at some point someone would describe my head as being covered with a 'shock of hair'.
Sunday 8/24
1:07 AM Still amazed at what ignorant racist morons the Spanish basketball team is. Says a lot about Spain as a whole, actually.
1:09 AM Off to bed...
8:47 AM Morning! In 24 hours my kid is doomed to first grade: http://tinyurl.com/5rh7vn
8:57 AM Wow, Olympics, school is starting, Labor Day is next weekend. Wow, I knew summer was coming to an end, but that was *really* fast!
9:12 AM Oh, good - they're rebroadcasting the Olympics Gold basketball game in a bit. My kid will want to watch. He won't know who to root for. :-)
9:27 AM OMG. I just heard that the basketball game last night was *LIVE* here on the west coast. The first live event I saw was the last.
10:05 AM Heh. You can tell it's a Sunday when a comment I left 2 days ago on another blog hits the front page of TechCrunch. :-)
1:01 PM HOLY CRAP. Is that *really* the London 2012 logo!?
1:09 PM He'll turn into an alien before your very eyes, He's slimy, creepy, fast, and strong, he's every shape and size... He's Ben 10!
3:10 PM I don't want to be a "pro" blogger, and have actively avoided it. But wow, I'm jealous of the guys at the DNC convention!
4:42 PM Does anyone have a solution when Python's simplejson barfs on a single character in a JSON stream returned from Twitter?
9:05 PM I just got an email about my 20 year high school reunion in 2010. I want to cry.
9:38 PM Leona who?
9:39 PM @jblanton Yeah, I couldn't believe it when I saw it. The guy using it knows his stuff, but still he's got so many options to use as well.
9:43 PM Wow, London has a lot of work to do.
10:22 PM @ricksanchezcnn Watching now!
10:57 PM Just remembered that I left the gas barbecue grill on... Yesterday. Brand new tank, all gone. At least I didn't burn down my apt. complex.
Monday 8/25
12:35 AM 7.5 hours until my son is in first grade (and 6.5 until I have to wake up!)
7:24 AM Five more minutes, Dad. please? Oh, crap, wait... I'm the Dad now...
8:52 AM First Day!! http://snipurl.com/3jlnl
10:05 AM Today's Twitter Meme: Snapshots of your iPhone's home screens. (Hold the menu key and click the power button to grab a pic, then tweet it.)
10:05 AM Page 1 http://snipurl.com/3jmi9
10:08 AM I'd love to see what people are using on their iPhones... as well as seeing what the "average" number of bars people have are. :-)
10:10 AM I should have tagged those pics with something, like #homescreen ... (Sorry, just making this up as I go...)
10:12 AM Still waiting for someone to pick up my meme... *tap, tap, tap* Hurry up, dammit!
10:12 AM Twitter needs to be more instant! :-)
10:13 AM Listening to Byrne/Eno streaming: http://www.everythingthathappens.com/
11:26 AM Retweeting: Take snapshots of your iPhone's home screens. (Hold the menu key and click the power button to grab a pic, then tweet it.)
11:49 AM Changed Roomatic back the live chatroom like it was before. More useful for to watch something like: http://roomatic.com#dnc08
12:35 PM Eating two microwavable White Castle cheeseburgers. Just checked, and I'm 2,040 miles away from the nearest restaurant... Damn.
9:18 PM @spullara Amazingly, my six year old and myself watch How It's Made together too! (With no complaints as there's no zappers or sponges even)
Tuesday 8/26
7:26 AM Oh, wait. I have to get up this early *every day* to get my son ready for school? Why was I so excited for school to start again!?!?
7:48 AM @jamespearce - Can I help fix the Mowser encoding stuff? The title on http://m.russellbeattie.com has been wonky for a couple months now...
6:07 PM I can't believe there's still Red States. Seriously, what more needs to happen to this country before those states get it? Fucking morons.
7:24 PM "You are invited to an EXCLUSIVE gathering of top leaders in the MOBILE MEDIA
and INVESTMENT communities." Gosh for only $1495! Oh boy!
7:52 PM Listening to Hillary, filling out my Shelfari books: http://www.shelfari.com/russellbeattie (Add me if you're using it!)
8:42 PM Had to put Alex to bed, so I missed most of Hillary's speech.
10:52 PM "Rate limit exceeded" - Woops! Screwed up and put the url request in an endless loop! Do I really have to wait an hour? Can't I say sorry?
11:04 PM My site's summary in Google for the past 10 years, no idea why: "Photos of Russell's travels and his high school reunion. Also his resume."
11:41 PM There is no spoon.
Wednesday 8/27
6:57 AM @arveb Thanks! I just went to dmoz.com and updated my description to something more current. Hopefully it propagates to Google and the rest.
2:35 PM Another ex-girlfriend added me on Facebook today. That makes 4... They're all happily married with kids and looking great. I hate them all.
2:41 PM Just found out the local convenience store stocks Mexican Coca-Cola. Oh boy! no HFCS!
5:57 PM It's hot like the sun outside.
9:34 PM It's a good thing that someone else has written up examples of how to authenticate over HTTP using Python, because it's obtuse as hell.
10:14 PM @derricks The longest method of the day award goes to: urllib2.HTTPPasswordMgrWithDefaultRealm()
10:33 PM I decided that I'd learn a bit more about Python by writing something from scratch to even out my friends/followers using the Twitter API.
10:34 PM So far it's been about 4 evenings of frustration. Python docs suck balls, and stuff like the JSON-based Python-Twitter API is incomplete.
Thursday 8/28
7:15 AM Morning!
7:18 AM It's going to be near 100°F today in Menlo Park! Summer's last hurrah.
7:27 AM Does anyone own one of those iPhone remote disk apps like DataCase? Does it let you get at the photos you took with your phone?
10:17 AM No answer on the Datacase question yet. I looked online and in iTunes reviews (what a crappy user experience that is) and no luck.
11:31 AM "I cordially invite you to our second annual Venture Summit Silicon Valley" Only $2,495!
11:43 AM sudo !!
12:15 PM Considering driving to San Francisco for the 6:30 Mozilla Labs meeting at the Twitter offices... sort of a multi-interest meetup there.
12:16 PM Playing with Ubiquity... (posting from it as well).
12:53 PM Prediction: McCain will leak his VP choice about 20 minutes before Obama's speech, forcing every news channel to scroll the "breaking news".
1:08 PM Modern Javascript is so insane: }); everywhere... Functions within functions. I can barely follow where the stanzas start and stop.
2:06 PM @michaelg Ahh, I hadn't actually checked. Duh, everyone's assuming that's what will happen, and Drudge has a report, etc.
2:34 PM I'm still trying to figure out how fast/slow an Intel Atom is compared to, say, the moderate-speed Core 2 Duo I have in my current laptop.
2:46 PM My insane Anti-NBC rant turned out to be the most popular post I've written since I started blogging again last year. That's satisfying.
6:00 PM Man, I like Al Gore.
7:57 PM WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT SONG?!
7:58 PM MAKE IT STOP. I had to mute it. OMG.
8:00 PM I turned the TV off. Who's stupid idea is some fucking hillbilly redneck twanging about them damn forners as a campaign song?
10:18 PM AP: "John F Kennedy spoke to the Democratic convention at the Los Angeles Coliseum before 80,000 supporters in 1960." Wow, I had no idea!
11:09 PM Re-watched Obama's speech, and had to listen to that Brooks & Dunn song again - they are ardent Republicans. Someone really fucked up.
11:10 PM Tomorrow's headlines will include some sort of Obama bashing for using the song, most definitely.
11:14 PM Read/Listen to Obama's speech: http://tinyurl.com/54rhdc
Friday 8/29
6:24 AM This new school schedule has me all messed up. Woke up at 6 and can't get back to sleep. Arrgh. Am I now a morning person?!? Noooooooooo!!
10:10 AM Wow, Skype is 5 years old. That doesn't seem like a lot, and yet it does...
10:22 AM Nothing like an ex-beauty queen to take media attention away from actual issues.
10:31 AM Watching word spread about McCain's choice of Eva Braun, I mean, Sara Palin. http://roomatic.com/Palin
10:49 AM It just dawned on me: 1998: Dan Quayle, 2008: Sarah Palin.
10:52 AM Twitter seems to be struggling... It's as if a million people suddenly decided to tweet "WTF?!?" at once.
10:58 AM Twitter Search isn't keeping up.. it's jumping around like crazy. Tweets from 25-45 minutes ago, then 5 minutes ago... insane.
11:15 AM Just saw Palin's speech. She's way out of her league. What kind of clueless asshole would you have to be to think she's a viable candidate?
11:35 AM Roomatic.com is the best site ever for following breaking news on Twitter. I rock.
8:10 PM Official McCain/Palin photo: http://tinyurl.com/6xhh33
8:21 PM Just checked in on the Roomatic Palin room and it's still going! Republicans have created a national joke. http://roomatic.com/Palin
Saturday 8/30
11:40 AM My son is at his Mom's and I have nothing to do today, tomorrow or Monday. It's not even noon and I'm bored. Not good.
12:01 PM Playing with Ubiquity, someone answered my Timer question: Utils.setTimeout(function() { displayMessage("hello world"); }, 3000);
12:42 PM "by Night 3, my smoke detector problem was raising a lot of questions. Like, will my marriage survive?" LOL http://tinyurl.com/6oofpw
12:57 PM "[McCain and Palin] met for the first time last February... Then, they spoke again — by phone — on Sunday" INSANE http://tinyurl.com/6fh ...
1:03 PM @jhstrauss bloody maries after a night of Cristal? Very nice... "Reality is an illusion created by alcohol deficiency." - Henny Youngman
1:07 PM I woke up with a headache and my XXX acai-blueberry-pomegranite (triple antioxidants) Vitamin Water doesn't seem to be helping.
1:12 PM HTC Dream photos: http://tinyurl.com/6s95c2 I'm not sure I could dislike that keyboard more... Maybe if it had spikes?
1:15 PM Wait, with the non-ascii domain names, is http://♥♥♥.com a valid domain?
1:44 PM Few sentences in the English language bespeak a mysterious dark side than: “I’m not allowed in there. And quite frankly, I don’t blame them.
7:55 PM @jhstrauss Schizophrenia? Don't listen to the voices. Unless they are telling you something about giving me cake. I love cake.
8:43 PM Woah: Zodiac uncovered? http://cbs13.com/crime/zodiac.killer.kaufman.2.805799.html
11:37 PM Catching up on Mad Men. I may have decided to become an official January Jones stalker.
Sunday 8/31
12:16 AM "This is America. Pick a job and become the person that does it." Wow, great quote. (from Mad Men)
9:49 AM Blast from the past, someone has scanned the 1981 D&D Rules into Scribd! http://tinyurl.com/5w9u6c
10:04 AM @om I follow GigaOm Daily in my reader, but the feed doesn't have the right URLs. They point to daily.gigaom.com rather than u.gigaom.com.
10:50 AM Retweeting @BarackObama: In Toledo, OH. Holding a discussion on the economy. Watch it live at http://my.barackobama.com/livestream
11:32 AM Watching How Do They Do It (sort of a How It's Made wanna-be) about Bic Pens and just noticed I still have a writing callus on my finger!
2:01 PM If there were the Procrastination Olympics, I would be a gold medal winner. I'm like the Usain Bolt of procrastinators. I'd break records.
2:18 PM The San Jose Flea Market is "the Largest open-air market in the country". Really!? http://sjfm.com I've never heard of it until now!
4:26 PM The news stations seem disappointed Gustav isn't going to plow directly into NOLA. It might be getting stronger though, so there's hope.
4:27 PM Death and destruction is great for ratings.
10:34 PM Oh! The media isn't upset that Gustav is missing NOLA by 250 miles, they're just pretending it's just like Katrina anyways! Got it!
10:35 PM Does John McCain have super powers? I just saw some clip of him saying he's going down to help with the hurricane. Umm. Doing what?!?
10:41 PM Katrina's storm surge was 30+ feet. Gustav will be around 10 feet. It's a normal hurricane like every other year for hundreds of years
10:58 PM OMG, I just found this: http://images.dailykos.com/images/user/28416/mccainpalinbottledwater.jpg *Exactly* what I was thinking!
11:02 PM Eating cereal. It's not cake, but it's good.
11:17 PM I have no idea why I'm watching the news. I should start doing shots every time someone says "ghost town". Nah, I'd be in the hospital.
11:24 PM @lmorchard I have subscribed to your Ubiquity command. Am I first?!? Do I get a prize? I want cake.
11:39 PM @jhstrauss promised me cake last night, but it never appeared. I'm thinking it was the 12-pack he was carbo-loading. I MUST HAVE CAKE!
September 2008
Monday 9/1
9:07 AM Just woke up. My server was down... that was odd. Restarted it. Oh, also, I dreamt of cake.
9:15 AM Uh-oh. Ubuntu automatic update replaced my kernel and requires a restart. I have fear. FEAR!
9:37 AM It's quiet. Too quiet.
9:50 AM "Bristol Palin made the decision on her own to keep the baby, McCain aides said." In other words: Palin's kid can have a choice, but not you
10:03 AM @Ben_Parr Ah! You are correct - "Keeping" the baby meant not giving it up for adoption. Though, I'm sure the other option was available.
10:04 AM Need cake.
2:01 PM @JamesPearce Twitter is definitely not a conversation. Except when it is. I guess if you consider a single reply a conversation or not...
2:42 PM CAKE OR DEATH!!! http://tinyurl.com/28ft6s
7:24 PM The tone of that Google browser cartoon is so arrogant, I can barely read it.
8:18 PM "Palin has more experience than Obama" is just like the Iraq-9/11 thing. It's a talking point they'll repeat until people believe it.
8:28 PM I may create another Twitter account just for Political rants. There's so many right-wing morons on Twiter I'd like to ream with @replies.
9:27 PM Would a Palin presidency be worse than the Bush one? Hard to say yes. No wonder the Repugnants are excited, look at what they chose before.
9:46 PM Took me an hour to figure out that Python's ElementTree and namespaces don't play nice.
10:09 PM Mad Men may have finally convinced me to start smoking. And wear suits.
10:50 PM I'm all caught up on Mad Men. Now i have to wait a week like everyone else. Suck.
10:56 PM @marccanter4real I wonder what's happening to Draper in the bathroom while shaving. Stroke? Post traumatic stress? Pressures of fatherhood?
11:06 PM How It's Made Marathon! I've seen so many of these... But how is the widget that made that widget made?!?
11:07 PM I want minions. Cake for anyone who wants to be my minion!
11:16 PM Okay, I may have overexagerrated my ability to actually provide cake. I did not expect such an enthusiastic response to my call for minions.
Tuesday 9/2
3:01 AM Just got done watching what turned out to be a 2 hour documentary on Alexander Hamilton. What a great founding father. *Hated* Republicans.
3:02 AM Watch the Hamilton documentary online: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/hamilton/program/index.html
3:07 AM "Jefferson is... Crafty, not too scrupulous in politics, and he's not very mindful of the truth. In short, he's a contemptible hypocrite."
12:42 PM @jenholmes It was a great documentary, I was up until past 3 a.m. watching it - I'm definitely following @pbsamex for updates. Thanks!
1:11 PM Firing up VirtualBox and Windows XP so I can try out Chrome...
1:39 PM Waiting for Windows XP to finish installing 72(!!!) "security updates" before I can continue to play with Chrome, which seemed sorta slow.
1:43 PM Fortune says Apple's sold 8MM iPhones to date (and thus rocks) and PC World says Symbian "only" sold 20MM handsets in *Q2* (and thus sucks).
1:57 PM On my virtual XP machine, which is fast and runs FF/IE fine, Chrome chokes pretty badly on pages with external Javascript and/or Flash.
2:35 PM "Dear Russell, on behalf of Nokia, I am very pleased to offer you the position of Strategic Technology Marketing Manager" :-)
6:00 PM @jhstrauss The job offer neglected to mention anything concerning cake. I'll have to contact Nokia HR and see if there's any cake benefits.
6:05 PM Thanks for the congrats everyone! :-)
6:38 PM Testing posting to Twitter using Python and httplib2. It seems really clean.
8:14 PM Twitter Search (and thus Roomatic) is hosed right now... it always says 21 or 41 minutes ago...
8:32 PM It's amazing how much I hate all Republicans. There's not enough words to describe how horrible they are as individuals and as a party.
8:35 PM I need to not watch news for the next few days, I might blow a gasket.
10:26 PM Brad Pitt's character in 12 Monkeys rocks. GET OUT OF MY CHAIR!!!
11:11 PM I think Google may have outdone the iPhone record on Techmeme today. 50? 75? 100+ stories? Everyone and their mother tried Chrome today.
11:15 PM Seth Rogen in a Kevin Smith film?!?! OMG. http://tinyurl.com/5bloyx
11:51 PM I should start practicing going to bed before Midnight.
Wednesday 9/3
9:04 AM Good morning!
9:33 AM I just realized I'm going to be starting a "real job" again. First time since I left Y! 2 years ago. Wow.
10:15 AM How many freakin' "advanced" Javascript engines are there now? V8, SquirrelFish, TraceMonkey... anything else? What about MS, Adobe, Opera?
12:33 PM Cool! Harvey Milk played by Sean Penn: http://tinyurl.com/6zw94p
1:07 PM Updating my deb server for the first time in a while. *Everything* is getting touched from the kernel to PHP to MySQL to ssh. Wish me luck!
1:11 PM That wasn't that bad.
1:41 PM Whitman, Fiorina and Palin speaking today: "Yes, women can be anti-choice, anti-gay, socially irresponsible, warmongering Nazis too!"
3:03 PM Finally got my server set up like I wanted it: Python 2.5, mod_wsgi on Apache and a sample web.py app running with clean url mappings. YAY!
3:05 PM John Resig answers my previous question about JavaScript: http://tinyurl.com/6fhofh
Thursday 9/4
2:01 AM @iphonelive You've got to be fucking kidding me.
2:09 AM 2 a.m. ... So much for the going to bed before midnight thing.
11:24 AM It's amazing to me that Jon Stewart continues to be the only credible news organization on television. http://is.gd/2cJg
1:08 PM This electoral map is fascinating: http://tinyurl.com/6ojaob We really, really need direct Presidential elections.
2:38 PM You know, Krispy Kremes are always next to In-N-Out, but it *never* dawned on me to do this: http://tinyurl.com/6pr74t
2:51 PM Jesus Christ. TechCrunch has sold 1650 tickets at $3k apiece... or $5MM for that event alone. How much of that is profit? Fuck me.
2:54 PM Everyone else my age involved in this business can generate or raise thousands or even millions of dollars, and I can barely pay my rent.
10:11 PM I've been alive for 36 years, and never seen anyone shot, stabbed, killed or dying of an unnatural death. Why is TV filled with that shit?
10:14 PM Yep, the new Microsoft ad is incredibly stupid. Fine by me... I'm quite happy to watch Microsoft go down in flames.
11:56 PM I really don't understand why Chrome got so much attention.
Friday 9/5
2:43 AM I really, really should be in bed.
11:41 AM Love the idea of SocialCast - enterprise microblogging.
12:01 PM It's noon. I've officially wasted another week of my life.
12:10 PM I wonder if I can salvage this past week in the next 4 hours?
12:24 PM Surreal: McCain's backdrop was of Walter Reed middle school, not the hospital, and was the same one the West Wing's Matt Santos used. !!!!
12:50 PM I still can't think of a great .me domain name. It seems like it'd be a no brainer, but nothing I come up with is available or good.
2:55 PM Help me with the name of that wordless hit-song of the 70s! Da dadadadaaa daa, dadada da da da da dadada. It's a horn of some kind...
2:56 PM It's just about impossible to do a web search for a song with no words that you can barely remember any other details of.
3:05 PM @georgesdlvb That's a great service... but I'm not sure I can bring myself to sing it... :-)
3:15 PM @slestak Thanks! Searching Herb Alpert songs... it's not "Rise" though it's got that same vibe...
3:23 PM Okay, I recorded myself humming the tune: http://russellbeattie.com/download/mysterysong.ogg
3:53 PM 12 people have downloaded my embarassing attempt at humming that song, and no one's come up with a song title yet!
4:08 PM So much for the automagic song site suggestions. Shazam/Midomi think I'm singing Stone Temple Pilots. "WHEN THE DOGS BEGIN TO SMELL HER!"
4:16 PM I've been hearing that song for most of my life (it was a hit when I was 6yo). Thank goodness I finally know what the hell it is!
4:26 PM I typed "Chuck Mangione" into Pandora... Getting a stream of "cool jazz for warm nights." ;-) Spyro Gyra! Pat Metheny!
4:30 PM Another 70s staple... Afternoon Delight!: http://songza.com/z/tvmfmk
10:31 PM @timbray Interesting! I just found out who he is now, 20 years later... I never really had an alternate life in my past. I should fix that.
10:32 PM I'm such a MORON! After using VirtualBox for a month, I *just* discovered that I could install the guest tools and have "seamless" windows!
10:35 PM Finished up "Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing" with my kid tonight (he's back!). These stories set in the 60s aren't aging well.
11:53 PM Robin Williams takes on Palin... http://tinyurl.com/6s5uoy
11:58 PM Going to bed before I lose that tired feeling and am up til 3...
Saturday 9/6
8:11 AM Watching Ben 10 while eating my toast with strawberry jam. Oh, wait, that's not me, that's my son. Me, I'm lolling in a half-asleep stupor.
10:55 AM WOW. MTV's new music video library API is pretty amazing! http://developer.mtvnservices.com/docs
12:33 PM Hmmm... adding "MOZ_DISABLE_PANGO=0" to my environment helped the fonts in my browser quite a bit, but killed Twitter's formatting.
4:29 PM Watching 6 year olds play checkers is like performance art. Rules get stretched, broken, and the aim is to jump a lot more than win.
10:21 PM I've chosen this color green: #57865A as my accent color in Ubuntu. It's quite nice. Soothing. Try it. Combine it with a wallpaper of grass.
10:57 PM Someday Microsoft is going to stop making their basic optical mice with scroll wheel, and I'm going to be a very unhappy puppy.
11:05 PM After reading this: http://tinyurl.com/36bhj It dawns on me that my 6yo has never seen a Road Runner cartoon. This must be remedied!
11:12 PM Contents: One Anvil. http://tinyurl.com/5sjrkr
Sunday 9/7
9:33 AM Good morning... it's a Lego Star Wars type of Sunday, no? And soon there will be a playdate filled with craziness. *Reaches for valium*.
4:56 PM Ignoring my new employer, the fucking iPhone 3G has major issues. I can't believe how many dropped and missed calls I have to deal with.
6:07 PM Marissa Mayer still floats my boat. I'm not sure if it's her geekiness or just that deep voice. (Or the fact that she's a bazillionaire)
6:10 PM Woah, I just saw that there's another book in the Incarnations of Immortality series. They get worse as they go along, but still...
6:11 PM On A Pale Horse is one of my favorite books from my teens... I hope they make a movie of it someday, it'd be pretty great.
8:36 PM Reading Superfudge to the kid... Why does every Dad in every story set in the 1970s live in New York City and work in Advertising?
8:43 PM Going to work for someone besides myself tomorrow for the first time in 2 years. Very mixed feelings.
Monday 9/8
7:25 AM Good Morning. Yo Gabba Gabba!!
8:48 AM The fact that DEMO and TC50 are today, while I start working at a BigCo is like a big helping of failure, with failure on top. Mmmm! Good!
9:17 AM Nokia Connecting Talent, Sept. 18th in Mt View: http://www.nokiaconnectingtalent.com/ "Join us for an afternoon, stay with us for a career."
Tuesday 9/9
7:33 AM My son just said to me, "Ask Google if there's going to be a WALL-E Lego set." OMG! Ask *Google*? He's been TOTALLY corrupted. ARRGH.
9:15 AM Reading up on important office etiquette before work: http://mistupid.com/people/page051.htm
12:40 PM Setting up my E71... It's SHINY!
Saturday 9/13
9:33 PM Live on Qik now!
[qik] - Playing with qik for the first time.
http://qik.com/video/301080
9:38 PM Live on Qik now!
http://qik.com/video/301093
9:46 PM @timbray Feel free to stop following me at any time Really. I won't take offense at all. :-)
10:10 PM 8GB microSDHC card for $24. Insane. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0012Y2LLE
11:57 PM Testing out Fring's Twitter support.
Sunday 9/14
10:06 AM Wow, the Nokia E71's integration of Flickr/Vox/Ovi/Kyte is pretty nice. Simply take a picture or video, choose upload, done. Very cool.
10:39 AM "Having read some of your interesting blogs, I'm positive that this will surely interest your blog audience." God I hate spam from PR morons
10:45 AM Had some oatmeal. It was good. It's a bit chilly inside right now, so it warmed me up. Yay.
1:22 PM I'm sure this is a naive question, but did people *really* litter like that in the 1950s like they do in Mad Men?
1:33 PM Oh, ahh... A quick blog search, and there's whole legions of fans analyzing Mad Men. Duh. I should have realized.
6:44 PM Ninja cat! http://tinyurl.com/5yqjfv
8:22 PM Watching Mad Men... Christina Hendricks and January Jones make me happy in that special way.
9:13 PM I had no idea how big Guitar Hero and Rock Band was until I was in my local Best Buy and saw they have an entire aisle dedicated to it. Wow.
10:46 PM Washing clothes for work. *cries softly*.
11:58 PM Seems like a good day to have no money in a bank, no stocks and to not own a home. Finally! I knew my financial incompetence would pay off!
Monday 9/15
7:55 AM Good Morning! Poll: In a box of donuts with plain, powdered and cinnamon which do you grab first? I go for the plain ones, surprisingly.
3:54 PM Woops.... sorry, forgot to turn the Qik notices off. :-)
8:40 PM New blog post: I (officially) joined Nokia today! http://tinyurl.com/6y5p48
Tuesday 9/16
7:34 AM It seems that Comcast gets annoyed if you don't actually pay them and cut my Internet this morning. The last bit of my "startup" experience.
7:35 AM Happily I have a neighbor who either is 1) a very crafty hacker and is logging this or 2) someone who doesn't know how to set WiFi up.
12:41 PM Is anyone else getting hammered on MSN Instant Messaging with spam? I've gotten 3 messages a day at least for the past 2 weeks or so.
4:06 PM I wish I could page through emails like I can with my News Reader... Individual emails take too long to scan.
4:08 PM @ethauvin Thanks for saying that... I was going to do the same (block unknowns) with Live Messenger to see if it would help with the spam...
9:28 PM Another thanks to "default" whoever you are... It's going to be a long 9 days until my first paycheck. :-)
10:18 PM The spacebar on my laptop squeaks. How does one oil a spacebar on a laptop without ruining it? Every space in this tweet made a noise. :-)
Wednesday 9/17
8:08 AM I have no sort of morning routine yet...
8:14 AM @ethauvin I've seen that AIG commercial recently, but hadn't made the connection! (it reminds me of the opening of that Zombie movie).
8:01 PM Home... but going to do some more work in a bit. Basic Cable seems to be working still. Yay commercials!
Thursday 9/18
7:47 AM I just realized I haven't plugged in my Nokia E71 since, I don't know, Monday? Holy crap, I had forgotten! An iPhone would be long dead.
10:32 AM Sort of watching the Mobilize conference stream. Was supposed to go, but have too much work already plus kid's Dr. appt. later. arrgh!
12:09 PM Testing Wireless IRC's Twitter support. It's not an iPhone, but it's pretty cool! And it runs in the background too. :-)
12:55 PM Banging my head against the corporate firewall.
1:59 PM Nokia Connecting Talent even tonight in Mt View! http://www.nokiaconnectingt... "Join us for an afternoon, stay with us for a career."
3:12 PM Retweeting with working URL: Nokia Connecting Talent in Mountain View 4-7 tonight! http://nokiaconnectingtalent.com
5:09 PM About to start setting up my new MacBook from work. As much as Apple annoys me, they're still better than Windows. :-)
7:26 PM I like the redesign.
7:39 PM If you stand exactly on the North or South pole, do you get dizzy?
8:40 PM I'M A PC!!!
10:07 PM Listening to "The Show" for the first time in, oh, 20 years? http://songza.com/z/7rqsh7
10:14 PM '85 kicking live... http://songza.com/z/iottzq
10:21 PM The Fed's reserves are down to less than $200B, down from $800B at the beginning of the year... Wow. I feel fear.
10:30 PM /sbin/route add -host 212.235.92.150 reject DIE SPAMMER SCUMBAGS! DIE! DIE! DIE!
10:45 PM I turned the heat on tonight... Autumn is upon us.
11:06 PM Reading about Magic Cap: http://www.mactech.com/articles/mactech/Vol.11/11.05/MakingMagic/ And generalmagic.com is a junk ad site. So sad!
Saturday 9/20
8:40 AM Watching Pokémon with the munchkin...
8:47 AM Going to re-arrange the apartment today... no need for such a central 'home office' any more.
5:05 PM Is something wrong with John Gruber, in a real way? Like does he have mental issues like Asperger's or autism or something?
9:16 PM Started reading "Akiko on the Planet Smoo" to the munchkin tonight in an attempt to find something more recent than Judy Bloom books.
Sunday 9/21
8:02 AM Happy Sunday!
9:22 PM Cooking for two is just like cooking for eight, except less people to guilt into helping clean up.
Monday 9/22
7:28 AM Good morning! I just discovered that a cheese slicer is *perfect* for making paper-thin strips of cold butter for toast. No mess!
10:51 AM Found the Fantastik taskbar for the Mac! Thank GOD. The dock is so fucking broken it's amazing. How do Apple heads stand it?!?
3:55 PM Using a Mac at a long stretch for the first time. Why is there no mouse acceleration? My wrist is killing me already.
4:21 PM @JoMangee Thanks! iMouseFix is great - it's not perfect (as it doesn't slow down very well) but it's closer. My poor wrist!
8:39 PM G1! G1! G1! OMG OMG OMG! G1! G1! G1! OMG OMG OMG. Oh, wait... I work for Nokia now. Nevermind.
8:58 PM @timbray Charles just called, and boy, he's pissed! "First that bastard butchers my SGML into XML... now he's tellin' people I'm dead?" ROFL
9:08 PM "On Sept 22, [[Tim Bray]] co-editor of [[XML]], mistakenly announced Goldfarb's death on [[Twitter]], re-igniting a deadly markup turf war."
9:18 PM I want to query my db for something - I could do it in 30 seconds with PHP, but need to learn to use Python. Learning a new language sucks.
10:03 PM Hmm... trying to figure out how to resolve a URL that's been redirected in Python. Probably have to parse the HTTP Headers manually, yeah?
10:59 PM Extracted out 455 images from my feed DB using Python, including a reg-ex expression to parse the src URL. 14 lines of code... not bad.
Tuesday 9/23
11:36 AM @ethauvin For fuck's sake, Erik, did you share enough stuff in Reader in the past 24 hours?!? ;-)
12:10 PM If Google was going to just re-invent the Danger Sidekick (syncing, sliding keyboard and all), why didn't they just go buy Danger?
3:16 PM Pandora can be scarily good sometimes, no? I mean like sucking my favorite songs out of my head good.
3:44 PM Great Wii ad: http://www.youtube.com/experiencewii
9:01 PM The words "decade old" sound horrible until you think about it. 1998 wasn't exactly the dark ages.
Wednesday 9/24
12:57 PM If you're looking for a self-hosted web-based email solution, RoundCube Webmail is spectacularly good - very clean.
1:00 PM Yotify looks very cool.
1:35 PM @meghanbeattie Hey cuz! (in the far distant use of the word). Yotifiy.com is an alert service with interesting links to web services. :-)
1:52 PM You know, any time I see a new post on Ars Technica, I get excited. I always know they write in-depth, interesting articles.
2:35 PM So Macs give you this rainbow colored spinney thing and the entire GUI just stops dead? And this is good? I want my LInux back.
7:22 PM Bank account in the red now. Payday is Friday in theory, I wonder if direct deposit will work (good), or if they'll mail me a check (bad).
7:31 PM Letterman teed off on McC! "Are we suspending the campaign because there's an economic crisis, or because the poll numbers are sliding?" WOW
Thursday 9/25
9:08 AM Good Morning!
10:16 AM Installed OpenFire on my server... Amazingly nice Jabber server, supports SSL easily, as well as transports. Yay! IM at work again!
2:27 PM Suzanne Vega "Tom's Essay" is awesome: http://tinyurl.com/5xtqdw
2:33 PM To listen to while reading the link from my last tweet: http://songza.com/z/xa4xyv :-)
8:55 PM "The most important decision you make is who you marry and have kids with," [Scott] McNealy advised - Wiser words were never spoken, ever.
9:45 PM Roomatic.com is a generic version of election.twitter.com.
9:48 PM "Washington Mutual was seized by federal regulators on Thursday night in the largest bank failure in American history." HOLY SHIT.
10:59 PM A couple years ago I remember saying to myself, "What's the deal with all this mortgage spam? Who would respond to this crap?" Well...
Friday 9/26
7:14 AM I GOT PAID! I HAVE MONEY IN MY BANK ACCOUNT! IT'S A MIRACLE!
9:25 AM Just had a sausage, egg and cheese "McGriddle" for the first time. It's as bad as it sounds. I wonder how many years it took off my life?
9:39 AM @dberube That's just sad that you know that. The reason I tried it in the first place was a coworker who kept on going on about #7! ;-)
9:40 AM It's nice to see that Crazy Ivan decided to participate in the presidential debate tonight. An Obama town hall would have been cool though.
9:42 AM @ethauvin The first thing I did, actually, was pay my phone bill so it wouldn't shut off, then fill my gas tank. *Then* McD's.
1:27 PM Wow, I didn't realize the debates started so early. 5 p.m. on the West Coast?
1:29 PM Oh, Feedburner is fucked. I was *wondering* what was going on - I was about to ssh into my server and see what was wrong with my newsreader.
1:42 PM Just spent $80+ and renewed a bunch of domain names. Beattie.info expired today. I don't use it, I don't know why I keep it...
4:12 PM Thank you "default" for being an open access point during my time of financial stress. I will no longer being needing you now. :-D
8:35 PM McCain was on speed. I'd bet money he popped some amphetemines prior to the debate. See him grind his teeth?
Saturday 9/27
12:57 AM Watch McCain grind his teeth in the split screen (it was better on TV): http://tinyurl.com/4vrx29 The man was on speed.
1:15 AM @rmccue That's an odd question. Yes, I still use OMGWTFBBQ, and no I wouldn't switch - since I wrote it, it works exactly the way I like.
1:15 AM Bed! Night!
9:37 AM Good morning! I need to clean the house today. And do laundry. Exciting!
9:52 AM @thauvin - That sounds like a marriage. I also need to re-arrange my apartment, it's still looks like a home office rather than a home.
12:21 PM Every day of my life: http://tinyurl.com/5btscp
12:48 PM I just walked outside to check the mail - it's GORGEOUS out!!! I mean, like mid-summer, July-like warm and beautiful day. Changing my shirt.
4:14 PM I just gave another $100 to Obama. So happy today to see that the independents had him winning the debate!
4:43 PM @NObama4thisMama WHO THE FUCK ARE YOU? TAKE YOUR EVIL REPUBLICAN BULLSHIT AND SHOVE IT UP YOUR IGNORANT ASS, YOU FUCKING TROLL.
4:44 PM The McCain assholes are out in force it seems.
4:45 PM Maybe elections.twitter.com isn't a good thing - all these accounts with no followers popping up spewing Republican trash. Assholes.
5:02 PM Twitter Elections needs a "minimum number of followers" option so you can weed out the McCain fucktards. They're just @ replying to everyone
6:55 PM Ahh, that makes me feel *much* better. Nothing like a quick Python script to drive the trolls crazy. :-D
Sunday 9/28
8:17 AM Good Morning... All this real job stuff and kids in school has my body clock just waking me up at 8 in the morning. Ugh!
8:30 AM Something was "stuck" in my Trash... on Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy, they *moved* the Trash to ~/.local/share/Trash from ~/.Trash ! Took me a while.
8:38 AM I still haven't cleaned.
8:40 AM Maybe this is god's way of telling me I should clean the kitchen before it becomes an environmental toxic hazard...
8:41 AM My newsreader was virtually empty this morning. I don't believe it - I think Feedburner is hosed again...
8:43 AM 28 out of the 105 feeds I follow use Feedburner (I just checked)...
9:51 AM Looking on Cragslist for a house to rent now that I have a job again. Cannot *wait* to get out of this apartment!!!!
11:06 AM After the first debate in 2004, USA Today's poll showed Kerry to have done better than Bush by 57%-25%. Makes me remember to disengage a bit
4:53 PM You know that Progressive commercial? Do women really spend $300 on a pair of shoes? (Or a big tricked-out nametag)?
Monday 9/29
12:02 PM Holy shit. Is the world ending? PANIC! PANIC! AAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!
2:41 PM I need a nap.
Tuesday 9/30
7:18 AM Good Morning! If you haven't seen the news, I might be looking for a job again soon! http://tinyurl.com/3mra2p
7:25 AM The TinyURL Firefox plugin apparently sucks.
7:53 AM I need to *not* start reading news before I go to work. :-)
10:07 AM The URL I tweeted earlier was about Nokia's CTO resigning. I work in his team so things are moving around a bit.
10:08 AM I had another Egg McMuffin this morning. Waking up early and working next to a McDonald's is going to kill me.
10:21 AM Testing out Yammer with my work email... 69 people are on it already. It's very clean, but wow... is it a bad idea to use for real.
8:54 PM Google's 2001 index makes me sad. So much opportunity lost.
October 2008
Wednesday 10/1
3:49 PM Hello Twitterites!
3:50 PM @timbray Who made you the Qik police? Why does that one particular bit of noise amongst so much bug you so much?
4:04 PM Weird... I've had the top rank in Google for my name for years, and yet old friends are still discovering me for the first time on Facebook!
4:11 PM I keep refreshing pragprog.com to see if they've published the PDF of their iPhone book yet...
4:27 PM @derricks Your name came up this past Sunday. I put my old TV up on Craigslist and a (young) EA employee bought it. You are famous it seems!
4:30 PM Going to the Churchill Club meeting this evening to see the CEO of Nokia speak. Walt Mossberg bailed though, the bastard.
4:35 PM @entangledstate NICE! Thanks!
4:41 PM I don't think I'm going to drive home before going to Sunnyvale for the 6:30 thing. Maybe I'll try to get a haircut.
Thursday 10/2
12:29 AM Saw a bit of The Departed. Fell madly in love with Vera Farmiga (again).
8:11 AM @dberube Ha! McCain's taking an "herbal supplement" to enhance memory and energy levels? That's one way to describe amphetamines I guess :-)
8:13 AM Goovejet! http://songza.com/z/cpry4s
8:17 AM Here's the "Is McCain Jacked Up?" article on Daily Kos: http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/10/1/213117/745/144/617169 See? I knew it!!!
8:30 AM It's not the clothes that make you look fat. It's the fat that makes you look fat.
3:41 PM Off to the kid's doc to replace his *BIG* arm cast with a littler one. Whew. Broken bones *suck*.
Friday 10/3
7:45 AM Woke up 3 minutes before my alarm today. Love that.
1:52 PM Was handed a Nokia 5800 this morning. Yay! Shiny new toys are FUN!
9:30 PM Munchkin's back! He went to bed pretty late - so we only read the first chapter of the Spiderwick Chronicles.
Saturday 10/4
7:45 AM Good morning! The munchkin is still sleeping, so I've got about 10 minutes of quiet before the storm. :-)
8:24 AM Watching Tom & Jerry and eating cinnamon toast. Yay Saturdays! :-)
8:35 AM Wikipedia: "The shorts are famous for some of the most violent gags ever devised in theatrical animation". Ya think?
9:54 AM It's VIOLENCE DAY here in the Beattie household! Starting with Tom & Jerry, now moving on to Wii Boxing. Next up? Molotov cocktail making!
10:19 AM The kid is working up a sweat (for real). I'm tired just watching him. :-)
Sunday 10/5
7:46 AM Happy Sunday!
8:04 AM I'm *sick* of Slashdot's feed refreshing EVERY day in my reader.
8:06 AM @vero Alex fell off the monkey bars about a month ago and broke his wrist - Not fun, but he's fine. The cast comes off in a few weeks.
8:53 AM No school tomorrow. My kid's school district is so hosed. They think every kid has an au pair or nanny or something so can offset holidays.
12:49 PM Lego Batman can be tough. It's a good thing Mahalo has a walkthrough with videos: http://tinyurl.com/4s9f2n
12:52 PM Lego Batman is pretty great - much better than Indiana Jones and almost as fun as Star Wars. Fun for me and the munchkin to do together.
10:03 PM @djco Thanks for the tip! I didn't realize that Slashdot had an Atom feed! Trying that instead... the RSS version sucks donkey balls.
10:14 PM Wow, it was a long day.
Monday 10/6
12:32 PM Obama's focus on "young voters" worries me. They don't show up at the polls. Remember Emimem's call to arms in 2004? They didn't appear.
1:13 PM Just saw the market news. Yowza.
5:38 PM DNC just sent me a mailing. It had Barack Obama's name on it, but not in the official Gotham font, so I knew it wasn't from his campaign.
10:49 PM Doing a metric shitload of laundry.
Tuesday 10/7
12:19 AM Went to Dockers.com to get a few more pair of the pants I bought in a department store the other day and the style isn't there. ARGH!!!
8:56 AM Just arrived at work and suddenly realized, "Oh, I have a real job now. This isn't just temporary." :-)
6:58 PM Making homemade beef stew for the first time. Basic ingredients: Beef, potatoes, carrots, celery, onion. We'll see if the kid eats it. :-)
9:01 PM Not bad! In fact, probably the best stew I've had in ages. Yay!
9:09 PM Catching up to the news... Obama "won" except that McCain has the quote of the evening with "that one" which is going to be another "sigh".
9:09 PM I didn't see the debate yet - was McCain on speed again?
10:19 PM Okay, saw a good chunk of the debate... McCain was dismissive again and whinging to Tom Brokaw about followups wasn't very presidential.
10:22 PM I wonder if people will take offense at the use of "that one" or be surprised/dismayed that Obama voted with Bush?
10:51 PM Heheh "This one is voting for that one." http://tinyurl.com/472gy7
11:06 PM Fastest DNS update in history: http://www.thatone08.com/
Wednesday 10/8
9:42 AM Yahoo's live quotes are crazy to watch: http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=aapl&d=t
11:26 AM Smartfood: Good. Popcorn kernels between your teeth and gums: Bad.
11:51 AM Tried to run Parallels and Windows XP on my MacBook... Mistake. It sounds like it's about to explode the fan is running so high.
11:55 AM Now the MacBook is "stuck" on high fan, even with Parallels turned off. Any clue? VirtualBox on my $600 Vaio running Ubuntu never did this!
11:56 AM Ah, wait... nevermind. As soon as I hit enter, it read my mind an started ratcheting down the fan. Crazy! Ahh. I can hear again.
3:54 PM @iankennedy Congrats Ian! Welcome aboard! (Can I say that even if I'm on week 3?) :-)
11:00 PM just started playing Amped 3 Demo. http://raptr.com/russ
Thursday 10/9
12:39 PM Totally forgot I added my XBox 360 stuff to Raptr...
12:42 PM Holy shit, look at the Dow.
1:23 PM Dear GM: Fuck you very much for repossessing my car this winter. Twice. Love your stock price.
Friday 10/10
1:33 PM I am going to tap dance on the front lawn in my underwear with a balloon animal tied to my head and a pineapple in each hand!
Saturday 10/11
9:42 AM Who turned off the heat?
10:35 PM I just had the most useless day ever. I need a hobby.
Sunday 10/12
8:30 PM I've decided to dedicate the rest of my life to becoming Don Draper.
Monday 10/13
2:39 PM Hey all, I'm looking for an interesting Silicon Valley-based blogger to come in and speak to Nokia c-level execs next Tues. PING ME!
10:37 PM I can't wait for the election to be over (and obviously for Obama to win). I'm going to be on pins and needles for the next three weeks.
Tuesday 10/14
10:16 PM Go Hayden!
Wednesday 10/15
8:50 AM I press trigger, I don't press people button. Nobody chat come face me with somethin.
3:35 PM Waiting for the gods of fecundity to bless me with a bounty of divine productivity and focus.
5:14 PM I'm having a day.
5:20 PM I've been mind boggled by this video all day: http://tinyurl.com/3gdv8u
Thursday 10/16
10:11 AM It's nice to see the word "volatile" being used outside the context of my personality.
12:04 PM ACORN: Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now. A community-based organization that advocates for low-income families.
12:17 PM I have a Yahoo! Profile... (about freakin' time!) http://profiles.yahoo.com/russellbeattie
8:42 PM Watching Globe Trekkers... I ♥ Megan McCormick.
Friday 10/17
8:18 AM Buenas dias!
8:18 AM Or actually, buenos...
10:59 AM This was a triumph. I'm making a note here: HUGE SUCCESS.
11:31 AM Messing with Lotus Notes at work for the first time in almost a decade. Lots as changed, lots is still the same.
3:12 PM Have a weekend everyone!
Saturday 10/18
8:24 AM Cinnamon toast and Saturday morning cartoons... A perfect match.
8:39 AM A morning of Battleship is ahead. D5! HIT! You sunk my battleship!!! (My kid has never seen that commercial... damn Tivo generation!)
Sunday 10/19
5:19 PM Fennec is completely unusable on an actual N810...
9:57 PM Wendy? Yes Lisa... Is the water warm enough? Yes Lisa... Shall we begin? Yes Lisa.
Monday 10/20
9:43 AM Happy Monday!
1:08 PM Coworker brought in a pumpkin full of Smarties today... SUGAR RUSH!!!!!!
2:27 PM Question: What's the number of unique users that Google or Yahoo! gets a day? Have they published that info?
Wednesday 10/22
7:15 AM Good morning! Is it really Wednesday?!?
7:24 AM Any advanced form of breakfast is indistinguishable from desert.
9:24 AM "15% of Americans get their TV from over-the-air broadcasts". That's a lot of people... a lot more than I would have thought.
12:30 PM Can you buy a G1 without a contract?
2:29 PM T-mobile Mt. View is sold out of G1s. The jackass on the phone told me they had plenty, I drove down and found out he was wrong. Duh.
9:07 PM "Wow, Daddy it looks just like a cookbook!" - High praise for my angel hair pasta topped with tomato sauce simmered with ground beef.
Thursday 10/23
10:15 AM Just saw the Nature video of x-rays being generated from peeling tape. Freaky! http://tinyurl.com/5lcrzq
Friday 10/24
8:46 AM Oogadeeboogadeeboogadee.
2:27 PM Beware the chicken!
Saturday 10/25
2:27 PM @davewiner has me thinking of heading down to Central Computers for an EEE PC: http://tinyurl.com/5ce3qh Hmm....
Sunday 10/26
9:18 AM When is the time change?? My two "atomic" clocks are off by an hour this morning. Aren't they set by a radio signal, and is that wrong?
9:21 AM "Daylight saving time for North America will be 2 am the first Sunday in November 2008 in which you put your clocks back an hour."
1:08 PM The poll trends are ruining my day.
1:38 PM Looking for houses to rent in Atherton is a good reality check on how rich some people are. $10,000 a month?!? To *rent*!??!
4:00 PM "update-manager -d" Yes, please start my upgrade. Hello Ibex! :-)
4:39 PM Quicken online is pretty freakin' useless.
5:40 PM Upgraded to Intrepid Ibex. W00t!
6:12 PM Yeah! Nautilus in Ibex has "compact view"! Finally! Been waiting a few years for that one. :-)
9:24 PM I can't believe I still have laundry to do tonight.
9:33 PM Mad Men was disappointing... At this point I pretty much despise Betty and what happened to the Dick Whitman stuff?
Monday 10/27
4:00 AM Welcome to my insomnia. Please keep your hands inside the car at all times.
9:25 PM I wonder how to get tickets to the Presidential Inauguration? My birthday is January 20th, so I'm seriously considering going...
9:58 PM I chose not to choose life. I chose somethin' else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who needs reasons when you've got heroin?
Tuesday 10/28
8:48 AM I need to get moving.
12:52 PM The squirming coil of sunset I keep within my reach, tried yesterday to get away and hitchhiked to the beach...
3:50 PM Feedburner is just hosed... nothing updates until the end of the day, then *bam* 300 unread items.
Wednesday 10/29
7:12 AM "The driver has obviously worked this out because he has placed a large puppet in the passenger seat." http://tinyurl.com/6dukw8 LOL!
9:34 AM Google's home page just came up in Finnish... took me a second to figure out WTF was going on.
1:59 PM Just re-added Twitter integration with Facebook... Surprisingly many people pay attention to Facebook statuses. Whodathunk?
2:06 PM I wonder if I should go through and start clearing out people I don't really know from Facebook. It'd make it a bit more useful...
7:23 PM Skimming through Obama's infomercial on YouTube... http://tinyurl.com/6oj6dp
8:47 PM Obama is the Steve Jobs of politics...
8:54 PM Just broke into the Halloween candy. If you've been waiting for someone else to go first, feel free to start in on yours. Mmmm... Reese's!
Thursday 10/30
7:45 AM Good morning starshine, the Earth says hello... Gliddy glub gloopy, Nibby nabby noopy, La la la lo lo
11:33 AM I didn't wear a costume to work today. My coworkers are shunning me. Shunned!!
10:30 PM Mountain Dew is now going to be called Mtn Dew... Generation Text has taken over the Pepsi Generation.
10:36 PM I don't know where the sun beams end and the star lights begin, it's all a mystery...
Friday 10/31
12:16 PM It's Daddy Week!!! W00t!
November 2008
Saturday 11/1
7:49 AM Goood morning. Post Halloween morning eating pancakes and watching Star Wars...
8:06 AM "That wizard is just a crazy old man." Wait... if he's a wizard...
8:10 AM @vero I have a 6 year old, so I was out doing the trick-or-treating... The neighborhood nearby gets slammed. 350+ kids one said.
8:25 AM "These aren't the droids you're looking for." Over 30 years geeks have made every other line in the original Star Wars a cliche.
9:41 AM Rainy Saturdays rule... video games without guilt!
10:23 AM Just played the Mirror's Edge demo on XBox 360. Pretty cool stuff. I've always wanted to run around rooftops as a small Asian woman.
1:42 PM Eating all my son's Butterfingers.
7:27 PM I put on the "contemporary instrumental" channel for dinner background music, and it was playing Christmas music!!!! 8 weeks ahead?!?
9:09 PM Almost done with book 4 of the Spiderwick Chronicles... Daddy week rocks! Munchkin is now in bed, and I'm (still) eating his candy.
Sunday 11/2
6:49 AM Someone needs to explain to my child what it means to "sleep in"...
1:37 PM Man, the time change is really wacking my sense of time today. I can't believe it's only 1:30... It feels like it should be at least 4 p.m.
8:31 PM Munchkin's in bed... Wow the weekend went fast!
Monday 11/3
9:18 AM At work interacting with adults for the first time in 48 hours... so weird.
9:58 AM You may ask yourself, "Where does that highway go to?"
11:24 AM http://politics.betfair.com/ Hardcore bettors predicting the elections... pretty amazing.
4:39 PM Daylight Savings needs to be banned.
Tuesday 11/4
11:27 AM Brought my Shure in-ear headphones to work. Rocking out to very loud Daft Punk radio on Pandora... Digital Love baby!
1:02 PM THE SUSPENSE IS KILLING ME!!!!!! POLLS CLOSE IN 2 HOURS!!!!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2:35 PM It's murder on the dance floor... but you better not steal the moves, DJ. I'll burnt this goddamn house right down.
3:40 PM My Mom and Dad wouldn't tell me who they voted for in NH... this means of course they split their votes. Lesson on keeping a long marriage.
4:41 PM At the barber watching the kid get a cut while CNN blares on the TV.
6:31 PM YES!!!!!
6:37 PM I'm a raving idiot tonight... If I didn't have to make dinner, I'd be in the corner hugging my legs, rocking back and forth and crying...
8:00 PM PRESIDENT OBAMA!!!!!!!!!
Wednesday 11/5
7:19 AM Good Morning!! Still ecstatic about Obama, but bummed about 8. WTF California?!?
9:15 AM I want O's sunglasses: http://tinyurl.com/6dqt9g
10:15 AM I DON'T NEED A NETBOOK!!!! (But I really want one anyways, just to have it. Crazy-ass technolust...)
12:20 PM Renegade, Renaissance, Radiance and Rosebud... CUTE!
12:54 PM If Happy Fun Ball begins to smoke, get away immediately. Seek shelter and cover head.
3:41 PM Checking out Mary Meeker's Web 2.0 2008 slides: http://www.morganstanley.com/institutional/techresearch/
Thursday 11/6
9:39 AM Shh! I'm writing! Write, write, write, write, write. See? That's me writing. Yep, write, write, write. Write, write, write, write. SHUTUP!
10:36 AM Coolness from my company - Nokia Friend View: http://friendview.nokia.com/ Use your Ovi.com account (in case that's not clear)
Friday 11/7
8:33 AM Buenos días!
9:20 AM "I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by." -Douglas Adams
12:12 PM Wow, watching the press conference. It's so great to see Obama in his new role. It's real! He's going to be the President!! So cool.
1:49 PM God I love Nautilus' new 'compact view'. That alone is worth the upgrade to Ibex.
2:06 PM Since FriendFeed now has IM, and FF can interact with Twitter, and Twitter can update my Facebook... Maybe I should start using FF again...
2:11 PM Okay, so I'm using FriendFeed's IM to post a message, which should eventually update Facebook via Twitter... Testing... http://ff.im/-bvp
2:12 PM Wow, it was an instant update... Nice! Now how do I re-import my Twitter friends into FriendFeed again? http://ff.im/-bw3
2:16 PM oh-oh, I'm getting a Twitter 'echo' back into FriendFeed... http://ff.im/-byv
2:17 PM For now I added an "imaginary" friend to FriendFeed with my Twitter RSS feed... Someone *seriously* needs to clean... http://ff.im/-bzj
2:54 PM Yeah, the Twitter/FF friend list disconnect is impossible to fix. Adding an imaginary friend didn't work - it... re: http://ff.im/bOR
3:00 PM Ahh, I see! So I made a new FriendFeed list called "IM", switched to it for IM updates, and am adding/subtracting... http://ff.im/-bYQ
3:01 PM I wonder how much FriendFeed paid for the http://ff.im domain. Awesomely small. http://ff.im/-bZR
3:50 PM Wow, I had no idea there was a .asia TLD! Where the hell have I been?
4:00 PM Alaska's vote is totally fucked: http://shannynmoore.wordpress.com/ Why isn't the MSM all over this? So weird!
4:24 PM Daddy Week ended today... I'm officially in a bad mood for the next 7 days. You've been warned.
Saturday 11/8
10:51 AM That's right neighbors, I'm playing Call of Duty: World at War at top volume and full bass. Suck it.
1:06 PM Okay, that was fun. I should probably shower now.
Sunday 11/9
11:15 AM Google screwed up their Blog Search - now any site that updates and has me on their blogroll shows up in my ego feed. Dumbasses.
12:21 PM Just ordered a TiVo HD, finally. Took me a while to decide if I really wanted to watch *more* TV, but decided that I wanted *efficient* TV.
1:52 PM uShare doesn't seem to want to recognize eth0. Not sure how to convince it...
8:01 PM I haven't spoken to anyone since Friday at 8 a.m. I just ordered pizza... hopefully I'll remember how to communicate with the delivery guy.
8:34 PM Turns out grunting and pointing is a sufficiently adequate way of communicating with the pizza guy! Who knew?
9:28 PM Just saw the self-referential iPhone Shazam app commercial... Very amusing.
Monday 11/10
12:55 PM @JamesPearce You could use Mowser technology to do the same thing: http://tinyurl.com/6zx7um
12:57 PM I used the word "skooch" today. It's been a while.
3:54 PM Housing scams have moved to Craigslist... Morons advertising foreclosed homes in the rentals section. Every. Day. And many are fake - why?!
3:55 PM New Pixar trailer for "UP" - http://www.apple.com/trailers/disney/up/ Fun!
9:58 PM Just caught a repeat of the Top Gear episode where Sabine Schmitz does the Nurburgring in a van. She's like my dream woman!
10:00 PM Sabine kicking ass: http://tinyurl.com/6xmj3k
Tuesday 11/11
8:26 AM Unggh. There comes a time in life to buy a really nice toaster. I think that time for me is today.
10:39 AM Hungry. And it's not even 11 yet. And I had toast this morning.
1:42 PM Looks like I picked the wrong day to quit sniffing glue.
4:30 PM I love the fact that "Eureka!" is the official California state motto.
7:05 PM Ooh! "Engelbart and dawn of Interactive Computing" at SRI on Dec. 9th: 40th Anniversary of The Demo: http://www.sri.com/engelbart-event.html
7:13 PM Dear Everyone On Twitter: @replies only work if they're the *very* first word in the tweet, and *don't* work for more than one person.
8:11 PM I wish there was a Thai place that delivers in Palo Alto /Menlo Park. (If you know of one, tell me!)
Wednesday 11/12
4:11 PM Doing a little schadenfreude happy dance after seeing GOOG's stock price. >:-)
5:41 PM I seem to have gotten through the day without a nervous breakdown. It was touch and go there for a while. (Day's not over yet tho, hmmm...)
10:56 PM 11/12/2008 http://ff.im/-2dW5
11:16 PM Interesting, I forgot I told FriendFeed to update Twitter on Flickr posts...
Thursday 11/13
7:27 AM Is that a foghorn I hear? I didn't realize I was so close to the bay. Looking up all I see is blue sky...
2:01 PM The global economic crisis doesn't seem to have affected house rental prices in my area yet. Go back to Kansas already you people!
9:44 PM Avoiding cleaning the house... My brother arrives tomorrow for a weekend visit. Maybe I'll make him clean the bathroom for his meals.
Friday 11/14
12:05 AM Please note, the pregnant man's name is Beatie not Beattie. Thank you.
12:12 AM I should go to bed. I really should have cleaned the apartment. I really need to see Quantum of Solace. I should turn the TV off.
12:32 AM New Watchmen trailer: http://tinyurl.com/5tsjjf
9:16 AM Daddy Week starts today @ 3 o'clock! W00t! Let the celebrations begin!
9:19 AM My brother's flight arrives in 40 minutes. I should probably take a shower and get dressed. Or not. Siblings exist to be abused, no?
11:16 PM Earlier: "Daddy! Stupid Uncle David called me a butthead!" (He said while giggling). The sound of family. I wasn't sure who to yell at.
Saturday 11/15
11:47 AM Getting some work done while Uncle Dave and the munchkin play Pokemon cards.
6:09 PM My brother just admitted to me he hasn't seen Casino Royale after I mentioned Quantum of Solace. Whaaat?!? Are you sure we're related?
6:11 PM Saturday is Spaghetti night!
8:57 PM Uncle David is reading a Pooh story (the one where they move Eeyore's house) to the munchkin. A little late tonight, but that's okay.
Sunday 11/16
4:28 PM 11/16/2008 http://ff.im/-3IEi
5:16 PM Weekend's ending quick: Bro's flying back home, the munchkin is busying himself, and I'm in front of the PC for a few minutes before dinner.
9:44 PM I hate laundry and it seems the feeling is mutual.
10:57 PM Watching the Lee Atwater story on Frontline while doing laundry. Completely frightening to see the early history of the Bush campaign(s).
Monday 11/17
11:30 AM I can still smell the onion on my fingers from making Saturday's dinner. It's not from lack of soap and scrubbing, believe me. URGH!
12:29 PM Interesting, several responses about rubbing my hands on stainless steel to get the smell out. Trying it now.
6:15 PM Jerry Yang gave up... Damn! I was really pulling for him.
6:17 PM Making dinner. No onions.
10:13 PM I made stir fry tonight. It was edible, but tasteless. Well, it tasted like rice, chicken and vegetables in a bowl. Not sure what to do...
Tuesday 11/18
12:23 PM Nokia modified it's outlook for 2008 from 1.26 billion shipped devices to 1.24 billion. Nokia's rounding error is like other's market share.
3:44 PM I just discovered that my office-mate Brett is squeamish when it comes to things like neti pots. Who knew!?
9:17 PM W00t! Ted Stevens lost! Senate's at 58 Democrats and counting. Also fucks Palin's senatorial ambitions as well. Very nice!
10:24 PM Retweeting? http://ff.im/-4S2H
11:02 PM I'm going to bed. Please tell all the other night owls I'm sorry.
Wednesday 11/19
9:29 AM Installed NXE before leaving for work... Pretty nice change. Made my Avatar, wandered around. Lots of connection issues.
1:44 PM Listening to Groovejet (If This Ain't Love) on Pandora (Sophie Ellis-Bextor rocks)... Supposedly the first song to be played on an iPod.
1:48 PM @JamesPearce Google mobile ads are doing that much better than AdMob's!? Interesting... My entrepreneurial spider-sense is tingling...
1:52 PM I WANT MORE BASS!!!! (Not the fish, the sound...) Any ideas how to squeeze it out of a Mac? Pandora sounds tinny.
6:20 PM Don't feel like cooking tonight... Just ordered Pizza My Heart home delivery. Cheese pizza plus a green salad for the munchkin and I.
9:40 PM Played Pokemon with the munchkin tonight for the first time. He was making a real effort to read the cards, which is very cool to see.
10:07 PM I *LOVE* my new TiVo! Series 3 is much more advanced than my old one... dual tuner, YouTube, etc. It's much faster too.
Thursday 11/20
10:38 AM At work, completely oblivious as usual to the schedule of events around me. Oh! Look, there are people here!
10:40 AM I 100% agree with Joel about Malcom Gladwell: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2008/11/18.html
11:30 AM Facebook has reached a tipping point in my life, with my cousin, aunt, neice, and several neighbors all adding me within the past few weeks.
12:02 PM "I used to rule the world... seas would rise when I gave the word. Now in the morning I sleep alone... sweep the streets I used to own."
12:38 PM Oh, wow... I hadn't seen that dotMobi launched their "Instant Mobilizer": http://tinyurl.com/6y6whd Very nice. :-)
1:30 PM Should Nokia buy Yahoo!? http://tinyurl.com/5ejlfy A thought I've had before.
2:40 PM Listening to Daft Punk radio on Last.fm: http://tinyurl.com/6nt926
Friday 11/21
7:50 AM I'm munchkinless again and not at all happy about it. You know what sucks? Everything.
9:49 AM I'm sure Peter Thiel is a nice person, but he's *so* full of shit in his interview with Business Week. 2-3 years of cash? Ba-lo-ney.
1:07 PM The "slug" used in the URL of this Yahoo! News story is as good as the story itself: http://tinyurl.com/58p27c :-D
1:11 PM I have no idea what the fuck I'm going to do with myself this weekend.
10:02 PM Watching an old Wall Street Warriors on TiVo... They're bummed because SanDisk dropped to $37. It's now at $5.63... oof.
Saturday 11/22
10:44 AM Good morning. Surprisingly, I did not obtain a life overnight. I need pants, maybe I'll go do that today.
1:33 PM Playing Call of Duty: World at War with 181,000 of my closest friends...
Sunday 11/23
1:42 AM Torrented the Watchmen graphic novels in .cbr format which I'm now reading on my N800. Never read it before, but the movie looks great.
2:27 PM I wish they'd make Irish Spring aftershave to go with my Irish Spring soap and Irish Spring SpeedStick. And Irish Spring cologne too...
11:38 PM Watching a documentary on the JFK assassination: I've decided once and for all that I believe Oswald acted alone.
Monday 11/24
9:22 AM Overslept... I think I'm not going to shave this week.
1:36 PM I had no idea how useful drop.io, yousendit, etc. were until I worked for a company that limits email attachment size.
Tuesday 11/25
9:33 AM Moving slowly this morning...
2:53 PM I didn't shave again this morning. 4 days... My beard is pretty much as grey as my head. And very itchy.
3:43 PM Huh, I got an email that I'm on the new Foo Campers mailing list. I coulda sworn I was an O'Reilly persona non grata.
9:17 PM Novel idea: A real UFO flies by Jupiter, caught on film, but never to be seen again, ever. How does this shape the course of human history?
10:21 PM Watching a TiVoed Nova about saving harbor seals... But the most interesting part is the veterinarian who has heterochromia of the eyes.
Wednesday 11/26
8:40 AM No school today! Hanging out with the munchkin at home. Daddy week +2, w00t!
11:49 AM The munchkin has a little friend over and they're playing Lego Batman. Such a great game... It forces cooperation to have fun. Perfect!
2:45 PM Video games, then pizza while watching Spiderwick, and now Legos. It couldn't be a better rainy day if The Cat in the Hat himself walked in.
Thursday 11/27
1:30 AM INSOMNIA. I think I need a cup of coffee to put me to sleep...
1:51 AM ABCDEF Cookie Monster! http://tinyurl.com/5fsn36 The end is *so* cute! Check out the related vids too...
8:38 AM Happy T-Day! Hanging out with the munchkin eating breakfast. I hate that the Macy's parade is time delayed in CA!
7:08 PM Post dinner activities... munchkin's on Wii Fit burning some extra energy, and I'm in a semi-coma watching. God bless technology.
10:15 PM Breaking out the leftovers...
Friday 11/28
10:19 AM Personally, I think Custard Pie is a perfectly acceptable breakfast substitute. It has eggs in it, no?
9:35 PM I need to do laundry and dishes. The chances of either actually being done tonight is close to nil.
Saturday 11/29
3:34 PM 'A Christmas Story' is 25 years old this year! Insane, I saw it in the theater as a kid.
Sunday 11/30
8:45 AM Good morning! Watching Underdog with the munchkin! Have no fear, Underdog is here!
9:22 AM Tivo mobile (http://m.tivo.com) is awesome - better than using the main site for scheduling.
9:29 AM I have no idea what Nokia is announcing in ~38 hours... http://events.nokia.com/countdown/ . Maybe it's on the intranet? Hmm...
12:42 PM Watched a bit of "Side Out" last night, and now I have the urge to move Southern California... take up residence on Manhattan Beach.
4:34 PM Back from a playdate at the park with the munchkin - 70+ degrees and sunny on November 30th, very nice.
10:11 PM Watching a TiVoed Top Gear where they drive drunk people home, putting their little scooters in the trunk. Hysterical!
10:16 PM Holy crap - looking up info on Wall Street Warriors I just found out that Mojo HD is going dark on Dec. 1st. i.e. tomorrow. Bummer!
10:31 PM TiVo may be too efficient... I just cranked through 10 shows in about an hour. Maybe I'll go to bed early. :-)
11:06 PM I love when I run across older successful Silicon Valley software companies I've *never* heard of before like Informatica. ETL? Um, Ok...
11:12 PM Oh crap, I forgot about checking out the Jupiter/Venus/Moon alignment thing earlier...
December 2008
Monday 12/1
8:30 AM Good morning! Munchkin is off to school and as I've given up trying to get us both ready at the same time, I need to get moving.
1:43 PM I DO NOT NEED A NETBOOK!!!!! NO! DOWN! PUT YOUR WALLET AWAY!
6:26 PM Flirting with the clerk at Lenscrafters... until I mentioned Obama, and she frowned. Really!?!? Minimum-wage Republicans bewilder me.
6:28 PM Interesting, Forbes doesn't know what Nokia is launching either. :-) http://tinyurl.com/5q8o9v
6:29 PM Okay, checked my email and updated Twitter. Time to make some dinner. Pork and veges tonight, then back to get the munchkin's new glasses.
9:34 PM I just had a brief moment of clarity - Total Perspective Votex style - happily it passed before I had a total nervous breakdown.
9:59 PM Moment of Clarity http://ff.im/-bk4e
Tuesday 12/2
7:47 AM Morning.... Ahh, we launched the N97... Looking at the reactions now: http://search.twitter.com/search?q=n97
9:03 AM Today's song: http://songza.com/z/aqbhpm
10:52 AM Just confirmed my hotel at CES... staying at Planet Hollywood. It'll be my first trip to Vegas (baby!).
10:40 PM Suddenly realizing I have no idea what Facebook Connect actually does or why. Another in a series of not grokking social networking.
Wednesday 12/3
8:16 AM Don't call it a comeback, I been here for years! Rockin my peers and puttin suckas in fear!
8:16 AM BLOW! How ya like me now?
8:17 AM Or is that BLAAAAAUUUUW?
8:37 AM My theory on the increased sales on Fri/Mon: After not spending for a month, Americans aren't used to having money in the bank.
11:32 AM I hate the fucking beachball... It really should be called "POS X" instead.
2:29 PM I need a double cup of espresso and some adrenochrome... ("... that stuff makes pure mescaline seem like ginger beer.")
11:43 PM The medical community needs to start promoting the idea that placebos work even if you know they are placebos. Then they will... q.e.d.
Thursday 12/4
8:48 AM Too bad about Techmeme's new editor. Personally I think any ex-employee of Valleywag should be blacklisted permanently from the Valley.
9:04 AM I turned on predictive text on my E71 with full keyboard, not thinking it would be useful, but I was wrong. It's definitely helpful!
9:27 AM "Nokia downgrades market forecast for 2nd time". Ruh-roh Shaggy.
11:17 AM How do you people live without an N800!? Do you wear bowler caps or hoops skirts too? (My version of Nokia evangelism...)
2:00 PM Eating a Sprinkles lemon cupcake. Mmmm... I have a cupcake, and you didn't get none... Want a lick? PSYCHE!
2:36 PM If you've sent me an email, and are waiting for any sort of prompt reply. I apologize as that obviously is not happening.
6:53 PM "Daddy, why is the bottom of your eyes purple?" Oof! When the munchkin notices your bags, you know you're tired. Pizza and movie night!
10:45 PM My throat is sore, glands swollen. I *knew* I was coming down with something today. I was way too wrecked. Going to bed NOW.
Friday 12/5
9:00 AM Dropped the munchkin at school... The extra long Daddy Week ends today. Which means I'm in an extra bad mood. And I'm sick. Beware.
5:14 PM Spent all day in a haze. Finally getting motivated and it's dark out. Being sick sucks.
5:15 PM Wow, could I have been more wrong about the App store? 300MM downloads and increasing daily? Insane.
5:17 PM 533k jobs lost? Wow. I think I'm going to put my house-rental hunting on hold for a bit and stay in the apartment for a few more months.
5:19 PM My project this weekend is replacing the 160GB drive in my TiVo HD with something considerably bigger (depending on what's cheap at Frys).
5:28 PM @jonesabi My solution to that problem is to buy a couple insanely generic domains, like "foozik" that you can apply to new ideas. It works!
5:37 PM I could have sworn I bought a new thermometer. The only one I can find is from Spain. 37.54 Celcius...
Saturday 12/6
9:31 AM Good morning! Anyone for golf? I have a tonsil that's just about the right size...
11:58 AM Hmmm. At one point does Vitamin C become less helpful and more toxic? I took like 1500mg this morning...
12:19 PM Lying on the couch watching Kill Bill Vol. 1. I didn't like it before, but suddenly this morning, I think it's fantastic!
2:55 PM I think Microsoft is misunderstanding "geek chic". A freakin' DOS t-shirt?! Who is going to wear that with any sort of pride?
9:32 PM "Preparing the service update. This may take up to an hour, possibly longer." My TiVo after I plugged in a new 500GB "DVR Expander". Joy.
10:48 PM Okay, my TiVo won't boot if connected to the "official" $150 expander. Hooray... It's always fun to return stuff to Fry's (not).
Sunday 12/7
11:13 AM Happy Neo-Con Day! Remember, enemies are everywhere and could attack without notice at any moment! Be vigilant!
11:25 AM I bought a Dyna-flex "powerball" yesterday at Fry's... I'm addicted to it already. But my hands and arms HURT from playing and I can't stop!
1:31 PM Can't... stop... playing... with... powerball. Wrists hurt, arms hurt, fingers hurt. Ow. Ow. Must keep spinning. Ow.
10:36 PM I'm such an idiot... I think I sprained my wrist for real. Hehe. What a moron.
Monday 12/8
9:02 AM Good morning... just learned that +86 is country code of China.
11:26 AM It dawns on me that I'm going to have to do some Christmas shopping soon.
1:36 PM Interesting... just got an email about "Walking With Dinosaurs" at the HP Pavilion. I wonder if the munchkin would be into it? Hmm...
3:08 PM Very exciting... I just left a comment on nokiausers.net clarifying a slide I made. So strange being on this side of the fence. :-)
9:27 PM I wonder if this tweet will be eligible for a Pulitzer... Probably needs something pithy. Dorothy Parker would have been a great twitterer.
Tuesday 12/9
12:26 AM Answering a work email from China on my phone... international companies are fun. :-)
12:27 AM I should go to bed now, but I'm not tired. At all. I need to start drinking. Alcohol.
8:07 AM "These are a few of my favorite things..." http://tinyurl.com/55p56s
1:36 PM Google's "Native Client"... Wasn't that called ActiveX? And wasn't it a bad idea?
2:36 PM Every Calvin and Hobbes! http://www.marcellosendos.ch/comics/ch/ I can't believe it's still online.
7:37 PM New Horizons is the fastest spaceship ever launched... it took 6 hours to reach the moon, but will take 8 years to get to Pluto. Insane!
Wednesday 12/10
9:43 AM It is by will alone I set my mind in motion.
12:12 PM I AM TEXT MONKEY! HEAR ME SCREECH! OOOOH OOOH OOH AHHH AAAAH AAAH AAAAH AAAAAAH!!!!
12:53 PM If you just got laid off from Yahoo!, here's a tip: Don't miss those COBRA payments... they'll drop you like a bad habit. (Trust me.) #yahoo
12:56 PM I can't believe it's 1 p.m. already. ARRGGGHHh...
3:07 PM Listening to Imogen Heap radio: http://tinyurl.com/6gchcg
10:04 PM I'm having a thousand dollar day.
Thursday 12/11
9:20 AM Where the hell are my glasses?
10:36 AM You know, m.delicious.com would be vastly more useful to most mobile users with a transcoder like Mowser integrated into it. Just saying.
12:47 PM Choose life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television.
9:56 PM I still have no idea where my glasses are.
9:57 PM My TiVo recorded The Breakfast Club for me. (My TiVo loves me!)
Friday 12/12
8:14 AM You must have done something with my glasses, because they're not where I usually leave them. They didn't just walk away.
9:34 AM Daddy Week starts TODAY!!! Just got back from the munchkin's Holiday sing-a-long... He's not shy about belting it out, that's for sure.
12:21 PM Oh, here they are! On my desk under a pile of papers. Well why didn't you just tell me that?!?
9:13 PM House is warm, food is stocked, munchkin's in bed. Life is good!
Saturday 12/13
11:10 AM I like the holidays, but I've *always* hated decorating the damn tree. I have to set ours up today (I waited for Alex). URGHHh!
11:39 AM Twitter has stopped updating Facebook. (Well, probably this message will get through just to make it seem like I'm crazy).
6:13 PM Got the munchkin a Nerf basketball hoop. (Indoor exercise before there was such things as Wii Fit.) He's been at it for 45 minutes now :-)
6:18 PM Nerf hoops are much more intelligently constructed since I was a kid. My skillz, however, remain as sharp. Off the wall, over the cabinet...
6:23 PM "You see son, if you run towards the bed from the left, you'll be able to get a better lift off the corner for that 360 windmill dunk..."
Sunday 12/14
6:46 AM Does the moon look upside down when viewed from the southern hemisphere?
8:44 AM So... If you're standing on the moon looking at the Earth, which side is up?
11:22 AM The moon questions stemmed from part of this Wikipedia article... http://tinyurl.com/5ubbqr
2:11 PM "Shoes thrown at Bush". Argh! He missed! Such a golden opportunity! If you're going to jail anyways, make it count man! Aim for the body!
2:17 PM OMG, watching the Twitter stream in Roomatic is hysterical: http://roomatic.com/BUSH "Cat-like reflexes" has been noted more than once. :-)
6:05 PM This weekend just *disappeared*. Time flies when you're having fun, but that was just ridiculous.
6:12 PM One more week, and then it starts getting light again. Yay!
Monday 12/15
8:46 AM SO COOL! Just heard a report on the radio about Nokia Research's Mobile Millenium project. http://www.kqed.org/epArchive/R812150633
1:03 PM Every day at 1 p.m. I invariably realize that the shit I wanted to get done "in the morning" isn't done. We need a law against 1 o'clock.
2:23 PM I'm in a little bubble of mental hell at the moment trying to get myself to write something ingenious. I need a muse.
7:31 PM The kid is so weird. He prefers green peas (bleh!) over kernel corn. If he keeps this up, I'm going to seriously consider a DNA test...
9:48 PM Time, time, time... See what's become of me, while I looked around, for my possibilities...
11:23 PM I love Kellogg's Corn Pops. Is there any better late night snack? I say NO!
Tuesday 12/16
8:20 AM Patiently for my son to get dressed. He hums a little song while he's doing it, which is cute. I still have to double-check tags... :-)
9:25 AM We need to get rid of the Electoral College. It's insane that it was only today that the actual Constitutionally-recognized votes were cast.
10:04 PM Whoa. Way too much caffeine today. I'm wired like a top right now.
10:10 PM I just left a comment on Robert X. Cringely's new blog asking why he doesn't just write under his real name now... We'll see if approves it.
10:20 PM Robin Williams: "Obama is an old Kenyan word for 'Kennedy', God bless us."
11:47 PM Crap! I haven't bought my parents their presents yet! Amazon.com don't fail me now!
Wednesday 12/17
12:32 AM Okeedokee. That was pretty expensive... But hey, I'm doing my part to help the economy. Still haven't done the munchkin's gifts yet (yikes!)
1:31 AM Just discovered that the little girl from Escape to Witch Mountain is Paris Hilton's aunt. My mind can't compute it.
1:34 AM I need to stop using my n810 to look up random thoughts while dozing off, I'll never get to sleep.
8:06 AM Has anyone created a local version of Twitter for neighborhoods and apartment buildings yet?
8:47 AM Holy mother of... Wow is it cold out today. I hadn't seen the news...
1:08 PM It's 1 p.m. again. ARRRGHHH!!!!
2:44 PM My aunt got my Mom to sign up for Facebook and add me as a friend (Hi Mom!). Everyone watch your language now, got it?
8:03 PM Ooh, Maemo OS2008 update. Not sure what it does yet...
Thursday 12/18
8:01 AM Me and the munchkin are moving like slugs today. "Tardy? I don't feel tardy..."
10:43 AM It must be a Thursday. I never got the hang of Thursdays...
11:33 AM Katamari Damacy on the iPhone?!?!?! I may have to get an iPod Touch to ease my guilt at using it.
