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Commented Nov 3, 2008 on NO on 8, shame on Google Adwords at TheDieline.com: Package Design
NO on 8, shame on Google Adwords
As some of you may or may not have noticed, Google Adwords has been targeting our California readers by placing "Yes on 8" ads on The Dieline. This is inexcusable. I am not sure how long they have been running, but as soon as I noticed this morning I have removed all google ads until google can ...
I showed this to Anil the other day and he said it was terrible and turned it off after 30 seconds.
I couldn't believe it. It's GENIUS.
Commented Oct 24, 2008 on palin song / different trains at sippey.com
palin song / different trains
Via Alex Ross at [The Rest is Noise](http://www.therestisnoise.com/2008/10/political-music.html) comes *Palin Song*, Henry Hey's piano accompaniment to Sarah Palin's interview with Katie Couric. Just press play and give it a minute to sink in... As Ross points out, listeners who appreciate *Pa...
That is the best 1yr old costume ever ever ever.
Commented Oct 20, 2008 on The Saddest and/or Greatest Costume Ever! at Nested
The Saddest and/or Greatest Costume Ever!
We know that in a couple years we're not going to have much say in what costume Penelope wants to wear for Halloween. Sure, we're going to outlaw baby Lolita garb and will offer help in the form of sewing skills, but we have a feeling that she'll have no problem expressing a strong opinion. Th...
I'm wondering if more accountability could be achieved through tools that tracked all your comments across blogs, for both making comments feel more valuable by being easy to read and share with people that follow you (I left five comments today on four different sites, go check them out!) and maybe another benefit would be that maybe people would feel they had a reputation to uphold and apply some social pressure to not be an asshole?
(I used typekey so we should get some extra good food)
Commented Aug 28, 2008 on commenting on commenting at sippey.com
commenting on commenting
Matt Haughey has an interesting post on his blog about [feeling like an "old man" of blogging](http://a.wholelottanothing.org/2008/08/27/becoming-an-old-blogging-man/), railing against the young whippersnappers and their commenting habits... > It’s tough because I love blogs and I love comments i...
Yay! Great to see you back.
Commented Mar 17, 2008 on Proud to Be Me at Dollarshort
Proud to Be Me
I didn't win many awards as a kid. When I was seven, though, I awarded myself a homemade prize ribbon fashioned out of a raveling brown fabric remnant. And with my little white crayon, what did I scrawl on this ribbon? "Winner." That's it. Not "1st Place" or "Good Job!" Just "Winner." I guess I w...
We've had birthday parties with no gifts for our daughter, and everyone seems to think that's fine. She's 2 and barely gets the concept of free gifts, and much prefers eating cupcakes with half a dozen friends.
Asking parents to donate to a charity seems like too much, especially given that among my daughter's friends and their parents, the politics among all of them would make picking a single worthy charity that no one could find fault with almost impossible.
Commented Jul 28, 2007 on "Gift-Free" Birthday Parties for Kids at Nested
"Gift-Free" Birthday Parties for Kids
Opinion Polls & Market Research Today's New York Times covers the growth of "gift-free" parties, where, instead of presents, guests are encouraged to bring a donation for the charity of the little host's choosing. The benefits are obvious -- teaching kids altruism, reducing the amount of additi...
Install TiVotool. It should be able to read .tivo files in iTunes
http://tivotool.com/screenshots/screenshots.html
Commented Dec 7, 2005 on "She asked me if we could be friends..." at Stupidfool.org
"She asked me if we could be friends..."
So, I recorded Sign o' the Times on our TiVo this past weekend, and ever since I've been trying to figure out how to get it off of the TiVo. As in, off of the TiVo, and onto a DVD or my (Mac) laptop. But so BTW, before I delve into the tech stuff, a brief aside that's worthy of the main post, as ...
The only way to speed things up is using a wired ethernet adapter that is usb 2.0 (newer tivo boxes can do 2.0). But then still on a 100Mb wired network, the fastest transfers I've heard are about 2-3x the real-time transfer rate. So it's still slow.
Commented Nov 21, 2005 on problem one: it's way too slow at sippey.com
problem one: it's way too slow
So folks are all a-twitter with the announcement that Tivo to Go will allow you to push your shows to your video iPod. Whee. But my GOD, has anyone actually used Tivo to Go? Or, more to the point, is anyone actually using it on a regular basis? May Wong of the Associated Press nails the TTG ...
I'd start the "I actually *liked* Spanglish" fan club, if there would ever be another member beyond me.
Commented Nov 21, 2005 on Oh shit! It's a recursive footnote explosion. at Stupidfool.org
Oh shit! It's a recursive footnote explosion.
You know what I hate about Spanglish? [1] Everything, except for [2]. [1] There's only one thing that I like about Spanglish. [2] [2] Paz Vega, c.f. [1].
After a recent move, I found myself in the same boat. I am shooting for no longer owning or displaying any computer books in my home office. If I really needed to know something from a 1999 javascript book, I'm sure Google has a better answer than the dead trees crowding my shelf.
Commented Nov 14, 2005 on when in doubt, delete. at sippey.com
when in doubt, delete.
Great quote in the comments of a post by Raymond Chen @ Microsoft about his attempts to simplify his office layout: "The older I get, the more I realize my best tool is my trash can." I still have about 40 boxes of books in my garage that I've yet to move into our house, three years on. On sum,...
I'm using FF 1.5 alpha 1, maybe it's a new feature they snunk in.
Commented Sep 22, 2005 on My other blog at Stupidfool.org
My other blog
Because of the really intuitive URL (http://btrott.typepad.com/test/), I guess you may not have known that I actually have a moblog, where I post photos from my mobile phone. But for a really long time, in fact—basically, prior to last month—the moblog was the only place where I posted. I've thou...
Are you actually making favicons for every image on your photo blog? I just noticed when looking at a few of the large images, the favicon matched.
I've never seen that before, how'd you do it?
Commented Sep 22, 2005 on My other blog at Stupidfool.org
My other blog
Because of the really intuitive URL (http://btrott.typepad.com/test/), I guess you may not have known that I actually have a moblog, where I post photos from my mobile phone. But for a really long time, in fact—basically, prior to last month—the moblog was the only place where I posted. I've thou...
woo hoo! 37BetterMotors inches one step closer to reality.
http://37signals.com/better_motors.php
Commented Sep 13, 2005 on messages from your car at sippey.com
messages from your car
Update from the one to one future, courtesy of the Detroit Free Press: GM's OnStar will e-mail monthly maintenance updates to car owners. The new service, called OnStar Vehicle Diagnostics, will be featured exclusively in vehicles made by General Motors Corp. It will automatically perform hundr...
You didn't use a calculator?
Commented Aug 29, 2005 on Math Quiz! at Stupidfool.org
Math Quiz!
Via Jason I read & took this math quiz, which is a sample of a math test for 8th graders from the Illinois State Board of Education [1]. I scored only 8 out of 10, because I forgot the formula for the length of the diagonal of a triangle, and two of the questions were dependent upon that knowledg...
10/10! Anil would be proud that I've taken to using excel instead of a calculator.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mathowie/38378852/
Commented Aug 29, 2005 on Math Quiz! at Stupidfool.org
Math Quiz!
Via Jason I read & took this math quiz, which is a sample of a math test for 8th graders from the Illinois State Board of Education [1]. I scored only 8 out of 10, because I forgot the formula for the length of the diagonal of a triangle, and two of the questions were dependent upon that knowledg...
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