As the writers strike continues, actors are forced into less scripted stuff:
Incest on Gray's Anatomy? I've never seen it and have no plans to.
Someone else hates Apple! Although Fred Wilson does so for very different reasons than I do. And he actually buys their products. And not used on eBay.
Facebook gives a little on it's Beacon program.
Some girl from some reality show I have never seen who I have never heard of gives an interview which doesn't interest me in the least.
Ning, which I am familiar with, and Flux, which I have never heard of - a point by point comparison.
Friday, November 30, 2007
Hybrid Cars
Interesting comparison of hybrids. I keep arguing with my wife about our next car, which is still a few years away. I think it would be irresponsible to not get a hybrid, especially with gas prices as they are. She wants a big, fancy, expensive gas guzzler though. I will win this fight because she hates filling up her car now, and gas prices are only going to go up.
Thursday, November 29, 2007
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
Spamato and Thunderbird
For the last 10 years or so I've had to change my email address every 2-3 years because the spam became unmanageable. I tried using disposable email for each place I put my email but it's a huge pain in the butt to have to create an alias and set it up each time a site wants an email address.
So I started using collective disposable emails. I would use the same address for a bunch of places and then change it when the spam got too bad. I kept my personal addresses separate. The problem is that there are a few emails I actually want to see in the thousands of spams and unless I go to every single site and update my reg info I won't get those if I just toss the whole address.
Recently, overwhelmed by unmanageable spam and frustrated with deleting mail constantly from my Treo I downloaded and installed Spamato for Thunderbird. It works pretty well, and is highly customizable, but it is missing a few features that would make it really top-notch.
I have it set to need 3 spam rule matches to mark a message as spam. The highest number of matches I've ever seen has been 5 out of 8. Some of my valid messages come in as 3s or 4s though. I don't know if Spamato checks my address book but if it doesn't, that would be a really neat feature. Any email from anyone in my address book is automatically OK.
The other problem is that once I sort through the incoming mail and make sure it is all junk I still need to delete it from the server manually. This is more a Thunderbird issue, but I would like to ability to delete mail from the Trash and the server or just from the Trash. Everything I confirm as Junk is deleted from the server, and everything else that is deleted and is not junk stays on the server.
The last thing that would be nice is a better way to sort messages in the logs. It is in the Spamato logs that you can mark ham as spam or vice versa. Currently I have to search through the log, so adding filter options to filter by date, subject, sender, etc. would make my life a lot easier.
If anyone knows of any better spam filters let me know. I don't want to have to continue to change my email address every few years however, even with Spamato, I still have to delete email from my Treo if I want to get the valid emails when I am not in the office.
I also get a ton of IM spam but one thing at a time...
So I started using collective disposable emails. I would use the same address for a bunch of places and then change it when the spam got too bad. I kept my personal addresses separate. The problem is that there are a few emails I actually want to see in the thousands of spams and unless I go to every single site and update my reg info I won't get those if I just toss the whole address.
Recently, overwhelmed by unmanageable spam and frustrated with deleting mail constantly from my Treo I downloaded and installed Spamato for Thunderbird. It works pretty well, and is highly customizable, but it is missing a few features that would make it really top-notch.
I have it set to need 3 spam rule matches to mark a message as spam. The highest number of matches I've ever seen has been 5 out of 8. Some of my valid messages come in as 3s or 4s though. I don't know if Spamato checks my address book but if it doesn't, that would be a really neat feature. Any email from anyone in my address book is automatically OK.
The other problem is that once I sort through the incoming mail and make sure it is all junk I still need to delete it from the server manually. This is more a Thunderbird issue, but I would like to ability to delete mail from the Trash and the server or just from the Trash. Everything I confirm as Junk is deleted from the server, and everything else that is deleted and is not junk stays on the server.
The last thing that would be nice is a better way to sort messages in the logs. It is in the Spamato logs that you can mark ham as spam or vice versa. Currently I have to search through the log, so adding filter options to filter by date, subject, sender, etc. would make my life a lot easier.
If anyone knows of any better spam filters let me know. I don't want to have to continue to change my email address every few years however, even with Spamato, I still have to delete email from my Treo if I want to get the valid emails when I am not in the office.
I also get a ton of IM spam but one thing at a time...
