Week ending Sunday 2011/06/26

Monday 09:01 · @AdamYuret Haven't had enough time with the Galaxy to have a useful opinion. [Original, responding to @AdamYuret.]

Monday 12:35 · Wow, there's a gmail shortcut “?” which shows gmail shortcuts. Who knew? [Original.]

Monday 15:21 · Check it out, 2012 Mobile Tech Expo. Looks like a must-attend: www.mobiletechexpo.com/ [Original.]

Monday 17:31 · Need someone to record this in a Vito Corleone voice: techcrunch.com/2011/06/20/why-we-often-blindside-companies/ “Treat us with *respect*.” [Original.]

Monday 18:56 · Just possibly you haven't been to Banksy’s web site recently. Do your eyes & mind a favor www.banksy.co.uk/ [Original.]

Monday 20:14 · @jbminn Probably just a couple of days. November looks like pure travel hell for me. [Original, responding to @jbminn.]

Monday 21:13 · I probably don’t actually approve of LulzSec, but I can’t seem to stop watching. Means I’m giving them exactly what they want. [Original.]

Monday 21:25 · @ScorpiusMaximus astounding; we founded OT 22 years (!!) ago [Original, responding to @ScorpiusMaximus.]

Monday 21:26 · @ScorpiusMaximus We were gonna call it “Jacquard” but that was taken. So we went to the café cross the street & came up with Open Text. [Original, responding to @ScorpiusMaximus.]

Monday 21:46 · @ScorpiusMaximus Left Open Text in 1996 :) [Original, responding to @ScorpiusMaximus.]

Monday 22:29 · @aphoenix Very few have ever seen a wolverine. [Original, responding to @aphoenix.]

Monday 22:37 · @gnat The medical news is pretty good. It’s really hard to find good evidence for caffeine-related problems. [Original, responding to @gnat.]

Monday 22:41 · BitTorrent is a beautiful thing #JustSaying #New50MbCableModem #EntirelyLegalOfCourseSurelyThereWouldntBePiratedStuffHere [Original.]

Monday 23:55 · DJing in The Spot room. Come hang out. Now playing Sun Ra: Plutonian Nights ♫♪ #turntablefm turntable.fm/the_spot3 [Original.]

Tuesday 00:22 · A beautiful and strange look at the Vancouver riot: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OythcV_FWQU [Original.]

Tuesday 09:28 · @jarrahpenguin stats.wikimedia.org/reportcard/ stats.wikimedia.org/EN/Sitemap.htm meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2011/Documentation/Editor_Trends_Study [Original, responding to @jarrahpenguin.]

Tuesday 09:47 · Turntable.fm is fun and lets you enjoy music in a simple natural way. So of course it'll be sued out of existence. allthingsd.com/20110621/turntable-fm-really-is-awesome-is-it-legal/ [Original.]

Tuesday 11:49 · @arcandros One approach is Spanning Sync, which syncs your mac stuff with your Google stuff, which is auto synced with phone. [Original, responding to @arcandros.]

Tuesday 12:07 · Anyone want to join me for a Miles Davis party tonight on turntable.fm? 9PM Pacific, I’ll make a room. #turntablefm [Original.]

Tuesday 12:46 · For turntable, all you need is to be FB friends with any single member, then you're in. [Original.]

Tuesday 15:14 · @lebel Yep [Original, responding to @lebel.]

Tuesday 16:03 · Wow, turntable is at capacity, not letting anyone else in. #turntablefm [Original.]

Tuesday 20:05 · Remember: Miles Davis party, turntable.fm, 9PM PDT. I'll announce the room. Bring your golden Miles obscurities #turntablefm [Original.]

Tuesday 20:53 · DJing in the Tuesday Night Miles Davis room. Now playing Miles Davis: Miles Runs The Voodoo Down ♫♪ #turntablefm turntable.fm/tuesday_night_miles_davis2 [Original.]

Tuesday 21:09 · DJing in the Tuesday Night Miles Davis room. Come hang out. Now playing Miles Davis: A Night In Tunisia ♫♪ #turntablefm turntable.fm/tuesday_night_miles_davis2 [Original.]

Tuesday 21:19 · DJing in the Tuesday Night Miles Davis room. Come hang out. Now playing Miles Davis: Miles Ahead ♫♪ #turntablefm turntable.fm/tuesday_night_miles_davis2 [Original.]

Tuesday 21:31 · Miles Davis party fail; turntable.fm limits the # of times an artist can be played per hour for "licensing" reasons. #turntablefm [Original.]

