@steveburnett You should forward this to @levarburton.
The normal April fools BS is bad enough, plus the iPad unboxing hoopla - I think I’ll spend Thursday offline!
Blog post by me: “Photo utility — renrot” - http://blog.alanporter.c…
@wilw …and because it’s almost lunchtime!
(via @mashable) Facebook Bug Exposes Users’ Hidden E-mail Addresses - http://bit.ly/dui1In <- why I always use ‘disposable’ aliases
My office is celebrating Document Freedom Day (http://documentfreedom.o…) by migrating to MS SharePoint #fail
AT&T’s dropped calls - it’s a FEATURE! Well, depending on who just called you, it can be. #recruiters
Rajesh Setty on “9 Reasons Why Many Smart People Go Nowhere” (lifebeyondcode.com) - http://bit.ly/93eI0J (via @fmedlin)
Apparently, using a soda can to shim open a combo lock is a lot harder than it looks. Doing my homework from #CarolinaCon.
@mikbre I found one (Cars comic book) at B&N in Cary.
@mikbre Would you believe that my evil twin, @alanjporter, is a comic book author, writes a “Cars” series?
@levarburton It’s OK… we’re your closest 1.6M friends… we won’t tell anybody else.
@mikbre I wonder if that’s my UPS pilot friend… he does the Asia-to-Anchorage leg a lot, usually loaded down with laptops + gadgets.
@jkhorvath And it looks “mah-velous”!
@BostonMerlin That case-mate sleeve looks like a plain manilla envelope! Maybe you should just keep it in a plain FedEx envelope! #free
@mikbre It means the UPS workers opened your box and are playing with your new iPad.
Current publicity stunts for Google fiber are lame - I would rather see towns show what they would DO with fiber, not naming kids “Sergey”.
I leave my old “Linux Journal” mags in the office for others to read & learn. Someone else is leaving “allure” mags. Hint? Aimed at me?
@danlondon Firefox 3.5.8 on Linux + NoScript + AdBlock+ http://alanporter.com/tm…
@danlondon Funny, I had just bookmarked your old site as an example of ‘awesome’. New site renders weird for me, DoaS pic overlays headline.
We have clearance, Clarence. \ Roger, Roger. What’s our vector, Victor?
My kids are getting a proper education… we’re watching “Airplane!”
“How How” did the geocaching go? OK, I guess. 5 little minds engaged, dads got lots of exercise, only 1 GPS was destroyed.
Getting ready to take ten little indians into the woods to find hidden treasures. #princesses #geocaching
Mowing season begins. That stuff in my yard does not even resemble grass.
@alanjporter Maybe they just did not want you to call them. :-P
The recursion! It burns!!! - http://www.schneier.com/…
A lemon tree, Watson!
My 7yo just admitted to me that she has a “crush list” (she also calls it a “♥ list”). Sorry, Matthew, you’re not on it any more.
@anjibee The real jerk is the bank, who gladly gives your money to anyone that can write down your 16-digit number (waiters ,etc).
Grrr, upgraded Chrome browser, now it refuses to load TiddlyWiki files. Back to Firefox!
Overheard at work: (1) “if you teach someone how to fish…” (2) “then I won’t get to go fishin’ any more!”
Leftovers, throw away (so much waste) or save (so much waist)?
ArapahoeNation Looking for a great Spring Outing side trip? Aurora Fossil Museum!!! http://ow.ly/1gptt
Shoot, someone locked the door to my favorite lunch-time hiding place.
@pwbrewer The Brian Cox #CarPool is definitely one of the better ones. He also gave a great TED talk in 2008.
lhutton Where was all this outrage when the Patriot Act was signed?
Dear neighborhood hawks, if you choose to eat your lunch on top of my minivan, please clean up after your meal. Thanks.
jbroome Princeton researchers find that high-fructose corn syrup prompts considerably more weight gain http://bit.ly/aW8aaX #hfcs #pepsithrowback
@bobbyllew US viewer, lived in UK & Singapore, but still, your front-view shots on narrow roads make me feel like we’ll crash head-on!
Downloaded the new Ubuntu 10.04 (beta1). Bootup screen blinks, but never loads. (sad trombone)
My account of “CarolinaCon - Day 3” (Sunday) - http://blog.alanporter.c… - #CarolinaCon
Google: “A new approach to China: an update” http://googleblog.blogsp… (via @Techmeme)
OK, what rocket scientist decided that we should remove all whitespace from our javascript code? I assume, to save bandwidth.
