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Hate Speech

Posted by John Minnihan - 26/03/07 at 03:03:13 pm

I haven’t seen anything quite so publicly – and intentionally so, apparently – vile in quite some time.   I don’t know what to say beyond the obvious:

There’s no place for this in civilized discourse, and those responsible will very likely get to explain the threats in a court room:

http://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users/2007/03/as_i_type_this_.html

Tags: kathy sierra, hate speech

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Fix for Treo 650 Random Resets

Posted by John Minnihan - 25/03/07 at 02:03:46 pm

Until yesterday, I had been experiencing multiple random power-offs and hard resets on my Treo 650. It would power-off the phone without warning, without any apparent pattern: while I was on a call, while I was using the browser, or while it was simply sitting on my desk. If I didn’t see it power-off, I would go for considerable periods with it off. Not good, and I began to hope that it would last long enough to get naturally replaced when I purchase (probably…) an iPhone in June.

Continue reading Fix for Treo 650 Random Resets…

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I love good news.

Posted by John Minnihan - 20/03/07 at 11:03:32 am

“We have our missing Boy Scout.”

As a parent, this absolutely thrills me. As a Scout leader in my area, I am relieved that this had a happy outcome for the Troop. Nice job by the Search & Rescue teams.

Missing Scout Found (from sfgate)

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Janis at 38,000 feet. Sweet.

Posted by John Minnihan - 13/03/07 at 06:03:42 am

I’m in 9C on a 757 this morning and was listening to some Boston (R.I.P. Brad Delp…) on my iPod when the young one behind me started crying… loudly.  So I had to break out the Powerbook and fire up iTunes, which has a volume level sufficiently high enough to create a whole new zone. 

There’s something about Janis Joplin’s voice and the raw, biting guitar of Big Brother that makes everything else seem, momentarily, unimportant.

Come on.  Try just a little bit harder.

Tags: ipod, itunes, janis joplin, boston

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Tech Tip: Publishing iCal Calendar in Multiple Places

Posted by John Minnihan - 13/03/07 at 04:03:37 am

Recently I had a need to publish a calendar in more than one location. Simple, right? Just use Google calendar, Boxes, or one of the other free services. Not quite. I don’t want to manage any users, nor give anyone direct access to an account that is hosting the calendar. I want to publish, not provide direct access to, the calendar.

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Beer tossing fridge

Posted by John Minnihan - 07/03/07 at 09:03:46 pm

Now this is an amazing use of techn^H^H^H^Mwaste of effort, and should be condemned:

When John Cornwell graduated from Duke University last year, he landed a job as software engineer in Atlanta but soon found himself longing for his college lifestyle. So the engineering graduate built himself a reminder of life on campus: a refrigerator that can toss a can of beer to his couch with the click of a remote control.

“I conceived it right after I got out,” said Cornwell, a May 2006 graduate from Huntington, N.Y. “I missed the college scene. It embodies the college spirit that I didn’t want to let go of.”

Read the full article here: http://feeds.sfgate.com/~r/sfgate/rss/feeds/news/~3/100121745/article.cgi

Tags: beer, duke, fridge, technology

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Upgrade WordPress now

Posted by John Minnihan - 07/03/07 at 03:03:49 pm

If you run WordPress and have upgraded to 2.1.1 over the past few days, you should immediately read the post below from the WP team and take appropriate action:

http://wordpress.org/development/2007/03/upgrade-212/ 

Briefly, the WordPress site got jacked and some cracker(s) inserted an exploit directly into the 2.1.1 package.  To their credit, they have announced it, created a fix, and have implemented some security controls in an effort to prevent this from occurring again.

From a personal perspective, I have to deal with these crackers every day.  Each day, there are hundreds of attempts to jack into freepository.  So far – knock on wood – no one has cracked the site.

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The Pilot and the Dog

Posted by John Minnihan - 06/03/07 at 12:03:47 pm

A woman was flying from Seattle to San Francisco. Unexpectedly, the plane was diverted to Sacramento along the way. The flight attendant explained that there would be a delay, and if the passengers wanted to get off the aircraft the plane would re-board in 50 minutes.

Everybody got off the plane except one lady who was blind. The man had noticed her as he walked by and could tell the lady was blind because her Seeing Eye dog lay quietly underneath the seats in front of her throughout the entire flight.

He could also tell she had flown this very flight before because the pilot approached her, and calling her by name, said, “Kathy, we are in Sacramento for almost an hour. Would you like to get off and stretch your legs?” The blind lady replied, “No thanks, but maybe Buddy would like to stretch his legs.”

Picture this:

All the people in the gate area came to a complete standstill when they looked up and saw the pilot walk off the plane with a Seeing Eye dog!

The pilot was even wearing sunglasses. People scattered. They not only tried to change planes, but they were trying to change airlines!

THINGS AREN’T ALWAYS AS THEY APPEAR.

from a funny email I rec’vd this morning from my best friend… my wife

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Ads

Posted by John Minnihan - 25/02/07 at 02:02:55 pm

Are ads on your blog worth the visual clutter? 

Let me know in the comments.

Tags: advertising, ads, blog ads

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Common Courtesy

Posted by John Minnihan - 23/02/07 at 11:02:58 am

Common courtesy isn’t so common, but it never goes out style.

I was IM’ing with a close friend who is interviewing with several firms now, and he told me how puzzled he was that so many of them simply went dark after his interview. No call, no email, no letter. Nothing.

Common courtesy is free, or at least very, very inexpensive to practice (yes, it takes a moment to respond to an email, but do it). Guy Kawasaki is very good at responding to email, even with a single word – and so is Seth Godin.

If you don’t have the common courtesy to close the loop with someone who is expecting a response from you, believe me – you are absolutely screaming volumes about yourself.

Tags: courtesy, feedback, seth godin, guy kawasaki

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• @n3wjack The issue I was trying to resolve was UX, so I'll attack it from another angle. Thanks. # 1 hour ago

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