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@jsnell My rant today was inspired by a company/persona blog (non-news, essay-oriented). I concede ignorance about making RSS work for $$$.
- 7/22, 10am
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@rentzsch Hah! Good one ;) And no... sigh ... no iPhone 3GS yet.
- 7/4, 9pm
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It's cute how some Democrats get all excited and giddy about a Republican who "can't possibly win." And so it is written that they will win.
- 7/3, 5pm
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@mb I know they do, but they don't charge anything significant. Nothing close to what they may want to charge for, say, Pages touch.
- 7/1, 7am
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@nevenmrgan I heard an interview with somebody famous who did this. But ... alas ... it's not coming to mind. Somebody will know, though.
- 6/23, 8am
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FastScripts is now free when you use 10 keyboard shortcuts or fewer. No more excuses. Install a better script menu ;) [ http]
- 6/22, 5pm
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Hey, famous web peeps are in Boston for An Event Apart. The world passing by my window.
- 6/22, 5am
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Conflicted. Don't know if heavy events in Iran are a crisis, celebration, both, or neither. But glad we have an adult in the White House.
- 6/20, 8pm
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No matter WHO you are, imagine you're on a sexy date, when you reveal your "I ♥ Dad" boxer shorts. This cannot end well.
- 5/28, 8pm
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I want a website "themacof.com" ... where I can put in any product genre and it tells me what the Mac of that genre is. E.g., strollers.
- 5/28, 5pm
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Getting sidetracked by Google Website Optimizer, since @danwood mentioned it. [ http] I was not aware of this!
- 5/27, 5pm
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@kerri9494 See [ http] I can "fix it" by changing the <h3> tags to spans, at the expense of structural meaning.
- 5/21, 10am
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@rands The problem is you would then need the inevitable counterpart, "No, you did the all too easy job of assuming you were understanding."
- 5/21, 7am
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@luciuskwok Hah :) May 21... I guess life handed me some grumpiness-inducing experiences ;)
- 5/15, 9pm
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Over a month since I blogged! I did say I was going to "work on the ADA submission" for a month.
- 5/5, 7am
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Bought Radarscope for iPhone, on @duncan's recommendation. Looks pretty handy - I also find myself dodging storms on foot fairly often.
- 4/27, 8pm
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Prediction: @gruber's tech writing will get better and better as Yankee victory depression sets in.
- 4/25, 8pm
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Didn't want to be "the emotional guy" on Twitter. Thanks for the concern. I'm fine. I just had to release some of the steam.
- 4/20, 10pm
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Another "Tweet on a Tee" business: [ http] - attempts to quell © complaints by paying tweet authors and offering an opt-out.
- 4/16, 1pm
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If anybody sees the @birdhouseapp guys, be sure to inform them that they now work for me.
- 4/13, 12pm
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Arguing that "debate can take place elsewhere" is just a means of diluting the audience for your debaters' messages. Fine, but not noble.
- 4/2, 11pm
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Oh, scary scary shit. Just created a new Apple ID with same as old one. I am able to use THAT ID to log in to iTunes Connect, manage apps.
- 3/29, 1pm
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@stevenf I hand it to you, it's pretty funny. But no, I'm not man enough to wear it.
- 3/27, 8pm
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Thanks, @film_girl for a nice TUAW writeup on MarsEdit 2.3! [ http]
- 3/26, 4pm
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Examining MarsEdit anonymous profile stats. Over 70% of MarsEdit users are editing at least one WordPress-based blog. 25% Blogger-based.
- 3/24, 9am
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@chockenberry You're probably right to shoot down netbook dreamers, but I would gently point out that the iPod touch runs "iPhone OS."
- 3/12, 9am
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@scottstevenson I if even a solo sentence is in full prose format and not telegraphic style, it will look like an error to omit the period.
- 3/11, 2pm
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Should I let [ http] expire, or does somebody want to make this concept happen?
- 3/7, 6am
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@danmessing Yeah, some of those especially have disgusting pesticide residues. What a world.
- 2/27, 9am
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Because I've found, in order to ship, I inevitably need to take a shortcut here and there. Nice if shortcuts were fixed by next release.
- 2/26, 12pm
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@blakeseely In other words, I feel that the window content creeping into the "system-wide UI standard" part of the window, is sloppy.
- 2/24, 1pm
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@kickingbear What I meant to emphasize was if you're eager to build the experimental parts-based env today, start with web. Pipes.yahoo.com?
- 2/20, 6pm
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@wilshipley I'm not gonna do you, but with me as your wingman at next year's TED? Who knows what might happen!
