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This week on twitter – 2009-12-20
- I've been seeing a lot of American Apparel ads lately. I may not be the most fashionable out there, but holy shit is that horrible fashion. #
- After a few days away from the problem that was hurting my soul for 2 weeks, I'm back on it. Hopefully I can finish this thing soon. #
- I got an email from Verizon about my $100 Droid rebate. Looks like all is well and they should be sending me the rebate soon. #
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Congratulatons Google Reader! You are the one app that is better on my phone than the computer!
I really need to find a new RSS reader. Google Reader, for all it’s strengths, is really starting to annoy me. I have 352 unread items with no manageable way to filter that list down. If I choose expanded view, they automatically mark as read upon scrolling past (good), but sometimes I have to scroll past 20 pages of images (mostly game screens, bad). If I choose list view, I can see just titles (good) but anytime I scroll down, more items pop up (bad). I cannot find a way to just view 30 or so item titles, and then click mark all as read and view the next 30… except on my Droid.
This is the one website that is more usable on my phone than on the site. All I want is an easy way to chew through these 352 items. Let me mark a chunk as read by title alone. Don’t force me to change my RSS reader over this.
If anyone knows a way to stop the list view from auto loading items on the bottom, I will kill one person of your choosing. Deal?
This week on twitter – 2009-12-13
- Climbing. I have a V3 to beat. #
- What the fuck is ArrayObject? I'm now on day 9 of finding a solution to a certain problem. It long ago stopped being "fun challenging". #
- Now I get to find a solution to Kohana's validation not working with multidimensional arrays. Yay? Yay! #
- I despise mail in rebates. Verizon better not mess up this $100 for me. #
- I need to buy a jacket tonight. It is raining. Cold rain. I have no jacket. #
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Google Voice transcription is chock full of fail
I got into Google Voice on Friday for use with my Motorola Droid (fantastic phone, fyi) and used it for the first time today. I had one of my coworkers call my phone (from his Droid, nonetheless, which he loves) and leave a voicemail.
He said “…available. Steve, this is Phil, my code’s gone awry, help. Call me back. Bye.” and the transcription says “So what the this info. Marco dot. R. R. L. Call me back alright.”
The interface is nice, though. It shows all of my voicemail and lets me listen to them in any order. The transcription has clickable links, too, so you can click a certain spot and it will begin playing at that spot. It would be better if the transcription wasn’t awful, though.
This week on twitter – 2009-12-06
- Getting gas with no jacket… so cold #
- Transferring the stout to secondary. I've never seen beer this black. #
- This is my first day without drugs since Saturday. Hopefully the cold has gone away enough so that I won't have to take anymore. #
- I probably shouldn't be at work today. My illness is at its peak, I'm dizzy and now my head is tingling. #
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This week on twitter – 2009-11-29
- It feels great to be back at my house. I loved Phoenix and had a wonderful Thanksgiving, but I missed my home and my cat. #
- My last day in Phoenix. It'll be good to get back home #
- I just found the motherlode of craft beers. Will and Dan will be happy with my take. #
- As expected, everyone who bet at the races lost money. #
- I'm at the turf Paradise horse race track. I wont gamble, though. I come from a city funded by gambling losses, afterall. #
- Just played disc golf. Very fun. I didn't do well, but that was partially due to all the people near the course that I was afraid to hit. #
- Going disc golfing today with my brother. Any tips, @discdev? #
- I'm in Phoenix until Saturday. I surprised my family by showing up when they thought I was skipping this year. #
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This week on twitter – 2009-11-22
- These new climbing shoes fit so much better than the old ones. I just wish I wasn't already burned out from yesterday #
- Just got new climbing shoes. They even let me return my old ones after 7 months. I love being an REI member. #
- Watching Raging Bull. I didn't know it is in black and white #
- My one big Droid complaint is the way the contact editing is done #
- best comment of the year: "The color of a beer is really no indication on how it will taste." http://bit.ly/beercolor #
- I haven't been sleeping well lately. I'm glad I have a weekend to catch back up #
- The Droid makes everything better, even waiting in line at a drive through. #
- The podcast is done. Next time I want to tweet during the podcast with odd thoughts that go through my head. #
- Getting ready to record the podcast. #
- I finally got my shaman's inscription up to where it should be. Also, he past my paladin to become my new main. #
- I love reading conservapedia.com; it truly is the train wreck that keeps on giving. #
- The cherry stout that I brewed six weeks ago is ready, but I don't like how it came out at all. It tastes like medicine. #
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This week on twitter – 2009-11-15
- It's actually pretty odd not hearing that noise coming from my wheels when I turn or brake. At least I have my car back. #
- The mechanic called – my brakes are in bad shape. I need new pads and new rotors. I'm not surprised. I deserve this for ignoring it so long. #
- My car is at a mechanic. I feel so weird not having a car, even if I wouldn't be driving anywhere anytime soon. #
- Looks like my procrastination has fucked me once again. I really should've had my car looked at a long time ago about the sounds I hear. #
- The mash tun is now complete according to my dad's standards – 3 trips to the hardware store and it has drawn blood. Project complete. #
- I have a few wave invites available. Anyone want one? #
- Since Google Wave gadgets heavily rely on XML, I think now is a good time to use DOMi to build them dynamically. #
- I figured out how to embed wave, but there are a few limitations that make it impractical for the blog at the moment. Someday, though. #
- I got a Google wave invite today. I'm going to figure out how to embed Wave into my blog tonight. All posts from then on will be waves. #
- Oh God. Another dead cat. What is wrong with Ft. Apache? #
- This is today's article on why I hate patents – http://bit.ly/3ZgIsa #
- My phone is always sad. I'll explain later. #
- My day started off shitty – dead cat in the road on my drive to work. It looked like my cat, too. =( #
- mash tun is mostly done. i've got the manifold and valve finished and installed and all i have left to do is build and mount the sprinkler. #
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How does Facebook order the timeline?
I’ve been on Facebook for most of this year, and the one thing I really don’t understand is how the timeline is set up. It appears to be almost random with the post order. Take a look at the screenshot of my facebook profile to see what I mean.
There is no coherent order to this
Testing Google Wave
I received a Google Wave invite today and am having fun with it. I plan to migrate my blog to an entire Wave based system, where each post is a unique Wave, with comments and edits happening fluidly throughout the body.
I am using the Wavr WordPress plugin to embed waves, and I will either assist this plugin, another plugin or create my own to get my posts automatically converted into Waves.
Update: I have been told that the Wave is only visible to Wave users. That is quite unfortunate. I hope to find a way to make it visible to anyone, since I need it visible to all in order to be a viable blogging software.
[wave id="googlewave.com!w%252BVvt07HpxQ" bgcolor="#ffffff" color="#000000"]