Monday, November 26, 2007
Busy at work... Here are some snippets
Fat kid avoids ridicule by swimming with his shirt on, from the ONN:
Fat Kid Successfully Avoids Ridicule By Swimming With Shirt On
Mouse vs Elephant, from MythBusters:
Breaking news: Mark Zuckerberg is still a smug little shit.
Video about the writer's strike:
Classmates.com goes public, makes no money and has no users.
The long awaited gDrive may finally see the light of day.
Fake Steve Jobs book comes out and gets good reviews from the WSJ.
Fat Kid Successfully Avoids Ridicule By Swimming With Shirt On
Mouse vs Elephant, from MythBusters:
Breaking news: Mark Zuckerberg is still a smug little shit.
Video about the writer's strike:
Classmates.com goes public, makes no money and has no users.
The long awaited gDrive may finally see the light of day.
Fake Steve Jobs book comes out and gets good reviews from the WSJ.
WiFi and Julia Allison
Geek Shirt detects WiFi. Awesome.
A video of my internet crush, Julia Allison. I know if I ever met her in person I wouldn't like her but she's kind of cute, in the same way that Top 40 songs that you hear over and over and over are memorable. Via Valleywag:
Lip Dub!! Disney's Little Mermaid - Part of Your World on Vimeo.
A video of my internet crush, Julia Allison. I know if I ever met her in person I wouldn't like her but she's kind of cute, in the same way that Top 40 songs that you hear over and over and over are memorable. Via Valleywag:
Lip Dub!! Disney's Little Mermaid - Part of Your World on Vimeo.
Wednesday, November 21, 2007
Back Soon
Taking a short break due to overwhelming workload and the upcoming holiday. Will be back soon.
Friday, November 16, 2007
Friday Again at Last
An interview with the founder of Etsy. Like the site, find the guy to be an ass though. Not on Zuckerbergian levels but an ass none the less. We actually got some really nice stuff from Etsy.
A studio exec's point of view on the writers strike:
Apparently email is dying. With teenagers or something. They prefer IM. Or Twitter. Or something. I tried Twitter, I found it largely useless, although others like Dave Winer seem to find it useful. Email is not going to go away, no matter what the idiots at Slate.com say. IM, SMS and Twitter might be good for teenagers trying to plan their social life but will absolutely never work for professionals trying to run their businesses for a variety of reasons. There's a discussion board on this article but I got bored before I even started reading it.
A studio exec's point of view on the writers strike:
Apparently email is dying. With teenagers or something. They prefer IM. Or Twitter. Or something. I tried Twitter, I found it largely useless, although others like Dave Winer seem to find it useful. Email is not going to go away, no matter what the idiots at Slate.com say. IM, SMS and Twitter might be good for teenagers trying to plan their social life but will absolutely never work for professionals trying to run their businesses for a variety of reasons. There's a discussion board on this article but I got bored before I even started reading it.
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Some Weird Stuff
This is sad and eerily fascinating at the same time. All this poor guy needed was some Vitamin A?
This is just weird. A man marrying a dog. Sounds like a real prick, too. Poor dog.
And another man has sex with bicycles. Huh?
And a bonus - Bonnie Fuller on motherhood, fame and idiotic bad parents.
This is just weird. A man marrying a dog. Sounds like a real prick, too. Poor dog.
And another man has sex with bicycles. Huh?
And a bonus - Bonnie Fuller on motherhood, fame and idiotic bad parents.
Wednesday Round-up
Rupert might actually make the WSJ's content available for free! Joy! Oh wait... I hate reading papers online. Hurts my eyes and my brain. So... meh, I guess.
What the Rackspace transformer explosion might look like, via Valleywag.
Robert Scoble's comments on the gPhone.
Something about Facebook and OpenSocial. I really don't even read most of this stuff.
Apparently Internet advertising is huge and growing. Why can't I see some of those dollars? Please...
Google is trying to get people to develop software for it's new phone... But they haven't given out any phones or a single line of code yet. I don't even know that the phones exist. So you people have fun with that. Actually a few people do have the code or the phone or whatever it is.
Apparently Friendster could have bought Facebook back when they were starting out. Unfortunately for them they did not. However once Facebook crashes and burns they will be happy that they did not.
What the Rackspace transformer explosion might look like, via Valleywag.
Robert Scoble's comments on the gPhone.
Something about Facebook and OpenSocial. I really don't even read most of this stuff.
Apparently Internet advertising is huge and growing. Why can't I see some of those dollars? Please...