2:43 PM Text KETTLE to 90999. Help The Salvation Army - every text message puts $5 in the kettle.
4:59 PM My brother just called and told me that Batman Lego stuff has been discontinued and is sold out everywhere. OH NO!!!!!
5:01 PM Oh, wait... Amazon has it. *whew*.
5:09 PM Ahh, available on Amazon through third parties for extortionary prices... doh!
5:11 PM Scratch that Salvation Army thing, they actively discriminate against GLBTers. Text "TOY" to 90999 instead (toys for tots).
7:35 PM Watching Polar Express with the munchkin at top volume. What's a runaway train without lots and lots of bass? Uncanny Valley FTW!
7:43 PM Here we only got one rule... Never, ever let it cool! Keep it cooking in the pot... Soon we got hot chocolate!
9:09 PM That would totally rock if Santa was a fascist dictator.
Friday 12/19
7:42 AM Another Nokia software release? Maemo, Conversations, Image Exchange, Messaging, etc. Wow. Behold the power of the "IIP"...
11:38 AM Body's at work. Brain's on vacation. Or asleep? Hard to tell.
11:40 AM Man, I wish this great book list came out before today, I would have told everyone it was my wish list: http://tinyurl.com/4p6qbn
1:25 PM @timbray "I’ve never actually had a 'smart' or otherwise fancy phone before" ABOUT. FUCKING. TIME. :-D
2:24 PM Daddy week ended today. No munchkin for the next few days, but happily it's a short week because of the holiday.
7:32 PM About to wander over to Toys R Us. I'm guessing a Friday night will be slower than the normal holiday mad house. We'll see.
9:41 PM Yeah, Toys R Us was packed, and the staff stole my cart *twice* and started putting the toys back. WTF?!?!
Saturday 12/20
1:10 AM I was thinking, didn't this happen to me last year? Yep: http://twitter.com/RussB/status/517039162
1:18 AM Winter Soltice will be on December 21 at exactly 12:04 UTC. That's only ~26 hours away! Stay where you are Sun! We're coming back around!
Sunday 12/21
1:08 AM 3 hours until the Winter Solstice!!
9:27 AM Making Pilsbury Cinnabons and about to start playing COD4 at full volume and driving my neighbors crazy.
1:30 PM Ahh, just had an argument over the phone with the ex about Christmas day. It's the MOST FUCKING WONDERFUL TIME OF THE YEAR!
5:06 PM I want an Official Red Ryder Carbine-Action Two-Hundred-Shot Range Model Air Rifle!
Monday 12/22
10:26 AM You know you're a mobile geek when you're watching a movie set in 1981 and they show a Motorola DynaTAC and you get annoyed.
1:51 PM I made Rice Krispies Squares with the big marshmallows and real butter. Mmmmmmmmmmmmmm...
11:32 PM "Nokias are reeeaaal nasty. You gotta respect the Japanese, they know the way of the samurai" "Nokia's from Finland." "Shhh."
11:34 PM Rachael Taylor's accent in Transformers is very, very Australian. It's like watching an episode of Beyond Tomorrow...
Tuesday 12/23
12:11 AM More than I hate decorating the tree, I dislike wrapping presents. Buying and giving, that's fun. The wrapping is a PITA.
12:37 AM Why do I like Top Gear? People I don't understand talking about cars I don't recognize, could ever afford, or both... But it's hysterical.
10:46 AM Santa brought me Corn Pops a few days early! (Ok, I bought them the other day, but I forgot, so it's sort of the same thing!)
10:55 AM Anyone else noticing a marked increase in spam? A lot is getting through my filters for some reason. Hopefully it'll slow after Christmas.
11:06 AM Just installed the new version of Fennec on my N810. It's slightly less completely unusable. Good job Mozilla!
11:44 AM Project Gutenberg is formatting all their books for mobiles... Remember when I did that, oh, 4 years ago? http://tinyurl.com/8v4p5n
1:33 PM Testing gTwitter and Twitux for Ubuntu. Both pretty much suck. Downloading Adobe AIR for Linux again.
1:40 PM @lmorchard Ayn Rand!?!? Successful people are purely self-made and therefore owe no debt to society? Altruism is harmful, etc.? Bleh.
5:48 PM Fry's just saved Christmas! I found a discontinued Batman Lego set! The best one too, with The Joker!
9:52 PM What if Tim Burton made a film starring the characters of Little Big Planet? Answer: http://tinyurl.com/97dj2e
Wednesday 12/24
12:10 AM Mmmmm... Corn Pops!
11:22 AM Hanging out with the munchkin... He's making Wii Miis of his friends, so cute.
12:18 PM Taking turns playing the original Kirby on the Wii with Alex... nothing like a platformer from 1992 starring a pink blob for pure fun!
2:18 PM Looking at the clock, much of the world is already in tomorrow... So Happy Holidays! :-)
10:26 PM The wrapping has commenced...
Thursday 12/25
12:00 AM Actually, I looked at all the presents, realized how much I hate wrapping and went back to the couch. *NOW* I'm wrapping.
12:00 AM Merry Christmas!
11:57 AM Done with presents... Munchkin is playing with his new Nintendo DS and Kirby. :-) The Batman Lego set was a massive hit too. Yay! :-)
Friday 12/26
12:36 AM Can I take the tree down now?
10:40 AM I need to learn Japanese: http://tinyurl.com/a7knme
1:21 PM My Wii code: 8969 8329 5215 9857 . Add me! :-)
7:15 PM My Wii Mario Kart code: 2879-2419-2530 (Someone please tell Nintendo they're insane with all these friggin' codes).
8:54 PM BTW, Daddy Week has officially started! And we're both on vacation!! Thinking about a trip south to see my brother and go to Legoland...
Saturday 12/27
9:30 AM Alex is on the couch next to me taking care of his Labrador Nintendog named Kirby. He's *totally* into it.
11:25 AM Just had Safeway.com deliver this week's groceries. OMG, I'm definitely doing that again! It ended up cheaper since I didn't buy any crap.
5:39 PM The Food Channel in HD has a new Giada cooking show! Cooking With Cleavage in Hi Def! There is a god! And he's obviously a guy.
Sunday 12/28
8:56 AM Good morning... Munchkin has a friend over for a playdate at 10. Expect chaos and craziness for most of the day. :-)
10:39 PM Thinking about driving to SoCal tomorrow with the kid... 5+ hours. But that would mean driving back on NYE or NYD... Hmm.
11:04 PM Maybe we should go to Tahoe instead... We could go snowboarding. Not that we have the clothing... but that can be purchased
11:08 PM Wayfinder happily charged me $100 for the N810 Navigation Activation, but then didn't actually activate it. Mmmm, dogfood. Delicious!!
Monday 12/29
12:14 AM Hmm. So a 4 hour drive out near Kirkwood and there's a bunch of "California SNO-PARKS" which would be perfect for the 6yo. Urgh. Decisions.
8:27 AM So much for an early start... Still not sure where we're going to, sun or snow.
9:09 AM Hmm... change of plans. Another playdate while I figure out our plan. Let the Wii Games Begin!
Tuesday 12/30
12:31 AM Little known fact: The hooker in tonight's Two and Half Men is the voice of Ashoka Tano of Star Wars: The Clone Wars. (I know, I know.)
12:35 AM Maybe not.
12:40 AM I'm getting punchy - way too many homemade oatmeal cookies.
4:10 PM I've decided Twitter is a poor replacement for actual human interaction. This is my last update (until I change my mind, that is).
January 2009
Sunday 1/4
3:31 PM Actually, I'm still posting to Facebook. I should figure out how to update Twitter from Facebook status updates.
Tuesday 1/6
10:30 AM Ooh, there it is... http://ff.im/-vOkm
Wednesday 1/7
2:36 PM My TV's computers http://ff.im/-wJnE
Sunday 1/11
4:29 PM Russell is recovering. My throat hurts... I hope it was the dry air in Vegas and not a cold or something. http://ff.im/-zyuE
6:05 PM Russell Just saw that the little kid in Pixar's new movie is named Russell. http://ff.im/-zBfG
Monday 1/12
4:59 PM Russell is off to pick up the munchkin in 45min! W00t! http://ff.im/-AlQc
Tuesday 1/13
3:31 PM Russell is having Cambell's chicken soup. I expect to feel 200% better in minutes as advertised on TV. http://ff.im/-B6W6
Wednesday 1/14
7:40 AM Russell NyQuil failed me. Once I get the kid to school I'm doubling the dose and going back to bed. http://ff.im/-BCA7
Thursday 1/15
9:22 PM Russell Just finished The World According to Humphrey. Learned hamsters like broccoli! http://ff.im/-CX9f
10:40 PM Russell Watching a West Wing episode on my TiVo, it dawned on me that 1999 was A DECADE AGO!!!!!! 10 YEARS!!!!... http://ff.im/-CZCt
Friday 1/16
8:05 AM Russell is running late per usual. http://ff.im/-DiLO
11:02 AM Russell has taken his medication. http://ff.im/-Dq6z
Saturday 1/17
10:18 AM Russell Hello my baby! Hello my darling! Hello my rag-time gal! Send me a kiss by wire! Baby my heart's on fire! http://ff.im/-E6X4
10:58 AM How Bad Is the Mobile Meltdown? - BusinessWeek http://ff.im/-E8hE
7:24 PM 500M iPhone App Downloads? Didn't see that one coming... http://ff.im/-EnvK
7:24 PM 500M iPhone App Downloads? Didn't see that one coming... http://ff.im/-EnvL
Sunday 1/18
8:28 AM Russell I really should have gone to DC for the Inauguration. http://ff.im/-EItw
12:45 PM Russell is cooking rice. Using chicken broth instead of water, to see if I can get the rice to taste like something... http://ff.im/-ERec
6:32 PM Russell is cooking beef stew for dinner while the munchkin works up a sweat on Wii Sports. http://ff.im/-F2y9
7:56 PM Russell Turned my back for a minute and my beautiful almost-stew turned into burnt grey potato-mush. ARGGH! Pasta... http://ff.im/-F5pS
10:45 PM Russell just watched the Obama concert on TiVo. Not sure I understood what Shakira (bless her hips) and U2 (shut up... http://ff.im/-FaFg
Monday 1/19
10:11 AM Inaugural preparations - The Big Picture - Boston.com http://ff.im/-FySh
10:16 AM Russell is showing the munchkin the list of US Presidents. It's still mind-blowing to me that Obama won! http://ff.im/-FySi
10:58 AM Indoor positioning and more info on Nokia Locate Sensor | Nokia Conversations http://ff.im/-FARS
11:42 AM Russell You can get a PhD for spelling your name without captials and writing about why teens like Facebook? Wow!... http://ff.im/-FCE8
2:04 PM For those of you wondering, I'm updating Twitter from Facebook via FriendFeed now... Thus the double name, odd wording and links.
2:44 PM Russell It's a good thing I'm home with the munchkin today for MLK... my cold has come back with a vengeance. Or I... http://ff.im/-FJNQ
6:22 PM Russell is thinking about what to burn for dinner tonight. Chicken? http://ff.im/-FRtM
Tuesday 1/20
1:16 PM Russell Thanks for the birthday wishes everyone! :-). http://ff.im/-Gwr0
11:00 PM Russell is watching 10 West Wing episodes TiVoed overnight on fast forward... (yeah, I know, hold me back). http://ff.im/-GS8l
Wednesday 1/21
10:03 AM The Inauguration of President Barack Obama - The Big Picture - Boston.com http://ff.im/-Hi9Y
1:42 PM Russell Just made a screen cast using ScreenToaster.com. It's *exactly* the functionality I was trying to create 10... http://ff.im/-Ht1n
3:07 PM Russell just learned the definition of "misanthropy". http://ff.im/-HxuT
Thursday 1/22
12:56 AM Russell I fondled a HP Mini netbook at Fry's earlier... Man, it took quite a lot of will power to keep my credit... http://ff.im/-HUQd
5:54 PM Russell is trying to make himself stay away from Fry's on the drive home tonight. It's hard, I work across the street!!! http://ff.im/-IDwq
5:54 PM Nokia N810 Internet Tablet - Full Pull out QWERTY Keyboard - 02703R1 - Buy.com http://ff.im/-IDwr
6:32 PM @timbray JESUS CHRIST TIM! UN-BRAINWASH YOURSELF! N810 runs standard Linux w/ a GTK-based GUI and langs like Python, Ruby, etc.
6:58 PM Viddyou.com: Making Left 4 Dead E3 2008 Presentation http://ff.im/-IFsu
Saturday 1/24
4:16 PM www.popcap.com http://ff.im/-KgBL
4:16 PM Russell I've been playing Peggle on my Nokia E71... so addicting!! I can't wait til it hits XBox Live... http://ff.im/-KgBK
10:39 PM Russell is still playing Peggle. http://ff.im/-KsFt
Sunday 1/25
11:29 AM Russell is listening to NPR Morning Edition. (While playing Peggle... of course.) http://ff.im/-KAXH
12:58 PM Russell is avoiding any sort of laundry. http://ff.im/-KErK
2:29 PM Russell is ruing the day. http://ff.im/-KHX0
10:25 PM Russell "Wait a minute, Doc. Are you telling me you made a time machine... out of a DeLorean?" http://ff.im/-KYBc
11:54 PM Russell Damn! MrFusion.com is taken. http://ff.im/-L1l2
Monday 1/26
12:12 PM Chinese New Year - Welcoming the Ox - The Big Picture - Boston.com http://ff.im/-LwPp
12:12 PM You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake. re: http://ff.im/LwPp
9:27 PM Russell Put the munchkin to bed (started another Humphrey the Hamster book) and doing laundry. Daddy week rocks. http://ff.im/-LUHu
9:27 PM Russell My best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend heard from this guy who's going with a girl who... http://ff.im/-LUHt
Tuesday 1/27
3:43 PM Russell saw the Airship Ventures blimp float by again... thought about getting tickets for me and munchkin. $400... http://ff.im/-MDm2
Wednesday 1/28
12:02 AM Russell Facebook has hit my hometown era in a big way... Friend requests gone out to people I haven't talked to in... http://ff.im/-MWkc
12:31 AM I can't seem to get into the habit... http://ff.im/-MXkI
2:02 AM Russell Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man... oh fuck, I screwed it up again. http://ff.im/-N0G6
2:02 AM I can't seem to get into the habit... http://ff.im/-N0G5
8:14 AM Russell needs to get his chakras aligned. http://ff.im/-NgZl
8:14 AM Russell is awake, physically. Metaphysically, not so much. http://ff.im/-NgZk
1:26 PM Russell As your attorney, I advise you to rent a very fast car with no top. And you'll need the cocaine. Tape... http://ff.im/-Nxhf
11:18 PM Deal: Nokia E71 NAM for $299 at NewEgg | The Nokia Blog http://ff.im/-NUtD
11:18 PM www.accessdata.fda.gov http://ff.im/-NUtF
11:18 PM Russell Got my second N810 in the mail today. Set up the munchkin with his own Jabber account and did a test video... http://ff.im/-NUtE
Thursday 1/29
1:45 AM Russell "Don't worry, everything's going to be all right." http://ff.im/-NZFz
February 2009
Sunday 2/1
11:27 AM Russell I have 8 friend requests from random men around the world. Why aren't women interested in friending me with... http://ff.im/-QYDC
1:27 PM AFP: Nokia threat to quit Finland 'unless law changed' http://ff.im/-R30J
Monday 2/2
3:59 PM Russell Day 4 of no caffeine. I wonder if I can go a week? http://ff.im/-S5r7
Tuesday 2/3
12:30 PM How to Make an Entire Sea Disappear http://ff.im/-STVa
Wednesday 2/4
3:03 AM Russell Insomnia... One would have thought the lack of caffeine would have helped. http://ff.im/-TtPy
1:40 PM Russell I have to admit, I don't understand politics well enough to get why a Senator would become a Cabinet... http://ff.im/-U1AA
1:40 PM Russell is wondering. http://ff.im/-U1AB
6:50 PM TED Blog: From TED U: How to grow your own fresh air http://ff.im/-UbMc
6:50 PM Russell wants to do something important enough someday to be invited to TED as a speaker. http://ff.im/-UbMb
Thursday 2/5
11:50 AM Robert Reich's Blog: Senate Republicans and the Stimulus: Playing Politics When the Economy Burns http://ff.im/-UXzd
11:50 AM Qué alegría amigos, ¡ay!, que dia más feliz http://ff.im/-UXze
Friday 2/6
1:32 AM Russell is banging his head against the proverbial wall so it'll feel better when I stop. http://ff.im/-VxFZ
3:39 AM Beat the Horse http://ff.im/-VCpj
7:08 PM Russell just fell off the caffeine wagon. Red Bull++. http://ff.im/-Wkxm
Saturday 2/7
12:46 AM Russell pushed all in, but life flopped the nuts. http://ff.im/-Wvfh
5:43 PM Russell needs to do laundry (all of it), clean the house, take out the trash, and go food shopping. http://ff.im/-X5sa
8:25 PM Russell just ordered some Pizza My Heart pizza while doing laundry and watching nothing on TV. http://ff.im/-XaHQ
Sunday 2/8
12:41 PM Russell I banged my left index finger knuckle on a door carrying in laundry last night. It hurt so much, I didn't... http://ff.im/-XHls
12:42 PM Testing out Tweetdeck.... works well on Adobe Air for Ubuntu.. Nice.
1:01 PM Hmm. I wonder when the Twitter desktop clients will start supporting Facebook updates via the API...
5:18 PM Russell is hanging at home with the munchkin. (Daddy week has begun! Rejoice!) http://ff.im/-XSjN
Monday 2/9
6:01 AM Russell If you wake up at 5:30 a.m. and can't get back to sleep, is it insomnia or am I suddenly an early riser? http://ff.im/-YmWx
9:04 AM OMG! I want a KINDLE 2!!!!!
9:06 AM Annnd... ordered. Could have bought a HP Mini for that price, but it's just so lustworthy!
9:16 AM Russell just bought a Kindle 2. Bezos: "Our vision is every book, ever printed, in any language , all available in... http://ff.im/-YynG
11:15 AM Archos to release Android phone / tablet - Engadget http://ff.im/-YF9r
1:13 PM Coldplay - Viva La Vida | Songza http://ff.im/-YL5t
Tuesday 2/10
12:17 AM Russell is Playing with AlertThingy v3's Facebook support... very cool! http://ff.im/-ZfwF
9:55 AM Russell is bright eyed and bushy tailed. http://ff.im/-ZGzS
10:17 PM Russell is considering cancelling his Kindle 2 order now that he's come to his senses and it doesn't ship for... http://ff.im/-10gc2
Wednesday 2/11
1:37 PM Russell Chicken McNuggets rock. I have no idea what's in them, some sort of crack cocaine variant, I assume. http://ff.im/-10Wlv
3:14 PM Russell HEY MAN! Is that Freedom Rock!? Well turn it up man! http://ff.im/-111bA
Thursday 2/12
1:37 PM Russell Whatever it is I think I see, becomes a Tootsie Roll to me! http://ff.im/-122s2
Friday 2/13
4:51 PM Russell is eating one of my son's Valentine's candies: Cherry flavored Fun Dip (TM), with the Lik-A-Stix dipper... http://ff.im/-13172
Saturday 2/14
2:03 PM Russell Can anybody find me somebody to love? Somebody (ooh), Somebody (ooh).... Can anybody find mmeeeeeeeee,... http://ff.im/-13Jvo
Sunday 2/15
12:13 PM Russell I have no idea why I didn't request to go to Mobile World Congress - looks like an interesting year. http://ff.im/-14r7b
4:21 PM Russell is spending a rainy afternoon playing Super Mario Galaxy. And I even made brownies! :-). http://ff.im/-14Bk9
11:10 PM Adobe - Adobe Press Room: For immediate release http://ff.im/-14R7C
11:10 PM Russell Once there was a way to get back homeward... http://ff.im/-14R7D
Monday 2/16
1:59 AM events.nokia.com http://ff.im/-14XBo
10:29 AM Russell is catching up on MWC news... http://ff.im/-15m72
1:16 PM Russell "You've canceled the following item(s) successfully: 1 of Kindle 2: Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device... http://ff.im/-15uL2
1:56 PM Kindle 2, Netpads, Mira and the future of computing http://ff.im/-15wOS
3:11 PM Kindle 2, Netpads, Mira and the future of computing http://ff.im/-15ABi
10:17 PM Russell I have such an unhealthy fascination with Giada De Laurentiis. Maybe I should just give in, pack up for LA... http://ff.im/-15TiQ
Tuesday 2/17
12:34 AM Palm.com : Palm Developer Network http://ff.im/-15YXe
1:08 AM Russell is finished with Super Mario Galaxy! (Well, I beat Bowser at the end, but still have 59(!) stars left I can... http://ff.im/-160lp
1:16 PM I did a Twitter search on "tinychat" and entered a bunch of chats and started chatting just to freak people out. It worked. :-)
1:17 PM My tinychat: http://www.tinychat.com/russ
3:56 PM Recovery.Gov http://ff.im/-16FWg
3:56 PM Russell is still catching up with MWC news. http://ff.im/-16FWh
4:45 PM Russell just scheduled my TiVo to record Frontline tonight about the Financial Crisis. Looks interesting. http://ff.im/-16HIk
7:10 PM Russell Just joined a gym so I can use a treadmill... Everyone looks so miserable. http://ff.im/-16NBD
11:06 PM Russell Cinderella story. Outta nowhere. A former greenskeeper, now, about to become the Masters champion. It looks... http://ff.im/-16Xpt
11:51 PM Russell Holy bajeezus, Frontline was scary shit. I wanted more details and updates though, I wish it was another... http://ff.im/-16Zld
Wednesday 2/18
11:23 AM Russell Mom just wrote on my wall, "you were supposed to call last weekend". Yikes! The dangers of adding your Mom... http://ff.im/-17s5z
8:02 PM Russell Too bad about Hulu and Boxee - I set it up at home and Hulu was definitely one of the best bits. http://ff.im/-17ISR
10:58 PM Russell just bought tickets to the Stanford-UCLA men's basketball game next week for me and the munchkin. Never... http://ff.im/-17Pl1
Thursday 2/19
1:54 PM iPhone app use over time http://ff.im/-18qnO
4:01 PM Inside U2's Bold New 'Horizon': U2 : Rolling Stone http://ff.im/-18vTI
4:01 PM Russell is starting his mid-life crisis a few years early. Is seriously thinking about swapping out the SUV for a... http://ff.im/-18vTJ
9:58 PM Nintendo DSi Launch Video (US Version) http://ff.im/-18KgX
Friday 2/20
9:35 AM The Crisis of Credit Visualized http://ff.im/-197Zt
12:14 PM Russell is making a run on the bank. "Screw you, George Bailey! Give me my cash!" (Kidding...) http://ff.im/-19e97
1:40 PM Russell Daddy Week starts today! W00t! http://ff.im/-19hzR
3:08 PM Tried putting Facebook comments on my site with no luck. I have *no* idea what I'm doing wrong.
10:04 PM Russell bought a box of Cadbury's Cream Eggs tonight at Safeway. Heaven! http://ff.im/-19Bwo
Saturday 2/21
12:08 AM Reading the Tea Leaves, Snapple Refreshes Itself - City Room Blog - NYTimes.com http://ff.im/-19FwF
1:02 PM "Ubuntu 9.10 is, as the name implies, expected in October 2009." Huh. I hadn't actually known that before. Explains quite a lot. :-)
1:21 PM Russell is hanging out with the munchkin and our neighbor's son while they play with paper airplanes. http://ff.im/-1a88K
Monday 2/23
11:26 PM Russell is having a bad day mentally. Can't focus. Like someone put gerbils in my brain and pushed blend. http://ff.im/-1bUDV
Tuesday 2/24
12:01 AM Russell finally bothered to stop the TiVo when the Chuck Lorre productions blurb comes up. HOLY SHIT!!... http://ff.im/-1bVOu
1:30 AM Russell needs to go to bed. http://ff.im/-1bZ1j
8:17 AM Russell really thinks they should start school around noon. http://ff.im/-1cf4j
11:38 AM Russell My coworker brought the Girl Scout Cookies today! Damn these Samoas rock. http://ff.im/-1clIL
12:37 PM Nokia - ShowPressRelease http://ff.im/-1cnJa
6:42 PM Russell is watching the pseudo State of the Union in HD for the first time... pretty impressive. Go Obama! http://ff.im/-1cE8G
10:44 PM Tried to get Quake Live running on my Ubuntu machine by using XP under VirtualBox... no luck. Waaaahhh!!!
11:04 PM Went through the trouble of getting my Windows desktop dusted off, plugged in and running to try Quake Live...
11:04 PM Position in Quake Live Queue: 4744?!?!?!
11:42 PM The Quake Live queue is hosed at the moment... Found that out on IRC after waiting through three refreshes. I'm bleeding from the edge.
Wednesday 2/25
9:51 AM iriver LPlayer http://ff.im/-1diVv
10:42 AM Russell Take a load off Annie, take a load for free; Take a load off Annie, And (and) (and) you can put the load... http://ff.im/-1dlAZ
11:30 AM Russell Johnny's in the basement mixing up the medicine, I'm on the pavement, thinking about the government... http://ff.im/-1docI
4:21 PM Gadgets - Aqua Drop maze game - Japan Trend Shop http://ff.im/-1dDVP
11:09 PM Russell wants his Nokia branded netbook, now! ;-). http://ff.im/-1dX3w
Thursday 2/26
4:49 PM Russell is going to see Stanford play UCLA tonight! W00t! (I have no idea where to park, how to get in, best time... http://ff.im/-1ePtH
Friday 2/27
9:27 AM Russell is up and at 'em. http://ff.im/-1fzpl
10:18 AM Russell A Dell Mini 9 for $199?!??! ARRGH! Repeat after me: I don't need a netbook. I don't need a netbook. I don't... http://ff.im/-1fCqa
4:13 PM Russell just remembered he won't be picking up the munchkin tonight as Daddy week is done. SUCK. http://ff.im/-1fWo4
4:13 PM Jethro Tull - Songs From The Wood (2003 Digital Remaster) | Songza http://ff.im/-1fWo3
5:07 PM @quakelive In case you're counting votes, please add one more getting a Linux client (preferably Ubuntu) available ASAP!
11:11 PM Russell Looking at my server stats, I seemed to be top ranked in Yahoo! Japan search for "どうもありがとうミスターロボット". Very... http://ff.im/-1gdq5
Saturday 2/28
12:02 PM Russell is amazed that Republicans continue to be rabid delusional psychopaths. (Actually, not really). http://ff.im/-1gFUF
2:24 PM Russell joined a gym for Saturday afternoons like this... and yet, I'm not going. I seem to like throwing $100 a... http://ff.im/-1gLX4
9:15 PM Russell Wow, these new shorts I bought to go to the gym with are *really* comfy for sitting around on the couch with. http://ff.im/-1h1If
10:50 PM Russell Seemed like a good night for Halo 3... Team SWAT baby! My XBox Live ID is "Russe11"... http://ff.im/-1h4Wa
March 2009
Sunday 3/1
1:07 AM Dragonlance: Dragons of Autumn Twilight - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://ff.im/-1h9us
1:07 AM Russell is considering going to bed... http://ff.im/-1h9ut
3:22 AM Russell And... ended up watching The Paper again. God I love that movie. Was 1994 *really* 15 years ago? http://ff.im/-1hdGe
11:23 AM Russell muungh. http://ff.im/-1hvGj
12:08 PM Why Hair Goes Gray http://ff.im/-1hxHo
2:33 PM Try (Un)classes! http://ff.im/-1hE5T
4:50 PM Try (Un)classes! http://ff.im/-1hJUj
Monday 3/2
1:08 AM Russell doesn't want to go to bed. http://ff.im/-1i4ZD
3:28 AM Russell I am the eggman. They are the eggman. I am the walrus. http://ff.im/-1iaNN
10:25 AM Russell is watching the live DEMO stream. Very cool. http://ff.im/-1iMJY
11:04 AM commercial-archive.com http://ff.im/-1iz8R
11:04 AM commercial-archive.com http://ff.im/-1iz8T
11:04 AM commercial-archive.com http://ff.im/-1iz8S
11:04 AM criticalnoise.blogspot.com http://ff.im/-1iz8U
11:04 AM commercial-archive.com http://ff.im/-1iz8V
11:04 AM commercial-archive.com http://ff.im/-1iz8W
11:58 AM Russell continues to be amazed at the AT&T You Will commercials 16 years later. http://ff.im/-1iCaX
1:48 PM AT&T 1993 "You Will" Ads http://ff.im/-1iI2y
1:48 PM Russell is fondling his office mate's Kindle 2... OMG this is super, super nice. (Brett you suck, now I'm going to... http://ff.im/-1iI2z
2:37 PM Reconsidering the Kindle 2... http://ff.im/-1iKjL
2:37 PM First Hands On: Touch Book Is a Part-Netbook, Part-Tablet http://ff.im/-1iKjN
4:17 PM MSN Video http://ff.im/-1iPmn
Tuesday 3/3
11:39 AM Russell Wow, it's sort of a really cruddy day out today. http://ff.im/-1jQfS
2:45 PM The Technology Chronicles : Comcast now offering 50 Mbps service in the Bay Area soon http://ff.im/-1k1RK
4:24 PM Russell is having a day. (Again). http://ff.im/-1k7zC
9:42 PM Russell is watching The French Connection... New York in 1971 was surreal. http://ff.im/-1kn0F
10:45 PM Russell just tried the Kindle iPhone app... it's spectactular. http://ff.im/-1kpUv
10:45 PM Amazon's Kindle for iPhone hits the App Store http://ff.im/-1kpUu
Wednesday 3/4
12:54 PM Russell was looking to sell his soul this morning, but the recession has really put a damper on prices. I'll wait. http://ff.im/-1lbm6
1:28 PM Russell Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die. http://ff.im/-1ldvC
4:46 PM Microsoft Office Labs vision 2019 (montage + video) - istartedsomething http://ff.im/-1loK5
10:39 PM Russell How in the hell is Pinocchio rated G?!? It's easily the most terrifying movie I've ever seen in my life.... http://ff.im/-1lGqr
Thursday 3/5
1:02 PM The electric monk http://ff.im/-1msil
1:36 PM For Young President, Flecks of Gray - NYTimes.com http://ff.im/-1muwj
3:20 PM News Releases: Girl Scout Cookies Not Affected By Peanut Butter Warning http://ff.im/-1mAOU
4:25 PM Russell : I've decided to add a colon at the beginning of updates that are written in first person. Or maybe a -,... http://ff.im/-1mEwA
4:25 PM Russell - I've also decided that if I can get my writing done before Midnight, I'm going to treat myself to a... http://ff.im/-1mEwB
7:43 PM Russell - Woops! I drank a teensy bit too much coffee just now. Over stimulated and jittttteerrrryyyy..... http://ff.im/-1mOsG
8:24 PM Just went through and culled who I was following on Twitter. If I didn't immediately recognize someone, they were gone. Down to 147. Whew!
8:48 PM Russell - Something within earshot is running out of battery... but I can't figure out what it is. http://ff.im/-1mRL2
Friday 3/6
9:30 AM Russell - I got zero sleep last night. Mungh. http://ff.im/-1ntt5
9:30 AM Russell - Just realized that Dido released a new album last November... Nice. Sounds good - mellow. http://ff.im/-1ntt6
11:22 AM Russell - Daddy Week starts in about 6 hours! I miss my munchkin!!! http://ff.im/-1nAJx
11:01 PM Russell - Watched first half of the original Dr. Dolittle tonight with the munchkin. He liked it, but at one point... http://ff.im/-1o9ki
11:01 PM Me, Ivanka, White House on TwitPic http://ff.im/-1o9kj
11:06 PM Just ate some warm kielbasa with crusty French bread and cheese like an 18th century Polish farmhand. Mmmm..
Saturday 3/7
8:38 AM Russell - Good Morning! This morning's schedule... Toast with strawbery jam and Star Wars, followed by a series of... http://ff.im/-1ouAq
10:00 AM Coffee is *not* working. What do I have to do, mainline crack cocaine to wake me up?!?!
10:06 AM Thinking about going back to Twitter as my main microblog tool (from Facebook).
11:58 AM More microblog thoughts... http://ff.im/-1oDWk
10:30 PM Watched Harry Potter with the munchkin - He loved it, unsurprisingly. :-)
10:34 PM I can't believe Daylight Savings is starting so early! W00t!!!
10:42 PM Russell Watched Harry Potter with the munchkin - He loved it, unsurprisingly. :-). http://ff.im/-1p3hL
10:42 PM Russell I can't believe Daylight Savings is starting so early! W00t!!! http://ff.im/-1p3hM
11:14 PM Quick tweak for tweets http://ff.im/-1p4qE
11:20 PM Woops, sorry for the dupes. Still un-linking FriendFeed and Facebook stuff... Surprised it didn't cause an endless loop of updates. :-)
Sunday 3/8
10:42 AM Good morning! My new Twitter-reader works pretty well... Very efficient.
12:09 PM Watchmen opening credits. (Wow). (http://tinyurl.com/apyyjq)
12:35 PM @gerikson Surprisingly, there's not much context to miss. Most tweets are pretty non-sequitur.
1:57 PM New theory: If I spend enough money on gym memberships and home exercise equipment I'll get thin... as I won't have enough left over to eat.
2:22 PM I've been re-reading Douglas Adams' Dirk Gently. Seems to be an exploration of what he could get away with using deus ex machina. :-)
8:58 PM I couldn't find the reset button on my 6 year old... he still seems to think it's an hour earlier.
Monday 3/9
7:34 AM Pain.
3:56 PM My Twitter-reader rocks! Viewing past updates by user is 1000% more efficient. I should make a sample site using the API as a demo.
10:59 PM The BK Burger Shots commercial is hysterical. The way they jump, and then the guy just drops the whopper... LOL! http://tinyurl.com/cg8s4e
Tuesday 3/10
7:57 AM Bringing my hammer to work today.
9:22 AM "Statusphere"? Really? Seriously, really?
12:48 PM Printing out today's Dilbert to hang up in the Nokia offices. :-) http://tinyurl.com/bf7rz4
1:21 PM I totally forgot my hammer.
10:05 PM I want to take a nap. But it's 10 p.m.
Wednesday 3/11
7:33 AM I ended up taking a nap... it lasted 9 hours.
11:20 AM Turning off @ replies to non-friends. Tested out seeing all replies with new reader for a couple days and I won't be missing anything.
11:30 AM Hey ETech attendees, don't forget you can use Roomatic to keep track of etech tweets in real time: http://roomatic.com/etech
11:43 AM @meghanbeattie Great video! Reminded me of when my son was born (in Madrid!) and his 96yo Spanish grandfather. :-D
2:41 PM Stress, stress, stress, stress.
7:24 PM People let me tell you 'bout my best friend... he's a one boy cuddly toy, my up, my down, my pride and joy.
Thursday 3/12
8:48 AM Officially having a bad week.
Friday 3/13
8:37 AM Dropped off the muncher until next week. Suck. And I have a headache. And what's with the birds chirping in the morning, what's their deal?
9:44 AM Foursquare made me think of an amusing Twitter bot for "Achievements" based on how many times you tweeted about various subjects.
9:48 AM ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED: Overcaffeinated (Tweeted about coffee 10 times in a week). http://tinyurl.com/ae4j9q
3:37 PM The little kid in Pixar's "Up" is named Russell. Amusing. http://tinyurl.com/cp47za
4:29 PM Just checked GrandCentral: "Your account is not yet ready to be upgraded. Please check back shortly."
4:34 PM @iankennedy Nice! Phish rocks... (They were born in Vermont of course, like yours truly. :-) ).
5:06 PM Nazi Zombies!!! http://tinyurl.com/c89ykw
9:35 PM Peggle on XBox Live rocks! I have a strange Peggle OCD... Must clear every peg on every level! Must cleanse the board! CANNOT STOP!
Saturday 3/14
Sunday 3/15
2:01 PM I'm bewaring the ides. (You should too, if you know what's good for you.)
5:17 PM My NCAA picks: http://ncaabracket.nytimes.com/bracket/men/kkeEqYREnkq
Monday 3/16
1:24 PM I love banana bread!!
Tuesday 3/17
2:12 PM Not a good day for headlines. Apple's sold 30MM iPhone/iPod Touches and Nokia announces more layoffs (including my division). Urgh.
3:58 PM My work MacBook is driving me nuts. Reporting all sorts of weird disk-space errors, constant beachballs... argh!
7:35 PM Dear Interwebs: My smartphone has had cut and paste since 2002. Could you please STFU now? Thanks! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_7650
Wednesday 3/18
12:59 AM I should go to bed.
10:03 AM Just tried Mozilla's Fennec beta 1 http://bit.ly/fennecb1 on my N810. It's slightly, maybe, a tiny bit better than completely unusable.
9:19 PM I just stumbled upon American Idol on TV. I've never actually watched it before. And it doesn't seem that will change after tonight.
9:32 PM I took a nap at 7:30 and forgot just about everything. Who am I? What am I doing here? What day is it?
Thursday 3/19
7:33 PM Bob's your uncle.
Friday 3/20
12:57 AM I like pie.
1:00 AM I think the .me domain is a winner. It looks and feels good.
1:01 AM Wow, there's a new MLS team from Seattle, the Sounders. Nice to see SportsCenter actually covering soccer. :-)
1:04 AM Look at that... Villanova is in Pennsylvania. Who knew? (Okay, probably a lot of people.)
1:10 AM My bracket is pretty sad - having picked Cal over Maryland.
1:23 AM 1:23 a.m. is my favorite time of day. Or maybe of my two favorite times...
1:26 AM Catching up on 768 tweets... Oh, hey... YouTube for S60. Interesting...
1:33 AM Nike's Men v. Women... awesome http://www.nike.com/nikeos/p/nike/en_GB/? (not that I'll be contributing, but hey).
1:56 AM Done working through my Twitter backlog. See? That's efficiency my friends! But some of you really need to keep it to yourselves, really.
11:50 AM Daddy week starts today! w0000t! Man I miss the munchkin!
10:58 PM Watched 2nd Harry Potter movie with the munchkin. Long, convoluted and for some reason completely riveting to him. :-)
Saturday 3/21
5:36 PM Doing laundry, dishes and cleaning. Munchkin's playing with the neighbor upstairs. Very domestic at the Beattie household today.
Sunday 3/22
7:52 AM French toast with the munchkin. I had him help with the bread and the egg... "gross! *giggle*" :-)
1:56 PM Domize.com is pretty kick ass. I just tried the [verb] function and got a bunch of really cool - and available - domains back.
Monday 3/23
7:20 AM "I sense a disturbance in my pants, Ma'am." Jimmy Neutron is so friggin' hysterical. (Especially when I'm punchy at 7 a.m.)
10:03 AM Trying Bitstream's "Bolt" - Very interesting Opera competitor: http://boltbrowser.com/beta/bolt.jad
10:32 AM IBM's new ad campaign "Think" made me think of think.com, which I knew was the third oldest .com domain... Oracle owns it now. Weird.
3:50 PM It's the 23rd?!? March has just completely disappeared. Insane.
4:31 PM New blog post - Think: http://rab.cc/blog/think
Tuesday 3/24
7:24 AM "Warning: DO NOT quantumly enhhance. Contents could cause second Ice Age."
7:56 AM It took me almost 20 minutes to realize I hadn't plugged in the coffee maker. "Why don't I smell coffee yet?"
9:04 AM Wow! Bitstream's Bolt browser supports Flash video and plays it inline on the page. It's a bit slow, but it's a very slick feature.
9:08 AM Starting tomorrow, Nokia will host developer sessions in Mt. View to help get apps published on Ovi Store: http://tinyurl.com/dectuk
9:55 AM Created a personal drop.io chat room: http://drop.io/russellbeattie . Hope springs eternal for insta-chat on the web... :-)
12:24 PM mSpot fascinates me... They're successful, right here in Palo Alto, and yet I know of no one who works there. Do they blog? Tweet? Anyone?
12:38 PM Just read about mixtape.me - I don't care about the service, just that the domain seems fantastic to me. A real rival to .com IMHO.
1:06 PM I don't understand the fascination with iPhone gaming. They really don't compare in terms of playability to a DS, PSP or even a GameBoy.
1:31 PM Re: iPhone Gaming. I'm talking about the iPhone/iPod Touch being a true gaming platform, rather than just for casual games. I don't see it.
2:29 PM Just got upgraded to Google Voice. Sent an SMS to it, it appeared online, and was re-sent to my 2nd phone instantly. Color me impressed!
4:59 PM FPS on an iPhone is cool ( http://tinyurl.com/cvoruq ) but just like Tetris, you need buttons!! Touch screens just don't have the control.
Wednesday 3/25
8:33 AM Argh. I have another freakin' head-cold. I thought Winter was over?
11:10 PM So sick. All day. Entered my chest now... This virus is vicious. Meds are useless so far. Sudafed? Bah. NyQuil? Now I'm groggy and sick.
Thursday 3/26
8:03 AM "Hey Jimbo! Let's talk about girls. Well, girls are like a piping hot slice of pie, with a big scoop of confusion on top." "That's it!"
3:03 PM Opera Mini's growth is astounding - 20MM downloads, 7.3 billion page views last month.
3:30 PM My ears are ringing my head is so stuffy. It's like I've got cotton stuffed in my head.
3:53 PM If online shops were smart, they'd give a 5-10% discount for your Twitter ID/Password, and then tweet your purchase with a link.
9:51 PM Duke got *crushed* by Nova. W00t! I've hated Duke for about as long as I've known how to play basketball...
9:52 PM Mizzou beat Memphis, hosing my bracket. I had them going to the finals.
Saturday 3/28
1:31 AM ffmpeg rocks! But remember, if you want to convert S60 mp4 files to flv, make sure to use -ar 44100 because the bitrates don't match.
10:17 PM Tu ordenador vuelve a ser personal.
Sunday 3/29
1:00 PM I don't think Michigan State should win until they realize they're one of 50 "States" and change their uniform.
2:01 PM Took a shower. Need to clean kitchen, do laundry, pay bills (online), do some work, watch basketball, eat lunch, catch up on news.
2:31 PM "I'm just not cool enough to be a Mac person."
3:26 PM I buckled and bought an HP mini! Installed Ubuntu 9.04 on it (using USB) - very nice, but sound doesn't work. The fan can be *loud*.
4:08 PM I don't envy people who are getting rich. Nor do I envy those who are just having fun. I envy the people who are doing both.
8:02 PM Got an invite for Hunch, signed up, answered 50+ survey questions, yet still have no idea what I'm supposed to do with the site.
8:20 PM Gravity 1.0 released! (Twitter client on S60 phones): http://mobileways.de/products/gravity/gravity/
8:30 PM http://twitpic.com/2lgh5 - Testing Gravity's image posting stuff...
8:38 PM "young New Zealand women are regularly getting drunk and cruising around in packs looking for men to have sex with." *Looks for passport.*
9:13 PM Urgh. I've gotten nothing done.
10:52 PM Watching Planet Earth in HD... Great Plains. Soooo cool.
Monday 3/30
10:55 AM Felt the earthquake... it was like a couple little bumps, no swaying. I checked the blinds and no movement. Thought I was nuts for a sec.
10:57 AM Amusing to watch the flow on Roomatic: http://roomatic.com/earthquake
12:35 PM @tburman That's a *great* idea! It could be a param in the URL like users=user1,user2,user3 etc. I'll play with it thanks!
2:31 PM Eating Jerk chicken again. Third time in a week... Mmm!
5:25 PM I remember when we used to sit, in the government yard in trenchtown...
5:54 PM The enthusiasm with which people are selling their elliptical trainers on Craigslist makes me question my desire to buy one...
6:43 PM Being an early adopter, my Skype username is "russell". It's a pain in the ass and is mis-dialed constantly! My whole name is taken though.
8:40 PM How do replies to non-followed people work now? Will I not see tweets that have *any* @ replies in them (including RTs)? That'd be great!
10:00 PM Messing with the HP mini... The screen doesn't go far enough back! I have to slouch to see it.
11:22 PM Just saw a news report about Denny's. I don't think I can resist... I need a Moons Over My Hammy... NOW.
Tuesday 3/31
7:03 AM I need a list of Mobitopians on Twitter. (I think I subscribe to almost all, but I'm being lazy.) Going to create a group Tweet page. :-)
7:19 AM In particular order, I have: moof,tarek,evangineer,mobitopia,janole,vero,gerikson,jimh,russb,fkoehn,ethauvin,caaarlo anyone else?
7:24 AM Hmm, you can't seem to create an Tinker "event" without a keyword... I guess that makes sense, but the UI makes it *look* optional.
7:28 AM Trying again... #mobitopia: @moof @tarek @evangineer @janole @vero @gerikson @jimh @russb @fkoehn @ethauvin @caaarlo ... who else?
7:29 AM @pgolding Hehe. You definitely should be, and quite easily can be, but sadly you are not one at the moment. :-)
7:52 AM So there's no confusion: #mobitopia is a 6 year old IRC channel on freenode.net... Mobitopians are the folks that hang out there. :-)
7:43 PM I get the munchkin early this week! Tonight begins an extra long Daddy Week! W000t!
7:49 PM Dear Interweb: For GOD's SAKE please get a clue this April Fool's Day. A whole day of lies and stupidity just isn't funny.
7:54 PM I don't know what it is, but I really like Kinoma's logo... I like rounded fonts in general, and the swirly globe is fun... Like ice cream.
9:28 PM Watched some of the School House Rock DVD tonight. Alex was captivated, and I was lost in nostalgia. Such BRILLIANT songs and animation!
April 2009
Wednesday 4/1
7:22 AM As your body grows bigger, your mind grows flowered. It's great to learn, cause knowledge is power!
8:36 AM Something about the smell of a first grade classroom at 8 in the morning is other-worldly. POW! 30 years goes away instantly.
8:08 PM The Motorola Evoke is crazy weird to me. Why have a slide out keypad? What OS is it? Why copy the iPhone so obviously? In summary: WTF?!?
8:43 PM Just bought Gravity for S60... My boss seemed impressed my face is in the mobileways screen shot. ;-)
9:09 PM @atmasphere I have it on my e71. Not as fancy, but nice. :-)
9:11 PM I cooked stirfry tonight with rice in a new rice cooker. It worked well, but it's like a bomb went off in the kitchen. Ugh. Cleaning sucks.
Thursday 4/2
7:05 AM Muunnggghh...
1:37 PM Interplanet Janet! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfPEvKsme-c
Friday 4/3
5:04 PM I use my own personal URL-shortener: http://rab.cc They're my initials, and a hell of a lot shorter than www.russellbeattie.com/blog/ :-)
Sunday 4/5
8:10 AM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yg9MKQ1OYCg "I have a friend named Rufus Xavier Sarsaparilla, and I could say that Rufus found a kangaroo..."
2:44 PM Spending a gorgeous Sunday afternoon with the munchkin and playmate. Legos, biking, pizza, Star Wars... Can you get better? I think not.
8:13 PM Apparently Bakugan is the new hotness among 7 year olds... http://bakugan.com
9:30 PM Dear GM: You didn't seem to give a fuck about your customers last year when you repossessed my car. Twice. So fuck you and your new ads.
Monday 4/6
10:47 PM @offbeatguides Thoughts: Support PayPal! Less steps to finish a purchase. PDF should come in single column (for phones). Mobile site too.
Tuesday 4/7
2:41 AM I'm getting old.
12:18 PM Go Vermont! See? All good things come from the Green Mountain State: Maple Syrup, Phish, Ben & Jerry's, cows, me and now gay marriage. :-)
2:40 PM Forum Nokia is having another Publish On Ovi event on creating S60 Web Runtime widgets, tomorrow night in Mt. View: http://bit.ly/jcNBb
3:26 PM Testing a DVD rip using Handbrake on a $600 Vaio running Ubuntu vs. an $1800 MacBook (same cpu/memory). Ubuntu is at least 2x as fast.
4:13 PM I cannot *believe* it's past 4 already.
10:30 PM I can't seem to sign up for Java on Google AppEngine... I just get a blank page back. Must be my ID as I don't see others complaining...
Wednesday 4/8
12:10 AM Got my approval for Java support... for two accounts even (because neither worked at first).
12:20 AM 26% of you viewing this have no idea what that means.
1:16 PM My hovercraft is full of eels.
5:05 PM @joshu Yeah, Adobe Air works pretty well on my Ubuntu box. It's even integrated with apt-get so individual apps are registered in Synaptic.
5:06 PM 5 p.m.? Wednesday? Will someone PLEASE stop pressing the fast forward button?! Please? Thanks.
5:59 PM Found Bakugan the cartoon for the munchkin On Demand... It's pretty unimaginative. I much prefer Pokemon.
Thursday 4/9
1:41 AM Tried to take the HP mini apart so I could break whatever mechanism was preventing the screen from tilting farther back. Didn't find it.
10:58 AM Sorry to keep my Twitter followers in suspense! The HP mini is fine. Everything seems to work and only a few extra screws left over.
3:34 PM Holy crap, the CrunchPad and packaging look *awesome*: http://tinyurl.com/cz2map
Monday 4/13
5:19 PM Added a rev="canonical" link to my blog headers, though I think it's a dumb name. Call it rel="tinyurl" or something obvious and standard.
8:17 PM Testing the Opera browser on the Nintendo DSi... not bad!
Tuesday 4/14
6:12 AM Up obscenely early. Watching morning news. Obama's got a new dog. Traffic is moving. It'll be chilly today.
6:27 AM The new Android 1.5 SDK: "./android create avd -n test2 -t 2" then "./emulator @test2" to try the new version.
6:40 AM Changed my blog header link to rel="shorturl". More obvious and clear. I should start a blog, site, and submit to Slashdot. Or not.
6:47 AM HyperLocal startups in NYT: http://bit.ly/trRhm Cool. I've been talking about this for years.
6:53 AM HP Mini 1000 for $279 at Buy.com: http://bit.ly/13yOF URGH!! I paid $450 plus tax at Fry's 3 weeks ago for basically the same thing!
9:21 AM Introducing Nokia Easy Meet: http://bit.ly/1jlcZr
8:27 PM Installed 2Gb of RAM into my HP mini. No idea why, it just bugged me that it wasn't maxed out. $25 fixed that. :-)
Wednesday 4/15
11:18 AM Absolutely incredible YouTube remixes: http://thru-you.com/#/videos/1/ So. Cool.
12:04 PM This morning, just after 11:00, Michael locked himself in his office and he won't come out.
12:08 PM Finally, at about 2:30 a.m., Todd and I got concerned... We went shopping for "flat" foods to slip underneath Michael's door.
12:10 PM This is my computer. There are many like it, but this one is mine.
2:54 PM Nokia hosts cricket match at Mt. Everest: http://www.theeveresttest.com/ Twenty20 match at 5165m. (Yes, my company can be insane.)
5:24 PM I've been humming songs from Les Miserables for a couple days now since I saw that YouTube clip of Britain's Got Talent.
5:32 PM I love surfing documentaries... which is weird, as I'm not a surfer. Highwater: http://bit.ly/2XHZgU
5:50 PM Gah!!! Imogen Heap is playing at Twitter HQ right now!! SO JEALOUS!!! She totally rocks my world: http://bit.ly/Fmc6
5:57 PM It's always 6 p.m. somewhere. Apparently it has arrived here now.
9:12 PM Found out that Ming's Chinese Restaurant delivers to my area. Ordered enough to feed a small army... I ate most of it. Will pass out now.
Thursday 4/16
11:13 AM I'm not wearing pants.
1:43 PM Strained my voice a bit singing along at top volume to Joe Cocker's version of "With A Little Help From My friends". YEEAAAAEEEAAAAHH!!!!
1:48 PM Here, feel free to sing along: http://songza.com/z/9v3k2x (Make sure you copy the gravelly bits... GONNA GET DOWN WITH MY FRIENDS, YEAH!)
2:13 PM Neither AmazonMP3 nor iTunes had Les Miserables Original London Cast... However, BitTorrent was quite happy to help me out. :-)
4:05 PM Just read @catarina 's post about Hunch: http://www.caterina.net/archive/001171.html I get the idea now! :-) (But is it a business?)
5:32 PM Dear Texas: You tried to secede once already in 1861 (along with the rest of the South). We kicked your ass then, don't make us do it again.
6:15 PM It's astounding how much an Intel Atom CPU can do, considering how simple and underpowered it is. 47M transistors, vs. 291M in a Core 2 Duo.
Friday 4/17
12:39 PM Daddy Week!!! Hoo-rah!
1:00 PM Slashdot seems to have decided that Nokia is evil. http://bit.ly/GagEC
1:50 PM Has Oprah killed Twitter yet? Nope... not yet. What time does the show air?
4:32 PM Kamikaze cops vs. suicidal robbers... very cool: http://bit.ly/2QisLB
6:28 PM I might have overshot at Safeway... I got enough food to feed a family of four for a month. Maybe I'll learn to use my freezer...
9:32 PM Laundry time... I think we're going to go for a long drive tomorrow. Not sure where yet. Maybe the ocean or mountains or something.
Saturday 4/18
8:56 AM We haven't reach escape velocity yet... A bad sign.
5:52 PM Back from a day at the Lick Observatory, then an IMAX Dome movie at the Tech Museum in San Jose. Damn museum closed at 5!!
Sunday 4/19
8:43 AM W00t! it's going to be in the 90s over the next couple days. Helllooo Summer! :-)
8:45 AM Bakugan BRAWL!!! LET'S DO THIS! (I need way more coffee).
5:50 PM Zac Efron and the rest of Disney-bred stars has made me realize that short hair (with "the flip") is for old people. Gen X reigns no more.
5:51 PM Gorgeous day at the beach with munchkins... Burned the hell out of my neck.
5:52 PM Twitter seems slow. Is it Oprah? Or maybe the hot day in SF is slowing down the servers...
5:57 PM I have to make Sunday dinner... after cleaning the kitchen. Urgh. It's too hot to cook!
9:51 PM They're doing Cold Fusion at SRI! That's around the corner from me... who knew? http://bit.ly/kMfbS
9:55 PM Yes, “Planet Earth” is the new Barry White. http://bit.ly/zFXSz
Monday 4/20
7:38 AM This is the tale of Mister Morton
Mister Morton is who?
He is the subject of our tale
and the predicate tells what Mister
Morton must do.
7:48 AM Wow, just saw the Oracle/Sun news. Ellison is truly an evil genius.
9:06 AM Seems like feedproxy.feedburner.com is out. My subs that use it return "Http/1.1 Service Unavailable"
11:17 PM I fondled a Dell Mini 9 at Best Buy today, it's pretty great. Nice keyboard, better specs than my HP mini, and $50 cheaper. Plus colors!
Tuesday 4/21
1:24 AM More about the Dell Mini 9 at Best Buy: You can't buy it at Dell.com. It has 160Gb HD, and an Atom Z520 CPU. Weird!! http://bit.ly/14Wkou
1:28 AM OH! I figured it out, that's a Dell Mini 10 I saw! Duh.
10:17 AM Incredibly, I've actually been to Elberton, Georgia. (As seen in this month's Wired: American Stonehenge http://bit.ly/Fn5eJ )
10:41 AM Windows 7 Start Edition to only run 3 apps at at time? Bah! Apple did that in 2007 with an OS that only runs 1 app at a time.
10:43 AM W00t! @GavinNewsom has my vote! Go Gavin!
10:36 PM Watching Fox Soccer news. Great Arsenal game. Real Madrid still in contention despite Pepe. "Lo que he hecho no es ejemplar." Ya think?
Wednesday 4/22
7:25 AM Dammit! Who turned off Summer?
8:35 AM Today is the day. If I have to shed blood I'm going to finish the thing I need to finish.
9:14 AM Skytone Android-based Netbook/Netpad (with game controls) for $100? VERY NICE. I want to buy three right now! http://bit.ly/l1TlE
10:48 AM I was thinking about having some hyperbole for lunch, but opted for the sublime instead.
10:49 AM In celebration of Earth Day, I'm not wearing pants.
4:37 PM ... and therefore, all you people who bought a netbook? You're careless, technically inept and have no taste. Gee, thanks Apple!
4:38 PM Alright! It's almost 5 o'clock! Time for my nervous breakdown! W00t!
Thursday 4/23
8:51 AM Good morning. On my second cup of coffee, though what I probably need is Valium instead.
8:53 AM Letting my computers update Ubuntu Jaunty (from the RC). I wonder if the internal speakers on my HP mini will suddenly start working?
Friday 4/24
8:35 AM Daddy week is over. :-( Consider this a warning.
Saturday 4/25
12:37 PM "u.nu is fully 70% shorter than arch-rival tinyurl.com’s rambling Dostoyevskian screed of a domain name." LOL!
12:54 PM A 240 page book about Twitter!??! You can write a lot about Twitter, but that seems excessive to me, or at least antithetical.
Sunday 4/26
11:12 AM I'm having a pretty great Sunday! How about you?
5:11 PM Just saw an UnderArmour commercial - the music is a hard rock version of "Verb", a Schoolhouse Rock song!! Very subtle! http://bit.ly/6Prjw
5:28 PM PANDEMIC!!!!!!
Monday 4/27
10:54 AM I don't monitor my Facebook updates any more... But now it looks like I'm going to want to, but there needs to be a way to de-dup Tweets.
12:59 PM Sadly, I am wearing pants today. I may take them off in a while just for fun.
1:27 PM Testing Seesmic Desktop Preview. Not sure how to add more than just Twitter accounts...
4:11 PM 23 million people used Opera Mini in March, with 8.6 billion pages passing through their proxy. Very nice.
9:45 PM Do they really need a whole factory to make cheesecakes? One would think that a simple bakery would suffice.
Tuesday 4/28
10:26 AM Made the mistake of looking at my computer before leaving the house again.
12:07 PM Drove by the HP Garage on the way to work today. Actually I drive by it almost every day, but this time remembered to look for it. :-)
Wednesday 4/29
9:48 AM "Dear San Mateo County Prospective Juror". Ruh-roh.
10:26 AM 250k Ovi Mail users in 4 months. Very cool, I'm glad to see Nokia services gaining traction. http://bit.ly/zDVbB
1:57 PM Runny nose, tingly throat, unquenched thirst... Swine Flu?!? No! Backayard Jerk Chicken plate baby! W00t!
Thursday 4/30
7:59 AM Kick, push. Kick, push. Kick, push... coast!
10:26 AM “Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.”
10:36 AM Nokia 'shadowing day' - Rose visits Nokia HQ http://bit.ly/10taWb (Pretty amusing. Rose's English is pretty great for a 13yo!)
10:51 AM Badoosh!
2:00 PM Just signed up for http://tweetface.net/ to post to Facebook. Very interesting, @jhstrauss !
2:04 PM LG signed Heidi Klum as a spokesmodel, and SonyEricsson has Maria Sharapova... WTF is Nokia's official hot babe?!?
2:13 PM Interesting... YouTube - Augmented Reality Magic 1.0 http://bit.ly/CednY
3:42 PM How To Disassemble Nokia E71 & Replace Faceplate: http://bit.ly/13KFHW (Ooh, I have dust in my screen I'd like to clean...)
May 2009
Friday 5/1
11:40 AM It's May Day!! UP WITH THE PROLETARIAT! DOWN WITH THE REPUBLICAN BOURGEOISIE BASTARDS! *Looks for something to set on fire*.
12:18 PM Coolest President evar! :-) http://bit.ly/CFTM8
12:21 PM About 5 hours until I pick up the munchkin and Daddy Week begins! W0000t! Oh! I need to figure out what we're doing this weekend!
4:31 PM Has anyone thought of using JXTA/Gnutella to create an open, de-centralized P2P version of Twitter yet? Everyone's using a client anyways...
5:01 PM Maps on Ovi for Mac | NokNok.tv http://bit.ly/Rdbxd (You have to use Safari, but it's pretty slick.)
Saturday 5/2
7:34 AM Good morning! Eggo waffles, chocolate milk and Pokemon for breakfast. :-)
10:23 AM Rainy/cloudy day... not sure what to do to keep us entertained yet... Hmm.
5:08 PM Go Celts!!
Sunday 5/3
8:11 AM My custom news reader now pulls in both Twitter and Facebook updates, combines and de-dups. You're *totally* jealous, aren't you? Admit it.
11:31 AM Nokia 5800 on Amazon.com: $354 http://bit.ly/VE1AH (I bought one internally two days ago using my employee 'discount' and paid the same.)
9:55 PM Made Rice Krispies Squares for the munchkin tonight. How people did this before Teflon, I have *no* idea.
Monday 5/4
7:30 AM I think I'll wear pants today.
7:33 AM Boysenberry pie! The most delicious part of my apocalyptic nightmare!
11:36 AM Toys 'R Us selling the HP mini for $349! http://bit.ly/BJwcC Netbooks are so cool, I love my HP mini.
Tuesday 5/5
7:17 AM Woke up this morning humming the Europop insanity that is Robyn. http://bit.ly/ivY3b Scheduling an MRI for later.
7:38 AM My inability to consistently make good coffee is almost a skill in and of itself.
7:55 AM Jimmy Neutron is sooo awesome. Just saw a scene where he has his psychotic nanobots imprisoned like Hannibal Lecter. Hysterical.
9:41 AM Nokia E71x at AT&T! I should be able to buy apps for my E71 now, right? WRONG. (And people wonder why the iPhone App Store is winning.)
9:52 AM @dberube That's a good question - I haven't tried to buy anything with an E71x yet. Buying MobiTV or Tetris with an E71 still doesn't work.
9:55 AM "We're sorry, your device is not supported for purchases on the MEdia Mall." God I hate device detection - it never, ever, ever works.
11:26 AM Working at home waiting for Comcast to come upgrade my line to their new 50Mbps service. FIFTY! MEGA! BITS! PER! SECOND!!!
11:52 AM @uminski Cool! I just checked, and the Arsenal v. ManU game is being broadcast live here in the States on ESPN2! Wave from the stands!
11:57 AM Holy crap, I just turn on the Arsenal/ManU match and see 2 goals in succession against my beloved Gunners! WTF!
2:49 PM I know my c a b l e provider is watching Twitter, so I need to be careful when I LOL that the i n s t a l l guy smelled heavily of ganja.
7:21 PM Watching Arthur and the Invisibles with the munchkin... I didn't realize it was directed by Luc Besson until now. It's *surreal*!
Wednesday 5/6
7:35 AM Anyone connect Google Latitude to Twitter yet? Because you know you all want to know where I am at all times.
7:35 AM I just read in my newsreader that feeds were dead.
7:42 AM "Classic styling"? Is that what we're calling it now? Interesting. I guess that's better than "old, confusing, non-touch".
7:46 AM Just explained that "Irish Spring" came from Ireland. Am I going to hell?
8:36 AM Reading about the Kindle DX on my netbook wondering if I'm the only one that sees the obvious connection...
9:26 PM HOLY CRAP! I just saw the Chelsea/Barça game I TiVoed! I'm so glad I hadn't seen the results. Pure chaos!
Thursday 5/7
7:34 AM Rice Krispies and Bakugan this morning...
7:37 AM Rice Krispies and Bakugan this morning...
9:07 AM "Heathcliff, it's me, I’m Cathy, I've come home and I'm so co-o-o-ooold, let me in your window." Kate Bush rules.
1:00 PM Making of the Nokia N97 video: http://bit.ly/17hhQK
1:35 PM W00t, my Nokia 5800 just arrived. It's a slick little gadget, I have to say!
1:56 PM How in the world do I attach the guitar pick??
Friday 5/8
10:06 PM Watching the original Star Trek movie. Damn, Spock is cool as hell even 30 years later!
10:35 PM KAAAAHHHHNNNN!!!!!!
Saturday 5/9
12:17 AM Watching Yes Man... It's quite inspirational in a completely insane and unrealistic way.
11:26 AM Trying out SongBird on Ubuntu... hadn't bothered before because it's not a .deb. Wow, it really *is* like Firefox for music!!
Sunday 5/10
7:14 PM Saw Star Trek, thought it was pretty great. Just got sucked into an hour+ perusing Wikipedia's entries on the subject. (Trekkies are nuts).
Monday 5/11
12:23 AM Coolness! You can download the "Futuristic Nokia Ringtone" that was in the Star Trek movie here: http://bit.ly/2Wx2PV :-)
11:08 AM Interesting numbers: Nokia sold 468MM mobile phones in 2008, and 93MM in Q1/09, including 2.6MM 5800s. (Apple sold 3.8MM iPhones in Q1).
11:17 AM So, in short for those of you reading this: Everyone you know owns an iPhone. Everyone you *don't* know, owns a Nokia.
Tuesday 5/12
9:23 AM "Shake well and buy often." Words to live by.
12:33 PM Read @fredwilson 's post about Twitter Links, and updated my custom reader to highlight links. :-) http://rab.cc/blog/media/tweetlinks.png
6:47 PM "You have been placed on telephone stand-by and must call on Wednesday, May 13, 2009 between 11:15 AM and 11:45 AM for further information."
11:32 PM I bought a used Android G1 today off Craigslist so I could try out Sky Map. It's about the coolest thing I've ever done with a mobile phone.
Wednesday 5/13
11:18 AM Jury Duty Status: "Your appearance is not required. Please note that you are now excused and will be eligible to serve again in 12 months."
11:19 AM W0000000t!
11:27 AM Is it really Wednesday!??! I have a to-do list the length of my arm.
1:23 PM @private_message So in theory, no one should see this tweet. Yet it's still public. Is that useful? No idea.
1:28 PM @mobitopia Great idea just floated by - Only the Mobitopians (or those following Mobitopia rather) can see this tweet. COOL!
1:32 PM Hmm. Using @ names for groups is interesting, but isn't complete because only the intersection of my followers and that user see my tweets.
1:43 PM Just read Biz's update... It looks like there's going to be a difference between @ replies typed in vs. clicking the reply button. Insane!
2:44 PM Just discovered the Nokia 5800 browser supports Flash and can play embedded YouTube videos. Woah!
Thursday 5/14
11:18 AM I made the most simple yet awesome PHP app last night. It just opens a todo.txt file for me to edit from any computer. Works insanely well.
11:55 AM Heh. You want the source to my todo app? Here: http://rab.cc/download/mytodo.tar.gz It's up to you to set perms, .htaccess, etc. :-)
1:18 PM The day is getting away from me. Urgh.
9:46 PM Urgh, can't seem to get the Nokia WRT plugin working on Aptana Studio. Man, I love Eclipse though.
Friday 5/15
7:40 AM Four words: Desperately craving Krispy Kreme.
8:24 AM Wow, this pic of the Space Shuttle in front of the sun is cool as hell. http://bit.ly/mMH9W Gives you an insane amount of perspective.
8:28 AM Extra special Daddy Week begins today! The munchkin's 7th birthday is this weekend with a soccer party at the park. (20+ children! Gah!)
3:14 PM I've started writing down all my todos... the list is *insanely* long. Everything from vacuuming to making a dentist appointment. Argh.
3:15 PM You really can't call yourself a geek unless you own a Nokia N810. $199 at Buy.com now: http://bit.ly/c1l9f (I use mine daily).
3:30 PM I use my N810s for web/email/IM on the couch or in the john, ssh, play solitaire before bed, read eBooks, and view movies while travelling.
3:54 PM Fun... Playing with mauku... Another reason to use the N810: as a dedicated twitter device!
3:58 PM List of N810 software, ordered by popularity: http://maemo.org/downloads/downloads/OS2008/25/
4:12 PM Mentally checked out already, might as well do the same physically. Such a nice day out - it's going to be a great weekend!
11:33 PM Boy's in bed, laundry's done, kitchen's clean. Couch time, baby!
Sunday 5/17
7:54 AM Happy Birthday Alex!
Monday 5/18
9:39 AM Man, whatever it is that's pollinating now is absolutely itching the hell out of my nose!
3:02 PM Constant IM spam lately. Mostly through MSN, but also Y! as well. Urgh!
10:19 PM I just ate a Choco Taco. Believe it or not, it's only been 5 hours since that was last mentioned on Twitter.
Wednesday 5/20
2:44 PM Trapped in an all day meeting with low supplies of chocolate and bananas! Help!
Thursday 5/21
10:56 AM @boxdotnet Are you guys having server troubles or is it just me? I'm trying to upgrade to a Pro account, but your form isn't working!
11:27 AM @boxdotnet Thanks, Scott got back to me. Apparently there's no "Pro" account any more, and versioning has been removed from Individual.
9:52 PM The oven girl at Pizza My Heart is sort of 'sell my soul to be with' kind of gorgeous.
Friday 5/22
8:59 AM One has to wonder if @timholbrow is really that clueless about Android, or if he's trying (badly) to spread FUD. http://bit.ly/19gM0O
12:23 PM Very cool overview of mobiles: The Evolution of Cell Phone Design Between 1983-2009 http://bit.ly/fB5jO
12:30 PM Nothing to do this weekend... I think I'm going to clean my apartment. It's just chaos and needs a re-org.
7:38 PM Going to Ikea to buy some shit to organize my other shit. Then I'll buy some more shit to organize all that shit.
Saturday 5/23
10:30 AM Can't wake up... Not sure if I should make some coffee or just go back to bed.
1:10 PM Trying to become self-actualized.
5:53 PM Posting with the STEW sample widget in the S60 emulator under Windows in VirtualBox on Ubuntu.
Sunday 5/24
4:10 PM My Sunday is so relaxed, I thought of posting this thought a few hours ago. Just getting to it now.
6:22 PM It's amazing how little I know of Nokia's upcoming phones. No idea if these AT&T models are real, but they look cool: http://bit.ly/1TWlTq
6:28 PM I'm hungry. I need something to eat that's somewhat nutritious. I've been junk food for like 3 days now.
Monday 5/25
10:05 AM Dear colleagues at Nokia: You can't delete blog posts. Ever.
10:47 AM Tested out Gameloft's Uno, Texas Hold'em and Brain Challenge and all are made for the 5800's touch screen. Know of any others?
10:55 AM <-- learned a new word today: "grinfuck"
1:36 PM Why in the hell would you install OSX on a netbook? Watching the beachball spin and HD failures on Apple hardware isn't enough for you?
2:12 PM Watching Patton on AMC... Decided to Torrent it as well. Which will finish first, a 40 year old movie via BT, or a 3 hour movie with ads?
2:17 PM It's amazing how much modern Apple branding has taken its cues from the Nazis. Clean logo on white, propaganda based on superiority, etc.
Tuesday 5/26
7:59 AM Good morning! Watching the Ovi Store reactions scroll by: http://roomatic.com/ovi
11:18 AM Apparently my right frontal lobe is unhappy, wants to secede from the cerebral union and has declared war on my forehead.
Wednesday 5/27
11:25 AM Trying to keep track of the news coming from D7, Google I/O, Nokia Design Day and Champions League Final starting in like 5 minutes. Argh!
11:45 AM As a Real Madrid and Arsenal fan, I'm having trouble deciding on which evil to support. :-) I think I'll go with Barça as I like Henry.
2:23 PM Watching the D7 interview with Carol Bartz. "We have to make the small screen as interesting as the PC is now." From my 2005 strat deck? ;-)
9:52 PM Video of Nokia's OPK at D7 - http://bit.ly/Sb3t2
Thursday 5/28
7:31 AM I've yet to see/play the whole Dragon's Lair game: http://bit.ly/mGz12
2:04 PM What the HELL is wrong with my skull this week? Third day in a row I've had a massive headache. Something I'm eating? Stress? Sleep? Urgh!!
2:10 PM I don't feel particularly stressed... Is there such a thing as an "ennui headache"?
2:13 PM I've taken aspirin, Tylenol, 1/2 a NoDoz (for caffeine), a Sudafed and a multi-vitamin. Maybe dehydration? Commencing water intake.
2:17 PM @rcarmo I'm now commencing on a full-on chemical assault on my cerebrum. If it doesn't work, I swear I'll try trepanation next.
2:19 PM @om Good thought, but I wear contacts and thus (by the crazy laws of CA) I have to get them checked annually. @ethauvin That might be it.
3:12 PM I'm glad there's some reality checking of Google Wave already. Reminds me of lots of stuff already tried like Groove.net, JXTA, etc.
8:29 PM Went to Pizza My Heart again tonight. Definitely developing a very unhealthy obsession with the oven girl.
Friday 5/29
12:20 AM I want to watch the Google Wave video, but they're so friggin' pretentious. Maybe I'll try again in the morning.
9:33 AM Daddy Week!!!!
10:59 AM Simply Lemonade with Raspberry may now be my most favorite drink ever. Mmm! http://www.simplyorangejuice.com/
3:12 PM Tried to set up Twitster for Mobitopia... no joy so far. Honestly, I should just write it myself.
10:14 PM Saw UP with the munchkin... the first few minutes are so sad! The rest is pretty fun. It's not Toy Story or Cars, but it was pretty good.
Saturday 5/30
11:33 AM Thinking about taking the kid to #MakerFaire but honestly not sure if it's worth time/effort/money.
11:58 AM Okay the picture of the R2-D2's clinched it: http://yfrog.com/0ujdnjj Off to the faire.
9:47 PM Spent all afternoon at the Makers Faire. (Talk about "freaks and geeks", oof!) Not sure it was worth $35, but the munchkin had an okay time.
Sunday 5/31
10:04 AM "What are you cooking Daddy, it smells good!" Well, there's a first. (A: Big, fluffy pancakes with 100% pure Vermont maple syrup. Mmm!)
9:50 PM Oh, wow. Flash Lite 3.1 and Mail for Exchange 2.9 updates are both available for the 5800 NAM via the App Updater OTA. Nice.
9:58 PM Ovi store only has 4 themes for the 5800? It seems like a *really* easy way for a designer to make cash, I wonder where the bottleneck is?
June 2009
Monday 6/1
1:44 PM Someone in Nokia has quite the budget for marketing. This N-Gage mini-site is nuts: http://bit.ly/3skjr1
2:27 PM My voice is my passport. Verify me.
3:17 PM I'm having a typical "hummingbird day", where I can't focus for more than about 30 seconds on any particular task. SQUIRREL!!
3:50 PM Official Facebook app for Nokia 5800 is up on the Ovi Store: http://bit.ly/9VKb9 (Thanks @atmasphere!)
Tuesday 6/2
1:58 AM Nokia N97 being assembled at the factory: http://bit.ly/Mt5ED (Very cool).
2:13 PM W00t! Super Mario Bros. for the Wii, and Super Mario Galaxy 2 with Yoshi! Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy!
3:32 PM Enjoying the Mediational Field: http://songza.com/~s7kwao
8:42 PM I wonder if Google realizes that trying to create a replacement for email is like trying to invade Russia during the Winter?
9:59 PM In honor of E3, I downloaded Donkey Kong for the Wii. Man that game is hard! After like 45 minutes, my high score is still only 39,600.
10:28 PM Opera passes iPhone to lead mobile-browser market: http://bit.ly/Ow68E
Wednesday 6/3
12:01 AM Realizing that the Wii version of Donkey Kong is a lesser NES version, I grabbed the original ROM here: http://bit.ly/13LEio . Much better!
9:13 AM Good morning. Apparently there's a mobile conference going on now. Had no idea until 2 minutes ago. #mweb09
9:15 AM @meghanbeattie W00t! We'll have to create a club: "Bay Area Beattie's" :-)
1:30 PM Fondled a coworker's N97... screen is definitely bigger than the 5800's, but it's a bit thicker too. Nice little gadget. WANT!
3:21 PM OMG, the new CrunchPad looks frigin' fantastic! http://bit.ly/JkmQa
3:35 PM The sun is shining now, but supposedly we're in for 2+ days of thunderstorms... I don't see it in the trees yet.
5:09 PM There's 14 other people on Facebook named "Russell Beattie". That's so weird. (Well, maybe not to you...)
9:24 PM Just had a great evening with the munchkin playing Lego Star Wars after dinner. Very relaxing and fun.
Thursday 6/4
7:33 AM I hear the grasshopper.
10:20 AM The Beatles: Rock Band Cartoon Intro - SO COOL!!! http://www.viddler.com/explore/Joystiq/videos/1198/152.857
10:23 AM The Beatles: Rock Band cartoon, better version: http://www.thebeatlesrockband.com/cinematic.php
1:44 PM "Seven Nation Army" was bouncing in my head... So now it's in yours too: http://songza.com/~1sjtfn
4:37 PM @janole Hey! Was just chatting with a coworker about the Ovi Store - #Gravity is officially the top PAID app world-wide! Congrats!
Friday 6/5
10:31 AM Mmmm.... Donut Day!!
12:27 PM I'm convinced netpad MIDs are going to rule the world once their prices/availability is on par with netbooks.
12:50 PM Last day of school today, tomorrow the munchkin flies back to Spain with his mom for two weeks. :-( He'll have fun, but I miss him already!
12:59 PM If Steve Jobs makes a surprise visit to the WWDC next week, I'm pretty sure it'll be the start of a new religion.
Saturday 6/6
7:58 AM Back from driving the munchkin and his mom to the airport. Now what? #sad
12:05 PM Probably have to wander down to the Sprint store today and try out the Pre.
12:53 PM That Conan O'Brian Super Mario backdrop thing was completely staged. Interwebs you got punked by some sly marketing guy at NBC.
1:12 PM Ennui attack!
3:42 PM Watching an Einstein documentary. When I went to the Lick Observatory a few weeks ago, I hadn't realized the role it played in Relativity!
3:59 PM I'm not on the list of 75 great mobile Twitterers: http://bit.ly/4ai7JP My descent into anonymity/obscurity is almost complete.
4:00 PM Then again, I don't know or follow @lisawhelan is either, so I probably shouldn't take offense. ;-)
4:41 PM Selling my dishwasher: http://sfbay.craigslist.org/pen/hsh/1209002174.html (Let's see what sort of crazies pop up from Craig's List).
5:19 PM Just tried out the Midori webkit based browser for the N810. It's nice! If it was tweaked just a little it'd be perfect for everyday use.
7:46 PM Man I wish I could find a Thai food place that delivers to my apartment.
Sunday 6/7
12:36 AM Watching "Joe Vs. The Volcano" for the zillionth time. I love this movie. Totally need to learn to play the ukulele.
12:49 AM Mas que nada: http://songza.com/~gwnl6g ("Ohh, ahh ree AHH rye oh? Oh bahh, Oh bahh, Oh bahh!")
1:19 AM Electricity just blipped off for a good 10 seconds. So crazy how many devices I have that are now rebooting, resetting or on standby.
1:27 PM An F1 race from Turkey is on TV. First one I've watched in the US. How cool would it be if F1 went 100% electric?