I, for one, am tired of hearing phone companies advertise “3G” and “4G”. Saying “UMTS” and “LTE” tells us more.
@mikbre “Nothing of substance can or is being relayed in 1 min.” - Like Twitter, right?
My account of “CarolinaCon - Day 2” (Saturday) - http://blog.alanporter.c… - #CarolinaCon
#CarolinaCon marathon - I’m gonna need a week just to digest all of this stuff!
Hacker Trivia at #CarolinaCon !!
Speaker at #CarolinaCon wore his wireless mic into the bathroom!
First day of Spring in Raleigh - ideal weather - clear blue sky, 74°F / 23°C, beautiful.
My account of “CarolinaCon - Day 1” - http://blog.alanporter.c… - #CarolinaCon
CarolinaCon Deviant’s talk on handcuff keys was great #carolinacon
#CarolinaCon starts tonight. Not sure what I should do to prepare… re-gen my SSH keys? re-encrypt my thumb drive? visit a liquor store?
@mikbre concensus seems to be hawks, not cats
@frijole ya know, I wrote a glowing review of @iGovernmentapp, and it never showed up in itunes… #censored ?
Gross! Yesterday, I found a bunch of feathers in my yard. This morning, a bigger one. And then, a HUGE pile on top of our van! Cats?
Q: When do parents find out that it’s “picture day” at school? A: Five minutes before the bus arrives.
Funny how other store “pull” an item that they no longer want to sell, while Apple “bans” them (according to recent news).
@carolinajobs Last time I looked, Atlanta & Memphis were not in “Carolina”. Dontcha think we’d follow @Georgia_Jobs_US if we wanted to move?
So, are @Triangle_Jobs and @TriangleNetwork one and the same? Or are they just joined at the hip? #TheresAnEchoInHere
wilw When I email with someone my son’s age, and they use “ha ha” or “lol” as punctuation, I feel like I’m an old man. And from another planet.
Blimp flying over Raleigh!
I am not sure why I bother trying to print stuff out at work. This time, it printed in reverse order, 2 pages per sheet, and skipped p5-25.
@mashable Remember, FILE SHARING is legal in the US, too. Sharing of copyrighted works is not.
@bobbyllew Make sure you post a twitpic of you, walking and thinking. We want to walk and think vicariously through you.
@adorasv #adorasvitak is now an expert at #hashtags
@mikbre Jerky scrolling, like the iphone’s ‘podcast’ menu? I noticed mine got jerky after a recent update (3.1.2 or 3.1.3).
RT @Voodoologic: “http:code.google.com/p/grimwepa/ cracking into your network just got more user friendly” @LinuxBlog: “Cool name GrimWepa”
@pwbrewer You need to contact the vendr.tv folks and get an interview about Taco Loco while they’re in town!
Lock pick set: 1, file cabinet: 0.
My “playlight” saving plan: “spring fwd” every weekday at 10am, “fall back” at 10pm, keep same office hours -> extra hour of play!
What a long day. Spent a lot of it petting snakes at the NC Museum of Natural Sciences. Also found time for kung fu, BBQ & magnet schools.
Savoring that brief stillness of Saturday morning, when it still feels like I have the whole day ahead of me, before it slips away.
@TUAW: “as many as 50,000 #iPads pre-ordered in first two hours” / @BillEllsworth: “I want one and I don’t even want one.”
Heading off to the @trilug (Triangle Linux Users Group) meeting. Topic is “web security 101”. Place is Red Hat HQ at NC State. Time is 7pm.
BostonMerlin Submitting the wrong version of my app could have been avoided if 1)they let you test the dist bundle and 2)i knew what i was doing! :)
People think I keep a personal wiki because I am organized. No, it’s because I am so scatterbrained, I’d never find anything otherwise!
@LinuxBlog Groups that have elaborate coding standards usually have no design standards at all, nitpicking tabs while the boat sinks.
Soggy morning, all the kids at the bus stop are picking up worms from the middle of the street.
New blog post from me: “Snakes of a Feather”, Sydney writes a Python program - http://blog.alanporter.c…
Linux on my laptop at home, NX into Linux PC at work, Virtualbox running WinXP, VMware console into VM cluster. Somebody pull me out!