Google is trying to get people to develop software for it's new phone... But they haven't given out any phones or a single line of code yet. I don't even know that the phones exist. So you people have fun with that. Actually a few people do have the code or the phone or whatever it is.
Apparently Friendster could have bought Facebook back when they were starting out. Unfortunately for them they did not. However once Facebook crashes and burns they will be happy that they did not.
Monday, November 12, 2007
Random Crap For Tuesday
Apparently fat girls are smarter than skinny ones. Something to do with Omega fatty acids. However they were discussing size 8-10 being fat. That's crazy. Size 8 is nice, size 16 is maybe fat.
Damien Hurst's exhibit is opening soon. It's called "A Bunch of Dead Animals" or something.
From the ONN, wrestling fans are fake:
Controversial Tell-All Book Reveals Wrestling Fans Are Fake
Temper-Pedic mattress did a pretty good quarter. Unless you bought it from a direct marketing TV ad, who really knows what brand of mattress they sleep on? I have no clue.
Some guy says to ignore as much information as possible. I wish it was that easy.
Damien Hurst's exhibit is opening soon. It's called "A Bunch of Dead Animals" or something.
From the ONN, wrestling fans are fake:
Controversial Tell-All Book Reveals Wrestling Fans Are Fake
Temper-Pedic mattress did a pretty good quarter. Unless you bought it from a direct marketing TV ad, who really knows what brand of mattress they sleep on? I have no clue.
Some guy says to ignore as much information as possible. I wish it was that easy.
Lot of Stupid Ideas Today
If 24 took place in 1994. I remember when it was like this:
Dave Winer on closed and open platforms.
Damon Lindelof on how TV is dying.
Another stupid idea.
Dave Winer on closed and open platforms.
Damon Lindelof on how TV is dying.
Another stupid idea.
Friday, November 09, 2007
Annoying Shits
More on the possible illegality of Facebook's ads. And they are apparently creepy as well. Valleywag details how to block them.
Zuckerberg is wearing shoes! Sound the alarms!
Gawker charts exactly what makes James Lipton so annoying. And they do a pretty good job of it.
Zuckerberg is wearing shoes! Sound the alarms!
Gawker charts exactly what makes James Lipton so annoying. And they do a pretty good job of it.
Friday!
From the ONN:
Messages From Our Troops To The Families They Can Barely Remember
From Valleywag:
From TechCrunch:
Something about George Soros. It was too long, I didn't actually read it.
Messages From Our Troops To The Families They Can Barely Remember
From Valleywag:
From TechCrunch:
Something about George Soros. It was too long, I didn't actually read it.
Thursday, November 08, 2007
Toy Recalls and Writers Strikes
I just have to make this the first item this morning... The Aqua Dot toys are recalled because some coating on them turns into GHB when ingested. My kid wants these every single time he sees them on TV. Good thing I haven't bought them or he might have eaten them or something.
A quick video summary of the WGA strike:
A hot new drug- Jenkem. I can't wait to try this one!
Fake Steve Jobs in real life.
Zuckerberg makes an ass out of himself with stupid, pompous comments.
Is Kevin going to sell Digg? If so for how much?
The myth of how YouTube was founded. Apparently Steve and Chad go around telling blatant lies about the founding of their company that were invented by their PR people. And they admit that the stories are not true. I don't even know what to say...
Atlanta Douche bag John Fitzgerald Page makes the list of Atlanta's 11 Least Influential People.
A quick video summary of the WGA strike:
A hot new drug- Jenkem. I can't wait to try this one!
Fake Steve Jobs in real life.
Zuckerberg makes an ass out of himself with stupid, pompous comments.
Is Kevin going to sell Digg? If so for how much?
The myth of how YouTube was founded. Apparently Steve and Chad go around telling blatant lies about the founding of their company that were invented by their PR people. And they admit that the stories are not true. I don't even know what to say...
Atlanta Douche bag John Fitzgerald Page makes the list of Atlanta's 11 Least Influential People.
Wednesday, November 07, 2007
Facebook Social Ads
Facebook launches their new advertising product in which brands and products can be your friends. Hidden message - big corporations are your friends! Or maybe not so hidden. Fortune's take on it. And AdAge's report.
And in related news I bought some Facebook related domains.
That bastard rich kid made a bad deal. Ha! I haven't made any deals, bad or good, but I like it when people who are more successful than they should be make mistakes. Like Donald Trump. I would pay to see him go bankrupt again.
