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Boobie Rant: A Defining Moment
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October 25 at 9:55 am - Link
Do you think she'll say yes if I ask her to marry me? I think I loves her. "Boob hater!" - pea♥ fierce as a woozle
Check this too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v... Spricket24 for Prez! - Steve Garfield via twhirl
I tried to get a count of the times she said the word "boobs", but I got seriously distracted. Anyone get that count? - Mike L
You know, this started off painful, but it got funny. I think we should have a "Take back the internet with our boobies" movement. Ok, no, actually I don't, but I thought it might make someone crack a smile if I said that. - MiɳiMagɘ (AlwaysMiniMage)
This is me. Cracking a smile, MiniMage - Warner Crocker
I feel successful :D - MiɳiMagɘ (AlwaysMiniMage)
i get this stuff all the time. i only did one post about people hating on my boobs and it's on flickr. people have been hating on my boob for years... bleh they can suck it. glad i'm not the only one tho - Caroline
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Nope,it's the place of the best tech community. - Igor Poltavskiy
OMG is AOL buying Twitter? - Brian Sullivan
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“I keep thinking I should blog something, and then I look out at the ocean and go play with my dog instead”
June 27 at 3:13 pm - Link
Yes dogs are nice life and stress balancers.. - Fred Grott
Go enjoy the ocean w/your dog! Fresh ocean air on a nice day can't be beat. - Carmen via Alert Thingy
Richard - I think the fact that my dog likes me says a lot about me. :-) - michael arrington
As Bill Clinton, or someone, once said: "I'm trying to be the person my dog thinks I am" - Chris Nuttall
I'm with you there. I think I'm enervated from the smoke and haze we've had all week in California from the brush fires. I feel like an old man. I turned off the cameras and went home. - Leo Laporte
Don't blog, take pictures of the dog and send them here via mail2ff.com - Robert Seidman via NoiseRiver
This is why you'll never make it in the industry, Arrington - john conroy
Such a nice day in the PacNW. Finally! - Brian Daniel Eisenberg
ty very much for reminding me that I am not living at the ocean anymore ;-) ah well - have a blast! - Gaby Benkwitz ☼
Laguna is a cute dawgy.. and spending time with animals is a de-stresser too ! - Peter Dawson
Why do you keep your dog in the ocean? - Glen Campbell
But you just blogged something! Heh. I need to get outside. - Dave Winer
Relax, the Universe will wait for you... - Pokai
Well Michael, maybe there is still hope for you! - Igor The Troll
I've been in a blog rut. I have ideas, yet not the energy or non ADDness to actually come out swinging. I blame it on the rain. - Andrea Baker
@Andrea: Hey, leave Milli Vanilli out of this! - AJ Kohn
I like Laguna. Friendly dog. - Mike Butcher
Blog about your dog? - Gregorio Magini
I'm in a similar situation today. I could have been hacking away at my game but opted for reading and a swim instead. - Vezquex இ
Can the dog blog? Maybe he does now! Kidding. - Steve Rubel
Steve, maybe Michael is a dog, and the dog is Michael. lol - Igor The Troll
saw the qik video. nice! made me think I need a break! - Edwin Khodabakchian
I vote for the ocean! - Mitchell Tsai
Having a good break is good for your health.. Think long-tern! ;) - Darren Lee
when you need to take a break from work...you need to totally switch off if you can.... - John Kotsaftis
You're a great writer, blog :) - dlilienfeld
Go for the Ocean! Its much more fun - Chacha via twhirl
Blogging, like life, is a marathon, not a sprint, IMO - Alex Hammer
Alex - blogging is like a marathon that you sprint. - michael arrington
I don't blame you! Some times you just need a break. Relax and enjoy the ocean view and your dog. - Jeff P. Henderson
You managed to get insane weather here in Seattle. I'm hoping the whole summer looks like this. - Ryan Stewart
good call - Jason Calacanis
you're sooo right. - Eric Sausse
It's not fair to the dog if you deprive him of stuff like the ocean. - Francine Hardaway
I just noticed you finally uploaded your pic to Friendfeed Michael, great move towards using it, now try it in Twhirl too :0 - Loic Le Meur via twhirl
the simple things... - Jαmes Cooρer