- 2/13, 11pm
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We celebrated Valentines Day a day early, and I gave her a very cheesy present: [ http]
- 2/13, 8pm
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@duncan I'm not knowledgeable enough to know the difference, but I'm talking about the hourglass shaped buildings.
- 2/13, 8pm
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Some peoples' blogs, e.g. Seth Godin's, constantly cause "updates" to appear where apparently only the apostrophes have changed. NNW only?
- 2/13, 5pm
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@chartier I host some of my domains with DH, and manage all of my reg's with them. I like them for non-mission-critical hosting & etc.
- 2/3, 11pm
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I had no idea you could use system prefs to assign shortcuts to POPUP menu items. @brentsimmons: [ http]
- 2/1, 10pm
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If you can afford a super bowl TV ad, you should be able to throw a hundred servers at your web site for at least the duration of the super
- 2/1, 7pm
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It says something about how much of a rut SNL has gotten back in to, if even Steve Martin can't help it. Kristen Wiig is the saving grace.
- 1/31, 9pm
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"If you had told me 8 years ago that a competent, educated person would be President..." -- Steve Martin, SNL 1/31/2009.
- 1/31, 8pm
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@ashponders Glad you have been enjoying it. Or ... being driven mad by it? :) I find it to be very catchy, too.
- 1/31, 8am
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Listening to Brent Simmons on Developer Lives: [ http] Great stuff!
- 1/30, 3pm
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SWEET JESUS! Got my twitter password wrong several times from iPhone. TWITTER LOCKED ME OUT FOR HOURS. AND I COULDN'T EVEN TWITTER MY RAGE!
- 1/30, 12pm
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The reason my iPhone apps are taking so long is I'm having a hell of a time figuring how to incorporate mass crudeness.
- 1/29, 9am
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@stevenf Usually it means I @class declared something in the header, and then forgot to #import the appropriate class header in the .m
- 1/29, 8am
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(I know it sounds like Songsmith, but this is proprietary, pre-Sonsmith technology at work.)
- 1/25, 10am
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@brentsimmons Yeah, but that was back before people knew how to rub two sticks together to make a color ;)
- 1/24, 9pm
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When we Americans were growing up, how many of us thought we'd ever have a president whose first and last names we'd never heard of before?
- 1/23, 10pm
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@danfrakes TinyURL :) I'm not saying RT is never OK, but my resistance is because I follow people, and a pure RT is hardly personal.
- 1/23, 12pm
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MarsEdit's post editor text fields are getting crazier and crazier. In a good way, for you. In a bad yet mentally stimulating way for me.
- 1/22, 9pm
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"How do we close Guantanamo" is an easy problem compared to "how do we get away with torturing all these innocent people?"
- 1/22, 5pm
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@gruber I LOVE the claim chowder elements of Daring Fireball. Keep up the good follow-up work.
- 1/21, 3pm
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"Your people will judge you on what you can build, not what you can destroy."
- 1/20, 9am
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@itsolivia Me too. We have the same bullshit cough. FUNK THAT. Fisherman's FIEND.
- 1/14, 9pm
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I think science is really messed up if it can fix a heart or set a bone, but can't do anything for my persistent cough.
- 1/14, 8pm
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@meowrey So the secret to enjoying a juice fast is to "Master Cleanse" first? Sweet.
- 1/13, 12pm
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@GlennF Not bgapp. You can start it and then quit it, I found out. But you always have to start it. After logging in unless you get hackish.
- 1/9, 9am
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@danbenjamin You and @jasonfried are delirious. If you care about a site's content, manual visits are a waste of time. Let tech do its job.
- 1/6, 8pm
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@macgenie Awesome. I can totally see why they'd be eager to have you on board as a partner.
- 1/4, 8am
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I'm soliciting feedback about who has the best WYSIWYG HTML editor on the Mac. Sandvox? Something else?
- 1/3, 8am
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@clint That's why you should never think about anything before going to bed.
- 1/3, 12am
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How much time would you save if EVERY application on your computer honestly and accurately notified whenever anything of interest arrived?
- 1/2, 11pm
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New Years Eve 5 years ago. Nostalgia compliments of my good friend Jeff: [ http]
- 1/2, 9pm
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@luomat Be sure she knows about the "OneAcross.com looup" under Solution menu. I'm thinking of integrating dictionary support, too.
- 1/1, 12pm
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Via @danwood, a video about NYC's pedestrian/bicycle improvements: [ http] ... SF is getting schooled by NY. BURNED!