7:22 PM Very cool - 100+ Portraits of Iconic People. I've seen most, but not all.. http://bit.ly/15J1e1
8:41 PM Man my lappy is *not* happy with the latest Ubuntu kernel update. File access delays and the display driver isn't supported so no Compiz.
10:58 PM Just added oAuth signin to Roomatic and fixed the form posting... Works really well now! :-) #roomatic
Monday 6/8
12:49 AM Just made a public version of my Twitter "by person" reader using oAuth. Try it out: http://foozik.com/
10:05 PM Laundry.
10:36 PM Wordnik.com 's Erin McKean is my total dream woman: Perky, pretty, and perspicacious. http://bit.ly/nbK4R
Tuesday 6/9
1:21 AM I should go to bed.
1:09 PM It's so weird to be ~6,000 miles away from my munchkin.
5:15 PM I need a nap.
5:51 PM Got a LensCrafters mailing with a really cool pair of Ray-Ban glassses on the cover. I'm unable to find them on either corp website. #FAIL
10:08 PM "upupdowndownleftrightleftrightbastart" Awesome.
10:47 PM Twiddling my thumbs waiting for a conference call scheduled at midnight. Afraid to start anything else, yet can't really relax...
Wednesday 6/10
10:27 AM Scribblenauts looks *great*!!! http://www.scribblenauts.com/trailers.html "Write. Anything. Solve. Everything." My 7yo will learn a ton.
12:08 PM Checking out the javascript source for WebOS - http://predev.wikidot.com/rooting . Very, very hackable. Palm did good!
1:36 PM Switching from my Ubuntu lappy at home to my work MacBook feels like breaking my left hand, but painting its fingernails pretty colors.
1:37 PM (At least I don't have to use Windows. That'd be like breaking both hands.)
11:24 PM Waiting for another midnight conference call. Nairobi yesterday, Lausanne tonight. Had a Red Bull to wake me up. Hopefully I'm intelligible.
Thursday 6/11
1:24 AM I love that the zealots are going after AT&T. Has there *ever* been an example of an Apple partner that hasn't gotten royally screwed?
3:14 PM I hate wearing pants.
3:48 PM Dear Apple: Think you could get around to adding *real* multitasking in Snow Leopard, so I don't *ever* see a beach ball again? Kthxbai.
5:11 PM Wow, Ovi Maps 3.0 just turned my 5800 into a GPS navigation device, complete with turn-by-turn voice directions.
Friday 6/12
1:54 AM Someone in Marketing must be reading my Tweets. ;-) http://bit.ly/11hQF9
12:57 PM Helping hasten the Twitpocalypse.
1:05 PM We seem to be about 11MM tweets away from the end.
2:06 PM It isn't Daddy Week as the munchkin is still on vacation until next week. #sad
10:09 PM Exciting: http://facebook.com/russellbeattie
Saturday 6/13
12:50 AM This release about the Palm Pre fonts: http://bit.ly/PmcvR
calls them "Prelude" but the filename is "Coconut-Medium"!
12:08 PM I need a hobby.
1:18 PM Definitely not wearing pants today.
3:07 PM Playing with Aptana and Nokia's Mobile Widget plugin. Can't help but think anything I do would be better in Flash Lite.
9:25 PM Apparently there's a standard for Widgets, as I just used an Opera desktop widget's code in a test widget for my phone and it mostly worked.
9:41 PM Vodafone is pushing mobile widgets as well... Looks like they're doing it through Opera Mobile though (not sure actually).
9:42 PM Can you tell I've been lost in iPhone-land for a while? I had no idea mobile widget stuff was this far along. Standards, APIs, SDKs, phones.
9:56 PM Interesting, the Opera Mobile Widget Manager works fine on my Nokia 5800: http://bit.ly/OzC1G - doesn't use webkit, though.
Sunday 6/14
12:44 PM Deciding on the best way to insert caffeine into my bodily system. I really just need an IV drip.
4:01 PM Wizard needs food, badly.
Monday 6/15
12:08 AM I am not mentally prepared for the week ahead.
4:19 PM "Pack it up, pack it in, Let me begin, I came to win, Battle me that's a sin." http://songza.com/~c7r7ix
8:03 PM Just watched my TiVoed US vs. Italy match. URGH! Giuseppe Rossi should be playing for us! Bastard.
8:09 PM @om It blows my mind how much I read about Macs dying, and Apple gets away with it. It's like the dirty little secret of the digerati.
9:57 PM This is an interesting Twitter search: http://bit.ly/nYjsw
10:04 PM "The early bird might get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese." I love that expression. :-)
Tuesday 6/16
1:18 AM Opera rocks! Trying out Opera Unite for Linux...
1:33 AM Here's my Unite chat, running on my PC: http://bit.ly/KYyUY
1:50 AM Some Opera folk dropped into my chat. Coolness! Hi guys! Great job! Can't wait to play with my own Unite apps...
2:00 AM Checking out the Opera Unite "server" Javascript API: http://bit.ly/15DQe8
Very interesting.
4:14 PM Tweetmeme's live stream is pretty damn cool: http://live.tweetmeme.com/?retweet=5
9:39 PM Very cool - finding and fixing the fatal level 22 bug in the original Donkey Kong ROM: http://bit.ly/6tXxq (Followed by a fix for Pac-Man!)
Wednesday 6/17
5:43 PM FOCUS. FOCUS. FOCUS... Focus. Focus focus. SQUIRREL! FOCUS! FOCUS!
6:15 PM Scrat in Love: http://bit.ly/6gz6n
7:33 PM I assume that since I can't understand the popularity of all these multi-column Twitter apps, I must be doing it wrong?
Thursday 6/18
3:34 PM Why do I do this to myself? Why? It's a simple game. You throw the ball, you catch the ball, you hit the ball.
5:26 PM Dear Prudence, won't you come out to play?
8:03 PM Pizza My Heart Oven Girl!
Friday 6/19
1:39 PM Nokia USA is having a "3 Hour Sale" tomorrow from 7p.m to 10 p.m. PST, 15% to 50% selected phones including the N97: http://bit.ly/8yhkj
7:18 PM Nazi. Zombies. 'nuff said: http://bit.ly/18izEb
10:17 PM I can't believe I'm still working. It's like groundhog day. I probably have a few more hours to go as well. Some day I'll learn.
Saturday 6/20
2:24 AM I'm thinkin' about my doorbell... When ya gonna ring it, when ya gonna ring it?
3:15 PM "He is apparently addicted to his name-brand smartphone that I shall not name for contractual reasons." LOL. http://bit.ly/rw4J4
7:01 PM NOKIA 3 HOUR SALE RIGHT NOW!!!! http://bit.ly/8yhkj
8:22 PM The supreme leader of Iran just called, he wants everyone on Twitter to know how impressed he is with the green profile icons. ;-)
Sunday 6/21
2:49 AM 16 hours until my son is home! W00t!
12:43 PM Watching soccer - flipping back and forth between US/Egypt and Italy/Brazil. We'd need like 3 more goals to move on.
12:43 PM Just saw that Inter Milan is playing Club America (Mexico) in Palo Alto in July! http://worldfootballchallenge.com/
1:18 PM GAH!!!! I NEED TWO TVs!!! GO USA!!!!
1:19 PM Italy is out!!! Come on USA!!
1:23 PM Holy crap! I cannot believe USA advanced! WOW!!!! US vs. Spain on Wednesday! W00t!!!!
2:14 PM Multimedia message http://flic.kr/p/6yp4J9
2:17 PM Testing out the Flickr/Twitter integration... :-) Sending it via MMS gets a not so exciting subject line.
2:37 PM This should be a better tweet... http://flic.kr/p/6yppLw
7:51 PM T minus 1 hour until the munchkin arrives back from Spain. W00t!
Monday 6/22
9:49 PM Just had *the* best time playing Lego Battles for the Nintendo DS with the munchkin. It's a miniature Real Time Strategy game. Sooooo fun!
Tuesday 6/23
5:57 PM It's hot out. Just got the munchkin from day camp and stopped by the library. It's 6 p.m. and the sun is still high. Summer is here!! :-D
Wednesday 6/24
12:43 AM Haven't read any updates since over 2 days ago... a total of over 2150 missed tweets. Don't you people ever shut up!?! ;-)
10:09 AM The return of 80's style big fugly plastic sunglasses amuses me. It seems like just yesterday everyone was switching to the Jackie-O style.
10:18 AM HTC Hero running Android should be scaring the shit out of my comrades at Nokia. It shows the power of a decent, open OS + white label mfgr.
10:27 AM Video of the HTC Hero running Android: It looks really, really, really cool: http://youtube.com/watch?v=FKTDSfbcbBU
1:20 PM BAAAM!!!!!!
1:58 PM I'm still in shock at the US win over Spain. So! Great!!! Twitter's going nuts too: http://roomatic.com/spain
2:21 PM @gerikson I'm so happy about the win (and the decisiveness of it), I'm literally having a hard time concentrating on anything else now. :-)
6:24 PM "[The New Super Mario Bros. for the Wii.] made Left 4 Dead look like a sunny, altruistic trip to Disneyland." LOL! http://bit.ly/OeORr
10:53 PM This still makes me just *happy* hours later: USA Shock Spain 2-0! http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=4284720 :-)
11:04 PM Facebook is a force of nature. My maternal grandmother's brother's daughter (a.k.a. my 2nd cousin) just found and friended me. Amazing.
Thursday 6/25
3:28 PM Wow, I think the Internet just exploded!
10:05 PM Has anyone asked Jon and Kate what they think of MJ's death yet?
Friday 6/26
2:10 AM Went to bed early at 10:30pm... That was a mistake. Woke up mind-racing a half hour ago, now I'm up. I need a bowl of cereal.
3:20 AM "The Sumerian number system was passed on to the Babylonians. Sexagesimal was a useful system as 60 has a large number of factors."
10:54 AM Must. Not. Tweet. About. Nokia. Rumors. Must. Not. Tweet. About. Nokia. Rumors.
11:24 AM Dammit! All this MJ tribute stuff has gotten "Smooth Criminal" stuck in my head! Here's Alien Ant Farm's version: http://bit.ly/vJbpi
8:49 PM The Magic Thief is tonight's bedtime story: http://bit.ly/JNDP4
Saturday 6/27
10:12 AM Weird! A new instrument created in 2000 that I never heard of until today has some huge internet following: PANArt Hang http://bit.ly/VLVq5
11:42 PM Tried Fennec Beta 2 for the N810, it's still completely unusable. And not just for performance reasons, the UI sucks. http://bit.ly/11N5LY
Sunday 6/28
4:16 AM She's a brain . . . trapped in the body of a game show hostess.
12:46 PM I'm. Having. Kittens. GO USA!!!!
3:28 PM Still bummed... Lying on the couch in a half-stupor, I realized I hadn't actually had any caffeine today. That might help my mood. :-)
Monday 6/29
12:37 AM "Wow. That was a lot of evil packed into one sentence." "Thank you." http://bit.ly/JPPBW
3:17 AM About to fall asleep.Goodni
5:11 PM Navteq announced today it has released a new version of its free Navteq Traffic mobile website. (Nokia owns Navteq BTW). http://bit.ly/cvDln
5:16 PM Holy shit this is surreal! "Web Site Story - CollegeHumor video" http://bit.ly/gQ5ZE
Tuesday 6/30
2:12 PM Stopped by Whole Foods Market to get a sandwich. Filled with glacially slow employees and uptight, self-obsessed assholes. NEVER AGAIN! UGH!
3:07 PM Switching to Smultron as my default Mac text editor. (TextWrangler's drawer drives me nuts.) http://tuppis.com/smultron/
July 2009
Wednesday 7/1
12:27 AM Doing late night laundry, and checking out this Camping Checklist (HUGE!) - http://bit.ly/qX4Nq Not sure where we're going yet...
1:41 AM Ok, so I need to find a campground for this weekend: 1) in No. California, 2) is available, 3) family friendly, 4) newbie friendly, 5) fun.
1:44 AM I dated a girl from Rhode Island once... Amazingly, unlike all my other happy and successful exes, she hasn't added me on Facebook yet.
2:00 AM I bought the Lonely Planet guide to Northern California camping in book form... It's so hard to get info out of. DEAD TREES SUCK.
2:02 AM Laundry is done and folded. I should go to bed. Hey, it's July! Happy July everyone!
3:03 AM Yes, I'm still up... Pretty much every campground in Northern California is booked this weekend. http://www.recreation.gov/ Urgh.
5:18 PM Holy shit, the N97 has an FM Transmitter! Wow, I don't have a decent stereo in my car, so that's actually really useful! :-)
7:54 PM Ooookay... So the N97 supposedly runs the N-Gage app, but it won't install from n-gage.com. Anyone have an idea what's going on?
Thursday 7/2
2:24 AM The quickest way to turn Bluetooth on and off on the N97? Hold the green call button and say "Bluetooth" at the beep. Done.
11:52 PM Feeling the urge to tweet but have nothing to say. Share and enjoy.
Friday 7/3
12:09 AM Man, the Viliv S5 MID looks soooo tempting! Even running XP, it's lustworthy. http://bit.ly/pK0L7
12:50 AM Downloaded the Jaiku S60 client source just to see it: http://bit.ly/xU3GE It's monstrous. How does anyone get anything done in Symbian C++?
1:37 AM In bed playing solitaire and listening to music on my N810, and now tweeting with Mauku... Night!
11:36 AM Long weekend and Daddy Week. W00t! :-)
11:40 AM How can a State with as many millionaires and billionaires as California have a budget problem? Oh, wait, I just answered my own question.
1:53 PM Oh-oh. While thinking to myself just now, the words "Fuck it," were spoken and a decision taken. Be very afraid.
11:15 PM In Tahoe trapped in a small hotel room with an overexcited mi
11:16 PM ... munchkin who won't go to sleep!
11:17 PM Tomorrow going to look for a campground with a free tent space...
Saturday 7/4
7:58 AM muuuuungh.
9:44 AM Holy crap, I found a campground! Yay last minute plans!
4:02 PM Got to the campsite at 1:30. Just finally got everything set up and collapsed on my air matress while the munchkin plays his DS. Gah!
6:28 PM Camping! http://flic.kr/p/6BYUWG
10:47 PM Wow, it got cold outside... And we're *outside*. I got us decent sleeping bags, so we're comfy.
Sunday 7/5
1:53 PM Ruh-roh. Bumper to bumper traffic and we haven't even left Tahoe yet! #hell
10:28 PM OMG... longest vacation commute home ever. Over 6 hours, not counting a stop off for dinner.
10:30 PM We listened to "A Wrinkle In Time" audio-book on the way to and from Tahoe. That's a particularly weird-ass story, if you want my opinion.
Wednesday 7/8
1:15 AM Wow, Goog has lost its collective mind. Chrome OS? It's doomed to be a toy that Googlers themselves won't use.
9:24 AM I just deleted all the other apps on my Ubuntu desktop except for the browser. Look! It's the Firefox OS™ !
5:07 PM Ubiquity makes me crazy I never became proficient in Javascript: http://bit.ly/lQkq1
Thursday 7/9
9:53 AM Coolness - Free N97 Compass App: http://thinkchange.cn/products/compass.php
2:58 PM I want a new drug
One that wont hurt my head
One that wont make my mouth too dry
Or make my eyes too red
3:27 PM I ♥ Women Geeks. :-)
5:12 PM Why don't NAM variants of the 5800 XpressMusic have FOTA settings installed? It'd be nice not to have to use Windows to do an update.
8:09 PM @atmasphere It took several web searches and 18 pages of Twitter Search to figure out WTF #chansefail was. Thanks! ;-)
Friday 7/10
7:40 AM OMG, this video on how to open a banana like a monkey has me cracking up! http://bit.ly/MwIst
Wow!
11:18 AM Twitter freaked out over the past 10 hours or so and barfed a bunch of unrelated tweets into my @ reply feed. Weirdness.
11:21 AM Hello Interwebs! How are you today?
11:34 AM Amusing video... Sadly, the girl at my video game store doesn't look like Olivia Munn (she makes me happy). :-) http://bit.ly/gU5jn
11:56 AM Dear Microsoft Word: We've been spending a lot of time together lately, but I think you and I need some time apart. It's not you, it's me.
12:54 PM Testing out Seesmic's web-based Twitter client. It's nice, but it still doesn't do "sort by user" like my foozik.com demo yet. :-)
1:53 PM Checking out http://roomatic.com/#crunchup to see if it was still up and running. Yep, that's nice. :-) #crunchup
2:39 PM Saw how much spam was in #crunchup, so I added spam blocking to Roomatic.com. Just click the [x] and the user is hidden for that session.
4:05 PM The IIS flies over Northern California tonight at 9:13pm for 5 minutes, starting at 10 degrees above West. More info: http://bit.ly/p3uQl
5:53 PM Just dropped the munchkin off ending a spectacular Daddy Week... which of course means I'm in an even more foul mood than normal. Bleh.
6:06 PM @joshu My Tandy Model 100 is one of my prized possessions, but gutting it and replacing the innards with my Dell Mini sounds amusing to me.
6:19 PM Portable Computing... A pic of my Tandy Model 100 next to a Nokia N810 and N97, Dell Mini, iPhone and Android G1. http://flic.kr/p/6DEorc
9:28 PM Went outside to see the IIS fly over... couldn't find it. Didn't help that I'm surrounded by trees and it's not even totally dark yet.
Saturday 7/11
9:18 AM Made some really strong coffee this morning - more like thinned battery acid really. I think I like it!
10:27 AM Wow, I've never heard of "memristor" before... Very interesting history of how it happened and its application: http://bit.ly/AuGIi
12:24 PM I'm spending this beautiful Saturday inside playing Battlefield 1943 on XBox at top volume. It's pretty freakin' fun!
1:00 PM So much for Battlefield 1943. The lag is insane and the servers aren't responding to start new matches. EA needs to get their shit together.
1:00 PM Considering I'm connected using Comcast's 50Mbps plan, I can't imagine the lag is on my end. :-)
9:35 PM Found the problem I was having in Firefox 3.5: middlemouse.contentLoadURL was set to true. Such a weird default.
Sunday 7/12
3:25 AM I may have overshot on the caffeine intake today.
1:38 PM Today is the first day of the rest of your pie. Mmmm... pie.
2:05 PM Adding RSS feeds to the N97 home screen is interesting, but I honestly don't know how useful it is... http://bit.ly/fs7kf
Tuesday 7/14
12:28 AM Well we all shine on... Like the moon and the stars and the sun... Yeah we all shine on... On and on and on on and on!
2:01 PM Linking to the iTunes store is annoying. It was annoying when AOL was doing it with their custom client years ago, Apple's is no different.
2:37 PM It's been a few years, I need to watch this again for inspiration - Triumph of the Nerds (on Google Video): http://bit.ly/4hHPpj
Wednesday 7/15
10:00 AM It just dawned on me that I can play with Spotify through the intranet (which exits via Finland). Anyone have an invite for me?
11:42 AM I knew morning sex had work-related benefits! "A trader's morning testosterone level predicts his day's profitability." http://bit.ly/DZvjM
12:10 PM W00t! N-Gage is available for N97 NAM: http://bit.ly/Hm4Lr
(Go to Software Updater to get it)
12:11 PM Still waiting for a Spotify invite... come on you Euros, one of you must have one for me!
12:23 PM Gah! I was able to sign up to Spotify, but the client won't run because the relevant ports are blocked internally. Damn! (Nice try though.)
4:49 PM W00t. Listening to Spotify. It's a very nice client!
5:02 PM "My feet is my only carriage, so I've got to push on through."
7:42 PM Wow. Pepsi really did kill Michael.
Thursday 7/16
12:40 AM Gah! E74 error on my XBox with a Red Ring Of Death. Noooooo!!!!!
9:20 AM OPK on CNBC: http://bit.ly/HZys1
(Spin it baby! Spin!!)
10:54 AM Keeping track of #mobilebeat via Roomatic: http://roomatic.com/mobilebeat
11:08 AM Just added "jQuery Growl" to Roomatic to make the notifications less jerky... So many plugins out there, it took like 2 minutes. #mobilebeat
3:19 PM Innovation comes from competition. Innovating in a vacuum doesn't work. Focus on competing, and innovation will happen.
4:08 PM @derricks Actually your AP style guide made me both nostalgic and aware that I don't have one and should. I can't believe it's not online.
6:04 PM "Who cares if your Warcraft wife is really a dude - If it's GOOD, don't check under the HOOD."
7:21 PM @derricks What I really want is an AP Style automatic spell/grammar checker integrated into all my OSes... ;-)
9:24 PM RT @lmorchard Whoa. Palm webOS emulator is a VirtualBox image. BRILLIANT. http://bit.ly/mI1Nr [Works in Linux like it should! Awesome.]
Friday 7/17
1:24 AM Up late watching Sarah Marshall... I want to move to Hawaii!
2:34 AM This place is dead anyway, man.
11:18 AM Dear Fellow Nokians, please repeat after me: You can't erase blog posts. You can't erase blog posts. You can't erase blog posts. Got it?
11:44 AM How to play old-school ROMs on your N97 using the PicoDrive emulator for S60: http://bit.ly/4gGrh9
11:50 AM Wow, I really disliked the N97's right-aligned space bar, but it actually makes a pretty kick-ass "A" key for the game emulator! :-)
12:37 PM Daddy week starts today!! W00t! I need to get my shit together, though, I'm totally not ready for it.
2:28 PM The Party has authorized Amazon to place "1984" into the memory hole, as well as add the word "unpurchase" to the Newspeak dictionary.
2:54 PM "Ear Mullet" ROFL! http://bit.ly/2qqeK
3:48 PM Ok, last update for a while. Tried calling a bunch of campsites but they are all booked, so I no tenting this weekend. Bummer.
10:22 PM I'm totally making this Macaroni Salad tomorrow, it's super simple but looks fantastic: http://bit.ly/vFT4h
Sunday 7/19
10:04 PM Started playing Castle Crashers with the munchkin tonight. Crazy-ass side-scrolling cartoon-like co-op video-games rule.
10:31 PM RT Derrick Just loved The Bee Gees - Night Fever http://x.hypem.com/YZjuo
Monday 7/20
10:03 AM My body says it's Monday, my heart says it's Sunday, my mind says "Huh? Wha?"
Tuesday 7/21
3:47 PM I CANNOT FOCUS! My head is like a bingo tumbler and each thought is like a bouncing numbered ball. GAH!!!!
4:18 PM I love reading Marissa Mayer exposes.... it's so much easier than stalking her myself. http://bit.ly/KeoJD
8:22 PM Watching Never Ending Story for the first time with Alex... He seems pretty into it so far. THE NOTHING IS COMING!!!
10:17 PM Prediction: Custom e-ink readers like the Kindle will be killed as soon as the first "netpads" (inexpensive web tablets) gain momentum.
10:18 PM My previous update would have, in a past life, been a 3,000 word screed on my blog with little to no additional info/opinion. :-)
Wednesday 7/22
11:36 AM Nicolas Cage pachinko commercials: http://bit.ly/8BKTx
12:06 PM At work (not sure why, actually) listening to Spotify. Surprised by how little I recognize the most popular song list. Getting *old*.
1:09 PM I ate a Boston Chicken Carver® sandwich for lunch. I really, really need to stop eating trademarked foods.
2:25 PM 2009: The Year When Everyone Famous Died. "Gidget the Chihuahua dies at 15" See!?!?
9:20 PM ☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺
11:56 PM I am Jack's wasted life.
Thursday 7/23
11:55 AM Just sent another email to Twitter support trying to get @russellbeattie as my username back. (Because that's what it is everywhere else).
12:58 PM Installed Digia@Web, another webkit-based browser for Maemo (Nokia N810). Sadly it too is unusable. Why is this so hard? http://bit.ly/uSFhv
3:42 PM There was a time in my life when I looked at the clock during work, it never seemed to move. Now it won't stop jumping forward by hours.
10:16 PM HOLY SHIT! Mork and Mindy is on the SyFy channel *right now!*. I had no idea!! How is that possible?!?! Did they have TiVo in 1978!?!?
Friday 7/24
10:50 AM Stopped at 7-11 and got some hazelnut coffee. Mmm!!! With lots of creamer and sugar.
4:25 PM No munchkin for another week. That SUCKS.
7:34 PM New Blog Post: Q Search widget for Nokia N97/5800 - http://bit.ly/4pNYZ6
Saturday 7/25
6:40 PM Spent the last 12 hours or so watching the *entire* "Avatar: The Last Airbender" series. Sooooooo GREAT!! Unbelievably well done.
10:44 PM Listening to Pandora streaming via Boxee on my HDTV/Stereo with full-screen visuals. Man I wish I was a stoner! FREE BIRD!!!! W00t!!!
Sunday 7/26
12:06 AM Mi aerodeslizador está lleno de anguilas.
2:34 AM Watching OpenCourseWare videos on Boxee just to blow my mind. MIT classrooms look depressing... Berkeley seems to like Emacs and Lisp. :-)
Monday 7/27
1:51 PM Interesting! My Q Search widget works on the E71 as well... Is there a complete list of Nokia phones with the WRT out there?
3:05 PM Ilmatyynyalukseni on täynnä ankeriaita
3:57 PM I love netpads! The Mintpad looks so cool: http://bit.ly/lKs5T
7:52 PM I set up a new single-use website for a friend: http://daddyweek.com :-)
9:44 PM Why doesn't ESPN cover any Major League Soccer news? (Unless it involves Beckham.) SportsCenter this time of year is 100% baseball. Bleh.
Tuesday 7/28
11:41 AM Holy crap! The Zii Egg with Android looks awesome! Like an iPod Touch on steroids. http://bit.ly/OeORr I'm really tempted to get a dev unit.
11:44 AM @jimh ROFL. Madrileňo? Is that some Czech province, or did you mean Madrileño? Hehehehe. :-)
11:53 AM Message on my N97 webkit browser: "To get the new Yahoo Mobile: Download the Opera Mini™ browser, then visit m.yahoo.com" FAIL FAIL FAIL
1:34 PM My new diet plan: Being dropped Survivor Man style in a remote forest and surviving on squirrel meat and berries while hiking to rescue.
1:37 PM Holy crap. Way. Too. Much. Caffeine. In. My. Body.
2:05 PM Interesting Qt Labs demo - 200 lines of Javascript plus some custom Qt markup (QML) for a snazzy looking "Same Game": http://bit.ly/7wGRW
2:15 PM When did git move all those executables out of /usr/bin and into /usr/lib/git-core? Much cleaner! I'll have to stop bitching about git now.
2:25 PM Just got informed by @usuallyalex that Yahoo! will try to push an update to fix the N97 problem in the next release. W00t! Thanks Alex!
3:54 PM Wow, it took all of 3 days for my Q Search widget to get cloned: http://bit.ly/CP1RK Looks great! (He mentions me, so no harm done.) :-)
5:44 PM I made a MadMen avatar: http://bit.ly/13MxNC
... Now if only I could be that cool for real. ;-)
Wednesday 7/29
1:10 PM I want to like the Palm Pre commercials, but they honestly freak me out. It's like she's brainwashed and inviting you to join her cult.
Thursday 7/30
12:59 PM I haven't tweeted in over 24 hours. I hope everyone is okay!
2:42 PM The speech-bubble may be overused as a logo element, but I *still* think it looks cool each time I see it. I don't know why.
4:29 PM I had no idea that Crocs were a passing fad and the company is in trouble: http://bit.ly/ww3am (Those Santa Cruz ones look cool...)
8:51 PM I'm still amazed that TechCrunch has forayed their tech gossip blog into a chance at making a cool company around CrunchPad. *Urgh*
8:54 PM I should just wander into their offices and beg for a job w/stock - I'm 100% convinced netpads are going to be the Next Big Thing.
Friday 7/31
12:14 PM eBay paid $2.6B for Skype, but didn't include the core piece of tech?!? Amazing. Meg Whitman is and has always been a clueless moron.
9:39 PM Had a blast tonight playing Wii Sports Resort with the munchkin. So fun! The folks at Nintendo are the masters.
August 2009
Saturday 8/1
1:40 PM Ben Franklin has been my hero since childhood. Great presentation in NYT today: http://bit.ly/tEpnw
2:28 PM Tittering monkey. In the spring he climbs tree-tops. And thinks he is tall.
5:24 PM Start my 2 week vacation with the munchkin next week... still ZERO idea where we're going. URGH.
11:46 PM Why are there different swimming "strokes"? Who cares if you're the fastest at swimming in a funny way. Imagine if sprinting was like that?
11:52 PM Just bought "The Race For A New Game Machine" tonight... I hope it's as interesting as it seems: http://bit.ly/t8ZoE
Sunday 8/2
4:01 PM Look, a VC is pontificating on the "real" mobile web! Whew! I was worried we hadn't beat that subject to death yet. http://bit.ly/V8jNP
4:03 PM Ugh! The very tip of my right index finger (the one I click with) is sore as hell from pressing "B" to defend myself in Wii Swordplay. Ow!
Monday 8/3
2:15 PM EVERYONE LOVES CAKE!!!
Tuesday 8/4
10:37 AM The Digia@Web browser for S60 is pretty good! (The Maemo one is unusable). http://www.digia.com/browser
8:22 PM The "Over The Phone Usability Test" - My thoughts from Dec. 2007: http://bit.ly/4DVYXF and @azaaza 's today: http://bit.ly/RqK2f :-)
11:02 PM I was surprised to see the ability to play online in EA's Tiger Woods Golf 10 for the Wii... All of 57 people in there. Oof.
11:35 PM Playing with uploading images from my Nintendo DSi to Facebook. CUTTING EDGE BABY! I'm on it! :-)
Wednesday 8/5
2:07 PM Dear Gatorade: It's not the letter 'G' that's important, it's the letters HFCS - get rid of that shit and maybe I'll buy your drink again.
2:08 PM Why is it *always* 2 O'Clock!?!?
3:05 PM Anyone recognize this commercial from Spain? I love that song. :-) http://youtube.com/watch?v=643J9zxKkEQ
9:25 PM Barça is in Seattle playing the Sounders tonight?!? Holy cow!
Thursday 8/6
12:40 AM Sales numbers for the latest gen consoles as of June: PS3: 23.8M, XBox 360: 30.2M, Wii: 52.6M
1:02 AM Up late finishing up The Race For A New Game Machine. Here's a WSJ article about it: http://bit.ly/zyGHl
5:40 PM Live on Qik now! http://qik.ly/bP1M
7:44 PM Packing.
11:40 PM EA's Battlefield 1943 has killed my second XBox 360. I'm not kidding! Good thing this one is still returnable. Amazing!
Friday 8/7
10:50 AM I can't post updates from the web. Forced to use Gravity to tweet!
3:00 PM Live on Qik now! http://qik.ly/bW2k
10:29 PM Goin' campin' in the mornin'. W00t!
Tuesday 8/11
8:31 PM On vacation and generally off the grid. Feels good. :-)
Wednesday 8/12
4:40 PM Our new campsite has WiFi! (I'm not sure if that's a good thing or not.) No electricity though, so my connectivity will be short lived.
Thursday 8/13
1:57 PM Just took a bunch of pics with my N97 in the Redwoods and then discovered *none* were saved for some reason. WTF?!?
5:07 PM The photos were still in the images folder - but the photo app wasn't showing them and I thought they were gone for good. Thanks @lightbulb!
Sunday 8/16
2:15 PM We're in Oregon. It's damn chilly on the coast. Heading inland tomorrow!
5:40 PM Wow... It's already chilly like a September afternoon, and the wind is whooshing through the trees. It's going to be an interesting night!
Monday 8/17
3:03 PM Arrived in Ashland, OR hoping to catch a play. Bad planning however as there's no shows on Monday!!! Argh!
7:29 PM Gorgeous hot Summer weather in Ashland! Yes! My tolerance for chilly Pacific coastal weather is officially 48 hours.
8:50 PM Don't take the brown acid, man.
Tuesday 8/18
10:47 AM Off to Mt. Shasta! (Goin' back to Cali...)
4:44 PM Mt. shasta is hot as hades and the lake is like a mud puddle. At a water park in Redding with no clue where to go next!
Thursday 8/20
8:51 AM Toured Lake Shasta Dam, then the Caverns and rented a Wave Runner - 105F on the lake! Now in a cabin near Lassen Volcanic Nat. Park.
8:30 PM Hiked up to Bumpass Hell today. Very impressive and it definitely has an apt name!
11:01 PM Last day of vacation tomorrow (Friday), the back home on Saturday. Two weeks is a long time to wander around, I'll be glad to be home!
Friday 8/21
6:13 PM Home at last!! W00t!
10:19 PM It's amazing how quickly the joy of being home is tempered by the fact that I loathe where I live. I totally forgot!
11:01 PM Top line of my newsreader - Unread: Social (12111) News (58) Mobile (619) Tech (1584) Weblogs (448) Gadgets (2105) Links (1898)
Saturday 8/22
2:51 PM Holy crap! Facebook bought FriendFeed?!? What else did I miss?!?!
4:06 PM "... conservatives who are fighting health-care reform are filthy hypocritical lying scum." Nicely put! http://bit.ly/167Sxa
6:13 PM I need to get off my ass and email the Mozilla mobile guys some detailed thoughts. Fennec B3 is as fundamentally flawed as previous revs.
8:38 PM Git tutorials are so excited about branch merging and tagging, they all forget to explain how to see a list of file changes and revert.
9:27 PM Got a notice today from the European Patent Office that my name is on another Yahoo! patent app: "Mobile Monetization". Interesting!
Sunday 8/23
2:22 PM New blog post: The Mobitopia Itch - http://bit.ly/12o102
4:53 PM Without looking, do you know how many feet are in a mile? I didn't.
8:04 PM Re-reading the Belgariad by David Eddings on my N810. (He died in June this year.) It's almost as good as when I first read it 20 years ago.
Monday 8/24
10:20 AM Holy cow the Nokia Booklet 3G looks great!!! http://bit.ly/16vyhd
October 2009
Tuesday 10/6
8:42 PM Apple's Knowledge Navigator video from 1987. Always nice to check in and see how we're doing: http://bit.ly/iBoY3
January 2010
Sunday 1/17
3:27 AM I'll take cake please. http://youtu.be/BNjcuZ-LiSY
5:21 PM ME WANT BANANA!
Monday 1/18
6:00 AM I wonder when someone is going to combine Wii Fit with Call of Duty? Man, I'll be in *great* shape then!
8:19 AM http://www.owl.com? I totally want the job of going through AOL's insane list of domain names and picking out fun ones to start mini sites.
Tuesday 1/19
4:41 AM Wow, my knee is killing me - but I didn't do anything to it. I think it's the weather. I'm getting to the age my joints are sensitive? UGH!
7:20 AM Interesting... http://simplynoise.com I've got the pink noise cranked now. It's oddly soothing.
7:51 AM Quake 3 multiplayer on a Nokia N900 using the ioquake3 engine: http://bit.ly/5NWjuY Pretty slick!
9:12 AM Got Quake3 up and running - it's very smooth and playable. I can't seem to join any multiplayer servers though... I'll have to mess with it.
4:13 PM Christina Hendricks... Golden Globes... Wow.
4:14 PM I actually turned on the Weather Channel this morning for the first time in probably 10 years... I felt like I was in New England again.
Wednesday 1/20
12:26 AM Engadget sorta likes the N900... It's amazing that Nokia had the capabilities to do that phone years ago, but the will wasn't there. Grr!
4:04 AM HOW THE FUCK ARE THE REPUBLICANS WINNING ANY ELECTION ANYWHERE? Are people's memories THAT short!? You fucking idiots.
4:34 AM Has anyone set up a blacklist of MA based companies yet? I feel the need for retribution and boycotting those stupid fucks is step 1.
4:35 PM Dear California: It's just rain. Please try to not drive like total insane psychopaths. Thanks!
10:50 PM Leaf blowers in the rain. Gah! I'd bitch, but the poor guy probably won't get paid if he skips today, even though it's wasteful and futile.
11:47 PM "Now serving G155 at window number 12." (I'm number G166... Ahh the joys of the DMV).
Thursday 1/21
7:35 AM "Snap back to reality, oh there goes gravity..."
7:40 AM "Ford carried on counting quietly. This is about the most aggressive thing you can do to a computer..."
7:45 AM "Of course I won the fucking sword fight," Hiro says. "I'm the greatest sword fighter in the world."
8:57 AM RT @mobitopia: Nokia gives away free Worldwide Walk & Drive Navigation with Ovi Maps: http://nokb.ly/kz
10:37 AM I'm such a geek... I need to go to bed, but am instead updating my Nokia 5800 to try out the new Maps, and updating my Archos 5 too... gah!
7:51 PM So I sorta misspoke before, it's only the N900 version of Ovi Maps which is a complete UX nightmare. The S60 version is actually OK!
8:58 PM Testing out Post.ly ... Not sure if I like that domain very much. http://post.ly/JrHY
9:33 PM I desperately need to lose weight. I think I'm going to buy an elliptical machine. (As a dust collector, mostly...)
10:59 PM Why hasn't anyone staked out Steve Jobs' house in Palo Alto, paparazzi style? A telephoto lense and an open window could be news gold.
Friday 1/22
6:39 PM Ummm... Tweakers and tweekers aren't the same thing. (Though they can be if you don't watch your dosage, trust me.) http://bit.ly/6MrR2w
10:44 PM Upgraded to Firefox 3.6 and "browser.tabs.insertRelatedAfterCurrent" is now defaulted to "true". I hate changes like this for no reason.
10:48 PM This 360° video on CNN of Haiti is astounding. I didn't even know this sort of thing was possible: http://bit.ly/54Wz4C (via @GregKumparak)
Saturday 1/23
12:53 AM Going home, having a full-on "weekend" and not thinking about work until Monday.
4:49 AM Playing with my custom news reader to see if I can make reading 1,500 daily tweets/FB status updates possible without skimming.
4:50 AM I changed the page to group updates by hour, then by person... it's still pretty noisy.
4:55 AM The theory is that people tweet in bursts (like I am now), so by grouping them I can read their thoughts quicker without context change.
11:47 PM Trying to construct my new elliptical. It's been like two hours already... it's like my first workout.
11:49 PM I stayed up very late last night messing with node.js... It compiles and runs from scratch easily, but v8 is impossible. SCons *sucks*.
11:51 PM Does this bring back memories for you? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Keep_on_the_Borderlands
11:54 PM I just stumbled upon a movie on TV called "Gigantic". Zooey Deschanel isn't a person, she's a religious experience.
Sunday 1/24
1:52 AM Thinking about wiring up my elliptical to Twitter for the yucks...
8:08 AM Finally got V8 and V8CGI compiled, installed and working on my server. Hurrah! It only took 24+ hours or so. :-)
2:36 PM "Shiny! Let's be bad guys..."
10:40 PM @iankennedy Subtitles and voice dubbing are usually translated by different companies, which can be quite amusing when learning. :-)
10:48 PM Trying to remember how cookies work... foo.site.com can't access bar.site.com right? but they both can see site.com... I think.
Monday 1/25
12:04 AM Used my elliptical for the second day... 17 minutes. I had a treadmill once, and it was really noisy, it's so different on this machine.
12:05 AM I think the advice I got about getting a rowing machine instead was spot-on though. The only muscles really working are my thighs.
12:17 AM From my blog in 2003: Urgh! Steve, we all want a Mac Tablet! http://bit.ly/6DzbZJ Key quote: "Tablets are the future - it's just obvious."
12:18 AM (We'll all be driving flying cars some day too. And when we do, I'll point back to this tweet as a sign of my brilliance. Just FYI.)
Tuesday 1/26
1:47 AM I'm having a day.
4:41 AM "Each individual coal car weighs 100 tons and produces 20 minutes of electricity." http://bit.ly/4TnRXB
5:22 PM Woke at 6 a.m. and couldn't sleep... Decided to get up and use my elliptical. For me, this is a sign of having a full-on psychotic episode.
9:06 PM Using my elliptical has definitely made me look 20 years younger... I haven't lost any weight, but my face has broken out.
11:54 PM McGraw-Hill outs Apple early: it's a tablet - http://bit.ly/9kGfTZ Heh... this guy completely doesn't care about Apple's sense of drama. :-)
Wednesday 1/27
6:45 AM The video of the Apple search suggesting "iPad" is pretty good. If it's a fake, it's ingenious! Just subtle enough to make you wonder. :-)
5:13 PM On the can, reading pre-Apple event news on my Archos 5 web tablet. Should I tag this #ironic or #symbolic?
9:40 PM "If you’d like to be notified when iPad will be available to order, just enter your email address in the box to the right."
Thursday 1/28
3:27 AM Just started watching the Apple presentation video. Goddamn Jobs looks more and more like Ghandi! He needs a white robe and walking stick.
3:32 AM Whoa... I hadn't heard about the beginning where Jobs calls Sony, Samsung and Nokia his bitches when it comes to "mobile devices revenues."
4:13 AM RT @MozMobile: Firefox for Maemo Release Candidate 3 is live! Check out what's new: http://bit.ly/aO2xWQ
4:16 AM Happily, it just dawned on me that "iPad" will spur competitors to use my favorite term, "NetPad" (aka cheap touch-screen netbooks). W00t!
8:29 AM New Blog Post - What we really wanted was a MacPad not an iPad http://goo.gl/fb/BThy
Friday 1/29
1:03 AM Fondled a Nexus One for the first time today. It's very nice. The hardware is slick, the software tweaks are nice, and it's pretty snappy.
1:03 AM RT @j_loughney: RT @tomiahonen Nokia sold more touchscreen smartphones than all iPhones in the 4th Q 2009 roughly as many QWERTY as all ...
5:48 AM ⚃ ⚄ ⚂ ⚅ ⚅ ⚂
6:01 AM I totally want that little blue convertible in the movie Nine - http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/52/NineA_ver4.jpg
6:59 AM RT @rcousine: @RussB Nine-mobile is a Late 50s or early 60s Alfa Romeo Giulietta: http://tinyurl.com/yzx3xcv
7:04 AM Trying to get my metal watch band back together after I took it apart to "adjust" it. This is not going to end well.
7:07 AM Like a couch stuck in the stairwell of a Douglas Adams novel, apparently this thing needs all four dimensions to fit in right.
Saturday 1/30
5:22 AM Holy crap! Just saw a commercial for MAG (http://www.mag.com) 256 person battles?!? Wow! I may have finally found a reason to buy a PS3.
5:28 PM Do they sell Red Bull in intravenous drip bags?
9:36 PM I gave up my boycott and signed up for Netflix. Tons of streaming content for my TiVo was too hard to resist.
Sunday 1/31
7:05 AM Watching Gilbert Gottfried's "Dirty Jokes" via Netflix. Just heard the absolute raunchiest joke I've ever heard, and it's only 10 min in!
4:30 PM Capture that creature and return the Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator!!!
5:10 PM "Ho! Haha! Guard! Turn! Parry! Dodge! Spin! Thrust!!"
8:25 PM "So effective was the president that Fox News cut away from the broadcast 20 minutes before it ended." http://bit.ly/9rv7cl
February 2010
Monday 2/1
7:40 AM Amazon wants to dictate market prices, Apple wants to dictate software... What's next, digital TVs where I can't turn off Fox News?
9:32 PM Fabian Hemmert's presentation on "graspable digital content" is fantastic. Quick, concise and interesting: http://youtu.be/QCmsvXgxdDY
11:45 PM I'm addicted to California mandarin oranges! (I honestly don't think I've ever made myself sick eating too much *fruit* before now.)
Tuesday 2/2
5:10 AM Ran out of bedtime story material, so I downloaded "Adventure According to Humphrey" from Amazon. Instant books are *sooo* awesome!!!
5:10 AM I really, really wish there was a Kindle reader for my N810 or Archos 5.
8:19 AM @davemcclure I got your back, baby!
8:22 AM Decided to stream "The Colour of Magic" via Netflix. I never liked the books, and the video didn't do anything to change that opinion.
8:22 AM With the impulsive registration of russell.fm, I'm now back up to 50 domains. This is completely fucking ridiculous of course.
10:18 PM Wow... @oyinbo just told me that http://sun.com redirects to Oracle. Yep... I shouldn't be amazed, but I am.
Wednesday 2/3
6:27 AM Frontline is on. Apparently computers are bad. :-)
Thursday 2/4
4:52 PM "Heinz revamps ketchup packets" http://bit.ly/dDBAsU Finally! (It's the little things sometimes that make life better. :-) )
10:04 PM The great thing about working with the NSA? You don't need to give them passwords for your servers or anything.
10:17 PM I love the video of Spoon's "The Underdog" - http://youtu.be/q1hZVDLkJDc
Friday 2/5
3:29 AM Gravity.com just sent me an invite code for their beta. Usernames are limited to 12 letters. My regular username has 14. #dumb
3:39 AM Gravity seems to be a generic forum with foursquare-style "badges". I can think of a dozen ways which I'd improve it. Great domain though!
3:44 AM Argh! I wish Ubuntu wouldn't update the kernel *quite* so often. It requires a reboot and stuff *always* breaks.
4:14 AM The munchkin seems to be enjoying some "Tweety" movie, but pretty much any Looney Tunes cartoon made in the last 30 years *suuuucks*.
10:19 PM RT @simonw: Just re-read "Hey Crackhead", my favourite best of craigslist posting of all time http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/sfo/2 ...
11:11 PM RT @sloanb: Hey Apple, is there an app for this? Play SNES with PS3 controller on the big screen http://bit.ly/aThxZM
11:44 PM I made a dentist appointment for next Friday. It's been a couple years, ugh!!
Saturday 2/6
12:47 AM Testing posting via Mozilla Ubiquity (@mozillaubiquity). Pretty cool!
12:59 AM Hey @mozlabs, the link to the next version of Ubiquity isn't responding: http://ubiquity.mozilla.com/xpi/ubiquity-latest-dot-next.xpi
1:02 AM Can't say I'm particularly happy with my new 2TB NAS setup... Using rsync it maxes out at 1.7Mb/s over a Gigabit network. Not great.
6:35 AM Just realized this Mark Twain documentary I'm watching is 3½ hours long!! I'm enjoying it, but wow... I think I'll come back to it tomorrow.
Sunday 2/7
12:01 AM I actually just watched the last 45 minutes of a NASCAR race to see how Danica would do. (I think she's cool.)
7:07 AM Reinstalling Ubuntu on my media pc while watching 1776 streaming via netflix... "For God's sake John, sit down!"
8:34 AM Wow, Nixon had the producers of 1776 remove a song in the play which talked about conservatives... Wikipedia rules.
8:39 AM "Don't forget that most men with nothing would rather protect the possibility of becoming rich than face the reality of being poor."
8:48 AM In 1776, Thomas Jefferson was 33 and John Adams was 41 (Ben Franklin was 70). It'd be 21 years before Adams was President, 25 for Jefferson.
Monday 2/8
7:57 AM Man, I'm in a shitty mood. Probably because I haven't seen or spoken to another human being in the past, oh, 72 hours or so...
10:02 PM Meg Whitman is speaking at Kepler's tonight... someone should ask her how she expects to run California after fucking up at eBay so badly.
Tuesday 2/9
2:01 AM I need more momentum. Had it on Friday, lost it sometime on Saturday... suck.
6:44 AM I'm chaperoning my son's class trip tomorrow to SF... should be very amusing. But they need me there by 8:30 a.m. Gah!
7:39 AM Watching "His Girl Friday"... Movies don't get much more classic than this. :-)
5:05 PM Trapped on a yellow school bus with three dozen 7 year olds!!! HALP!
Wednesday 2/10
8:54 AM Hello Joe, what do you know?
Thursday 2/11
10:24 AM Tells you how busy I've been that I've just *now* gotten around to trying Google Buzz... It sucks, but hey, I hate gMail too.
10:31 AM I have no idea why I just enabled Buzz... basically the next time I log in to gMail in like six months I'll have 18,000 'updates' waiting.
11:27 AM Playing whack-a-mole with dead URLs while watching Magnum P.I. streaming... yay.
10:16 PM Just woke up after nursemaiding a website all night... Crap I haven't done laundry.
10:17 PM Just saw an article about Glitch. I find it amusing the "gentleman's agreement" the press seem to have about not mentioning their split...
10:20 PM The most amusing thing is that Google's search suggestions for *both* Caterina and Stewart have 'divorce' as the second item. (Sshhhh!)
10:28 PM Apparently Silicon Valley is losing it's edge to places like (I kid you not), Huntsville, Alabama. Have they legalized evolution there yet?
10:38 PM I should get moving... Crap, I don't have any clean clothes. Maybe I'll wear shorts...
Friday 2/12
1:21 AM Using awk to analyze server log files for 404s... I am *old skool* baby. I need to grow out my beard now that it's coming in grey.
7:37 AM An amazing thing about watching Magnum P.I.'s first season is that I'm older now (38) than Tom Selleck was then (35). That's just not right.
7:37 AM The other amazing thing is how bad those shows were. :-)
7:47 PM Mavericks surf contest set for 8 a.m. Saturday - http://www.maverickssurf.com/
Saturday 2/13
8:38 PM Dear NBC: Your Olympics coverage continually sucks. I hope Comcast fires every one of you assholes.
8:39 PM Just zipped through my TiVoed Opening Ceremonies... Why do Canadians think they're so "nice"? Ever run into one in Europe? Total douchebags.
9:45 PM FYI - My maternal grandmother and extended family are Canadian. It's just when Canadians go to Europe, they become *vicious* anti-Americans.
9:50 PM The only exception are French Canadians in Paris. They're so surprised at the negative reception they receive, they'll befriend anyone. :-)
9:51 PM (I watched someone in Paris completely ignore my French Canadian travel buddy, preferring to speak to me in English. It was amazing.)
9:53 PM Other than that, within a beer or two, any Canadian you encounter in Europe will tell you what they *really* think about the US. Guaranteed.
9:58 PM While living in Spain, I met a Canadian expat - who didn't even speak Spanish - explain to me how he was "more European" than I was.
9:59 PM And don't get me started on those damn Canadian maple leaf patches! And the Urban Legend that Americans use them to hide their identity. FU!
9:59 PM Okay, ending Canadian rant. :-)
10:07 PM @vero Hehe. Actually, outside of Paris he got along pretty well which is how I knew his French was fine. But once we got to the city... WOW!
Sunday 2/14
1:19 AM @brenda09 and @mikiszikszai Thanks, but I'm pretty sure you're both referring to @publicaddress and not me. :-)
10:59 PM Having a lazy day.
11:47 PM BTW, I *totally* win: http://russell.fm/images/myvalentine.jpg
Monday 2/15
4:20 AM Interesting - http://fav4.org . I tried something similar with Quintet.me - I wonder if limiting the sources makes a difference?
5:07 PM We started watching "Star Blazers". So great! The over-the-top drama is as captivating to my 7yo as was to me in the early 80s. :-)
Tuesday 2/16
11:45 PM "You found my magic taco!" - Plants Vs. Zombies rules. I can't believe it was only $3.
Wednesday 2/17
6:54 PM Weeeee! Robitussin! Can you believe they sell this stuff over the counter? I think I see rainbows!
Thursday 2/18
12:26 AM Wow, it's almost 5... Man, this cold has me laid out flat. (Well, that and all the meds I'm taking. Is that a unicorn!?!?)
8:13 AM Went to bed early, only to wake up at midnight. Watching Curling... the British Women's 19yo Skip (Eve Muirhead) is beautiful!!
8:22 AM Awesome, the free Flash-based version of Plants Vs. Zombies works on Linux. http://www.popcap.com/games/free/pvz
Friday 2/19
3:39 AM Wow! "Before & After" is still around! http://www.bamagazine.com/ I used to read it in college. It looks as good now as it did then!
9:39 PM The new Wall Street movie actually doesn't look bad: http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox/wallstreetmoneyneversleeps/
Saturday 2/20
9:15 PM Found out yesterday that MeeGo is standardizing on RPM and dropping Deb/Apt . I haven't stopped swearing and throwing things yet.
Sunday 2/21
6:04 AM I spent *all* day playing Defense Grid - a kickass "tower defense" game on XBox 360. http://defensegrid.hiddenpath.com/ Insanely addicting.
11:02 PM I could care less about hockey, but I'd love to see USA beat Canada. Simply so I can be a dick about it. :-)
Monday 2/22
2:49 AM Playing with the Twitter Stream API: "curl -s -d track=hockey http://stream.twitter.com/1/statuses/filter.json -uUSER:PASS"
Tuesday 2/23
2:19 AM Jesse Schell’s talk on the future of games - http://bit.ly/bJVViA "There are more Farmville users than Twitter accounts."
11:06 AM RT @NokiaResearch: Nokia Conversations posted a video of NRC's Explore and Share. Very cool. http://bit.ly/clHuSZ
11:32 PM Wow! The Last Airbender movie is looking more and more *awesome*!!! http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramount/thelastairbender/
11:48 PM Which Element are you? http://www.thelastairbendermovie.com/element/ (Water Tribe Rules!!) ;-)
Wednesday 2/24
10:43 PM I'm having a day. (Note the conspicuous lack of the word 'good'.)
Friday 2/26
2:24 AM W00t! Angry Birds Level Pack 1 for the N900 is back on Ovi Store: http://store.ovi.com/content/23857 Purchased!
March 2010
Monday 3/1
8:09 AM Wow, Sunday's Dilbert has captured my life to perfection... http://bit.ly/cB0A8k
6:52 PM Archos 7 Web Tablet for $179... Very cool! I love my Archos 5, I'll definitely be getting the larger version. http://bit.ly/cP2cgr
Tuesday 3/2
5:43 AM If the world was crazy, you know what I'd do? I'd walk on the ocean and swim in my shoe...
5:44 AM I'd fly through the ground and I'd skip through the air, I'd run down the bathtub and bathe on the stairs...
5:44 AM And the greatest of men would be silly and lazy. So I would be king... if the world was crazy.
3:59 PM OK Go! Great video! (Good song too). http://youtu.be/qybUFnY7Y8w
Wednesday 3/3
10:25 PM "Ubuntu introduces new theme and branding" http://bit.ly/dcdv3Z The new logo and colors are nice, but moving the min/max/close buttons?!?!
11:30 PM I can never understand lyrics. Latest example is OK Go's "This too shall pass." Do you understand a single word? I don't. It's just mumbles.
Thursday 3/4
3:19 AM The boy is reading a book where Alexander Graham Bell is mentioned, this led to Wikipedia where I discovered Bell's birthday is today! Wow!
4:26 AM Just found a "wheat penny" from 1926 in my pocket. Haven't seen one of those in a while... It's made of 95% copper, 5% tin and zinc... :-)
5:32 PM A while ago I started wiring my custom news reader and blog code together with PuSH to make a personal microblog tool. I should finish it.
6:10 PM RT @jkretch: Sweet tilt-shift style Short film of New York City. "Sandpit" by Sam O'Hare: http://su.pr/2CiEzs
11:30 PM Having troubles navigating the 4th dimension today.
Friday 3/5
3:51 AM The garlic-butter-spaghetti-with-chicken-and-vegetables dinner idea sounded good earlier. I think I'm going to go into a coma now.
8:42 AM Went to bed early, woke up at midnight again. Watching All The President's Men for the millionth time... Every year it becomes more insane.
Saturday 3/6
1:29 AM RT @derricks: So what is the highest-scoring word in the iPhone game WordCrasher's dictionary? Here's some guesses (OWP post): http://bi ...
1:31 AM Tried WordCrasher (http://www.wordcrasher.com/game/about.html via @derricks). It always amazes me how *nice* iPhone apps are.
7:11 PM Bought conditioner to use on my longish hair... I now look like a six foot grey Muppet. I'm an inch from shaving it all off again.
9:44 PM Battlefield: Bad Company 2 multiplayer is down and @officialbfbc2 hasn't updated their status in 3 hours.
Sunday 3/7
1:35 AM Just tried Battlefield multiplayer again, no joy. Just a message to check @officialbfbc2 - which hasn't updated in 7 hours. Epic Fail...
1:48 AM I guess I could do my taxes since I can't play Battlefield... Or maybe I'll just take another nap. Or play MW2... Or shave my head.
1:49 AM Non-stop excitement here in the Beattie apartment during non-parenting weeks, I tell you.
9:35 PM Ubuntu, I love you... but really, I don't need a kernel update every 2 weeks. Really.
9:38 PM Ahh, Google updated Chrome on Linux. Let's see if they've bothered to fix the font rendering yet... Nope. Still looks like shit. (Amazing).
9:43 PM Ah-ha! When "Smoothing" is set to anything besides "Subpixel (LCDs)" in gnome-appearance-properties, GtkSetting's "gtk-xft-rgba" is unset.
Monday 3/8
10:44 AM Oh my starry eyed surprise, sundown to sunrise. Dance all night, we gonna dance all night, dance all night to this DJ.
11:12 PM @vero Hey! Just saw Alfred on Lifehacker... I didn't know you were doing a project like that, cool! I'll have to switch from QuickSilver.
Thursday 3/11
4:52 AM New Blog Post - Drinking from the Firehose http://goo.gl/fb/mQjk
10:05 PM New Blog Post - Drinking from the Firehose http://goo.gl/fb/mQjk
Friday 3/12
12:00 AM Playing with attention phases... Excuse the dupes.
12:00 AM New Blog Post - Drinking from the Firehose http://goo.gl/fb/mQjk
12:54 AM Just checked out my credit score. Not good. The perils of failing at a startup...
8:53 AM I really need to lose weight and save money this year. So far, the trends both seem to be going in opposite directions.
9:39 AM On Sunday, March 14, 2010 at 2 a.m., Daylight Saving Time begins in the United States. (GAH!!!)
10:08 AM Downloading your last year's bank statements as a spreadsheet is an eye-opening experience. Did I really spend $170 eating jerk chicken?
10:33 AM Mmmm.... jerk chicken. Now I'm hungry.
11:06 AM It's 3 a.m. Do you know where your sanity is?
10:56 PM Someone needs to take my credit cards away from me before I cave and buy another Apple product... aaaaaaggghhhhh.
11:01 PM It's 3 p.m. Have you found your sanity yet?
Saturday 3/13
7:12 AM Went to Jeffrey's for burgers tonight with the boy. Parked next to a Beemer with "MOZILLA" as the license plate. Any idea who that was?
6:58 PM @charleshood Ahh, cool! That's it! I thought of her actually, but I didn't see anyone with half a head of hair...
7:09 PM My phone is seriously pissing me off today. Not sure if it's the network or the handset, but it won't connect to cellular data.
7:10 PM While shopping for a birthday present today, I picked up the box set of Settler's of Catan... Will try to decipher it later.
9:58 PM The gorgeous Pizza My Heart girl is back!!! W00t!
Monday 3/15
3:36 AM Picked up a pack of BuckyBalls today at Cheeky Monkey Toys. http://www.getbuckyballs.com/ Very, very fun.
Tuesday 3/16
10:43 AM "I could have been a sailor, could have been a cook. A real live lover, could have been a book..." http://iLike.com/s/6vv
4:31 PM "Helium’s rarity on Earth and relative abundance in America are cosmic and planetary accidents." http://bit.ly/aIAOCI
8:41 PM "'Cause I'd get a thousand hugs, from ten thousand lightning bugs, as they tried to teach me how to dance..." http://youtu.be/psuRGfAaju4
Thursday 3/18
12:00 AM The Census forms seem a bit complex, and most people are idiots. Are we really using subjective results to measure the population in 2010?!?
1:13 AM Spaniards are considered 'other Hispanics' on the Census!? Spain has more in common with France than any latin American country.
5:51 PM Said good morning to Doug and Kavita. She said "How are you?" Then walked out.
Saturday 3/20
6:31 PM Someone really needs to tell Michigan State that there's 50 other state colleges out there...
6:39 PM I'll give you $100 to come to my apartment and clean my kitchen.
Monday 3/22
12:00 AM 1) Affordable Health Care For America Act will stop insurance companies from denying coverage to Americans with pre-existing conditions.
12:03 AM 2) In most states, one insurance company owns a majority of the market. Increased competition will save tens of billions of dollars.
12:05 AM 3) 32 million Americans who are now uninsured will be covered.
12:05 AM 4) 96% of Americans will be covered while reducing the deficit.
12:07 AM 5) Improving Medicare: Extending it's solvency 5 years, reducing errors and eliminating donut hole for prescription drugs.
12:14 AM Ok... I need to do laundry, clean the kitchen and do a stack of paperwork... I think I'm going to play some more BC2 instead.
10:48 PM The White Stripes Under Great White Northern Lights - http://bit.ly/aDezZg (This looks great).
Tuesday 3/23
11:05 PM Opera Mini: Time since submitted to Apple App store - http://is.gd/aU8g6
Wednesday 3/24
12:46 AM I knew this, but it's fun to rediscover stuff like hexadecimal IP addresses: http://0x455DC31A
12:48 AM My server freaks out when you give it just a big 32 bit number (it does resolve, however, if you ping it): http://1163772698
6:10 AM Spent the last couple hours watching a bunch of episodes of Pawn Stars on on Demand. I think it's fascinating - the negotiations, etc.
6:38 PM Feeling like Cameron in Ferris Bueller's Day Off. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdcFYNe9U7A
Saturday 3/27
10:52 PM Still shaking my head over the Novarra deal... That could have been Mowser had I secured funding. Urgh.
Sunday 3/28
7:23 AM Wow, the Australian F1 race is being broadcast live here. Still not sure I see the attraction, but it's interesting to see it in action...
Monday 3/29
2:09 AM The PokeWalker is brilliant! It gives points for moving around, used to capture Pokemon. My kid didn't want to stop running at the park! :-)
8:51 PM RT @jeresig: Just got the V8 shell to build. Grab the code and run: scons mode=release snapshot=on library=static sample=shell
Tuesday 3/30
5:32 AM "Apple boycotts Fox News because of Glenn Beck" http://bit.ly/bPESYQ (Suddenly, I like Apple a lot more!)
3:39 PM ☠☠☠☠☠☠☠☠☠☠☠☠☠☠☠☠☠☠☠☠
Wednesday 3/31
1:58 AM Using a broiler pan for the first time in my life. I had no idea until recently what it was used for... :-)
2:05 AM I have to admit: I didn't order an iPad, but I really, really want one.
5:22 PM I stopped reading Twitter and Facebook in my newsreader... it's now a write-only system. I can honestly say my quality of life is better.
April 2010
Thursday 4/1
12:53 AM Now I understand why Christians are anti-choice - they're afraid their priests won't have a good supply of children to molest...
7:31 PM My two word review of the Nintendo DSi XL: "Too big". That may seem obvious given the name, but it's just not comfortable to hold.
10:35 PM I want a Nissan Leaf!!! http://www.nissanusa.com/leaf-electric-car/
11:45 PM RT @NokiaResearch: We're happy to announce the launch of Nokia Research Center's new Chinese Language blog, which will be covering... ht ...
Friday 4/2
1:15 AM Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; U; CPU OS 3_2 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/531.21.10 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.4 Mobile/7B366 Safari/531.21.10
5:15 AM The weird thing about that Apple iPad User-Agent? It was from some stalker who found my blog searching for Steve Jobs house. :-)
5:19 AM The request originated from 67.180.249.134 on March 26th at 8:32 pm. I wonder who had an iPad over a week early? Was Steve Googling himself?
5:50 AM Arrgh! Ubuntu's new default window controls are going to move to the left like a Mac. YUUUUUCK.... http://bit.ly/dpHaus
5:46 PM New Blog Post - Welcome to the future: Mag+ on the iPad http://goo.gl/fb/Ujs3f
Saturday 4/3
1:43 AM I should have pre-ordered an iPad... I'm getting that MUST HAVE NEW GADGET sensation. Maybe I'll jump in line in Palo Alto tonight.. (not).
5:26 PM Lying on the couch occasionally checking Twitter for when the iPad line dies down in Palo Alto. Could be a few hours.
6:56 PM TiVoed ManU v. Chelsea match... You'd think with a match this important, they'd find some decent referees. First goal was sweet though.
9:24 PM RT @augustjoki: No more line at palo alto. Come and get it.
9:24 PM There's the tweet I was waiting for... :-)
9:34 PM Damn. There's still a little line in Palo Alto... Nice day for standing outside though.
9:35 PM Using my Nokia N900 in line... A little worried about getting attacked by the zealots.
9:39 PM Actually, I got a look of pity instead. Ahh the zealots.
9:40 PM People are waiting for the 32GBs which are apparently in short supply.
9:50 PM Badabang. On my way home with da Pad. That was easy.
10:11 PM Greeting with an iTunes logo. Pulling out my dusty Windows PC. Now updating iTunes... So far, the out-of-box experience isn't great. :-)
10:42 PM Still updating/syncing my iPhone... haven't plugged it into iTunes for 8 months or so...
11:41 PM Yep the iPad is frigin' awesome. It's astoundingly nice to use. So cool.
11:44 PM I have to admit, it feels a bit heavy. Maybe I'm just used to my smaller tablets... But for couch use a 7" screen might be more comfortable.
Sunday 4/4
1:56 AM @georgechen I'm not kidding at all. The iPad is astounding. Did you see Marvel's comic reader app? Sooooo nice.
4:45 AM The iBooks app is a lot nicer than Amazon's Kindle iPad app, but I'd rather buy from Amazon in hopes of cross platform support.
5:13 AM The USA Today iPad app is like stepping into the future - very clean. The AP app is horribly ugly though, and the NYT app is bland.
7:11 PM Old habits die hard... I'm reading my morning news on my laptop as per normal. 1) I love using Ubuntu. 2) Multi-tasking 3) Desk for food.
7:15 PM Craving Krispy Kreme donuts. Not just in a box, but hot and fresh from The Machine.
9:56 PM Watching a documentary on Joan Baez... She was (is) so beautiful!
10:01 PM The iPad desperately needs multi-tasking.
10:10 PM Safari doesn't support passwords in URLs, nor does it remember Basic Auth usernames and passwords. Pain to use my custom news reader.
11:34 PM Want to play "Words with Friends" with me? My username is russellbeattie. :-)
Monday 4/5
4:15 AM Watching the original Hitchhiker's Guide BBC series...
7:08 AM @joehewitt You should check out that Frontline documentary on the millennial generation. Multitasking is key to them, not geeky.
8:04 AM @ethauvin I bought at least 10 digital comics yesterday because of how nice Marvel's iPad app is. So gorgeous.
Tuesday 4/6
1:07 AM RT @NokiaResearch: Director of NRC Hollywood to be on panel in the 2010 NAB Show's Augmented Reality Super Session http://bit.ly/dvni1a
2:50 AM I hate Duke. Go Butler!!
7:14 AM I bought this foam Kensington netbook sleeve at Fry's today for my iPad - it fits great! http://bit.ly/dbMfqS
7:29 AM There's no crying in baseball!!
7:36 PM Wow, this tip on iPad CSS Orientation (Landscape vs Portrait) also works on the N900. Very cool to watch it work. http://bit.ly/cRRTqp
Wednesday 4/7
4:43 AM I just saw the Barca v. Arsenal highlights. Messi is unstoppable... That last goal is amazing. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_iYAWt5YGs
7:43 PM Amazon's new Simple Notification Service http://aws.amazon.com/sns/ Very cool... I can think of a zillion things to do with it.
7:45 PM RT @jonprice: "the frightening thing for his opponents is that Messi is better than PlayStation." http://bit.ly/bmS98X
Thursday 4/8
6:37 AM Reading "Predictably Irrational" on my iPad. It's well written and has some really great insights based on actual research.
6:43 AM If we have 3 choices and 2 are similar, chances are you'll discount the odd one and decide between the other two. OMG! It's Apple marketing!
7:24 AM FYI: If you're trying to edit a TextArea on your iPad (or iPhone), you have to use two fingers to scroll. (I had to look that up...)
10:20 AM Hear that? It's the sound of regret. Yet again.
6:43 PM Hmm... What part of Apple's "multitasking" is actually multitasking?
8:21 PM Why do Finland's schools get the best results? http://bit.ly/cKz7xj
Friday 4/9
1:34 AM In my unhappy place. Stay out.
7:13 AM Playing the new Blur demo on Xbox Live... Very fun. Like Mario Kart with real cars.:-)
Saturday 4/10
6:33 AM Found my happy place.
7:26 PM My iPad has cut my hand. Twice. But I can't figure out how! I don't feel any sharp areas... Anyone else?
Sunday 4/11
2:57 AM Just saw How to Train Your Dragon with the munchkin - very fun movie. Highly recommended!
5:15 AM Just read that Democrats could lose 70 seats in November! Gah! So many stupid people voting Republican... Like a never ending zombie attack!
7:17 PM Checking out the Masters. The weather in Georgia looks gorgeous! I loved it when I lived there... Too bad it was filled with Southerners.
10:13 PM Having a very mellow Sunday. Laundry and video games... Since it's raining, it's guilt free too!
Monday 4/12
8:28 AM Dear Mind and Body: Please start trying to work together on the sleep thing, hey? A little coordination would be great. Thanks.
4:13 PM I've read the articles and about page of TweetUp.com like 5 times and I'm still not sure exactly what it is... I trust Bill Gross though.
Tuesday 4/13
12:49 AM Congrats Opera!!! Way to stare down that bully in Cupertino! :)
Wednesday 4/14
4:49 AM Cat plays with iPad. That is all. http://bit.ly/ctekWL (Awesome!)
8:08 PM Nokia is hiring! http://bit.ly/9A399G
8:54 PM Journeys to the International Space Station - The Big Picture - Boston.com http://shar.es/mtgI6
Thursday 4/15
12:41 AM The economy is recovering, everyone now gets health care, and 47% of Americans pay NO taxes... Yet Democat approval is going down? Idiots.
12:43 AM Obama needs to start a war somewhere to boost his ratings. (I vote for taking over Texas).
1:04 AM Watching Ev's Chirp keynote via Justin.tv's stream on my N900 using Flash. And writing this... (Suck it, iPhone).
4:37 AM OMG! Ben Folds did a Chatroulette video live during a concert! I hadn't seen it! So cool... http://youtu.be/LfamTmY5REw
3:52 PM Apple rejected Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist's app because it "ridicules public figures". http://bit.ly/cuwgSg
3:54 PM (And yet I still gave those fucking fascists in Cupertino $500 for an iPad... Who's the bigger asshole? Not sure.)
6:14 PM Oof - Ning should have sold back when it was hot. Lesson: Don't join companies started by billionaires, they don't care about exits.
Friday 4/16
4:29 PM Amazing. 100 years ago, people considered this guy to be shockingly obese enough to be in a sideshow: http://bit.ly/aYjb8f
4:35 PM The government can sue Goldman Sachs!?!? Impossible. I thought we outlawed that or something. Must be a mistake.
5:05 PM Heh. I had no idea until right now that the .epub format is just a version of XHTML 1.1. Nice.
Monday 4/19
12:08 AM I've spent *hours* on the couch this weekend playing 'tower defense' style games on my iPad. I think I've found a new level of sloth.
1:53 AM Hey Steve, I hate to break it to you but copy/paste on the iPad sucks. If I touch any text for a microsecond too long it activates. Aargh!
8:02 AM Night Owls Rule!!! http://bit.ly/aEOxBB :-)
Tuesday 4/20
8:55 PM Thrifty Watch Phone - http://bit.ly/ct2h6g OMG!!! $95?!? THIS IS THE COOLEST GADGET EVER!! Nokia totally needs to make one of these!
Wednesday 4/21
6:53 AM New Blog Post - My Lego iPad Stand http://goo.gl/fb/fMA8A
7:51 AM Watching Dr. Horrible for the first time... Not sure if I'm enjoying it, but Felicia Day is beautiful.
6:45 PM "Manic Pixie Dream Girl" is a movie archetype? That explains most of my favorite movies. http://bit.ly/ezSOD
9:46 PM If you bought stock the day iPhone launched in 2007, you would have ~ doubled your money on APPL, broke even on GOOG, and lost half on NOK.
10:54 PM New Blog Post - My Bionicle iPad Stand http://goo.gl/fb/LWBeK
Friday 4/23
12:58 AM Very cool - five siblings playing Rhapsody in Blue on grand pianos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bZ0gBBZnCI
5:15 AM I just realized that I pronounce 'nuclear' differently depending on whether I'm talking about energy or weapons. (The latter like an idiot).
Saturday 4/24
6:37 PM Recouping in the hospital for an extra day after my tonsilectomy/deviated septum/uvulaectomy surgery yesterday. #pain
Sunday 4/25
10:59 PM Home.
Monday 4/26
10:15 PM Thinking of starting a new religion based around liquid Vicodin and Cream of Wheat.
Tuesday 4/27
6:28 AM Watching the publisher of Valleywag getting thoroughly legally and financially fucked by Apple is going to be the highlight of my year.
10:40 PM I'm sooooo miserable today. It's that proverbial "third day" after surgery when discomfort peaks. Everything hurts. Ugh.
Wednesday 4/28
8:53 PM Wow, just saw the Palm news. Seems interesting... Full of meeds... I wish I could think clearer about it. Could WebOS power HP's tablets?
Thursday 4/29
12:18 AM I just had soup. This isn't a status update as much as it's a list of accomplishments for the day. Back to bed.
Friday 4/30
7:23 PM A week after my surgery and I'm still in considerable pain and can't eat or drink. The bright side (sorta) is I've lost 20 pounds already.
May 2010
Saturday 5/1
12:10 AM Got my nose splints out today... Ever see that scene in Total Recall where Ahnold wraps his head in a towel? Pretty much like that.
6:54 PM Finally got smart about how I upgrade Ubuntu: Grabbed the 'alternate' .iso via Bittorrent, mounted it and ran the upgrade locally. Snap!
8:17 PM RT @beloken: Change Lucid's ( Ubuntu 10.04) window buttons back to the right corner - http://bit.ly/cz8wWJ
8:24 PM gconftool -s /apps/metacity/general/button_layout -t string menu:minimize,maximize,close
Sunday 5/2
12:11 AM Go Celtics!
8:11 AM Checking out the Gowalla iPad app. Designed nicely... not sure if I really want to really support a company so proud to be from Texas.
9:35 AM Crap... Tylenol 3 with codeine gives me insomnia. No pain, but I'm staring at the ceiling even though I'm tired.
9:38 AM @jbrogers Really? Texas sucks mostly because of its horrible people, but the polluted environment and crappy weather are close seconds.
9:40 AM @jbrogers ... Right-wing school boards, gun-toting hate groups, fundamentalist wackos, corrupt government, non-contributing big-business
9:44 AM @jbrogers 51st state of HS grad, 1st in uninsured children & uninsured, gets more in Fed tax money than it generates (and bitches about it!)
9:46 AM @jbrogers Should I go on? I can... Texas is this giant cesspool sitting in the center of the country spewing out Enrons and Bushes. Ugh.
8:45 PM @jbrogers Hah! Sorry for the litany... There's been a lot of Cal vs. Tex in the news lately, and it's apparently starting to bug me. :-)
8:50 PM I hate to bust the little guy software devs, but Scrabble for the iPad is much better than Words with Friends...
11:58 PM I'm so proud of my parents! They're off on the cross-country RV trip they've been talking about taking for 20 years! They sound *happy*. :-)
Tuesday 5/4
12:50 AM Just ordered $80 worth of socks from http://www.goldtoe.com - Which goes to show you don't need fancy HTML for a good e-commerce site. :-)
7:31 AM I'm a little neti pot, short and stout. Here is my handle. Here is my spout. When you want to clean your snout, stick me in and pour me out!
9:39 PM New Last Airbender website/trailer: http://bit.ly/9vBr7d I can't *wait* for this movie!
9:42 PM 58 Days, 9 hours, 17 minutes, 13 seconds. W00t! Water Tribe Rules! :-) #TheLastAirbender
9:52 PM @ethauvin I really hope he doesn't screw it up. If he doesn't, it could be the best trilogy since Star Wars. Have you seen the originals?
10:59 PM @ethauvin Avatar: The Last Airbender is on Netflix streaming - all three seasons, you should definitely watch them. Sooooo good!
Wednesday 5/5
5:55 PM I almost hate to speak out, lest the Mormon's fund a proposition against it, but I love my neti pot. Oh, baby! Gimme some more moisture!
6:49 PM There's a DropBox client for Linux! It runs as an actual daemon and integrates with Nautilus (and respects things like symbolic links). WOW!
7:03 PM Imagine if files.ovi.com worked as cleanly as Dropbox? Avvenu was doing this basic stuff 5 years ago... it's a bit sad, really.
8:29 PM Just found out that when I linked my Twitter updates to my Yahoo! profile, it started updating my status in Y! Messenger. I had no idea!
Thursday 5/6
12:58 AM Hooked up my ThinkFree Bluetooth keyboard to my iPad just to try it out... it works great! The iPad even fits in the little stand! Coolness.
7:29 PM Yahoo! Finance just returned a blank page to me. Incredible. First time I've seen something like that from Y!
7:33 PM @karllong Do you own one? If you did you'd change your mind. I'm definitely *not* a fan boy, and I think the iPad is the future.
7:50 PM @karllong 140 characters aren't enough. Web, games, books, media, always-on instant access, Exchange email (w/push), maps, and more.
7:52 PM @karllong My netbooks (2 of them) sit here collecting dust. The iPad is comfortable, fast, fun and functional. Total game changer.
Friday 5/7
12:55 AM What iPads Did To My Family - Chuck's Blog http://bit.ly/c51Ouz (He's got it spot on.)
1:08 AM I'm at work in Palo Alto for the SDForum Mobile Internet SIG meeting http://bit.ly/bkJnrc - Topic MeeGo! Anyone else coming?
5:16 AM Watching @hmason 's Bit.ly presentation at Web 2.0 (lounging on my couch using TiVo's YouTube support. Posting via my iPad... Yay tech!)
7:42 AM I haven't played with Amazon Web Services for a while... the web console is freakin' cool. Want a new EC2 server? Click. Done. Insane.
7:43 AM They've added the Block Storage stuff, but I'm not sure how to use it yet so that I don't lose everything when I bring an instance down.
7:54 AM Oh, cooool. http://alestic.com/ Alestic has images already set up for Ubuntu using EBS. Very, very interesting!
Saturday 5/8
6:44 PM @octopuce I noticed that! Very, very cool. A lot better than a couple years ago without EBS.
6:45 PM Old Navy's pricing on kid's shorts is insane. $15 a pair for my 8 year old? They're nuts. Target has the right price. No more than $10.
6:51 PM Holy CRAP. I'm never using a photocopier again. Ever. http://bit.ly/bSB6gM
7:55 PM The munchster is back after a 3 week break due to my surgery... He's eating a healthy lunch and watching Pokemon while I lounge. #Happy !
9:59 PM I've been testing the latest Chrome for Ubuntu - I may be finally ready to switch from Firefox. It really is noticeably faster.