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If you watch one video today, this is the one to watch
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June 27 at 2:49 pm - Link
so, so funny. and so so true. - ron k jeffries
halfway through and rotflmao ... - Dan Haley
Is this from the You Suck at Photoshop guys? - Vince DeGeorge
donnie is back today, maybe the competition made him show up again - Dobromir Hadzhiev
"what email?" "you just powered off the exchange server" "just the letter a" "don't use aol" "salesforce.com was on the right testicle" - Ranjit Mathoda
That was a good use of ten minutes. I'm smiling again. - Russellreno
Ok, after watching the new YSAP - This is much much better - flavor of the week to be sure. - Vince DeGeorge
hahahahahaha - michael arrington
"you can't arrange them by penis" - michael arrington
I'm crying. The details in this were just great. I don't work in IT but I know this is what people must put you folks through... - Kamilah Gill
That's hilarious! - fbrunel
that's brilliant. and i'm about ti run out of battery power here, and I won't bookmark, adn I'll probably 4get about these guys 4eva. what a shame!!! - john conroy
You mean he rebooted the webserver without submitting a Change Request Application with work procedure and rollback steps to the Change Advisory Board for review at their next weekly meeting? ;-) - Stuart Woodward
Hilarious!! - Satya Boora
amusing.."how many times did u reboot?" ... - Jaimini via Alert Thingy
I love the part where he deletes all his files and the guy thanks him for putting his desktop back the way it was. - Dave Winer
LOL you can't arrange Icons by Penis - Chris Saad via twhirl
He just kept shooting him in the crotch over and over and over LOL..... - Avery Tingle
this is hilarious! - Michael Stearne via twhirl
Yeah, who hasn't known this IT guy? Too darn funny. - Jim Kukral
and so absolutely true - Jeff Evans
"This is going right onto Boing Boing." Hilarious! - Adam
On the Fedora installation, why is the guy running as root? - possible248
nice - Anthony
Arggggg! - bill giltner
:)) I was getting very frustrated with FF's best of the day page, showing mostly meta-links about FF itself all the time. And then this. Once in a while, there is one single link that makes all these page loads worth it :) - Yaniv Golan
Did this win some kind of award? - Dave Winer
That made my day - Greg Goodwin
that video kills! cant wait to show the rest of the techs at work - Mark Schulz
"What's BoingBoing?" - very funny. - Maury Estabrooks
LMAO for most of the 10 min. Will fwd to several IT peeps I know...and maybe a few peeps at Twitter. Wonder if they'll think it's funny. - Cathryn Hrudicka
Excellent.... - David W
makes me want to rearrange my desktop more creatively - Pete Delucchi
that was hilarious. wow! - David Adam
Rofl that's a ton of likes! guess I gotta! - Frankie Warren
Absolutely hilarious. - Richard Totaro
LOL, really great ! That's why my website's so slow :)) - Heimana
lol. too funny - Alexander Marktl
Way too realistic. :-) - Doug Kaye
you can't arrange by penis - Tyler Gillies
excellent. thanks for the post Dave. - Kevin Doohan
STUPID WEB DUDE. he should have asked the sales guy to check if the website is up on other computers or in a different department. - Hanan Cohen
So funny, I truly have not laughed so much in such a long time. tyvm :) - David Smith
wow!! So unreal!! And I now know what happens with all the network mgmt software I develop! - Shivanand Velmurugan
"Maybe that's not what I meant." - Kawika Holbrook
The realism of this thing is just awe-inspiring. That techie behave pretty much like any techie I've ever encountered who's been asked to do a stupid task. And the sales dude is lethally real too. This is Dilbert meets The Office on steroids. Thanks for the link. - Roy Blumenthal via twhirl
A Classic - Ken
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"Why aren't developers leveraging the various iterations of the .NET Framework?" - Frank Arrigo
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WOW! like for title =)) - Zahra HB
Is it creepy that Microsoft is going to drastically change the meaning of "attach photo to email"? This is an interesting feature, but only if it is opt in and very well explained, not generally a Microsoft strength... - felix
