Week ending Sunday 2011/07/31

Monday 07:22 · cssfrag, css-selector URI #fragment ids. Seems like a good idea: shauninman.com/archive/2011/07/25/cssfrag [Original.]

Monday 07:27 · Q: Is the iPad the most successful consumer product launch ever? Measured by $ after N quarters, say. [Original.]

Monday 09:39 · @metadaddy Not coming this year; too much summer travel already and more coming [Original, responding to @metadaddy.]

Monday 09:43 · @nelson My setup in 2009: www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2009/08/27/How-To-Use-The-Dock Changed browsers & emacs flavor but that's about all. [Original, responding to @nelson.]

Monday 09:48 · @nelson Also: Learn about the "open" shell command. Argument is an app or a file or dir or whatever; does The Right Thing. [Original, responding to @nelson.]

Monday 11:22 · Yow, NetNewsWire Lite got its knickers completely in a knot. Had to nuke its caches maches. Needs a give-myself-an-enema button. [Original.]

Monday 11:30 · Urgh, meant "nuke its caches manually". Monday fumblefingers. [Original.]

Monday 15:58 · @nelson The hip kids say "SPOD" [Original, responding to @nelson.]

Monday 19:34 · @gruber Ichiro having been stuck there all these years is one of sports' great tragedies. [Original, responding to @gruber.]

Monday 19:51 · Hashtag for US debt crisis? [Original.]

Monday 22:12 · Got a gretty decent #armadebton discussion happening over on G+: https://plus.google.com/107606703558161507946/posts/4bYbdjpaMoa [Original.]

Monday 22:35 · @shawndrape No curation [Original, responding to @shawndrape.]

Tuesday 10:05 · Russell Brand on Amy WInehouse, worth reading: www.russellbrand.tv/2011/07/for-amy/ I have a loved one struggling with addiction, not doing too well. [Original.]

Tuesday 11:45 · Mmm, Contrast Rebellion oh yeah: contrastrebellion.com/ [Original.]

Tuesday 11:46 · Switched to YoruFukurou for my Mac Twitter client. [Original.]

Tuesday 14:18 · Social Media at War: sashafrerejones.tumblr.com/post/8097825685/social-media-posters-world-war-era [Original.]

Tuesday 16:16 · Guess I need to re-do the +1's on my blog: googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2011/07/1-button-now-faster.html [Original.]

Tuesday 16:59 · Falling away from the church of Erlang: www.unlimitednovelty.com/2011/07/trouble-with-erlang-or-erlang-is-ghetto.html [Original.]

Tuesday 20:13 · @hfiguiere Who out there will talk IPV6 to you? [Original, responding to @hfiguiere.]

Wednesday 08:19 · Urgh. NetNewsWire Lite can't handle Sam Ruby's feed (intertwingly.net/). Not obvious why. [Original.]

Wednesday 08:42 · @nelson NNW has always fit very well with my reading habits, that's all. I'm sure I could get along with Reader if I had to switch. [Original, responding to @nelson.]

Wednesday 09:52 · Data Liberation Front refines the Three Big Questions: dataliberation.blogspot.com/2011/07/when-we-started-data-liberation-front.html [Original.]

Wednesday 10:00 · @nelson Basic logitech is actually hard to beat [Original, responding to @nelson.]

Wednesday 11:11 · @luckiestmonkey Anything with Ry Cooder's name on it is apt to be good. Try “Talking Timbuktu” [Original, responding to @luckiestmonkey.]

Wednesday 11:13 · @GretchenGary goo.gl/7PzgW [Original, responding to @GretchenGary.]

Wednesday 16:09 · Suggestions and Additions: www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2011/07/27/Suggestions [Original.]

Wednesday 16:12 · I admit it; I picked FF Tisa Web Pro just for the open and close quotation marks, which are exquisite. [Original.]

Wednesday 17:02 · @andrewski Now that would be stylish. But there are lots of things I like about Tisa. [Original, responding to @andrewski.]

Thursday 09:32 · Glow Hockey is a nifty little Android game: [Original.]

Thursday 11:38 · Someone autosubscribed me to hundreds of newsletters. Maliciously, I assume. Feaugh. [Original.]

Thursday 14:04 · @jyhsu Aww thanksbut I'm not really a photoblog; no per-category feeds. My fave photoblogs are The Online Photographer and Shutterfinger. [Original, responding to @jyhsu.]

Saturday 20:56 · @kpooya Know good SW peeps but hardware? No bells ring. [Original, responding to @kpooya.]

Saturday 22:10 · In the cottage on the island in Howe Sound, our local bit of the Pacific. All others asleep. Listening to rain and waves. Peace. [Original.]

Sunday 10:23 · Yes, you can make money and grow in a pure news-and-opinion business: www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2011/07/31/Talking-Points-Memo [Original.]


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