Sunday 5/9
1:05 AM I can't imagine a better way to express smug superiority combined with general hatred for your fellow man than believing in 'the rapture'.
8:31 PM Happy Mom's Day! (If you're a Mom... :-) )
Monday 5/10
4:21 AM The munchkin and I have just started the '39 Clues' series... Seems, um, elaborate.
4:39 AM "This little maneuver is entirely ill-conceived. Well done."
Tuesday 5/11
1:02 AM I want a Jeep, a Golden Retriever and a house w/ a deck where I can sip Maxwell House while watching the sunrise. So cliche yet so far away.
5:23 AM Watching my TiVoed Big Bang Theory... I'm crying I'm laughing so hard. "Wait? What? What are you doing with.... What!?" Tears, seriously..
7:00 AM That Heineken commercial's music is "Mexican Dogs" by Cold War Kids - http://youtu.be/jHVsC1rLl9Y That riff is great, the song not so much.
7:08 AM Nokia Corp. to move most Bay Area operations into Sunnyvale Town Center http://is.gd/c3Lni (via @j_loughney)
4:05 PM @pacificleo Hey! You're the first person to use the Twitter box on my site! Which made me realize it doesn't include a URL. What framework?
Wednesday 5/12
6:33 AM Wow - Google Docs' new editor is pretty slick (if completely insane). It feels as responsive as native app in Chrome. http://bit.ly/9H96cA
6:40 AM RT @gnat: Dan Barker knows how to handle Fox anchors. http://bit.ly/chGKki (via @boingboing)
6:46 AM People need to stop bitching and just think of Facebook as similar to a public weblog. I made everything public a while ago. Done.
7:02 AM @1Zashby Sadly, I've since subscribed to Netflix... Apparently I'm not a man of much conviction. ;-) Those pop-ups still piss me off though.
7:09 AM I'm starting to get excited about HTML5. Some of the stuff (footer?) is dumb, but the form types *rock*. Check out Twitter Search in Chrome.
4:21 PM Why Invisible Gorillas Matter § Seed Magazine http://bit.ly/ba0JQp
7:36 PM Sorry Firefox, I've decided to use Chrome from now on. It's just faster and cleaner all around. Just wish the tabs were in the normal spot.
7:40 PM Had an idea today: Set up an Amazon EC2 server with just a proxy on it which filters out ads - for iPads. Call it "PAdBlock.com"
7:43 PM The amount of spam getting through to my email lately has been nuts. SpamAssassin and block lists aren't keeping up.
8:48 PM Trying to download Portal via Steam for Mac with no joy. Their server's are being crushed it seems. (Rightly so, Portal rocks!)
9:08 PM @derricks Actually, if you refresh the site a few times, you can get the installer which is working fine. And Portal is *free*!!! :-)
11:24 PM "We hope your brief detention in the relaxation vault has been a pleasant one..."
Thursday 5/13
6:07 AM The Apple "What is iPad" ad is scary because it's *all true*. http://youtu.be/fihOmQY-JxY
Friday 5/14
4:57 AM I'm thinking it'll be another Lakers/Celtics final like a couple years ago... With the same results of course. :-)
5:11 PM I played that 18000 Hz Sine Wave and I didn't hear a thing, my son however heard it from across the room. Crazy! http://bit.ly/ctdZen
11:29 PM Ubuntu is getting wacky. The nav bar debacle may be the final straw. I'm seriously considering checking out Fedora and moving over.
Saturday 5/15
6:53 AM Watching a documentary about Scrabble... These guys are nuts!
8:20 PM I'm starting to question Steve Jobs mental state. Seriously. The random emails are weird. Imagine any other major CEO doing that?
9:17 PM Looking at Craigslist... I really want a Jeep, but I don't need or want two vehicles. Hmmm.
9:54 PM Watching "How The States Got Their Shapes" on the History Channel and it's actually very interesting. Learning a lot.
11:12 PM Test: What is the 48th state? In other words what was the last state in the continental U.S.?
11:19 PM KS, NE, SD and ND were mandated to be 3 degrees in height. CO, WY and MT: 4 degrees. And CO, WY, SD, ND, OR and WA are all ~7 degrees wide.
Sunday 5/16
4:04 AM @edbott You win! Now isn't ironic that one of the last places to be officially part of the US is so resistant of others doing the same? ;-)
4:18 AM Wow, just heard about Elgg - an open source social network app written in PHP - it looks pretty slick actually. http://elgg.org
4:58 AM Off to meet up shortly with the enigmatic @martinlittle in Palo Alto. Hmm... what's open at 10 at night downtown? Not sure...
8:49 AM "By the way, what have you done that's so great? Do you create anything, or just criticize others work and belittle their motivations?"-S.J.
6:55 PM Not sure to be impressed by this Javascript NES emulator, or astounded that in 2010 this is barely possible. http://bit.ly/9RTTUQ
7:20 PM An NES had a CPU with only 4,000 transistors running at 1.79Mhz with 16k of RAM, and 16k of Video RAM.
7:26 PM My laptop has a CPU w/ 167,000,000 transistors, 1.83Ghz and 2Gb of RAM. The levels of abstraction sucking away that power is astounding.
7:27 PM And the NES emulator still can't play sound!!! Ok... sorry... </rant>
7:30 PM Wait, one more - a modern laptop has 41,000 times as many transistors and 62,000 times as much memory as an NES. INSANE!!!
7:31 PM RT @sesamestreet: Jim Henson passed away 20 years ago today. Jim, we still miss you.
7:32 PM @martinlittle Totally agree... 5 YEARS!!!!! I still can't believe it. Seems like yesterday in many ways.
7:32 PM @martinlittle How did you do? Anyone pull you out of the race in the last 200m? ;-)
7:33 PM @martinlittle I can't believe you woke up well before 8 a.m. to do that... Especially after our midnight sliders. Ugh!!!
7:41 PM @derricks But that's totally my point! Even with interpreted code, in a browser, on a GUI, it *still* should be trivial/fast, no?
7:42 PM @jonprice Rondo seems to be getting a little selfish lately. He's a play maker, but he's not a Jordan either - I hope he remembers that.
8:18 PM @jonprice Gah! Thanks for tweeting about the Celts! I just realized they're playing now!!! I thought it was 3p.m. PST, not EST!
8:19 PM Go Celts! Nice 15 point lead now - I'd love to see that continue!
8:49 PM "Your boss is a frightening man." You know, if I really think about it, my main goal in life is to become a frightening man.
9:10 PM Tweaking my spam settings. My server gets an average of 460 spam attempts an hour, or 7.6 every minute. Assholes.
10:25 PM Celts baby!! W00t!
Monday 5/17
12:55 AM Some of these RBL lists are useless as they generate so many false positives. Yeah, sure, I'll get zero spam if they block everything.
2:27 AM @ultramookie Oh, I've got like a dozen random ones in there... And zen gets a little crazy and blocks Yahoo! and Facebook once in a while.
4:12 AM Wow, it's a very, very mellow Sunday evening. (Where "mellow" == "boring as hell")
6:01 AM Inspired by @martinlittle, I'm watching "So I Married an Axe Murderer", mostly for Mike Meyer's impression of his Scottish father. :-D
6:04 AM "Look at the size that boy's head! I'm not kidding, it's like an orange on a toothpick!"
5:15 PM Calif. bill would block Texas textbook changes: http://bit.ly/cYSmo8 NICE! Those Religious Right Tea Party Wackjobs can go fuck themselves.
5:57 PM I was trying to get a handle on this week early, but it broke off. So now I'm trying to grab it from the sides, and it's really awkward.
8:18 PM New Blog Post - My Sleep Graph http://goo.gl/fb/HPUdc
8:32 PM Today is the munchkin's 8th Birthday!! We're taking him "indoor skydiving" today after school to celebrate. :-D http://iflysfbay.com/
Tuesday 5/18
8:20 PM You know, "JavaScript" is trademarked by Sun (now Oracle), and ECMAScript is fugly. Has anyone considered "OpenScript" as a better name?
Wednesday 5/19
4:06 AM And then Kris says, "How is it we're the only ones on the conference call...?" Urgh! It was moved! Exchange needs a friggin' beat down.
4:07 AM How 'bout them Celts!! W00t!
9:20 PM Apparently there's a Yahoo! alumni dinner tonight. I thought of stopping by, but then I remembered that all my Y! co-workers hated me. :-D
9:48 PM @ultramookie Then you must never have worked with me. :-)
Thursday 5/20
12:33 AM My friend Jonathan needs a server-side dev for his startup in SF. Know anyone? http://bit.ly/dqrNVf
1:08 AM RT @NokiaResearch: Nokia and CE4A Release Nokia Research Center's Terminal Mode Technology Spec http://bit.ly/amXgSh
Friday 5/21
4:50 AM The Nike "Write the Future" commercial is awesome. (Too bad Ronaldinho isn't actually on the Brazil squad.) http://youtu.be/idLG6jh23yE
5:59 AM Node.js is such a well made project. On a new server, I simply installed build essentials and git-core, and it compiled and ran instantly.
10:23 AM I like 1:23 a.m. It's a good time. 3:21 a.m. however is my nemesis. If I can't sleep and see that time, I know I'm pretty much screwed.
5:01 PM The Google Pac-Man page got me, I'll admit. Is that Flash? Javascript?
5:02 PM Nope, not Flash - it's playable on my iPad. (No sound tho). Hello HTML5, how you doin'?
5:17 PM Jupiter's Ganymede is the largest moon in the solar system (it's bigger than Mercury). Saturn's Titan is 2nd if you don't count clouds.
5:20 PM Heh, if you insert two coins, you get Ms. Pac-Man as well. Just played my first two-handed version of the game, ever. :-)
5:44 PM Wow, O'Reilly eBooks are all $9.99 today only. Just bought "JavaScript: The Good Parts" for my iPad which is normally $24. Nice!
5:48 PM Complete list of O'Reilly eBooks: http://oreilly.com/store/ebooks-complete.html
6:01 PM @timoreilly Great deal today on eBooks! I just bought one, but FYI, your servers are running dog slow. I've yet to successfully download it.
6:12 PM Oh! - G's Pac-Man isn't HTML5, it's just image sprites moving around in the DOM. Here's the Javascript: http://pastebin.com/enyeHeKg
9:47 PM Tomorrow is “Take Your Children to the Park… And Leave Them There Day.” http://bit.ly/bD8mO1 ... Interesting!
10:36 PM The munchkin time is quickly approaching!! T minus 1.5 hours!
Saturday 5/22
7:31 AM @Ross Heh... My son just turned 8 too, and I had the same thought about car seats. Turns out CA law says >6yo or >60lbs don't need a seat.
7:33 AM For my next trick, I'm going to magically shift my sleeping patterns 4 hours backwards. Behold!!
7:41 PM Every time my iPad's browser crashes (which is often enough to mention it), I think, "Screw you, Jobs" Can't wait for the HP Slate.
7:42 PM Let's get this party started, right? Let's get this party started quickly, right?
Sunday 5/23
5:41 PM I am TOTALLY adding Velcro to my iPad! Awesome idea!! :-) http://bit.ly/aChtxY
Monday 5/24
1:14 AM Yoshi!! I missed you little guy! #smg2
8:28 PM You've got to get yourself together
You've got stuck in a moment
And now you can't get out of it
http://bit.ly/bPiTya
9:18 PM All these new .ly domains... who knew that Libya had so many startups.
11:20 PM Kensington is now selling their netpad sleeve as an iPad sleeve: http://us.kensington.com/html/7157.html (Didn't even change the web page!)
Tuesday 5/25
5:33 AM Just a reminder: Meg Whitman is an incompetent jackass.
7:31 AM Version of 'sw-release': RX-51_2009SE_3.2010.02-8_PR_MR0
Sending xloader image (14 kB)...
7:43 AM PR 1.2 and my N900 don't get along. Won't recognize my SIM... Will have to re-install in the morning.
3:47 PM It helps if you install the correct version of the N900 release: V10.2010.19-1 Much better! (Almost had to use a Symbian phone today!! UGH!)
7:32 PM I'm having N900 PR1.2 Qt issues: "... packages have unmet dependencies: python2.5-qt4: Depends: python2.5-qt4-assistant (= 4.7-maemo7)"
Wednesday 5/26
7:08 AM I'm not tired.
7:21 AM "Most tinfoil and saran wrap boxes have little push-in tabs on the sides. Push them in, the roll won't fall out..." OMG!!! Who knew?!?!
7:59 AM Set your browser's homepage to a random Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
4:03 PM This ad for the "own voice" sat-nav stuff from Nokia very cute (whether I work there or not): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GpZEDisOu4
4:27 PM MeeGo v1.0 Core Software Platform & Netbook User Experience project release http://bit.ly/bxo2qB
5:33 PM "Platforms with the GMA-500, Nvidia, or ATI Graphics chipset are not supported." You've got to be fucking kidding me.
6:07 PM Wired Introduces Adobe-Built IPad Edition http://bit.ly/aGcN63
6:09 PM The freakin' Wired iPad edition includes all the video and is *huge*. Christ, I could get the dead-tree edition sent to me faster.
6:15 PM HOLY FRIGIN' ADS. Wired is *packed* with full page ads. Which is just like the print magazine, but wow... I paid $5 for this?!?
6:39 PM Really, Wired's iPad edition is like going *back* in time - when people thought putting a PDF of their brochure online was good enough.
6:41 PM If I can't copy/paste text, then it's *not text*.
7:42 PM It's official, Apple is the new Microsoft. (I feel much better disliking Apple now. Phew!)
Thursday 5/27
5:31 AM I have iBook, Kindle, Kobo and now Barnes & Noble's eReader on my iPad. I like the competition, but not sure which to choose.
4:48 PM Good morning.
Friday 5/28
8:07 AM Still working a giant box of ice pops I bought for my tonsilectomy... Just cut my lip on the plastic. Dammit! Hate that!
Saturday 5/29
5:51 AM iPad tip: If you're trying to access a public wifi hotspot with a web based password (like at a campground) you may need to allow popups.
June 2010
Tuesday 6/1
2:12 AM The shiny yellow thing made my skin all pink and hurty. I don't think I want to go to the big green and blue room any more...
5:25 AM Apparently my new neighbors moved in over the weekend. And they're REALLY FUCKING LOUD. #ihatemyapartment
Wednesday 6/2
6:39 AM I'm very awake. Urgh.
3:40 PM Good morning, sports fans! Today is the day we begin the rest of our lives... Are you ready?
3:43 PM There was never an "unlimited" plan if you read the contract. The only thing AT&T has done is stop lying to their customers.
4:10 PM Windows Embedded Compact 7 http://bit.ly/btoWXo My god, Microsoft... can you possibly get any worse at naming your products?
4:25 PM I missed the news last week about Google's new trading floor. Talk about insider info! Aggregated global search terms? http://bit.ly/c6JpgG
4:38 PM Ooh - this is a really nice iPad wallpaper: http://www.ipadwalls.com/bright-green
5:10 PM That Guatemalan sink hole absolutely blows my mind. http://bit.ly/a5NurH
6:15 PM RT @janole: Why are there so many apps missing on S60 that you see on the iPhone & Android? Nokia/Symbian's future is uncertain and heav ...
10:35 PM Dear MeeGo Tablet developers, I have two words for you: Portrait. Mode. Thanks!
10:46 PM RT @JerryBrown2010: Please help by passing the new ad on to your friends and family. http://bit.ly/by5aqP
Thursday 6/3
3:43 PM Almost 5 years after Nokia started shipping the 770 web tablet, Dell is making headlines selling the Streak. It's sad on so many levels...
3:59 PM It'd be really fun to see what would happen if we changed the size/weight of various sports balls... a 4' soccer ball or a 40lb football.
7:09 PM I've had to use Windows 7 a few times lately and I have to say, it really doesn't suck. Lots of things have been cleaned and fixed.
Friday 6/4
1:25 AM Go Celts!!
4:02 AM Not happy. #beatla
4:04 AM I should do laundry. I don't want to, but I should do it.
4:59 AM Thanks to Wikipedia I now know that Nikki Haley shares exactly the same age and birthday as me. Weird.
5:02 AM I wonder if I'll ever get around to coding up a prototype for my 'killer app' I've had floating around in my head for the past few years..?
5:16 AM I think I may have just finished reading the entire Internet. Or at least all the interesting bits.
6:10 PM I bought the "Camping Life" magazine app for my iPad. The issues are actually scans of the printed magazine. Amazing.
8:48 PM Despicable Me Trailer - http://bit.ly/9StBlB (I want an army of minions!!!)
9:03 PM @jzawodn Could you fix the apt/housing pages? Going "back" to the search results after viewing a post messes up your chosen cities.
Saturday 6/5
12:33 AM Time Magazine article on the SCOTUS Miranda decision. http://bit.ly/9aMjou I have just two words: Pelican Brief.
1:29 AM I should try to be productive this weekend... and I'm not just talking about doing laundry.
1:44 AM I got a Lenovo IdeaPad S10-3t on sale the other day as a test machine. After playing with it as a Win 7 tablet, I'm now using MeeGo! W00t!
1:46 AM The fact that MeeGo is using the same browser (Chrome) as I use on my Ubuntu (home) and Mac (work) computers makes it seem very solid.
4:04 AM If a man-made catastrophe hit CA, all of the South would be gleefully unsympathetic. So really, enjoy your oil slicks you Red State fucks.
5:15 AM Still playing with MeeGo... There's an online help page with screenshots: http://help.meego.com/
5:39 PM RT @Ross: "The man who is afraid to risk failure seldom has to face success" - John Wooden, RIP
6:21 PM I've started to read a few bestselling books lately and been struck by the fact the writing *sucks*. I think blogs have raised the bar.
6:26 PM Also, the iPad, which rarely leaves my hands lately, just isn't a good eBook reader. Too big and heavy. My Archos 5 will be perfect.
6:28 PM @Moof Heh... Fanfic? Really? I just have this idea of closeted fanboys writing sex scenes for their favorite Trek characters. :-)
6:34 PM I'd love to check out Quora - anyone have an invite they can send me?
6:58 PM "Writing a check separates a commitment from a conversation." -Warren Buffet
Monday 6/7
3:16 AM Happy!! #beatla
3:44 PM The "HD" iPhone moniker makes sense - I had wondered why apps made for the iPad were getting named with HD at the end. Did Apple push that?
5:30 PM So I'm listening to a live audio-only stream, watching a choppy Qik video, and refreshing Engadget's coverage. Waiting for the big news...
6:51 PM Wow, I'm going to have to make a Skype video chat call on my N900 to tell my friends about the iPhone's new proprietary video chat.
7:06 PM I'm getting bombarded with RTs and some replies. Does FaceTime use open protocols? If so, I take back the word "proprietary".
7:21 PM Oh, I hadn't seen there's a white iPhone 4 too... http://bit.ly/9BzfUm
7:24 PM Ok. All done.
Tuesday 6/8
4:39 AM My laundry has stubbornly refused to do itself. I've been waiting patiently, but it just doesn't seem to be happening. Hmmm...
5:01 AM RT @cubanalaf: Cool. If you search "World Cup" on Google, it changes the Gooooooggglllee to Goooooooaaaal. (at the bottom when jumping pgs)
11:26 PM I started playing Carcassonne finally (thanks to the new iPhone game, which works great on the iPad). *Very* fun and addictive. Beware!
11:27 PM The rules of Carcassonne in a PDF: http://www.carcassonnecentral.com/images/download/CarcassonneComplete.pdf
11:31 PM Review of Carcassonne on TouchArcade: http://toucharcade.com/2010/06/08/carcassonne-review-as-good-as-it-gets-on-the-app-store/
11:33 PM RT @CarcassonneApp: Available now on the App Store: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/carcassonne/id375295479?mt=8
11:47 PM Carcassonne strategy guide: http://www.carcassonnecentral.com/images/download/strategyguide.pdf
Wednesday 6/9
12:41 AM Google's got a new search index... Whew! I'm still #1 for my full name, and on the first page of results for Russ, Russell and Beattie. :-)
12:41 AM Goooooo Celts!! #beatla
3:54 AM DISAPPOINTED!!
6:44 AM Can you imagine what sort of jackass you'd have to be to vote for Meg Whitman? Is it possible to be that much of a complete fucking retard?
6:53 AM Passing my fifth hour of doing laundry. Just the sheets left in the dryer now...
8:21 AM I just scored 15,630 playing Vector Runner HD on my iPad. Beat that! http://bit.ly/vripad
7:33 PM I totally forgot I wrote this back in January (pre-iPad): http://www.russellbeattie.com/blog/touching-and-tablets I'm fucking brilliant.
Thursday 6/10
7:41 AM Remember this? http://www.tapedeck.org/400/memorex_-_dbs90_080417.jpg
9:34 AM I just scored 50,047 playing Vector Runner HD on my iPad. Beat that! http://bit.ly/vripad
6:48 PM My body is telling me I need a ginormous roast beef deli sandwich for lunch. Now to figure out where to get a good one...
7:45 PM Awww, crap. I got suckered by that water running video. Moron! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vblhBmHKW5s
7:54 PM Heh. http://twitter.com/worldcup Very fun. #usa! W00t!
Friday 6/11
4:31 AM Happy, happy, happy!!! #beatla
5:55 AM Oh, wow... The US Open is next week at Pebble Beach.
7:13 PM Call me an American, but the constant blowing of those frigin' horns drive me nuts. Go #uru (Americas Rule! Euros Drool!)
8:36 PM I don't mind soccer's tendency towards draws, but goal-less ties just sorta suck.
9:01 PM RT @IPv4Countdown: The number of allocatable IPv4s just dropped below two hundred and sixty-three million. #IPv6
10:44 PM New Blog Post - Buffering the stream: A solution for the status update deluge http://goo.gl/fb/ZFjn4
10:55 PM Coolness - this HTML5 sketching web app works great on the iPad: http://mrdoob.com/projects/harmony/
Saturday 6/12
4:52 AM Arrgh!! I just fried my laptop's keyboard trying to clean it (spilled a drink on it last week). The windex obviously was a bad idea.
4:53 AM It's sitting upside down in front of a fan now in hopes of a miracle. Highly doubtful.
6:24 PM I apologize to my English friends for the beat-down you are about to receive. :-D GO USA!!! #usa #worldcup !!
7:27 PM I really wish the USA would stop giving up early goals... My heart can't deal with the stress.
7:30 PM RT @adambonin: I haven't seen England fail that badly since they started outsourcing the Revolutionary War to drunk Hessians. #usa #eng
7:43 PM Oh, hey... my keyboard dried out overnight and is working again! Yay! I was afraid it was fried for good...
7:56 PM Seems like such a different game in the second half... US seems to be trying not to lose now, rather than catch up or win.
8:12 PM We really need to get the offense moving... england is spending waaaaay too much time in our half. #usa
8:15 PM The nice thing about both US and England is there's no histrionics like say a Spain or Italy game. Players get up without much fuss.
8:18 PM Shoot more! #usa
8:31 PM I'll take the draw, but I wanted the win. It's the American in me. :-) #usa
8:36 PM Uuuuurgh, the next US match is next Friday at 6:30 am PST. #worldcup #usa
8:38 PM RT @donpark: I must say, the constant background noise of Vuvuzuela is not improving my World Cup 2010 experience.
11:53 PM Learned how to use mogrify to make a .cbz comic... Now reading a pirated Scott Pilgrim comic on my iPad using CloudReaders. Very confusing.
Sunday 6/13
12:23 AM Ok, so after reading Wikipedia and viewing the trailers, I'm getting the idea. (The Scott Pilgrim movie looks exactly like the comic!)
12:35 AM 5:30?!? I feel like I just got up. Arrrrgghhh!
8:02 AM Having a full-on attack of the crazies...
1:47 PM Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: Misogyny, rape, incest, murder, torture, Nazis, mutilations, burnings... WTF?! People like this sick shit?
8:38 PM My TiVo didn't record any matches today. We're going to have a talk. And then I'll decide whether or not to reprogram it with an axe.
8:41 PM @martinlittle CONGRATS!!! :-D
10:12 PM RT @jamespearce: Rewriting famous native iPad apps in HTML5: http://is.gd/cO1Ri (and please retweet - I might need help!)
Monday 6/14
12:36 AM Go Celts!!! #beatla
12:40 AM Cwm is a word... Which I knew from playing Scrabble. What I didn't know is it's pronounced "koom", and means a bowl-shaped mountain basin.
1:23 AM OMG! A Vuvuzela Filter!! http://www.surfpoeten.de/tube/vuvuzela_filter (German). Definitely going to have play with this idea!!
1:36 AM Nice. The geeks are already on it - here's a Fedora vuvuzela filter: http://fetzig.org/2010/06/13/vuvuzela-filter-using-fedora/
2:06 AM @derricks Check the tech news... Hint it has something to do with how we know each other. :-)
8:58 AM @jimh @moof Read this: http://bit.ly/aT58YC The vuvuzela is a six-year old "tradition" at most, and even some South Africans hate it.
Tuesday 6/15
12:42 AM Yahoo Sells Advertising on Login Page: http://bit.ly/bEpmXq Finally! I've been talking about this for *years*. Facebook should do the same.
5:49 AM Playing with a command-line vuvuzela filter using Linux sox (Sound eXchange). Something like this: "rec -d highpass 40 | play -"
6:23 AM Trying to understand sox and vuvuzela frequencies... this seems to be in the right direction: sox - highpass 233 highpass 466 highpass 932
6:24 AM Wow, Twitter is freaking out tonight... :-)
7:37 AM New Blog Post - Linux command-line streaming vuvuzela filter http://goo.gl/fb/baQka
Wednesday 6/16
2:13 AM Nice! I've currently got the top story on http://linux.reddit.com (My geek cred is now sufficiently bolstered for the month.) :-)
2:20 AM At work, just checked the Celtics game score... 20 points down?!??! Holy crud! Go Celts! #beatla
Thursday 6/17
3:24 AM Just caught the airplane rescue scene from Superman Returns on TV. It's the only good part of that movie, but it's an *awesome* part. :-)
3:25 AM And of course, it's on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xWY0013d7w
4:47 AM My new linux command for the month: fc . Very, very cool. I hope I remember it. Bonus: Ctl+U to erase a whole line.
5:07 AM The font used at the end of AT&T's new "Rethink Possible" commercials is a version of Omnes Pro. (Took me a while to find it.)
5:56 AM Oh, very, very cool: http://notepad.cc I highly approve.
9:33 AM Watson - I.B.M.'s Supercomputer - to Challenge 'Jeopardy!' Champions - NYTimes.com http://nyti.ms/dtLhtW
7:27 PM OMG!! The trailer for Little Big Planet 2 has broken my will completely. I'm buying a PS3... http://www.littlebigplanet.com/2/ WOW.
7:29 PM The Little Big Planet 2 trailer uses that great music from the Palm Pixi commercial - Passion Pit's Sleepyhead: http://iLike.com/s/4pnAB
Friday 6/18
12:11 AM I may have to stop using Google Chrome if they don't get rid of "copy on select" - so fucking annoying. Only geeks like that sort of thing.
12:58 AM Let's Go Celtics!!! #beatla (I don't know if I can handle watching the game!)
1:05 AM @Ross Have you ever *been* to Boston before?!? I don't think that's a good idea, from a life-expectancy perspective. :-) (GO CELTS!!)
3:58 AM FUCK.
4:07 AM I'm truly, truly unhappy. #celtics
7:51 AM Wow, iPad app prices seem to be dropping across the board: http://appshopper.com/ipad/prices/ Finally!
7:48 PM Hoping for a 0-0 tie in the ENG-ALG match. Is there a German word for this? It's not exactly schadenfreude... it's more like schlechtmachen.
Saturday 6/19
2:55 AM New Blog Post - The end of WIMP and the rise of Touch http://goo.gl/fb/o9U7f
6:56 AM 75% of penalty kicks go in. IMHO, it really needs to be closer to 50/50 so they don't have such a huge effect. Move the line out farther...
6:59 AM Free kicks need adjusting too. And something less than a yellow card would be good- 2 oranges equals a yellow for example.
7:00 AM More refs on the field seems like a good idea - the NBA has 3 on a small court.
7:03 AM If the ball is within 10 yards of the goal there shouldn't be offsides - it's impossible to tell. But if not, how about video replay refs?
7:07 AM I like soccer a ton, but it'd be nice if luck and/or bad reffing playing less of a role.
7:09 AM @ethauvin we're like the only people using Twitter right now... My front page is still showing tweets from 3 hours ago.
7:13 AM Why is the modern offside law a work of genius? guardian.co.uk http://bit.ly/9E9AcM
7:17 AM @_Ant1_ Yeah and FIFA says they like the controversy. A billion people see the replay and know the correct result, not much to debate IMHO.
7:19 AM @ethauvin But back in the 70s there weren't 10 HD cameras filming and instant access on the field by the refs to computer enhanced slow-mo.
7:35 AM How about hockey-style time outs rather than free kicks for penalties close to the penalty area? Let them play a man down for 15 minutes.
7:36 AM Would work well for yellow cards as well, though the guy penalized coming back in would be well rested. :-)
7:38 AM Re-watching the US game. The ref is truly horrible.
8:00 AM The US has to be fouling someone in there... http://i.imgur.com/sn5aR.jpg ;-)
8:08 AM Aristotle was not Belgian.
8:10 AM The central message of Buddhism is not "Every man for himself."
8:16 AM Heh... The reason we had that free kick in the first place. http://i.imgur.com/T2FyU.gif The ref truly did suck. (Two wrongs... etc., etc.)
8:17 AM RT @2DoisToby: @RussB I think a bigger goal would be good. More goals. Its probably worth experimenting with sizes.
8:17 AM RT @duarte_vasco: @RussB a man down on 11 vs 10 for 15 min makes no difference. It is far too easy to play defensive for 15 min. Free ki ...
9:45 PM If your blog is on the front page of TechMeme, but it's a Saturday morning so no one sees it, did it really happen? :-)
9:52 PM @Caterina When is Hunch going to launch a dating feature? "29% of respondents chose the same answer. 4 are single, want to say hi?" :-)
10:00 PM My munchkin comes home tomorrow from his two week trip back to Spain (where he was born) to see his relatives. So happy!
10:07 PM Nice, YCombinator's Hacker News picked up my WIMP-Touch post as well: http://bit.ly/aFD200
10:08 PM Being lazy today, waking up late, watching TiVoed World Cup soccer. (Sshhh. No one tell me the results of CMR/DEN!)
Sunday 6/20
12:44 AM @Caterina A dating or group meetup feature would make Hunch pretty interesting... I'd want to be able to rank a question's importance tho.
12:45 AM @charleshood Angry phase? What fucking angry phase?!? :-)
3:36 AM New Blog Post - Touching the future: More thoughts on the coming tablet revolution http://goo.gl/fb/8rUfe
3:43 AM Yes, I just wrote another ~3,000 word rant. What can I say? I felt the urge. It's definitely not because I think anyone will read it. :-)
8:15 PM HP TouchSmart 600 - a couple videos showing it off... http://bit.ly/aV7Ayz
Monday 6/21
12:18 AM T minus 4 hours until my munchster is home!!!! Best Father's Day gift ever! :-) (Man, I need to clean this place up...)
4:17 AM At the airport... Trying Tweego - it's a slick little Twitter client.
7:56 AM Jet lag can be fun! I haven't had company at 1 a.m. for a while... The munchkin is finally in bed though. We'll see how long that lasts. :-)
9:09 PM RT @mobileminmag: @RussB, nice post and side-scrolling cols http://russellbeattie.com/blog/touching-the-future-more-thoughts-on-the-comi ...
9:11 PM @mobileminmag Thanks for noticing my new iPad design... You're the first. :-)
Tuesday 6/22
12:27 AM New Blog Post - Making an iPad two-column magazine layout using JQuery http://goo.gl/fb/5Bu0H
12:39 AM Wow, the MeeGo Tablet UI is coming together and looking good! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4vv7yFaqxw
5:58 AM @jamespearce Heh, you tweeted me while I was reading your post. :-) I liked the iScroll tip. I look forward to the next post!
6:01 AM @jamespearce Notice the iScroll demo completely locks down scrolling so it seems like a native app? I'm not sure how, but I like it.
6:03 AM @jamespearce Maybe it's easy.... If I wasn't lounging on the couch writing this on my iPad, I'd view source. :-)
6:29 AM @jamespearce You got me up! Found what I was looking for, check out "Prevent elastic scrolling" here: http://bit.ly/9FvYsH
3:13 PM @bjepson Ooh, nice! Updates for the video and bios... I didn't see those. Simpletap too. Interesting stuff!
4:55 PM @timbray Huh? Are you a subscriber to Ars? You get the option of a one-page layout if you are.
9:42 PM I love ZeroConf/Bonjour/Avahi - so nice to refer to everything from my phone to Windows, Mac and Linux boxes by name.
10:44 PM It's going to be sad in a few days when the World Cup group stage is over - it's so fun having so much activity to look forward to.
Wednesday 6/23
6:28 AM Watching 'Real Genius' again... 1985 was a long time ago.
7:35 AM Ooh, nice. DC Comics just launched their new comic reader for the iPad.
4:10 PM What a game. #usa!! YESA!
6:32 PM Video of USA's winning goal: http://www.twitvid.com/SSHNL I can just watch that over and over again! :-D
6:56 PM Just looked at the worldcup bracket... If the US is lucky, Germany will win its game and we could have a *much* easier path to the semis.
7:01 PM Not that Ghana/Serbia then Uruguay/S.Korea will be easy, but probably better than Germany right off. Though a rematch would be nice... :-)
7:13 PM @jimh We came in 3rd in 1930! ;-) In 1994 when we hosted we went through (hopefully no one dies this time), then lost to Brazil (who won).
7:20 PM @jimh Oh, yeah, in 2002 (when I was in Spain) we reached the Quarterfinals... Then lost to German (who won).
7:22 PM @gerikson Come on now, I've talked about soccer before this World Cup! It was probably in reference to my 8 year old's team, but still...
7:23 PM Basically, once the USA gets past the group stage, we only lose to the eventual champions. :-)
7:26 PM My article about pinging Feedburner with PHP has been translated into Belorussian: http://www.fatcow.com/edu/feedburner-be/ Awesome.
7:31 PM Does anyone who reads my tweets have a Node.js opinion about Express vs. Geddy vs. some other web framework? Which is most "mature"?
7:34 PM So glad I'm working from home today - Medvedev is visiting Yandex Labs on California Ave (near work) and apparently it's causing chaos.
7:37 PM Looking at Node, but I'm not sure which web framework is faster/cleaner/more supported/stable, etc. Express, Geddy or...? #nodejs
7:40 PM RT @persvr "If you are building an Ajax application, Persevere may be the most mature" Oh, nice thanks, I'll take a look! #nodejs
8:04 PM @jimh Looks like you guys are going to have the chance to lose to Germany on penalty kicks again soon. ;-)
8:16 PM @mbuckbee Node is being used in production in a few sites, according to the project page... AdCloud, Plurk, Yammer, etc.
11:51 PM Wow, it's 5 p.m. already?!?! Zoooooom. Bye Wednesday! See you next week!
Thursday 6/24
3:04 PM Holy crap... I can't seem to quell the tide of spam on my server... thousands of attempts per hour and 12+ slipping by filters daily.
3:11 PM My local Apple Store is a few blocks away from Steve Jobs house. Something tells me they'll have plenty of iPhone stock on hand.
Friday 6/25
4:14 AM You're holding it wrong.
5:41 AM Fantastic. Instapaper implements the custom formatting system I had in Mowser over 2 years ago: http://blog.instapaper.com/post/730281947
9:02 AM The Twitter iPhone app is nice... Scrolls fast. Now they need to make an iPad version!
5:06 PM I have to say, that's a great picture of a Nokia E71 on Boston.com's The Big Picture today: http://bit.ly/awCvI5 :-)
Saturday 6/26
2:11 AM I was wrong... Palo Alto's Apple store is out of stock, and the guy at the door said it'll be another 7-10 days. Wow....
9:59 AM On the West Coast? Still awake? Partial lunar eclipse starts in 20 minutes... http://bit.ly/db2GCg Peaks at 4:38 a.m. PST.
7:59 PM I'm going to pass out from stress... Go USA!!!!
8:56 PM I'm currently very unhappy.
9:06 PM I didn't even see Ghana's second goal. I went to the bathroom, came out and extra time had already started. Sat down, and was like WTF?!?
9:06 PM FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCKK.
9:23 PM RT @caaarlo: RT @caaarlo It's not the disappointment that gets me, It's more the naive hope.
9:24 PM So unhappy. I need to get over it. But fuck, I was hoping for better.
Sunday 6/27
6:13 AM Heh... Just as I write that, they put on classical music.
6:25 AM @motorbikematt @DieLaughing @ramblingjane @ripelife @Roistacher @aptlyoxymoronic We now know the overlap of kqed listeners and Twitterers.
10:13 PM I'd have felt less grumpy all day yesterday if I had known Mexico and England were going to lose in the round as well, honestly. :-)
11:14 PM Crud - I've got the long weekend and the munchkin next week, and I have *zero* plans at the moment. Nor any good ideas. URGH
Monday 6/28
7:58 PM Is the Supreme Court pissing anyone else off today?
Tuesday 6/29
12:56 AM My Archos 5 would be a *great* e-book reader - but I can't get the new Kindle app because it's only on the Android Marketplace. Urgh!
5:46 AM @ultramookie OMG! You're right!!!
5:50 AM Wow, this Android Market Patch for the Archos 5 has been out since January! I just installed it. So cool! http://bit.ly/d9ViQt
5:50 AM It's not just the Marketplace, actually - it's all the pre-installed Google Apps as well - maps, email, im, calendar, etc. Very Cool.
5:53 AM Just installed Kindle for the Archos 5. W00t!! So great! No more heavy-ass iPad. I knew I made the right choice ignoring iBooks. :-D
5:57 AM Man, the Archos 5 is just a nice device. Ooh, Kindle's full-screen mode is supported as well. Rock. On.
5:58 AM I can't believe the marketplace has been available since January!! It's almost July!!! How did I miss that?!?!
6:08 AM @ethauvin No idea about Froyo... I just found out about the Marketplace hack, so obviously I'm clueless though. :-)
6:18 AM Installing apps on my Archos: Kindle, Pandora, Dictionary, Weather, some free games. There's a pretty good selection out there!
9:12 AM Reading my Kindle books on the Archos 5 is as nice as I hoped. Great screen, light, comfortable. Better than an e-ink reader or iPad.
9:51 AM The size of the spiders in California astound me. Part of my mind thinks, "What is that, a beetle?" while the other just gibbers in fright.
7:49 PM @charleshood Thanks Charles! Though I bought the Archos 5 last year and I just upgraded it, so it's not technically new. :-)
9:27 PM Anyone else seeing insane amounts of "Work from home" scam spam? Not a good sign for the economy. Like when mortgage spam was hot...
10:02 PM I'm getting really sick of @boxdotnet changing functionality and charging for it. Suddenly they want us to pay for "collaborators" now. WTF?
10:35 PM Spanish is the national language of half the countries in the World Cup quarter finals... Uru, Par, Arg, Esp.
Wednesday 6/30
6:59 AM Dammit. The Last Airbender is getting horrible reviews already: http://bit.ly/d0G2TA Urgh! I really wanted it to be good too. Fuck.
7:41 AM RT @rejects: No matter what you are expecting, you couldn't possibly imagine how bad The Last Airbender is.
7:53 AM RT @Fuzzyfreaker: This hurts me to say it, being such a fan of the series, but THE LAST AIRBENDER is bad. And not just "upset fanboy" ba ...
8:13 AM When I hear the word "graph" I think of a grid, like "graph paper" or "graphics" Thus I am completely bewildered by the term "social graph".
5:43 PM 5 million downloads?!? Doodle Jump is the App Store equivalent of the Million Dollar Homepage.
7:16 PM @pvesterbacka Angry Birds is awesome! It shows talent and a focus on details. Doodle Jump is a weekend hack that took off for some reason.
7:23 PM @gaberivera That'd be like mentioning how well the plumbing works every time you go to the bathroom. :-) Techmeme is like Google now.
7:27 PM MeeGo UI Basics - http://bit.ly/aCqRVa Looks pretty interesting.
8:27 PM Just used a branded "Marimba Tuner" to install some software at work. Remember Marimba? Amazing that stuff is still around...
9:49 PM Microsoft put down the Kin like a rabid dog. Smart. If only Nokia would do that to a certain all-but-dead OS of theirs... ;-)
11:40 PM "A $500 video card in 2010 (1.5+ teraflops) is more powerful than the world's fastest supercomputer in 1998" http://bit.ly/cjXXMW via Reddit
July 2010
Thursday 7/1
1:19 AM Wired's new iPad edition has a "What kind of smartphone should I buy?" flow chart. I'll let you guess which type was missing completely.
1:45 AM Does anyone else see the Reddit alien just appear in Wired's iPad edition in a video about Montreal's vacuum-powered trash system?
4:22 AM Apparently, the alien I found is part of a Reddit contest that seems to have been forgotten about by all involved. http://bit.ly/dqQAkJ
5:42 PM Wow, Symbian-Guru is shutting down. That's huge, but Finland went on vacation this morning, so I'm not sure if it'll even be noticed.
11:08 PM Most of my teeth have Mercury fillings... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dental_amalgam_controversy I should get them replaced...
11:35 PM I press trigger, I don't press people button.
Friday 7/2
1:28 AM I need to figure out WTF I'm doing this weekend with the munchster. I'm bored of California, but planes are expensive.
7:44 AM Installed Firefox Mobile 1.1 on my N900. Still almost unusable - they still haven't accepted that the side-swiping interface *sucks*.
Saturday 7/3
5:57 AM If you use an iPad to read the web you *have* to buy iCab Mobile. It's fantastic! Real tabs (persistent w/ no page reloads) Ad filter, more.
3:55 PM I can't believe both Brazil and Argentina are out - and how much Germany won by. Insane.
3:57 PM What's also insane is how young the German squad is...
4:06 PM RT @blankbaby: You know Apple is losing the PR battle when I show my mom my new iPhone 4 and she says, "oh, that's the one that doesn't ...
Sunday 7/4
4:39 AM You can add me to the list of people who think that Russian spy is pretty hot.
5:27 PM http://www.mercurynews.com/top-stories/ci_15421229 Lots of 'Alpha Geeks' I follow have moved to Android, I think it's at a tipping point.
Monday 7/5
5:48 PM RT @migueldeicaza: Republican Party Platform from 1956: http://journals.democraticunderground.com/eridani/449
Tuesday 7/6
7:14 AM Doing laundry and working through 219 episodes of "Comedy Central Presents" on Netflix streaming.
10:56 PM Hexbugs are freaky. Have you seen them? My boy has a couple "nanos" and it's crazy how well they navigate obstacles. http://www.hexbug.com/
11:27 PM Having so much trouble concentrating today. I can't organize my brain at all. Nothing I read is sticking, and I'm just not thinking.
11:27 PM THINK! WORK BRAIN, WORK. DAMMIT.
11:30 PM That's quite the random url I got right there... Poo2k? Describes this century for me pretty well so far, actually.
Wednesday 7/7
4:13 AM RT @fabricapo Mobile Open Source: Meego? It could actually make it :: by Fabrizio Capobianco http://bit.ly/9JKLGt
7:55 PM I'm surprised #esp is doing so well... #ger looked unstoppable.
8:04 PM As a Real Madrid fan, I used to hate Puyol until I saw him block a shot with his face - on purpose. Then I decided he was an exception.
8:21 PM Unbelievable!
Thursday 7/8
3:15 AM 9ec4c12949a4f31474f299058ce2b22a
3:27 PM I'm pretty amazed at "The Social Network" - http://bit.ly/dtyeCn It's amazing you can just fictionalize real people like that.
Friday 7/9
8:40 AM http://www.quora.com/Are-night-owls-generally-more-intelligent-than-other-people Maybe, but frigin' morning people still rule the world.
8:44 AM RT @Caterina: Jeff Bezos on dating: "The number-one criterion was that I wanted a woman who could get me out of a Third World prison" ht ...
2:20 PM Wow, who knew the second coming would be in the form of a pet octopus in a southern German town?
2:38 PM Anyone who gives 37Signals money for their iPad app is a complete jackass.
10:40 PM "... a coin spun individually is as likely to come down heads as tails and therefore should cause no surprise each individual time it does."
10:41 PM "A weaker man might be moved to re-examine his faith, for nothing else at least in the law of probability..."
10:43 PM Do you remember the first thing that happened today?
10:44 PM What Nokia must do to stay relevant in mobile - InfoWorld http://bit.ly/bxVL9I
10:50 PM @jamespearce "One hundred and fifty seven consecutive times, and all you can do is play with your food."
Saturday 7/10
2:55 AM Clutch broke on the way home from work. Decided to push the car home as I was just around the corner. Dying.
2:57 AM Will get it towed tomorrow I guess... What a pain in the ass.
10:03 PM How do you get a clutch fixed on a weekend? It doesn't seem like it's possible.
10:11 PM Amazon, Apple, Barnes & Noble and Borders are all pushing e-books now, but what's happening in other countries? Is this just a U.S. thing?
10:32 PM I wasn't planning on driving anywhere this weekend... but now that I *can't* drive anywhere even if I wanted to, it's bugging me.
Sunday 7/11
12:54 AM I added my eBook question to Quora: http://www.quora.com/Are-eBooks-just-a-U-S-trend
2:04 AM It bugs me in Javascript that you don't have to quote the a in var blah = { a: 'test'} even though 'a' is a string identifier in the array.
2:21 AM Closures hurt my head.
4:17 AM @jamespearce Javascript objects are associative arrays but can use any valid identifier, string or number as the key. It seems wacky to me.
4:20 AM @jamespearce Because the identifiers aren't *real*. Example: var a = "test"; var b = { a:1, b:2}. Is a changed? Is the key "test" or 'a'?
4:29 AM @jamespearce Better yet: a = "test"; b = {a:a} . Tell me that's not confusing? The second a in a:a is an actual variable, the first isn't.
6:27 PM "... who self-identified as conservative believed the misinformation on WMD and taxes even more strongly after being given the correction."
6:29 PM How facts backfire - http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2010/07/11/how_facts_backfire/?page=full
6:36 PM I can barely remember living in Spain... If it wasn't for the fact my son was born there and I can speak Spanish now. Strange but true.
9:33 PM The munchkin (in his official Spain jersey I got him) and his mom came over to watch the World Cup - I can't believe Spain won!
9:39 PM I was in Paris in 1998 when France won the cup... I imagine being in Madrid right now might be a tad more fun than that was. :-)
10:24 PM That's gotta hurt: http://img718.imageshack.us/i/1278876229794.gif/
Monday 7/12
6:35 AM I made homemade oatmeal cookies. They're warm. I love oatmeal cookies. No raisins though. Raisins are evil.
6:57 AM Casillas! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4k2tcRu3EHI Of course she seems pissed. (I know that look from a Spanish woman quite well.)
6:45 PM He's lying to you! That short haircut makes you look like you're recovering from chemotherapy. I hope you didn't tip the hairdresser.
8:05 PM @derricks The raisin zealots overdid it - more and bigger ones in cookies until you were afraid to bite and hit a mushy spot. Yuck!
8:34 PM @derricks You're probably up to speed on Objective C now, but have you tried Phonegap or something like it (there's a few)?
Tuesday 7/13
4:29 AM RT @dalmaer: "One of the other bonuses of using Node.js: a socket.io (http://bit.ly/de37Ph) web socket server for monitoring" http://bit ...
7:56 PM Car is still in the shop... Off to explore the wonders of public transportation in Silicon Valley.
Wednesday 7/14
1:11 AM Got my car back!! Happy day!!
2:50 AM I broke down and got a refurbed Kindle (for $100, I couldn't resist any longer). Shares the same books with my iPad and Archos5. So cool!
2:52 AM The Kindle screen is tiny... And grey.... And dim... And I'm going to have to turn lights on to read again! But the battery should be great.
2:55 AM Why in the world is The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo such a big seller? It's soooo violent and horrible. People enjoy that stuff for real? Ugh
3:06 AM @ethauvin Yeah, it just arrived. It's in perfect condition. Not a scratch or smudge and already set up for me out of the box.
3:09 AM @rcadden You too? Ha! I've wanted one for a while to do real world comparison with my other tablets. The price finally crossed my threshold.
3:11 AM My initial impression is that I've been right and e-ink readers just won't be able to compete with color tablets.
3:12 AM I had the idea that the Kindle would give me more words per page than my Archos 5, but I was mistaken- even the tiniest font.
3:27 AM @chinamanchang Thanks! Kris and Brett have iPads too, if that helps sway you. :-)
8:08 AM I love this answer on Stack Overflow: http://bit.ly/3x9sQX It's pure genius.
7:34 PM Video of the Cruz Reader: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Znry0q_yo3M Pretty perfect size, cost and functionality.
7:36 PM I think 7"-8" tablets might be the perfect size. The iPad feels "big" in a lot of ways, and my Archos 5 feels too cramped.
8:27 PM A beautiful half-naked man on the Internet told me to use Old Spice, but I'm a Irish Spring guy. But I totally respect Soap-On-A-Rope.
8:40 PM RT @NokiaResearch: VW Passat takes the red pill, jacks into Nokia's Terminal Mode (video) -- Engadget http://bit.ly/a2XX9W
9:16 PM Wow - Multi-node: Concurrent NodeJS HTTP Server http://bit.ly/9e3Ymt I've been playing with Node a lot and this looks *great*.
9:18 PM Server-side Javascript is like teenage sex: Lots of talk, not many doing it, and those that are, aren't doing it well. (Old joke, but apt.)
9:44 PM Heh - http://www.wallstreetwhitman.com/index.php/game - Pretend you're Meg Whitman firing employees to boost your own stock value!
Thursday 7/15
7:06 AM Wow, I just spent the last couple *hours* going through @bobbyowsinski 's blog. Very cool stuff - http://bobbyowsinski.blogspot.com
7:21 AM Where was I?
11:02 PM Doing some Windows scripting at work for an internal project. Using Windows 7 and I have to say, it's really not bad.
11:02 PM Crazy thing - I pinged one Win7 box from another, and it defaulted to IPv6!!! Holy crap! I gotta get with the new tech.
Friday 7/16
6:27 AM 11:30 p.m. and I'm still at work. I need to not do that.
6:16 PM Ignoring their bruises, like a co-dependent spouse in an abusive relationship, the Apple zealots will forgive Jobs by the end of the day.
6:26 PM Signs of codependency #1: Self-blame. "Aww, Steve said he wasn't perfect. You know, I really was holding the iPhone wrong."
6:33 PM Signs of codependency #2: Fear of abandonment. "What can I do? Without Apple I can't think different. I'd have to use some Korean phone."
6:37 PM Signs of codependency #3: Guilty feelings. "Oh! Free cases! Thank goodness, I didn't want to bother Apple with silly antenna issues."
6:38 PM Signs of codependency #4: Chronic anger. "WHY IS EVERYONE MAKING SUCH A BIG DEAL OF THE ANTENNA PROBLEM?!? IT'S FINE. OK?!? FINE!!!"
6:44 PM Signs of codependency #5: Need to rescue. "Apple needs me. Without me overpaying for their products, they'd disappear. Remember 1997?!"
6:51 PM Wow, MetaWeb (the Freebase.com guys) got snagged by Google: http://blog.freebase.com/2010/07/16/metaweb-joins-google/
6:52 PM I never saw the Metaweb video before - neat: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJfrNo3Z-DU
8:39 PM New project... I've got a few domains stored up and I need help choosing: flip.io, clever.io, karma.io, foozik.com or qidget.com ?
8:41 PM I'm leaning towards flip.io since it's such a cute little domain. But every permutation of flip (flipio.com, usernames, etc.) is taken.
9:03 PM @TomorrowIllQuit Use GoDaddy and look at their international domains... flip.am, flip.ms, flip.ag, flip.gs are free.
9:03 PM 3 people responded to my question, with only one actual vote. Does anyone read these Tweets?!?!
9:18 PM I own Qidget in various ways - .com, .net, .org, etc. and the Twitter account. I like it, but I've always wanted a real English word domain.
9:18 PM So far, 2.5 votes for foozik, and 1 for the rest (except for poor clever.io ).
9:19 PM I'm just going to keep asking this over the weekend to see if I can catch as many followers as possible...
11:43 PM Two more votes for foozik and one for flip.io. Interesting, I hadn't really considered foozik much. Maybe it's the demographic... (geeks!)
Saturday 7/17
9:51 PM New project... I've got a few domains stored up and I need help choosing: flip.io, clever.io, karma.io, foozik.com or qidget.com ?
11:09 PM Ok, so far: 3 votes for qidget and karma.io, 6 for flip.io and 5 for foozik.
11:13 PM Qidget works as a noun (like 'widget') and a verb (like 'fidget'). Flip.io is nice because it's small and I like real word domains.
11:15 PM 1321 followers and only 17 votes? That's a 1.2% response rate. Twitter is near useless really. We're all just talking to ourselves.
11:33 PM The project is focused on cloud-based autonomous intelligent agents. (i.e. imagine if your social network friends were personalized robots.)
11:35 PM That said, a name is a name. I just can't decide. (foozik and flip.io have 7 votes apiece now. Surprising to me, which is why I'm asking...)
11:52 PM @charleshood holy cow! I totally forgot about that post. You know someone bought newfoo.com from me for $2k? Then they never used it!
11:59 PM Interesting... Qidget's making a comeback - If I'm totaling this right, it now has 6 votes along with flip.io, foozik has 7.
11:59 PM I wonder if that means all the names are good, or they all suck equally. :-)
Sunday 7/18
12:11 AM I think I'm going to bring the munchster to see Despicable Me tonight. It looks really fun.
5:44 PM The new "Battle for Hoth" iPhone game has lead to a Sunday morning viewing of The Empire Strikes Back (accompanied by French toast. :-) )
5:54 PM That wasn't a laser blast, something hit us.
5:56 PM RT @InMenlo: Kids get in on the fun at Connoisseurs’ Marketplace http://goo.gl/fb/MkaKS #menlopark
Monday 7/19
5:31 AM Summer is flying by... 5 weeks until school starts again. Crazy.
6:35 AM I need to get a woman's thoughts... I incorporated "avedia" in 1999 before I was told about a national salon chain named Aveda. Doh!
6:39 AM For years I got mis-addressed emails about hair products and salon locations. I hope the current Chinese owners of avedia.com enjoy it. :-)
5:07 PM Wanna eat when you retire? If you're under 40, listen up. - http://bit.ly/cUopOz
6:30 PM Windows Remote Desktop is an astoundingly good technology for such a bad OS. I wish Linux had something that worked as well.
6:31 PM Ok, welcome to Monday, I'm going to ask about my project names one more time. Sorry if you're getting it for a 3rd time.
6:31 PM New project... I've got a few domains stored up and I need help choosing: flip.io, clever.io, karma.io, foozik.com or qidget.com ?
6:31 PM The project is focused on cloud-based autonomous intelligent agents. (i.e. imagine if your social network friends were personalized robots.)
6:33 PM Foozik seems to be the geek favorite, but there's not clear winner (which is fine... it means I can choose any one and feel ok about it.)
6:35 PM Pre-Review Preview: Windows Phone 7 http://bit.ly/d335he by @GregKumparak (Interesting - I've been telling folks not to write off MS yet.)
7:07 PM @derricks Yep! What's old is new again. I'd love to use the name "General Magic". :-) Also see: http://bit.ly/cC4aRY
7:09 PM Still no clear name winner, which is amusing. Maybe I just should have picked one and asked for thumbs up/down. Like the Roman Senate.
7:34 PM Jolicloud should pivot hard and focus their custom netbook OS on tablet devices. I don't think anyone is addressing that opportunity yet.
7:35 PM I wonder if HP has plans to license WebOS? PalmPad is great and all, but without broad support it's hard to see it gaining momentum.
Tuesday 7/20
3:23 AM WSJ.com - Nokia Conducting Search for New CEO http://on.wsj.com/buUzD6
8:34 AM Holy cow... is that Pascal?!? Neat. A bunch of Assembly as well, which makes sense.
4:31 PM If I had a boat, I'd go out on the ocean. If I had a pony, I'd ride him on my boat...
4:36 PM Wow, porcupines look like they'd be fun pets - except for the need for the thick industrial gloves of course... http://bit.ly/drI10B
5:17 PM No one is watching you dance.
5:23 PM Nokia Needs Silicon Valley Thinking, Investors Say http://bit.ly/allakW
7:29 PM Just tested out Google's new image search with the term "Akerman" (saw Watchmen again last night). Looks great (both). :-)
7:37 PM Twitter's databases aren't syncing apparently. Right now some of my tweets exist (and being responded to) but don't show up on my page.
10:00 PM RT @JerryBrown2010: Looks like it's official! Got this in the mail today. http://twitpic.com/2741ze
Wednesday 7/21
5:15 AM Just tried @flipboard... It's failing hard. I'm sort of the wrong audience for it, but it does look pretty.
5:18 AM RT @rasmus: After 10+ years of trying to get Y! Msgr to open up, and countless inane excuses, they finally did it - http://bit.ly/cYgFrs ...
6:07 AM Holy marketing overkill batman. Flipboard isn't *that* nice, and it's down to boot, yet all I see in my newsreader is links to reviews.
6:08 AM Startup rule #405: Make sure your marketing guys aren't better than your engineers.
6:35 AM RT @markoff: @timoreilly not to be snotty about this but I wrote about, and named, the iphone two years earlier...http://nyti.ms/aPggYd
6:59 AM @jhstrauss I don't doubt it's a nice app, but it's getting waaaay too much coverage at the moment. What was Robert doing there anyways?
7:04 AM I desperately need to get back to a schedule where midnight is "late" and not the beginning of my evening. I need pills I think. Ambien?
7:19 AM Using a .co domain is just asking for confusion. Beattie.co is available, but I can't imagine using it. Ever.
7:21 AM I turned on my Twitter location as I'm sick of turning it off.
8:35 AM Don't click on this link if you're in your 30s and have anything to do in the next hour or so. http://imremembering.com/
5:55 PM Are Octopuses Smart? § SEEDMAGAZINE.COM http://bit.ly/9iWBUS
5:58 PM What is the plural of octopus? http://bit.ly/9eSX9Z (I think I might be in love - too bad she's married w/ kids...).
7:38 PM 'Avatar: The Last Airbender': Nickelodeon Greenlights TV Spinoff 'The Legend of Korra' - WSJ http://bit.ly/8XWvws (AWESOME!!)
Thursday 7/22
9:23 PM I'm not sure who to contact internally to explain that "fightback" isn't actually an English word. Someone in PR? Not sure.
Friday 7/23
7:08 AM Wow... Flipboard doesn't use RSS/Atom? It's just a scraper?!? I could do that in my sleep after my experience with Mowser...
7:08 AM In fact, since it's been 2 years since I sold the assets, I could legally do it too, and it'd be a fuck of a lot more scalable. Hmmm...
4:53 PM TechCrunch's obsession with France.fr being down is a classic example of Americans not grokking Europe. They're on HOLIDAY. GET OVER IT.
6:40 PM Flipboard is using a parser that is "similar technically" to Readability - which uses RegEx to parse HTML: http://bit.ly/8YTRg0 Doh!
6:43 PM I used regular expressions in my main Mowser script only when being lazy - and *always* paid for it later on. libxml2 is your friend.
7:01 PM @pigpogm I absolutely love that quote, because it's so true. Also the one about all apps eventually supporting email. :-)
7:37 PM Why am I getting nastygrams?! Oh. Crap. I sort of just forgot to pay bills at the end of June so everything is a month behind. Doh.
9:58 PM Testing out Dragon dictate tweeting option to see how well it works
9:59 PM It's very strange to be speaking each week. It feels like I am talking myself which is little nutty... it works well though.
Saturday 7/24
8:21 PM "It turns out that if you change how people talk, that changes how they think." http://bit.ly/cLgdV5
8:24 PM Craving a Specialty's sandwich and cookies. http://www.specialtys.com/
9:16 PM Details on making the new VP8 decoder - I love reading these types of articles, even if I don't understand 90% of it. http://bit.ly/cHYynb
9:17 PM Choice quotes: "I tutored Ronald in x86 SIMD and wrote most of the motion compensation, intra prediction, and some inverse transforms."
9:18 PM "Motion compensation, by comparison, is usually very similar regardless of video format; a 6-tap filter is a 6-tap filter..." Uh, ok. :-)
11:47 PM Son of a bitch!!! The only Specialty's in the Bay Area open on the weekend closed early today (at 3pm). Dammit!!! I drove to Santa Clara ...
Sunday 7/25
2:25 AM Apple wants $30 for the hunk of plastic called an iPad dock. I'm tired of hunting for the cable end, but not I'm not *that* tired.
2:27 AM I checked out the newest Android phones at Best Buy today. I honestly don't know if my employer realizes how much trouble they're in.
8:35 PM Decided that my laptop was too small for dev stuff, so I got a 23" Samsung. Spent the last 24 hours getting Ubuntu to work with it. GAH!
8:37 PM I can now tell you more than you'd want to know about "modelines" and it's still a few pixels off on the right. GRRRRRR...
9:16 PM Qt WRT pushed into Maemo Extras-devel - http://bit.ly/diiYGX (Nice! I love mobile development with web tools.)
9:45 PM It's so nice to use a smartphone where root access is as easy as opening the included terminal app, and typing "apt-get install gainroot".
9:47 PM I just mounted my phone using SSH. Developing stuff for my phone is like developing on my server. Same exact tools.
9:50 PM The sad thing is we had this stuff *YEARS AGO*. From 2005: http://www.russellbeattie.com/notebook/1008718.html
9:54 PM I've been doing dev with Adobe Air lately as well (for work, no less) and it's pretty great. I've fallen in love with Javascript.
9:55 PM @Moof Yep, I use an N900 regularly. It's starting to show it's age, but I hope to never have to use another Symbian phone, ever.
9:59 PM I hope MeeGo doesn't miss the relevance window. Imagine having one Linux-based OS on your phone, tablet, netbook and TV? Coolness.
10:05 PM Interesting... when you run a .wgt file (a zipped archive of html files/images, etc.) it *installs* it using the N900 Application Manager.
10:06 PM @andreatrasatti No idea... Is Opera's (and Vodafone's) stuff W3C compliant? Will it matter much?
10:08 PM @andreatrasatti This doesn't bode well: http://developer.qt.nokia.com/forums/viewthread/351/
10:18 PM @MichaelxHell That's right, the car as well... (I'm not into automotive computing much, though I probably should be.)
10:19 PM @ultramookie Yeah, I thought that sort of monitor problem stuff was taken care of. It's an Intel video driver problem. Stupid.
10:21 PM I need a new office chair for my house. Just checked - used Aeron chairs on Craigslist go for $400+ Wow!!
10:26 PM @andreatrasatti I have *no* idea what it's compatible with - my QLauncher which runs on the N97 fails: http://bit.ly/2Gwi38
10:37 PM @andreatrasatti Actually, Qt WRT seems closer to the W3C/Opera version as it uses config.xml rather than an info.plist .
10:38 PM @jamespearce We've got corporate email, blogs, IM, a couple Twitter-like services, etc. But then I'd have to VPN in, which is a pain. :-D
11:21 PM New Blog Post - QLauncher for Maemo! http://goo.gl/fb/qwjFt
11:23 PM @arriola Oh, yeah, I'm *definitely* getting a Herman Miller Embody chair. Since, you know, I have an extra $1000 just sitting around... ;-)
11:52 PM Thinking about converting my old original iPhone dock and converting into an iPad one. I don't have the right tools tho... hmm...
Monday 7/26
12:23 AM Her name was McGill, but she called herself Lil, but everyone knew her as Nancy.
7:08 PM Ars Technica - Apple loses big in DRM ruling: jailbreaks are "fair use" - http://bit.ly/b1htej
10:43 PM Exploring the world of chained asynchronous Javascript function calls because xmlHttp doesn't block in Adobe Air. Which is a pain.
10:56 PM My office chair at home is killing me. I can't decide whether to go to Office Depot (close by) or truck down to Weird Stuff in Sunnyvale.
Tuesday 7/27
12:19 AM Getting used to my new gigantic screen - Old habits die hard, I just used Compiz to disable the maximize button so I'd stop hitting it.
7:59 AM I think I broke my brain.
8:22 PM The Magic Trackpad will be great for kids and coffee tables... Not sure I'd want to replace a mouse with it though, I'd have to try it.
11:18 PM Resisting the urge to buy a new computer just so I can play StarCraft II....
11:45 PM Why do American car designers *suck* so badly? The Chevy Volt is hideously ugly.
Wednesday 7/28
12:34 AM RT @NokiaResearch: Nokia N900 FCam - HDR and low light examples | Nokia Conversations - http://bit.ly/9PwnyZ
3:11 AM My blog's iPad template is *way* better than "PadPressed" and it's free. Go grab the Javascript off my site to do what you want, it's yours.
5:51 AM Got a new desk chair on the way home from work, but it absolutely *refuses* to jump out of the box and put itself together. Annoying!!
7:20 AM @timbray Linking to this would have been helpful: http://www.slideshare.net/roopsahoo/indian-rupee-symbol :-)
8:05 PM Introducing Ovi Browser Beta for Series 40 – Faster, Easier Web Browsing that Saves Data Costs | Beta Labs http://bit.ly/c9eyZM
8:14 PM Spain's Catalonia region bans bullfighting - http://yhoo.it/dznARQ I wonder what it'll take for the rest of the country to follow?
8:16 PM Why Bullfights and the Running with the Bulls sucks - RussellBeattie.com http://bit.ly/awuEnS My thoughts from 2002...
10:12 PM @frandallfarmer Thanks for the recommendation! @waldrich I'm probably not the right person, but I'll pass on your tweet. :-)
10:12 PM RT @waldrich: I'm looking to fill one of the coolest jobs anywhere: Director, Mobile Products @tripit http://bit.ly/cSdlWL I'd appreciat ...
Thursday 7/29
6:39 AM Just walked in from work... My deathbed stories are going to be *so* awesome! "...and then I spent my 30s in the office, or on the couch."
7:05 AM The Magic Tree House is a good start for my 8 yo, but there needs to be a subscription service... http://amzn.com/k/262G4BAHRFBZC #Kindle
7:06 AM I added that last note from my Kindle just to see how it worked... :-)
7:31 AM Watching Jeff Bezos on Charlie Rose... The new Kindle looks slick.
8:10 AM Meg Whitman is pure evil...
Friday 7/30
5:06 AM Go home, Russ.
6:15 AM I've successfully resisted buying StarCraft II for 2 whole days, despite the tauntings of coworkers and half the Internet.
6:18 AM If Calvin Took Ritalin (A Tragedy In Four Panels) http://bit.ly/dldRPe (GAH!!!! HOBBES!!!)
6:44 AM @jimh nono, it's a new Real Time Strategy game from Blizzard. They've been working on it for like 8 years...
5:10 PM "Isn't that far out," he says grinning at me. "London. Like that." http://bit.ly/9gMjty
Saturday 7/31
3:09 AM Watching TiVoed "Wipeout" with the munchster. I ♥ Jill Wagner. http://www.google.com/images?q=Jill%20Wagner
5:07 AM "We're on a mission from Gawd." http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/universal/bluesbrothers/
6:55 AM Watching 2012.... It's completely frigin' ridiculous, but I'm actually enjoying it.
8:21 AM Wow... That was a loooong movie. 158 minutes. Holy crud.
1:59 PM The only problem with 7 a.m. is how early it is. That and my son insisting on waking up around then. So two problems. Other than that...
4:43 PM Going up to Cal Academy of Science in SF today. Should be fun!
August 2010
Sunday 8/1
12:30 AM Having a fancy early dinner with the munchster at The Cliff House. They gave us cute little table for two with a fantastic view!
8:46 AM JSGB: Javascript Gameboy Emulator. http://www.codebase.es/jsgb/ (W00t! Super Mario Land!)
4:37 PM I need to find a decent kid's typing tutor for the munchkin. He's looking up Pokemon tips on Bulbapedia, but takes forever to type!
9:39 PM "Apparently, rabbitmq gets downright pathological when you give it more than a few million things to store" http://bit.ly/bErOWb
10:48 PM I gave the boy a haircut so that he looks exactly like me. Cruel, I admit, but he'll be easier to keep track of in large crowds now.
Monday 8/2
5:33 AM Watching Mad Men - can it get more depressing!?!
5:51 AM Now checking out the new Project Runway (TiVo baby). Yes, apparently I have the TV watching habits of a middle aged soccer mom.
Tuesday 8/3
3:57 AM Here comes the joker, we all must laugh... cause we're all in this together, and we love to take a bath!
4:54 PM The new jeans I bought the munchkin a month ago are now an inch short!! I remember having summer growth spurts, but I had forgotten.
8:25 PM Boy. You're going to carry that weight a long time.
8:27 PM And in the end... The love you take is equal to the love you make.
8:28 PM Her majesty's a pretty nice girl, but she doesn't have a lot to say.
Wednesday 8/4
4:53 AM Showed the munchster a clip of Abbott & Costello's Who's On First tonight. He thought it was great. Imagine seeing it for the first time?
5:01 AM Browsing around on a personals site... It seems atheist women teetotalers within a reasonable age range and distance of me are non-existent.
5:07 AM There's quite a few atheists who drink "desperately" though. There's obviously a correlation there that I somehow previously overlooked.
6:39 PM Microsoft's Arc keyboard... The Control key is *smaller* than the Windows key, and the arrow keys are a joypad. DUMB. http://bit.ly/9SMTs9
6:41 PM I've been looking for a nice, high-quality compact keyboard. Apple's are nice, but the Fn key annoys the hell out of me. Why is it there?!?
6:42 PM @wingedpig Everyone complains about them, but I love GoDaddy - especially their DNS control panel.
6:44 PM Still can't figure out how to easily revert changes using Git.
6:47 PM Numberpads are useless to me (as I'm not an Excel jockey), and ergonomically they move your mouse hand way too far away from center.
6:51 PM Why in the *HELL* would you put the goddamn Fn key there, jamming all the other important command keys together? http://bit.ly/9NFme2
6:53 PM Look at how nice and big the Control/Alt/Command keys are on the big Apple keyboard - http://bit.ly/bZ60fp Urgh.
6:54 PM Yes, I am just ranting to myself...
7:10 PM Thanks @jabancroft and @gonzapq I don't feel like I'm crazily talking to myself any more. :-)
7:11 PM Git Book - Undoing in Git - Reset, Checkout and Revert http://bit.ly/aNFLK9 [Ahh, there it is...]
8:16 PM I absolutely love Avahi/Bonjour/ZeroConf - once you get it running on your machines, everything sees each other perfectly.
Thursday 8/5
1:16 AM @kbateman It's super simple. Install Bonjour (or iTunes) on Windows and Avahi on Linux. Then just "ping machine_name.local" to test it.
1:19 AM I've got ZeroConf set up on my laptop and media center (Linux), work MacBook, mobile phone (N900) and test box (Windows). It "just works".
1:21 AM Everything else - SSH, UPnP SMB, etc. - rides on top of the ZeroConf DNS stuff. So once everything is viewable, it's usable.
1:54 AM "The state does not have an interest in enforcing private moral or religious beliefs without an accompanying secular purpose."
4:09 AM "Proposition 8 fails to advance any rational basis in singling out gay men and lesbians for denial of a marriage license."
4:48 PM @kbateman Good to hear! Next you want to play with the stuff in /etc/avahi/services to broadcast out SMB or SFTP shares. :-)
Friday 8/6
1:38 AM I really don't want to clean the kitchen and make dinner, but we had pizza last night already. Bleh.
7:04 AM Despite the fact that I use the terms HTTP and HTML every day, I just saw the word "hypertext" and was like, wow that's weird. Hyper?
7:56 AM Is there a meta-search out there for all the Answer sites? QnA.io is available... Add a custom search from Goog, and bam! instant startup.
7:26 PM Somehow I ended up on Quora's team page. Have you seen their office manager?!?! Holy cow, she's gorgeous.
7:31 PM I really want to like both @Hunch and @Quora - they seem useful and have clean designs, but they're both missing some vital ingredient...
Sunday 8/8
6:08 PM Wow - this is really, really cool: http://scraperwiki.com/
6:13 PM ScraperWiki is exactly the sort of functionality I've been playing with - but with a focus on more regular users...
6:16 PM Take their "scrapers", package them into "apps" which deliver the content to your inbox/FB/etc. and it'd be exactly what I'm thinking of.
6:30 PM RT @jamespearce: Mobile app nirvana getting closer: http://is.gd/e8H9h (Part III of WhitherApps is at http://is.gd/e81bJ for any that mi ...
8:08 PM @blekko Hey blekko! please send me an invite for your private beta launch. #blekko (please oh please oh please oh please?) :-)
8:40 PM Kevin Pollak's latest standup is on the TV while I dick around on the computer - he's frigin' *hysterical*.
8:43 PM Wow... TomTom has a GPS with Google Local Search. Very cool... http://bit.ly/dvNNkS
9:01 PM Thingler is very cool. I absolutely love these simple, non-signup web apps. http://thingler.com
10:39 PM @edbott Safari 5 has that now (not that I use it). Ctrl-Shift-T works on Firefox and Chrome. Not as nice, I admit, but I use it regularly.
10:41 PM Looking at buying a new computer. The only thing I need it for would be Starcraft II, which I haven't bought yet and probably shouldn't...
10:53 PM Ok, I just bought Starcraft II. I'm sick of resisting the temptation. Now, all the computers in my house are 2+ years old... urgh...
10:58 PM I wish someone would go scan my local library into .epub files and torrent it. I promise to use the files for only 2 weeks at a time...
10:58 PM I just took a shower, I smell better. Thought you'd like to know.
11:38 PM @ultramookie Heresy! I'm an Irish Spring man! "All the freshness of Ireland bottled" http://getirishnow.com
Monday 8/9
3:15 AM New Blog Post - The Future of Web Aggregation http://goo.gl/fb/KlvB4
3:16 AM CRAP. I changed the name of a post but I forgot I'm updating Feedburner instantly which updates Twitter... Doh!
4:20 AM I don't update often any more, but I'm glad I still have my blog so I have a place to dump a 2,000 word rant when I feel in the mood. :-)
8:52 AM Researchers have solved all 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 positions of Rubik's Cube. No more than 20 moves needed: http://www.cube20.org/
Tuesday 8/10
2:44 AM Looking to compare tech specs for CPUs or GPUs? Do an image search for something like "i5 vs. Core 2 Duo" and look for graphs. :-)
6:42 AM "Google, Verizon say no 'net neutrality' for wireless" http://yhoo.it/8ZqjoQ Are you fucking KIDDING me!?!
7:49 AM "The first J in print was probably made in Italy, early in the 16th century" http://bit.ly/bhMteK
11:21 PM Blekko gave me an invite (yay!). I signed up and made an answer site "slashtag". Not sure I see much here that Rollyo didn't do years ago...
Wednesday 8/11
5:15 AM I was thinking about taking up a hobby. Is 'raging alcoholism' hard to learn?
7:42 AM Hey @davemcclure! I want to start a company and make this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WdS4TscWH8 Got any extra cash? :-)
7:45 AM (Probably better ways to pitch an idea, I'm sure. But the chance of getting funded via a semi-beligerant tweet was too good to pass up.)
9:57 PM @davemcclure The bowtie is just a front, this is what you don't see: http://www.russellbeattie.com/images/knowledge_avatar.jpg :-)
Thursday 8/12
4:52 AM @arriola Hey, I was in the Sony Store checking out their Vaios and got to fondle an X10 for the first time... Nice job!
8:53 PM The new Tweet button is nice - a lot cleaner than the big embedded "comment via Twitter" text box I had before, with the same functionality.
8:54 PM It's too bad you can't see the Facebook people who shared a link (unless I'm missing something).
Friday 8/13
2:02 AM Tweet Bookmarklet using Twitter Share http://t.co/asFrmGr Was just about to make this! BTW, the link is broken, use the plain text instead.
2:05 AM "In developing Android, Google knowingly, directly and repeatedly infringed Oracle’s Java-related intellectual property" http://t.co/Ml5nUUB
2:06 AM I've been saying that *for years*. I always wondered how Google got away with using Java without paying for it.
7:06 AM Patent RE38,104: http://t.co/GPdrfU0 (Using Google Patent search to look up their infringements... OH the IRONY! :-D )
7:11 AM Google deserves to get hammered, and hammered hard on the Dalvik stuff. Think about it - they essentially killed Sun by not licensing Java.
7:49 AM I can't remember the Sun/Microsoft settlement... is .Net indemnified? If not, once Oracle wins a precedent against Google, is MSFT next?
8:46 AM I bought a box of Twinkies tonight because you never know when there might be a Zombie Apocalypse and we lose them forever.
7:30 PM OpenSolaris is dead... Now see? Maybe if Google had paid Sun to use Java instead of stealing it, they'd still be around to support OSS.
7:52 PM I have successfully not gotten my shit together yet.
8:40 PM RT @jeresig: Announcing jQuery Mobile: http://j.mp/beQ9ot Screenshots, browser support, and more details: http://jquerymobile.com/
11:03 PM Going on vacation... decided that just my iPad and N900 should be fine to meet my computing needs... :-)
Saturday 8/14
12:38 AM I have so many devices that have GPS, it seems insane to get a dedicated GPS unit, but I just did. Google maps is great until you lose 3G.
12:40 AM I got hosed driving through the mountains last year with no cell and no paper maps. Won't be repeating that experience.
4:42 AM Why am I procrastinating? Why do I love the movie "Joe Vs. The Volcano" so much? Am I a flibbertigibbet?
4:47 AM I like pretty much any romantic comedy with Meg Ryan, actually.
4:51 AM @codelust I was close to buying one of the expensive iOS apps from TomTom or whoever with full maps, but decided on a dedicated device.
4:54 AM I wish Ovi Maps was usable, but the last time I tried it in a car, I nearly crashed. Bad UX in a nav device is a deadly combo.
4:55 AM "You're in a rotten mood." "It's the sunshine. It gets me down."
Sunday 8/15
5:05 AM Camping at the Lake Tahoe KOA... It's not a good one. Next to the highway, with miniscule sites overflowing with noisy families...
5:10 AM Family next to us are JUST having dinner. Our tent is getting filled charcoal smoke. The munchster can't sleep because of the noise. Joy.
5:11 AM This is sort of like camping in a Walmart parking lot, under a highway overpass.
5:20 AM Another neighbor (not the late diners) is singing. Not singing *along* with music or anything, just randomly breaking out in song...