- 1/1, 9am
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@danwr Aha! That works? Sweet, I'll file it away for that mythical future day when I own my own home ;)
- 12/31, 11am
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Honored and gratified to have MarsEdit chosen as one of Leo Laporte's "Picks of the Year": [ http] ... thanks, @leolaporte!
- 12/31, 11am
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I kid you not, I lost like 130 followers since I touched @hotdogsladies. The third rail of Twitter. His unfollow is contagious.
- 12/18, 4pm
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Pair explained that email advisories are not sent for "minor updates" such as Python 2.5 -> 2.6.1. Good to know and beware of.
- 12/17, 5pm
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As Apple pointed out, their stores give unprecedented access to customers. Maybe the solution is to take to the Apple Store theatres.
- 12/16, 4pm
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@kiranmaxweber Last I checked it does work with SquareSpace.
- 12/14, 11am
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@jsnell You guys are probably just hoarse from trying to talk over me. Me? I'm fine, because I'm like an olympic athlete of loudness.
- 12/10, 11am
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@cbarrett New is a shorthand for [[alloc] init] ... that's all you need to know.
- 12/7, 8pm
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@AmyJane The thing is you could add Jonas's advice to the list of recommendations, and it wouldn't appear too out of place.
- 12/7, 5pm
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The bus is only half filled, yeehaw. Bit the wifi is busted. Not impressed so far with Bolt Bus internet. Also too, the carsickness.
- 12/3, 11am
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@chockenberry I especially love the kagi.com email address for you. Ah, brings a tear to my eye.
- 11/25, 9pm
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@JeffLynch That's a great tip and a great usability design on Apple's part.
- 11/21, 4pm
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People keep talking about HRC "conflict of interest" for SoS, because of Bill. Wouldn't these conflicts have applied to Prez HRC as well?
- 11/19, 4pm
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DreamHost customer and your mail comes in through the "spunky" server? It's probably giving false bounce messages to your sender. Reported.
- 11/19, 11am
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BusinessWeek making false drama about HP's multi-touch laptop. Apple is rarely the first to do anything, unless you count "doing it right."
- 11/18, 10pm
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Quoting @dmoren: "Seriously, why would you fuck with someone who *creates blogging tools*?" ... I couldn't agree with this sentiment more ;)
- 11/18, 5pm
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About Aeron chairs: if you like the way it feels on your body, buy it. They just don't break. That's my experience, anyway. Worth the $1K.
- 11/14, 5pm
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@cdmnky I was starting to think I was rejected by silence, but it just came in confirming a few minutes ago.
- 11/11, 10pm
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@smeger Pool rules always need to be settled ahead of time. Even in the US I've had huffs about bar vs. tournament rules.
- 11/9, 8pm
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I don't think any of us who isn't black can really appreciate all that this Obama election means. Colin Powell wept: [ http]
- 11/5, 8pm
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@timbray Great news! Now QUICK don't try anything else ;)
- 11/5, 6pm
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Punkass News Syndicate projects Obama to win US Presidency.
- 11/4, 7pm
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@fraserspeirs I don't know the bible well enough to even parse that comparison fairly. But the supporters I know don't go there at all.
- 11/4, 1am
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By my recollection, George W. Bush was elected somewhat dispassionately. Look where that got us. No accusations of messiah worship there.
- 11/4, 12am
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Tumblr is kicking ass helping me work through the finer points of the API changes. KUDOS!
- 11/3, 12pm
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@adamengst Re: trigger point therapy, I have found self-massage very helpful as well. Knobble and thera-cane are useful products.
- 11/3, 12pm
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@leebennett The publicly disclosable information is just that yes, I'm working on it.
- 11/3, 10am
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(The ideal behavior would be for MarsEdit to mimic the "different post types" of Tumblr, but that's not going to happen very soon).
- 11/3, 9am
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@dnanian Thanks - yes, I was gushing. It does seem like a great collection of tests. (I acknowledge the element of false alarm with SD!).
- 10/31, 1pm
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Since Twitter doesn't let you look at others' @Replies anymore, you can't see the full context in which the rant stream exists.
- 10/27, 8pm
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For the Little Democrat Bitches who insist my vote, personally, made a difference. I voted in California where, as it happens, it didn't.
- 10/27, 8pm
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Hey everybody, remember missing tweets? <knocks on wood>
- 10/22, 2pm
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@joshkim There is no facility for automatic tweet-posting of blog posts. May be facilitated in future by general purpose scripted actions.
