Archiving my Twitter, Facebook and other social network activity
Facebook Blocks KDE Photo App, Deletes Users’ Pics
WTF, Facebook? I can see blocking new uploads if you're not familiar with an app that (for instance) suddenly gets picked up by spammers, but even in that case, you should check and see if there are legit uploads from the same app before deleting everything every uploaded with the tool.
Insane beverage? Spotted at Trader Joe’s.
You know something’s wrong with your traffic engineering when 5 cars in a row make U-turns.
Very cool demo of gesture-based and multi-device computer UI “Mezzanine” from Oblong. https://techcrunch.com/2011/06/23/oblong-mezzanine/ via @techcrunch
Finally! Three months after we moved, AT&T has removed the last of the crammed charges from our phone bill at the *old* place.
“Citation Needed” by Kate Beaton. This has apparently been making the rounds on Twitter and Tumblr for a couple of days.
Is blogging dead? “Those links that appear on Twitter or Facebook rather than on linkblogs — to what are they linking?”
Every once in a while you get a perfect shot from the car. I was stopped at a traffic signal next to an area of road construction, and looked up at this crane, backlit by the sun.
Wish I knew why Google Maps Navigation was convinced that I was in the middle of the ocean before rebooting this
ShouldIChangeMyPassword.com
It’s tough to use a different password on every site, but reusing passwords comes with a risk. If someone gets your password from site A, and you use the same one on site B, your account has just been compromised on *both* sites.
Gnome 3.0 is seriously going to take some getting used to.
I want my damn minimize button back. And I want to be able to switch to another app with one click, not two. Have I got a broken install?
Wow. Gnome 3.0 hides the “Power off” menu item. You can get at it by pressing Alt. Which I’m sure anyone would think of, right?
Unpacked a box of media tie-in novels. Would the hardcore fans be more upset at me putting the Star Wars and Star Trek on the same shelf, or the Star Trek and Babylon 5?
This captcha has the letters pi and mu in it. I think that might be going a bit far.
Good grief, UCI Arts. a 3 MB image is not necessary for a “Save the Date” email.
DC only seems to have room for three main Flashes at a time: Past, present and future. Sometimes that shakes out as Jay, Barry and Wally, sometimes as Jay, Wally and Bart, and most recently as Jay, Barry and Bart. They’ve got four major Flash characters to work from, and they want Barry in the “present” role…and now that they have a chance to rewrite history, they can get rid of the “extra” character.
That suggests two likely possibilities:
1. They erase Barry Allen’s grandson and reset his nephew to being Kid Flash.
2. They erase Barry Allen’s nephew and keep his grandson as Kid Flash.
I’m tired of reading stories *about* continuity, instead of stories that, over time, *become* continuity.
Oracle proposes OpenOffice.org to Apache Incubator
Oracle bypasses The Document Foundation for OpenOffice.org handoff
Nice that they’re finally handing it over after letting it stagnate, but it seems like a waste that they ignored the group behind LibreOffice. Not a surprise by any means, but a wasted opportunity. Maybe in the future they can merge the projects again.
Star Trek: The Motion Picture is playing on SyFy. At first I was curious because it's been so long since I've seen it. Now I mostly want to watch The Wrath of Khan instead.
Dear Facebook: If I mark “Friends only” when uploading a photo, please do not place it in an album that *everyone* can view.
I feel like I’m Charlie Brown, DC is Lucy, and the promise of a Flash series that actually gets off the ground and *goes* somewhere is the football.
We’ve basically gotten ONE Flash story that’s *just a Flash story* out of each run since 2005. Everything else has either been setup, wrap-up, or a side story for an outside event.
That two-parter with Bart vs. Mota. Tom Peyer’s “Fast Money.” Maybe Geoff Johns’ “The Dastardly Death of the Rogues.”
Long-form writing only works if you follow through on it. I love reading novels, but I’d much rather read 20 short stories than 10 first chapters and 10 last chapters.