Phatdippin’ - endorsed by Barack Obama *and* Tay Zonday! - http://rhettandlink.com/… - #NewToMe
Wardrobe malfunction - just noticed my jeans have a big hole in a place that’s not supposed to be hole-y. Good thing I’m WFH today!
Enjoyed a real “daddy to the rescue” moment. 8yo was hat-less on “crazy hat day”.
If you finished the 3000+ word blog post about Malaysia and want more, see the pictures - http://gallery.alanporte…
A long-overdue account of our trip to Malaysia in October - http://blog.alanporter.c…
Sheamus All Your Apps Are Belong to Apple: The iPhone Developer Program License Agreement. http://bit.ly/aezTE5
Wow, did I just write a 3000-word blog post? Better not push the “publish” button just yet. I’ll sleep on it.
My 7yo takes a math quiz. Question: “Ten less than 38”. Her answer: “true”.
@steveburnett Same applies to freelance software developers.
@cshirky I believe that is called a “fax machine”.
Spent the entire day doing two things I am not good at - taxes and cooking.
@RobertFischer Don’t be jealous… the hawks were planning to eat road kill. If you’re that bad off, I’ll buy you a sandwich at Subway.
It always amazes me when a bank’s main login page has a super-long URL. It should just be “https://bank.com/login”, with the S! Bookmark it!
Spent all day at the “Odyssey of the Mind” competition - now stuck in traffic, waiting to get out.
The dog has learned how to game the system, playing both adults against each other to get fed twice.
@coollike I leave a note for the delivery man, $5 bill taped to the note. Last pkg was left at my house with stamp saying “sig on file”.
20 years ago, DOS users upgraded to Windows. Today, Windows users are spreading DoS all over the internet.
Sheamus History and development of the iPhone - 2008-2014. http://bit.ly/aRScRw (via @nrgins)
@cshirky Expose yourself to something different and beautiful: Stef Suen (å«ç‡•å§¿) “Tonight I Feel Close To You” (2003)
@dsearls A friend from Raleigh moved to Boston, and is looking for a good Linux Users Group. Do you have a recommendation?
Slacks, meet coffee.
It was nice to see so many enthusiastic drivers in such a hurry to get to work this morning. Your work must be AWESOME!
Hated to miss #IgniteRaleigh, but really enjoyed seeing the skits performed by the “Odyssey of the Mind” teams at Salem Elementary.
It’s just sad to think how many times I’ve had to ‘grep’ the whole darned disk of a server to track down what’s going on.
@IgniteRaleigh I can not make it tonight, but I gave my ticket to a friend. I am so jealous of him.
@2600 Gosh, I guess I need to get crackin’ on the Fall and Winter issues that are still in the “to read” pile!
How long will it take for @YPwhirlwind to wind down after our Indian Princess tribe meeting? - Hint: her name IS “Whirlwind”
Thank you, vmware, for assigning me a new IP address when I “re-deployed” that virtual machine I was working on.
Thank you, vmware, for “un-deploying” that virtual machine that I was working on.
Web mail at $WORK, browser says “The server’s security certificate is revoked!” - I can understand “expired” or “invalid”, but “revoked”?
Cutting the dog’s hair - 10yrs ago: “SIT! Good girl! cut cut cut cut cut” - vs now: “SIT! cut SIT! cut SIT! cut SIT! cut SIT! cut”
@adorasv Me too… working from home today, throat hurts. BTW, looking fwd to showing your TED talk to my kids. #bigfan
@doctorow Great review of PI, yet another reason to read the book. (Wondering about “affect” vs “effect” in 3rd ¶ - I could go either way).
@BostonMerlin One man’s CRAP is another man’s Tipster. :-)
Yuck, instead of zooming in, the embedded “bing” map on http://igniteshow.com/ev… keeps taking me to the main bing.com maps page. #fail
@nerdist Stop paying the Intuit tax. Gnucash is FREE, open source, cross-platform - http://wiki.gnucash.org/…
The “better alternative” to Win7 - http://www.ubuntu.com/pr… - 100% free, OK to copy/share, stable, secure.
Details on the Windows Genuine Advantage update (KB971033) that phones home every 90 days - http://lauren.vortex.com…
Hey @IgniteRaleigh, let’s just pretend that I could not make Wed night. Will there be a video I could watch later?
Who owns your PC? Windows Genuine Advantage (KB971033) phones home every 90 days. There are better alternatives - my PC runs 100% free s/w.
Working from home for the first time since November, had to reinstall some essential WFH software (qtnx).