- 10/22, 12pm
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I for one support @schwa's right to call America's bullshit while living here as non-citizen. That's a very American behavior, in my book.
- 10/20, 12pm
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@kbaxter I would have a hard time extracting that argument from my linking to a thoughtful Powell commentary. I'm not making an argument.
- 10/20, 10am
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@wilshipley Happy birthday, buddy. Keep on keeping on. Let's kick ass.
- 10/16, 4pm
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Feeling pretty good about myself for releasing an app update today. Sure, it took me about 2 weeks from when I checked in the last change.
- 10/15, 4pm
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I use Pair for my main site. Was experimenting with Slicehost. They lost the server and claim the RAID was "corrupted" so they can't restore
- 10/12, 8pm
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Looks like I better get some more apps on the AppStore if I wanna buy a place in Brooklyn.
- 10/11, 8pm
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@siracusa For Core Intuition we use Audio Hijack Pro to record our individual line-ins while communicating over Skype.
- 10/9, 9pm
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Quick stop at the gym and then CocoaHeads. See you there, Boston!
- 10/9, 2pm
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First CocoaHeads for me in months tonight. Sorely lacking live geeky conversations.
- 10/9, 8am
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Palin has to speak twice as fast because of her buzzword tourettes.
- 10/2, 6pm
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@rentzsch You're assuming that a user of this app would necessarily just blindly call all of their friends with political spam. It's a tool.
- 10/2, 10am
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Looking closer at the RealClearPolitics.com electoral map. Some "solid McCain" states, e.g. Arkansas, have not been polled since July!
- 9/28, 10am
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Unfortunately it was JUST today that I bought my last Apple DRM album. But I think that will be my last.
- 9/25, 5pm
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I'm surprised nobody suggested to McCain that cancelling a debate appearance with 2 days notice would lead to a guarantee of negative press.
- 9/24, 10pm
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A mutually funded organization wouldn't work unless it had very specific and clear goal: uphold the standards proposed by @wilshipley.
- 9/24, 5pm
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I wonder if John McCain's publicity is done by the same firm that handles Microsoft.
- 9/24, 2pm
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@hodgman You are tweeting all this from a Zune in order to maintain your public image, right?
- 9/21, 5pm
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I want to run my own software business, but I also want to work at Panic so I can participate in events such as the Sonseed Real/Fake wager.
- 9/20, 10pm
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It's also weird that the "Following" segment is a "fake tab" ... doesn't match other tabs. Call it "Connections" and provide rich content.
- 9/19, 4pm
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Is there a black market for NetShare application resale, somehow? Selling of an entire iTunes account? :)
- 9/16, 2pm
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@danmessing It happened to a lot of people. Don't know how much it's Apple's mistake or people applying with the wrong status.
- 9/15, 12pm
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@blankbaby Hey - smart-ass is a step up from dumb-ass ;)
- 9/11, 9pm
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@BobbyAndersen I changed from Dan to Daniel. Some childhood friends and family will always go to "Dan" first, but I like my "grown-up" name
- 9/11, 8pm
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@blankbaby I don't know if it was the full segment, but it was something at least ;)
- 9/10, 9pm
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@gruber I wonder if there are too many things wrong with Palin. So the swayable portion of America will throw up their arms and like her.
- 9/10, 9pm
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Unfortunately uncrustify seems to have bugs wrt detecting objective-C colons correctly. But it's a start.
- 9/9, 8am
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@IainDelaney There's nothing good-mannered about false sincerity.
- 9/8, 8am
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@mdhughes Yeah, maybe so. Oh well, ship early and often ;)
- 9/7, 11pm
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Congrats to @itsolivia for working hard in Reno for a candidate she believes in: [ http] - Nice writeup!
- 9/6, 6pm
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@dchartier @luomat But the API falls short enough that I can't in good conscience enable it as "supported" for my customers.
- 9/6, 6pm
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Oh, and to turn off the alarm you have to hit snooze, pick it up, jiggle it, kiss & shush it, and walk around the house for random interval.
- 9/5, 8pm
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My point is not to disprove the great logic of my liberal friends, but to point out that fighting it plays into their anti-families trap .
- 9/3, 11pm
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Even if McCain just had Huckabee's speaking skills, he'd be a lot more dangerous.
- 9/3, 6pm
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The Republicans are much more compelling when they talk about core conservative values. I don't agree, but Huckabee conveys them very well.
- 9/3, 6pm
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In case you undervalue everybody on Twitter spouting politics, finally we get Lindsay Lohan's esteemed opinons: [ http]
- 9/2, 1pm
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