I mis-quoted. “…all we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about” - Charles Kingsley, not Einstein.
wilw Now *THAT’S* a fire: http://bit.ly/9slZGH
@doctorow Geez, might as well get out of the car and WALK to Boston.
@BostonMerlin Do YOU qualify for an enterprise account?
@BostonMerlin In my case, I talked the client into doing a web app instead.
@BostonMerlin I had the same problem recently. That’s what “enterprise” accounts are for. No app store, < 500 devices.
Choose your teacher — team lead’s code to too tricky to follow, newbies’ code is to shallow be worthwhile. Must… find… balance…
Everybody keeps saying that Flash is dead, HTML5 has <video> tag. What about interactive Flash-based games?
Music video for “TiK ToK” by Ke$ha, if played without the sound, could easily be mistaken for Madonna in 1985.
@SecretHQTweets That $5 and 1 cube would be a good investment in visualization.
@frijole What kind of connection are you looking for? I know Scott Saxon, the owner/founder. But I am not a member.
@SecretHQTweets The corner pieces have a knob on the end. The edge pieces are T shaped, holding the knobs in.
@danlondon Welcome to Web 3.0, where we lose control of the inter-connects!
RT @jbroome It’s ALIVE! http://releases.ubuntu.c…
@jbroome patience, grasshopper
Dear Mr Jobs, I know you don’t like Flash. But my kids do love Club Penguin, and I’d love to buy them an iPod Touch to play it on.
RT @nivex Happy Ubuntu release day everybody!
@bobbyllew If you’re interested in “How Stuff Works” in the US, I know the founder, Marshall Brain… very interesting guy.
@danariely … and deeper in debt (with respect to Tennessee Ernie Ford)
Uh oh… it’s that time of the month again… time to reboot my PC.
In honor of the my kids’ favorite new fashion trend, silly bandz, I changed my iPhone wallpaper to “Mr T”. Connection = extreme wrist wear.
darrengeraghty I was kind of hoping Facebook would buy out Palm, and rebrand the company Facepalm…
brownpau Lately I feel like my ability to focus has really
Blog post from @coxn - how to prepare for the Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid release - http://bit.ly/cp3rO8
I just don’t get the “webinar” thing. If I have to tune in at a specific time, is it interactive? Are these archived? Why not a podcast?
Wondering if any #spacetweeps ended up with extra KSC #STS132 tickets. My friend got 2 adult tix, but could not get tix for his 3 kids.
@wilw …and it rocked!
@bobbyllew If you’d like to experience the opposite effect, I can get you a visitor’s pass to my office.
@nasatweetup I’m sure your waiting list is plenty long enough, but I’d be happy to fill any vacancy that happens to pop up. #LateToTheParty
Somewhere along the line, I have gained a deep distrust for anyone who sells tires. (But it’s time… they’re bald).
Gray Powell has accomplished what few of us could ever do - he was caricatured by Wally - http://bit.ly/c8LR52
I just scored Kennedy Space Center tickets for the 5/14 STS-132 launch!
dsearls Help fight against a new law in North Carolina that would prevent municipalities from offering broadband. http://bit.ly/afm9Jr
@jbroome That photo is definitely a keeper.
@Sheamus I use ‘rss2email’ on a Linux server… reads RSS feeds and sends them to me in email.
RT @makerfaireNC “I haven’t seen a single kid here today that didn’t have eyes as big as saucers!” - That describes my 2 kids, and me too!
Maker Faire is stimulus overload! #MakerFaireNC
@bobbyllew but the kicker… did she HELP you weed the garden?
Dear banks, please name your online bank statements “2010-04-24.pdf”, and not “statement.aspx”. Would help a bunch, thanks.
@bedpost I envision an iPhone app in your future.
Wondering why my alarm clock did not go off… and then realizing that it’s Saturday!
Finally made it through all of the lecture videos from the Stanford iPhone programming course! #CS193P
Listening to @chillcast # 211, “Secret Society” by Paul Loraine, sounds like I have been eaten & am being digested!
My dislike of clearcase has just today been upgraded to “loathing”.
@AlStrowger Tweeting when you’re bored make Al seem like a dull boy.
@alanjporter You need to cap your upload to about 90% of your outbound rate. That’ll give ample room for your download to send ACK packets.
@danariely Question - do fiancee professors have aggressive spell-checkers?
Running “pidgin” (IM client) on my Ubuntu 10.04 laptop - brought the machine to a stand-still. “Empathy” runs w/o problem.
“Working from home” means I can stop in mid-conversation, go to the kitchen & grab a drink & come back w/o you noticing.
Why do I DOWN-load UP-dates?
doctorow India’s new copyright law gets it right: http://tinyurl.com/2fmj9…
Today is “Take Your Child to Work Day”. Heck, they’re out of school. So I am working from home. Does that count?
@frijole That would be me, clicking on “reload”.