Tuesday 21:43 · @jsnell LOL Dashboard [Original, responding to @jsnell.]

Wednesday 16:48 · @cyngus Even better: Filter all of them. Anything that actually matters will find you. [Original, responding to @cyngus.]

Wednesday 20:30 · The Blues room at turntable.fm is severely underpopulated: turntable.fm/blues5 #turntablefm [Original.]

Wednesday 20:46 · @knowtheory @sadjester Lotsa blues in their collection. But I'm uploading too :) [Original, responding to @knowtheory.]

Wednesday 21:42 · DJing in the Blues room. Come hang out. Now playing T-Model Ford and GravelRoad: Same Old Train ♫♪ #turntablefm turntable.fm/blues5 [Original.]

Wednesday 23:52 · Had to blog about turntable.fm www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2011/06/22/Turntable-dot-fm #turntablefm [Original.]

Thursday 00:12 · @danhooker yep [Original, responding to @danhooker.]

Thursday 09:35 · Glad to see that I'm not the only one feeling skepticism about Lytro: www.jwz.org/blog/2011/06/lytro/ [Original.]

Thursday 12:56 · The new “Pottermore” has a Sony logo at the top. That is so disappointing. [Original.]

Thursday 13:50 · Now, that is a truly heart-warming and inspiring video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTVE5iPMKLg [Original.]

Thursday 14:56 · It's been a few months since I tipped a hat to the wonderfulness of VLC: www.videolan.org/vlc/ I’m such a fan. [Original.]

Thursday 16:34 · If you must host in the USA, have an offshore fallback that uniformed bandits can’t get at: blog.instapaper.com/post/6830514157 [Original.]

Friday 09:23 · On our 50M cable feed, internet phone calls are way clearer than our land-ine. Hmm; let's see about the long-term reliability. [Original.]

Friday 11:00 · @grahamking My wife uses canadianwebhosting.com and has been very happy with it [Original, responding to @grahamking.]

Friday 12:07 · @vambenepe GAE-backed websites never stack dump. [Original, responding to @vambenepe.]

Friday 13:32 · @macleodmike Whatever my mid-2010 13" Macbook Pro has [Original, responding to @macleodmike.]

Friday 14:25 · @macleodmike The "call phone" box in gmail. [Original, responding to @macleodmike.]

Friday 14:39 · @macleodmike I was talking to a orders/shipping person at a consumer-products co, so could've been anything at her end. [Original, responding to @macleodmike.]

Friday 16:05 · #ff twitter.com/timbray/favorites [Original.]

Friday 16:05 · I totally fucking loathe Twitter hashbangs [Original.]

Friday 17:14 · Always feel sort of bad when I file a bug against a busy crunch-mode team. It’s the right thing to do, but still. [Original.]

Friday 20:17 · Now, that's New York Cool: yfrog.com/ked8jqrj [Original.]

Friday 20:45 · DJing in the Hip Hop, Jazz, and Funk room. Now playing George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic: Atomic Dog #turntablefm turntable.fm/hip_hop_jazz_and_funk [Original.]

Friday 21:05 · Turntable fall down go boom #turntablefm [Original.]

Friday 21:17 · @tpdorsey "Rapture" by Blondie [Original, responding to @tpdorsey.]

Friday 21:27 · #turntablefm was in the act of switching to my song when it crashed. Just sayin. It was gonna be Blondie’s “Rapture” [Original.]

Saturday 14:28 · @shlew Seems to work fine in Canada [Original, responding to @shlew.]

Saturday 15:01 · The real class struggle in America: www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/roe4/English and www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2011/06/corporate-power [Original.]

Saturday 15:13 · Remote harmony: www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2011/06/24/Logitech-Harmony-650 [Original.]

Saturday 15:15 · Shit, it's true. No more #turntablefm for me: www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2387579,00.asp [Original.]

Saturday 15:34 · @nelson Gonna take in some Norwegian Death Metal? They say it’s world-class. [Original, responding to @nelson.]

Sunday 10:21 · Thinking ads which pop over a story & must be dismissed to read it have moved from lame & stupid to inexcusable. [Original.]

Sunday 10:22 · Not linking to a pretty good article in @webpronews because of their stupid popover ads. [Original.]

Sunday 10:43 · Canadians are included this time, including 2 I’ve met: english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2011/06/201162611220564941.html I hope the political theater plays nonviolently [Original.]

Sunday 14:52 · Just an orange circle: www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2011/06/26/Nail-Circle [Original.]

Sunday 22:27 · I got blisters on my fingers. [Original.]


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