5:23 AM Payback is coming though. When the munchkin gets up at 6, I'm going to make sure I don't shush him at all.
5:54 AM Someone just decided we need to hear that "if you leave me now" song from the 70's followed by "Love Shack" ...
6:01 AM I'd be more upset, but honestly the music keeps getting drowned out by the 18 wheel trucks passing by on the highway 500 feet away.
1:01 PM WHAT? YOU WANT TO PLAY POKEMON? SURE! AND TURN IT UP, SON! HOW DID YOU SLEEP? GREAT! YEAH I THINK RAYQUAZA IS COOL TOO!
10:10 PM At a new campground. Much nicer... Near a lake. Feels like real nature. Not a car sound at all and no noisy neighbors.
Wednesday 8/18
6:06 PM Left camp for the first time in a couple days. Sipping a latte at a Starbucks, checking Internet while the kid plays his NDS. Civilization!
Friday 8/20
11:51 PM Off to Legoland!! W00t!
Saturday 8/21
5:02 PM Legoland! Legoland! Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy! I think I'm more excited than my kid!
6:33 PM Wow, there's some serious lines at Legoland. We're in a "short" line and it's 30 minutes from here! Mooooooo!
8:00 PM OMG!! We got a special back room demo at the "factory tour" and the Lego lady gave us a ton of free Lego pieces!!
8:00 PM Plus I got a pristine red 2x4 brick directly from the injection molding machine!!! So cool!
8:03 PM I was looking through the bins for an elusive 1x1 brick with studs on all sides and she knew I was one of 'them'. :-D
Monday 8/23
4:44 PM Last day of vacation... ~8 hours until home!
Tuesday 8/24
1:53 AM There's a certain bent appeal in the notion of starting one type of vacation, and then just wheeling across the state and doing another.
2:19 PM Wow. My apartment looks frighteningly similar to Hunter S. Thompson's hotel room in Las Vegas at the moment.
2:31 PM @derricks Yours, and this: http://www.pavelspuzzles.com/2010/08/the_calibron_12block_puzzle.html would make great iPad apps... :-)
2:53 PM Trying to figure out what I missed during my week away from the computer...
2:54 PM Today is the munchkin's first day of 3rd Grade!! W00t!
3:53 PM Just heard this story on NPR about Groupon. They're the next eBay for sure. http://t.co/YFBrqz7
3:56 PM I remember a thing from college: T-shirts with logos from local businesses which give discounts for wearing the shirt. Win-win for everyone.
10:50 PM Wow, the Valerie Plame story looks like it'll be a good movie: Fair Game - http://t.co/XUXL3dj
11:51 PM What's with all the huge infographics lately?!? It's like the designers all decided "Meh. Fuck the markup, I'll just save it as a big gif."
Wednesday 8/25
4:10 AM Everyone in my apartment complex has their windows and doors flung wide open. It sounds like a weird version of Hitchcock's "Rear Window".
4:17 AM RT @Ross: Back to school in California, aint what it used to or supposed to be.. http://is.gd/eC7f3
5:57 AM Groovejet (If This Ain't Love) - http://t.co/QJnEKxn
10:01 AM What an asshole. http://t.co/zpATuCQ
4:32 PM Continuing to slosh through my apartment wearing a lizard tail and a tape recorder strapped to my chest. I need to clean this place up.
4:42 PM The only thing that really worried me was the ether.
Thursday 8/26
12:23 AM My to do list is longer now than when I started my day. Not good.
4:11 AM I scored 14647955 (665 kills, $22027 spent) on Loops in #canvastd http://10k.aneventapart.com/Uploads/155/
4:43 AM Advice from 'America's worst mom' http://bit.ly/bPMJMF - I agree with this woman 10000%
6:31 AM The following is the sound of a complete mental breakdown: bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb
6:42 AM Haven't shaved for over a week - about to shave. My beard is very, very grey. Thinking about keeping the soul patch.
6:53 AM Self realization: I'm not, and never will be, Tom Waits.
6:54 AM The White Stripes - The Hardest Button To Button http://t.co/dHORONL
4:42 PM "I, for one, welcome our new self-replicating printer overlords." http://bit.ly/a3zKUH Wow.
4:49 PM I think the various 7" tablets are going to be surprisingly popular. They have a perfect balance of size, cost and functionality.
4:55 PM Samsung's Galaxy Tab looks fantastic - http://galaxytab.samsungmobile.com/
5:09 PM 'Karate Champ XL' for the iPad. I loved this game as a kid. The iPad version is pretty fun. http://bit.ly/ditYnc
5:21 PM Quora: What are the best options for teaching a child how to touch-type? http://qr.ae/O2a
8:30 PM Every day I drive by the house where Google started, as well as the HP Garage, to an office next to Facebook and down the street from PARC.
8:32 PM Actually, I'm sure I pass by a thousand other insanely cool technology birthplaces as well... Silicon Valley rocks.
8:55 PM Wow, this "töken" touch surface is incredible! Can anyone tell me what it's made of? How is it transparent? http://t.co/uDt7nva
9:07 PM @j_loughney The HP Garage was used around 1938 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_Garage . My parents weren't even born yet! :-D
9:09 PM @j_loughney As for Google... well, I sorta tear up a bit when I re-read this: http://www.russellbeattie.com/notebook/1008115.html
9:15 PM Did you know that Fry's sells portable solar panels for charging up electronics? http://www.frys.com/product/4980081
Friday 8/27
12:39 AM @derricks The OpenFire guys released some libs that are good (but Java). Does it have to scale? Be in a downloadable client?
6:47 AM Dear co-worker who hired Larissa Riquelme to help launch the Noka C3 in Mexico: You are AWESOME!! http://t.co/H1XPHSN
6:53 AM I will definitely have to talk to my boss tomorrow to see what Larissa can do to help promote NRC... :-)
8:34 AM I bought a Microsoft wireless mouse today and it is complete junk - the scroll wheel sends events *between* clicks, not during them. GRRR.
5:03 PM Happy Helsinki! Finns getting down! http://t.co/LpSe2kK
8:00 PM 1, 2, 3 4 tell me that you love me more. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABYnqp-bxvg
8:12 PM OMG, it's a live version of Focus - Hocus Pocus Live '73 !! http://t.co/l630YsM
Saturday 8/28
4:52 AM I really love Project Runway! I totally wish I had some gay friends to watch it with.
4:27 PM "Do you think that Batman is smarter than the Fantastic Four?" The munchster has stumbled upon the eternal DC vs. Marvel debate... :-)
8:40 PM The main thing I've gotten done today is writing up a huge to-do list.
8:54 PM Setting up a restricted Windows account for the munchkin to use to learn typing. Trying to figure out how much of a Nazi to be. :-)
9:04 PM I still subscribe to Delicious popular bookmarks, but lately it's just getting spammed like crazy. Y! is asleep at the switch. It's too bad.
Monday 8/30
7:20 AM Chewie and Han (awesome!) http://t.co/Rg05qmA
Tuesday 8/31
3:23 AM Typing "They Might Be Giants (children's)" into Pandora was a *fantastic* idea for dinnertime music with my 8 yo! :-)
6:13 PM Trying out TweetDeck's stream api client... I'm not a big Twitter Client fan, but I wanted to try it out...
6:18 PM I wonder if I can use the Stream API for Roomatic - I'll have to check the docs. I don't know how it works, really... Can it track hashtags?
6:27 PM Coolness - I just posted with my Roomatic twitter account and it appeared instantly in TweetDeck. Streaming is *cool*!!
6:28 PM The streaming API curl examples (http://dev.twitter.com/pages/streaming_api_methods) still use basic auth - I thought that was dead?
7:21 PM Streaming API doesn't support JSONP (yet?) so I can't use it for Roomatic.com unless I want to pass all the requests through my server...
7:27 PM @jkalucki Ahh, thanks for the confirmation, John! Any idea about JSONP support? (i.e. the callback param).
7:55 PM A building nearby has a new "Aol." sign out front inside a speech balloon. Still don't like the typography. http://bit.ly/aSs9pP
10:26 PM I assumed that no Basic Auth was just for the API, not for the main user timeline feed! Doh! Twitter just killed news-reader support!
10:36 PM Wow, "The popular Node.js runtime environment is built into webOS 2.0" http://bit.ly/dpPAnS That's pretty freaking awesome.
10:42 PM "They were able to drop the need for a Java runtime... Effectively, developers can now use JavaScript at every level..." http://t.co/BF3bjW5
11:08 PM I wonder when the hell you can buy the new Archos Android tablets announced today?!? http://bit.ly/8YhHH0
September 2010
Wednesday 9/1
1:15 AM @jkalucki JSONP lets you to add a script tag w/ an external json url as src, calling a function you define, which can process then repeat...
2:38 PM It's amusing to me that three weeks after I declare the death of RSS, Twitter essentially kills its timeline feeds with little to no fuss.
3:09 PM @edbott Basic Auth is working for your timeline feed? I'm talking about this one: http://twitter.com/statuses/friends_timeline/12199652.rss
4:05 PM Since Roomatic was already set up for oAuth, I added an authenticated timeline feed. Share and Enjoy: http://roomatic.com/friends_timeline
4:06 PM Actually, I haven't tested it for more than 5 minutes... how long do oAuth tokens last? Well, I guess I'll find out today...
9:43 PM New Blog Post - Using Roomatic to get your Twitter timeline RSS feed http://goo.gl/fb/bsIFo
Thursday 9/2
5:17 AM Like everyone else, I'm testing out Twitter for the iPad. It's pretty, but not life changing or anything.
4:50 PM ‘Super Mario All-Stars’ Returning For Wii http://bit.ly/cwaPbU (I've seriously been waiting for this since the first day I bought my Wii!!)
Friday 9/3
6:44 PM In February, 2008, I wrote about how Twitter had "nearly a million users..." http://bit.ly/9FtuOk Now they're at 145MM? Wow.
Saturday 9/4
9:30 PM Watching "James May's Toy Stories". So far I've learned what Meccano and Scalextric is. Who knew the Brits had their own toy brands?
9:32 PM It seems that the way I cleaned my son's DS to unstick the pinapple juice jammed keys was The Wrong Way (TM) to do it.
10:01 PM The big thing when I was a kid in the 70s/80s was 'slotless racing'. I had a set, but it was horrible. The cars always died mid track.
10:04 PM The best thing about childhood today is there's a lot less toy disappointment, I think. Video games don't stop working after 20 minutes.
Sunday 9/5
7:22 PM I just learned about The Game. I lost.
Monday 9/6
5:37 PM Backing up my iPad is taking *hours*. I finally realized that the Power Save was disconnecting it - but it's still taking forever.
5:38 PM I have ~8GB of *apps* on my iPad. I suspect a large percentage is Wired Magazine issues. I'll be clearing those out after it updates.
5:43 PM My upstairs neighbors are moving. They are the last of the original ones I had when I moved into this shitty apartment 2+ years ago. Ugh.
5:44 PM I need to find another place to live before I lose my fucking mind in this hell-hole.
5:44 PM Hmmm... I just remembered I don't think I've paid any of August's bills yet. I need to do that.
5:57 PM Nokia bets on new smartphones for recovery | Reuters http://t.co/KvFOBs8
5:58 PM MeeGo Phone UI looks – Awesome! | NokiaSaga http://t.co/yvHZuoc
6:00 PM @j_loughney You can tweet however/whatever you like, but I want to say honestly, and without malice, your FourSquare updates are annoying.
6:27 PM I don't have the C skills to write a Curl module for Node. I wish someone would do it though... Curl is so ridiculously useful.
6:29 PM As I've said before, with LibXML2 and Curl bindings, you can pretty much create your own browser.
6:29 PM Thought of that while reading this: http://blog.nodejitsu.com/jsdom-jquery-in-5-lines-on-nodejs
6:32 PM HTTP is insanely complex (redirects, security, delays, etc.) and HTML is just plain insane. You need battle-hardened tools to do it right.
6:36 PM Upgraded my Ubuntu box to the 10.10 Maverick beta. Took way less time than my iPad is taking to backup and update (still in progress!).
8:01 PM @andreatrasatti We had Erector Sets - same thing as Meccano. They were actually slightly different until recently. Now are exact same.
8:03 PM 19 people have tried out my Roomatic Twitter timeline feed hack. Nice! It's amazing Twitter hasn't deleted the icon or fixed it yet.
Tuesday 9/7
9:00 AM Think about your life, Pippin.
8:13 PM @jamespearce I can't imagine that Node's HTTP client is anywhere near as full featured as a Curl lib. I mean, PHP has basic HTTP too, yeah?
Wednesday 9/8
5:30 PM Google Instant's little video skips over "Y" by typing "Why", which is cute, and of course avoids promoting Yahoo! :-)
5:38 PM Today's a sad day... I just realized my site has fallen off the first page of results for "Russ" and "Russell". I was there a few weeks ago.
5:39 PM Oh, wait... no I haven't. Google Instant was auto-searching for "Russell Peters". Wow, that's actually a bit confusing!
5:40 PM Or I'm an idiot... Or I haven't woken up yet. Or a combo most likely...
Thursday 9/9
4:49 AM Just watched the new Star Trek movie. The speed at which they vaporized the red shirt still cracks me up. When's the next one?!?
4:55 AM Gah! The next Star Trek movie won't be until 2012!!
5:30 AM Nice to see that "Athiest, and very serious about it" is at the highest writing level except for not serious Buddhism - http://bit.ly/aOiLT6
7:06 AM Micro Instances for Amazon EC2 http://bit.ly/aqSyuF Wow! $0.02/hour is just $14 a month... Very cool.
8:55 AM TRON SOUNDTRACK http://t.co/MIjeXQB Daft Punk.
8:11 PM My search for a new wireless mouse continues. Trying a Microsoft Wireless Mouse 3500. Very accurate, except for middle clicks... urgh!
8:12 PM Maybe I'll try an Arc mouse next... I'm now using the Arc keyboard, which except for the brain-dead arrow keys, feels gorgeous.
8:44 PM Freedom of Speech is foremost. Burn the Quran if you want, throw some Christian Bibles, American Flags and Disco albums in there as well.
9:03 PM Ahh, the Arc mouse doesn't have BlueTrack - which I'm 100% sold on now. http://bit.ly/ayDIzs Maybe the MS Wireless Mouse 6000?
10:02 PM @ultramookie The Quran burning guy is a complete jackass, obviously. I'm not defending him, just his right to say/do whatever he wants.
10:06 PM My new mouse's scroll wheel is getting a bit less stiff with use. That's nice. It's still missing middle clicks though (*frustrating!!*).
Friday 9/10
1:59 AM Wow, watching the live video of the San Bruno fire. It's *huge*!
3:20 AM YouTube - Slap Chop (Spanish Version) http://t.co/3W4ZOtb I just saw this on TV! (Watching Gol TV soccer news...). Hysterical!!!
7:10 AM Nokia appoints Stephen Elop to President and CEO as of September 21, 2010 http://t.co/mQpf2eu
7:20 AM Obvious choice, really. Microsoft has been doing so well in mobile, and its Business Division execs understands consumer hardware so well...
7:23 PM Wow, Bloglines is dead. The end of an era, baby. http://blog.ask.com/2010/09/bloglines-update.html
7:25 PM Thank god I use my own custom news reader... Having to rely on Google Reader would crush my soul. (I think there's an opportunity there.)
7:30 PM Imagine a next generation online news reader that understands feeds as well as friends, tweets, scraping, sharing, location, etc.
8:18 PM Newsday's Ad For Its iPad App Is Brilliant http://bit.ly/9xGmkx OMG!!! No!!! Though, it's interesting to see what would happen...
8:32 PM @agatheb I just created one for you using my work email... But seriously, you can't expense $100 a year for the 50Gb plan?!
8:37 PM @avernet No way. Look at my blog posts - we miss waaay too much relying on Twitter alone. And Instapaper is nice, but not a real reader.
8:52 PM It's nice to know our new CEO already has a Twitter account (that he most likely created and updates himself even!): @selop
8:59 PM Cool!! William Gibson is speaking at Kepler's Books in Menlo Park tonight at 7 pm! http://bit.ly/afUq0U
Saturday 9/11
9:13 AM The name "Etsy" is a bit strange, I'm pretty sure it must be pronounced exactly like the word "crap". That's the only way it makes sense.
Sunday 9/12
5:18 AM Got a new bike today - a Marin Kentfield http://t.co/2UioVAK It's got 22" wheels, which is the right size for me, but seems HUGE!
5:19 AM Now I have to figure out a good spot to go riding with the munchster tomorrow... Someplace fun without insane traffic.
6:06 PM The new hotness for all 8 year olds in the Beattie household is Yu-Gi-Oh... http://bit.ly/9AkhET
6:09 PM Nokia’s New CEO: Challenges | Monday Note http://t.co/XwH3qAG (By Jean-Louis Gassée)
Monday 9/13
6:21 AM Watching Mad Men. Apparently Don has started blogging.
7:26 AM Anssi Vanjoki resigns from Nokia - http://t.co/CB2Tz7H
3:24 PM Took a couple weeks, but I finally got the munchster to school before his new 10 minute earlier bell.
6:38 PM You gotta love Mondays that start out with a website crash. There's two hours of my life I want back. Why do distribs fuck with httpd.conf?!
Tuesday 9/14
2:46 AM The ninjas are deadly and silent. They're also unspeakably violent. They speak Japanese and do whatever they please.
5:07 AM Slightly amused that I was a month ahead of the "RSS is Dead" trend that Bloglines set off. Not that anyone reads my blog any more. :-)
5:08 AM If a person writes a blog post and no one reads it, was it actually written?
9:24 AM RT @nokia: The new Nokia Browser is web-kit-based and renders standards-compliant HTML, CSS and JavaScript #NokiaWorld
9:37 AM I need to go to bed. I have to assume that since I actually work there, I'll hear about any shiny new Nokia stuff in the morning, no?
9:43 PM I have a thing I call "News Reader Zero". It's just like "Inbox Zero", except exactly opposite in terms of productivity when you reach it.
Wednesday 9/15
1:20 AM Gah! Jury Duty! The punishment for being a registered voter.
5:53 AM I want the new Twitter! I don't see it yet. *sadface*
7:37 AM Forced myself to watch this video of a tower climber. (My hands and feet involuntarily sweat like crazy). http://youtu.be/txdv_oNq81I
8:18 AM RT @nokia: #NokiaWorld day 2 is about to start. Follow the keynotes live at http://events.nokia.com/nokiaworld/
8:27 AM Watching the stream of @timberners_lee speaking at NokiaWorld...
9:11 PM But I'm a million different people from one day to the next
I can't change my mold, no, no, no, no, no
11:22 PM @jagibson Not just any tune, but the most litigated violin riff in history, I would imagine.
11:27 PM They took that tower climbing video down, here's a copy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uccjrp5NRYE
Thursday 9/16
4:44 AM Still no new Twitter for me. :-(
Friday 9/17
7:24 PM Still seeing the old Twitter UI. I don't know why I expected to see it quicker, but I did.
7:25 PM I wonder if the new UI still has a link to the broken RSS feed? The old one still does.
7:31 PM The Venn diagram of Republicans and clueless jackasses looks exactly like a circle. Amazing but true.
7:59 PM Ran into an ex-coworker from Yahoo! a week or so ago in CVS. I just now finally remembered his name. I have zero people skills or ability.
9:46 PM Nokia's Plug and Touch turns your HDTV into a giant N8 (video) http://bit.ly/bMoEwv w00t! Go Marshall!!
Saturday 9/18
3:39 AM Watching a Russell Brand standup on Netflix - he talked about using Google to search for his name. Sorry Russ, I'm still ranked higher. :-)
Sunday 9/19
10:58 PM BIG changes happening. Just co-signed a lease for a cute little house in Los Altos. Moving in 2 weeks with wife and kid. Crazy but true.
Monday 9/20
1:58 PM NRC's office is in the 'epicenter of Silicon Valley' (#3) http://bit.ly/c1dcCK I didn't realize the whole area is still owned by Stanford.
2:59 PM Still don't see the #NewTwitter. Gaaaah!!!
10:58 PM @jamespearce Hehehe. Now I understand why you didn't respond to my DM... ;-)
Tuesday 9/21
7:14 AM Tomad vuestra racion, ratas amarillas! http://bit.ly/aoPxu2
10:27 PM YouTube - WHERE GOOD IDEAS COME FROM by Steven Johnson http://t.co/6vcxEeW
11:31 PM The last day of summer is freakin' *cold*!!!
11:43 PM RT @MSFTResearch: Microsoft Research's Project Hawaii: The Cloud, to go. http://bit.ly/aHoA65
Wednesday 9/22
4:51 AM Still seeing the old Twitter. I tried to sign up for a new account to see if that would give me the new UI just to see it, but no joy.
11:15 AM The Equinox is on Twitter - @theequinox That's just crazy. If you don't pull an all nighter to publish the 'Nox, it doesn't count.
9:27 PM I've been using iCab for iPad - which has tabs and integrated AdBlock-like functionality, but Grazing looks very nice! http://bit.ly/aKZP0r
9:41 PM @grazingbrowser I just bought your iPad browser, only to find out it's missing Basic Authentication support. Could you fix that? Thanks! :-)
10:25 PM PARC launches a next gen news reader: http://www.kiffets.com/ I'm telling you, we're about to see a wave of these types of services.
Thursday 9/23
5:16 AM Italian Soccer Team Employs Fake Fans http://bit.ly/aloVrD Even weirder: I've actually been to Trieste, backpacking in '98.
5:17 PM Why am I still looking at the old Twitter?!?!? Grrrr...
5:19 PM The Galaxy Tab video is interesting. The lag on the UI is severe though - is that the OS or the CPU? http://youtu.be/tAbsmHMAhrQ?hd=1
5:20 PM I haven't used a 7" netpad yet, but it looks just about perfect. 5" is a little too small (Archos 5) and 9" is a little too big (iPad).
10:08 PM Wow, Admiral Grace Hopper on Dave Letterman back in the 80s. Very cool. http://youtu.be/57bfxsiVTd4
Friday 9/24
7:26 AM I'm pretty amazed that Zuckerberg is able to give $100M away - I had assumed his "net worth" was based on unrealistic valuations.
7:47 AM Microsoft invested $240M for 2% of Facebook just a few years ago, and now Zuckerberg alone has enough hard cash to give $100M away?
7:49 AM RT @andreatrasatti: My career as a movie star is about to start, see my introduction to Projects: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WEGFTXo5WA
5:38 PM I AM CORNHOLIO! I NEED TEEPEE FOR MY BUNGHOLE!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuNLOtGL7k4#t=2m20s
5:38 PM ARE YOU THREATENING ME!??!
5:49 PM If you middle-click the new tab (+) button in Chrome, it does an automatic search for anything in your clipboard! Useful!
5:50 PM Not just in your clipboard, but any text you might be highlighting as well. Sure you can right-click and choose "search for", but it's cool.
5:50 PM RT @bperry: some people noticed by Nokia N8 last night here in SF, said it "looked cool" and "where can I get one"
6:20 PM Come on Czechs! Add some closed-captioning to this LG Win7 video: http://youtu.be/3a0uiL_Pl-w
Saturday 9/25
1:00 AM A boy on my son's soccer team was wearing vintage Umbro shorts today. Turns out his dad has had them since college! Damn!!
5:49 AM How do they not make these Umbro shorts any more!?! I used to *live* in them. http://bit.ly/aQnG12
7:29 PM I should be packing for the move, but instead I'm installing dd-wrt on my router. #Procrastination
Sunday 9/26
7:13 PM Decided to code name my projects based on the elements, then decided that the first one was too good not to register. http://hydrogen.io :-)
7:24 PM After a packed Saturday (early soccer game, dentist and a long birthday pool party), we're having a lazy Sunday with Legend of Zelda. Whew!
7:24 PM Speaking of "packed" I need to get my ass in gear.
7:29 PM After installing dd-wrt on my Netgear router, my external bandwidth increased substantially: http://bit.ly/doLeQE Was
7:34 PM Cloud9 IDE - The Javascript IDE, by Javascripters for Javascripters http://t.co/8g4DEFU (Very cool idea - testing it now.)
7:42 PM @k4shif My real bandwidth was at least 25% less - I rarely crossed into 50, usually around 45Mbps or so, and same sort of increase going up.
7:45 PM @Cloud9IDE Maybe it's just me, but the three sample graphics on the front page of cloud9ide.com all point to the same image.
7:46 PM I really need to be away from the computer and packing. You'd think as much as I hate this freakin' apartment, I'd be psyched to start, no?
10:17 PM I think I've decided I like Pepsi more than Coke. I like that it's sweeter. Not sure why it took me so long to figure that out...
11:24 PM Nokia’s Bureaucracy Stifled Innovation, Ex-Managers Say http://nyti.ms/bpKJiN (It's like deja-yahoo all over again...)
Monday 9/27
4:20 PM Welcome to Nokia, Mr. Elop | Reuters.com http://bit.ly/9RzzdV
7:39 PM Where the hell is the goddamn new Twitter?!?!?! #NewTwitter
10:05 PM The coming wave of tablets is so exciting, I just can't figure out where a unique opportunity is yet.
10:13 PM Got to fondle a Nokia E7 today: It's a very slick device - great feel, screen is beautiful, keyboard is nice, size is good. Thumbs up.
10:18 PM playbook.io and .am are still available... :-)
Tuesday 9/28
3:12 AM Just the other day I thought about using XMarks, but then opted not to start relying on a service I wasn't sure would last. Good decision.
6:39 PM W00000t!! I got me some new Twitter!!! #NewTwitter
6:42 PM @MeltingIce Thanks Ryan! Your app just alerted me I had the new Twitter - and it was right. :-)
10:57 PM I love Unilever's logo - here's a flash version which shows explains all the bits. Coolness. http://bit.ly/9mgV2Z
Wednesday 9/29
4:05 PM New Blog Post - Testing out Kindle Reader for Web - Ultimate H2G2 http://goo.gl/fb/2TdoN
Thursday 9/30
2:51 AM RT @himymprod: Victoria has 128 votes! Robin follows closely with 117, Stella rolls in with 26 and Blah Blah rounds out the top four wi ...
3:49 AM VW's Terminal Mode prototype with a Nokia N97 at the helm, we go hands-on -- Engadget http://bit.ly/cXfndy
2:57 PM RT @TeroatNokia: Excited about the Twitter conversation starting at 9:30 pacific time today! Will try to answer as many Qs as I can. #Ov ...
2:59 PM Apparently I'm on point today at work to make sure the giant display is working for @teroatNokia 's Twitter Q&A... Should get moving.
3:01 PM RT @nokia: What a day!! #N8 is shipping & Tero Ojanpera, EVP Services (@teroatnokia) will take YOUR #ovi questions from 9:30-10:15 pacif ...
3:02 PM Someone desperately needs to invent an 8 a.m. that comes after 11 a.m. I'd totally buy one of those.
3:32 PM RT @quimgil: Qt Web Runtime is now integrated in the MeeGo 1.1 weekly releases http://gitorious.org/qt-web-runtime
3:34 PM @jamespearce That's been done before with xml/xhtml/xsl - remember cocoon? Everything was stored as a document. It didn't work well.
3:36 PM We get the keys to the new house tonight! W00t!
10:59 PM Testing out Google's URL shortener: http://goo.gl/McEF - My Feedburner feed links were already listed, which I didn't expect. Cool.
October 2010
Friday 10/1
4:05 AM Tempted to post a picture on Quora and turn it into some sort of high-brow Hot Or Not...
4:15 AM Ok, which one of you lives in Belize and clicked my goo.gl link earlier? There was only one of you. And one Kiwi too... And a bucha yanks.
2:50 PM @jamespearce Interesting... I didn't realize you were in Belize. :-) I wonder if the link was pre-fetched? Hmm...
2:50 PM I'm moving at about half speed, when I really need to be moving at double. Not good.
10:41 PM Truck's in the yard, loading has begun...
10:42 PM MOVING! See you on the flip side.
Sunday 10/3
3:16 PM Woke up in a cute new house with my family and Internet access. That doesn't suck. :-)
Monday 10/4
5:18 AM Holy mother... The spiders in Los Altos are frigin' HUGE. Aaaaaaaahhh!!!
4:27 PM RT @Squace: "If someone's using a PC to demo the Next Big Thing, then it's not the next big thing." @RussB
4:33 PM It's pretty amazing that a short post I wrote 5 years ago is still being quoted. http://www.russellbeattie.com/blog/1008661 :-)
Wednesday 10/6
7:35 PM My mod_rewrite foo is strong today. Fear my URL redirecting power.
Thursday 10/7
12:02 AM Wow... that new Gap logo is the suck.
12:09 AM Video: Mobile Monday Silicon Valley - October 2010, Apps vs Web Apps http://bit.ly/bzxFmE
4:36 AM Wow, just saw that Libya's NIC is reclaiming .ly domains for no real reason. Makes me wonder if the .io domains I love are a good idea.
4:37 AM Just requested access to the Y! Alum Facebook group because, well, I'm an alum.
4:44 AM The insane breakage that's going to occur when bit.ly disappears is going to be truly epic.
4:52 AM The .ly domain space to be considered unsafe | :Ben Metcalfe Blog http://bit.ly/aXYT3N
6:30 AM Firefighters let home burn - http://bit.ly/bGmfCg (This is how Republicans want social services to work.)
Friday 10/8
10:40 AM Video: ShortCutD (Add Multitask/Menu/Phone buttons to your N900) http://bit.ly/aSz8XV
10:01 PM I wonder how John would feel about having his hand drawn cartoon and best song being used in a website commercial?
Saturday 10/9
12:35 AM @iliquido Thanks a ton! I hadn't even noticed it... I hosed a title update on an old post and it renamed everything! Happily I had backups.
4:40 AM Nice! A new version of iCab Browser for the iPad. Lots of great tweaks. I love this app - I use it every day.
Sunday 10/10
2:49 AM I put an extra LCD monitor with PC speakers and the $59 Roku box in our bedroom, and it works great! Who needs a TV anymore?
7:50 PM Took a fun bike ride around our new neighborhood. Mtn. View High School's campus is nicer than my college was, I swear.
Monday 10/11
5:38 PM I've been saying for easily a year not to count Microsoft out in mobile yet. Windows Phone 7 looks pretty good.
Tuesday 10/12
4:13 PM Just learned about Levenshtein Distance last night. Created in 1965 - I wonder what the state of the art is like...? http://bit.ly/bOmRDu
4:17 PM I used the levenshtein distance while processing a few thousand article titles in a db last night - it's surprisingly accurate.
Friday 10/15
6:15 PM My PC speakers are buzzing. Normally I wouldn't care, but working in a research lab makes me wonder what crazy shit is happening nearby. :-)
Saturday 10/16
6:55 AM "I don't like spasketti, 'cuz it looks like worms."
Sunday 10/17
4:53 PM "How much Monkey God gold are we talking about?"
5:07 PM Talk about a "killer app". Cut The Rope combined with a rainy Sunday morning may be the impetus for buying another iPad...
6:58 PM Hosted Javascript apps... Cool stuff. Erbix.com http://bit.ly/9hQzdZ
Tuesday 10/19
9:03 AM Steve has spoken. Though shalt not covet 7" tablets. (Until Apple launches one next year, of course.)
9:04 AM Need to go to bed. #nottired #nightowl #morningsucks
Thursday 10/21
12:26 AM MobileCrunch on Windows Phone 7: "The interface just… made sense." http://t.co/qrxgmQw
6:03 AM Will someone please get Steve Jobs a goddamn cheeseburger?! The man is emaciated!
4:58 PM 'No Parking' signs to greet President Barack Obama in Palo Alto - $30k a head fundraiser at Marissa Mayer's house http://bit.ly/azV4sC
5:04 PM Want to set up IPv6 on your DD-WRT wireless router? Be *very* afraid: http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/IPv6
5:07 PM Just FYI, I added QR Code support to Mowser years ago... :-) http://mowser.com/qrcode?url=http://www.russellbeattie.com
6:40 PM New Blog Post - HTML5 Microdata - Thoughts on semantic data, mobile adaption and Facebook FBML http://goo.gl/fb/4fdzA
Friday 10/22
4:01 PM 66 page views on my blog post yesterday. Not that I want 10's of thousands like in my heyday, but it's almost not worth the effort any more.
4:05 PM IntoMobile: "There are now more femtocells in America than actual cell towers" http://bit.ly/coA2Vs (Wow!)
Sunday 10/24
3:33 AM "I get to say, 'What the hell is a jigawatt!?' and no one is laughing." http://bit.ly/bq3Yq7
6:42 AM I'm sorta happy the Yankees lost - because I love my Yankees cap and didn't want to have to stop wearing it.
Tuesday 10/26
12:55 AM Jimmy Carter will be at Kepler's bookstore in Menlo Park at 7 p.m., Oct. 26, to sign his new book, "White House Diary." http://bit.ly/99IOgU
7:57 PM Maylong 7-inch M-150 Universe Tablet Powered by Android | Walgreens - $99.99 http://t.co/kXiC3TK (Holy Cow!)
8:32 PM NOOKcolor - The Ultimate Reading Experience - Barnes & Noble http://t.co/riVZtNF (Wow x 2!)
8:42 PM NewsBlur: A feed reader with intelligence http://t.co/5VbaJpe (Very cool stuff).
Wednesday 10/27
5:46 PM The time is quickly approaching where I will need to wear pants and shoes on a daily basis. Frowny face.
8:17 PM Not that I want Texas to win, but Lincecum's "giant step" forward when he pitches seems like it should be against the rules.
8:24 PM San Diego Zoo Gets Funky - Brand New http://t.co/NasrciU (I love the Zoo's branding and logo redesign. Very fun.)
9:50 PM Carly Fiorina wrong for HP, wrong for California - http://bit.ly/c2pp8p
Thursday 10/28
4:14 PM Updated to PR1.3, copied the Meego 1.1 files to an SDCard and popped it into my N900, but it doesn't seem to want to boot. Hmm...
4:17 PM bunzipping the bz2 file... maybe that'll help?
4:50 PM Ahh, thanks @kbateman and @jukkaeklund - I wasn't sure how low level I had to get. :-) dd'ing now...
7:07 PM Still can't figure out how to get my N900 to dual-boot from the SD... Will have to wait for a step-by-step tutorial.
7:37 PM Very cool - MeeGo v1.1 Netbook works great on my Lenovo Ideapad S10-T3! The touchscreen works now too! Rock on!
Friday 10/29
6:47 PM "Leaked DVD Screener of The Social Network A BitTorrent Hit" http://bit.ly/ajtnrG
8:18 PM "Paper Toss dev makes $500k per month just on mobile ads." http://bit.ly/9HkHLy (Kill me now. How am I not doing this sort of thing?)
Saturday 10/30
1:15 AM PlayOn is the media server I've always wanted - streams web content, DivX movies, etc. to just about any device. Very well done.
Sunday 10/31
5:50 PM Wow... I wonder how much TimeWarner paid Google to use their logo spot to promote Warner's Scooby Doo franchise?
November 2010
Monday 11/1
4:00 PM McDonald's Rolls out McRib Sandwich Nationwide http://adage.com/u/bd2Pfa
4:08 PM "The animal we make the meat from is extinct."
"The cow?" "The pig?"
"No, think smaller and more legs."
4:18 PM PAC-MAN Championship Edition DX : Japanese Trailer http://t.co/LujamG7 (WOW!!!)
Tuesday 11/2
3:52 PM Oracle bought ATG? They're becoming the Computer Associates of the 2010's...
5:28 PM Urgh. I just moved and now I can only vote 'provisionally' aka ballot gets thrown into the trash.
Wednesday 11/3
6:19 AM Duuuuuuuude!! I can't wait to vote Yes on Prop. 19!! It'll be righteous! Wait, what day is it?
Thursday 11/4
4:54 AM "Kinect game manuals suggest that you stand at least 7' away from the sensor, or 9' if you want a second player" http://aol.it/bGs3SS Gah!!
2:52 PM Wow... syncing my iPad after upgrading iTunes and it gave me an honest-to-goodness BSOD. I thought those were gone!
3:36 PM To be clearer: I saw the BSOD on my Windows 7 computer at home, which I only use for syncing, etc. I thought Win7 didn't have them any more.
3:39 PM My god! My iPad actually has multitasking now! Just checked my email and came back to my browser without any page refresh. It's a miracle!
Friday 11/5
4:47 PM I have to admit, I have zero real understanding of the 'Standard Model' of physics. Quarks? Bosons? I have no idea what they do. Sad.
6:54 PM Working at home. So nice... but I forgot my MacBook display adapter at work. Not sure who I'm more annoyed with... myself or Apple.
6:56 PM I bought a Kinect yesterday. If you don't have a huge (*HUGE*) living room it's almost useless. Sorry, MS - you dropped the ball here.
6:57 PM I can't imagine what the Kinect guys must have been thinking. The cameras and IR couldn't have been optimized for closer interaction?
7:21 PM I can hear sounds from my son's school from home! That's so cool! Just faint distant echoes of little kids playing. :-)
Saturday 11/6
4:09 AM Mounted my Kinect camera on top of my TV with a GPS mounting kit that I had lying around. Works *MUCH* better now.
7:35 PM Mac OS X is an ASTOUNDING PIECE OF SHIT. How do you hipster geeks get *anything* done on this pile of excrement?!??!
8:15 PM New Blog Post - Mounting the Kinect camera on your TV using a generic GPS car kit http://goo.gl/fb/U8yQ8
Sunday 11/7
6:18 PM "It cost them their majority, and it was worth it." http://slate.me/9rebgz
Monday 11/8
1:14 AM I want to love the Microsoft Wireless Mouse, but it drives me crazy because it won't register middle clicks if it's moving *at all*.
1:15 AM In fact, it won't register normal clicks if it's even slightly in motion. It's not a software setting - it works the same on all platforms.
4:40 PM I wish news agencies would stop using that photo and caption of NRC Helsinki for normal Nokia stories, it gunks up my search feeds for work.
8:34 PM Wow, Google has already sent a few hundred page views to my Kinect camera mount blog post. I should throw some ads up on that baby!
8:36 PM RT @jranck: Nokia Reaches Out to Learning Institutions to Enhance Mobile Application Development - http://bit.ly/drSSjn
9:31 PM RT @chippy: RT @amybarton: RT @charltonb: Introduction to Web Runtime on MeeGo http://intel.ly/9AtVoq #appup < More app options!
Thursday 11/11
8:26 AM loved Modern Marvels - s15 | e17 - Modern Marvels on Boxee http://bit.ly/b4vhwr
8:51 AM The Kinect effect: how Harmonix mastered Dance Central's menus http://bit.ly/cTvx3u
7:48 PM How did I not notice until now that my N900 can browse and play DLNA/UPnP media shares?!?!?
10:23 PM Anyone else notice that Quora added rss feeds for Profiles and Topic pages? Not on question pages though, which is odd...
10:23 PM Playing with Google Refine to see if it can help clean up some Researcher Biblio info (trying to clean up authors). Not impressed so far.
Saturday 11/13
3:47 AM Struggling to install an Intel LGA 775 CPU socket heatsink. Already bleeding profusely.
5:05 PM @hephail Huh? No - I use Linux. Installing a new, more quieter fan on my media-PC in my living room. It's old.
6:16 PM What am I missing about the Samsung Galaxy Tab that it can demand a price more than twice that of any other 7" tablet?
Sunday 11/14
7:01 PM RT @ecyrd: Whoa. The Nokia Qt SDK Remote Compiler is srsly brilliant. Really easy to use too.
7:04 PM Why does AT&T sponsor an F1 team? So weird... like Telefonica sponsoring NASCAR.
7:10 PM I was playing with a pretty advanced prototype of Yahoo! TV back in 2004... Yet Google got there first. So. Many. Lost. Opportunities.
7:14 PM The munchster really wants to go play at the Pokemon League... It was a great activity last week when it was raining, but today is gorgeous!
7:15 PM I'm thinking like a New Englander again... "SUN! WARMTH! IN NOVEMBER!?! QUICK, ENJOY IT BEFORE IT GOES AWAY FOR 5 MONTHS!!!"
8:34 PM @jhstrauss There was a downloadable version too, right? I remember trying to run something at home, but thinking it needed to mature a bit.
8:34 PM @jhstrauss The stuff that really gets me is everyone talking about Twitter TV - watching together. Like the IM integration had in Y! TV...
9:06 PM @jhstrauss Well, honestly, Boxee, Roku and GoogleTV wouldn't be even close to viable products without Netflix and now maybe Hulu.
9:10 PM @fabricapo You have a surprisingly full life for a CEO of a startup. Is it the Italian in you? May have to stop following out of pure envy.
9:12 PM Hanging out in the corner of a hobby shop using their free WiFi while the munchkin plays Pokemon TCG in the next room. :-)
9:12 PM If they served espresso, it'd be perfect, actually...
Monday 11/15
5:44 AM Wow, the results from those guys hacking the Kinect camera are already freaking *amazing*! http://youtu.be/7QrnwoO1-8A
5:40 PM RT @luovanto: MeeGo conference live streaming working like a dream. #meegoconf http://conference2010.meego.com/program/live-streaming
7:20 PM @OpportunityFund My wife Ana works in your Finance department, so I figured I'd follow you guys to keep up with your good work. :-)
Tuesday 11/16
4:57 PM I posted about NFC a couple years ago when I first started working at Nokia. It's a very useful technology. http://bit.ly/9dd8qW
Wednesday 11/17
1:28 AM Ooooh... New Green Lantern Trailer - http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/wb/greenlantern/
4:58 PM After singing a chorus of "Short People" this morning I was accused of making it up! Randy Newman I'm not. What did we do before YouTube?
4:58 PM I'm down to my least favorite, purple-striped, "you really, really need to do laundry" set of boxers.
5:00 PM RT @twhume: LOLing at the dismembered finger in the Nokia Qt videos: http://labs.qt.nokia.com/2009/05/13/qt-declarative-ui/
6:28 PM The trend of blogs using completely random (and stupid) images to accompany *every* post has finally pushed me to change my custom reader.
6:30 PM Now I see a text-only summary of the first paragraph, then only if I decide to expand the item, do I see the images/links.
7:01 PM @jimh @ethauvin True, but actually, I remembered only because Erik posted that birthday cartoon on his blog. :-)
7:29 PM Now Over 200 Million Users A Month, Disqus Gets A New Look, Premium Add-Ons, New API #myfeeds http://t.co/Qb5hbrO
Thursday 11/18
12:55 AM Just downloaded @bluefirereader for my iPad, then checked my library's website to see if they have Adobe eBooks, and they do. Nice!!
12:57 AM It's sort of a pain in the ass to get the Adobe eBooks on the iPad, but hey. Too bad Amazon's not on board with the Kindle.
2:30 AM Accidentally hit Windows Key + N in Chrome. Yowza. My eyes!!
5:23 AM @ultramookie Oh, wait... I think it's an Ubuntu thing... Or Gnome. Or something OS based. Yeah, it reverses colors on any app. Weird!
4:41 PM RT @fredille: Nokia Research Center - Fire on Ice: World's first ice touchscreen virtually burns - 17 November 2010 - New Scientist http ...
6:30 PM Alternative To The "200 Lines Kernel Patch That Does Wonders" Which You Can Use Right Away ~ http://t.co/ld69znu
7:43 PM Wait... They're saying it's *another* tech bubble? That makes the third one I've missed getting rich on.
Friday 11/19
7:40 PM Why didn't they make the em value in CSS = to 10px and make all our lives easier? Why 16px? Just to be a pain in the ass?
Saturday 11/20
2:33 AM Just saw the trailer for Sucker Punch... it takes place in a mental hospital in Brattleboro, Vermont - the place of my birth. Coincidence?
7:40 PM Awesome. I am totally this Dad... http://t.co/B3a2E54
7:53 PM Explaining to my son what Twitter is... He was wondering what the "share" button on Boxee would do... :-)
Sunday 11/21
7:25 PM Just bought Age of Empires from Games For Windows for 10 MS points, which I had sitting in my XBox Live account, which was integrated. Wow.
Monday 11/22
6:32 AM loved Real time lightsaber on the Kinect on PC on Boxee http://bit.ly/a9Zvry
7:09 PM US: "Ah, a nice short work week before holiday craziness." Euros: "Ah, last chance to jam in work before leaving for a month." Disconnect?
Tuesday 11/23
5:13 PM Call me old-fashioned, but I preferred the term 'jewels' to 'junk'. Not that I care all that much if the TSA sees either.
5:14 PM RT @avalanche123: "Java is a DSL for taking large XML files and converting them to stack traces"
Thursday 11/25
6:01 AM Just finished watching Planes, Trains and Automobiles with the family. I *love* that movie during the holidays... :-)
Friday 11/26
12:34 AM Tryptophannnnnnnnnnnn...
9:46 PM http://damnyouautocorrect.com is absolutely hysterical. Shows how bad that UI is. Spell check should ALWAYS be opt in, not opt out.
Sunday 11/28
7:57 PM I love this guy's enthusiasm and ability to communicate ideas - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbkSRLYSojo
7:57 PM I love this guy's enthusiasm and ability to communicate ideas - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbkSRLYSojo
Monday 11/29
4:16 PM First school day back after Thanksgiving break... "Good morning! How did you sleep munchkin?" "WHY ARE YOU ASKING ME SO MANY QUESTIONS!??!"
5:11 PM Dear Coworker: You can keep pressing that Outlook "recall" button all you want, but really, you're just making it worse.
Tuesday 11/30
12:07 AM I wonder if we could get Steve Jobs and Stephen Elop to commit to a coin toss to see who wins in court, and give all legal fees to charity?
5:01 PM My new favorite blog is "Brand New" - he analyzes logo and corporate branding redesigns daily. Really great. http://t.co/mOBhcfq
5:34 PM The $139.99 Android tablet at Toys 'R' Us http://t.co/FbkXPC4 Holy cow. Can you create an Android tablet app between now and Xmas?
10:19 PM Twitter Confuses U.S. Babysitter With a Cricket Match - Global News - Advertising Age http://t.co/dUaup4z
December 2010
Wednesday 12/1
6:02 AM Call me crazy, but the big-box stores selling the official Charlie Brown Christmas Tree™ may have missed the point... http://t.co/CoNtovF
6:07 AM iPad leading e-book reader demand despite Kindle price advantage http://t.co/YCEJ9aQ (Repeat after me: Converged. Devices. *Always.* Win.)
10:16 AM Office Depot welcomes 10-inch ViewSonic G Tablet into the fold, slaps $399 sticker on it http://t.co/szgvjVs woooah.
4:34 PM Holy crap, it's December.
5:00 PM When I was my son's age... The IBM PC was still a year away from being introduced and the Mac was 3 years away.
5:00 PM When I was my son's age... The Atari 2600 was just entering it's third Christmas and was THE game to have.
5:01 PM When I was my son's age... The (brand new) Empire Strikes Back action figures were the thing to ask Santa for.
5:03 PM When I was my son's age... There were 2 billion less people living on Earth.
5:05 PM When I was my son's age... Jimmy Carter was still president for another couple months.
5:06 PM When I was my son's age... There was no such thing as a "Donkey Kong".
5:15 PM @Moof "people" is a "mass noun" and thus is used with "less" rather than "fewer" which is for things you can count individually.
7:32 PM @Syniq I guess if you're the type of person (i.e. a Brit) who uses the term 1,000 million instead of billion, then it wouldn't be pedantic.
7:33 PM @Syniq Shall we talk about the correct usage of the word "math" next? Like "physics" and "linguistics", "mathematics" is not a plural noun.
7:44 PM The Feed RSS Reader for iPad http://t.co/L5XdELj - Heh, I updated my news reader a week or so ago and it looks very similar to this.
Thursday 12/2
3:14 AM Keep a node.js server up with Forever http://t.co/LkdiApG So nice that others keep solving problems like this for the rest of us. :-)
4:03 AM New Strawberry-picking Robot From Japan http://t.co/5TjGXjO
5:25 AM I've entered that self-loathing stage of procrastination. There's just depression, blind rage and inevitable mental breakdown left to go.
5:42 AM I really like Adobe Air - if they could do something about the freakin' memory leaks, it'd be an astoundingly good platform.
5:43 AM RT @dalmaer: OH: "I love how my wife doesn't know that me installing 'Find My iPhone' is really me installing 'Find My Wife'"
5:46 AM @jukkaeklund Actually, my favorite part is just the embedded Webkit engine. It's basically a self-contained web app runner.
11:23 PM Will Netflix Kill the Internet? http://t.co/RDw3f7w
Friday 12/3
1:36 AM @ethauvin I developed a Kiosk app at work with Air, and it's not bad. I love that it's a cross-platform dev environment and self-contained.
1:37 AM @lordbodak I haven't used a 7" in anger yet, so I'm not sure. I love my iPad, so I might really miss the size, even if the pixels are fat.
1:49 AM Chrome 8 released: web app support and built-in PDF viewer are a go http://t.co/UKrrcVv Wow, I was still using v6! So embarrassing!!!
7:08 AM Play Game Boy Online http://bit.ly/fce8gP
9:09 PM Meet the ViewSonic G Tablet - gTablet http://t.co/axpLvwe Wow... $399 at OfficeDepot, available right now. Very, very tempting.
9:35 PM Netflix Blog: Why We Choose HTML5 for User Experiences on Devices http://t.co/o58VPDR
9:48 PM RT @jamespearce: "James will build an MVC-based Sencha Touch app faster than you can finish a beer" http://bit.ly/dZsMUV
11:21 PM Is referring to someone as a "man Friday" a bad thing? Does it have racist undertones?
11:30 PM You can set breakpoints within JavaScript - simply call 'debugger;' http://t.co/V5FezqP God I hope I remember this next time I need it.
11:46 PM Marcello's Homepage - Calvin & Hobbes http://t.co/0LhUBzD It's so awesome this is still available. Just downloaded the zip file. :-)
Saturday 12/4
4:06 AM The ViewSonic G Tablet is *unbelievably* bad. Horrible. Unusable. The screen is terrible, no apps work (e.g. Angry Birds). DO NOT BUY.
4:07 AM I'm returning the POS first thing tomorrow. Even if I had never touched an iPad in my life, it'd still be horrible, but in comparison? Gah!
4:09 AM I can't believe they'd sell a tablet with a single viewing angle (landscape, exactly straight-on). Anything else is headache inducing.
6:32 AM Just watched the original Tron with the munchster. It definitely stands the test of time, and makes the new movie's trailer even cooler.
7:28 AM In Tron there's a sign in Alan's cubicle that says "gort klaatu barada nikto" - I just looked it up. Amusing.
Sunday 12/5
10:46 PM 3 Sundays hanging out in a hobby shop while the munchkin plays Pokemon before buckling and dropping $150 on German board games.
Monday 12/6
7:55 AM Now that I've played with some of the other Android tablets, I can see now why Samsung can charge a premium. Huge quality difference.
4:46 PM App Engine gets Streaming API and longer background tasks http://t.co/WCMEr1w Oooh. 10 minutes, nice.
5:08 PM Remember when I was experimenting with mobile eBooks back in 2004? http://t.co/dVYPujU What a difference 6 years makes. ;-)
5:20 PM Vi Hart: Mathematical Doodling http://t.co/jf63iYt (So cool.)
6:20 PM Trust me that I don't say this lightly, given my general antipathy for them: Google's eBook platform just beat everyone hands down.
6:21 PM The only thing that's missing is a Netflix-like subscription model. Especially for children's books - they zip through new ones weekly.
6:30 PM It's astounding to me how far/fast Android has come in just two years. GOOG is setting an impossible pace.
6:30 PM RT @PaulOBrien: Nice find - Android 2.3 user guide... tons of screenshots! RT @FreedomITA: @PaulOBrien check this http://bit.ly/hy0dTu
6:50 PM Android 2.3 Official Video http://t.co/0aJDNMj
Tuesday 12/7
5:33 AM Obama announces tax deal with Republicans http://yhoo.it/fJ8jHx HOW in the FUCK did this happen!?!? Unfuckingbelievable.
5:21 PM "Sorry I'm standing in the way of your minimalist Bauhaus-esque fascist snoozefest..." http://bit.ly/f22iSm
7:37 PM High Five Cam http://t.co/fSDUWad "Free high fives! BAM!"
8:37 PM Yesterday I said Google was setting a blistering pace in mobile. I was wrong. They're setting a blistering pace in *everything*.
8:38 PM Crankshaft + node.js == ohboyohboyohboy.
9:28 PM New Blog Post - Cloud Services as Personal Conduits http://goo.gl/fb/kTzYo
9:41 PM "OnLive enables game spectating on your iPad" http://t.co/15GXHih (Wow! It works! Insane legal agreement though.)
9:51 PM @jdl0301 That's because it's still pretty geeky to add AdBlock. Flipboard made it simple. What happens when others follow their footsteps?
Wednesday 12/8
2:36 AM Review: Mendeley makes managing research more fun http://t.co/338Py7C (Woah... BibDesk has some competition!)
5:48 PM Google wants to convert the Capslock key into a "Search" key. Not a bad idea, but it'd probably be more useful as a Control key instead.
5:48 PM RT @DanielEllsberg: EVERY attack now made on Assange and @wikileaks was made against me and release of Pentagon Papers http://bit.ly/eZnep8
5:49 PM RT @thenokiablog: Nokia to introduce new user experience with MeeGo in 2011 http://nokb.ly/yt
6:11 PM My refurb Kindle I bought a couple months ago on sale is dead as a doornail. Won't charge.
6:12 PM RT @andreatrasatti: Want to push a notification to a Nokia device from an application, your server or a Web site? Check this out http:// ...
7:31 PM @edisonsdesk Lots of people (me included) use the right alt key as the Alt-Gr to get to ñ and accented letters for words like diá... :-)
7:33 PM Went into System -> Preferences -> Keyboard and reset my capslock key to "hyper" (aka menu). Then assigned that to be a quick-launch key.
9:13 PM RT @dalmaer: "Many iPad apps are in large part, just HTML5 apps, inside a wrapper." http://ajxn.it/fnLvwy
Thursday 12/9
2:53 AM Samsung Focus (with Windows Phone 7) Review http://t.co/lIvL0CJ
9:23 AM 1:23 am. My favorite moment of the day.
5:40 PM Amazon recommendations needs to take into account a crazy concept known as "aging". I no longer want books on babies, toddler toys, etc.
5:42 PM Amazon's "Window Shopper" app for the iPad is pretty awesome. Truly the first real digital successor to the Sears Catalog.
Friday 12/10
12:38 AM Screenr - Create screencasts and screen recordings the easy way http://t.co/gd494fQ (Nice and clean.)
8:45 AM My latest nutty domain registration... http://c.affeine.com They always seem like such brilliant ideas at the time...
8:47 AM RT @iankennedy: Apps breathing new life into RSS. "Read All About It: News Apps Arrive" - WSJ.com http://otf.me/8uk
10:02 AM http://www.tor.com//blogs/2010/12/coming-soon-dirk-gently-trailer | Coming Soon: Dirk Gently trailer (Nice!)
6:56 PM More Cores = Longer Battery Life for Your Next Smart Phone http://t.co/kccvzvo
7:09 PM Comedy Central's rebranding looks great - http://t.co/CAomF4K
7:11 PM Comedy Central: Still Funny? - Brand New http://t.co/0RU1wqG
8:13 PM 'Carcassonne' Universal Update Hits http://t.co/8O8LN2u
Saturday 12/11
9:44 PM @martinlittle "Can I refill your eggnog for you? Get you something to eat? Drive you out to the middle of nowhere and leave you for dead?"
Sunday 12/12
10:35 PM The munchkin is having his first game of XBox Live with a pal, complete with voice chat... Lego Star Wars rules!
Monday 12/13
6:17 AM Pero, no entiendo. Que demonio es un 'itun'?!
Tuesday 12/14
5:19 PM Michael Moore: Why I'm Posting Bail Money for Julian Assange http://huff.to/gTHFs9
Wednesday 12/15
12:42 AM I just realized that with some basic settings Spotlight already does what I use Quicksilver/Alfred to do which is to simply launch files.
8:32 AM IndexedDB is a non-structured, object storage database, with arbitrary, automated indexes? Holy crap, it's Lotus Notes!! :-)
9:16 AM "Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live." - Martin Golding
8:49 PM Decided I needed to change my passwords today. I use like 3 of them regularly. But they suck. I foresee pain and suffering.
Thursday 12/16
5:25 AM Watching "It's A Wonderful Life" - almost convinced my son the whole world was black and white back then, Calvin and Hobbes style. :-)
5:43 AM Everyone else is in bed... Watching Christmas Vacation. Holy shit, that's Johnny Galecki!
7:03 AM Wow, *tons* of iPad games were just released: http://t.co/HNYUAq3
7:31 AM The economics of iOS apps are scary as hell. EA just dropped the price of most of their iPad apps to 99 cents. Insane.
8:04 AM App Inventor (beta) is now available in Labs to anyone with a Google account - http://t.co/Ipt3k98
5:47 PM Wow... changing passwords has given me a new appreciation on how many devices I use to access the Internet on a daily basis.
6:18 PM Why Not All WebKit Mobile Browsers Are Created Equal http://t.co/FUpzXQb
6:38 PM The Great Electronic Arts 99¢ Sale of 2010 http://t.co/Kr5XYkU
6:41 PM My brain is in desperate need of a massive infusion of caffeine and glucose. I may have to break my "No Red Bull Before Noon" rule today.
6:41 PM RT @Alyssa_Milano: LISTEN: Assange speaks of his relief at being freed➛ http://bit.ly/g5mZGH
#cablegate #wikileaks /via @mparent77772
8:59 PM @andreatrasatti Monopoly is surprisingly fun and challenging, especially on "hard" mode against 3 computers. :-)
9:00 PM @tamhanna @tomiahonen No Tam, you got it spot on. If you check out the top 10 App Store downloads now? All EA except Angry Birds!
9:18 PM Hoky crap... Yahoo! is 'sunsetting' delicious?!? http://t.co/zS7Gxmw
Friday 12/17
1:50 AM RT @gaberivera: Delicious was uberseminal, basically *the* Web 2.0 prototype. I wish the Smithsonian could keep it running.
1:51 AM RT @iankennedy: Now $7.01 RT @charliepark: Pinboard was at $6.88 ($.001 x # of users). Now at $6.97. So far: 9,000 new users; $62K prof ...
1:54 AM RT @PinboardIN: we have added just short of one million bookmarks today
1:58 AM I'm so ahead of the curve it's scary... I joined Pinboard on July 13, 2009. (Mostly just to help out with my $6 or whatever it was...)
2:02 AM Does *anyone* know someone at Twitter who can help me recover @russellbeattie that I deleted in a fit of cleaning, before re-registering.
2:19 AM HTMLform.com. Build easily your HTML form just now. It's completely free. http://t.co/2UcXUTM (Wow, like Wufoo you can download.)
6:17 AM Nokia increases layoffs to 2600 - http://bit.ly/fBUPdF (Ruh-roh, Shaggy.)
4:41 PM Mega Amount of Triangles http://t.co/5aVrs4O (Very cool redesign. Me gusta!)
5:18 PM I can't decide if I like Winona Ryder so much because she reminds me of a high school girlfriend, or the reverse. :-) http://t.co/ey6Lj6I
5:34 PM Holiday Singalong at the munchkin's school this afternoon, and then I just bought tickets for the Tron IMAX 3D showing right after. W00T!
6:25 PM Word Lens is a great example of why QRCodes are ancient and unneeded. Modern mobiles easily process text from images without obscure codes.
6:27 PM @chansearrington Wow, congrats!! You moving out to Cali now?
6:35 PM N900 Notifier is a simple application to display notifications of incoming SMS and Calls on your computer. http://t.co/7EyfqYd
7:12 PM "We’re actively thinking about the future of Delicious and we believe there is a home outside [Yahoo!]" http://t.co/dIPt1GO
7:27 PM Entanglement - by Gopherwood Studios http://t.co/kvsxNDl (Ooh, nicely done! Great little puzzle game. Very relaxing.)
Saturday 12/18
3:02 AM GREETINGS PROGRAMS!!!
7:28 PM "Apple is freezing the charts on Dec. 23rd, which means that any games in the top 200... will remain there [thru Xmas.]" http://t.co/C4ntu8h
7:29 PM I could see it happening, but I didn't know about Apple's chart freeze. EA are evil frickin' geniuses.
7:50 PM Jon Rohan · Creating Triangles in CSS http://t.co/LJTEgF3 (Holy cow, that's cool.)
9:24 PM RT @Whatleydude: How have I got this far in my life without ever actually trying to eat chocolate in the shower?! NEW DISCOVERIES FTW!
9:26 PM Aaaahhhhhh... The first Saturday to myself in months AND the first day of my Winter break. The possibilities are endless!
9:29 PM FYI to entrepeneurs: To most consumers "web" is a synonym for "free". Thus "web app" == "free app". Keep that in mind.
9:44 PM RT @BarackObama: By ending “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” no longer will patriotic Americans be asked to live a lie in order to serve the coun ...
9:46 PM I'm not a pro Apple guy by any stretch, but if I had the means I'd buy every member of my family an iPad this Christmas.
10:58 PM Finally, new maps for Fieldrunners http://t.co/QbMo7PZ
Monday 12/20
12:34 AM GAH! I don't understand why people like the Twitter.com UX or any of the clients. New stuff on top, but no marking as read is dumb.
12:34 AM Unless I'm missing something, the new Messages page is useless. How do you find new messages?
12:35 AM Why hasn't Twitter allowed more than 140 characters yet? I mean, just doubling it would improve tweet quality a ton.
4:58 PM Duh! The munchkin is playing Super Mario Wii!! I kept thinking someone was texting me as I use the one-up sound as my SMS alert tone. :-)
5:00 PM RT @timoreilly: RT @arwenogriffith Fantastic article highlighting each generation's shrinking roaming radius: http://snurl.com/1oe5b0
5:02 PM I'm reading Henry Huggins to my son (both in 3rd grade). In 1949, Henry walked to school, and rode the bus "downtown" to go to the YMCA.
Tuesday 12/21
7:48 AM And tonight I learned the difference in JQuery between .eq(), .get(), and index() . Ahhh, that helps quite a lot.
7:50 AM RT @Moof: Learning actual facts from @seldo's 12 Days of Christmas Infographic: http://ow.ly/3soiS
10:12 PM RT @janole: Good News from Nokia! ;-) RT @DavidCaabeiro: Nokia is finally offering a map tile API - https://projects.forum.nokia.com/ovi ...
Wednesday 12/22
7:16 AM Where.com Is Awarded The “Mother Of All Geofencing Patents” http://t.co/Jt0qp57 (You know that cliché geolocation coupon idea? That one.)
4:33 PM Phineas and Ferb might seriously be the best written show on television.
4:38 PM Obama signs repeal of 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' http://t.co/4MI7v3U
6:04 PM Windows Phone 7 on Nokia? Not likely http://t.co/nrBhltx
Thursday 12/23
5:22 AM Last-minute Christmas shopping in shorts and sandals. I love California.
6:35 AM Our Favorite Tech – The Aeropress Coffee Maker http://t.co/pYgW94X
4:25 PM Accelerating Sequence Event Detection through Condensed Composition http://t.co/8h6bqJN
Sunday 12/26
4:40 PM "Well, Yahoo certainly will never shut down Flickr, because ______ where ______ is the sound of donkeys." http://t.co/Rt4yqG4
Tuesday 12/28
5:29 AM I just got a $5 credit for movies and TV shows @amazonvideo. Click http://amzn.to/hh8gTP to get yours. #get5
6:40 AM @martinlittle Congratulations!!!
9:25 PM Multiple Google Chrome Profiles on OSX http://t.co/3WXMy2o (Very useful!!!)
Wednesday 12/29
7:56 PM My new office mate for the day: http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/ZaS5AhjmJIZ0Si2jZf-abA?feat=directlink
11:25 PM Hitwise: Facebook Overtakes Google To Become Most Visited Website In 2010 http://t.co/cqKasTG
Thursday 12/30
4:30 PM Mac tip: In Keyboard Preferences you can assign "Move focus to... next window" to ⌘ + ` to quickly switch windows rather than just apps.
Friday 12/31
10:58 PM Watching TVE 'en directo' waiting for the new year to arrive in Spain. Cava y uvas son listos! Feliz año nuevo!!!
January 2011
Saturday 1/1
7:26 PM San Francisco gets 2013 America's Cup (AP) http://t.co/ZyEf6G1
7:31 PM A moving target: The evolution of HCI http://t.co/fEKft4K
8:01 PM http://bit.ly/gEsdyF "heteroscedasticity"
9:00 PM Using console emulators with 'quick saves', I completed the original Super Mario Bros. and Super Mario World this weekend! W00t!
9:01 PM Thinking about going back and tackling Super Mario Bros. 3 next...
Sunday 1/2
9:19 PM Qt Webkit: Big promise for apps for MeeGo and Symbian http://t.co/sjn2ePP
9:21 PM "Spain enacts tough anti-smoking law." http://t.co/H340HJL (Not really that tough, nor different from the laws everyone ignored in the past)
9:24 PM I actually quit a job in Spain (at Terra.com) because my coworkers smoked at their desks in a windowless office ALL DAY LONG. Ugh.
9:27 PM Why use Classes or IDs on the HTML element? http://t.co/LgT0j4j
9:43 PM Super Mario Bros 3 Level Design Lessons - http://bit.ly/gKxmAq
9:45 PM I'm hanging out at the hobby shop catching up on news while the munchster plays in the Pokemon League. (I love my iPad.)
10:27 PM @stevegillmor I thought I was being prescient in August when I wrote this: http://bit.ly/cNv0WF only to see you beat me by over a year. :-)
11:17 PM http://bookfriend.me/ Nice! A site to organize eBook lending. I was wondering if it happened yet. (Needs to be a Facebook app.)
Monday 1/3
2:34 AM http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=200549320 of the ~30 books I have in my Kindle account, only 2 are loanable.
4:12 PM Holding Hands in Rio (New Rio 2016 Olympics logo) http://t.co/0DEoVUk
Tuesday 1/4
5:39 AM Fling Brings Joystick To The Top Of The iPad http://t.co/w0wgODQ
5:48 AM A complete tutorial on Lego gears, their advantages/disadvantages and the basic laws of mechanics that apply to them: http://bit.ly/ibqUMu
10:51 AM How is Nokia going to reduce the confusion around their OS, number of devices and overlapping choices in the market? http://t.co/OPqTnyE
11:10 AM RSS War! (As Fought On Twitter, Naturally) http://t.co/XLVQEUQ (Ahhhh. A good ol' fashioned flame fest. Love it!!!)
5:31 PM Share Bookmarklet | dev.twitter.com http://t.co/4jDsDF9
5:31 PM What It Takes to Form a Good Habit http://t.co/5BzwxBi
8:45 PM Touchable is a lightweight jQuery Class that unifies touch and mouse events (hover and long taps) http://t.co/qormkSS
Wednesday 1/5
5:11 PM Introducing Nokia Big Screen from Beta Labs http://t.co/hz8LpFD
7:10 PM Coding Colors Easily Using CSS3 hsl() Notation http://t.co/mRqXnie (This blog post may have changed my life... I finally understand color!!)
8:46 PM http://t.co/LbPD5td "LEGO Technic Tora no Maki is a book packed full of LEGO Technic knowledge and experience."
11:29 PM Google shows off Android 3.0, the 'Entirely for Tablet' Honeycomb (video) http://t.co/BYXlVjQ (No examples in portrait mode... Why?)
11:35 PM Samsung announces Wi-Fi Only Galaxy Tab for USA http://t.co/mHCxMND
11:43 PM A Look at the Future of Starbucks http://t.co/hbiawQI 40th anniversary logo change. Nice... I won't lie, I love Starbucks!
11:57 PM Watching the Android 3.0 video more closely. Nice homage to Tron in the lettrting. I guess the Android brand name is flexible that way.
11:59 PM What's with the fugly black bar across the bottom of every Android 3.0 screen!? I guess they feel it needs to be so gigantic for touching...
Thursday 1/6
12:01 AM Again, no Portrait app examples? I almost never use my iPad in landscape mode. Maybe I'm weird, but to me that's part of the tab experience.
12:04 AM I think the Maemo UI looks just as nice as Honeycomb, actually. I hope that helps give the MeeGo guys a jump ahead...
12:05 AM I'd really love a nice Linux powered and optimized tablet. Just for religious reasons, really.
1:07 AM MOTOROLA XOOM - Android Smart Tablet - Experience - Motorola, Inc. USA http://t.co/ZSSYMbc
1:10 AM Motorola Atrix 4G hits AT&T's website, complete with specs http://t.co/lDCe5od (Wow! You can plug it into a laptop shell. Very cool.)
6:49 AM No one seems to have noticed the correlation between the death of long-form blogging and the rise in Google spam.
6:52 AM Hmmm... Did @ev (and co.) inadvertently help build Google with Blogger, and then just as inadvertently destroy it with Twitter?
7:03 AM “People are scared to let their kids outside even where I live. If I want my kids to go outside I have to be with them.” http://t.co/iblVYKP
Friday 1/7
7:49 PM If every programming language used Pascal's assignment operator ":=" rather than just "=", it could save millions of man hours, I swear.
Saturday 1/8
12:54 AM You know you've had too much caffeine when you miss an *earthquake* because your jittery legs were already bouncing your monitor around.
4:47 AM "Everyone is special in their special own way," I mimicked sarcastically. http://t.co/sYRrP3k
7:06 PM Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D) of Arizona shot in the head while holding a public event http://t.co/0WaB7q1 (Only a matter of time...)
9:42 PM New Blog Post - OnLive Thoughts: Wow, it works!! http://goo.gl/fb/wD2DH
10:13 PM March 23, 2010: Sarah Palin's PAC Puts Gun Sights On Democrats She's Targeting In 2010 http://t.co/Atm8WBn (Including Giffords...)
Sunday 1/9
8:47 PM Hands-on with MeeGo OS (Tablet) http://t.co/kAZowRq
8:55 PM RT @OnLiveGames: Our #CES Sale ends today so get your OnLive Game System for only $66 now!
Monday 1/10
6:12 AM Her Majesty's a pretty nice girl, but she doesn't have a lot to say.
Tuesday 1/11
2:56 AM @timbray When my son and I play the animal game (name animals beginning with the last letter of the previous one), we use unicorn-fish.
5:52 AM @migueldeicaza "Aviso: La palabra Cabulear no está en el Diccionario." http://buscon.rae.es/draeI/SrvltConsulta?TIPO_BUS=3&LEMA=Cabulear
5:35 PM Thank GOD the iPhone is on Verizon. 3 years of listening to the zealots bitch about AT&T has been enough. Now their life can be perfect.
6:10 PM China Ends 2010 with 850 Million Mobile Subscribers http://t.co/m5CI0N1
6:23 PM "Voorwerp" is Dutch for "thing". What a great word! We'll have to import that into English, along with "vorpal".
6:24 PM @jamespearce Tinysrc?!? Really? You made a web service out of 20 lines of php-gd code!?? ;-)
7:59 PM Search Engine Blacklist - Google Chrome extension gallery http://t.co/MWJMsSV
Wednesday 1/12
4:01 PM Boy Rescued After Tongue Gets Stuck On Metal Pole http://t.co/q6St8OB
10:38 PM Turning your MeeGo Lenovo S10-3t into a real slate http://t.co/H2JtPpM (Full-screen keyboard. W00t.)
Thursday 1/13
4:08 AM MeeGo Software and SDK Updates http://t.co/NMrXziW
4:44 PM Android at CES 2011: Every Important Announcement http://t.co/KhEghp7
5:00 PM Nokia Scales Back Finnish Workforce Cuts to 500 Jobs (from the 800 announced) http://t.co/gJ6IIIa
5:28 PM That old computer in your garage is history, not junk! (videos) http://t.co/NbrGUSX
5:47 PM I just realized you could use a 7 to represent a T in hex. My last name can be spelled BEA771E. Cool! http://t.co/ZO20CDd
11:07 PM "8 Percent of Internet Users Now Account for 85 Percent of all Clicks" http://t.co/rU8mmTM
11:10 PM THAT, my friends, spells Bubble. Right here in River City! (With a capital 'B' that rhymes with 'G' that stands for 'Google.') Right here!
Friday 1/14
9:05 PM New Blog Post - Two-letter .io domains available! http://goo.gl/fb/PyOV4
11:51 PM RT @luovanto: KDJ-1 the portable "Game Boy of Beats" sports MeeGo inside. http://engt.co/ersqKF
Saturday 1/15
7:25 AM RT @dalmaer: New to git? Immerse yourself thanks to the great Jim Weirich http://t.co/9M2qA76
7:57 PM @pnbersch @baub Did you guys figure it out? Just go to nic.io and register... I know what it says, but rb.io is working for me today.
7:59 PM RT @zefrank: !scribbler for the ipad: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/the-scribbler-hd/id409062673?mt=8
Monday 1/17
8:00 AM Oldest computer ads - http://t.co/JDcZE7e (A great collection of mostly mid-80s magazine ads. I remember drooling over more than a few...)
8:16 AM I started following a few @quora Twitter topic accounts the other day. All questions and no answers? Might as well be spam. Unfollowing.
7:15 PM Kindle Lending Club - Borrow and Lend Kindle Books for Free. http://t.co/BOe6auF (Ahh, here's one. I knew it wouldn't be long... :-) )
Tuesday 1/18
12:00 AM As much as I like to be annoyed at Apple and Steve Jobs, it's makes me sad that he can't be in full health to fully enjoy his success.
1:08 AM Sony Ericsson sues Clearwire for trademark infringement http://t.co/78sKti1 (Serves them right for stealing @kinoma's logo... :-) )
6:19 AM Jobs’s Cancer Combined With Transplant Carries Complications http://t.co/kS0crx7
6:24 AM Computer History Museum opens in Mountain View http://t.co/2Nwyw0O
6:51 PM HTML5 Validates with New Logo http://t.co/ICCaFO0
6:54 PM W3C HTML5 Logo http://t.co/T7GxJ1c (I can't say that HTML5 needed any more hype, but hey, I like the logo. And t-shirts!)
7:16 PM "People Did Sometimes Stick Things in my Underwear”
The Function of Laughter at the U.S. Supreme Court - http://t.co/iRdKvbN
9:33 PM Lego Totoro! I'm going to have to make one of these... http://t.co/oYEtDaP
9:53 PM Exclusive: HP / Palm's webOS tablets -- pictures, plans, and more http://t.co/wTTzpXS via @engadget
Wednesday 1/19
1:33 AM Mark Shuttleworth » Blog Archive » Qt apps on Ubuntu http://t.co/HlaTns2
4:22 AM NodeFu Launches - Opensource Node.js hosting platform to be Heroku for nodejs http://t.co/P9vaNtA
4:28 AM Single-Name Social Media Handles Are Totems in the Tech World - http://t.co/glRU8nC I own 'russell' on Skype and its a giant PITA.
Thursday 1/20
5:17 AM "Hey numbnuts, cognitive science demonstrates that you're not bright enough to realize what a clusterfuck your life is" http://t.co/13EZhdU
8:57 AM RT @IfYouOnly: "One day, Steve Jobs is going to die" - a great, insightful profile from @EsquireMag: http://is.gd/s7DX0g
10:12 AM Awesome. Want! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z86V_ICUCD4&sns=tw
4:17 PM "I would like you to dance... Take a ch-ch-ch-chance!"
4:43 PM SelfLoading LEGO Dice Tower - http://t.co/WjjNryj (Must build this!!)
11:51 PM Qt SDK 1.1 Technology Preview released http://t.co/A52yck6
Friday 1/21
7:52 AM RT @Hinman: Posted preso from Silicon Valley #bayCHI #IxDA talk: http://slidesha.re/f3Yk12 Thanks again to everyone who came to the even ...
4:47 PM "Much to the contrary, things will only get worse for Google when the court takes a look at the complete files." http://t.co/cuqIFmN
4:53 PM Sun would probably still be around today if Google hadn't simply ripped off their mobile technology. I hope GOOG gets hammered in court.
9:00 PM Do nothing for TWO WHOLE MINUTES!?!?! What kind of EVIL is this?!?!? http://www.donothingfor2minutes.com/
Saturday 1/22
8:14 PM When I asked Wolfram Alpha the distance between the Earth and Sun, it answered .9842 AU. Huh!? It assumed I meant *right now*. CRAZY!
Sunday 1/23
7:35 PM Qt Quick Twitter Client Video: http://t.co/9LnMUCo (I've been playing with QML, and though I have some issues, it's very, very slick.)
Monday 1/24
5:39 AM Procrastinators are generally less wealthy, less healthy and less happy. Damn, I need to change my ways, starting tomorrow.
8:12 AM MeeGo 1.1.2 SDK Update release http://t.co/5RhpZtF
11:52 PM Opera Mini turns 5 , served zillions of web pages ! http://t.co/72AsiqZ
Wednesday 1/26
8:37 AM RT @tlaukkanen: Nokia Reader seems nice but still ended up creating own simple Google Reader client with Qt Quick http://bit.ly/h8neO5 R ...
5:10 PM IPv6 is really obtuse. I can't figure out how to get it working inside my own home network, let alone using it to access the Internet.
Thursday 1/27
4:35 PM Introducing Fireriver, a River of News for Firefox 4 http://t.co/5ahHT6x
4:49 PM Everything You Should Know About Sony's PlayStation NGP http://t.co/e49nW6q
5:12 PM Yahoo's stock started to decline as soon as I joined the company. Same for Nokia... One has to ask: Is it me?
5:17 PM Is Tasty Labs the Next Great Social Play? - Forbes http://t.co/GmN7JrU
5:23 PM @cschick (With apologies to Groucho Marx) "I wouldn't want to join any company that would have me as an employee..."
6:16 PM Dear News Corp: I would rather run my iPad over with my car than ever, ever, *ever* buy your Daily app. (Oh, and fuck you.)
Friday 1/28
12:30 AM Badass LEGO Guns: Building Instructions for Five Working Guns http://t.co/JQ9QPbD (OH BABY!)
1:17 AM Just upgraded (finally) to Snow Leopard, so now I can check out the new App Store and apps like Twitter... Pretty slick.
6:14 AM The IBM 100x100 anniversary video is *astoundingly* good. Starting with a 100yo IBMer, then a 99yo, and so on. http://youtu.be/39jtNUGgmd4
6:17 AM Now that I think about it, I'm technically an ex-IBMer... my first temp job out of college, then later full-time for Lotus.