I'm one of the 320m but I dont really buy into windows live yet - something is not quite right.. whatever it is its not enough for me to use it more than rarely. I don't really like Google but I am using more and more of their services - that says something. - riaz
I'm not sure how many people use Gmail but I'd say its a level up from the typical Hotmail & Messenger user. Google already has all that and more in place with Picasa, Gtalk, Jaiku, Grand Central, Reader, Docs, Open Social and Friend Connect. Microsoft is having to play catch up again like they did with the browser and I think this time around it just isn't going to happen. I think many of us would quickly refer a friend to Google for stuff over Hotmail or Messenger. - Delete Me
Scott: very few people use Gmail when compared to Hotmail. I'll try to get accurate numbers, but Google isn't claiming anything close to 320 million active users. - Robert Scoble
nice new template! - alireza
Don't you mean 320 active spammers? - TranceMist
Of course I forgot about my one exception - I'm still an active Messenger user.. it is huge in Europe.. everyone I know uses it here - weird how everyone I know in the states use AIM. - riaz
I'm one of the 320 million as well, but I have only logged in once in the past 30 days, where as with Google, I log in everyday with multiple accounts for multiple services. - Snay Trivedi
Everyone here(India (and Everyone excludes Geeks)) uses Yahoo. Mail and IM. Yep - Yuvi (has IRL friends!)
Good point from Snay above. Hotmail is poor compared to Gmail. MSN is hideous. IM/Messenger is a disaster. Microsoft Web apps are fundamentally 2nd rate. Everyone's a member, but a great many people use a different technology for minute-to-minute/day-to-day - john conroy
I think geeks uses Google Service every now and then.. Microsoft gets an edge because non-geeks (or semi-geeks whose profession is not Computers related..) have subscription with Microsoft Live services and they dont care for a similar new google service! may be because microsoft gives them what they want.. - Jigar Mehta via bTT
"IM/Messenger is a disaster" I don't understand this comment from John Conroy. Do you use Messenger regularly John? What is disasterous about it? It works and it works well. That's it. What on earth is wrong with it? I dont get that opinion. MSN/Hotmail...yeah, they have some way to go. But Messenger is fine. - Jamie
Making it appear in Messenger would be quality, I already have a Facebook tab in Messenger so it would be the natural progression! - Joe Dawson (beta)
@jamie: okay, disaster is too strong a word. I primarily dislike the big (huuuge) load screen/advertisement that you get when you log in. Also, the fact that it loads on boot as default, and unless you disable this adds to your boot time. As with most Microsoft products, I think it is needlessly big/resource consuming. But it does work fine when you're actually using it. I used to use it quite a bit, in fact - john conroy
Jamie: I have to agree.. though the Yahoo Messenger/Google Talk deal is making me consider checking out yahoo messenger again. Hopefully Microsoft will announce a deal with Google soon and save me the trouble. - riaz
You can never count Microsoft out - 100% true. It may have been not having the best of times, it still has a HUGE pool of talent that it can bank upon and the number of users of these services completes the other end of the equation. @Yuvi Too general a statement; I don't use either; and I know large number of users on Messenger. @john adding to what @jamie already said; Wallop is another case in point. - Parth Awasthi via twhirl
I think people are missing the point about consumer behaviors: no matter how hard I try, I have failed to teach my mom how to upload photos to Flickr and then email the URL. However, she's perfectly comfortable with sending photos in an email. The same goes for IM'ing versus Twittering. Microsoft has a great opportunity to "bridge the gap" between these old habits and new ways of sharing and communicating, and making the transition painless. - Carter Rabasa
@Carter Couldn't agree more. - Parth Awasthi via twhirl
Robert, I like your statement, "What did I take away from our visit to Microsoft? You can never count these guys out. They always have the potential to change the marketplace because of how many users still are engaged with their stuff." YEP! The sheer volume of 320 million users in Windows Live and Hotmail is staggering...wow! That's quite a base from which they could build a plethora of social network applications and tools. - Susan Beebe (Santa Claus)
