Robin Barooah

"MOSCOW — Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin spent much of his annual question-and-answer televised exchange on Thursday seeking to reassure Russians that the effects of the global economic crisis on the country would be minimal. He also denied increased speculation that he might seek an early return to the presidency." - Jonathan Le Plastrier via Bookmarklet

Ah yes, the annual Putin Telethon. Much like the Jerry Lewis Telethon, only with more lies and slightly less philanthropy. - Jonathan Le Plastrier

"it is not the time to talk of such things as the presidency..." - Robin Barooah via IM

The text on the front page of the Times reads "Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin spent much of his annual question-and-answer telethon seeking to reassure Russians about the country’s economy." - Jonathan Le Plastrier

What product did they recommend? Dog food? - Jonathan Le Plastrier

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/i... - Robin Barooah via IM

I would have been impressed if the Amazon Turkers found that polka dotted towel for sale. - Jonathan Le Plastrier via IM

"It would be interesting to do a comparison with a solution that included MobileMe. Granted that it's a laughing stock, but it does a bunch of useful things that people generally don't consider: - Pushes contacts and calendar events to the iphone (I am not aware of an alternative for this) - Creates a 'instant vpn' with back-to-my-mac. I don't know how many people use this, but I have been pretty impressed. - Syncs Safari contacts. I used to use weave - which works very nicely - but I prefer Safari to Firefox. - Syncs Keychains - this one is very nice. Having the web passwords that I entered on my desktop available on my laptop is surprisingly cool. Even more useful has been having wifi keys magically present on all my machines. I am very unhappy with iDisk though. Sync mode is completely unusable, and so it's basically just a WebDav. I have switched to the fantastic DropBox instead. On the topic of DropBox - FolderShare used to do almost all of what DropBox does (and some things that..." - Robin Barooah

"“The grid system is an aid, not a guarantee. It permits a number of possible uses and each designer can look for a solution appropriate to his personal style. But one must learn how to use the grid; it is an art that requires practice.” Josef Müller-Brockmann" - sara via Bookmarklet

In case you were not aware of the classic text: http://books.google.com/books?... - Robin Barooah

that's cute! - Robin Barooah

I just ordered this: http://www.espressoparts.com/p... EspressoParts is not the cheapest place to buy them but they were there to pick up the phone get a timer in front of them and answer all of my questions about it. - Robin Barooah

Why do you need a timer? - Veronica

I'm using a vac-pot to make my coffee. It turns out that a key factor in the quality of the results is how much time the coffee is in contact with the water after all of the water is in the top flask and before I take the heat away. I've been using the timer on my microwave to time it (about 1:20), but that is no good if the microwave is actually being used for cooking! Also, I want to start experimenting with it a bit more systematically. - Robin Barooah

"Well, I agree that it may not be passé yet, but I think that's where we're going, and I don't see apple building infrastructure for wired syncing because they will then be encumbered with supporting that model for years to come, furthermore it will expose them to buggy conduits etc. that will reduce the perception that the iPhone 'just works'. I. for a while lived a slightly more nomadic lifestyle than you, wherein I could only sync with my 'desktop' computer about once a week, even though I had an apple laptop with me most of the time. MobileMe made a massive difference to my experience under those conditions, and the ability to enter an appointment on the laptop and have confidence that it would appear on the phone changes the way I feel about the technology. The iPhone continues the iPod model of having a one-way flow of media from the computer to the device. From this perspective, apps are treated as just another kind of media that the iPhone 'plays'. One may quibble with this by..." - Robin Barooah

Before clicking through, the first thing that popped into my head was "it had better be as thin as the iPhone, and my guess is that it is not". It would seem that felix had the same thought. - Robin Barooah

Is that blood on the keyboard? Oh no, my eyes must be playing tricks on me - Jonathan Le Plastrier

Does this mean that Putin has a Macbook Pro? Or maybe the dual quad core tower? - sara

do not concern yourself with the affairs of Mr Putin because he has not been the president since Mr Medvedev was elected by the Russian people. - Robin Barooah via IM

If you know the methods, the names of the people involved, then let them send a letter to the Apple Computers. - Jonathan Le Plastrier via IM

Glad to see you finally got on the train. Have you tried the interactive add mode where you can add a patch, hunk by hunk? Seems like something you could dig. - Jonathan Le Plastrier

I don't think we'd ever switch the primary repository (and I don't think it necessarily makes sense for such a non-distributed-project), but I'm experimenting with using git-svn so that I can maintain multiple pending feature branches since I frequently end up working on many things at once. - Michael

It looks like someone might be working on a Bamboo GIT plugin as well. - Jonathan Le Plastrier via IM

"Yes, too much crack. I agree with you that syncing is a problem for the iphone, and that every app having it's own wifi based sync application isn't the answer, however neither is the palm solution. I used palms for years and used handDbase for invoicing as a contractor and later a treo300, and at the time it was by far the best solution, but those days are over. Firstly the 30,000 apps are really out of date and unappealing. Not just aesthetically, but in terms of usability and functionality. Secondly, desktop apps may not be passé but syncing directly with the desktop over a cable certainly is. The favored solution for the iphone is to sync both the desktop app and the device with the cloud. Apple themselves are moving in this direction with MobileMe (implementation issues aside), the mobile app store, and itunes on the device. Omnifocus is a great example of taking this approach. The main reason why this is taking time to emerge is that developing the backend takes different..." - Robin Barooah

"Unlike many popular science forums, the forum moderators do not monitor the scientific accuracy of poster's claims" - Robin Barooah via Bookmarklet

How is it? - Robin Barooah

I wouldn't say better... similar principle. Blue Bottle Mint Plaza sells the Chemex, and the barista recommended it to me as well (I got mine on Amazon). - Veronica

This looks like my coffee setup I use when camping. :-) - Jenny R.