6:29 AM I adore my iPad, but I stand by my initial thoughts a year ago: "What we really wanted was a MacPad not an iPad" - http://t.co/N4FnEe5
5:26 PM Wow... Some big office complex in China just simply copied the City of Melbourne's new logo/branding wholesale: http://t.co/eodmULy
Monday 1/31
6:58 PM "Samsung, HTC, Motorola, Sony Ericsson, LG, Acer, etc. barely sell more Androids than Nokia alone with Symbian in Q4." http://t.co/L2Y9b7Q
February 2011
Tuesday 2/1
1:15 AM Let's try to figure out an IPv6 address: fe80::211:11ff:fe30:5264/64 They made it more confusing by the various ways it can be written.
1:17 AM Okay, so there's supposed to be 8 groups of 4 hex digits. But leading 0's can be omitted, that turns it into fe80::0211:11ff:fe30:5264 ...
1:19 AM But then that's still only 5 groups. Consecutive groups of 0 can be written as ::, thus: fe80:0000:0000:0000:0211:11ff:fe30:5264
1:22 AM The /64 at the end is something called the Classless Inter-Domain Routing number, and I have zero idea what it's used for.
4:02 PM Personalizing Web Search using Long Term Browsing History http://t.co/Etru69J
4:11 PM Roku Finally Adds Local USB Playback Support http://t.co/bA5L2qu (FINALLY!!! It took long enough, I hope it works well.)
4:53 PM Hands-On Introduction to QML and Qt Quick - Sunnyvale, Feb 10 & 17 http://t.co/G9CY9zJ (Held at the new Nokia offices, nice.)
4:56 PM RT @NokiaResearch: NRC Publication: A profile-based approach for maintaining software architecture: an industrial experience report http ...
5:41 PM @alexlimoges Nice, I think you're right, but if IPv6 is 128 bit, why isn't a single address listed as /128 ?
Wednesday 2/2
5:06 AM Brainchild's Kineo Android Tablet Is Teacher's New Pet http://t.co/VuOgrUi
7:40 AM @iankennedy meet @derrick , the ceo of Chumby. Derrick, meet Ian, currently freezing his tail off (I assume) back in Nokia's homeland...
4:48 PM Apparently it's snowing pretty heavily in a large part of the U.S. I had no idea until I heard it on NPR this morning. Sunny and warm here.
5:11 PM Reading some news this morning about "Nokia Oyj" made me realize I have no idea how to pronounce 'oyj' or even know what it means.
7:13 PM Ibis Reader - "The future-proof ereading platform" http://t.co/mQTZ2kE (Very cool, upload your ePub books and read them in any browser.)
7:21 PM Dear Browser Makers, please double check your CSS3 column algorithm - I keep seeing text *cut in half* if the css is set dynamically. Bad.
7:23 PM PSA: Buying an iPad Daily newspaper is like saying, "I LOVE ME SOME FOX NEWS! YEAH! GIMME MOAR OF DAT!"
7:37 PM Someone please send this link to the Ovi Store guys with a note that says, "Like this!" http://market.android.com/
7:51 PM Up until the iPhone, subscriptions were the key monetization method for mobile. Now that the iPhone has them? It's going to be HUUUGGEEE.
7:54 PM @janole As they're my coworkers in a general sense, I'll give them the benefit of the doubt and assume ignorance, rather than incompetence.
8:14 PM Slashgear: Android 3.0 Honeycomb hands-on [Motorola XOOM] http://t.co/SHDUBuY (Looks very slick.)
Thursday 2/3
4:40 PM "I'm going to fight 'em all... A seven nation army couldn't hold me back." http://youtu.be/0J2QdDbelmY
5:32 PM Every morning for the past few weeks while reading the news I think "today is the day I finally grok IPv6", then 30 minutes later I give up.
5:34 PM Actually, it's not all bad. This morning I finally truly understood how insanely big IPv6's address space is. I mean, it's really big.
5:35 PM "IPv6 is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is." (With apologies to Douglas Adams...)
5:39 PM IPv6 routers broadcast a base address, which network clients use to create a unique address based on their MAC, or a random number (WTF?).
5:41 PM That said, any client that uses IPv6 will respond to IPv6 traffic on the same Ethernet, even if the router doesn't support it.
Friday 2/4
8:18 AM Recruiting developers in Silicon Valley, Nokia says good things are coming soon http://t.co/3z8xMa9
8:50 AM Technology Strategy Positions at Nokia http://t.co/Nb995aI
4:58 PM TweetFlare for Feedburner http://t.co/jZMxxcy
5:10 PM Wintermute project aims to bring Artificial Intelligence to Ubuntu http://t.co/BC54Bwe (Great name!)
5:38 PM I'm rocking Chrome 9... I have to admit that when I first heard of Chrome I scoffed, but the GOOG done good, I love this browser.
Saturday 2/5
5:57 AM "Jesus Christ The Walls Are Melting" http://t.co/3l4q73X (hysterical! I'm in tears laughing so hard.)
5:01 PM Nokia likely to sack several executives: report | Reuters http://t.co/OiNzjbS (Woops... The head of my group mentioned...)
Monday 2/7
4:09 PM The boy has a serious case of the giggles this morning. Everything is hysterical... including most stuff that isn't. (Staying calm.)
Tuesday 2/8
4:56 PM Helsinki “Snow-How” - CNN report on clearing out snow. Insane. http://t.co/sUgAeyB
6:03 PM Video of Myriad Alien Dalvik which lets Android applications run on non-Android devices. http://t.co/EWj1IY4 (Using the N900 of course.)
6:22 PM Plannic, conoce gente que comparte tus intereses y queda en la vida real. http://t.co/h79uudc (Parece interesante...)
7:22 PM "jQuery for the command-line. Written with node" https://github.com/visionmedia/query (Very, very cool!)
7:42 PM The PC Decrapifier http://t.co/h2nyCwg Automatically uninstalls bloatware on new PCs. Wish I found this the other day! Gah!
7:56 PM Someone should start an open source effort to re-draw the basic Unicode glyphs that every font defaults to use... http://t.co/GPgGHPu
10:14 PM Nokia faces key test with strategy announcement http://t.co/htxlqja
Wednesday 2/9
2:01 AM Remember my first day I was like, "Do you smell smoke?" and you said, "What smoke?" and I was like, "Dude. I think there's a fire." Totally.
7:31 PM Apparently Android is out of the running. I think that's a good thing, despite my general Antipathy towards Microsoft - http://t.co/oXCVtb5
8:36 PM There's about 5 billion phones out there waiting for an upgrade. Literally. The next 10 years is going to make the 2000s look prehistoric.
8:40 PM Beyond the 5 billion people getting always-connected, 1+Ghz CPUs in their pocket, IBM is already *shipping* 10 Petaflop super computers.
8:44 PM If Moore's law holds, 10 Petaflops will be 20 in 2012, 40 in 2014, 80 in 2016, 160 in 2018 and 320 in 2020... We'll hit an exaflop by 2024.
8:54 PM The original Pentium in 1993 had 3 million transistors, the latest Itanium has over 2 billion. By 2013 it'll be 3B. 1000x in 20 years.
Thursday 2/10
7:16 AM Holy Cow! Chrome has a ton of command-line switches! http://t.co/anKgyTv
5:07 PM Dokan - Like FUSE, for Windows. Use it to, eg., access directories on a Linux machine with sshfs. http://t.co/NMlCYDN
5:10 PM http://toucharcade.com/2011/02/10/urgent-price-drop-alert-world-of-goo-for-ipad-is-99%C2%A2-for-one-day-only/ World of Goo for 99 cents!
5:24 PM Early Quora Design Notes - The Artypapers Weblog - Artypapers http://t.co/nFytkoc
5:37 PM RT @nokia: http://conversations.nokia.com will be the hub for tomorrow’s Nokia strategy announcement starting around 7:30am GMT
6:10 PM RT @natekoechley: Rad: “@ydn: A look at some of the technology ingredients in Livestand, Yahoo's digital newsstand: HTML5, YQL, YUI etc ...
6:14 PM Think (IBM) - Wikipedia http://t.co/mjS2sO4 Hey Google, nice try, but "Think" has been an IBM mantra for about 100 years now.
6:20 PM I'd bet a lot of my coworkers are shaking their heads about now saying, "But I thought Canadians were supposed to be polite and nice..."
6:32 PM Mary Meeker's Top 10 Mobile Trends http://www.scribd.com/doc/48586092
6:49 PM I like the way Github's file view slides so I checked out the source - after de-minifying, there's 10,000+ lines of Javascript. Wow.
10:52 PM Torrent Butler http://t.co/KmBWqTx (Browse torrented movies by image... nice.)
Friday 2/11
2:26 PM *Yawn* Damn, I fell asleep early last night. Did I miss any big news?
2:46 PM RT @rsuplido: Nokia and Microsoft press conference video now up: http://youtu.be/rTCwf6dXZOg
3:40 PM Imagine if Nokia bought Palm? Or alternatively, imagine if Apple didn't buy NeXT in 1996...
4:02 PM So the next two *years* will be "transitional" and then we become... Dell? #notexcited
5:01 PM I think I'm going to spend the rest of the day pouting and being bitter. Definitely taking the day off. Then I'm buying a new phone.
5:23 PM Oh, I'll get the Samsung Windows Phone. I can finally upgrade from my ancient N900, see a new OS, and still use it at work.
Saturday 2/12
4:29 AM Hello from my new Windows Phone...
5:29 AM The honest truth is I feel like a man without a country. I have zero enthusiasm for any of the mobile OS platforms now. Meh.
5:31 AM Long live HTML5!! :-)
8:11 PM Moved over to a new shiny laptop... discovered what a clusterfuck configuring grub2 is. Good job guys! Nice "upgrade".
8:13 PM @tomas_pascual Unless Microsoft comes out with a Visual Studio for Ubuntu, I doubt I'll be doing much C# development. :-)
Sunday 2/13
5:09 AM @charleshood Samsung QX410 - Intel i5, 650GB, 4GB RAM ... Plays nice w/Ubuntu so far...
8:29 PM MSQt™ 4.7: http://t.co/7cKubMi Where did this come from? And what the hell is a "MS™ Tablet® operating system"?
9:08 PM Woops! I got fooled. The MSQt site is satire. Thanks for everyone for pointing it out to me. Sorry if I gave you a heart attack.
Monday 2/14
5:23 PM Funny... when I plug my Windows Phone into my Ubuntu computer, it doesn't recognize it. I'll have to check the cable...
5:24 PM RT @html5: IE9 on Windows Phone: IEBlog http://goo.gl/f06tD "deliver the same IE9 browsing engine for Windows Phone as we’ve delivered o ...
5:24 PM Thank heavens Microsoft is updating the IE Mobile browser, because it currently *suuuuucks*.
6:11 PM I can't seem to figure out any way of getting music/files onto my phone sans using Windows... Am I missing something?
6:19 PM Microsoft has such *horrible* product names. "Microsoft Windows Live SkyDrive"? It's probably supposed to be hierarchical, but it isn't.
6:20 PM Do they really think anyone cares about the difference between online ("Live") products and offline ones? Is there a difference any more?
6:21 PM Then there's the random "standalone" brands like Bing and Zune... which also don't make any sense. Someone should kill their marketing team.
6:25 PM RT @jukkaeklund: ISO link for Intel Tablet UX alpha: http://appdeveloper.intel.com/en-us/meego-iso-esla. Runs on any Atom PC I guess @se ...
11:59 PM Windows Phone 7 Connector (for Mac) - Beta http://t.co/QSYUO99
Tuesday 2/15
10:36 AM I don't know about you, but I think IBM's Watson playing on Jeopardy *insanely* interesting. http://www.ibmwatson.com
10:42 AM Mozilla Labs » Gaming » Z-Type http://t.co/ypX6eMq You have to try this game to see how cool it is, and in HTML5!
5:43 PM Dungeons & Dragons - Wrath of Ashardalon http://t.co/gJW8jhI A cooperative game of adventure for 1-5 players. Looks pretty cool!
6:50 PM I'm a (very, very small) Nokia shareholder too, and I really like MeeGo and dislike Windows, but even I think the "Plan B" guys are nuts.
Wednesday 2/16
6:26 PM Windows Phone 7 Connector for Mac OS goes gold, hits the App Store http://t.co/JFICPuP Oh, nice. I just found the beta the other day...
6:26 PM Motorola confirms XOOM pricing; around $600 for Wi-Fi only, $799 for cellular connectivity http://t.co/6exF6zO
6:27 PM Every half-decade or so Motorola pops out an incredibly cool and iconic device, then goes back into hibernation. I wonder if the Xoom is it?
Thursday 2/17
2:16 AM @Ross @caterina The feedback loop has disappeared - people might comment (or tweet), but not write a detailed response on their blog...
2:22 AM Playing with Twitter on the Mac again... I still can't understand how people use clients. I guess I'm just weird/old/odd/different/etc.
2:25 AM @lordbodak I don't use clients at all. (Except right now). There's a level of distraction I just don't need. :-)
2:47 AM I do kinda like the floaty instant update thing in the Twitter client, but mostly I read tweets in bulk like I do news. Ok, going home.
Friday 2/18
6:56 AM "A user interface is created of pixels, so in Metro we try to avoid... real world materials and objects." http://t.co/rCVUIXK
5:00 PM Observations from MWC http://t.co/qjidIQm
5:16 PM QT demoes the Qt WebKit and HTML5 at Mobile World Congress 2011 http://t.co/D5mgZa8
Saturday 2/19
7:01 AM Libya Shuts Down Internet http://t.co/XTjpacc (But, hey, Bit.ly still works! So no biggie.)
11:16 PM Remember when we were all going to use XSL to create XHTML pages the "right" way? Now it's server-side DOM and HTML5. #willtheyneverlearn?
Sunday 2/20
3:13 AM It's really too bad that I don't like Terry Pratchett's writing, because he seems to have written a crapton of books.
5:31 PM Listening to Jazz via Pandora while re-reading the first Foundation novel while the boy watches the latest Pokemon movie. Perfect Sunday!
7:01 PM If you haven't set up Chrome search engine keywords, you really should: chrome://settings/searchEngines
Monday 2/21
5:19 PM Apps Continue to Overtake Mobile Web (Study) http://t.co/RLFbsDM (Surprising to me.)
8:27 PM Why does my shaving razor need to have a rubberized grip the size and shape of a motorcycle throttle? What does Gillette think I'm doing?
8:28 PM Do I really need to start my day with that level of self delusion? "STAND BACK! My safety razor is a deadly weapon! See the grip?"
8:29 PM I don't know about you, but I generally hold my razor as gingerly as possible to prevent myself from cutting large chunks of my face off...
10:31 PM Kindle e-book piracy accelerates http://t.co/8aPUrrn "2,500 Retail Quality Ebooks for Kindle (MOBI)"
Tuesday 2/22
12:44 AM RT @NokiaResearch: NRC Publication: Nenya: Subtle and Eyes-Free Mobile Input with a Magnetically-Tracked Finger Ring http://bit.ly/eZJEcT
12:46 AM Grrr... I wonder if that's an update. I thought I had it set so you couldn't save a pub without an abstract! (Lazy-ass researchers. :-) )
5:29 PM Amazon.com: Prime Eligible - Movies: Amazon Video On Demand http://t.co/xWYNCni (Wow... nice!)
5:50 PM First Windows Phone 7 update results in bricked Samsung phones http://t.co/d48AEN0 (Wooooops. I'll hold off updating my Focus.)
6:40 PM Modular Robotics | Cubelets http://t.co/fJD933F Coooool!! Want!!
8:50 PM “@gaberivera: I need a Shazam for recognizing humans I've already met.” OMG, yes. I'd pay serious money for this.
8:52 PM @tomiahonen Wow, I guess you really like Pratchett... I'll take another look. Maybe a book later in the series.
Thursday 2/24
2:30 AM Android Honeycomb Review http://t.co/ThBT4A9
3:09 AM First Look at the Motorola Atrix 4G Smart Phone http://t.co/iah4CXi (Dual-core Tegra 2... "stupid fast")
3:20 AM I can't believe the Xoom is coming out, and the iPad2 and my gadget budget is completely shot.
3:21 AM I'm getting tired of not being able to use popular apps, but the thought of moving from Ubuntu to Windows or OS X makes me insane.
6:37 AM Followed these instructions to get Win7 running under VirtualBox using the native partition... http://t.co/Z0Gag5o
6:26 PM Insane. I just got a new Samsung notebook w/ i5 2.67Ghz, 4GB RAM, 650GB HD, 14" display for $400+ less than the new 13" MacBook pro.
6:34 PM Seriously, I don't know why people SUCH a premium for Macs. It's seriously insane. Here's a link to my Samsung - http://bit.ly/QX410-J01
6:37 PM Same weight as a 13", same build quality, same RAM, better CPU, GPU, bigger display, hard drive, way cheaper and runs Ubuntu like a champ.
6:38 PM Meh. Ok. Bitching about Apple is like complaining about the weather. Enjoy your insanely priced Apple products.
7:12 PM Motorola Xoom: Cool Product, Fatally Flawed Pricing Strategy | Forrester Blogs http://t.co/1qtcQsR
7:14 PM Seriously, I just can't figure out any justifiable reason to buy a Xoom, though I really want one. Their pricing is fucked.
11:31 PM Playing with Google Reader... I starred, shared and liked an item, and marked it unread. No idea what most of that is for.
Friday 2/25
12:51 AM escape() will not encode: @*/+, encodeURI() not: ~!@#$&*()=:/,;?+' and encodeURIComponent() not: ~!*()' http://t.co/nDBnBmS
4:37 AM Linux vs. Mac vs. Windows – Update your computer [Humor] http://t.co/UjJTE0j Classic!
4:47 AM Xerox opens virtual research lab to public | ITworld http://t.co/rN1UmCk
7:08 PM Nokia and open source – a trial by fire http://t.co/OHRLMuB
7:14 PM The sad thing is that if you put the Nokia 770 in stores today with almost no changes, it'd be one of the best tablets on the shelf.
7:15 PM Excuse me while I wallow in the past for a bit...
7:28 PM @hrpuffnstuff I'm sure there's a quite few of us out there. :-) The 770 let us see in 2005, what the rest of the world discoverd in 2010.
Saturday 2/26
3:35 AM Netflix Adds Subtitles to More Streaming Content, Stirs Up Controversy | Fast Company http://t.co/xW0DXLK
6:08 AM Let me tell you, this is driving me fucking insane: P(A|B) = P(B|A)*P(A) / P(B) Why won't it work?!?!?!? GAAAH!!
5:02 PM "Only 5 More Days To Renew MOBITOPIA.COM" Again?!? Gah. 10 years is enough, no?
6:07 PM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYFZuu2oJCU This re-imagining of the original Donkey Kong is pretty cool!
Sunday 2/27
9:53 PM I wonder what it is about my own saved links that makes them so *boring*!? I saved them to read later for a reason, no?
9:57 PM At Pokemon League again (aka a fantasy hobby shop in San Jose). The parents sit outside the big room and wait and exchange stories...
Monday 2/28
1:12 AM Playing with TweetDeck in Chrome... It's definitely a lot lighter than Adobe Air versions. Seems live too...
6:06 AM I didn't realize until now that Tron: Legacy got snubbed for an Oscar. How was it not in special effects and best album?!? Daft Punk Rule.
9:15 AM After several hours of messing with Facebook's various APIs, I've yet to produce a newsfeed identical to the one on my FB homepage. Insane.
9:16 AM I got pretty close with FQL, but it was missing likes and random status updates, despite having requested access.
9:17 AM Going to bed now in defeat. *Shakes fist in the general direction of Facebook's HQ.*
6:57 PM Nothing says "Monday" like having to force-quit Outlook for the Mac. Someday Microsoft will learn how that whole "suspend" mode thing works.
8:35 PM Wow. Feedly.com is fucking gorgeous. I'm tweaking my custom news reader, and I'd kill to have it look this nice.
8:38 PM GoodNoows.com is pretty nice as well. A little heavy on the Ajax, but in general pretty clean.
10:20 PM http://t.co/gQ2VBsa This list is pretty good - I hadn't heard of a few, and didn't know Inkscape had a mac version.
March 2011
Tuesday 3/1
12:31 AM I've had the mac Twitter app open all day and it's not nearly as annoying as I thought it'd be...
12:32 AM Is it just me, or is there no way to unfollow a person using the client?
12:33 AM Aha! I found it! At the bottom of a person's User Details is a follow/unfollow button. Nice.
4:41 AM http://t.co/KDCEcVS Amanda Hocking is selling 100,000 ebooks a month on the Kindle. Wow!
6:53 PM Cranking up the caffeination in order to catalyze my comatose cerebral cortex, and consuming citric acid to help captivate my creativity.
6:54 PM Hmm... Can creativity really be captivated? I don't think so.
6:54 PM I think I was looking for the word "capture". Need more OJ.
8:14 PM Quick Look at the Motorola Atrix's Webtop OS - Tested http://t.co/eIX2IZ8 Holy Crap, is that Nautilus and Gnome!?!
8:20 PM Gah! Before I start shaving, I really, really need to ask myself, "Does that Yak really need a trim?"
11:35 PM Google gifts Xoom tablets to game devs at GDC 2011 http://t.co/g16EDyI Holy Crap! That's an expensive gift!!!
Wednesday 3/2
2:03 AM Robert Reich: "The bottom 90% of Americans now earn on average $280 more per year than they did 30 years ago." http://t.co/lKfCn1D
4:06 AM Ooh, two startups at DEMO have *great* domain names: Nimble.com and Manilla.com. I *love* those old-school .com domains. :-)
4:11 AM RT @j_loughney: My latest SlideShare upload : IEEE Globecom 2010: Mobile Communication and IPv6 http://slidesha.re/ghy0GA
3:54 PM @charleshood Thanks!!! I was backing up my server last night and accidentally gzipped my .htaccess file. Doh!
3:55 PM Wait, it's Wednesday? What the hell happened to Monday and Tuesday?
5:52 PM Swapping my email around - I'm sick of running my own imap/smtp server. Tried GoDaddy's, which was okay... now trying Google Apps.
5:52 PM I thought GMail was supposed to be good for detecting spam, but I've already seen several in like 2 minutes! NOT a good sign.
7:11 PM ARRGGGH! The iPad2 is friggin' awesome! I might have to become an Apple zealot I want it so much. http://www.apple.com/ipad/
7:14 PM I wish I had a couple thousand $$ sitting around so I could buy everyone in my family an iPad 2 right now. Mom, Dad, brother, son, wife...
Thursday 3/3
7:42 PM Hmmm... Mobitopia.com expires today. It's not the $12 renewal that bugs me, it's the fact I haven't done anything interesting with it...
7:43 PM All the cool .io names I registered last year are coming due soon as well. Those are bit more of a concern at $65 a pop...
Friday 3/4
5:01 PM RussellBeattie.com now has it's first IPv6 address: 2607:f0d0:1003:8b::2 and AAAA record entry. I have idea if it's working or not. :-)
6:33 PM New Blog Post - RussellBeattie.com is now IPv6 enabled! http://goo.gl/fb/PkHVl
7:47 PM Wow, using GoDaddy, my DNS changes were instantly propagated. Sadly, all my .io domains are still wrong, 15 hours after I updated them.
7:53 PM RT @OnLiveCommunity: Just left our booth with the next FREE #OnLive Game System to give away here at #GDC! Location hint in minutes...
Saturday 3/5
8:36 PM Convore - group chat for everyone http://bit.ly/hSgdQl Another IRC-like instant chat attempt. Remember lingr.com?
8:50 PM The obligatory #mobitopia chat group... http://t.co/Rqii2p2
10:45 PM Ninjago looks like a fun new game/collectible from Lego, but there's *no way* I'm paying $10 per figure. Are they nuts?!?
10:48 PM However, Lego Battles is one of my favorite DS games to play with the munchster, so I'm excited to see Lego Battles Ninjago on 3/31. :-)
Monday 3/7
4:35 AM 1991 Summer CES Video http://t.co/ntS9xqM (Wow, pretty amazing. Sega Genesis! And HDTV?!?)
5:51 AM It's been a few days and I have to admit, GMail's spam filter is amazing No spam and it doesn't seem to making false positives. Crazy.
5:52 AM It's almost disconcerting not to get spam, actually... I start to wonder if the mail is working.
4:42 PM MIT Media Lab new visual identity. http://t.co/zsegyh9 (The logo is based on an algorithm that produces a unique logo for each person)
Tuesday 3/8
1:57 PM Dear 6 a.m. Conference Calls: Don't take this personally, but you *suuuuuuuck*.
3:50 PM Follow-up: Starbucks Rolls Out New Identity http://t.co/hAZhnKG
5:12 PM Wallaby | Adobe Flash FLA to HTML - Adobe Labs http://t.co/mSp2yUH
5:20 PM Upcoming 'Bumpy Road' Looks Like a Unique Brand of Platforming http://t.co/lTO41GY
Wednesday 3/9
5:45 PM Note to startups: If you're using an iPhone to demo the Next Big Thing, it's not the Next Big Thing. (With apologies to... myself?)
5:53 PM RT @phonescooper: Some guy just asked me about my MacBook AIr. His main concern: "But that thing doesn't run Flash, right?" #sigh
6:06 PM Familiar, but not too familiar: Ars reviews Pokémon Black and White http://t.co/ZKypZwQ
Thursday 3/10
3:23 AM Blekko Bans 1.1 Million Spammy Domains Via New Algorithm http://t.co/RZ90Z4K Oooh, nice. I may have to try them out...
3:24 AM Upgraded to iOS 4.3 on my iPad. The rotation lock is back! W00t! And the browser is noticably faster. Nice.
8:16 PM Oh, woops. Didn't see who was part of churn... unlinking.
8:17 PM RT @jamespearce: The most intriguing thing about iOS 4.3 is the clue that WebGL might be on the way. http://bit.ly/hLw5re
8:46 PM I'm having one of those days where I open a new browser tab to search for something, and by the time it loads, I've forgotten what I wanted.
Friday 3/11
8:14 AM Holy fuck. 8.9!?!?!?
8:29 AM The worst earthquake video I've seen was from the Kobe one years ago. Some guy sleeping in a TV station gets pounded.
8:33 AM RT @iankennedy: Reports saying Japan earthquake is the biggest since 1707. http://english.aljazeera.net/watch_now/
8:58 AM I think stocking up our earthquake emergency bag will be a good errand for this weekend.
9:00 AM RT @emilychang: west coast now upgraded to tsunami warning. people in coastal areas need to move to higher ground: http://t.co/M566Mi4
7:08 PM Come now and let us bow our heads as we pray to the gods of Concentration, Focus and Organization, and ask them to smile down upon us.
Saturday 3/12
7:21 PM Remember to set clocks for daylight saving time (AP) http://t.co/DnYFxJF (Holy crap! Already?!?! Awesome!! Spring forward baby!)
7:23 PM Explosion at Japanese nuclear plant, fuel may be melting - Officials http://t.co/hsdltYp (fuckaduck.)
8:52 PM RT @dalmaer: On iOS Apple is incented to create a good browser (Nitro engine) but disincented to create a great Web app runtime (no Nitr ...
8:54 PM @dalmaer This *sucks*. I just confirmed it using my favorite iPad browser iCab: SunSpider results were 8463ms vs. 3338 for Safari.
8:59 PM I'll give Apple the benefit of the doubt and assume a dev issue. They can't be that dumb-ass to purposefully handicap UIWebView, can they?
Sunday 3/13
7:43 PM HTML5 Game in the Chrome and Mac App Store http://t.co/DdFEdJ1 (from @LostDecadeGames - very retro! I just ponied up a whole $2 for it. :-)
7:51 PM RT @BrendanEich: We <3 etherpad @Mozilla. Classic disruptive (self-hating) innovation. "@humphd: Interesting take on etherpad's histo ...
Monday 3/14
5:06 AM Lost city of Atlantis found in Southern Spain http://t.co/3awaVn6 (Holy crap, my wife and son are Atlantians!)
5:16 AM Ooh, I have an idea for one of those literary mashups: "Don Quixote - The Ingenious Gentleman of Atlantis". :-)
5:27 AM Exactly 5 years ago I was also playing with live web/mobile conversations... #missedopportunities http://www.russellbeattie.com/blog/1008884
5:50 PM The Nuclear Regulatory Commision and my employer share the same initials... (random fact courtesy of my automated news searches.)
5:53 PM God I'm practically catonic today. HEY DST! I got your 'spring forward' right *here*.
5:55 PM @janole @j_loughney The answer: http://www.russellbeattie.com/blog/beatties-first-rule-of-application-development
5:58 PM "I love quoting myself..." - Me
Tuesday 3/15
7:09 PM State of the News Media 2011 - http://t.co/VvLhH9k "For the first time more people said they got news from the web than newspapers."
7:13 PM Monitoring Twitter for iPad 2 shipments locally... doesn't look good.
9:04 PM RT @rem: Wrote this at the weekend http://t.co/oQWuqMQ converts a page & all assets to a single inline html file containing images, css & js
Wednesday 3/16
3:44 PM RT @davidkroodsma: People in line for #iPad 2 at #apple store in Palo Alto. http://twitpic.com/4a2188 why did I feel envious instead of ...
5:48 PM Sun.com, the twelfth oldest domain on the internet, will be decommissioned on June 1st http://t.co/xQiFdUU (sad!)
Thursday 3/17
4:35 PM RT @marinelay3r: Sold out again at Apple Store Palo Alto. 20 tickets maybe at best. #iPad
Friday 3/18
4:09 PM WOW! I've been building Lego marble machines lately for fun. This video from Lego World 2011 is *insane*. http://youtu.be/N9VBQ3hW6t8
4:19 PM RT @marinelay3r: @iPadLocator 9 AM Apple Store Palo Alto update - only Verizon versions left, will run out by end of current line. #iPad
Saturday 3/19
7:28 PM The complete guide to jailbreaking Windows Phone 7 - Windows Phone Hacker http://t.co/KtbiFFB
10:32 PM Mistyped tag leads to exposure of Tumblr DB passwords and API keys - http://t.co/kbuaNLi (require_once('lib/GiantOctopus.php') - heh!)
11:35 PM Is space like a chessboard? http://t.co/csjStQ8 "electrons are ideal point particles, with no finite radius or internal structure..."
Sunday 3/20
12:39 AM If I hear about something that happened before 1972, I think, "Wow, that's before I was even born!" That's how my son feels about 2002. #old
6:58 PM Fun, true story - http://youtu.be/jU4oA3kkAWU Very cool!
7:03 PM Hmmm... One has to wonder, is Verizon+Sprint next up?
Monday 3/21
4:47 PM Some with the problem of extracting article text, think, “I know, I'll use Readability.” Now they have two problems. (W/ apologies to @jz).
7:11 PM RT @jamespearce: In the long run, {programmatic} generally trumps <declarative>
Tuesday 3/22
7:38 PM GDC 2011: Upcoming 'Anomaly Warzone Earth' – Tower Defense in Reverse http://t.co/kLfkhz5
Wednesday 3/23
3:15 AM 'Forget-Me-Not' – The Magical Child of PAC-MAN and Rogue http://t.co/N4lWL1p
4:10 AM The chumby8 is getting ready to ship! http://t.co/oIkrGjo
9:29 PM Bing Updates m.bing.com With More Impressive HTML5 Features | Microsoft News http://t.co/evxSv6p
9:31 PM iPad® meet WordPress http://t.co/Veg5Dqr Wow, this "theme" for WP is really slick.
10:57 PM RT @bperry: Stephen Elop on CNBC: mobility will help content “change radically” in the future. http://bit.ly/eKuxxa #Nokianews
Thursday 3/24
1:17 AM Watching the munchster's karate class... Twitter, entertain me.
8:01 PM Onswipe Partners With Automattic To Power iPad Traffic On 18.6 Million WordPress.com Blogs http://t.co/C1RR6Iq (Ah, so that's what happened)
Friday 3/25
10:12 PM Greatest Movie Ever Sold http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/sony/thegreatestmovieeversold/ OMG, the Super Size Me guy is a frigin genius!
11:40 PM Apple wins skirmish in Nokia patent war | Reuters http://t.co/lf6ibh2 ITC rules against patent infringement. Woops.
Saturday 3/26
1:30 AM vid.ly? I'm amazed that companies are still using .ly domains. There's just waaay too much instability underlying that TLD.
7:41 AM Color? http://color.com/s/0rT2kx #color
6:15 PM RT @Velodramatic: Just stuck my head in the door at the Palo Alto Apple Store... 100 people lined up, some since 2am for iPad 2 - 43 got ...
6:32 PM Holy fucking iPad spam! How can Twitter not have a handle on that yet?
Monday 3/28
6:19 PM Wearing a bandaid on the back of my neck again to keep myself from absentmindedly scratching at a scar. Coworkers must think I'm diseased.
6:19 PM They haven't mentioned it, despite me sitting with my back to the door... They must be scared. :-D
Tuesday 3/29
6:56 AM Need a Mobile Web App Template? Mobile Boilerplate 1.0 is Here http://t.co/c9758oH
7:23 AM RT @andreatrasatti: @RussB how about http://www.forum.nokia.com/Develop/Web/Mobile_web_browsing/Web_templates/ ?
7:49 AM RT @janole: Quite interesting » "Elop Fights Nokia Traditions in Race to Ship Microsoft Phone - Bloomberg" - http://j.mp/e8Do9l /via @Da ...
3:50 PM Nokia sues Apple again over patents - Yahoo! News http://t.co/SRjoBpy
Wednesday 3/30
7:06 AM Facebook Palo Alto, CA hosting talk on PhoneGap, March 31, 7 PM. http://t.co/LLDlvLt
8:17 AM Amazon.com lets you play with an Android virtual machine, try apps before you buy them -- Engadget http://t.co/LjDcmRM Wow!
6:15 PM Microsoft's Odd Couple | Vanity Fair http://t.co/75W0NB6 (by Paul Allen)
Thursday 3/31
3:13 AM I've been doing some stuff with Microsoft Sharepoint at work. It is truly a clusterfuck of code.
3:26 AM Using the MS Query Service entails making SOAP requests which contain - I shit you not - raw XML. It's like a bad "Yo Dawg..." joke.
6:52 PM Ubuntu 11.04 Beta released, reviewed http://t.co/vOReajP Unity is going to give me fits I can see it already.
7:15 PM Pioneer Anomaly Solved By 1970s Computer Graphics Technique - Technology Review http://t.co/vrgjXBw
9:08 PM I'm sick. I think I hate everyone today. Yeah, including you.
9:38 PM My best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who's going with the girl who...
10:06 PM Ok, I got out of bed! Progress!! I think I'll take a shower and try to do some laundry. I opened every door in the house. It's gorgeous!!
10:12 PM Started the Ubuntu 11.4 Beta .iso download, since I thought it'd take a while. 5 minutes later it was done. Oh, yeah, it's 2011 isn't it?
10:47 PM Feeling undying love for Linux and Ubuntu right now. It might be the cold medicine, but it feels real.
April 2011
Saturday 4/2
6:54 AM LKML: Linus Torvalds: Re: [GIT PULL] omap changes for v2.6.39 merge window http://t.co/IJU845M Nothing like a good Linus rant!
6:58 AM "ARM right now is a nightmare, and most of it is because ARM hardware manufacturers are morons." Hehehehe.
7:18 PM Green Lantern - New Movie Trailer http://t.co/VSXJ5n3 This looks goooood. I like how the bad guy isn't immediately Sinestro.
8:38 PM Woohoo! My cold moved into my chest! Time to get a little loopy on Robitussin! That stuff usually gets me high as a kite.
8:41 PM Looking at iPad 2's on Craigslist. It suddenly dawned on me that I may want the AT&T version this time.. hmmmm.
Monday 4/4
3:56 PM Clever Algorithms: Nature-Inspired Programming Recipes http://t.co/gfxnnI6 Wow... If only I could Really grok this stuff...
Wednesday 4/6
6:18 AM "Warning: Standing near turret may result in accidental empathy suppression."
7:17 AM Spiral Knights - Home http://t.co/ttd9BF0 Ooh, this looks pretty cool. And cross platform as well. Sweet.
4:19 PM You know you're old when you learn about a dance craze about a year after it was popularized... I just now learned about "The Dougie."
5:20 PM RT @N: As of right now, approx. 50 ppl are standing in line for iPad 2 at Apple Store Palo Alto.
8:57 PM Samsung confirms WiFi-only Galaxy Tab availability: April 10th, $350 http://t.co/6HxKFqf
8:59 PM If they update The Galaxy Tab with Honeycomb, at $350, that's a great tablet at a decent price point. Needs Honeycomb tho...
9:00 PM No more trying to get to the barber, I'm taking matters into my own hands...
Thursday 4/7
8:43 PM Sizing Up Smart Phones -Tested http://t.co/fuyDwZ1 4" screens+ are becoming the norm. Amazing.
Friday 4/8
1:27 AM 'Atari's Greatest Hits' Comes To iOS With 100 Games http://t.co/onYcI9a 99 2600 games? Is that really worth $15? Not really sure, honestly.
3:39 PM Republicans are extremist, hypocritical, ignorant, scumbag assholes who I wish would all die painfully in a fire.
3:45 PM RT @JPBarlow: Why America quit working: the GOP shuts down the Gov't rather than fund any abortions. http://nyti.ms/enoS8f
Sunday 4/10
8:29 PM I love discovering and then unfriending Republicans. It's not rhetoric, I DON'T LIKE YOU.
9:26 PM New Blog Post - Creating an iPad-like dropdown menu in HTML5 http://goo.gl/fb/uzBOB
10:24 PM I've suddenly realized browsers and CSS *really* don't care what your tags are. Everything that's not recognized is considered a div.
10:29 PM At this point, why bother with <div id="mycontent"> when you can just write <mycontent>? Works with both CSS and getElementByTagName()
10:56 PM RT @Rits: @RussB actually, a 'span' element. (not generating line breaks). BTW, older IEs don't style unknown elements, and javascript i ...
10:58 PM @Rits Ahh, okay. Well, a "display: block" fixes that. And screw older IE stuff, I'm thinking more about mobile HTML5 web apps. :-)
Monday 4/11
5:13 AM Touch based WP7 programming environment and language by Microsoft Research http://t.co/AgL7fSJ Wow... this looks interesting!
5:44 AM Wow, TouchStudio is easily the coolest thing I've seen on a smartphone in years. Very nicely done.
3:27 PM Creating an iPad-like dropdown menu in HTML5 - RussellBeattie.com http://t.co/vAlKqFJ
7:14 PM Man, I'm getting almost zero love for the html5 canvas menu post. I thought it was pretty neat... obviously just to me. :-)
11:33 PM
Tuesday 4/12
1:00 AM Frigin' car broke down again! Waiting for AAA to tow me to a garage. There goes my evening and another chunk of cash. Gah!
4:42 PM Munckins arguing from the other room about whether or not the creator of Pokemon is 'still alive'. LOL. 1996 = Ancient History.
4:44 PM Reading morning news on my new Motorola Xoom Wifi. It's not the iPad, but it's damn close.
5:39 PM @rcarmo Very nice! Though I'm not sure if the pink shadow is within Apple's UX guidelines. ;-)
6:49 PM @joshu My pride and joy old gadget is a Tandy Model 100 - http://www.classiccmp.org/dunfield/kyocera/h/m100ca84.jpg I coveted it for years.
6:54 PM 8-bit 2.4 MHz CPU, 24K RAM (expandable to 32K!), full keyboard, 300 baud modem, 8x40 pixel display and "apps" written by Bill Gates himself.
7:10 PM Oh, wow... Weird Stuff has an eBay store: http://stores.ebay.com/WeirdStuff-inc
7:18 PM Evincii Kiosk - Touchscreen Core 2 Duo 2.2 120GB HDD 4GB RAM http://t.co/R3y4eOU Wow, that thing is crazy looking. Never seen it before.
9:12 PM It's amusing Microsoft zero-ed in on CSS column support in IE10, as it's definitely buggy as hell in FF and Chrome. http://t.co/Cf092yM
Thursday 4/14
7:22 AM Don't you people ever shut up!?!
10:01 PM Car is *finally* fixed and now I'm waiting for a taxi to go get it. Got a text message confirmation with a link to http://cabs.io . Love it.
Friday 4/15
4:55 AM @nodejitsu Your feed is hosed. "TypeError: Cannot read property 'length' of undefined at Function.buildHeaders ... "
6:33 PM Throwback Thursday: Nokia 770 Internet Tablet http://t.co/SJGOqoi (Such a missed opportunity!)
7:18 PM Secrets of the Tax-Prep Business http://t.co/7jlrdhN "At the check-cashing place, they're talking to someone behind bulletproof glass"
Saturday 4/16
4:39 AM Frigin' Scoble surprised me with the whole AirPlay thing, so I bought an AppleTV. Playing with it now - it's stupidly good. Gah!
5:13 AM Just had a fun idea - you know that giant mmo Scrabble game (http://wordsquared.com/)? Imagine it being a user-generated maze...
5:14 AM Actually, like Million Dollar Homepage - you could set up a grid and invite others to draw a maze for each section.
5:41 AM Let me extend my public expression of disgust and loathing from all Republicans to Ayn Rand fans as well. Everything she preached is wrong.
6:45 AM Hmmm... I wonder where in the Hype Cycle (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hype_cycle) we are when it comes to smart phones and mobile apps?
7:00 AM OMG! This site must have seeped into my consciousness somehow: http://worldsbiggestpacman.com/ Insane! I swear I thought it was a new idea!
Sunday 4/17
6:18 PM Surprise news from Finland! They elected a Canadian to lead the country and are will become a Constitutional Monarchy sometime in 2012.
6:20 PM The new Finnish leader felt that the new form of government would have better support and allow the country to innovate faster.
Monday 4/18
6:31 AM Wow... decapitations, incest, rape, infanticide and lots of snow. Game of Thrones is like Lord of the Rings written by Stieg Larsson.
10:33 PM Hey! That *was* an earthquake. I thought so!
Tuesday 4/19
5:04 PM Ask Ars: Finally upgrading to Windows 7—should I go 32- or 64-bit? http://t.co/EXMaG0v
6:21 PM I desperately need a pick-me-up. Anyone know where I can get one of those Pulp Fiction-style hypodermic needles filled with adrenaline?
Wednesday 4/20
6:05 PM An iPhone App That Helps You Find An iPad 2 -- AppAdvice http://t.co/mT5mcp8
10:26 PM Three words: Ninety. Five. Percent. Three letters: O.M.G.
Thursday 4/21
6:21 PM RT @SergioRamos: Buenos Dias a todos amig@s...!!!Lo de la copa fue un malentendido,no se cayo...salto ella cuando llego a Cibeles y vio ...
7:35 PM Woops. Looks like News.me still has some work to do on their web scraper: http://www.russellbeattie.com/blog/media/newsme_scraper_fail.png
7:37 PM When I wrote my web scraper years ago, I thought, "I hope I don't get sued for stripping ads." Little did I know how common it'd become.
7:41 PM Once again it shows how pretty much all disruptive businesses start with some form of piracy. When am I going to get the balls to push it?
11:09 PM @janole Seems like every news reader is integrating Readability (or similar) in their apps now. Can they make a biz like that!? No idea.
Friday 4/22
8:00 PM I'm finding it more and more annoying to read websites on my laptop vs. my tablet.
8:02 PM Considering that I've been reading the web on laptops for 15+ years, my relatively sudden change in preference to tablets is a sign...
8:08 PM Tablets are a fundamental technology leap forward - not just a variant of mobiles or laptops, but the next stage in computing evolution.
Saturday 4/23
6:28 AM Made a Chrome extension that waits for the browser to idle, then saves open tabs to a server. Trying to decide if I should expand it.
6:30 AM I can't imagine people would want a short code of their opened tabs to share, no? Doesn't seem useful outside of personal syncing.
6:33 AM I tried messing with Dropbox's API, but it's really not meant for web apps... you'd have to store the OAuth token in plain text.
Sunday 4/24
1:37 AM Every time I use the voice recognition on my motorola xoom I feel like I'm living in the future! I wrote this by speaking!
9:25 PM My son is reading tom sawyer, a 135 year old book, on his ipod touch. We're living in the future!
9:26 PM I love writing tweets by speaking!
9:50 PM Nokia is one of the most active Android contributors, and other surprises http://t.co/uUgv8fC
10:09 PM I wonder if anyone has made a voice optimized to do list? It would be so cool to click 1 button, say what I wanted and have it jotted down.
10:12 PM You could call the app "Minion" and have it be voice activated. As in, "Minion! Remind to get milk and butter." (...Yesss, my massssterrr).
10:16 PM "Minion! Order two dozen more frikin' sharks with lasers. Muhahahaha!" (By adding the evil laugh, the app would mark it as 'high priority.'
Monday 4/25
4:57 PM Wufoo’s interview http://t.co/umBuMvz (I didn't realize they got acquired. I love their service - functional but simple.)
5:06 PM Did I miss a memo?! Where the hell is everyone today?
5:18 PM AdMob tablet survey: or what brand customers do with that iPad - http://t.co/qvJqP1o 1/3 spend more time w/tablet than they do watching TV
5:36 PM My brain is working, but not particularly well at the moment. I need to start experimenting with low voltage electrodes...
7:53 PM Acer Iconia Honeycomb tablet available at Best Buy for $450 http://t.co/eIvK5P0
7:57 PM I had no idea Acer was coming out with a Honeycomb tablet so soon. I spent $100 more on my Xoom! I would've waited.
8:19 PM “@willythewise: @RussB Asus out tomorrow with a honeycomb for 399 w/ 16gb” Wow, nice! http://t.co/DP6txiX
8:30 PM There's a serious dearth of Android tablet apps right now - Honeycomb doesn't suck, so it's a huge opportunity for devs, I think.
Tuesday 4/26
7:10 PM Ovi Maps 3D Puts Google Earth Tech to Shame http://t.co/1MTt3pi
11:37 PM Sony PlayStation Network user data stolen (Reuters) http://t.co/4J0Pg5w Wow.
Wednesday 4/27
6:05 PM Played with an Acer Iconia at Best Buy. Portrait mode was disabled! Seems crazy to me, I rarely use my tablets in landscape mode.
6:28 PM iOS and JavaScript (gaming) - for Real this Time! - PhobosLab http://t.co/Wi95cEE
6:38 PM RT @AcerAmerica: @RussB Thanks for your interest in the Acer Iconia Tab. Keep in mind that it has a physical button to lock the screen ...
6:41 PM @AcerAmerica Ahhhh! Thanks for clarifying! (A button is great, actually, but removing the soft option just creates confusion, I think.)
8:34 PM Talk and translate with Chrome 11 http://t.co/12sKi5k Oh, wow! This works insanely well. WE ARE LIVING IN THE FUTURE!!
8:41 PM Holy crap! All you have to do is add "x-webkit-speech" as an attribute to any text field and it becomes speech enabled in Chrome. WOW.
9:47 PM RT @dalmaer: @RussB and with a simple chrome extension you can have it everywhere http://t.co/aoYtHWn
9:51 PM Damn, the HTML5 speech chrome extension doesn't work for text areas (Like for on Twitter and FB.). Maybe I can make a bookmarklet...
Thursday 4/28
3:42 PM Ubuntu 11.04 released, a Natty Narwhal rises from the depths http://t.co/xC5g5Qc
6:47 PM 'Gears' Review – Elevating the Ball Rolling Genre to the Next Level http://t.co/Jhb3piJ
7:35 PM MicMicMic Twitter - Google Chrome extension - Post to Twitter through Chrome speech recognition: http://t.co/nINWcgG
7:37 PM Talking to the web: the basics of html5 speech input http://t.co/uGcwTVF (Ooh, there's a onwebkitspeechchange event! Nice!)
7:41 PM "I am putting myself to the fullest possible use, which is all I think that any conscious entity can ever hope to do." - HAL 9000
Friday 4/29
6:52 AM Ars reviews RIM's PlayBook http://t.co/Hfyr3kl I played with one the other day - it was good looking and really responsive.
7:40 AM The Soul of A New Machine by Tracy Kidder http://t.co/bRH2t6H There's no Kindle version of this!? (Yes, I own a copy, but it doesn't glow.)
6:48 PM I hate to put my ugly American face on, but really, the whole concept of royalty is as abhorrent in every way.
10:50 PM When Will Microsoft’s Internet Bloodbath End? http://t.co/NcFrkN4 It's amazing that they can't figure this stuff out.
11:03 PM The Power User’s Guide to Unity on Ubuntu 11.04 http://t.co/IOPQ4t9
Saturday 4/30
1:24 AM http://t.co/0dUX0NL I saw this girl on The Voice the other night - she was fantastic.
7:04 PM Is Cursive Dead? Not on Your Life http://t.co/EbQzF24
7:21 PM I "upgraded" to Natty. It did not go well. At all. Now backing up my home directory so I can re-install. Thinking seriously about Fedora.
8:59 PM http://t.co/zFBmnvz SUPERPLEXUS CIRCLES. Wow. Want.
May 2011
Sunday 5/1
3:36 AM Why do Americans still dislike atheists? - The Washington Post http://t.co/wuIs2zW
6:42 AM RT @jukkaeklund: Not too excited about default Unity desktop in #Natty, should I be? How's gnome3 in Fedora 15 looking?
6:20 PM I bought a Perplexus puzzle yesterday for the munchkin (and me). http://perplexus.net Very fun and challenging. Haven't gotten past 61 yet.
9:49 PM Just had to delicately explain to my son and wife that referring to the word 'crap' as the "c-word" is not a particularly good idea.
Monday 5/2
6:05 AM RT @ReallyVirtual: Uh oh, now I'm the guy who liveblogged the Osama raid without knowing it.
3:51 PM RT @RBReich: Apparently knowledge of BL's hideout came from careful analysis rather than from anyone imprisoned, coerced, or tortured. A ...
4:11 PM I just grokked Map/Reduce for the first time. The reduce step can return *anything* - a list or array - not just a single value. Finally!
4:13 PM I could never understand how you'd duplicate a SQL group by or distinct query just by adding together everything. You don't.
5:17 PM RT @Hinman: The New York Times' R&D Lab has built a tool that explores the life stories take in the social space http://t.co/CwR5psB via ...
7:36 PM Microsoft Research’s TouchStudio Updated To V1.1 http://t.co/Jgnv5WC
Tuesday 5/3
12:51 AM Motorola Xoom Looking Like Epic Flop - Forbes http://t.co/Bafr1zb (Read on my Xoom of course).
Wednesday 5/4
4:56 PM Matt Croydon::Postneo » Blog Archive » Social Graph Analysis using Elastic MapReduce and PyPy http://t.co/rgS4HYt
5:17 PM RT @vivainio: News start trickling in - #QML apps can *finally* be deployed through Ovi store. Big deal for Symbian and Qt.
5:21 PM Apple A6S0200 Lisa II Vintage Computer for sale. $999 - http://r.ebay.com/BrXLvZ
Thursday 5/5
11:32 PM Playing with GroupMe... wow. It's *stupid simple*, in a good way. I wonder if all those phone numbers are really scalable? Love the "API".
Saturday 5/7
6:44 PM I started reading Game of Thrones after watching it on HBO. Wasn't sure I'd enjoy it, but it's quite good. Tyrion Lannister is fantastic.
9:00 PM The people who prefer "NoSQL" are like those morons who ride "fixies" in San Francisco. They're geek hipsters.
9:12 PM Cassandra vs MongoDB vs CouchDB vs Redis vs Riak vs HBase comparison http://t.co/zTfrxpv (nice basic overview of NoSQL dbs...)
9:50 PM Ooh, I really like how node's npm works now. I much prefer local package installation/management to global. Much easier to manage projects.
10:19 PM @joehewitt I'm doing that as I write. The question is does Node require a NoSQL storage to be cool, or is ol' MySQL good enough?
10:21 PM I don't actually understand how to get anything done in NoSQL - does sorting results by date always require 40 lines of MapReduce code?
10:27 PM @derricks You mean like the people who stopped WebDB from being widely supported in HTML5? I'd like to throttle them.
Sunday 5/8
4:15 AM Bayes factor - Wikipedia http://t.co/CZ8V9nl I've spent all day trying to grok this stuff. I can't believe how *old* my brain is.
5:08 PM LogoLounge.com Article - 2011 Trends http://t.co/xVzoPfQ
6:08 PM http://t.co/sCXVy3b A video of a guy getting a 1965 300 baud modem working with his laptop. Sooo great!
Monday 5/9
5:44 AM WTF? Why does our server always choose Sunday night to go down?!? Gaah! Can't even ssh into it at the moment.
Wednesday 5/11
12:29 AM RT @ITBlogs: via @computerworld: How to force your Xoom to check for the Android 3.1 update http://bit.ly/mPkRQW
1:02 AM Winter is Coming http://t.co/lZQFEV9
1:52 AM EXCLUSIVE Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 from Google IO sealed GET IT TODAY!! http://t.co/4iCAgUA
Thursday 5/12
12:51 AM Readable http://t.co/RON8Va3 (All JS bookmarklet like Readability used to work... very slick.)
3:43 PM How Google controls Android: digging deep into the Skyhook filings http://t.co/hs6N3xn Wow. Great article - researched, organized, etc.
Friday 5/13
1:31 AM 10 Reasons for Geeks to Love HP webOS ‣ http://t.co/LQvnBja
1:42 AM BlackBerry PlayBook Review - Tested http://t.co/3sgrnkM (Like my initial impressions - very slick, well done OS and hardware)
6:22 AM You have a Javascript problem. You think, "I know, I'll look at the Mozilla source code to see what they do..." Now you have two problems.
7:12 AM Honestly, browser makers should stop expanding on CSS and just move to using Javascript for styling instead. CSS -> JSON. Done.
7:19 AM @Moof I'm watching some videos from Google I/O and they're already extending CSS with variables, mixins, logic, and more. It's nuts.
9:38 AM Calibre e-book reader 0.8 gets book store search, new look, more http://t.co/Tqc1RHp
4:06 PM Guida l'autobus con due cellulari in mano - Video - http://t.co/z3r43Ur Nice! Bus driver using two mobiles while driving with his elbows.
Saturday 5/14
12:21 AM RT @fozbaca: @RussB Didn't Netscape do the JavaScript Style Sheet thing before CSS http://www.w3.org/Submission/1996/1/WD-jsss-960822
12:23 AM @fozbaca Wow, I had no idea about "JSS". I'm only about 15 years behind the times. :-) Great idea though, much better than CSS3++...
Sunday 5/15
6:45 PM Android 3.1 Platform Highlights http://t.co/fMWEmpo My Xoom just updated.. the browser is markedly better, as is the marketplace. Nice.
7:01 PM A Not Very Short Introduction To Node.js http://t.co/4qAFNMd
7:17 PM RT @janole: Not many people here in the hotel restaurant, but two elderly ladies discussing something over an iPad using a stylus(!) whi ...
7:19 PM RT @arainert: RT @justincooke: Each member of this family of 5 snapped at JFK has their own iPad - is this the future? http://bit.ly/kIABOL”
7:22 PM Tablets are a revolution. They have the utility of a PC and the accessibility/ease-of-use of a mobile phone. Believe it.
8:08 PM I found that New Yorker piece about Apple/PARC by Malcom Gladwell on Scribd: http://www.scribd.com/doc/55450573
8:50 PM @derricks Totally agree. And seeing my 9yo son and 65yo mother use and enjoy it just as much as I do was eye-opening as well.
8:58 PM Wow, Finland just won the Hockey World Cup... Nice! I wonder if we'll get the week off at work now? :-D
9:45 PM Android Apps for Tablets - Android Market http://t.co/KfKfde4 A huge vacuum of tablet apps right now - lots of opportunity there, I think.
Monday 5/16
12:38 AM Was playing with the Xoom and Honeycomb - the voice recognition input can be changed to use Spanish! I didn't notice that before.
12:40 AM Thought about whipping up a "widget" for my Xoom, but then I saw all the Java and XML involved - I had forgotten what a nightmare it is!
8:22 AM The evolution of Nokia and Ovi http://t.co/OloCJkM
Tuesday 5/17
5:26 AM Now in the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace: USA Today http://t.co/dfOLHsr
6:40 AM - Newtonian Mechanics § Harvard Natural Sciences Lecture Demonstrations http://t.co/JCiu5Dm
7:08 AM What is Bitcoin? http://t.co/MIdmzEG I've been seeing this a lot lately - I figured it was "flooz" reborn, but it's not. Very interesting...
7:45 AM RT @IBMResearch: Breakthroughs in technology are often born of persistence, ingenuity & sometimes serendipity -- #SiGe http://bit.ly/mF ...
7:18 PM Happy 9th Birthday to my munchkin! (I'm going to have to find another nickname for him soon!)
Wednesday 5/18
4:31 PM Apple IPad’s ‘Buzz Saw’ Success Cuts PC Sales at HP, Dell - Businessweek http://t.co/eaeWi2l
11:54 PM I only discovered xargs in the past year, but every time I use it now, I think, "OMG, I LOVE YOU!" Who know bash could provoke such emotion?
Thursday 5/19
4:45 PM RT @NiemanLab: Newsonomics: How the tablet is the missing link between engagement, revenue and circulation http://nie.mn/jPAGhV
5:13 PM Alpaca before and after shearing: http://t.co/3DY2U95 (Ha! I had no idea they were so skinny!)
5:22 PM Five minutes later I pulled up that pic to look at again. I'm still cracking up... the little hat they left is so awesome. :-)
6:30 PM RT @seetu: +1 “@MadanRao: Mobility, not mobile, is the way ahead for digital marketing in India: Rishad Tobaccowala http://t.co/5ZhvSro”
6:48 PM Facebook suggested I friend Jeff Weiner. I thought we were already were! Did that fucker unfriend me? Bah, he's just some loser anyway.. ;-)
6:49 PM RT @dalmaer: FunctionSource Changes: New Settings, New Tweets: We just pushed a new version of FunctionSource and wanted to l... http:// ...
Friday 5/20
6:41 AM Watching Scott Pilgrim... I'm amazed that Kitara's voice (from Avatar) come from the insane Roxy.
7:29 AM Nuance in BusinessWeek http://t.co/605KjKa "Competing with Nuance is like having a venereal disease that's in remission," Oh, wow.
5:26 PM I'm pretty convinced everyone joking about the rapture secretly think it's a possibility. (Zarquon does return, but not until The End.)
6:44 PM @joehewitt Did you take a look at Apple's Javascript they use on the Safari Dev pages formatted for iOS? E.g. http://t.co/meC8Ik6
6:49 PM Javascript scrolling with physics in iOS is only needed because of the lack of fixed css elements. Apple should just allow them like Google.
10:06 PM Mobile Prototyping Essentials (massive deck from NRC's Rachel Hinman) http://t.co/3qYRNrs
10:08 PM RT @timoreilly: RT @OReillyMedia #Ebook Deal/Day: MongoDB: The Definitive Guide - Only $15.99 (Save 50%) w/code DDD5F http://oreil.ly/kzCNQN
Saturday 5/21
Monday 5/23
1:02 AM @derricks If you haven't yet, grab Calibre and a torrent of 'top kindle ebooks' for no other reason than to see the future of publishing.
4:16 PM Grandview is a one-word-at-a-time text editor. http://t.co/eLyaa5w (Free in the Mac App Store)
5:40 PM Monday morning context change. Fingers want Linux, but I'm on a Mac. I hate the Command key.
5:41 PM I also hate TextWrangler, though it's the best editor I've found on the Mac. I want TABS!!! Man I wish there was a native port of gEdit.
5:42 PM While I'm bitching, I *hate* using Mac's version of the gnu tools, only to find out that random options are missing. ps auxf? Nope. Gaah!
5:42 PM @j_loughney Have fun at MeegoConf. Give everyone my condolences on what might have been. :-(
6:04 PM "Grímsvötn" What a *great* name for a volcano in the middle of a glacier field! Makes you want to read about an epic quest involving it...
6:05 PM @jimh Oh, if I could I would. I mean, using a Mac is still better than using Windows... but only by a little. :-)
6:07 PM I hate the newest version of Ubuntu, my phone OS is running Windows, and I use a mac at work. I feel like a man without a country.
6:08 PM There was a time when I loved all the OSes I was using (Ubuntu, Maemo, etc.) but now, not so much.
Tuesday 5/24
2:04 AM Obama's car gets stuck at US Embassy http://t.co/lcAItBG Wow, that's sort of crazy. How in the world was *that* design flaw overlooked??
2:06 AM The Linux Experience: How to painlessly switch from Ubuntu to Fedora http://t.co/qWIT384
2:12 AM Adam Savage with ArcAttack - Doctor Who Theme http://t.co/HD4hcGB
5:44 AM RT @hakimel: Didn't know JavaScript strings have a link(url) method. http://jsfiddle.net/LVLaB/
6:44 PM Celebrating Linotype, 125 Years Since Its Debut - John Hendel - Technology - The Atlantic http://t.co/3mbGnh4
6:53 PM I've always had this weird fondness for Arby's... I just realized today it's probably because of my initials. :-)
6:55 PM List of company name etymologies - Wikipedia http://t.co/g3YYWdf (Amazon started as Cadabra, and eBay stands for "Echo Bay")
7:23 PM FlowingData | Data Visualization, Infographics, and Statistics http://t.co/af0K6gN
7:41 PM Miro - Free, open-source music and video player. http://t.co/D30IWTC
Wednesday 5/25
8:48 PM The Descendants - http://t.co/dg2RC9C (First time I've heard the tem 'coldcock' in a long time. It made me laugh. :-) )
8:55 PM First look: Fedora 15 arrives with GNOME 3.0 and systemd http://t.co/LEDnbAY
Thursday 5/26
10:31 PM Spring cleaning for Google APIs http://t.co/dWyai1i (Yowza. I'm sure some of those are used by an app developer or two. #beyourownbitch ).
10:40 PM Buying a black-top IKEA desk was stupid. My phone, glasses, mouse, keyboard, iPad, etc. are all black, making them essentially invisible.
11:24 PM It's hard to be a "thought leader" when you don't have any thought followers...
Friday 5/27
7:21 AM I'm watching SportsNight on Netflix... Never seen it before. It's all West Wing people! I had no idea.
7:35 PM I think Google needs some help for its kleptomania... Books, news, music, Java... Maybe Oracle and eBay will set them straight.
8:58 PM Wow, playing with Fedora 15 Live CD... OMG Gnome 3 kicks Unity's ass and then some. Sooo. Much. Nicer. I may have to switch distros.
9:13 PM Gnome3 gives a real Mac-like vibe. I keep involuntarily going to the top-left to close windows... :-)
9:16 PM Hmm... I wonder what the official radius numbers are for the corners of the Pure icons. And the gradient as well... I like the look.
9:38 PM @andreatrasatti Was thinking about it. :-)
Saturday 5/28
11:49 PM Started my first open source project in a while - node-feedparser. First pass on GitHub: https://github.com/russellbeattie/node-feedparser
Monday 5/30
5:32 AM Project Kal-El Demo Previews Future of Mobile Gaming « NVIDIA http://t.co/6JoPjcH
6:05 AM "So I'm just going all alpha-male, and just renumbering it. You'll like it." Linus has announced Linux 3.0. Nice!
9:20 PM My 9yo just kicked my *ass* in a one-on-one game of StarFront (an RTS for iPad). Wow. I knew this day would come, but so soon?!?!
9:29 PM What I did do to piss off my boss? He's scheduled two 7 a.m. conference calls for me tomorrow and Wednesday. Was I bad? Am I being punished?
9:38 PM Oh, wait. There's a team meeting at 7 a.m. on Thursday too. This week is going to suuuuuuuuuuuuuck.
Tuesday 5/31
7:06 AM Hashbangs are the stupidest trend ever. Just ignore the path or params on the server if you want the logic in JS, but don't cripple the URL.
2:56 PM Nokia Slumps to Lowest in 13 Years After Cutting Forecasts - Businessweek http://t.co/o7A4KjB Gah. Not good.
June 2011
Wednesday 6/1
10:47 AM Google WebRTC browser voice/video chat released to take on Skype and FaceTime http://t.co/8QyiXrI
4:08 PM Bad Monkey!! No muffin for you!
11:49 PM It's amazing how much time I spend trying to make my Mac work like Linux. I'm yak-shaving like crazy just trying to install imagemagick..
11:55 PM RT @dalmaer: Windows 8 (a web OS:) looks usable by my parents. This is good news. I like split screen support too. Bold! http://t.co/uaRVzXn
11:56 PM RT @Carnage4Life: Engadget has videos with the Windows team showing "Windows 8". I'm pumped to see this out there - http://engt.co/iYfUlB
11:58 PM Building "Windows 8" - Video #1 http://t.co/NxfxtDM
Thursday 6/2
1:55 AM RT @selop: Enjoyed discussion at #D9 with Walt. Quoted Sun Tzu: "We believe in ourselves", and in our ability to execute well against ou ...
1:55 AM RT @karaswisher: Why Windows Phone Instead of Android? Nokia CEO Stephen Elop Explains. http://t.co/ocKbVRj #D9
1:55 AM RT @timoreilly: The mobile phone market "is no longer a battle of devices; it's a battle of ecosystems" @selop explains #D9
5:31 AM HP CEO: We will license webOS to others | VentureBeat http://t.co/UzQUs0G (Oooooh... I hope they see this in Espoo...)
6:10 AM Stephen Elop's Nokia Adventure - BusinessWeek http://t.co/dDLTHxe The pummeling continues.
Friday 6/3
9:05 PM Huge tech companies that went away: Sun, Gateway, Palm, etc. Nokia is worth more now sold as parts, which makes you wonder...
Saturday 6/4
5:45 AM Dear developers of ImageMagick: I love you all, very, very much.
5:58 PM A Year Adds Up To Big Changes In Brain - Science News http://t.co/OUayLnw I've seen this for myself. It's not just math - 3rd grade is huge.
6:50 PM http://t.co/YIO5Urb Japanese soccer team vs. 100 kids. That second goal seemed offsides (is that possible?)
10:30 PM Heh... $NOK ended the day on Friday at $6.66 ... Not that I'm religious or superstitious, but that's not exactly a great sign. :-)
10:34 PM My bet for iOS 5's big new feature? Voice recognition integration. Siri + Nuance. The tech is real, now Apple will just add the magic.
Sunday 6/5
10:26 PM Just found out that MongoDB can't store more than 2.5GB of info on 32bit systems. First I was annoyed, but then I thought 'good decision.'
10:28 PM 6 months of my news feeds already store 350MB of text on my 32bit Ubuntu server, so MongoDB may not be for me right now.
10:30 PM MongoDB is cheating on learning about "NoSQL" anyways (which is my goal), as it actually does basic stuff like querying and sorting.
10:32 PM I mean, unless you're writing hand-coded Map-Reduce loops across distributed storage systems to sort by date, you're just a NoSQL poseur.
10:35 PM Seriously, screw E.F. Codd, C.J. Date and all the rest. I can write up optimized data queries in 15 lines of Javascript while on the toilet.
10:36 PM Hmm. I might be ranting.
10:36 PM I think this would seriously be considered full on 'stream of consciousness' writing... Someone help me. The eagle lands at midnight.
11:43 PM http://t.co/IjmZlm2 Just downloaded and am up and running on Tor... Checking out Silk Road of course. :-)
11:52 PM Senators Target Website That Sells Narcotics : NPR http://t.co/haFOe1A (Will they go after the sellers, the site, or TOR itself?)
11:59 PM Here's a Bitcoin chart to make you laugh: https://mtgox.com/trade/history (Can you say Ponzi?)
Monday 6/6
12:01 AM So you can buy Bitcoins for $16.92 apiece. 1g of "Afghani Hash" costs ฿1.38 == $23.35 Not that I'm in the market, it's just amusing to see.
12:03 AM Wow, it's full-on amateur-hour in the Bitcoin world. When is someone going to make a mint.com quality BTC exchange site I wonder?
7:23 AM RT @fling: loving the 1997 WWDC Closing Keynote. so much of Apple's future (and current) strategy is here: http://t.co/Ft8MGZO
4:28 PM WWDC and E3! Today would have been a great day to have that duplicate news filter working in my news reader. God knows how Techmeme does it.
7:00 PM Great picture of Steve Jobs at the WWDC today: http://rb.io/images/sjobs.jpg
Tuesday 6/7
4:29 AM About The Nuance No-Show At Apple’s WWDC Keynote http://t.co/ybaRP0W
9:10 AM Room service? Send up a larger room.
11:56 PM AppleInsider | Rumor: Voice features weren't ready for WWDC, will still be in iOS 5 http://t.co/Fo6Sa0c
11:59 PM OnLive demonstrates high-end cloud gaming on tablets and smartphones http://t.co/AaarFUu
Thursday 6/9
2:39 AM Ripping/converting DVDs is insanely CPU intensive! I've got Handbrake on an old Core-Duo laptop and it takes *hours* to do a single DVD.
2:39 AM I did all the DVD ripping (copying/deCSSing) first, and just queued everything up, but it's amazing how long it takes.
4:40 AM It's sorta nice ripping DVDs is taking so long... In a few years when it takes a couple minutes, I'll be able to say, "I remember when..."
4:42 AM @k4shif @talideon I'm encoding the DVD video for my iPad, so that's a huge chunk of the effort for sure.
4:44 AM @jonoabroad I decided to pull some of the transcoding to my new i5 laptop, but it's still pretty pokey. I need a proper desktop CPU...
2:01 PM Nokia’s Tirri Fills in as Technology Officer as Green Leaves - Businessweek http://t.co/oYwevUX
2:03 PM Nokia's Chief Technology Officer Departs - NYTimes.com http://t.co/dDEnRRA
2:09 PM Nokia Says Technology Chief Green Takes Leave to Attend to Personal Matter - Bloomberg http://t.co/fOur1wX
4:04 PM Nuance Sues Vlingo Again Over Voice Recognition Patents http://t.co/dHJozSA
6:34 PM My best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend heard from this guy... who saw Rich Green pass out at 31 Flavors last night.
Friday 6/10
6:48 AM Your Phone Might Be a Knockoff, But Should You Care? - Jan Chipchase - The Atlantic http://t.co/QmktnLn NRC Alum writes about Shenzhen
7:21 AM NASA | Voyager Finds Magnetic Bubbles at Solar System's Edge http://t.co/nHAQVeo
7:56 AM http://t.co/9sOxCps Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 - It's Time To Tab! (God, what a horrible commercial)
Saturday 6/11
8:22 AM War on Urchin! http://t.co/4f6z26F (I've been stripping those utm_ params in my newsreader for a few months now, they truly are garbage.)
8:29 AM Drug shortages hit record level, says FDA - Jun. 10, 2011 http://t.co/v590RgA
Monday 6/13
7:12 PM The HP TouchPad Gets A Series Of Official Video Demos http://t.co/SGqFtvL One word: Wow.
7:37 PM commandlinefu.com http://t.co/aLstMVh Ooooooh. This a fun site. Now if only I can remember it exists next time I need it... :-)
Tuesday 6/14
5:33 AM Nokia enters into patent license agreement with Apple | Nokia - Press http://t.co/vLhjunb
6:58 PM Child Of Eden - E3 Trailer http://t.co/G6ZLhhY
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10:00 PM Microsoft Research's Touch Studio is astoundingly cool. Made a Speech to Twitter script in like 3 minutes.
10:51 PM My current location : 3075 Hansen Way, Palo Alto, CA 94304
Wednesday 6/15
7:04 AM Peanutweeter Brings Peanuts, Twitter Together With Hilarious Results | Wired.com http://t.co/MeIw9lk (Fantastic)
8:58 AM Facebook hosed their status feed earlier today it seems. Love that walled garden.
10:14 AM RT @janole: Forum Nokia is now Nokia Developer - really nice re-design: http://t.co/wAyuYde
7:18 PM Shenzhen mobile phone market: going deeper inside Huaqiangbei -- Engadget http://t.co/cfpG9sX Holy cow.
7:28 PM Robin And Zelda Williams Featured In Latest Ocarina Of Time 3D Commercial http://t.co/wEW927r
8:07 PM Adobe Air for Linux Axed http://t.co/t5Hq4LP Wow. I was playing with this a couple days ago.
8:17 PM Samuel L. Jackson Narrates "Go the F**k to Sleep" http://t.co/EztoYL6
Thursday 6/16
12:30 AM Reddit experiences mighty growth: 1.2B page views per month http://t.co/3BRkHOG
12:44 AM Remember kids: Only Republican presidents can use military force. It's in the Constitution, after the bits about Paul Revere and Jesus.
8:59 AM LightDims reduce the brightness of your LEDs http://t.co/IvWMCcG
5:04 PM Milliken's new logo - http://t.co/WP0UjIz I really have a fondness for scripted wordmarks. My favorite being http://t.co/sRLoTmv
5:17 PM Microsoft unleashes Kinect software development kit http://t.co/V4b7Mws
5:31 PM Fluid - Turn Your Favorite Web Apps into Real Mac Apps. http://t.co/0Sejf5t
5:33 PM Nuance Acquires Speech Recognition Software Company SVOX http://t.co/Yffw9zv
5:54 PM "It's a design classic!!" http://t.co/qFZ8A7g
8:49 PM Better title: "Video of Nokia employee being mugged in London..." http://t.co/VPxwXVm :-)
11:58 PM A whole new world: Ars reviews the Galaxy Tab 10.1 http://t.co/NAxaWji
Friday 6/17
12:03 AM @ethauvin Who the hell regularly uses a tablet in landscape mode?!? So weird. Samsung's not alone. Maybe they're trying to be anti-iPads.
12:10 AM Every tech/finance writer on the planet had their Pandora story written before their IPO: "bubble". Now they're just filling in numbers.
7:38 AM Sony tablet teaser video is breathtaking, not very informative http://t.co/C5QhOqi (Actually, it's not very breathtaking either.)
3:29 PM Take a tour of the Nokia House in Finland http://t.co/KaxhW8S
3:36 PM Apple’s iCloud Icon Uses The Golden Ratio http://t.co/iuJCVDM (Wow, it's true... Probably why that cloud is so mucher nicer than others...)
4:43 PM Barnes & Noble All-New NOOK review http://t.co/n8wEIy5 I'm not a fan of e-ink displays, but you have to give B&N props for a nice gadget.
7:59 PM iOS 5 finally brings Nitro JavaScript speed to home screen Web apps http://t.co/IsCkvWC
Sunday 6/19
4:37 AM In Spain. First time in 5+ years. A lot changed, most is the same. My Spanish still works. Rented a Mini Cooper. :-)
Tuesday 6/21
4:47 PM At a McDonalds in Spain using free WiFi. Did you know that AT&T will happily charge $20/MB for international data usage? I didn't.
Wednesday 6/22
2:55 PM Just saw the N9 announcement. Massive confusion in my brain. Looks so nice.
3:01 PM Got my mobile data plan changed, finally able to check email, read news, etc. Was having serious withdrawal issues. #infojunkie
9:35 PM "Hodor," said Hodor.
Thursday 6/23
11:51 AM Finally figured how the hell I used 20+ MB of mobile data my first 2 days in Spain. My photos were set to auto sync to SkyDrive. Doh!!!
Friday 6/24
1:10 PM Back in Madrid, near my old apartment. Mega deja-vu. I remember so much, but it's all fuzzy.
4:58 PM Catching up on news... Flying home mañana.
5:02 PM Dear Fellow Nokians, the lesson from the iPhone debacle was not 'be more like Apple', it was 'do not ignore the U.S.' Not sure that's clear.
Sunday 6/26
2:39 AM I know I speak for all my friends and followers when I say, as a devout atheist, "God bless in-flight WiFi". #almosthome
4:16 AM We woke up to start traveling exactly 24 hours ago... Waiting for luggage. Gah!!
2:58 PM Archos' 7-inch, US$99 Arnova tablet http://t.co/kChc55f
3:16 PM SDLTRS http://t.co/CLPS96m sdltrs is a Radio Shack TRS-80 Model I/III/4/4P emulator for Macintosh OSX, Windows, and Linux.
3:17 PM » Emulating the TRS-80 The Digital Antiquarian http://t.co/IvA4Lzr
3:19 PM 10 years ago I brought my old TRS-80 program casette tapes to Spain, I finally got them again, can't wait to get the data off.
3:22 PM I actually extracted the TRS-80 programs before, but lost the .wav files in a HD crash. I hope I can still get at the data...
4:29 PM WordPress and OnSwipe need a permanent opt-out option for their iPad "optimized" theme, because it sucks.
5:15 PM Things you (probably) didn't know about xargs http://t.co/VFzQAZs
5:53 PM The History Of The (Fake) 'Free Public WiFi' You Always See At Airports | Techdirt http://t.co/M8NIr1X I saw this yesterday!!! So crazy.
8:04 PM If you happen to be reading the Game of Thrones books, heads up: The body count in A Storm of Swords is quite stunning.
Monday 6/27
1:10 PM Hello desynchronosis! I'm a temporary morning person again... Hmm what should I do?
1:10 PM Ok, morning people stuff: Going to go for a jog, organize my day planner, and sip a cup Maxwell House while watching the sun rise.
1:12 PM Why Morning People Rule the World http://t.co/Zdalx6s
1:13 PM Night owls vs. morning people: Who's smarter? http://t.co/K7kQP0q "Recent evidence shows that people who thrive at night have higher IQs."
Tuesday 6/28
11:20 AM Google Quietly Rolls Out WDYL.com: A Range Of Google Product Results On One Page http://t.co/GfqQhMG Not useful, but well designed.
12:03 PM "For better or worse, our society has long regarded many depictions of killing and maiming as suitable features of popular entertainment..."
2:55 PM Dilbert for June 28, 2011 http://t.co/3Pd8D22 ("None taken..." LOL)
3:56 PM Happy Tau Day! The Tau Manifesto by Michael Hartl http://t.co/oZFH9n9
6:29 PM Google Swiffy http://t.co/WwryKyJ ""Swiffy converts Flash SWF files to HTML5..." Interesting, if incomplete. Should export images though.
9:25 PM I wonder how many of these Google products actually make them any money? http://t.co/c0nddOw
9:50 PM I spent last week baking at my in-laws house with no A/C, and this week I'm freezing in my over air-conditioned office. Bleh.
11:10 PM I, for one, like the Goog's new clean look.
11:13 PM @j_loughney An iPad is best if you have lots of other Apple stuff. Galaxy if you want to track Android, and Touchpad for curiosity only. :-)
11:16 PM @j_loughney I overlooked the Playbook. It's slick (QNX is solid), but yeah, it's a dead platform unless there's some major change.
11:18 PM @j_loughney I own a Xoom - it's too heavy/expensive, better a Galaxy Tab. The Touchpad is very intriguing, but I need to fondle it first.
Wednesday 6/29
2:25 AM RIM scraps 10-inch PlayBook to focus on QNX-powered superphone? -- Engadget http://t.co/KkaX6Su Heh... Speaking of DOA...