Apparently something to do with Mystery Science Theater 3000... I'm not sure exactly what.
Something about some guy called Boykin.
Facebook wants to turn into a spam giant like MySpace.
Google drops an advertising bomb on Facebook.
And in related news I bought some Facebook related domains.
That bastard rich kid made a bad deal. Ha! I haven't made any deals, bad or good, but I like it when people who are more successful than they should be make mistakes. Like Donald Trump. I would pay to see him go bankrupt again.
Apparently something to do with Mystery Science Theater 3000... I'm not sure exactly what.
Something about some guy called Boykin.
Facebook wants to turn into a spam giant like MySpace.
Google drops an advertising bomb on Facebook.
Tuesday, November 06, 2007
Random Stuff for Tuesday
real medical condition. I wasn't sure about the Alien Hand thing but sure enough, it is real as well.
A new site that sets you up on Crazy Blind Dates or something.
Barry Diller on CNBC explaining why he is spinning off everything, when he has been saying for years that he could get some sort of synergy out of it.
Some commentary on the writers strike.
Kill Buljo. A Kill Bill rip off.
Kick Scott Adam in the balls in Second Life. Yay. Second Life is sooo useful.
Open Social hacked within minutes of launch.
A different opinion on Apple. He makes some good points but I don't see it happening.
A new site that sets you up on Crazy Blind Dates or something.
Barry Diller on CNBC explaining why he is spinning off everything, when he has been saying for years that he could get some sort of synergy out of it.
Some commentary on the writers strike.
Kill Buljo. A Kill Bill rip off.
Kick Scott Adam in the balls in Second Life. Yay. Second Life is sooo useful.
Open Social hacked within minutes of launch.
A different opinion on Apple. He makes some good points but I don't see it happening.
Monday, November 05, 2007
Mahalo and Other Stupid Ideas
A video from some girl from Mahalo:
Has no Calacanis in it, which is nice.
How much is Second Life worth? I've got about $2.00 in change in my pocket. That's about all I'd be willing to pay. It was a good idea with potential, but I think it is on its way out the door now. Apologies to Boris, my friend who runs a Second Life virtual consulting company.
Breaking business news from the WSJ - college kids who drink alcohol and energy drinks (aka vodka and red bull) get in accidents and hurt themselves! Thank you for the news flash!
The Facebook money train keeps on rolling. Taking investors money into god only knows where.
AdBrite CEO wants his employees to put in 10 hour days. I understand where he is coming from, but asking people to do that is just wrong and I never do it. If there is a time sensitive issue or a deadline I will have them stay all night, but under normal circumstances - 8-9 hours is fine. My normal day, however is about 11-12 hours.
MySpace, seeing that it is getting left behind on the social networking ad dollar train, is launching its own advertising program. Yay.
Katie Holmes runs the NYC marathon under a fake name. I want to do that one of these years.
Some guy asks basic religious and philosophical questions that my friends and I were pondering at about 12 - 15 years of age. Maybe even a bit younger.
Has no Calacanis in it, which is nice.
How much is Second Life worth? I've got about $2.00 in change in my pocket. That's about all I'd be willing to pay. It was a good idea with potential, but I think it is on its way out the door now. Apologies to Boris, my friend who runs a Second Life virtual consulting company.
Breaking business news from the WSJ - college kids who drink alcohol and energy drinks (aka vodka and red bull) get in accidents and hurt themselves! Thank you for the news flash!
The Facebook money train keeps on rolling. Taking investors money into god only knows where.
AdBrite CEO wants his employees to put in 10 hour days. I understand where he is coming from, but asking people to do that is just wrong and I never do it. If there is a time sensitive issue or a deadline I will have them stay all night, but under normal circumstances - 8-9 hours is fine. My normal day, however is about 11-12 hours.
MySpace, seeing that it is getting left behind on the social networking ad dollar train, is launching its own advertising program. Yay.
Katie Holmes runs the NYC marathon under a fake name. I want to do that one of these years.
Some guy asks basic religious and philosophical questions that my friends and I were pondering at about 12 - 15 years of age. Maybe even a bit younger.
Saturday, November 03, 2007
Google Ego Alerts Answered
I got the answer to my question... I received the alert at 5:12 pm. I posted the my name at 3:15pm. So that is about 2 hours for Google to crawl a page that no one reads. That's pretty consistent with the amount of time it took for a "certain someone who I don't want to name because if I do he will start commenting on my posts again" to respond.