You know, I never really had a good answer for the old 'What do you want for Christmas' question . . . (cue Jeremy Clarkson Voice) until now. - sara via Bookmarklet

It'll also make a handy raft when I get stranded on that desert island. - sara

"Only ground shipping is available for this item" - Antosh

"It’s hard to see how this posting has any accuracy at all. Searchwiki is opt-out by default - you only see those comments if you scroll to the bottom and click “show all comments”. Furthermore that isn’t a toggle. Next time you search for the same thing, you don’t see the comments unless you scroll to the bottom again. What exactly would an off button do that isn’t already done by default?" - Robin Barooah

Wow, that article almost makes me feel bad about being addicted to coffee. Almost, but not quite. ;-) - Jenny R.

who said "addiction was my problem," I just enjoy coffee. :) - Miguel Wickert- Pineiro

*raises the coffee cup* cheers :) - giuseppe c. | markgreene

funny - that article made me feel better about being addicted to coffee than I already do! - Robin Barooah

I wonder if electricity costs have risen or whether that's just gouging the tenants. - Robin Barooah via IM

before the summer they raised the washing machine to 1.95 here, but lowered the dryer to 1.05 (so same price overall), I thought it was to screw people who air-dry their clothes, but they haven't changed it back yet. - Brian

I guess this would be classed as a "government laser" (http://www.galasers.com/govern...) - Robin Barooah

got one report that says the best thing about the new bond movie was the star trek trailer... - felix

That's not untrue; but it's really a testament to how fantastic the Star Trek trailer was. It would have been the best thing on a lot of movies. (The Bond movie is actually pretty good) - James Williams (willia4)

Wow that looked great - or was it just the tension building music? - Robin Barooah

The letters accompanying the checks are promotional and look like junk mail, so she didn't read them. - Robin Barooah

Fortunately, you have no liability. Unfortunately, it's going to be a pain to clean up. - Dave Roth

I wonder what the feds are doing with 84.5% of Nevada. Oh wait, never mind. - Jonathan Le Plastrier via Bookmarklet

They've been doing a heck of a job "managing" Groom Lake out there in Nevada. They've been managing to make a lot of holes. - Jonathan Le Plastrier

With a name like the "Buffalo Commons", I don't see this happening anytime soon. - Casey Muller

Incidentally, the Vivienne Westwood exhibition was mindblowing. - Robin Barooah

Very interesting and a good idea, but seems quite costly considering what a niche Lift still is. - Robin Barooah

Having said that, I paid my money and I'll be there. - Robin Barooah

I like drinking from a glazed, ceramic mug. I'm not sure that it influences the taste, but I just like to drink from my favorite coffee mug. I did have an unglazed ceramic mug I got in Mexico that made my coffee taste metallic...gross. - Jenny R.

If it's not psychological - and I think that a lot to do with coffee is, another possibility might be that some cups facilitate mixing with air more while taking a mouthful than others do - or perhaps they allow the surface to cool at a different rate. - Robin Barooah via IM

no not really, besides I prefer bowls - clarke thomas

I find this more productive, as it is always in my pocket: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObj... - Antosh

wow - I never knew about that - Robin Barooah

This sounds a lot like the start of the plot of "The Sum of All Fears". Only substitute ice for sand. - Jonathan Le Plastrier via Bookmarklet

oh - a broken arrow? - Robin Barooah

"It sounds like a potential risk in principle, but has anyone actually demonstrated it with a real piece of exploit code? Generally, an exploit is considered to be just speculation until someone has actually demonstrated it with a running proof of concept. Another point is that from your description, the only people in the position to exploit the weakness are people who Apple has performed some vetting and identity verification on - at least to the point of having bank details. A seriously malicious use of this weakness if it really does exist would be likely to have an easier starting point for prosecution than most, and that is likely to deter anybody but well organized criminals." - Robin Barooah

"Interesting! No IMAP'ing the Gmail? That's been my plan for awhile now just too lazy to swap my MX records. But I'm thinking of moving to Gmail as my unified inbox but keeping my desktop (and palm top) app - sucking it all down via IMAP. I'm kinda curious about bluetooth stereo, too - I believe that the iPhone doesn't support it, it seems problematic since the Treo never did either, but it'd be nice to not have so many cables tangling up everything. :)" - felix

IMAP is definitely the general-solution way to handle email. I love me some IMAP. - Ken Kennedy

IMAP FTW! Love it & if I can't use it then it's not worth it. - Corvida