“Groovy Mother…” :: Entries for week beginning August 23, 2009

Entries for week beginning August 23, 2009

➠ August 29, 2009

I haz a tumblelog: http://yahooseriousfestival.com/ Should be relatively low-traffic - I plan to use it to share the best videos I find.

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Posted to Twitter at 11 p.m.

Have ordered @sonicnet’s “Fusion” ADSL2 package. Will be almost $80 cheaper than my (slower) Speakeasy ADSL. Thanks @nelson for the link.

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Posted to Twitter at 2:04 p.m.

Well, I won’t be supporting @twestivalsf, who “screwed over @dnalounge with their their egregious unprofessionalism.” http://bit.ly/3YwWY5

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Posted to Twitter at 1:49 p.m.

➠ August 28, 2009

Burning Man is starting? Hooray! Happy Don’t-Have-To-Queue-For-Brunch-In-The-Mission weekend, everyone!

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Posted to Twitter at 5:16 p.m.

Registering a domain based on an obscure joke from The Simpsons. Clue: “I know those words, but that sign makes no sense.”

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Posted to Twitter at 12:07 p.m.

If you are at all interested in the end of cancer, please donate to @TheJimmyFund’s telethon today. They do AMAZING work that saves lives.

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Posted to Twitter at 11:23 a.m.

Yelp in “Actually doing something innovative” Shocker!

The new Yelp iPhone app has snuck in a nifty "Augmented Reality" view. This shot is taken from out of the window at Slide.

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Enjoyed a coffee with @pistachio, largely thanks to the coerced serendipity of @foursquare. Broadcast ambience FTW!

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Posted to Twitter at 10:29 a.m.

➠ August 26, 2009

Episodes: for timing web pages

Framework for tracking web performance on end-user machines, from Steve Souders, author of “High Performance Web Sites”.

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Filed under : episodes : javascript : performance : programming : steve souders

Deep Profiling jQuery Apps

Fell into my lap serendipitously this afternoon, as I was thinking about the very issue of speeding up user-side code.

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Filed under : javascript : john resig : profiling : programming

Robin writes a book (and you get a copy)

Robin Sloan is writing a novella, and looking for his readers in advance, as is his way. Read his previous short story—Mr. Penumbra’s Twenty-Four-Hour Book Store—and decide if you want to help support his efforts. I know I do.

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Filed under : kickstarter : robin sloan

➠ August 25, 2009

Jeez, Massachusetts! We leave you alone for six hours, and you let Ted Kennedy die.

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Posted to Twitter at 10:52 p.m.

Barney Frank for the senate!

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Posted to Twitter at 10:51 p.m.

Boycott Scotland! http://bit.ly/5ftdf (via @puntgunner)

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Posted to Twitter at 3:32 p.m.

Bye bye Boston (@ Logan International Airport in East Boston) http://bit.ly/usKLi

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Posted to Twitter at 2:25 p.m.

826 Boston (@ The Greater Boston Bigfoot Research Institute in Roxbury) http://bit.ly/1avo0l

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Posted to Twitter at 11:44 a.m.

➠ August 24, 2009

Frankly giddy from the overwhelming aceness of all the friends, old and new, I’ve caught up with this weekend. Thanks and hugs to you all.

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Posted to Twitter at 11:08 p.m.

Too long for Twitter, but circumstance DEMANDS I post a link: http://rdbgb.us/cgk.

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Posted to Twitter at 3:45 p.m.

The Snake Tweeting Its Own Tail

This evening, @cheever saw an automated retweet by @02138now of a tweet by @Sooz containing a picture of me wearing the Twitshirt of the tweet I posted last October which helped me leave Current.

He, of course, twittered about it. And I just bought his tweet as a t-shirt.

Congratulations, Twitter, for building one of the world’s leading “What t-shirt is Rod Begbie wearing right now?” systems.

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Filed under : meta : meta meta : meta meta meta : so meta it hurts : sooz : tc cheever : twitshirt : twitter

For those asking, the worst bank in the world ever is Bank of America (or Fleet as they then were) RBS/Citizens Bank are third.

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Posted to Twitter at 11:32 a.m.

Congratulations, Sovereign Bank. You are now my second least favourite bank in the world ever. You useless inept fucks.

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Posted to Twitter at 10:56 a.m.