Well said Carter. Consumer behavior is the "norm", not the way we tech savvy (read geeks) behave. As much as we do not want to admit it, we are the minority on the Internet. In the past, we referred to the majority as n00bs or other semi-derogatory words, but the truth is the vast majority do not have the desire or time and a company that recognizes and caters to them will always be around. - Joel Gray
MSFT are stiil all powerful simply becos they have corporates wrapped up - Sally Church via Alert Thingy
@john conroy Gotcha John. Just re-read my earlier comment. it came on a bit strong - sorry about that! - Jamie
OK, 320m hotmail users and 320m messenger users. I assume they're not all the same but I'm sure there's a huge overlap. So, given MSFT have 430m active Live IDs, what are all the other 50-100m doing? And I wonder how many more they'll get when Mesh hits the bigtime. Questions questions....!!! - Jamie
Remember one thing, hotmail or Live addedses are still used to log into all of microsofts online portals. This includes managing your emails from msft, product registration, Connect betas etc and so on. This could be turned into a hugly useful social network with all the information that msft associates with that login. But ive not actually signed into mail for a while so it makes me wonder about the total number of logins currently being used by all of msfts services. - Roberto Bonini
@Roberto, its 320m ACTIVE users i.e. people that have logged in in the past month. - Jamie
I get that. But how many email address total are registered in Microsofts database ( that is over and above the 320m that logged in, in the last week)? - Roberto Bonini
Yep,320m.But Impression that Microsoft become detached from Main Web Trend - Igor Poltavskiy
They already have what you are asking Zuck to create. They call it Windows Live ID Delegated Authentication. - Jamie
And if you're in the UK, you can get FB info from within Messenger: http://tinyurl.com/5sr93s - Kip
I heard this exact same argument all the time when I was working at Yahoo! - the secret weapon is the hundreds of millions of Yahoo! Mail users. It's no good just saying you have the users; you need to execute well as well. I have yet to see evidence of Microsoft executing effectively on the web. It's 2008 and they still don't even know how to design a decent URL! - Simon Willison
Microsoft has more than just users - it has a wide, smart and deep developer pool. The work on hosted exchange / sharepoint and the stuff with Mesh and silverlight lets us know they "get it". MS Turns slow - but it DOES turn. - Soulhuntre via twhirl
@Carter You're dead on. Consumers want to send photos using email. They're comfortable with it and get it. - Derek Del Conte
@Carter, did you try to teach her to open Picasa and click large Upload button? May work.. - Ihar Mahaniok
I've had a Hotmail account since the days before it was MS owned and hardly use it because it fills up with spam so quickly. I prefer Google's offering with the other services integrated so well without the ghastly flash ads. But that's just my personal opinion. Messenger I haven't used in donkey's years. - Sally Church
@Scobleizer: "What did I take away from our visit to Microsoft? **** You can never count these guys out. They always have the potential to change the marketplace because of how many users still are engaged with their stuff.**** " Me: So, if that's true, then why not give Yahoo the same benefit of the doubt? After all, they have actually made money as an Internet company, something which MSFT has yet to figure out how to do. I would agree that Jerry has to majorly deliver now, but Y! has as good a chance... - Alex Schleber
... to hit one out of the park as anyone else. E.g. turn Yahoo into a true social network with innovative features from the inside out... right now of course their social projects have been floundering, probably in part due to the Micro-hoo distraction. Hope that all of Y! mgmt just had the crap scared out of them and that they will be hungry once again. Rebuild that rotting empire (well, same could be said for MSFT). - Alex Schleber
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