@_karora uhm… how about one for your wife, while we’re at it?
@chillcast I already told you… I’m still on @chillcast 120… I’m behind on my chillin’, and it’s stressin’ me out!
@anjibee Listening to @chillcast 210 on headphones. The intro to “Just Imagine” fills my whole head, tickles sinuses - weird!
dsearls If we see the Net as a medium rather than as a place, we risk losing it. Here’s why: http://bit.ly/95n7oA #fiberfete
RT @steveburnett Amazon: NC Dept of Revenue wants to know *what* you bought & who you are (NC already knows $) http://bit.ly/ao1ij0
“Maker Faire NC” is this Sunday in Durham. See http://makerfairenc.com/ for details. #MakerFaireNC
Our wiki (Twiki) is so slow. When I hit [submit], I usually think of something else I want to add before it’s finished saving.
Frack, looks like I missed the window to sign up for a NASA Tweetup… by 10 lousy minutes!
@clubjuggler a delayed “thank you” for showing me ‘etckeeper’. now that I grok ‘git’, it’s pretty awesome!
Map of Europe, showing the spread of ash clouds from Eyjafjallajökull volcano - http://i.imgur.com/flMMU…
haroonmeer Cargo Cult Startups? http://blog.thinkst.com/… (self blog spam)
Bicycles have been hanging upside down in my garage for the last seven years! Finally got them down (engineering feat) and ready to ride!
daveslounge Time Warner Cable is buying state senators to put the kibosh on muni broadband in NC. Don’t let them. http://bit.ly/cdc2sZ
@makerfaireNC Wow, that’s like folks at my office, who send out an email and then walk by your desk to see if you got it.
@pwbrewer I just bought 2 cheap charger/xmitters from deal extreme. Both xmit OK. 1 does not charge.
Just wondering - were lower-altitude “general aviation” (private aircraft) flights grounded in Europe because of the volcano?
@alanjporter Congrats on the switch to Mac! It’s not quite Linux, but it’ll do. :-P
Yow! 48°F / 9°C in the camp cabins this morning!
Is there a way to download an app from the app store and run it on the iphone/ipad simulator?
@mikbre ever tried VNC on ipad? got a specific application in mind, brainstorming feasibility
@frijole ever tried VNC on ipad? got a specific application in mind, brainstorming feasibility
@wxs Try a TiddlyWiki… just one notch over a notes.txt file… lightweight, searchable, linkable, awesome.
Email says my e-filed tax return has been accepted. Yay! - But why the facebook [f] and twitter [t] icons in that email?
The music in the bathroom of the Blue Man Group theater in NYC is funky - guys singing “bathroom” to a tribal beat.
Client’s web server waited until I was on vacation to fill up the disk and send me 3500 error emails.
One full day in NYC has convinced me of one thing… I need nuclear batteries for my iPhone.
BostonMerlin Thinking long and hard about this.. if I were not developing iDevice apps I just might skip the iPad
@clubjuggler and @nivex and @chuck_kesler, I am so envious. Glad you guys got to see #sts131 up close and personal.
My 8yo asks: How can they have “home made” tortillas at a RESTAURANT? Does somebody live there?
Photo: egg hunt - http://yfrog.com/0bdvhtj
Hiding eggs for the kids to find.
doctorow Imagine a 13 year old learning that it’s normal to seek permission from a corporation before he’s allowed to sell his app #ipad
edog1203 “Imagine a 13-year-old in 1978 who could produce and sell his own Atari 2600 cartridges.” @gruber nails it. http://bit.ly/b4ciSw
mikbre Joel Johnson, replying to Doctorow’s shortsightedly frothing iPad piece: http://bit.ly/8ZrVg4 /via @chartier
Gizmodo is becoming cool.
@mikbre So much for Matt’s SURPRISE birthday dinner!
@frijole The new frijole.info site RAWKS!
RT @doctorow “Why I won’t buy an iPad (and think you shouldn’t, either) http://tinyurl.com/ybuqc…” - Good points, although a bit harsh.
@edog1203 Another nice “Don’t Panic” wallpaper that a friend of mine cooked up - http://tumblr.com/xfv83i…
@wilw A cure for your arcade machine blues - http://www.thinkgeek.com…
DiMambro I can’t believe it’s almost time to ignore the lawn again.
@frijole The “Don’t Panic” screen looks pretty good on the iPhone as well.
. @wilw Who do you think you are, @levarburton?
77 °F and clear in Raleigh, nice long walk during lunch, soundtrack provided by Dave’s Lounge #185 (thanks, @permanent4).
It looks like Tekelec just got a new corporate logo. OLD=http://bit.ly/aYUebG NEW=http://www.tekelec.com/
@ginatrapani No ipad for me (yet). Too big for a pocket. And if I’m lugging something, I want a keyboard.
@levarburton home-made snow glare goggles (Geordi-approved?) http://blog.makezine.com…