“Since I got a Citi card (I think 3 years ago?) the website has changed at least 3 times. Not minor changes either; huge changes. Confuse the users into not wanting to use your site and causing late payments?”
She probably signed up just to check out FF To Go. All mums like to know what their sons are up to you know... no matter how old they get! ;-) - Tony Ruscoe
Benjamin, if your mom has a smart phone and wants to keep up with FriendFeed, I have an excellent recommendation for her. (And no, it's not MojiPage.) - Ontario Emperor
Wow your Mom rocks. Mine can barely check her email. I can't imagine what FriendFeed would do to her. - Carla Thompson
My mom's on FriendFeed as well. Who can find her account? - Louis Gray
My mom barely, just barely uses e-mail, but she enjoys watching Taiwanese TV over the internet. It's amazing traveling the world in hostels, watching people IM their moms over the free internet connections. In 1984, going to Europe was a real distancing thing with very expensive phone calls home. Now free Skype at some hostels. Grandma turned 102 this year. - Mitchell Tsai
Wondering what my mother would think of FriendFeed.. :D - Daniel Schildt
I wanted to display my Flickr photos as my screensaver using iPhoto's subscriptions but the Flickr RSS feed doesn't contain the original size for images. photocastr takes care of that for me. - Benjamin Golub via Bookmarklet
My photo of chocolate chip cookies was asked to be featured on this news site - Benjamin Golub via Bookmarklet
I've had a couple of requests from NowPublic for photos I've published. In both instances, they were family photos, so I declined, but I really like how they appear to be branching into known social networks for accompanying material. Also, those cookies look really, really good. :) - Nathaniel Payne
"The purpose of this caching scheme is to avoid the dog-pile effect. Dog-piling is what normally happens when your data for the cache takes more time to generate than your server is answering requests per second" RSSmeme has been experiencing this lately; I'll likely switch to using MintCache (or something similar) soon. - Benjamin Golub via Bookmarklet
"People swim to avoid the heat in a swimming pool in the Everland amusement park in Yongin, about 50 km (31 miles) south of Seoul" - Benjamin Golub via Bookmarklet
"Made without butter or flour, these dense, chewy cookies will satisfy even the most intense chocolate craving." Megen made these for me tonight. I'm not a huge fan of sweets but they were delicious. Exactly the type of texture I love in a cookie (very chewy). - Benjamin Golub via Bookmarklet
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“I thought I had lost some weight but it just turns out the button on my shorts was coming loose. Oh well”
The same thing happens with me and jeans. Wear them a few times and they stretch out - wash them and they shrink. - Jennifer Van Grove via twhirl
I thought I'd lost weight once because I was another notch tighter on my belt. Turns out the cheap leather had been stretching over a long period of time... - Tony Ruscoe
I either have that bag or something very much like it. I also have a Tom Binh bag which is built like a tank but in the end was much bulkier than I wanted. For carrying around a laptop and very little else I'm fond of incase: goincase.com. If you're looking for more room and a simple look I like crumpler crumplerbags.com (despite the crappy flash site). If you're looking for a messenger bag like the TB2, I love Waterfield Designs sfbags.com. - Kevin Fox
Ben, not sure what you are looking for in a bag, but Jason has one you might like... it's a combo laptop/photo gear backpack. - Cyndy
I'm in the market too, and I second Kevin's pointer to Waterfield. Haven't seen one up close yet (not available in stores), but you can get a good sense of the bags and cases from the web site. And they're made in San Francisco!! I'm particularly eyeing http://www.sfbags.com/products... - Amir Gharaat
Yes. True. Do you imply that there is something wrong with that? Childish swearing might be, but seeing how much we all rely on amazon's fairly young service is most certainly interesting and worth talking about. - Mustafa K. Isik
No; not implying that anything is wrong about it at all. It's just interesting to see the conversations happening in real time. - Benjamin Golub
Do you have any of your projects relying on S3/EC2? - Mustafa K. Isik
RSSmeme uses S3 for it's static content (CSS and Javascript basically). I'm not losing sleep over it though. When S3 is up (which is most of the time) it's a beautiful thing. - Benjamin Golub
“FriendFeed is not able to provide me the messages which counts later to 330 :(” - Anand Muthu
@Benjamin I absolutely agree. It is quite an achievement. - Mustafa K. Isik