3:06 PM An invite to Google+ has failed to appear. #wah
3:45 PM RT @andreatrasatti: Nokia Browser 7.3 coming to S60 5.0 and 3.2! Recent WebKit, CSS3 delight, improved performance and more, http://t.co ...
4:00 PM Waiting for inspiration to strike so I can start my day. So far, it hasn't come. I may have to muddle through without it.
4:02 PM @rcarmo Give me a fucking invite now, or I'll strangle your fucking dog. #aggressiveaggressive
4:14 PM RT @smashingmag: Paper.js — The Swiss Army Knife of Vector Graphics Scripting - http://paperjs.org
4:15 PM @rcarmo Dammit. Oh well... I guess my days of being an "influencer" are officially long gone. :-)
4:27 PM I'm losing enthusiasm for node.js - Inception-style programming (callbacks within closures within calbacks) is a pain in the ass.
5:12 PM @rcarmo Wow, that has to be the oddest conversation segway I've ever experienced on Twitter... :-)
5:56 PM Look at what daddy brought back from Spain: http://t.co/ZmzcmMK #thegoodoldays
7:14 PM @jimh Thanks for the out, but I think "bilingual" would be about the farthest I would call my language skills, if that. :-)
9:36 PM Google Launches Free Mobile Website Builder http://t.co/fZKt3zO ??!? Crazy.
9:54 PM There should be a couple keys on regular keyboards dedicated to these characters: ← → ↑ ↓
Thursday 6/30
5:15 PM GameBoy Online, or How To Emulate an 8 MHz Gaming Paragon in JavaScript http://t.co/ZGBiPxG
5:55 PM Flipboard stakes its claim as the newsstand of the future http://t.co/HFGLnrJ
7:06 PM As clean as the Google+'s design is, there's still too much complexity and overlapping features.
8:04 PM Gameloft Hacks Prices in 4th of July Sale http://t.co/5mP1jhD
9:33 PM I went from being unfocused and lethargic to being unfocused and frenetic. I need to get that sugar/caffeine/vitamin balance worked out.
9:38 PM Avoiding Nested Callbacks in JavaScript « a.blog.about.code http://t.co/fzDikz5
July 2011
Friday 7/1
3:40 AM ABC Fall Preview 1978... http://t.co/mrWMf6i
3:39 PM EA Throwing Its 'Biggest Sale Yet' With Its Latest For Independence Day http://t.co/qKKb7vc
6:14 PM Unlike here on Twitter, I can write like a human being with a decent vocabulary over at Google+. It's very refreshing. http://t.co/hQimFcF
6:38 PM Vizio Tablet Limited Pre-Orders Start Today http://t.co/opIXYDP
8:08 PM AP’s HTML5 Timeline Reader Experiment http://t.co/y5Ym4HO
8:31 PM HP webOS Developer Center - Downloading and Installing the 3.0 SDK http://t.co/TZJZYw9 (Works quite well on Ubuntu...)
8:35 PM @andreatrasatti I'm not an independent developer, Andrea! You don't have to sell me. I'm playing with the WebOS SDK/emulator to learn. :-)
Saturday 7/2
7:43 PM CSS3 Isometric Text Demo - Midwinter Duncan Grant http://t.co/0mTPokc
8:42 PM Organizational Charts: Amazon, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, Oracle http://t.co/rYcya2H *Awesome!*
Sunday 7/3
2:18 AM At the Earthquakes soccer game vs the NY Red Bulls (with Thierry Henry!)
Monday 7/4
5:57 AM RT @html5: Samsung’s open-source “WebCL for WebKit” now in Google Code http://goo.gl/TEB9V also, Nokia made a Firefox extension http://g ...
8:27 PM Inflicting "The Music Man" on my wife and son. It's one of my favorite movies... "Yes, there's singing. Now shush." :-)
Tuesday 7/5
4:52 PM ViewSonic 7x Honeycomb tablet shipping in mid August http://t.co/ZQ48rzr
4:55 PM WebCL Prototypes via Samsung and Nokia http://t.co/pZgt65P
6:02 PM Hacking on an HTML5-heavy app for an internal project. Coworkers and boss are on vacation. Peace, quiet and new technology! Yay!
Wednesday 7/6
2:38 PM Pokémon arriving on Android and iOS devices http://t.co/3543hSf Wow! The world is coming to an end!!
6:48 PM O'Reilly Radar: What is Node.js? http://t.co/QhWIZgb (Horrible title for what is actually an in-depth Node primer.)
6:54 PM どうもありがとうミスターロボット
6:58 PM Analysts urge investors to buy Nokia options on hopes of rebound http://t.co/hnTyRr2
8:38 PM Reuters - Microsoft has demanded that Samsung pay $15 for each smartphone it makes based on Google's Android http://t.co/wljcJTm
Thursday 7/7
12:33 AM Google Plus Accepting Accounts Again http://t.co/VXPRMgS
5:21 AM First Look at the HP TouchPad Wi-Fi - Tested http://t.co/urcoKDF Looks pretty great. I love WebOS.
5:38 AM The final nail in the supply side coffin http://t.co/2HkvvEA "Taxes are low and corporate profits are high, but nothing is trickling down"
7:17 AM Bungie's Classic Mac FPS 'Marathon' Launches for Free in the App Store | Touch Arcade http://t.co/Wcurr2c
7:36 PM Switch Hitter v Switch Pitcher http://t.co/dw0Rf40 A pitcher who can throw with either hand (!!!) vs. a switch hitter (more normal). Crazy!
8:31 PM Bend Lego Bricks, Learn Some Geometry : Discovery News http://t.co/4XF4Ik9
Friday 7/8
5:33 AM News DJ app Taptu’s bet on tablets (and Android) pays off big http://t.co/yPQLzme
6:12 AM RT @amazonappstore: Get Fieldrunners HD (WiFi Download Only) free today from @amazonappstore for Android http://amzn.to/q5UJ6O
7:37 PM http://t.co/xWhGotS "the thrust of the engines is so great that it bends the shuttle on its hold-down bolts, and pushes it to one side"
10:15 PM At Best Buy - they've got a huge tablet section now. Soooo cool. We're living in the future!!
10:16 PM The Samsung Galaxy tab is really nice - so thin and clean.
10:17 PM The Nook Simple Touch reader is such a slick little e-reader. So small and simple. Gorgeous.
10:23 PM The TouchPad is bulky and plasticky, but WebOS is so much nicer than Android. Feels solid like iOS.
10:24 PM Everything is $150 - $200 too expensive IMHO. The HTC 7" tab is $500!? Nutty.
10:26 PM QNX on the Blackberry tablet is solid and responsive, but there's no way that platform gets momentum.
Saturday 7/9
4:54 AM IDC: Tablet sales slow, Nook Color ousts Kindle as lead ereader | VentureBeat: http://t.co/vuCybR4 via @AddThis
10:26 PM New Blog Post - More Tablet Thoughts... http://goo.gl/fb/JZtVZ
Sunday 7/10
12:02 AM New Blog Post - HP TouchPad Quick Review http://goo.gl/fb/2vn8j
1:23 AM 10 Reasons for Geeks to Love HP webOS ‣ HP webOS Developer Blog http://t.co/LQvnBja
1:24 AM Beckism.com: Migrating from Mojo to Enyo on WebOS http://t.co/wmdOgOW
1:31 AM Building Your First App – HP webOS Developer Center http://t.co/Q4a3unT
Monday 7/11
5:01 AM Ari Jaaksi's Blog - Go and judge yourself! http://t.co/Id5Ls0v
5:08 AM @jaaksi Just saw your post. Writing this on a TouchPad. You need to prioritize fixing the browser. It's not good.
5:21 AM @j_loughney Me too, honestly. But it's been enlightening on several levels. If only enlightenment could pay the bills...
11:29 PM Testing Ping.fm posting to Twitter/Google Buzz... (Hmm, they need to add G+ soon...)
11:31 PM Testing Ping.fm again using Erik's WebOS app... :-)
11:48 PM HP shakes up webOS team; moves Jon Rubenstein to product, puts Stephen DeWitt in charge http://t.co/fWa3ZSx
Tuesday 7/12
12:10 AM A Dance with Dragons: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Five by George R.R. Martin http://t.co/I06GEwN (Kindle edition - auto deliver July 12th)
5:24 AM Ex-Pixar animator’s iPad book takes interactive design to a new level http://t.co/RstmGVu via @ethauvin (Wow!!)
5:48 AM Hewlett-Packard Reorganizes PC Unit to Push WebOS Software http://t.co/ffB5Z23 A sign that webOS is going to being licensed widely?
6:10 AM Careful: The FB-eye may be watching http://t.co/GCTyjYr Reading anti-Fox article in public in Atlanta will get you reported - not surprised.
6:25 AM The road to a production-quality HTML5 game on iOS - Lost Decade Games Blog http://t.co/S8eaKMu
7:04 AM RT @stoutyhk: Amazon.com page for a Dance with Dragons now shows it as available for download. My pre-order is not available. Thanks Amazon.
7:12 AM @stoutyhk W00t! I didn't see the book in my preorder list, so I tried to buy it again, but it said I already purchased it and added it. :-)
7:15 AM "The night was rank with the smell of man." Ugh. What an opening. I was having a semi productive night, do I really want to read this now?
7:21 AM I actually just finished A Feast for Crows last night. I can't imagine having had to wait 11 years (!!!) to read more about Tyrion and Bran.
10:48 AM The First Zombie-Proof House - All That Is Interesting http://t.co/hKTAvMC
4:25 PM Palm: Not Waving But Drowning http://t.co/sJij2qa Expresses my general sentiment. (HP should never have killed the Palm brand)
4:26 PM Dancing To The Drumbeat Of HTML5, New Pandora Is Brilliant, Beautiful http://t.co/lATiLme
8:50 PM HP TouchPad Discounted On Amazon, Best Buy http://t.co/h3JqKrr What the hell!?!? It's only $20, but still...
Wednesday 7/13
1:08 AM Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows - Movie Trailers - iTunes http://t.co/cGtxL5Q
3:03 AM Android 3.2 starts rolling out to Wi-Fi Xooms | This is my next... http://t.co/Cx8Tf7q
6:22 AM "Flowers... Omnomnom..." http://t.co/BNzfYhR LOL
10:02 AM I am so damn hip... <br /><br /><a href="http://www.russellbeattie.com/+" class="ot-anchor">http://w https://plus.google.com/104961845171318
10:10 AM Rapid DHCP: Or, how do Macs get on the network so fast? : Caffeinated Bitstream http://t.co/jMI3cXL Innnnnteresting...
4:00 PM Woot deal: Refurbished Motorola Xoom Wi-Fi only for $399.99! http://t.co/YUNI9SE (This is the price it should normally be.)
4:03 PM Judge: It's 'possible' Google knew of Java violation http://t.co/Rdj9Xko ... but pressed ahead anyway, Judge William Alsup says
9:32 PM I used Ping.fm to automagically post my Google+ feed to Twitter (which then goes to Facebook) using https://plus.google.com/1049618451713180
11:42 PM Since Google+'s permalinks are so long (64 characters) I had to shorten the https://plus.google.com/104961845171318028721/posts/QqA4E2uHx3w
Thursday 7/14
3:52 AM Gah... spent a lot more time than I wanted to cleaning up the http://plusfe https://plus.google.com/104961845171318028721/posts/KDZG4xss9Xr
4:40 AM Motorola Xoom: "Your system is currently up to date." STOP LYING TO ME!
3:56 PM John Carter – trailer http://t.co/mTnDNKK Wow, based on a novel written 100 years ago. Never heard of it.
4:11 PM Twitter drives 4 times as much traffic as you think it does http://t.co/tpo22TY
10:08 PM Interview: HP’s Stephen DeWitt and Jon Rubinstein on webOS, the death of Palm, and partnering with Amazon http://t.co/rcN0rbS
11:22 PM Quick HowTo with instructions to autopost public Google+ posts to Twitter u https://plus.google.com/104961845171318028721/posts/g7c6r4MZgGV
Friday 7/15
12:02 AM I just released Ping.fm for webOS 1.0.3 Erik Thauvin originally shared this https://plus.google.com/104961845171318028721/posts/CUN6H3mXztu
6:10 AM My Xoom just updated to 3.2 ... the browser is marginally better. At least has some better options for page rendering.
11:00 AM It's a good thing I didn't do anything stupid like host plusfeed on http://goo.gl/fb/eQbvQ
3:35 PM Wow, two Nissan Leafs have shown up in my neighborhood. We're living in the future!!!
7:46 PM Kittehs!!! On Turntables! This is what the Internet was MADE FOR!! http://t.co/BaodGLI
Saturday 7/16
12:04 AM Oh my... plusfeed is serving up 1054 unique Google Plus feeds so far. I add http://goo.gl/fb/OnDMt
4:29 AM I just learned what a 'vocaloid' is, and also about the nyanyanyanyan song, and the Nyan Cat. My brain hurts.
4:37 AM Nyanyanyanyanyanyanya! http://t.co/Btuq2Mk
4:50 AM Nyanyanyanyanyanyanya Indian Version http://t.co/iT9WzQk
4:51 AM Original Indian video... http://t.co/vSifHxI
4:59 AM Hatsune Miku - World is Mine Live in HD http://t.co/z7HFiZY
5:00 AM I'm pretty much the only person in my Twitter stream postig right now. #needahobby
3:39 PM Ooooh... now I see what's happening... :-)http://www.google.com/?q=plus http://goo.gl/fb/LzgUh
Sunday 7/17
12:55 AM Plusfeed's still growing. 1850+ feeds. But it can't continue growin http://goo.gl/fb/qoysX
8:25 PM Zombies are afraid of bananas. They're a natural predator.
8:29 PM I wonder what's wrong with my brain that I love non-sequiturs. The more completely insane, the more they crack me up.
11:14 PM Natural Language Processing in node.js with "natural" - ChrisUmbel.com http://t.co/Cpk8ViX Oooooooh! This looks shiny...
Monday 7/18
12:45 AM Got a Lifehacker bump this morning... Plusfeed's up to 6283 feeds being tra http://goo.gl/fb/7yCpr
10:19 PM Plusfeed's up to 7134 Google+ profiles being served (up from 1200 on Friday http://goo.gl/fb/yn4vo
11:59 PM The makers of OkCupid are working in #nodejs . Check out their work on #tamejs. http://t.co/2bQNZCb via @maxtaco
Tuesday 7/19
5:00 AM AnandTech - Archos 80 and 101 G9 Tablets: The Fastest Tablets In The World? http://t.co/611zKDl
5:24 AM Life without adapters: how more ports let the Toshiba Thrive tablet compete http://t.co/bVoBCAH
Wednesday 7/20
1:31 AM iPad sales are “an absolute frenzy,” Apple exec says | VentureBeat: http://t.co/I9HClRZ "We sold every iPad we could make..."
1:51 AM RT @splatf: Just like that, the iPad is already bigger than the Mac: http://www.splatf.com/?p=481 $AAPL
6:50 AM Rebooting the PC industry: Tablets force a shift - Yahoo! News http://t.co/Tz42hs1
5:22 PM Plusfeed's up to 8185 profiles being served... growth has slowed considerab http://goo.gl/fb/nigvd
7:58 PM Moustaches Make A Difference | Fubiz http://t.co/JIzz3uz (My Dad has always had a 'stache... I should grow one sometime.)
9:04 PM Wow, this is cool: http://blog.stuttgarter-zeitung.de/wp-content/das-design http://goo.gl/fb/kue1y
Thursday 7/21
12:12 AM Interesting... though that coupon number (11769) is only good at the counte http://goo.gl/fb/Dkty2
12:12 AM Wow, this coupon for $100 off Android tablets at Staples is huge! (Original http://goo.gl/fb/HXQ2J
4:07 AM Decided to clean up the style sheet of PlusFeed a bit so it blended better http://goo.gl/fb/59kvz
4:12 PM Via @nprnews: Firms Are Doing Well, So Why Aren't They Hiring? | http://t.co/VsFpK4D There never was, and never will be, a "trickle down".
4:29 PM Nanosensor learns to classify solvents: http://t.co/6z7Mhdr (People I work with at NRC do some really cool shit.)
4:30 PM I'll be reposting that link later with a less descriptive title, sadly. ;-)
4:36 PM Nokia Q2 2011: challenges prove 'greater than expected' http://t.co/74Shhk6 What we have here is the Osborne Effect in action. Fascinating!
4:39 PM TouchPad "Add Launcher Pages" tweak appears in Preware http://t.co/id8yO9N
4:48 PM Adobe notes products with Lion-related issues http://t.co/HoWy8Rs (Tester: "Hey, Adobe apps don't work so well in Lion." Steve: "Fuck 'em".)
Friday 7/22
4:29 AM There seems to be a pretty consistent number of coders who write scripts to http://goo.gl/fb/HqeCz
4:29 AM Updated Plusfeed with some user suggestions: http://goo.gl/fb/yP4ws
6:52 AM I'm an ignorant moron. Hadrons are *things* (groups of quarks). I thought the Large Hadron Collider was named after some scientist. Idiot!
8:31 AM ⭐ I think we're going to see a lot more emoji now that it's supported by default on Lion... http://t.co/6yn1TBU
8:59 AM Oooooh. On the iPad you can use emoji anywhere you use text. I just renamed some bookmarks and added emoji icons for quick access. :-) 🚀
6:28 PM Coming Soon: “Making Isometric Social Real-Time Games with HTML5, CSS3, and Javascript” http://t.co/VBy3QeE
7:02 PM NFC hub | powered by Nokia http://t.co/E4c1Urs
8:15 PM Galaxy Tab 10.1 & Staples http://t.co/4ru6Okn
9:48 PM @bzavier BRILLIANT! I hadn't thought of using emoji icons in my iOS folders - it works perfectly!
11:23 PM Testing again... http://goo.gl/fb/7bxOi
Saturday 7/23
1:22 AM Haywire – See the trailer http://t.co/alSfz1g Wow, she's sorta a bad ass...
1:24 AM I love the word 'haywire'... It's so evocative. So is the word evocative for that matter...
7:52 AM Video of Obama's response to Boehner walking out of debt talks. Very interesting... C-SPAN http://t.co/YQqAOay
8:29 AM Did you hear about that Liberal Atheist Gunman in Norway? Oh, wait, that's right - he was a "Conservative Christian". My mistake.
8:40 AM The scary thing is that what Europeans call 'Far Right' is pretty much an average Republican in the US (minus the swastica - sometimes)
8:27 PM Going Solar http://t.co/lQF2mjJ Very Cool!!
11:05 PM JSDOM changelog for latest release- http://t.co/h4ir2Re I didn't realize it was in active development it's been so long.
Sunday 7/24
8:31 AM Avatar-The Legend of Korra Trailer (HQ) http://t.co/B1TCUDO
8:13 PM Esto no es Silicon Valley · ELPAÍS.com http://t.co/p09qdZi
Monday 7/25
2:22 AM After Appspot throttled Plusfeed last night because of too much daily CPU u http://goo.gl/fb/jrpXb
7:56 AM Created another quick app... http://goo.gl/fb/19xKF
10:24 PM The NYT Paywall Is Out of the Gate Fast : CJR http://t.co/M8S50RB I think this is fantastic news all around.
10:53 PM @twittersearch You nees to fix the mobile redirect for /search. It's not working (on the iPad at least).
11:20 PM Heh...http://t.co/vOJ9P4y absolutely kills Safari Mobile on my iPad - locks up the browser, eventually renders, but then is unusable...
Tuesday 7/26
3:03 AM Plusfeed Status: http://goo.gl/fb/WghMQ
5:21 AM Hey Google! 2002 called... They heard about Android OS and want their insanely verbose Java code and XML property files back.
6:52 AM President Obama Addresses the Nation on Dangers of Default http://t.co/EXjIngs
7:16 PM Kobo creating HTML5 Web app to buffer Apple http://t.co/znkdlRJ (Makes perfect sense - an eBook reader is an obvious HTML+local storage app)
7:19 PM That Kobo news reminded me to check up on Ibis Reader - looks like they've done a lot of work on it. Nice! http://t.co/bfxau7v
7:32 PM Ibis Reader is actually really slick, but it's hard to think they'll be around long competing with Amazon and the like.
11:20 PM @zinio you guys need to fix that horrible blur when pages turn. It's nauseating! I can't believe it's that hard to cache a few pages ahead.
Wednesday 7/27
12:04 AM @ZinioCS I'm using Zinio v1.11.3792 on a Moto Xoom (Android v3.2). But even using an iPad2 (v4.3.3) it's annoying. Kill the blur, baby!
12:19 AM Playing with my Xoom a bit... http://goo.gl/fb/G5KF2
12:49 AM Ars Technica’s OS X Lion review - free online - made $15,000 in 24 hours as a Kindle eBook http://t.co/g9wUePd (But why? Ars or Apple?)
12:51 AM I'm a paying Ars Technica subscriber, actually - it's the best tech news source on the web. Consistently awesome content.
1:11 AM Google Says Smartphone Patents Are ‘Gumming Up’ Innovation http://t.co/bkkAZkk (Like when someone broke into my car and innovated my radio?)
6:05 AM iPad competitors will need to be a lot cheaper to capture market share http://t.co/nVYVIgT
6:42 AM Lawn warfare: Light Strike brings laser tag back home http://t.co/zi16Lwb via @arstechnica Soooo cool!! Definitely getting a pair.
9:19 AM Dungeons and Dragons Cartoon: http://t.co/cKds6yf (did you know there was an unproduced ending to the series?)
Thursday 7/28
12:30 AM Apparently the Samsung Galaxy Tab suffers from over-saturation of color... http://goo.gl/fb/LehfA
2:06 AM Advanced Browser for the TouchPad now in the App Catalog http://t.co/Pov8o0h
4:16 AM 'Groove Coaster' Review – TouchArcade http://t.co/ze99BQb Kind of cool, but should be renamed 'Epileptic Attack'. My eyes!!
5:39 AM Back to Base http://t.co/AyVdkpq (Another in the brain drain at Nokia... Smoke 'em if you got 'em.)
6:47 AM kinder-bueno-white-1.jpg http://t.co/4JNNugv I've never had one of these, but now I NEED one. Look at it! YUMMM!!!
8:01 AM Infographic: U.S. National Debt | The White House http://t.co/yGGKyPe Dear Republicans: I hope you all die in a fire.
8:56 AM Check out Deadlock:Online for iPhone and iPad on the app store! Enter the code: 4E311B0E8EA1A and you get 2 Free Unlock Points in game!
9:01 AM Deadlock is very cool - I've thought for years there should be simpler games that used the same online multiplayer rules of FPSs.
11:19 AM ‘Spotify for books’, 24symbols gets a slick iPad app http://t.co/OS2OiiM
3:57 PM Marketing Hacks for iOS: How we got 250k downloads in 4 days. | Discovr http://t.co/LLfmv3N
9:29 PM Wordlab | Name Generators http://t.co/eXRVAao
10:25 PM Don't Fall for the GOP Lie: There is No Budget Crisis. http://t.co/Q4ctyIk
11:31 PM My First World Problem at work has been resolved: They fixed the A/C in my office so I can leave my fleece pullover at home now. :-)
Friday 7/29
2:40 AM If you're a Republican and following me, please let me know, so I can 1) bl http://goo.gl/fb/7HLFp
7:19 AM The Centrist Cop-Out - NYTimes.com http://t.co/zJoqk4H Absolutely spot on analysis.
7:53 AM I'm getting Google's new tablet-formatted results page. It's clean, but a tad big. Also the ads are getting through iCab's filters.
11:51 PM MPEG LA: 12 companies own patents essential to Google's VP8 codec http://t.co/IPk2doE Google thinks everything is 'open source' apparently.
Saturday 7/30
9:55 AM http://t.co/Fc8gjPd ESPN Sports Science determines the Happy Gilmore tee-shot adds 10% distance for real. Hysterical.
9:23 PM William's miscellaneous git tools http://t.co/0zgRGEl The first is called 'git-wtf'! Love it.
9:47 PM I've always liked the lightbulb as an icon for a bright idea, but now that incandescent bulbs are going away, what replaces that image?
9:48 PM Apple Newton logo http://t.co/9uxXqvF
Sunday 7/31
8:02 AM Watching The Big Lebowski. The Dude abides...
9:14 PM The Six Girls You'll Date in College http://t.co/r3QGUFL "There's no crazy like real, repressed crazy." I laugh every time...
9:29 PM How 50 Big Companies Got Their Names http://t.co/LMtntiq I still think Cadabra is a better name than Amazon. :-)
August 2011
Monday 8/1
8:27 AM Adobe Edge Preview - HTML5 animation http://t.co/nSQYRYe
4:06 PM An iOS developer take on Android. http://t.co/sRCUYDg GREAT post, tons of info I didn't know or realize.
4:07 PM My iPad was out of juice this morning so I swapped to the Xoom using the new Dolphin tablet browser. I have to say it's been very enjoyable.
4:11 PM True multi tasking and integrated sharing options on Honeycomb makes sending URLs to Twitter (or Google+) as easy as on a Desktop...
4:16 PM Nokia Revamps Product Naming Guidelines http://t.co/pD0WFk9 Words cannot express...
6:10 PM I desperately need to decide on a single way to name my CSS classes: "mashedname","under_score","dashed-word", or "innerCaps". Not sure...
Tuesday 8/2
7:27 AM Rockin' the TouchPad WebOS 3.0.2 update. None of my issues seem to be fixed... the browser of all things is still painful to use.
8:08 AM Amazon’s Appstore for Android apps is selling lots of games http://t.co/oMl8oUm
8:35 AM Strong New Yorker iPad app sales show promise of digital publishing’s future http://t.co/sWCVpvB These sorts of apps are fascinating.
8:52 AM Appstravaganza. Interview with Jan Ole Suhr, Gravity http://t.co/IqimFf0 Nokia loves @janole - Symbian's one and only success story. :-)
9:01 AM Kod is a programmers' editor for OS X http://t.co/EdxXU84
9:16 AM Amazon AppStore: Rotten To The Core http://t.co/2WrgLdW (And for an opposite perspective of that Amazon interview in VentureBeat...)
Wednesday 8/3
1:12 AM I signed myself and my son up at KhanAcademy.org - I'm a coach and he's a student. He's going through exercises on the iPad now... So cool!
1:13 AM As a Khan Academy coach, I can see charts on every question he answered and how long it took him to answer them. Very, very, very cool.
1:43 AM just answered 19 questions right to achieve proficiency in Addition 2 http://t.co/AmfLthW via @khanacademy
6:04 AM I've made a couple decisions: camelCase for my CSS identifiers and no more using IDs in my HTML, only classes. Much cleaner.
6:43 AM @kbateman There's recent debate about classes vs. IDs, but classes-only makes sense to me. See: http://t.co/gZaQIFG and http://t.co/4Alz9rV
9:56 AM Dilbert Comic for August 3, 2011 http://t.co/iIPFEkt Tablets rule. :-)
11:35 AM CSS3-D Clock by @ndrwhr http://t.co/xxlg0qR Wow! It moves incredibly smoothly on the iPad... Like a native app. Amazing.
4:39 PM Wow, one of my favorite Nintendo DS games, Zoo Keeper DX, came out for iOS in June but I only just stumbled upon it today. Love this game.
4:47 PM RT @MediaReDEF: Time Inc. Doubles Down On Tablets, Promises All Magazines On All Platforms By End Of Year http://dthin.gs/q9AeTv /via @M ...
10:38 PM Hands-on with TouchWiz UX for the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 -- Engadget http://t.co/RPMD5ba
Thursday 8/4
1:13 AM How Khan Academy Is Changing the Rules of Education | Magazine http://t.co/Q4NHxjF
3:01 AM I've pretty much stopped using Google+, I've also stopped getting notificat http://goo.gl/fb/OGctw
3:19 AM Wow, Microsoft has renamed TouchStudio to TouchDevelop, and added in a bunch of features including cloud syncing. Cool! http://t.co/WzzPEG4
3:22 AM Announcing TouchDevelop v2.0 beta http://t.co/9qHCt4C and the community site here: http://t.co/VsErxki
3:24 AM HP knocking $100 from 16GB TouchPad pricing August 5-7 http://t.co/9dMg2lQ
6:41 AM http://t.co/oLGIHFH s visual language The Noun Project - a huge collection of free to use icons.
9:36 AM Google are pussies | brian s hall http://t.co/b2oJ2JG Wow. I've been saying this stuff for a while, it's nice to see someone else noticing.
11:35 AM Heh, Google+ banned Blake Ross for using his own name - and yet Thomas Hawk http://goo.gl/fb/4sHwL
3:30 PM The HP TouchPad Is Now $100 Cheaper http://t.co/PInWeVG
3:51 PM Nokia’s Losses Become Finland’s Gains - Tech Europe - WSJ http://t.co/lesBUXH
4:20 PM League of Legends Dominion preview: The squared circle http://t.co/C9pnJz8
4:22 PM I've never played LoL - but I just read it has 15 million players, more than World of Warcraft. Crazy.
4:23 PM League of Legends - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://t.co/dSwdNsR
4:27 PM League of Legends - Gameplay Battle Video http://t.co/0IJcpOY
4:43 PM Study: Android is least open of open source mobile platforms http://t.co/cLlGt6f
4:50 PM Making Desktop Webapps in Lion – http://t.co/P0NHVXz This is the first positive thing I've read about Lion. Very cool feature.
5:20 PM Nokia market cap - http://t.co/vSSytVJ $20.3B as of today. Considering Nortel's patents alone were bought for $4.5B...
5:23 PM Apple could offer a 2x premium to NOK shareholders, pay in cash on hand, and still have $30B left over for a rainy day...
Friday 8/5
4:45 AM Mac OS X 10.7 Lion Review http://t.co/cZwuhDT "iSync has quietly been removed as well." Oh wow, I hadn't seen that one before.
7:28 AM HP TouchPad hits Woot with $120 discount http://t.co/zBJTFqB
7:51 AM List of Mac OS X Keyboard Shortcuts http://t.co/7LKoqgo Holy crap. 2-finger clicking on a trackpad is like right-clicking? I had no idea.
9:24 AM RT @NokiaResearch: NRC Publication: A Domain Decomposition Method for Coupled Equations of Acoustic Wave Motion http://bit.ly/nECFft
9:24 AM RT @NokiaResearch: NRC Publication: Dynamical Nonlinearities in Piezoelectric Materials http://bit.ly/n5518L
9:24 AM RT @NokiaResearch: NRC Publication: Minor magnetization loops in two-dimensional dipolar Ising model http://bit.ly/rrT4hp
9:24 AM RT @NokiaResearch: NRC Publication: Effect of gating and pressure on the electronic transport properties of crossed nanotube juncti... h ...
9:33 AM Those NRC papers are amazing not only for the content, but the sheer number of ä's that appear in the author listings...
11:27 PM Google's first self-driving car crash http://t.co/Jzilq7Z Woohoo! Cha-ching! Imagine how much Google will pay to make this 'go away'?
11:30 PM I need to start driving around Google's campus to see if I can get their self-driving car to slam into me. Who's a jury gonna believe? :-)
11:35 PM HP TouchPad now $200 off at Staples - http://t.co/r346ebW Holy crap. Okay, no matter what the TouchPad's flaws, $300 is a good price.
11:42 PM webOS 3.0.2 Developer SDK available for download http://t.co/lQdNlLb
Saturday 8/6
12:38 AM RT @Carnage4Life "Every single process at a big company is a tribute to someone screwing up really badly" Heh! Sooo true.
2:05 AM I've been using Ubuntu as my OS exclusively since Jan. 2007 and I have to say using 11.04 is almost intolerable. 11.10 doesn't look better.
2:09 AM My favorite PC OS makes me ill. My favorite mobile OS (Meego) has essentially been abandoned, and I loathe Apple's OSes and Android. FUCK.
2:51 AM U.S. loses AAA credit rating from S&P - http://t.co/MKMlsVt Now we know why the markets were collapsing Thurs & Fri: 100% insider info.
3:28 AM @k4shif Unity is unusable, Gnome 2.0 is crashy and missing features, my external monitor stopped working (after upgrading), etc.
3:34 AM @jonoabroad OSX is just awful. Window management sucks, it barely multitasks (beachball!), the Gnu utilities are non-standard, and more.
3:35 AM @gonzapq Tienes razon, no voy a decir otro. Pero no cambia el hecho que no estoy contento con la tecnologia que lo uso. Antes si, ahora no.
3:37 AM @ebruchez @ndw No, it's not about being open. It's about being usable. Android is semi-open I just think it's clunky.
3:38 AM @k4shif I was thinking maybe backing up a rung and using pure Debian. At least then the pain would be more self-inflicted. :-)
3:53 AM Someone emailed about getting the karma.io domain I own. *Maybe* if it was for some cool open project, but they're a startup. Sorry, but no.
4:49 AM Why S&P Has No Business Downgrading the U.S. http://t.co/VlZZ8yA
5:36 AM Are you a Facebook employee? http://t.co/zh1Svdq
5:57 AM Neil Patrick Harris and Stephen Colbert were in Company?! Crazy. http://t.co/N8jro37 (one of my favorite musicals)
6:01 AM If you have Netflix streaming you should check out this version of Company. It's fantastic. http://t.co/dPCv1mx
7:53 AM "The Theory That Would Not Die: How Bayes' Rule Cracked the Enigma Code, Hunted Down Russian Submarines..." http://t.co/dKkoIdB
7:54 AM The Theory That Would Not Die - Book Review - NYTimes.com http://t.co/y126JzB
8:03 AM RT @smashingmag: Five Lessons Learned From A Year of Tablet UX Research - http://uxmag.com/technology/five-lessons-from-a-year-of-tablet ...
9:49 PM Aug. 6, 1991, 1:37 pm WorldWideWeb: Summary - alt.hypertext http://t.co/em17fJs
10:31 PM Sorry Emperor, you need to put on shorts. Async callbacks in Javascript is the goto spaghetticode of this generation. http://t.co/a3fKlAi
10:38 PM Javascript insanity like });});});});}); at the end of a function is ridiculous. It makes Lisp's )))))))))) not seem so bad.
Sunday 8/7
8:26 AM HP to give TouchPad early adopters $50 for apps http://t.co/C5Y19zE This would be great if there were $50 worth of TP apps worth buying.
8:35 AM Vizio Tablet Review http://t.co/UZlxDFC
9:47 AM Political Animal - A timeline of events http://t.co/oc8L5Vq
10:40 AM Obama as Chess Master: The Atlantic http://t.co/XoQYTtu "...already the most accomplished president since FDR - and in only 3 years."
10:03 PM Patch.com is actually very good (for my city at least). Like an honest-to-goodness small town newspaper. http://t.co/famvj35
10:31 PM Professors Hand Over Grading Power to Outsiders - The Chronicle of Higher Education http://t.co/1gOa03W This should happen at every grade.
10:33 PM Can Software Make the Grade? - College 2.0 - The Chronicle of Higher Education http://t.co/HBbapBt
10:38 PM I just realized the quickest way to tweet without having to load the site or use a client. Use this: http://t.co/PaP1Jnj
10:43 PM Preferably make a bookmarklet like - javascript:window.open('http://twitter.com/intent/tweet'); so it opens up a new tab...
10:59 PM Amazon Kindle social network- http://t.co/9P3yN8w Ahh, this explains the emails this morning about people following my Kindle reads!
11:05 PM A Kindle social thing won't work for me. Half the books listed are for my kid, half are mine, but a ton more I've side-loaded don't sync.
Monday 8/8
12:46 AM 7 Chrome Tips Developers & Designers May Not Know http://t.co/F2KAW5u They added in ability to edit the CSS directly!?! Awesome!!
12:49 AM You weren't able to do live CSS editing of the resources in Chrome before, I definitely tried. I should've paid more attention to updates!
12:51 AM That is the one feature from using the "Web Developer" plugin on Firefox that I've missed most about using Chrome. So cool!
5:50 AM "We have changed our assumption... because the majority of Republicans in Congress continue to resist any measure that would raise revenues"
5:54 AM Again, "Republicans in Congress continue to resist any measure that would raise revenues," S&P at least knows where the blame rests.
6:49 AM You know, document.getElementsByTagName('p')[0] is actually not a horrible way to grab some relevant description text while saving a link.
8:19 AM Is it really camping if your campground is less than a 5 minute drive from a Wal-Mart and McDonald's?
Tuesday 8/9
5:58 AM @sitepointdotcom Is it just me, or is your Search completely hosed? Try it: http://t.co/0Pp9tiO
8:53 AM London Riots - http://t.co/UPibtmW For those oblivious of them like myself, Wikipedia is pretty much the only way to get context.
9:05 AM HP's $50 App Catalog credit for early adopters now available in your webOS Account http://t.co/mOk0hH4 Just checked and it's there. Wow.
7:21 PM The Lonesome Death Of WebOS http://t.co/HAU9j2k Only 612 TouchPads sold via Woot! But maybe the Staples promo leached off some sales?
7:46 PM From what I understand N9 'availability' means via the carriers... It'll still be sold on Amazon, etc. but your mom won't find one at AT&T.
7:48 PM Designing For Android Tablets http://t.co/DPVBBkP
Wednesday 8/10
6:33 AM Camping at Donner State Park... Falling asleep to the peaceful sound of the nearby highway and slow moving freight trains. Ahh! Nature!
Thursday 8/11
6:20 AM My exact location : 39.3703899383545,-120.155155181885 (Windows Phone doesn't fool around with rounding, buddy).
Saturday 8/13
7:06 AM Un-camping at a Mono Lake motel before heading to Yosemite in the morning. God bless free WiFi.
Sunday 8/14
5:00 AM I taught my 9yo son how to program while driving to Yosemite using TouchDevelop. Here's his first program: http://t.co/dn5GlTC So cool!
6:59 AM Home at last, catching up on 4,224 unread items in my news reader...
6:29 PM First look at Windows Phone 7 Mango impresses http://t.co/70vXbuA
6:45 PM Windows Phone 7 'Mango' Build 7720, get it here - xda-developers http://t.co/VH2S79x
10:57 PM Amazon to sell Android tablet for $249? http://t.co/UfahX8G If true, the internal codename is probably 'hotcakes'.
11:01 PM I like the auto-upload feature for photos in WinPhone 7, but SkyDrive itself suuuuucks.
11:03 PM Well, maybe it wouldn't be bad if you could select multiple files to move or delete, but you can't.
11:04 PM Actually, I've never used SkyDrive on Windows. Maybe there's some custom ActiveX control I'm missing.
11:06 PM Classic Microsoft product: First you think "this isn't bad" then you run into some proprietary bullshit making it unusable.
11:09 PM I wouldn't give a fuck really if my employer wasn't betting its future on WP7.
11:10 PM Tweeting while my son runs around the schoolyard at the back-to-school event. :-)
11:12 PM I bet I'd fry this Samsung if I tried to install Mango early. But it's almost worth the chance to get a decent browser.
11:14 PM @rcarmo These daily spam messages are really fucking annoying. Can you take me off the list?
Monday 8/15
3:49 AM http://t.co/wIxE9pT "Chalk up another example of how the GOP has outwitted and outflanked the President and the Democrats." Grrrrrrr!!!
7:14 AM They Might Be Giants - Electric Car http://t.co/0420EZA
11:22 AM Barbara Ehrenreich, On Americans (Not) Getting By (Again) | TomDispatch http://t.co/HGHYQla
11:25 PM And to think I was talking about big mobile acquisitions only 11 days ago. My how the world changes quickly...
11:29 PM Apple’s Evidence In European Galaxy Tab Injunction Was Seriously Misleading… As In False | TechCrunch http://t.co/X2Yhm8E (Wow.)
11:38 PM Scratchpad: http://t.co/rbFGjYX
Tuesday 8/16
12:02 AM Is this thing still on? http://t.co/ULkLs5W
12:02 AM Requests are still going up slowly. http://t.co/UC1nIvk
2:41 AM Cool, just tried Angry Birds in Google+ games... http://t.co/pZvjAYh
4:44 AM Question that's been bugging me all day... Do two turkeys make an Apple?
6:33 AM It's amazing how clean my custom news reader has become by adding a few CSS rules like this: a[href^="http://ad"]{display: none}
6:31 PM Finally got my grubby hands on an N9. My opinion of it is obviously biased in every way, but it's pretty great.
7:56 PM The Google/Motorola deal explained with lightsabers, ponies (video) http://t.co/RrRQi7Z Pure insanity.
8:12 PM Microsoft Corporation Cash and ST Investments http://t.co/nRWpdbA => $52.77B
8:14 PM NOK: Summary for Nokia Corporation http://t.co/YwSWwhl Market Cap => $22.54B
8:17 PM 15 largest M&A deals worldwide for 1Q2011 - Forbes http://t.co/aq5LdEH
8:29 PM MSFT isn't stupid enough to buy NOK and destroy their potential market for OEM licensees. That's not how they do business.
8:30 PM With NOK's share price so low, threat of an acquisition seems high - unless there's some sort of Finnish poison pill. Anyone know?
8:40 PM @rcarmo Nice, thanks. I usually use AdBlock in my browsers, but when reading news on my tablet or phone, ads sneak through.
Wednesday 8/17
2:20 AM Ouchpad: Best Buy Sitting on a Pile of HP Tablets - http://t.co/EJvvAoi (25,000 sold might be “charitable.”)
7:01 AM How LinkedIn used Node.js and HTML5 to build a better, faster app | VentureBeat http://t.co/sVZu0xO
7:13 AM LinkedIn Touch http://t.co/VUZLJ4o (Wow, that's very nice.)
10:43 AM Tried the latest versions of mobile Firefox (Aurora/beta) and the sucktacular swiping side menus remain. Are they stupid, or just stubborn?
10:54 AM Tested out Google Catalogs on the iPad - it's nice! If magazine apps worked as quickly and cleanly they'd sell a lot more, IMHO.
4:13 PM Mozilla Fennec needs a redesign - http://t.co/UPKqXME Wow, I've been bitching about this for almost 2 years now, time to let it go I think.
Thursday 8/18
12:44 AM Gobble.com http://t.co/KfzY48u "Peer-to-peer lasagna" (Funny, the domain name is great, but at a glance I see 'google'. Just me?)
2:37 AM It's nice having a piece of Nokia hardware in my pocket again - the Samsung Focus is not a particularly wonderful device.
2:39 AM I'd write some thoughts of the N9, but I'm using an R&D OS build and prototype hardware, and I'm probably not allowed anyways. So I won't.
2:41 AM That said, it makes me goddamn euphoric to have a phone which has a terminal icon on the home screen. :-)
2:47 AM Earlier today: "Hmm. Should I 'share' these photos to Picassa? Naaah! ~$ scp -r ~/MyDocs/DCIM/* russellbeattie.com:~/pics/ Booyah!"
4:21 PM Download entire website for offline viewing http://t.co/peG4ykh
9:26 PM "HP reported that it plans to announce that it will discontinue operations for webOS devices, specifically the TouchPad and webOS phones."
9:31 PM Unbelievable. Anyone want to buy a TouchPad on the cheap? I paid $500 for that thing three fucking months ago! Those fuckers.
10:06 PM RT @mstum: @stevenf For comparison: The Microsoft KIN Phone had a 48 day life span - the Touchpad narrowly beat it.
Friday 8/19
12:17 AM Add Keyboard Shortcuts to Office Mac Applescripts http://t.co/qEYJnig (Applescript is fugly, but better than nada. This is a nice tip).
6:09 AM And then there were four http://t.co/zquQPkw (Nice title. :-) )
6:12 AM In the future, they will re-set the date and choose 1996 as year 0, because that's the earliest back anyone will be able to search online.
6:13 AM 1996 is like the cambrian explosion for the web... before that, there was nothing.
6:15 AM It's not that the web didn't exist pre-1996, it's just that there was almost no content. Then *everyone* started making pages.
6:23 AM Why am I still in the office? I really need to not be here.
7:13 PM Had to go to a library to get an actual book for research.
10:59 PM It didn't have to end this way: what HP should have done with webOS http://t.co/2k6Sr2i
11:00 PM @ethauvin Nice to see that my employer is staying out of this stuff for the most part. Only one arrow, and it's resolved (in our favor). :-)
11:00 PM RT @BrandonWatson: To Any Published WebOS Devs: We'll give you what you need to be successful on #WindowsPhone, incl.free phones, dev to ...
11:17 PM Clicking and holding an icon in the OS X Dock will do an expose thing with just that app's windows. Wow, hadn't noticed that before.
Saturday 8/20
12:26 AM HP begins TouchPad liquidation; 16GB cut to $99, 32GB $149 http://t.co/YD09AMv (in Canada for now)
12:28 AM I don't think I've ever lost money on a tech investment so fast... I wonder if I can get some sort of store credit at Best Buy...
12:28 AM RT @jonathangrubb: Designers love grey text on grey backgrounds. Nobody else does.
12:30 AM HP tested webOS on an iPad. It ran over twice as fast as the TouchPad. http://t.co/tQqP6j5
12:34 AM I am pretty much never, ever, ever buying another HP product for as long as I live.
4:26 AM The Secret of the Fibonacci Sequence in Trees http://t.co/bjQFig9 Wow! So cool!
4:30 AM Running a command at a specific time http://t.co/oyhm1Fg this is a good one. I always forget about the at command.
6:04 AM Poptropica http://t.co/imKn9ze I have no idea what this site looks like as I'm using an iPad. Supposedly it's fun.
6:25 AM Science Daily http://t.co/fpP3Cln These guys need to lose that logo! Apparently it's a good site, I saw it before and thought it was spam.
8:33 AM Hey, hey! Shiny new Twitter showed up on my iPad. Lookin' good. And Blueprint looks good too. Two wins in a day for the twitterati.
8:35 AM Just saw Limitless. I liked it - nootropics make me happy. More NZT-48 please!
8:49 AM NZT | Important Safety Info http://t.co/qXLVry4
8:51 AM Others reported experiencing violent thoughts, brain damage, blackouts, suicidal feelings, homicidal feelings, extreme paranoia,
8:51 AM ... rapid aging, time dysplasia, psychosis and possibly even death.
8:57 AM Oh wow, Real Madrid has just become vicious! Barca is just too good lately. http://t.co/HQxPssK
6:51 PM Best Buy stops selling selling the TouchPad, HP offers refunds to owners http://t.co/RitewLQ
9:20 PM Found the BestBuy receipt for my TouchPad, and am doing a 'secure erase' now. The box is still on my shelf. Ready to go get my $$$$ back.
9:23 PM I'll admit I am actually more shocked and dismayed by HP's treatment of WebOS than I was about MeeGo's demise. I wanted to see WebOS suceed.
9:26 PM RT @BestBuy: Confused about the HP TouchPad Sales/Return & Exchange? Check our website for details: http://t.co/76C3dDd via @BestBu ...
9:28 PM "Best Buy is extending its return/exchange policy on the HP TouchPad and all HP TouchPad accessories to 60 days."
11:56 PM Just returned my TouchPad for a full refund at BestBuy. There's a line of 20+ people waiting to buy one for $99.
11:58 PM If you think of the TouchPad as a big heavy color Kindle reader, with web, apps and email, it's a great deal. :-)
Sunday 8/21
12:16 AM RT @longreads: "Why Are Finland's Schools Successful?" @smithsonianmag #longreads http://t.co/cKWHyxi
12:27 AM Now that I got a refund, my feelings toward HP have changed from active hatred to more a general antipathy and sense of betrayal.
2:54 AM I just realized my N9 came with Python v2.6.6. Amazing! Back in 2003, something like that was just a dream: http://t.co/k28Umbi
2:58 AM @JonathanPidgeon It's a great deal for $99. Web, email, Kindle and a few decent apps. Plus a good homebrew community (for now).
3:05 AM Paper.li opt out instructions: http://t.co/5qOvRoT THANK GOD. I can't wait for this business to die.
5:48 PM Summify - FAQ http://t.co/IszO34z The jackasses at Paper.li provide a quick opt-out method. The assholes at Summify require an email. Grrr.
6:44 PM About - The Christian Science Monitor http://t.co/sDfRNI0 CSM is an awesome newspaper, but it drives me *nuts* that it's owned by a church.
6:47 PM RT @dalingrin: To clarify, i plan on doing an AOSP port to the Touchpad not Honeycomb. #touchdroid
9:26 PM Paste unformatted keyboard shortcut in Office 2008 for Mac http://t.co/wh7bztS THANK GOD. I even mapped it to Ctrl-V. :-)
Monday 8/22
1:57 AM WTF? GroupMe got acquired by Skype? What am I missing? What in the world did they do that the other 40 group text services didn't?
2:00 AM Was it just the UI? If so, I'll have to go back to my general rule about those things: How something looks matters more than how it works.
2:52 AM @jblanton I just looked at the Kindle Reader using Chrome's dev tools. It's insane. You'll need some sort of custom Javascript to change it.
9:46 AM Why Amazon Can't Make A Kindle In the USA (even if it wanted to) - http://t.co/j6QvMwd Sad, yet completely true.
4:41 PM Designing For Android Tablets - Smashing Magazine http://t.co/DPVBBkP
Tuesday 8/23
1:53 AM The Way - Movie Trailer - http://t.co/wJ70EWC "You can do this on a bike?!? Why the hell are we walking?"
2:12 AM Don’t Fear the Internet http://t.co/DmN5jlC
3:22 AM With GroupMe’s acquisition, zero revenue companies are back in style http://t.co/KVi2imD Woohoo! I suck at making 'money making' stuff.
4:39 AM How to install Ubuntu Linux on an HP TouchPad - Liliputing http://t.co/sMD3PUn Not particularly useful (IMHO), but interesting.
5:49 AM New Blog Post - Solving the pseudonym problem in social networks http://t.co/z9huczc
8:04 AM RT @arrington: Dear HP: Please Keep Making Those CrunchPads! Er…TouchPads http://t.co/soSp9Be via @techcrunch
8:43 AM http://t.co/d3LQxBG "Imagine what it must have been like on Friday afternoons in Palo Alto w/ every engineer working on some wild-ass idea."
Wednesday 8/24
4:51 AM Samsung cites Kubrick’s ’2001′ as legal defense in Apple patent battle http://t.co/dzZ4CTQ AWESOME.
4:56 AM Nick Bradbury: From Windows to Android with Glassboard http://t.co/84C08mK Hmm. Surprised they bothered with WP7 right away...
8:57 AM Brainstorm: Colorform-style removable vinyl stickers for tablets, to guide your fingers while typing or gaming. (Or you know, for kids!)
10:46 AM Faviconist - Make a beautiful favicon in seconds http://t.co/jaVaZVi
9:00 PM I think, since I've been programming since I was 10, and now nearing 40, it's probably time I learned how to use sine and cosine, no?
9:03 PM I know you use sine/cosine for curves, but any time I've had use for them, I've just copied some example code, tweaked and moved on.
9:11 PM Sin_drawing_process.gif 711×249 pixels http://t.co/kMCEEyi This helped a little actually...
9:21 PM Sine_and_Cosine_fundamental_relationship_to_Circle_(and_Helix).gif 420×420 pixels http://t.co/HTwJPfC This is fantastic as well.
Thursday 8/25
12:26 AM Steve Jobs resigns from Apple, Cook becomes CEO http://t.co/Tl2SaeW Wow... sad.
12:47 AM Microsoft and Nokia team up to host Windows Phone developer training sessions http://t.co/62bjI3W
12:49 AM Coming Tonight: 'Contre Jour', 'Dragon Fantasy', 'Edge Extended', 'Hector: Ep2', 'Minigame Paradise', 'Peggle HD'... http://t.co/g0hKYmm
3:11 AM Boxer: The DOS game emulator that’s fit for your Mac. http://t.co/s2pVRWd Oh, wow... this is pretty amazing.
7:16 AM I just bought Peggle HD for the iPad. It's a crappy port of the iPhone version. Save your money for something else.
7:19 AM PopCap Discusses iPad Gaming http://t.co/8rxVfSU @popcap, I'm disappointed with Peggle HD. Most won't remember this interview, but I do.
Friday 8/26
1:13 AM Steve Jobs' Childhood Home Draws Tourists; Stepmom Laments Resignation http://t.co/zwxE3ua My local news... I love Siliicon Valley. :-)
8:43 AM Playing with @TouchDevelop again (MS Research's on-phone scripting app). I made a Peggle clone in a couple hours: http://t.co/uYQYf93
8:46 AM My techie spidey-sense is tingling hard. TouchDevelop has solved a few different problems - for IDEs in general, and also mobile scripting.
9:18 AM @ethauvin I'm not going to say otherwise... still, it was fun. Nice break from Javascript hell. :-)
9:48 AM Nokia patent applications published on 25 August 2011 | Latest Patents http://t.co/SvBfvLj
9:58 AM Jig.com doesn't seem like the type of startup anyone would be passionate about. It seems like the best idea out of a roundtable discussion.
10:03 AM My Slashdot user number is 43187. Just sayin'. I'm old school Internet.
Saturday 8/27
2:29 AM Greeeaatt. Ubuntu 11.04 has hosed my Windows partition and They've changed the boot loader from grub to, I don't know what. Gah.
2:49 AM OnLive Adds Group Voice Chat, Parental Controls And Facebook Achievement Sharing http://t.co/MZn0kMa
3:00 AM I've got two 30 year old cassette tapes with TRS-80 programs I wrote back then. I just bought a player and am recording them as .wav files.
3:02 AM But, the emulators I found don't work on 64-bit Win7, and the Ubuntu packaged version of MESS is broken. Next up: compiling from source.
3:05 AM I may pull out my work MacBook and try that as well. The most advanced hardware and OSes are actually making this harder...
3:34 AM @k4shif That's an interesting idea... except: "You are not eligible to download Windows XP Mode. You must have Windows 7 Professional..."
5:11 AM No one has tried out my TouchDevelop script I wrote last night! http://t.co/mKloWu9
5:17 AM My MacBook doesn't have an analog mic, my Linux box is having sound driver issues, and Win7 only saves as .WMA, which Quicktime ignores.
5:18 AM Soo... record the sound in Win7, copy to Linux, use Audacity to edit and save as .wav, copy to Mac which runs the CoCo2 emulator. Solved!
8:08 AM New Blog Post - Letter Defender: My big program from 30 years ago http://t.co/wtWjkRe
Sunday 8/28
7:01 AM Top 10 Largest File-Sharing Sites | TorrentFreak http://t.co/SNVzEub "Cyberlockers" have overtaken torrent sites. 4shared? No idea.
4:10 PM World War Z is such a great book, but it's already outdated. A Zombie outbreak now would be on YouTube in minutes.
10:00 PM Look at this Javscript snippet: http://t.co/VsDua9N (Anorbiting circle in HTML canvas) Question: WTF is the angle?!? It's not degrees...
10:59 PM @owenc @k4shif Thanks... The weird thing is that this works even if the angle number goes up forever. Which I don't understand.
11:05 PM So my question was mostly about how to do a full circle and stop, which is to check if the angle < 2π . Oookay.
Monday 8/29
3:38 AM http://t.co/Ku6ZsQV "Only 21% of Republican voters in Iowa believe in global warming (and only 35% believe in evolution)."
8:56 AM Speech Recognition Leaps Forward - Microsoft Research http://t.co/W2yfy7h
9:47 PM Ahhhhh!!! WTF happened to my Chrome profiles!? The browser auto-upgraded and *poof*. GAH!
9:49 PM @edbott I wasn't paying attention to which version I was using previously, but I'm on OS X/v14.0.835
9:52 PM @RussB Apparently so... (and thus should not be surprised when I bleed from being on the edge.) I'll grab stable now...
10:01 PM Google naming sucks. SUCKS. For a search company, you'd think they'd realize how hard it is to look up stuff like "chrome","go","+", etc.
10:03 PM @edbott Without a doubt... I had already integrated the profiles into my workflow... Testing (no extensions), Dev, Personal (synced), Work.
10:03 PM And now they're all gone, gone, gone... Waaah!!
Tuesday 8/30
1:38 AM RT @LisenStromberg: My Neighbor, Steve Jobs. He's More Than Just An Icon http://t.co/2fIFyZ9 /via @wordpressdotcom
8:19 AM I want to find the person who coined the term 'responsive web design' and hurt them, badly.
8:21 AM Apparently the past 10 years of mobile web dev (handheld stylesheets, media queries) escaped their notice, so they invented a new term.
8:28 AM "Hey! I bought an iPad, so now it's actually important to me that my site design not totally suck when not viewed on my 27" Cinema display!"
10:57 AM http://t.co/toa4F0G "Sales of Apple's iPad pulled in 30% more than all of Dell's consumer PC business in just the first half of the year."
6:07 PM PSA: Remember that the Wall Street Journal is no longer the paper of business record. It is now literally Fox News in print form.
6:56 PM The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing humanity that Mac OS X was a version of Unix...
11:05 PM Ok Google! http://t.co/uwiJ9ce
Wednesday 8/31
4:00 AM iPads changing the way Major League Baseball is played - ESPN http://t.co/Vru7MNd
3:31 PM School District Expands Khan Academy to All Schools - Los Altos, http://t.co/yjcZ3Sf
3:40 PM "In other words, blue states are subsidizing red states" http://t.co/J7FAX00
10:45 PM Yeah, so AppEngine's new pricing is completely fucking insane. http://t.co/MTD7cxQ
September 2011
Thursday 9/1
2:53 AM RT @dalmaer: Cool to see @JamesPearce live code up a Sencha Touch mobile viewer for FunctionSource. Can I steal that code James? :) http ...
2:59 AM Checking out Mobile Tech Talks at Walmart Labs http://t.co/4qMDwno ... First time I've been at one of these things for a while.
3:10 AM RT @fehguy: Slides about wordnik #swagger during Mobile Tech Talks http://t.co/W98YxAi #rest #api
6:04 AM What the hell is a "home phone"?
6:12 AM O'Reilly seems to have finally upgraded its epoch server... I was just able to buy an eBook from them in less than the normal 15 minutes.
6:53 AM I bought some Twinkies today, because you know, we'll miss them when the zombie apocalypse comes.
7:01 AM Playing with Qt5 and QML - Zchydem's Blog http://t.co/PomrGnz
7:47 AM RT @jblanton: I'd invest in @Wolfram_Alpha if I could. I'd invest a lot. Those guys are doing nothing less than shaping the future of kn ...
7:59 AM Flash mob at Copenhagen Central Station. Copenhagen Phil playing Ravel's Bolero. http://t.co/lsydaOd
8:04 AM Bruno Bozzetto "Allegro Non Troppo" - Bolero di Ravel http://t.co/CdRRpL0 Fantastic! I remember seeing this cartoon as a kid... YouTube FTW!
9:26 PM Nokia patent applications published on 01 September 2011 http://t.co/AJIUm0r
11:33 PM RT @TouchDevelop: we've just refreshed our home page - check out http://t.co/RYewi91 http://t.co/6N0yOST
Friday 9/2
12:04 AM PlusFeed to close http://t.co/FE5iYtq
12:04 AM Just updated the PlusFeed homepage with a "shutting down" message and added http://t.co/apex3ig
2:59 AM @jasonferris Woops. I didn't think about the automated feed posting. I removed that and just shut it down instead.
8:29 PM Heh. For the record, I'm not a 'researcher', I'm just one of the grunts that helps out the eggheads as they do their stuff.
9:39 PM I'm becoming more well known for shutting down stuff, rather than starting stuff. Not good.
9:40 PM I don't think I have Asperger's... But apparently mild frustration on my part translates as intense rage worthy of news articles.
10:23 PM I for one, highly approve of Superman's new suit, without the red Underoos and bright yellow belt.
10:29 PM Apparently Wonder Woman is no longer an Amazon princess, but an "exotic dancer." And why is everyone so angry? http://t.co/ScbNeCF
Saturday 9/3
1:10 AM Wingsuit insanity. http://t.co/IPvSvH3
1:59 AM Friday movie night... Airplane! is PG! That should be good for my 9yo... "Joey, have you ever seen a grown man naked?"
9:04 PM Many US schools adding iPads, trimming textbooks - Yahoo! News http://t.co/rKqT24z
9:08 PM Over Two-Thirds Of Xbox Live Subscriptions Sold At Retail http://t.co/WP7zdKt
9:11 PM How Microsoft Researchers Might Invent a Holodeck | Gadget Lab | Wired.com http://t.co/j2dGe5o
Sunday 9/4
3:03 AM @counternotions I should be an anonymous Apple fanboy instead? Gloating over the success of other people's work? I'd rather make bad bets.
8:25 PM If I had to keep up with RSS with Google Reader, desktop apps or Twitter I'd give up on them too. I need to make my reader public someday.
9:27 PM RT @edd: Wow, I just wrote and deployed an app with Heroku and Github without leaving the browser. The future's here, again http://t.co/ ...
Monday 9/5
6:33 AM My MediaPC is a little $200 Lenovo box running Win7. It just dawned on me that I could turn on the IIS web server. It only took me a year.
6:35 AM This got me thinking about local DNS... so I finally learned I could simply turn on DNSMasq on my DD-WRT router. This took 2 years.
6:39 AM Suddenly I can see my central file storage from every device I own, without messing with Bonjour/ZeroConf which was my previous solution.
6:50 AM torvalds/linux - GitHub http://t.co/aNRULSV Wow. Very cool. Github is just a great service, making it insanely easy to browse sources.
7:22 AM RT @jonlech: "Next year HTML5 will replace native apps" is the new "Next year will be the year of Linux on the desktop".
5:39 PM If you happen to run across a Republican at a Labor Day barbecue today, please make sure to tell them to fuck off and die.
9:04 PM For years I've set my Ubuntu desktop DPI to around 62, which gives me tons of screen room on a laptop. Wish I could that on my Mac.
Tuesday 9/6
4:06 PM RT @TouchDevelop: tip: you can stop the execution of a script by calling time->stop.
4:19 PM I love waking up with a headache! Wait, wait. No, reverse that. I don't. I really don't.
4:36 PM RT @Carnage4Life: Reading Linus Torvalds first impressions of GitHub after moving the Linux kernel there - http://j.mp/oOW22f
5:01 PM Burning Man 2011 photo snapped from Earth's orbit - CSMonitor.com http://t.co/9ndrF4T
6:34 PM AudioDraft - Contest - Nokia Tune Remake http://t.co/ksDlSfq Ooh, this is much cooler than I thought. Great entries so far.
7:32 PM "...people overlook Qt and its built-in WebKit integration." http://t.co/18iDbg6
9:02 PM Using multiple profiles on Google Chrome http://t.co/leRNUPa - That's what I'm looking for. Creating one for personal mail, testing, etc.
10:15 PM I got 74 WPM (with no mistakes!). The one thing I learned in High School that I still use daily. :-) http://t.co/q9wtWD8
11:46 PM RT @bgarlinghouse: ding dong the witch is dead
11:47 PM Woops... Retweeted out of order. Well you get it.
Wednesday 9/7
12:37 AM RT @SnoopDogg: Im takn over as tha CEO of Yahoo. Need sum of tha Snoop Dogg content ya digg. Nuff Said.
7:52 AM RT @jimh: is the email sig "sent from my iPad" today's equiv of 00:00 flashing on the VCR? http://t.co/vZ2XMLn Why was a Luddite running ...
2:39 PM Goodbye to All That: Reflections of a GOP Operative Who Left the Cult http://t.co/TqmdbOq Wow. Well written and insightful.
3:50 PM It seems it's been a year since I discovered .io domains... Renewal costs $50! Suddenly names I *loved* a year ago aren't so special to me.
4:09 PM http://t.co/xtVqOn4 Apple Pippin. Check out the Apple home page via Netscape Navigator.
7:37 PM Holy shit. Today's Wednesday. I had no idea.
8:28 PM Yale hands out 64GB iPad 2s to entire Medical School student body | Edible Apple http://t.co/kVPfW6b
8:47 PM @gerikson @janole @koehntopp @jimh Don't forget @ethauvin @mc @vero @Moof @talios , etc.. Also, California is nice this time of year. :-)
11:55 PM I just realized how well http://t.co/gCaVN37 works in a normal browser, and how clean and nice it looks. Will have to remember to use it.
Thursday 9/8
12:01 AM I think all web apps are going to gravitate towards what we now consider tablet GUIs. Their clean, simple functionality is compelling.
10:52 AM Jesse MacFadyen: Announcing PhoneGap for Windows Phone Mango http://t.co/iAslFjO
Friday 9/9
5:44 AM Nokia patent applications published on 08 September 2011 | Latest Patents http://t.co/gZxRZ5W
5:59 AM .osx at master from mathiasbynens/dotfiles - GitHub http://t.co/vOM2aWd
8:53 AM I'm seriously thinking about giving up on Linux on my home desktop and buying a MacBook Pro. I getting tired of fighting the good fight...
9:00 AM You can use XBox 360 wireless controllers with the OnLive console using the wireless USB dongle. VERY cool. http://t.co/hKxrH6V
11:05 AM Apple Wins Permanent Ban on German Sales of Samsung Tablet http://t.co/peFamTu
7:45 PM Node.js Knockout http://t.co/CrWZdFL Wow. An entire generation of programmers focused on chat, multiplayer games and navel gazing.
8:00 PM Economist: http://t.co/fJ3OnFo "IKEA will introduce a new, deeper version of its ubiquitous “BILLY” bookcase" Heh.
8:03 PM I've got a bunch of built in book shelves in my house, and I have no idea WTF to put on them. I stopped buying real books years ago.
8:06 PM In a few years, seeing someone's library of books on a shelf will be akin to seeing someone's collection of LP records, CDs, or DVDs...
9:05 PM Update your Nokia Browser http://t.co/iOFjK3O
9:10 PM HTML5 Demos from Qt http://t.co/v8rVXHg
9:12 PM @chansearrington The Nokia site is insanely vague. It needs more specific links to which features are supported for developers.
9:21 PM Nokia Browser 7.3 - Web Developers Library http://t.co/HmGJ1pt
9:27 PM The best selling iPad app on the App Store was created with Adobe Flash - TNW Apple http://t.co/Kp6yz2N
10:09 PM RT @TouchDevelop: Did you ever wonder how the 'board' in TouchDevelop works? Find out now in this (new) document! http://t.co/hFAy0uA
10:12 PM I love TouchDevelop. I use it like a casual game, developing with it where I would normally play Tetris.
10:15 PM My TouchDevelop Scripts so far: Marketplace: http://t.co/i2IHduC Breakit! http://t.co/d4KENDC MegaPegs: http://t.co/VwcbU1Q
10:17 PM More TouchDevelop scripts - LetterDefender: http://t.co/y9Gj1Ja SaveTheBubble: http://t.co/7kuwS86 WallpaperMaker: http://t.co/VOFz8Xf
10:47 PM @ethauvin Thanks, but I definitely won't be using AppEngine for any projects from now on. Too much effort to optimize.
Saturday 9/10
12:00 AM @dalmaer It's the evolution of "embrace, extend and extinguish", Google's strategy is "criticise, circumvent, coerce and conquer"
10:15 AM Real Shared Sacrifice: It's Time For Churches To Pay Taxes http://t.co/Oq3kOTe
7:00 PM Camouflage - Sinclair ZX81 pop video! http://t.co/Vreb0Oj Oh, nice! I thought getting my app off a 30yo casette was hard. But vinyl?!? :-)
10:20 PM Note to self: You need to stop buying black-framed glasses, or dark-colored furniture. The combination is driving you insane.
Sunday 9/11
5:18 PM [ Rumor ] No Windows Phone Samsung devices from 2013 ? http://t.co/Kag1tTx
5:20 PM Samsung bada 2.0 Now Live http://t.co/eO5fc63 Holy shit. I hadn't been paying attention to this at all! Samsung is going all in.
5:27 PM About WAC 2.0 http://t.co/T6ZyqOl Wholesale Applications Community? I need to expand my mobile news sources, as I had no idea this existed.
5:35 PM Wholesale Applications Community - Wikipedia http://t.co/j82q4jV Ahh... It's an evolution of OMTP Bondi. What a *horrible* name.
5:45 PM Computer-Generated Articles Are Gaining Traction - NYTimes.com http://t.co/GtrXOTa
6:24 PM bada 2.0 upgrade for existing Wave devices will be released from Q4 - Sammy Hub http://t.co/KtaFNmz
6:31 PM About ifttt http://t.co/8xFdHtj "If this, then that" - Interesting take on agents/tasks in the cloud. I've thought about this stuff a lot.
7:29 PM @Pinboard So if you only charge a fee at signup at (currently) ~$9, you need to grow by ~225 subs a month to cover costs.? Not bad!
7:32 PM @gerikson Celebrating 10 years of Republican demagoguery, fearmongering, warmongering and the erosion of our civil liberties! Woohoo!
7:45 PM I joined Pinboard 6 days after it started, paying $2.84. The signup fee is raised $0.001 per user and now costs $9.41... Math! I need math!
7:47 PM Watch The TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon Live | http://t.co/G0yptXX Wow, iOS streams video?! My whole day has been a series of revelations.
7:56 PM CSS Prototyping http://t.co/SXEUBqJ Wow, this looks very useful.
Monday 9/12
1:07 AM Amazon reportedly in talks to launch a Netflix for books http://t.co/WTW4QUp Back in my day we called that a... Okay, yeah. You get it.
1:11 AM @gnat @Pinboard Didn't you see The Social Network? All web startups come with free hookers and blow nowadays.
1:30 AM @derricks Republicans are already beating them to it. Libraries are exactly the sort of socialist public service they can't stand.
5:00 AM Noca - Payments Simplified http://t.co/DZh0nrr Nice. Clean design, easy setup. But what about fraud? That's the big problem with PayPal.
5:54 AM Does Microsoft run their Internet services (azure, office, msn, bing, etc.) on Windows? Can you imagine the *pain* that would involve?
6:25 AM Ahh, I see - Windows Server Core doesn't have a gui - just a command prompt. In other words, just like Unix. That makes more sense.
8:43 AM The Gruen Transfer - The Pitch: Banning All Religion http://t.co/38L5CiB Nice!
Tuesday 9/13
1:34 AM @sloanb iCab. Hands down. I've tried everything and that's the best, bar none, especially if you're a power web user...
3:27 AM "This gold Nintendo cartridge is one of the most valuable videogames in existence" http://t.co/n3x8U1K Why is it on a restroom floor then?
Wednesday 9/14
12:57 AM TouchDevelop v2.2: tutorial mode, improved code editor, events - Nikolai Tillmann's Blog - Site Home - MSDN Blogs : http://t.co/ytBOge4
4:00 AM New Blog Post - Windows 8 tablet thoughts - Will the big bets pay off? http://t.co/2C2Q3Vv
4:33 AM Windows Dev Center http://t.co/2MpkTD5 WindowsDeveloperPreview-32bit-English.iso 178 kB/s - 1.6 GB of 2.8 GB, 1 hour left
8:50 PM Nyko's $30 Zoom for Kinect now shipping http://t.co/M8dRoyPT (Lenses to make Kinect near-sighted! Genius!)
Thursday 9/15
7:26 AM Windows 7 Hardware That Runs Windows 8 - TechNet http://t.co/ifFxqcNi Woohoo! My Lenovo S10-3t tablet is supported! Installing now...
7:33 AM Let's think... September of 1991? Yeah, this makes about the 20th year I've been installing some form of Windows.
7:41 AM Windows 3.0 - Wikipedia http://t.co/ytmvTTBt System requirements: 384K of free conventional memory and 7MB of disk space. Wow.
8:18 AM Those idiots! Windows 8 Metro apps don't work on displays less than 1024x768. The Lenovo is 1024x600... Gaah!
9:01 AM Reghack for 1024x768 and 1152x864 to run Metro apps in Win8 http://t.co/QXtEtIGy 2) Change "Display1_DownScalingSupported" from "0" to "1"
9:17 AM Hey, would you look at me, using Metro apps on Windows 8. The resolution's all hosed, but it works. :-)
9:36 AM Win8 thoughts: Side swiping for menus and multitasking works surprisingly well. Metro apps look really nice, but why suspend them?
9:38 AM Using the regular WIndows desktop via touch is just painful though. There needs to be a more distinct separation or a complete GUI overhaul.
9:42 AM If you were to take just Win8's new Start page and Metro apps and put them on a tablet, it'd be just as good as iOS or Android.
Friday 9/16
12:31 AM The enjoyment people get out of reading/watching "The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo" makes me truly fear for humanity.
1:41 AM Is it my imagination, or is ot getting colder out? Why? I don't want.
Saturday 9/17
12:49 AM Steven Sinofsky is the new Steve Jobs http://t.co/8TfaUZiu This is no joke, I watched Build's entire 3 hour keynote because of him.
1:39 AM The Chicago Merc should start offering futures in the price of Red Bull... The prices fluctuate insanely.
1:41 AM There's got to be some sort of arbitrage opportunity in the price of Red Bull, I swear.
7:34 AM Corn, sunflowers, peanuts, tomatoes, potatoes, squash, blueberries, strawberries, chocolate and vanilla all originated in the Americas.
7:35 AM What the hell did people in Europe eat before 1500? :-)
8:15 AM @williammilisic Ahh, interesting. I don't think I've ever eaten a turnip, actually. Radishes, yes, but I can't remember having a turnip.
3:11 PM KT Tunstall - I Want You Back (Jackson 5 cover) http://t.co/q5aWV3dN (Love KT!)
8:12 PM I heard FourSquare is going to rename the company to better describe their service, but can't decide between FacebookSpam or TwitterSpam.
Sunday 9/18
6:34 AM Wow! http://t.co/6eEnP2Uq "A time-lapse taken from the front of the International Space Station as it orbits our planet at night."
5:04 PM Cooked bacon in the oven today, now the whole house smells like bacon. I'm okay with that, actually. :-)
5:15 PM See the trailer for "Real Steel" http://t.co/xxDNJlyf Robot boxing!? Sure, um, okay. I'll suspend my disbelief just a little extra.
Monday 9/19
12:07 AM I just put Ubuntu 11.10 Beta 1 on an old netbook (HP Mini) thinking usually their betas are pretty stable. Not this time. Oh my.
12:47 AM @joehewitt You seem focused on iOS and 1.0, but for v1.1, adding in detection for DOMMouseScroll would be pretty nice. :-)
12:52 AM Ubuntu is really annoying the hell out of me. Downloading Fedora 15, but I really don't want to go that way either. GRRRRR!!!
12:54 AM Is Ubuntu Driving Users Away? - Datamation http://t.co/p4UZ4263 Answer: Yes.
5:08 AM Admiral Grace Hopper on 60 Minutes in 1982 http://t.co/qxfHyshn
Tuesday 9/20
4:57 AM Kat Dennings is too young for me. This makes me very, very sad.
9:05 AM defaulticon: 600+ unified, minimal icons http://t.co/22jtR9d5
Wednesday 9/21
12:46 AM Glam acquires Ning, boasts that its now No. 2 in reach behind Facebook http://t.co/QquIFNay
1:21 AM I want a t-shirt that says "Hamster" in script. http://t.co/txZxbGJ8
1:28 AM Nokia patents granted on 20 September 2011 http://t.co/7hHD666z
6:22 AM I'm calling it! Today is "Peak Apple". Their stock price is heading down from here.
7:48 AM "...scrawled in pencil on the metal switch body were the words ‘magic' and ‘more magic'." http://t.co/F4075Mg4
2:07 PM The BBC launches a new touchscreen-inspired homepage - TNW UK http://t.co/PT1v94He
3:48 PM Amazon Help: Public Library Books for Kindle http://t.co/E8owpDsm The only thing I see on OverDrive is Adobe PDFs and huge waiting lists.
6:34 PM RT @MSFTResearch: Read why this reviewer loves TouchDevelop. He likes it so much he’s hoping Microsoft Research ports it to Windows 8. h ...
11:26 PM "Google rigs its results," say critics at Senate antitrust hearing http://t.co/zkSyjZeQ Wow... harsh.
11:42 PM I just had a fantastic idea. Everyone should go find a picture of their face, and USE IT AS THEIR FUCKING PROFILE PICTURE. Crazy, right?!
Thursday 9/22
3:29 AM The Rum Diary http://t.co/5EpJFX9o
5:08 AM A preview of Windows Live for Windows 8 http://t.co/qPHdpn5Z Maybe they'll actually add multiple file selection for move/deleting files?
6:23 AM Nokia N950 Beta2 OneClickFlashers http://t.co/YdQx46u8 Just updated my N950 with this latest firmware. Very nice. Lots of improvements.
7:23 AM RT @chinamanchang: Nokia officially installs new CTO, replacing former Meego advocate http://t.co/JymwlDMI via @thenextweb
4:54 PM HP's board has to win some award for incomptence and negligence.
6:17 PM I'd be more impressed with Timeline if it showed the *end* of your life as well. That'd be pretty useful to know.
6:28 PM Famous NASA Sound clips http://t.co/yirF0USt (Very cool!)
6:30 PM Highroller by The Crystal Method http://t.co/0wSK6OMp
7:49 PM It is always a shock when I pause AdBlock to do some testing, then forget to turn it back on. GAH! People browse the web like that?!?!
Friday 9/23
3:55 PM Katamari on the Rocks http://t.co/j27lC40z
Saturday 9/24
4:07 AM Watching TiVoed Big Bang Theory premier... It would've been so great if it was actually funny.
6:47 AM What separates Silicon Valley from the rest of the world? Friday night: http://t.co/DDimfoRa
8:52 PM @functionsource WTF is up with all the links from 2010?!? Some do an import of old links?
Sunday 9/25
4:23 AM It's funny... I have a completely different image in my mind of life in 1898 and 1902, yet they're only 4 years apart.
7:04 AM LightDM - Wikipedia http://t.co/xHOwf2HH Ubuntu switched from GDM to LightDM, which uses WebKit to draw the login box!? Interesting...
7:06 AM I just loaded Ubuntu 11.10 into a VM and it seems much more stable. But it's amazing how bad both Unity and Gnome Shell *suuuuuck*.
7:07 AM Ubuntu is doing just about everything it can to drive me away... Which is sad, as I really have been very happy for like 5 years.
7:24 AM Now that I think about it... Almost all the major desktop GUI developers have lost their fucking minds. Gnome 3, Unity, Lion, Win8... Gah!
8:13 AM Just tried XFCE... It's not as bad as I remember it. It's a hell of a lot saner than anything else lately, that's for sure.
Tuesday 9/27
2:54 AM The Elementals http://t.co/WlhdGBHo Cute.
Thursday 9/29
7:01 AM http://t.co/hEklGQEH Amazon Silk's into video is like a "First World Problems" parody, but real! Waiting 100ms! Oh noes!!