Mystery solved. Case closed.
Mystery solved. Case closed.
Friday, November 02, 2007
Google Ego Alerts
It has been 30 minutes since I posted my name in a blog. I received one Google ego alert from some other stuff, but nothing for the blog post yet.
Update - It has now been 1 hour and still nothing. Maybe I should post it again. I think I will. Done.
Update - 1.5 hours and still nothing.
Update - 2 hours and still no alert. I thought this was supposed to be instantaneous.
I'm going home soon. It's been a long week for those of us who actually have to work to pay the bills. I'm not going to check my email obsessively from home to see when this Alert arrives so I will update when I get it with whatever the timestamp is on it.
And before any of us who don't have to work to pay the bills get pissy and leave me nasty comments - yes, I envy you. I could have been you if I had made a few slightly better decisions than I did. And that makes it even worse, because I was so close and I blew it. It's a lot harder than not ever having been near it.
So I will go on and try again tomorrow, for tomorrow... is another day. [Cue cheesy music, fade to credits]
Update - It has now been 1 hour and still nothing. Maybe I should post it again. I think I will. Done.
Update - 1.5 hours and still nothing.
Update - 2 hours and still no alert. I thought this was supposed to be instantaneous.
I'm going home soon. It's been a long week for those of us who actually have to work to pay the bills. I'm not going to check my email obsessively from home to see when this Alert arrives so I will update when I get it with whatever the timestamp is on it.
And before any of us who don't have to work to pay the bills get pissy and leave me nasty comments - yes, I envy you. I could have been you if I had made a few slightly better decisions than I did. And that makes it even worse, because I was so close and I blew it. It's a lot harder than not ever having been near it.
So I will go on and try again tomorrow, for tomorrow... is another day. [Cue cheesy music, fade to credits]
Social networks and such
Dave Winer on the MySpace / Facebook / Google brawl. I believe my opinions of Facebook have been made abundantly clear. Also - Facebook apparently has not been briefed on OpenSocial.
A chart of how to tell how much your web site sucks. Pretty accurate in my opinion.
Valleywag does a Web 2.0 for idiots primer.
And an update on the breaking Jakob Lodwick story... He responded to my response to his post with a "LOL." I'm not sure exactly what he was laughing at but... um... OK. Thank you, come again.
And Valleywag posts their opinion of the same interview I posted this morning. Shall we take bets on how long it takes him to reply to that? I have seen him leave comments on Valleywag before...
However I posted my name, which I have a Google ego alert set up for, in one of my other random blogs and I have not received notification yet. Interesting...
A chart of how to tell how much your web site sucks. Pretty accurate in my opinion.
Valleywag does a Web 2.0 for idiots primer.
And an update on the breaking Jakob Lodwick story... He responded to my response to his post with a "LOL." I'm not sure exactly what he was laughing at but... um... OK. Thank you, come again.
And Valleywag posts their opinion of the same interview I posted this morning. Shall we take bets on how long it takes him to reply to that? I have seen him leave comments on Valleywag before...
However I posted my name, which I have a Google ego alert set up for, in one of my other random blogs and I have not received notification yet. Interesting...
Once Again Friday at Last
Top ten Colbert segments. Plus some bonus clips.
Dumbest questions in song lyric history.
Reasons a zombie apocalypse could really happen. What is it with Zombies this year? It seems like zombies are the new emo or something. Everyone is totally obsessed with zombies. Did anyone see any videos of the parade in NYC? All zombies! I rest my case. If Chewbacca lives on Endor you must acquit.
Things that were cool in the 70's the are just stupid today.
A Wikipedia page on an Adult Swim show I have not seen but which sounds very amusing, and kind of complicated if we are to believe the Wikipedia plot summary. Oh, the show is Frisky Dingo.
Dumbest questions in song lyric history.
Reasons a zombie apocalypse could really happen. What is it with Zombies this year? It seems like zombies are the new emo or something. Everyone is totally obsessed with zombies. Did anyone see any videos of the parade in NYC? All zombies! I rest my case. If Chewbacca lives on Endor you must acquit.
Things that were cool in the 70's the are just stupid today.
A Wikipedia page on an Adult Swim show I have not seen but which sounds very amusing, and kind of complicated if we are to believe the Wikipedia plot summary. Oh, the show is Frisky Dingo.
Thursday, November 01, 2007
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