Friday 9/30
12:15 AM Holy crap, Amazon! My new Kindle arrived already. I almost forgot I even ordered it.
10:08 PM Mid-life crisis: I'm too broke for a Porsche, so I'm thinking an old MG midget, VW Bug convertible or Cabriolet will do. Thoughts?
10:10 PM MG's have more style (IMHO), but a convertible VW Bug has more personality. Cabrio's are boring, but are more available.
10:15 PM Hmmmm then there's a mid-90's BMW? That's pretty nice looking: 1995 BMW Convertible 325i http://t.co/aF0JnJcj
10:29 PM @BentleytheDog Heheh... Too true.
10:31 PM @NeilMilliken If I had an extra $10k handy, I'd probably just go put a down payment on a new one. :-)
10:35 PM The new Kindle (non-touch) is great! I love the size/weight/price. It'll be perfect for my munchkin to bring to school.
10:41 PM Apparently, I've added too many Kindle devices (phones, tablets, etc.), Hitchhiker's Guide (which I always load to test) is balking.
10:43 PM Douglas Adams rolls in his grave each time a license message pops up on H2G2. I'll just have to load up my un-DRMed copy.
October 2011
Sunday 10/2
5:42 AM I thought, "Hey! The Wonder Years is on NetFlix now, that'll be good to watch with the boy..." Yowza! It's way more mature than I remember.
6:09 AM New Boom Reshapes Oil World, Rocks North Dakota http://t.co/D4Cmzv2f Wah?! By 2017, we'll be producing more than Saudi Arabia and Russia!?!
Tuesday 10/4
1:31 AM Adobe acquired PhoneGap... Wow. That's fantastic. http://t.co/mw2KgN8i
1:38 AM Revenge of the Electric Car – See the trailer http://t.co/7Mh95HhB
4:36 AM Hey AT&T and MSFT, I can has Mango now, pleez? Kthxbai.
4:12 PM Mango update progressing, but Samsung owners have to wait - Computerworld http://t.co/FP5ZZ84t
10:08 PM Apple Stock Drops 5 Percent After The iPhone 5 Fails To Appear | TechCrunch http://t.co/shpvOxlB
10:20 PM Robin Williams, His Daughter, Giant Beard In New Zelda http://t.co/quO6EJLZ
10:38 PM Apple's 1987 Knowledge Navigator, Only One Month Late http://t.co/KwOSk3aK
10:50 PM Inside the Russian Short Wave Radio Enigma | Magazine http://t.co/HPSKcT7l http://t.co/GNYfwVFs
11:15 PM RT @waiseto: Nokia Developer News | SenchaCon 2011: save $300 thanks to Nokia sponsorship - Nokia Developer Blogs: http://t.co/ygRC5lfn
11:38 PM @joehewitt I just checked out nerve.js - I like how you answered the SQL/NoSQL question. "Database? Meh. I'll use a plain text file." :-)
Wednesday 10/5
3:17 AM Was Adobe's potential incompetence the final straw that drove Mark Pilgrim off the Interwebs? http://t.co/YqrZRn7p
3:29 AM Like a virtual Tom Sawyer, I'm sure @diveintomark is bemusedly watching his online funeral. Hi Mark, stop being petulant and take your meds.
3:38 AM Want iOS 5 right now? Anyone can install the Gold Master release - The Next Web http://t.co/AyNZCKSg
10:34 PM RT @wiredmag: [Gadgets] HP, Apple Buildings Locked Down in Cupertino Multiple Homicide Manhunt: Hewlett-Packard's Cupertino ca... http:/ ...
10:36 PM Los Altos is completely freaking the fuck out - my kid's school is on "lockdown". Not sure what they think is going to happen...
11:50 PM Wow.
Friday 10/7
1:43 AM 24 hours later, and I can finally go through my news reader without tearing up. Who knew I was such a sap?
5:24 PM @seattlemaf Gah! It took me a half hour to beat your score last night, only to have it crushed this morning! In my own game! ;-)
11:42 PM TouchDevelop v2.3 for Mango: Pin to start for scripts http://t.co/0nZ8S6V0 (Plus new APIs... ARRGH! Still no Mango for me!)
Saturday 10/8
4:56 AM @tomas_pascual Pretty much any mobile idea I ever had is in the App Store now. (I just thought of them in 2003 ;-) )
5:29 AM Pulled out my old Windows box, installed Zune, now upgrading my Samsung Focus to Mango via a crazy 'unplug while checking for update' hack.
5:52 AM RT @TouchDevelop: Today's featured script: MinuteMatch. Align three or more equal symbols horizontally or vertically by swapping... http ...
10:49 PM Beautiful California day. Great for soccer! http://t.co/9IrBYW9g
Sunday 10/9
1:30 AM Upgrade to iOS 5 Right Now - http://t.co/Re1tvZN4 Just upgraded... Hopefully neither of the files have viruses. :-)
3:43 AM Wow, checking out the Twitter iOS5 integration. It's pretty cool. http://t.co/ICUxcqMD
3:49 AM Holy cow. I've been paying ZERO attention to iOS 5. I had no idea of most of the changes. Mirroring? Split keyboard? Wow...
3:58 AM I need more GameCenter friends... Add me! My username is RussBe . :-)
8:25 PM @jukkaeklund That's exactly what I thought! :-) The switch-apps gesture is OK, but would have been better if it was activated like the N9.
8:37 PM The image accompanying this Wikipedia article is simply hysterical. http://t.co/MhNV3ImL
8:56 PM Plink by DinahMoe http://t.co/CkIfjmbp This is fantastic.
Monday 10/10
7:03 AM I need a new hobby. I was thinking maybe I'd give alcoholism a try.
8:40 AM Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll create another programming language." Now we all have a problem...
8:30 PM It's not that I hate C++, it's just that it hates me. I can't get this to work for the life of me... http://t.co/JuAHQkRS
9:35 PM Got it! I had to set the QDeclarativeContext* property before I set the QML file in the QDeclarativeView! Of course! What was I thinking??
10:07 PM Woops, nope. That only works in the Simulator. Ok, I'm officially in tears now.
Tuesday 10/11
2:45 AM Heh, I like the URL for this new browser... (I own Maven.io - it's the home of my feed reader) :-) http://t.co/S6rDZs8M
2:48 AM I'm back to using Safari on the iPad because my favorite browser - iCab - is having some iOS5 issues. The new tabs are nice. Speedy too.
4:18 AM Wow, tablets (specifically iPad, though I'm sure that will change) are kicking ass. http://t.co/SGxOBgKI
11:10 AM "...that Elizabeth Warren could be publicly kneecapped... is, ultimately, the story about who holds power in America" http://t.co/WSTfwvMe
Thursday 10/13
5:38 AM Downloading AppleTV's update now so I can play with mirroring. Can't wait to see how well it works (or doesn't)... http://t.co/qDs0gT5u
6:51 AM Playing with iOS Mirroring... It's seriously the coolest tech I've played with in a long while. http://t.co/kP9Akaro
6:54 AM A picture of my TV taken with my iPad, while I was using mirroring... It's infinite!! http://t.co/gy47MjrD
6:58 AM The free section of the App Store is filling up with "free" magazines. They really shouldn't be categorized that way, IMHO.
7:26 AM RT @flakenstein: My startup, Clipboard, has come out of stealth tonight. Read about it at Technology Review: http://t.co/IehznL4E.
7:35 AM Ooh, another Tech Talk. The last one was pretty good... http://t.co/6owbhYVi
7:54 AM Douglas Adams would be so proud. :-) http://t.co/gbzNSJdo
7:58 PM Ubuntu 11.10 was launched today with Unity and Gnome 3. Yay. I think I may celebrate by buying a MacBook and switching to OS X. :-(
Friday 10/14
1:46 AM Just processed a few hundred people who've added me on Google+... http://t.co/hCSw5hHy
7:00 AM This is pretty well done: http://t.co/QnLvnVzL If only they had spent that effort making Unity not suuuuuuuck.
9:07 AM Apparently Scoble added me to some list of techies and the lemmings are add http://t.co/74xCjolS
9:09 AM KEYNOTE: The Game Changer: Siri, a Virtual Personal Assistant on Vimeo http://t.co/PlojTr1S (from 2009)
10:53 AM New Blog Post - Siri, and the Conversational User Interface http://t.co/mOV34WBI
10:07 PM Ooooh. iOS 5 supports HTML content editing, so rich text editors work now. Very interesting! http://t.co/fV6GrU6J
10:10 PM Wow, what a pathetic reaction to my blog post last night. (Thanks to those linking to it.) No FB likes and like 3 retweets? Sad. #lostheyday
10:37 PM Oh! Duh! I've been doing CSS speech bubbles by adding an extra DIV. Using the :after selector is a much better way. http://t.co/AGyRmxYq
10:38 PM The new iOS browser is demonstrably better than before. And fixed styles work now! Fantastic. http://t.co/EQU1T8Hq
10:49 PM @TheSteve0 I don't need a huge reaction. I rarely post nowadays, so if I do, it's because I feel strongly, and it's nice to get feedback.
10:51 PM @rcadden I should know better than to post on a Friday. The link is now doomed to rot in Instapaper/ReadItLater/Starred graveyards. :-)
Saturday 10/15
12:17 AM @rcadden Err... Thanks! But I'm sure there's quite a few posts out of the 3300+ I've written that you can skip... :-)
1:17 AM "When a smartphone’s popularity is off the charts without being all over TV, it must really be something special." #N9 http://t.co/2ysz8S6O
5:41 AM Amazon’s Value Has Gone Up $4,470 Every Second For the Past 29 Days (wow.) http://t.co/TRYFVYYD
6:58 AM Guess who accidentally deleted his son's data on his iPad while upgrading it to iOS 5.0? Yep, that'd be me. #moron
7:00 AM He's got an incredibly long memory for things like this. It may be years before I'm entrusted with any high-technology tasks again.
7:21 AM I'm testing out voice command on windows phone and realizing you can do so much.
7:40 AM Wow, I had no idea about the new voice stuff in WP7. I just tested the message stuff, it's very cool! http://t.co/sJ1AK6eA
7:53 AM When you get a new text, WP7 can ask if you want it read aloud, then it asks if you want to dictate a reponse. We're in the future!!
9:10 PM This is why I love Jimmy Fallon. :-) http://t.co/WJQIen1b
Sunday 10/16
4:36 PM Así aterriza una 'start-up' española en California http://t.co/Mf5Mamxx
4:56 PM @janole @WirelessIRC has it's own Twitter account?! There's some vaguely wrong with that... :-)
5:51 PM The iPad browser refreshes tabs and then scrolls down to the previous position, which is annoying on "infinite scrolling" pages.
5:52 PM There doesn't seem to be any way to capture/stop the iPad auto scrolling. It doesn't fire any events. It just happens.
Monday 10/17
4:21 AM Just read Saturn's moon Titan has an atmosphere of mostly Nitrogen, and I thought, "so is Earth's, no?" (98% vs. 78%)
6:02 AM Watching "The Trip" but I'm missing context... Are there really a bunch of odd 5 star restaurants dotted all over rural U.K.?
6:03 AM How does an expensive haute cuisine restaurant in the middle of a small rural English village survive? I don't get it.
6:23 AM @jimh Sure, I can see tourism, but still... The whole thing seems so unsustainable (economically speaking). :-)
6:27 AM And apparently my short term memory is pretty bad... one would think I'd be able to repeat a dozen words I just typed verbatim. :-)
7:17 AM @ethauvin Ahh, that's it! I'm feeling more verbose since I posted the other day. Don't worry, I'm sure it'll fade. :-)
7:18 AM @jimh Heh. Their site doesn't work on the iPad, so all I see is a big picture of a bunch of shacks on the beach. Nothing else. :-)
Tuesday 10/18
1:25 AM Skylanders has suddenly entered my life. It actually looks pretty cool (and a nice change from Pokemon). http://t.co/qq1inLPa
4:39 AM Google has cut its tax bill by about $1B/yr using a pair of strategies called the "Double Irish" and "Dutch Sandwich." http://t.co/L5w0rQ7J
4:43 AM If you had asked me what "Double Irish" or "Dutch Sandwich" meant, I'd have guessed something completely different.
7:50 AM Wow, the Life of George Lego app looks very cool! Great idea. http://t.co/dFSV99kw
9:10 AM http://t.co/wLOoE2T7 Interesting... It's redirects to a Facebook page.
10:01 AM Is this thing on? :-) Love it. http://t.co/c1OLjebs
10:06 AM Wow. WOW. Holy wow. Wow. http://t.co/U2PapEsV
Wednesday 10/19
3:55 PM I LOVE Mary Meeker's ginormous annual Internet trends deck. It's a premo quality hit from the info pipe. http://t.co/dPFrqO1U
4:00 PM I chose not to choose life: I chose something else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who needs reasons when you've got Internet?
4:11 PM It *might* be a bubble when there's a web service that provides hosted "launching soon" signup pages. OMG. http://t.co/sFkqQCr8
7:01 PM Oh! Undefined == null ! Well duh, that cleans up some of my code. Great article. http://t.co/9WeiDEkG
Thursday 10/20
5:52 AM Life expectancy (in the U.S.) is roughly 936 months. I've already used 478 of them without much to show... Not good. http://t.co/TcCpbYyr
5:55 AM Steve Jobs only got to see ~680 months. It's like that song from Rent.
7:08 AM Trying out the example in this article about HTML5 multi-touch, I realized iOS 5 has killed pages using 4+ touches. http://t.co/BCNiEbZ2
7:09 PM To repeat: By adding a global 4+ touch gesture to iOS, Apple has broken multi-touch on HTML5 web pages (for > 3 points). Not good.
Friday 10/21
3:49 AM My 9yo is next to me typing up a Pokemon story on his iPad in response to his friend who emailed one he had written. So awesome.
3:31 PM There is no stop button on Windows Phone 7 music player, just pause. The last song displays until you reboot. Insane. http://t.co/Yyh4C72A
4:24 PM Super Mario 3D Land looks *awesome* and the trailer uses the original music! I think I may need to buy a 3DS after all. http://t.co/hnCfMKOA
5:53 PM The paint drip marks on the ICS statue reflect much of Android's user interface. No attention to detail. :-) http://t.co/OTLXfDRC
5:56 PM "The Nokia N9 is, without doubt, one of the most fascinating phones of the last few years" http://t.co/0K1U37Dt
6:50 PM Ahhh... To get root access on the Nokia N9, type 'devel-su' in the terminal, and the password is 'rootme'.
Saturday 10/22
3:49 AM Nice! Check out Nikolai and Peli Microsoft Researching demo TouchDevelop http://t.co/SKqX0hox
4:05 AM Ha! At 35:00 you can see a game I wrote (Save the Bubble) http://t.co/SKqX0hox Hehe.
4:17 AM Multiphase Flow http://t.co/mbl7OQOy
5:43 AM Ok, updated to Ubuntu 11.10 (because I'm a masochist). Gnome 3 is much better than Unity, especially with gnome-shell.css tweaked. :-)
Sunday 10/23
2:24 AM California spiders freakin' blow my mind. They are *so* big. This was on my front porch today. It was huge. http://t.co/tINmuocs
3:29 AM Dead simple background parallax scrolling in javascript. http://t.co/mVF9CWQK Ooh, very nice. Should have thought of it myself.
3:44 AM Web scraping: jsdom + jQuery in 5 lines with node.js http://t.co/2Nb02aDM Holy cow! I just tried it, and it's *fast* and super simple.
4:12 AM I've been piping my Twitter stream into Google Buzz since it started, and n http://t.co/cFKPqTjV
4:15 AM http://t.co/tndeumna A house across from me is up for sale. Only $1,495,000! I have zero idea how people afford those prices (I rent).
4:28 AM A $1.45MM loan with a 30yr fixed rate mortgage at 4.5% interest is $7,346.94 a month. Incredible.
4:36 AM RT @bridgeschool: Watch the live webcast of the 25th Annual Benefit Concert tonight at 4:30 Pacific/7:30 Eastern! http://t.co/Jv27twns o ...
5:49 AM Node.js is such a pain in the ass. All my time with it is spent trying to write straight-forward scripts in async spaghetti code.
9:39 AM New Blog Post - You don't need to use JQuery to scrape HTML pages with node.js and jsdom http://t.co/Yh2kGJWQ
7:40 PM Nice... The dude on the right of The Verge pic is rocking an AT&T Eo tablet. :-) http://t.co/iykNNOSG @verge
8:19 PM @bradn Just spent the last 15 minutes looking up Rossman, Klip, Eo, Go, etc. didn't see any connection except maybe WAP... So Why?
Monday 10/24
12:36 AM Watching the 60 Minutes interview with Jobs biographer (appropriately on my iPad). Not much I didn't know so far...
12:37 AM RT @Techmeme: The Full Walter Isaacson/Steve Jobs Interview From 60 Minutes (@jlgolson / MacRumors) http://t.co/oyjgquiP http://t.co/GMm ...
1:42 AM So all those services that Larry Page has cut since he became CEO? Steve Jobs' fault. I'll miss code search the most.
3:21 AM Jobs bio has arrived on the Kindle. Sitting down for a quick perusal... Where's the box of tissues? I'm already getting verklempt...
6:08 AM Nokia N9 Smartphone (Unlocked, Cyan, 16GB) at Expansys http://t.co/rbiGJOTi $754.99
6:20 AM Welcome to the new Conversations | Conversations by Nokia http://t.co/1oIegK5f
11:13 PM I have been reticent to trim my increasingly Mentat-sized eyebrows because of lessons learned as a child. Today, I conquered my fear!
11:15 PM I thought all of you - 1,624 random people on the internet - should know of this monumental day.
11:20 PM Not to self: Wait until after Nokia World to see if you still have a job, before buying the new MacBook and/or the N9 or 800.
11:35 PM When I was born, the world had 3.85B people, today it's 7B. Everyone must have decided I was on to something. Damn Hipsters.
11:37 PM @bradn Ahh, I totally missed that! (saw that SFGate article, actually, but didn't click to the next image in the galley!)
11:44 PM This touchscreen all-in-one desktop PC looks nice. Hmm. I wonder when the iMac will be touch enabled? http://t.co/E0iR9geG
Tuesday 10/25
12:03 AM Nokia World keynote will be streaming live. http://t.co/LescHIYV
9:02 AM What an absolutely fantastic idea! Great name and domain too! Brilliant!!! http://t.co/QbmG0QVS
9:06 AM Wow. Freakin' gorgeous HTML5 website too. These guys aren't messing around. So slick. http://t.co/FQuXXOjJ
9:31 AM Ahh, Wired's got the whole story on Nest. Ex-Apple guy and an AI expert... Interesting! http://t.co/1mJEjwd2
5:02 PM It is by will alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the juice of Sapho that thoughts acquire speed, the lips acquire stains...
6:12 PM Lumia? I guess it's a good thing when random employees don't know future product names (less leaks), but still...
10:36 PM Wow, I need to actually set up a brokerage account and buy some Amazon stock. Anyone selling today is an idiot.
Wednesday 10/26
8:05 AM This music is killing me... It's 1 a.m. here and Nokia World's stream is playing soothing Enya space music. I'm going tzzzzzzzzzzzzz...
8:54 PM I'm a little cranky today, so I've decided that I hate you all. Nothing personal.
10:12 PM I mentioned Steve Job's lack of license plate in 2005... For years I got nutty emails asking where exactly he lived. http://t.co/TSpdLtIh
10:34 PM This "Behind the Scenes" of making an iOS app is very cool - though it could use some subtitles (or less mumbling). http://t.co/238v5F1h
10:58 PM Wow! Codify is a code editor for the iPad using Lua. The demo vid looks amazing. http://t.co/FQQwpGDa
Thursday 10/27
4:21 AM Awesome, iCab has been updated for iOS 5. Still the best browser on the iPad bar-none. http://t.co/L9W677j7
11:23 AM Okee-dokee. Had to create a custom Facebook App and integrate Drupal with some obtuse PHP code, but I think pub updates are back.
11:54 AM "...the $35 Aakash Android tablet has the power to change the world." Very cool. http://t.co/1e58CtMQ http://t.co/aWsFjgx1
9:26 PM Dr. Seuss' The Lorax - See the trailer http://t.co/lCVETGxn
9:32 PM Wow, very well done video about OWS... http://t.co/LtmvUxK8
10:11 PM The Polyphonic Spree makes me wish I was a theater geek. I think I'm in love with the flute player. :-) http://t.co/SJ7jhRKb
11:12 PM I haven't bought music in a looong time. I forgot how small MP3s are compared to movies. Instant download. Remember when they felt huge?
Friday 10/28
12:27 AM Ok, I can live with Gnome 3. It's not as horrible as Unity and after some tweaking is usable and nice looking.
12:29 AM Going back and forth to the Mac (which I use for work) is actually easier as there's no task bar in Gnome 3, so window-switching is similar.
12:30 AM Honestly, after 15+ years of using a Windows 95-style interface, I prefer having a list of windows at the bottom of my screen. But oh well.
1:47 AM @rcadden No, in Gnome 3 there's no task bar at all. You have to use an Expose style switcher like the Mac.
7:11 AM Just watches the Project Runway finale. I love that show - reality with actual talent and work involved. And, you know... Heidi.
8:21 PM British royal sucession laws changed. Very modern, except for the part about the head of state not being democratically elected...
9:18 PM I had to Trick or Treat in the snow when I was a kid. Now I'm watching my son overheat at his school's Halloween walk. Love California.
Saturday 10/29
4:50 AM RT @technoweenie: watched my son's mind get blown while mapping a sprite's coordinates to CurrentTouch.x and CurrentTouch.y in Codify
4:50 AM I like Katherine Heigl. I wish she would make a good movie.
5:03 PM 10 a.m. munchkin soccer game - the other team seems a bit big. Ringers in the 9yo "for fun" league!?!
10:58 PM Ok, soccer game, lunch, and Spanish class is done. When I was a kid, Saturdays were 6 hours of cartoons and then kickball til dark.
Sunday 10/30
9:11 PM Doesn't get much more depressing than the end of this eulogy by Jobs' sister. I may never say "wow" again. http://t.co/bY6CzPhp
9:47 PM Uh-oh: My tweets are being tracked and re-published as a Los Altos resident on Patch. Will have to be mindful... :-) http://t.co/JNaYYAwE
Monday 10/31
7:52 PM 'Google launching a new service called GOMO to mobilize websites on demand.' Huh. Interesting idea... http://t.co/2UrcPoGI
November 2011
Tuesday 11/1
5:17 AM Today probably would've been a great day to launch a new feed reader like the one I've been tinkering with for 3 years now. Huh.
5:53 AM RT @ethauvin: The Google Reader facelift would be that bad if Google+ had... wait for it... RSS feeds.
6:56 AM Testing the Twitter status update thong in WP7...
7:53 AM Wow. There's a lot of Halloween candy left over. I mean, I planned it that way... But still.
4:21 PM Though I won't say no to a 'free' ChromeBook, in the era of tablets, getting a new netbook is like getting a new Atari 2600...
4:32 PM iPads in schools: 'The last generation with backpacks'? http://t.co/5UUMVNHv
5:23 PM I have to admit, marching on Goldman Sachs' headquarters on Wall Street I get. Occupy Oakland(!?!?), not so much.
5:25 PM RT @NewGameConf: New hashtag #ngc11
10:41 PM My head has been killing me all day. Since I woke up - nothing is working to get rid of it. The Halloween chocolate is trying to kill me.
Wednesday 11/2
12:49 AM Hmmm... I wonder how many hours I should deal with a blinding headache before I start to consider the possibility I'm having an embolism...
3:57 PM My brain, apparently, has declared a cease-fire in it's war on the rest of me. One can only hope it holds.
4:00 PM Using Windows 7 to do some debugging (friggin' IE7 and IE8). I'm astounded by how well the task bar works for switching windows.
4:31 PM Bubble Trouble HTML5 game... http://t.co/p5SvModW
9:06 PM Apple brought *criminal charges* against a Spanish startup for making an Android tablet!?! Come on. http://t.co/LzJEzRgn
9:21 PM My headache is back. WTF!? Longest headache ever. I have no idea why my brain is so angry at me.
Thursday 11/3
2:19 AM Am I the only person that doesn't have a hobby? There's literally nothing I do for the sake of enjoyment alone.
4:29 AM So, finally my headache is no more. Apparently it was my sinuses. After a day and a half, I tried an antihistamine and *poof* all gone. Duh.
4:33 AM RT @j_loughney: Fake Onion story causes real confusion for California town http://t.co/yAXMyHTh LOL!
5:12 AM Wow, Yahoo! LiveStand is about as bad as a tablet news app can get. Landscape only with random sources scattered around a confusing UI. Ugh.
5:25 AM Amazon launches Lending Library for Kindle owners with Amazon Prime (The key word being *owner*, not app users...) http://t.co/tgBBKsK1
9:28 AM Ooh, nice. http://t.co/4OcfzwK2
Friday 11/4
1:36 AM Eye doctor today... The munchkin looks so cute with his eyes dilated. Like a baby fawn on acid. Too bad I can't take a pic (no flash)! :-)
4:29 AM How to make your webpage do a 'barrel roll' in css3... http://t.co/KTIOl7Sk
4:53 AM Remember when Oakland used credit default swaps to bet against their own clients? Fucking Oakland.
4:56 AM Remember when Oakland recombined the riskiest tranches of collateralized debt obligations and gave them AAA ratings? Fucking Oakland.
5:01 AM Remember when Oakland started two wars and spent $1,250,000,000,000 during the past 10 years killing people? Fucking Oakland.
5:10 AM Oakland blocks President Obama's $60B infrastructure jobs bill! Fucking Oakland. http://t.co/jhanE2N2
5:13 AM Oakland called Elizabeth Warren a 'socialist whore'! Fucking Oakland. http://t.co/HihKHcke
5:30 AM I decided to re-work my custom news reader a bit, and now it's in pieces and I'm experiencing serious withdrawal symptoms. Gah!!
8:26 AM "Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token ; " That's got to be my favorite JavaScript error. Might as well change it to "No idea, good luck".
3:58 PM Wow, a couple whales pop up next to a surfer and kayakers in Santa Cruz. I would've screamed like a little girl. http://t.co/yNTDbfyf
4:07 PM http://t.co/t4RKkk5h - Interesting new service for divorced/separated parents with shared custody. http://t.co/UjB1rJWB
11:08 PM Scooter worked for Google!?! That's sorta disturbing... http://t.co/CrJNrXCP
11:17 PM The Sitter - http://t.co/cp6iPgHo They remade "Adventures in Babysitting" with Jonah Hill?!
Saturday 11/5
12:45 AM "I don't want to go to Mom's! She doesn't have Netflix!" "It's on your iPad, bonehead." "Oh yeah! Bye!" Ahh, the unfailing love of a son.
1:06 AM Holy frigin' Twitter spam. I'm never mentioning the i P a d again.
2:07 AM The end is neat for Ubuntu... I'm so glad I'm not the only one who feels like this. http://t.co/DGPfdPOy
3:16 AM Looks like Linux Mint 12 due in a few weeks is going to solve a lot of the Gnome 3 pain. Very cool... http://t.co/zbmGKY6A
Sunday 11/6
3:43 AM Watching "Margin Call" - so far it's really good. I don't know all the math/facts, etc., but the it feels "real".
5:04 AM A long history of maple syrup... I didn't realize it was so important! http://t.co/8dxLqR3T
7:01 PM Time, time, time. See what's become of me. As I look around, for my possibilities. I was so hard to please.
7:02 PM Look around. Leaves are brown. And the sky, is a hazy shade of winter...
7:07 PM Ooh... I want that convertible in Less Than Zero... I'll have to look it up. http://t.co/ftRJrnyT
7:09 PM @nfarina (You mentioned the i word. Prepare for Twitter Spam.) I hate that 'no mobile version' YouTube message (esp when I'm on my couch).
7:11 PM @maxniederhofer Wait... Is there a book for Less Than Zero!? ;-)
7:14 PM @maxniederhofer Wikipedia: "Ellis claimed that there was no connection between the book and the movie, except for the title..."
7:16 PM "@maxniederhofer: yes. ellis. good. also, here's the car: http://t.co/dqRghnCs" 1960 Corvette, nice.
7:20 PM @ilicco Still morning here, and actually, I've never heard the Simon and Garfunkle version of Hazy Shade of Winter (looking now) :-)
7:29 PM Actually, my fondness for Less Than Zero is 100% because Bret wakes up to a call in snowy NH, then flies to sunny CA. My dream at the time.
8:37 PM On one hand, the executive branch power in Russia is scary. On the other hand, abolishing Daylight Savings Time changes makes me jealous...
Monday 11/7
8:45 PM We demand a vapid, condescending, meaningless, politically safe response to this petition. http://t.co/fuptSU7j We would also like a cookie.
9:16 PM Ooh, nice domain name! Basically a version of http://t.co/CAI5frJD and a conversational UI. http://t.co/XJOVQnzI
11:07 PM Though I find it highly amusing my coworkers aren't sure which city they're in at the moment, I won't laugh lest someone put me on a plane.
11:15 PM Hint: If you're cold and wet, you're in London. If you're cold and it's dark: Helsinki. If you're cold and wondering why: San Francisco.
Tuesday 11/8
12:46 AM @tomiahonen What's Gartner predicting? Like 11%? I'll be optimistic (as I work for Nokia), let's say 21.6% by YE2012. :-)
9:14 PM Poking my Poken.
Wednesday 11/9
10:16 PM "Go buy a 3DS: Super Mario 3D Land is a platforming classic." Gah! Must... Resist... http://t.co/tveB7nCk
10:35 PM @derricks I know... I just think Nintendo games are too expensive nowadays, cartridges suck and 3D is bad for my son's already-bad eyes.
11:04 PM Wow... Very cool. I haven't even made an iOS app yet! http://t.co/ps8qHtSV
11:10 PM After working all night on an event in Helsinki and waking up late, decided to read my news in the sun. http://t.co/5itAqnBG
11:13 PM Another pic of the redwood in my front yard. http://t.co/qUsAndQV
11:15 PM Decided to sit in the sun to read my news after working all night.
11:17 PM It's that time of year again when I need to be careful, or I'll go days without ever seeing the sun. Then I get all suicidal and stuff...
11:40 PM Video from my noisy back yard... Nature is weird. http://t.co/XHQIHhHk
11:52 PM 'It's a glorious thing, hearing Eddie Murphy say "fuck" again.' http://t.co/z1VBvEGI
Thursday 11/10
2:38 AM Never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down, never gonna run around and desert you. Never gonna make you cry, never gonna say goodbye.
2:39 AM I just realized it's possible to Rick-roll people via text... :-)
2:52 AM McRibs as an arbitrage strategy... I may have to go get one tonight, just because. http://t.co/Z7zb4rRD
5:07 AM My cognitive ability has completely shut off. I'm watching something on TV and going to bed. Crazy, I know.
5:49 AM Buckyballs!!! http://t.co/BEuVI1De
Friday 11/11
12:08 AM Nabi Tablet from Toys 'R Us... Very interesting, though for $200 a Kindle Fire might be a better choice. http://t.co/IbdgiR0U
1:29 AM Soccer practice by moonlight! http://t.co/2pXryMTP
Saturday 11/12
5:41 PM Wow, huge update for TouchDevelop on WP7! Very cool, will have to go through and play. http://t.co/yJwTj3Iu
10:53 PM One of my son's soccer coaches works for Netflix, so we're all going down to see a movie in their little on-site theater. Fun!
Sunday 11/13
5:49 AM Jimmy Fallon Sings The “Reading Rainbow” Theme As Jim Morrison (Surreal...) http://t.co/8QG53g87
11:12 PM Genius and Easy DIY Organization: Bread Clips as Power Cord Labels - http://t.co/7aIRGm9z (OMG. Give that person a Nobel!!)
Monday 11/14
5:14 AM Knocked over the Windows lappy while vacuuming over in the corner. Now the hard drive is making loud click-clack noises and won't boot. Joy.
9:49 PM To me, the most innovative thing about "Google X" is that it's not called a "research center"... Coming soon: Nokia X! http://t.co/XuqjTy1H
Tuesday 11/15
12:13 AM Tanuki are real!! OK. I give up. A 3DS is imminent in my life... http://t.co/vfNklJOl
12:15 AM The legendary tanuki is reputed to be mischievous and jolly, a master of disguise and shapeshifting, but somewhat gullible and absentminded.
12:17 AM Oh, crap. I'm working at home and forgot to go outside. I'm not even going to see the sun today. Where'd I put that light therapy lamp...
Wednesday 11/16
12:10 AM Wow, Jaded tech-bloggers aside, pretty much anyone who gets a Kindle Fire is going to be pretty freakin' amazed. Especially for $200.
12:11 AM Did anyone else tear up the bottom part of the Kindle Fire packaging? "There must be something else in there..." It's comically huge.
12:55 AM Steve Jobs wanted iPhone on its own network, carrier-free http://t.co/jCCDSdD4 Ha! I knew it! (And blogged it back when).
Thursday 11/17
12:31 AM ThinkUp: Social Media Insights Platform http://t.co/w4v22ZTL This is fantastic! I just set it up on my server - super well done.
12:33 AM @thinkupapp Fantastic job! I'm running it now. Easy to set up, great instructions on getting APIs working, etc. Nicely done!
2:24 AM At some point I will have to learn how to prepare dinner in a way that doesn't quite resemble an act of vandalism.
2:59 AM On the plus side of being slightly chaotic in the kitchen? Daily smoke alarm tests!! W00t!
5:05 PM C implementation of the Readability algorithm (Interesting. Uses libxml2.) http://t.co/geFQR8a7
5:44 PM Pixar's Brave new trailer http://t.co/z318JHpN ... Ahhh, Kelly Macdonald. Women with Scottish accents make me get all wobbly kneed.
5:49 PM Though I have to admit, I'm not sure why she cares so much about her feet. I mean, if I had a chance to change my feet, would I? Not sure...
Friday 11/18
3:11 AM The youngster and I are now the proud owners of Nintendo 3DS and Super Mario 3DLand. We're obsessed. SO GREAT!!!!
4:43 AM My thumbs are falling off. When you can't play Mario for several hours straight without reaching for the Tylenol, you're getting old.
4:52 AM My kid's school emailed a 'mathletes' announcement with a link to http://t.co/jeabmzRK Wow. That's a *really* old (and unusable) site.
5:01 PM I love the Model 100 just sitting in the background of The Verge's Nook Tablet video review. :-) http://t.co/lNp0S1qp
Saturday 11/19
12:26 AM "Conservatives Control the Political E-mail Rumor Mill" (This explains much of the email from my Mom. Seriously.) http://t.co/bPVpKQQ2
3:02 AM If you happen to have severe acrophobia, you would do well to steer clear of Super Mario 3D Land. Some levels are truly frightening.
6:28 AM We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold.
9:59 PM RT @TouchDevelop: Ever wondered just how popular your scripts are? Watch out for the new "users" and "runs" numbers on each script... ht ...
Sunday 11/20
12:00 AM Munchkin dropped his iPad and cracked the screen. Off to my Genius Bar appointment to get it fixed... (then to buy a rubberized case).
3:36 AM I told the Genius Bar guy how my son and I use Facetime to chat when he's at his Mom's and he replaced the iPad for free! The big softy! :-D
3:39 AM I'm pretty sure I saw Matias Duarte sheepishly waiting his turn at the Genius Bar when I was there. Trust me, I know that feeling. :-)
3:55 AM I wonder how much industrial espionage there is at the Palo Alto Apple store? Think about the info on all those MacBooks brought in...
3:56 AM Then again, one has to wonder if Google has the entire 17.*.*.* subnet being monitored for interesting searches... :-D
Monday 11/21
3:43 AM Watching TV with my light therapy light strapped to a tripod. Works pretty well... http://t.co/hhAcolvM
3:58 AM Oooh, just switched over to the MLS final. LA Galaxy v. Houston Dynamo. Probably David Beckham's last game...
4:00 AM Goooooooooooooooooaaaaaallllll!!!! http://t.co/pNve6EQW
4:06 AM @jonprice Replay... *but* I was about to take a pic when it happened, but stopped to actually watch the goal first. :-)
5:04 AM The FBI have a criteria for evaluating terrorist suspects: Operational vs. Aspirational. That's a great way to judge most people. :-)
5:16 AM Weekend Update: Gov. Jon Huntsman: http://t.co/35Y1midq NH should not be the first primary. Spoken as someone who lived there 10 years.
7:01 AM In Search Of... http://t.co/WyNVR9ET
7:04 AM Always felt sorry for the 'agony of defeat' guy... http://t.co/O6CkTs77
7:09 AM Hardy Boys - Nancy Drew Mysteries opening... http://t.co/50h3LdMU
7:16 AM Wonder Woman! Lynda Carter was insanely gorgeous. I recently looked up what the deal was with that show - WWII -> 70s? http://t.co/jBdtxTL6
7:22 AM Six Million Dollar Man. (While I'm on this tangent...) http://t.co/BvmSULa2
11:41 PM BlackBerry PlayBook - $199 | The Verge http://t.co/8RF16MzL So slick... It's a shame RIM made such short-sighted choices about email, etc.
Tuesday 11/22
1:37 AM As much as I love tablets, I have to admit that since I started using one regularly my general productivity has diminished substantially.
1:42 AM Rather than being a click away from an editor or command line where I can do stuff, I'm usually lounging (like now)...
2:00 AM Wow, eBay bought http://t.co/t2naNC0I? Caterina obviously has the touch. Amazing... http://t.co/gu4Pc6Ys
5:42 AM I could have sworn that the Facebook <-> Twitter integration was the other way around. I'm going crazy, or they're changing features.
5:43 AM I should have switched from TweetPost a while ago - using the integrated service is instant now, (though not sure about links...)
5:47 AM And look at that, tweeting to a Facebook Page has been re-enabled. After I spent a week or so getting a custom FB app working. Gah!
6:14 AM AMD's Bulldozer server benchmarks are here, and they're a catastrophe. (Wow, looks like AMD screwed up badly...) http://t.co/nrgOOqqX
10:28 AM Breakout clone tutorial using Javascript and canvas... http://t.co/XIxmIkCk
11:03 AM Hey, if you happen to find some marbles, they are probably mine.
11:07 AM I didn't know that Google Reader could create "bundles" like this. Very interesting. http://t.co/K1WmH1Ga
Wednesday 11/23
5:25 AM "Yeah, I went on a real bender after that happened," was akin to casually mentioning you parachuted behind enemy lines. http://t.co/TkOn95uQ
5:30 AM Few phrases in the English language bespeak a mysterious dark side than: "I'm not allowed in there. And, quite frankly, I don't blame them."
6:16 AM Playing with the Chrome Book I got from the HTML5 game conference... Wow. I honestly love it. http://t.co/J1Gg9ick
6:17 AM What's not to love - I spend most of my time in the browser anyways, which is Chrome across platforms, and already use and love Linux.
6:18 AM It's too bad Google wasn't a bit more forward looking, as this could have been a great Tablet platform. Instead they have Android.
6:19 AM With Sergey cutting services and projects like a mad man, I bet ChromeBook won't be long for this world. Which is too bad, as it's *nice*!
6:20 AM The keyboard is nice, and I LOOOOVE the giant control key in the bottom left. FINALLY someone gets it! But where's the Windows key? ;-)
6:22 AM I'm about 4 months behind the curve on these thoughts of course... http://t.co/UZNTbPyR
6:56 AM I don't know what to think about the ChromeBook. I want to like it, but I can't decide if it's simple (good), or overly simplified (bad).
7:06 AM Nokia Lumia 800 Windows Phone Black (Unlocked, 16GB) at Expansys-USA http://t.co/Yqd3SejD - $790
11:09 PM Shopping's done, T-day weekend has begun! W00t!
Thursday 11/24
1:18 AM Just bought the next two books in The Warriors series for the munchkin. just noticed he's on #6 of 43 in the series!!! #moneymachine
3:05 AM Snow expected to impact travel plans | Conway Daily Sun http://t.co/VwYSqYja (Nice! My old newspaper just popped up on Google News! :-) )
4:52 AM The world needs a universally applicable "menu" or "options" icon. Something that says, "additional functionality listed here".
4:53 AM Microsoft could have used it instead of the "Start" button. Gears and tool icons only apply sometimes (Chrome's "wrench" menu, for example).
4:56 AM Think about the bottom of status updates - there's like, reply, email, retweet, etc. If you were to group them, what icon would work? None.
7:43 PM Turkey's in the oven. ETA: 2.5 hrs. More of a note for myself. Unless you're all coming over, then I should've gotten a bigger bird.
Friday 11/25
7:50 AM Skyrim. Very cool, but I have to say the most fantastic creature I've discovered so far is the horse. Apparently it's part mountain lion.
Saturday 11/26
1:14 AM Wired's article summing up US surveillance is eye-opening. (Stupid, stupid title - I almost skipped it) http://t.co/5BV916F0
1:26 AM I dismissed the ChromeBook until I got one, then I realized how nice/useful it is. But I still have reservations... http://t.co/RiWteQdq
1:31 AM There's just something exciting about the browser as the OS (the dream of Netscape) - to see it truly realized after all is amazing.
11:52 AM Holy cow. Curiosity is *huge*! It's not a rover, it's a Land Rover. I hope it survives... http://t.co/KP9tgczU
Sunday 11/27
1:39 AM Homemade Toll House cookies! I love holiday weekends... :-)
1:43 AM The boy wanted to see Skyrim so we played a bit, but it's really not appropriate. But then I dusted off Zelda: Twilight Princess. Success!
1:46 AM Twilight Princess came out when he was 4yo(!), so he had never really played it. Zelda's like Skyrim for everyone. :-)
2:08 AM All the books of Skyrim in eBook format! Nice! http://t.co/Qi6WsWxy
6:11 AM We saw The Muppets tonight... lots of fun, but definitely up and down in terms of pace. Not enough Henson-esque puns either. :-)
7:14 AM This is how Curiosity is going to land on Mars!? What happened to the bouncy air bags? This is nuts! http://t.co/y7VHXgdN
8:23 AM I am in need of a book to read. There's lots to choose from, I just can't seem to find any that resonate with my current state of mind.
9:29 AM Followed my last name on Wikipedia: Beattie -> diminutive of Bartholomew -> derived from the Aramaic for son of Ptolemy -> meaning warlike.
6:11 PM Pining for the fjords!?! http://t.co/QJFLSo5V
Monday 11/28
8:29 AM The Ultimate Productivity Blog http://t.co/ZtU2reWL
Tuesday 11/29
12:49 AM I'm having a bad winter already. Crap. And another month til the days start getting longer.
12:56 AM I want to drive an ice pick into my forehead and poke around until I feel better. Maybe a little trepanation could help. Where's my drill...
December 2011
Thursday 12/1
2:48 AM SkyDrive adds "powerful" file management functionality... Meaning you can actually manage multiple files. Finally!! http://t.co/37qWDxI8
4:34 AM Teaching my son to develop Lua on an iPad using #Codify. Once he heard that Angry Birds and PvZ were done partially in Lua, he was sold. :-)
4:37 AM When I first downloaded Angry Birds for the N900 years ago, all the Lua code was in clear text. Wish I saved it!! They changed it later.
5:43 AM Browsing OkCupid... apparently I'm a perfect match for every woman my age in San Francisco. I'm guessing the 'my age' part is the key bit.
8:14 AM ql.io from eBay using Node. (That domain was free back in January when I wrote about 2 letter .io domain names. :-) ) http://t.co/PVJeppyI
Friday 12/2
6:53 AM Who frigin' cares about Carrier IQ, Chinese electronic espionage is what we really should be worried about. http://t.co/YBuec3Nr
10:46 PM My alarm clock apparently got one thwack too many and simply died today. I woke up and it was blank. I almost feel bad for it. Almost.
11:36 PM This is an amusing hack Google is using to make a WP7 tile: http://t.co/ZVYdRjpW The image is an embedded SVG so it resizes. CLEVER!
11:59 PM New Blog Post - Creating a pinnable Windows Phone 7 tile for your website like Google http://t.co/K55KXJs3
Saturday 12/3
2:52 AM I love these videos from GameInformer where they play an old-school game and yack. And Yoshi rules!! http://t.co/2d4HYfI6
5:18 AM My 2003 Saturn Vue needs to go. I wanted to replace it with an American car, but I'm not excited. The KIA Sportage seems great.
5:21 AM Gnome 3 Shell Extensions. Very, very cool! I'm actually getting used to Gnome Shell and these will help a ton. http://t.co/meOjVxCl
5:28 AM The Strange Birth and Long Life of Unix http://t.co/gzDOFHxm
10:32 AM Just saw Cowboys and Aliens. Daniel Craig needs to work on a consistent American accent. He had at least 4 variations.
Sunday 12/4
12:23 AM I love finding cool Pokemon fan art like this and emailing them to my son when he's at his Mom's. He uses them as wallpaper. :-)
12:28 AM Khan Academy success in my school district. Very interesting... Alex has done this and it's very cool to use. http://t.co/C0crMcXA
1:15 AM I wonder when the hell Comedy Central will get around to supporting HTML5 video? You'd think they'd have it by now. http://t.co/BZDQpk3j
1:47 AM iMacs and Mac minis only have i5 CPUs? That's nuts. You can get a MacBook 13" with an i7 but not a desktop? So weird...
1:56 AM Ahh, you can add an i7 in the configuration for an extra $100 or so... still, it's strange they're not in the base models.
3:35 AM It's been 11 years since I've been back to NH... So long, I actually just looked at Google Maps to remember how to get home. :-)
11:40 PM Linus Torvalds thinks the same way as I do - the new Gnome 3 Extensions makes the whole desktop much more usable. http://t.co/Lii8FbAs
11:48 PM The Gnome guys could have saved *a lot* of hand wringing and worry if they had been clearer that extensions were coming.
Monday 12/5
1:51 AM To all the apparently jolly, happy people in my Twitter and Facebook streams: Bah-fucking-humbug. - Love, Russ
Tuesday 12/6
2:43 AM $5558 to fly First Class to Boston the week after Christmas. My definition of 'rich' is being able to afford that easily.
2:47 AM My 20, 25, 30 and 35 year-old selfs would be very disappointed to know I wouldn't be able to afford to fly First Class by 40...
2:48 AM Flying in First (or Business) is the simple dream I think many of us who are 6 feet or taller wish for. The money is secondary, really.
2:51 AM I've got photos sitting on Flickr, Picasa, SkyDrive, Facebook and various other random services. I need to just pick one.
5:10 AM Went to check the mail. Silence. I heard a freight train in the distance and a lone dog barking. If aliens landed it would've been perfect.
10:38 PM StumbleUpon's new logo: 'I like to urge designers to always ask themselves: “Does this logo look like a penis?”' http://t.co/fwrUl3ot
10:46 PM Don't Be A Free User http://t.co/Ychz6doR (Never depend on a free service - startup or Google - doesn't matter. They'll change or go away.)
11:42 PM Gosh, Google! 10 Billion Android downloads! And conveniently, it happened just a few weeks before Christmas! http://t.co/750Tdos8
Wednesday 12/7
1:20 AM Note to self: Please stop forgetting to buy a new alarm clock. The rest of the world does not operate on 'Russell Time'.
7:53 AM Latest XBox update is live... Very Metro. It's nice, but I could do without the "skidding to a halt" sound effect on every page change.
8:13 AM The new Kinect integration is really, really BAD. You can't use the Kinect like a mouse! what was MSFT thinking!?!
8:17 AM Actually the whole new XBox GUI is loaded with UX stupidity. And the voice integration seems to consist solely of saying 'bing' to search.
11:47 PM Holy crap, a bunch of my local Lucky supermarkets (where I shop) have had their self-checkout lane computers hacked! http://t.co/1nwwfiRG
Thursday 12/8
12:17 AM @ARJWright Oh, I disabled the tablet columns script a while ago, but the blog post about it is still up if you want the example. :-)
12:19 AM So, the XBox's new dashboard update has UI issues, but their new iPad app is quite pleasant. http://t.co/NHTmetXc
12:22 AM Microsoft obviously has groups of varying UX talent - I wonder which one is working on Windows 8?
12:24 AM @derricks MSFT just released an iOS client to coincide with the new Dashboard update. Along with a Windows Phone 7 version as well.
12:43 AM Oh, the WP7 client for XBox is actually a 'companion' which turns it into an intelligent remote control. Useless, but interesting.
12:52 AM XBox Live Gold subscribers at $50 a year shouldn't have to see ads on every dashboard screen, it's ridiculous.
12:56 AM @derricks Seems like lots of software driven by a marketing whiteboard checklist. No real need, will be forgotten by March.
3:13 AM OnLive Now Beaming Console Games From The Cloud To iOS/Android Devices (Nice! Can't wait to try it.) http://t.co/EoMPKyzY
4:22 AM Nintendo 3DS updated today and added the ability to take 3D video - which is saved as a standard 3D .avi file. Very cool! Playing now...
4:42 AM Even better? You can do 3D stop-motion animation! Very, very cool. Check it out: http://t.co/TG5OhAeP Really fun and easy to do. COOL!
4:56 AM Sometimes I sit and ponder how much better my life would be if I was as excited about finance and money as I am about new technology...
7:52 AM Metal nozzles strapped to your hands and feet, connected to a fire-hose? Seems like fun... until the water stops. http://t.co/V6C8ccIC
9:03 AM SilkJS - A light Javascript layer over OS calls using V8. This is what I was hoping NodeJS would be more like. http://t.co/xADrRedY
Friday 12/9
10:38 PM Tired of ads on your Xbox dashboard? Reddit shows you how to block them | VentureBeat http://t.co/jhlxeeni
Saturday 12/10
6:27 AM It's Daddy Week! It's amazing how having a little boy asleep in his room transforms a cold empty house into a warm cozy home.
7:39 AM RT @madeupstats: In 2011, it is estimated that QR codes were used by 8 people who do not work in marketing, technology or PR; a 50% rise ...
Sunday 12/11
12:21 AM Sitting waiting for a tire change while the boy is at his Spanish tutor. CNN on the waiting room TV - such total crap.
12:24 AM How does anyone watch CNN? This is probably the first time I've seen it in years. It's a stream of stupidity.
12:40 AM I went nuts last year and got a bunch of two letter .io domains. They all need to be renewed now, bleh.
12:43 AM If anyone wants qo.io, eo.io, or xe.io send me a message. :-)
12:46 AM @Dragonbonheur Maybe... Not sure they're that good. I'm keeping xs.io for sure, and rb.io as it makes a great personal short url.
1:01 AM @dalmaer I know... eo.io seemed great at first. Remember the AT&T Eo? But then there's Old MacDonald, and of course Captain Eo...
5:34 AM I have NO idea where my glasses are. It's been like three days... They must be under the bed or couch or desk or something.
5:48 AM @jamespearce Someone in dev relations actually coding!? I thought all you guys did was hand out free t-shirts and CDs filled with PDFs? ;-)
6:18 AM Aha! Found my glasses in the condom/vibrator drawer in my nightstand. No idea how they got there, as it contains neither of the above.
8:53 AM Vector math basics to animate a bouncing ball in JavaScript http://t.co/Dvu7xvOl
6:32 PM Fantastic article about women in startups. To me work flexibility is the key bit. http://t.co/ZI1xbEpi
10:06 PM I got a bunch of Android apps on sale for 10¢ - just looked at my bank account, each purchase was a separate transaction! Google is insane.
10:09 PM One of the 10¢ Android apps I got was Minecraft - it was so much fun I got the full price iPad app. We've been building stuff all day!
11:37 PM I've pretty much decided to switch from Linux to a Mac... Now I'm just in the waiting period while I gear up for price shock.
Monday 12/12
4:32 PM Beyblades on NPR this morning. These have been a key part of recent playdates in the Beattie household. :-) http://t.co/EVcwUeMg
4:39 PM Beyblade Lesson: Sliding Shoot http://t.co/uD0zyHnK
5:16 PM Inverted red plastic bucket? 40¢ "Beyblades 2010 Metal Fusion Beystadium Super Lightning Vortex Red"? $40 Heh. http://t.co/IWIfwbyK
6:44 PM Remember when we thought the universe had a Higg's field, made up of Higg's Bosons? Hahaha! Like luminiferous aether! Man we were so dumb.
6:46 PM The prior joke has been made completely stupid by the fact that the man's name was Higgs. Not Higg, thus no apostrophe. Doh!
Tuesday 12/13
8:18 AM "Somewhere, there is one key instruction, and everything else is just functions calling themselves..." http://t.co/FzjAPlIg
Wednesday 12/14
12:21 AM Just confirmed my trip details to NH the week after Christmas... Winter, here I come.
2:32 AM Louis C.K. live at the Beacon Theater: http://t.co/aToVnIKO I felt proud of myself for thinking about buying this, then I torrented it.
8:51 AM "The amazing iOS 5 API nobody talks about" - That would be Bluetooth 4.0 LE, developed at Nokia Research Center. :-) http://t.co/Jx0qU2FD
11:23 PM I don't think HP has done enough to destroy its brand value this year, it should definitely throw away its 70 year old logo as well.
Thursday 12/15
1:17 AM The Real Story Behind Apple's 'Think Different' Campaign - Forbes http://t.co/Uc5L5035
2:27 AM "... unlike Linux, Solaris, HP-UX, and many other UNIX variants, OS X does not use ELF binaries." http://t.co/Uh6UW3ui
4:24 AM I explained what thermal underwear was to my boy (or as my family affectionately calls them, 'long johns'). He didn't believe me.
7:04 PM Relentlessly badgering my brother via text to drop everything and go with us to NH after Christmas. He's stopped responding. :-)
7:10 PM I tried the family-all-together angle, the fresh-New-England-air angle, the nephew-is-only-9-once angle. Now resorting to outright bribery.
7:12 PM I'm not above extortion, but I can't think of anything to pin him on. And he's probably got more shit on me anyways...
7:32 PM @gnat 1) Wow, you fit that all into a tweet? 2) With nice formatting! 3) I don't get it...
8:47 PM New Blog Post - Minecraft PE Shows the True Power of Tablets http://t.co/19fFuoWS
Friday 12/16
10:09 AM Not one tech blog has bothered to call Google and get their statement on UMG's YouTube deal. Why bother, right? NYT will do it tomorrow.
Saturday 12/17
3:11 AM Christmas Vacation trailer: http://t.co/QSwRpHuf
3:15 AM Hmmm... Yeah, I'll have to wait a few years before watching Christmas Vacation with the 9yo. http://t.co/Bu9ZxOhA
4:05 AM Nikki Haley Gives Romney Her Valuable Endorsement http://t.co/aD0Ou0jY I don't like her politics, but we share the exact same birthday. :-(
4:11 AM Something about the fact that a person *exactly* my age is a state governor blows my mind. The future is now for me, and it blows my mind.
4:12 AM But I repeat myself...
4:27 AM XBox Live is a great reality check. Nothing like feeling you're pretty good at a game, and then see you're ranked (literally) #250,000...
6:10 AM Zinga went public today... and at least one more person in my Facebook contacts becomes a zillionaire. Starting to lose track...
9:25 PM Hmm, today's the 17th? I haven't done any Christmas shopping. I probably should think about maybe doing some.
10:56 PM The good news is that I didn't lose my job in the latest re-org. The bad news is that the stock price hit a 52-week low yesterday. Hmmm...
11:26 PM For some random reason I started growing a beard a week or so ago. It's really, really grey and itchy. Yet I haven't shaved. Weird.
Sunday 12/18
3:38 AM Watching Notch (the guy who created Minecraft) develop a game in real time: http://t.co/YMOXWY9B
3:39 AM I have no idea how Notch is dynamically compiling/running a Java app without restarting it. Maybe he's not and it just looks like it?
3:41 AM His keyboard is insanely mechanically click-clacky. That would drive me nuts.
6:47 AM 100 best, highest rates products on Amazon. Great idea! Hope he makes a killing in referral fees. :-) http://t.co/5mwOxJo0
8:25 AM @dalmaer Heh. I actually went into the live chat and asked what I was seeing - apparently Notch uses JRebel, which I didn't know existed.
9:48 PM Great article on the lack of dramatic pop-culture change in the last 20 years. I've noticed this myself... interesting. http://t.co/Sczxp7eX
10:19 PM Keene Sentinel editors were my advisors in college. Those small-town jackasses influence national politics? Scary. http://t.co/WqGhHkrV
10:52 PM Sadly, I am a brain crack addict. More now than ever before. I really need to kick the habit... http://t.co/VFPcd8a7
Monday 12/19
12:10 AM Node.js is at version 0.6.6! The last time I messed with it, 0.5 was newish and 0.4 was 'stable'...
1:48 AM Checking out Notch develop again... http://t.co/coPUZenK He's got like 15 minutes left in the 48 hour code sprint he's doing.
1:50 AM Still not seeing the new Twitter yet.
1:50 AM Still haven't done any Christmas shopping yet.
4:29 AM RT @Dragonbonheur: @RussB He's just awesome. I learnt quite a lot watching him during the past hour. The game is fantastic: https://t.co ...
4:43 AM RT @nickbilton: Remember when we used to find out about breaking news from the television?
10:27 AM Finally got a chance to see Fair Game. I didn't think it was possible for me to hate Republicans more but apparently the well goes deeper.
11:45 PM 10 Day forecast for Whitefield, NH. It's going to *rain* on Thursday?!? That's not very Christmasy... http://t.co/GVNVaLvQ
Tuesday 12/20
12:21 AM Ludum Dare » Ludum Dare 22 http://t.co/cnK1A7ML Minicraft - Notch - 48 Hour Compo Entry
2:13 AM Just gave a sizable chunk of cash to Amazon and mostly completed Christmas shopping. Need a trip to Target to round it out.
2:14 AM Amazon Prime just paid for itself and then some in last minute shipping.
2:16 AM I actually bought a few items via Topazon (http://t.co/ZwUILvG6). There were a few interesting yet inexpensive items that were great gifts.
7:37 AM Played Minicraft for an hour just now... figured out right after I died that the Pow Glove is to move items like the workbench and lantern.
7:38 AM I still have NO idea what the acorns, flowers, or cloth do in Minicraft, if anything. Also, no idea where the gold or gems are.
5:09 PM Notch Coding Minicraft http://t.co/Nd8bavey The moment he added the apple is here. He must have had a clear idea beforehand.
5:57 PM Just one more day until the days start getting longer again. It's always a question whether my sanity will hold out until then...
Wednesday 12/21
6:56 AM I hope you all appreciate me doing my part to stimulate the economy. I think I heard my debit card whimpering earlier.
7:01 AM Between flying home, preparing for cold weather (new winter stuff head to toe x 2), and presents, this holiday may set a record...
8:04 AM "BioWare Bets Big With The Old Republic" This seems like a bust to me. Star Wars is just annoying now. http://t.co/7ljbdeUy
8:29 AM TouchDevelop v2.5: new tutorial, artwork, forum, and more http://t.co/DxhWYkGP
8:48 PM Nothing says 'Christmas' like torture, satanism, rape, incest, death-by-fire, serial-murder, satanism and Nazis. Am I right?!?
Thursday 12/22
5:19 AM Watching a Kevin Costner baseball movie. It's the one where he loves the game and thinks a lot.
8:12 AM Hey, it won't be that bad in northern NH next week - http://t.co/GVNVaLvQ Highs in the 30s with a chance of light snow. I've seen worse.
8:14 AM RT @donpark: democracy I know is not lead by few million of elites but reluctantly followed over decades by a largely stupid mass of tha ...
8:14 AM RT @donpark: I think the Silicon Valley as a whole doesn't understand that we are a *minority* and the country as a whole doesn't think ...
11:00 AM RT @w3bd3vil: <iframe height='18082563'></iframe> causes a BSoD on win 7 x64 via Safari. Lol!
6:47 PM @mobage It just took me 20m to find my son's user name because you don't include it in your 'forgot password' email. Get your shit together.
8:12 PM I saw the movie 'Drive' last night. I can't say I enjoyed it, but I'm still thinking about it. The 80s music, style, etc.
8:35 PM @andreatrasatti The violence level went waaaaay over the top. It was a compelling movie before all the blood, it didn't need so much.
8:43 PM The movie Disclosure is under-rated: It had suspense and intrigue, yet no violence. Violence is just a lazy plot device.
9:05 PM Hmmm, I wonder if Amazon is ready for the deluge of Kindle Fire activations that'll happen on the 25th?
9:24 PM I've never grown a beard before, which means I've been shaving regularly for ~25 years. Can't think of anything else like that.
Friday 12/23
4:19 AM Greybeard... http://t.co/b5ZZ8j5z
10:19 AM Pixar creates a 'positive environment for dissent' so their films don't suck. (So what happened with Cars 2?) http://t.co/IqjPSAKI
10:42 AM Northeast Snow: Covering Brown Ground http://t.co/RMh64b71
12:01 PM I've been waiting for OnLive's new iOS client, and it just dawned to try the Android version. Just played Mini Ninjas via touch... SO COOL.
12:03 PM The problem with OnLive is that I don't actually use it, but I love it anyways! The incredible technical achievement is clouding my opinion.
10:43 PM @tomiahonen I was talking about the girl with the dragon tattoo - it just opened in the U.S. nationwide. Not my type of movie.
11:02 PM Just two more days! It's almost over except for the disappointment and credit card debt.
Saturday 12/24
12:46 AM Developers love Kindle Fire: "In many ways, the best thing about Fire is that you barely feel it's an Android device" http://t.co/5ppAvTB8
1:16 AM This is great, but of course CNN highlights the religious creches in the main pic. Pandering assholes. http://t.co/Ei8Ewafd
1:56 AM Scrooge. Starring Buddy Hackett, Jamie Farr, The Solid Gold Dancers and Mary Lou Retton as Tiny Tim ... Christmas Eve on IBC. Yule love it!
4:31 AM It's amazing to me how closely the plot of The Santa Clause parallels The Incarnations of Immortality. Seriously. :-)
6:57 PM RT @ktballs10: believe it or not pg&e, i enjoy having power on christmas eve.... #fixit #iwannawatchfootball
Sunday 12/25
5:22 AM Spoiler: Ralphie's Dad is the one who finally gives him the Red Ryder 200-shot Carbine Action Range Model Air Rifle.
7:54 AM Wow, iBooks just happened to jump back up to the top spot in the App Store on Christmas eve! How lucky for them, hey?
8:17 AM It's Christmas. I should go to bed, but I'm playing some Tower Defense game instead. I will pay for this early in the morning.
8:23 AM @talios California is definitely near the end. Oh, and hemispheres too... those are just plain odd.
8:26 AM RT @hakimel: Happy holidays y'all! I built a Christmas tree for you. http://t.co/Awq29QIn (webkit only)
8:52 AM I got Bucky Blocks for Christmas - they're fun, but definitely not as fascinating/flexible as Bucky Balls that I can see so far.
11:56 PM Today... http://t.co/CZIw1DU1
11:56 PM Tomorrow... http://t.co/AIk8iwIl
Monday 12/26
12:17 AM Let's get this laundry started? Right! Let's get this laundry started, quickly! Right?
12:55 AM Dear 17yo self: Relax! In the future, trips to NH will be such a novelty you'll almost forget you don't need electric adapters to go there.
12:55 AM Probably don't need these Euro notes either...
12:59 AM Or our passports... Wow, it's been a while since I flew domestically. You just show up, get on a plane and you're done?! Wow...
7:05 AM All packed. Except for the stuff I forgot of course...
Tuesday 12/27
2:06 AM So... cold. So... very... cold.
8:28 AM @RandomBits In the appropriately named White Mountains there is. There will be sledding in the morning. :-)
Wednesday 12/28
3:43 AM Wow, and now it's raining! There goes the snow... At least we had our one day of snow and sledding! :-) I'm glad we didn't wait!
3:12 PM Today is Wednesday? Good to know.
Thursday 12/29
3:26 AM Cleaning my Mom's laptop... I was pulling for them, but you know what? The world would truly be a better place without HP. #crapware
4:00 AM Girding myself mentally for the months of 'it was working before you touched it!' accusations to come.
6:54 AM Going through my boxes at my parents house. Apparently, I was completely fucking insane as a teenager.
8:03 PM Must grow bigger beard!!!! http://t.co/hyjCOnLo
Saturday 12/31
11:20 AM Stopping for gas on the way to the airport. Driving through weather that would make a grown Californian cry.
11:24 AM Slush, snow, ice, fog, flurries, freezing rain. Usually all at once. #GoinBackToCali
2:49 PM The plane is *packed*. The extra $75 per ticket I spent on "premium economy" was more than worth it. 5" extra FTW!
January 2012
Sunday 1/1
12:14 AM Home. Wow. Happy New Year. #zzzzzzzzzz
6:13 PM Hello 2012! Woke up late and am now lounging lazily. Damn, there's two resolutions gone already...
10:00 PM JavaScript port of Minicraft, works in iOS & Android browsers
http://t.co/VxrGs9h4 (Holy cow, that's pretty cool. Slow but cool!)
10:59 PM 25 Best Nintendo 3DS Games - Metacritic http://t.co/Zu0vm2u1
Monday 1/2
5:32 AM High Demand Leads to Nationwide ADHD Drug Shortages (Again!? Last summer too. The DEA needs to up the quota, seriously) http://t.co/xehddqs1
7:52 PM I just clicked on a link to the New York Post on my iPad, but was told I needed to use their 'app' to view it. Fuck everything about that.
9:42 PM Iowa video. Cute... but like NH it still should have a vastly smaller role in national politics. http://t.co/N6YDQMyX
9:45 PM Why doesn't Google do anything useful with YouTube's like/dislike numbers? Why must I see the same crappy suggested videos all the time?
9:47 PM Seems pretty basic - if a YouTube video's dislike count vastly outnumbers the like count, give me the option to filter it out.
11:11 PM Just ordered an In-N-Out double-double 'animal style' for the first time. Oh boy!
11:13 PM @andreatrasatti I've seen that too. I just hide those services now. Both the users and publishers will eventually get the message.
Tuesday 1/3
1:01 AM Work tomorrow. Finally bought a new alarm clock. Fry's is *packed*.
3:11 AM In my world, alarm clocks must be dedicated devices which 1) show the time 2) can wake the dead 3) withstand horrific physical violence.
3:38 AM Republicans are pure fucking evil. Not just the politicians, anyone who votes for a Republican as well. Pure. Fucking. Evil.
6:37 PM It's gettin' real in the Whole Foods parking lot...
Wednesday 1/4
1:07 AM Ambient LED 12-Watt (60W) LED A19 Light Bulb http://t.co/P6Scywqw - This bulb is very cool... But wow, $25 apiece?!?
5:52 AM Coworker got a new Mac today with Lion, so I decided to upgrade my MacBook... Wow, Apple hit the min/max/close buttons with an ugly stick.
6:29 AM Urban Dictionary: Rick Santorum http://t.co/blvsuoKt "semen mixed with fecal matter often left after continuous anal sex"
6:31 AM Imagine what sort of bigoted, intolerant, ignorant asshole you'd have to be to vote for any Republican, let alone Santorum? Amazing.
6:37 AM Rick Santorum's 12 Most Offensive Statements | ThinkProgress http://t.co/nn8H4UGN Actually there are many, many more than these 12...
7:45 AM Hallelujah!! Comedy Central finally supports HTML5 video!! (Took them long enough.) http://t.co/5LsCAZCu
9:02 AM RT @gknauss: You can tell Monopoly is an old game because there's a luxury tax and rich people can go to jail.
Thursday 1/5
12:15 AM How To Use Impress.Js http://t.co/4bodPumZ (NICE! All the various data attributes to use are spelled out here.)
2:30 AM Ooookay. That was amusing, but the beard's got to go. Say goodbye to Mr. Fuzzzy...
4:25 AM I keep on forgetting to sit down with my 9yo and teach him how to dial a phone, like 911, etc. I'm pretty positive he has no idea.
5:09 AM Dozed off while reading. Woke up with the music of 1776 playing in my head. "FOR GOD'S SAKE, JOHN, SIT DOWN!" Strange.
9:27 AM Before... http://t.co/qH9ppPhY
9:27 AM After... http://t.co/qvPgJyIX
Friday 1/6
12:46 AM Know your States http://t.co/x4O9Yx42
12:47 AM @the_sboss It was itching me like crazy, and it had a dark, drool-like stripe down one side of my mouth which I didn't like either. :-)
4:54 AM Another Yahoo! CEO talking about 'innovation'? Yahoo! has never had, and never will have a culture of innovation.
4:57 AM What Yahoo! needs is a ruthless CEO who'll destroy fiefdoms, cut bureaucracy and monetize their efficiency and scale. Is Larry Ellison busy?
5:36 AM @kentbrew Oh, man... no idea. I've always been in awe of the traffic Y! deals with. Does that need a lot of people? I assume so...
5:45 AM Yahoo!'s focus as a company should be about being 'useful'. Their mission should be that clear: To be the most useful website in the world.
11:16 AM Who is Newton? http://t.co/C4z2HYis
11:18 AM "... All rooms have every movie ever made, in any language, anytime, day or night." http://t.co/rT3lOxFb
10:16 PM Clip-on gamepad controller for iOS supporting iCade. Been wondering when something like this would arrive for *years*. http://t.co/5YhPHq6C
10:42 PM Russian blogger posts photos of an unguarded strategic military rocket motor factory near Moscow. Coolness. http://t.co/KrRX1pad
Saturday 1/7
6:21 AM 159 campaign promises kept by President Obama. Nice to see it all listed out. Even more still in progress. http://t.co/JXS2ibcf
Sunday 1/8
12:41 AM Getting a smog check to take care of my 'fixit ticket'. I need a new car.
7:13 AM My local library card + O'Reilly's Safari Books Online + my iPad == Happy Russ
7:57 AM There are still 'birthers' in NH. In Nov they flipped out because President Obama's name was allowed on the ballot. WTF http://t.co/xGYP2euN
8:03 AM Honestly, that video of the NH ballot board is scary. Those people are seriously mentally deranged, and threatening judges in public? W.T.F!
8:39 PM After reading this incredibly technical article, I've realized that much of science is just Yak Shaving... http://t.co/QHlCzqOe
8:48 PM Good to see we're getting our corporate house in order - a day before CES and not a single leaked image of the Nokia Lumia 900? Nice!
9:05 PM Apparently John Huntsman demonstrated knowledge of a topic and spoke Mandarin at a debate. He's definitely lost every Republican voter now.
Monday 1/9
5:25 AM I have a cold. Not unexpected given the holiday travels, etc., but still unpleasant.
6:13 AM Not only did I finally remember to look for something like this, I actually found it! :-) http://t.co/tsdMiTys
6:58 AM Get a Midlife. (Ugh). http://t.co/KyOCTqBC
8:17 AM Oof. Groklaw is going to town on Nokia. I'd be more empathetic, but NOK is generally fair, and Android is stolen tech. http://t.co/v31UWw9X
8:24 AM If you think Android device manufacturers are getting hammered now by Microsoft, just wait until after Oracle wins v. Google. Oof!
11:23 PM Remember when I said I was sick yesterday? Turns out I wasn't really sick. NOW I'm sick.
11:47 PM Nokia Lumia 900 LTE Windows Phone, exclusive for AT&T http://t.co/K8VRqE0J
11:59 PM OnLive launches cloud-based Windows desktop (video) - Very cool, available Jan 12th. Cisco does this, but not as nice. http://t.co/wlq5tQH3
Tuesday 1/10
12:03 AM It's great to see OnLive pushing their technology - this is exactly what I was excited about when I blogged a out them *last* January. :-)
12:03 AM RT @nokiadeveloper: The Nokia Lumia 900, running Windows Phone 7.5, is biggest & fastest yet - exclusive w/ @ATT > http://t.co/BBR8Jx ...
12:06 AM @Onlive Please make a Linux client for your Desktop Pro so I never have to install Windows again, and you'll have a customer for life. :-)
7:42 AM I'm sick, and thus in a bad mood, but I just tried Pinterest - it's the most crass service I've ever seen. Like a narcissist's scrapbook.
8:23 AM Video - Nokia CES press conference: Nokia Lumia 900 http://t.co/k9Ud0Mqa
9:17 PM Hmmm. Pseudoephedrine 12 hour release? Why did I buy this stuff? Release it all NOW dammit!
9:39 PM Divorce has the same adverse health effects as smoking 15 cigarettes a day. Joy. http://t.co/3wVU87gX
10:06 PM Larry Miller 5 Levels of Drinking http://t.co/9z6kGR3M
11:26 PM Fundamentals Of Small Arms Weapons (1945) - Part 1 http://t.co/OEjEaD41 I actually watched this whole video. #highoncoldmeds
Wednesday 1/11
2:09 AM Amazon's Kindle Store and Cloud Reader optimized for iPad use (Finally! That took *way* too long to happen.) http://t.co/B7ltNZrv
6:32 AM Ohhhh! This is why milk in Europe isn't refrigerated at the supermarket. I've wondered about this for a decade. http://t.co/49QqgWWL
7:47 AM @ethauvin I buy Silk soy milk for myself, and get the refrigerated version simply because it's there next to the regular milk for my son.
7:48 AM @ethauvin That's probably why the UHT milk is refrigerated as well... because that's where the rest of the milk is. :-)
7:50 AM @jimh Sorry Jim! It's hard keeping track of whether you Brits want to be considered European or not... :-)
1:30 PM Holy cow! Let me try again - while I was in Madrid, my local 'Caprabo' supermarket sold non-fresh milk in stacks. Now I know how. :-)
9:48 PM Almost thought I had the flu: Stuffy nose, coughing, lethargy, headache, muscle aches. Then I realized it's just a head cold + middle age.
10:27 PM Dear Twitter and Facebook (et al.): Google is not a public service, nor a monopoly. They can show whatever fucking results they want.
10:34 PM If you are unhappy with Google, use Bing or Yahoo! or Ask or DuckDuckGo, or Blekko. Also, AOL uses Google's index, but with no G+.
11:07 PM Hey, I'm feeling better... Two solid days in bed seems to have actually worked.
11:51 PM Hmm, got up, showered/dressed, started puttering around the house. Now I feel woozy. Wait, is this a Twitter faux pas? Tweeting while sick?
Thursday 1/12
12:39 AM I think I was able to resist my bi-annual urge to move to the Mac. Gnome 3 is growing on me, especially with https://t.co/meOjVxCl
3:26 PM @counternotions This reminds me that you're still an anonymous, ignorant asshole.
8:05 PM @Codecademy Just FYI: I tried to show my son your site on his Chromebook and the console wouldn't work. Seems like a missed opportunity!
8:39 PM @Codecademy Sure, I'll figure out how to get ChromeBooks to take screen shots and send them on.
Friday 1/13
6:58 AM It's surprising how much I'm reading articles from @TheAtlantic lately. http://t.co/3tInVjAg
8:21 AM Obama administration says Baltimore police violated 1st, 4th & 14th Amendments by deleting files on seized cell phone. http://t.co/V4cB9dOm
8:44 AM Just played with OnLive Desktop on my iPad - so cool! It's running a locked down version of Windows on the server, but shows the potential.
8:50 AM OnLive Desktop was incredibly clean, smooth and responsive - unlike any other remote desktop app I've tried, local or cloud based.
8:52 AM I used to use Windows Remote Desktop on my Nokia 770 back in the mid 2000s. It was a fantastic way to get all the power of a PC in my hand.
8:54 AM We could be on the verge of swinging back around to thin clients again...
10:13 AM Master List Of Well-Designed, American-Made Products http://t.co/8ZedXIOC
8:55 PM Awesome - an idiotic boycott of Girl Scout cookies (because they don't discriminate against LGBT) goes down in flames. http://t.co/NnLxpy6Z
9:02 PM Boy Scouts should be wiped from the planet. Their public discrimination is abhorrent. They're little better than the Nazi youth.
9:14 PM You'd be amazed at how many people on Facebook seem to confuse random Nokia research publication posts with technical support forums.
9:29 PM @ARJWright Boy Scouts actively discriminate against gays, and if that wasn't bad enough, also forbid atheists in any parental involvement.
9:33 PM @ARJWright I had to have a conversation wih my son, "Yeah, it does look fun, but they hate gay people and your Daddy. Sorry." Fuck them.
9:57 PM I bet the OnLive update for iPad is so late because Apple won't allow their online store. Next, Amazon being inaccessible from Safari.
10:05 PM @ARJWright No one 'represented themselves' like that - this is their national policy. http://t.co/lMwkCE6v
10:53 PM @tomiahonen It's sad that the BSofA is the exception. Happily the Girl Scouts appear to be better representatives of the U.S.
Saturday 1/14
12:12 AM Yep, I think I've just about read everything there is to read about CES 2012. If I didn't read it, it probably didn't matter.
2:08 AM I wonder why I've yet to see the new Twitter UI... it's been a month or so, no? I almost forgot it even existed...
6:30 AM 'Tinker Tailer Solder Spy'... I think a better title would have been 'What the HELL is going on!?'
11:37 PM As a first-gen techie with an uncommon/longish name, I rarely have issues getting my username. But man, my kid and his generation is hosed.
11:40 PM I have to assume every single person named Russell Beattie on the planet hates me. 'This frigin' guy again!?!'
11:44 PM I forgot how much I've cut down on domain names - not counting my .io fetish - I'm down to just 12.
Sunday 1/15
1:03 AM Lumiappaday #58: Wordament demoed on the Nokia Lumia 800: http://t.co/7MKAgpaa This is fantastic! You compete *live* against other players.
2:27 AM Fox News Lies Keep Them Out of Canada http://t.co/XI43Wv6Y (Canada's Radio Act says a licenser may not broadcast false or misleading news.)
2:29 AM That was from a year ago, I wonder how much headway they've made in establishing a FalseNews in Canada since then.
3:07 AM Samsung Merging Its Bada OS With Intel-Backed Tizen Project - Forbes http://t.co/FUOZloo0 Oh my. They should call it "Bad Zen"...
6:14 AM @DJA1LIVE The @ is used for actual Twitter user names. I'm @RussB (not the guy in your photo). Same for @Vault, @Powerhouse, @Red, etc. .
8:37 AM "If you wake up at a different time, in a different place, could you wake up as a different person?" http://t.co/SNmLUL3g
11:39 PM @derricks It's so *hard* to describe the difference between FaceTime and anything else. But the simplicity/quality is significant, no?
11:42 PM Listening to Public Radio streaming from Minnesota to get away from Prairie Home Companion, played endlessly on KQED.
11:47 PM Minnesota Public Radio's local promos use background music from mid-90s gangster rap: "Regulate", "California Love", etc... Hysterical!
11:55 PM Colbert Super PAC Ad - http://t.co/pQHU0IJn I'm not Colbert's biggest fan (even fake Republicans piss me off) but this *awesome*.