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Twitter Updates for 2009-10-27

Slava — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 04:59:59 +0000

great presentation RT @fredwilson: I am showcasing a couple things i read today and liked Digital Strangelove http://bit.ly/Ks6V0 #
spot-checking new production release. the toil and trouble of daily routine… #

Twitter Updates for 2009-10-22

Slava — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 04:59:59 +0000

I do not understand Friedman’s references to untouchables in his op-ed - http://bit.ly/1wNHrD. Wikipedia doesn’t help - http://bit.ly/4JPga #

Twitter Updates for 2009-10-21

Slava — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 04:59:59 +0000

$2.49/mo for Slate on Kindle. Is that because there are no ads on Kindle or because of bandwidth costs? #

Twitter Updates for 2009-10-20

Slava — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 04:59:59 +0000

after days of being remote and VPN, it is nice to be on a LAN and have things load quickly for internal resources. #

Twitter Updates for 2009-10-17

Slava — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 04:59:59 +0000

playing with new IBM Portal beta on Amazon EC2 #
only $20 difference between US Only and US+International coverage for kindle - http://bit.ly/1VEprc, seems like a good deal for travelers #

Twitter Updates for 2009-10-16

Slava — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 04:59:59 +0000

downloading conference materials… hopefully every session is in there! #pec09 #
ok… google wave is a bit buggy so far :) #
one of my favorite columns, because nothing in law-land is as simple as it looks - http://bit.ly/4s7uiJ #

Twitter Updates for 2009-10-15

Slava — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 04:59:59 +0000

watching a demo of Portal theme “ExtremeBlue” written entirely in Flex, using JS and REST services for portal data. very cool!!! #pec09 #

Twitter Updates for 2009-10-14

Slava — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 04:59:59 +0000

cloud services - great presentation so far. and a full room. heard animoto story before, but it never stops to amaze. #pec09 #
new new thing for demos - do not bother with VMWare - just host it on amazon. #pec09 #
Why don’t status messages just expire after 12 hours? #

Twitter Updates for 2009-10-13

Slava — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 04:59:59 +0000

anyone organizing tweetups at #pec09 ? #
great line, “[sametime/uc2] designed to help eliminate human latency” very good point #pec09 #
people are building *really* cool sametime plugins. bluetooth + radio location services for sametime. #pec09 #
WCM portlets also supposed seedlist 1.0 - awesome. #pec09 #
theme development for 6.1.5 is finally what it should be — simple and powerful. #pec09 #
definitely drinking the cool-aid. Client-side analytics microformat FTW! #pec09 #

Twitter Updates for 2009-10-12

Slava — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 04:59:59 +0000

Mildly disturbing & accusatory posters at LaGuardia. “Lotus knows who will miss you.” & how to reach me? http://pic.gd/9f386f #
Very impressed with iphone photoshop mobile app. #
If you attend a conference, but it does not have a real #tag, did it really happen? #
IBM, Coke, and Microsoft are top brands worldwide? Really? Should we be more concerned about the world… #
More stalker sppech from lotus, “lotus knows… Reach them where they live and work” seriously??? #

Twitter Updates for 2009-10-10

Slava — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 04:59:59 +0000

ant-trust violation for mainframes? http://bit.ly/boHWx #
pretty interesting stackexchange site for just “users” - http://bit.ly/mW4ly #
heh. finally registred for Portal Conference a day before actually flying out to it. Now for those #ls10 abstracts… #

Twitter Updates for 2009-10-09

Slava — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 04:59:59 +0000

RT @fredwilson: OH at #usvsummit “we tried charging for our api without much succes, then we paid developers to use it and it took off” #

Twitter Updates for 2009-10-08

Slava — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 04:59:59 +0000

Thinking of teamwork and marketing on the way home from the Yankees game after a customer event. #

Twitter Updates for 2009-10-07

Slava — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 04:59:59 +0000

of all airlines, only Delta has e-tickets that are classified as spam by gmail… #ls10 #
Sounds silly, but cannot wait for Spolsky/fogcreek announcements from their dev days. Are they on their way to ecosystem like 37Signals are? #

Twitter Updates for 2009-10-06

Slava — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 04:59:59 +0000

considering going to see http://bit.ly/WtHva - Serizawa:Master of Japanese Textile Design #
so I got to do #Lotusphere abstracts, but is there really a point? I *never* get in #ls10 #

Twitter Updates for 2009-10-02

Slava — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 04:59:59 +0000

proposed onion headline… “local teacher from elite university confused by two welcome emails” #

Twitter Updates for 2009-09-26

Slava — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 04:59:59 +0000

Last leg of the trip. AMS to JFK. Airlines must be making a mint - every flight I’ve been was full. #

Twitter Updates for 2009-09-25

Slava — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 04:59:59 +0000

What’s the difference between getting on a plane and missing your oversold flight? American passport, apparently, really helps. #

Twitter Updates for 2009-09-24

Slava — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 04:59:59 +0000

if you are a 3 days late on a 3-week iteration, is not that a 20% overrun? Or just 3 days late and it is not a big deal? #

Twitter Updates for 2009-09-23

Slava — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 04:59:59 +0000

Listening a customer talk about our solution at an IBM forum in St. Petersburg, Russia. Always fun. http://myloc.me/J3KG #
Didn’t realize they had 100 people just uploading content into WCM all day long. #
just bought skype credit for calling into conf calls while away. will see how well it works… #

Twitter Updates for 2009-09-22

Slava — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 04:59:59 +0000

At breakfast. Place called elki-palki. http://pic.gd/994e00 #
really, really using up those 24 hours of internet access (RUB 900 at the hotel, free across the street) #
inbox zero? not really, but getting better. #

Twitter Updates for 2009-09-21

Slava — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 04:59:59 +0000

Transferring at Paris CDG. Why would a french airport have no sit-down full service restaurant? #
Back in ussr. Broken escalators and a huge line to enter. Par for the course, that. Just hope 05.11.09 on my visa is nov 5, and not may 11. #

Twitter Updates for 2009-09-18

Slava — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 04:59:59 +0000

a bit excessive? .”wearing fine gloves collect the sole pekoe…with golden scissors…. At no moment do the hands …touch these leaves…” #

Twitter Updates for 2009-09-17

Slava — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 04:59:59 +0000

today is quickly shaping up to be a ‘what’s wrong with DB2 now” day. 3 different problems in 3 different environments on the same day. #

Twitter Updates for 2009-09-11

Slava — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 04:59:59 +0000

heh. me like! RT @KathySierra: The FizzBin Secret Tech Support Handshake? I Want To Believe. http://tr.im/yjfg (thx @Wolfbyte @sajidnizami) #

Twitter Updates for 2009-09-10

Slava — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 04:59:59 +0000

Dropping kids off at school. First time to first grade. freaky… #
just having major problems lately working with Windows and some websites. They are clearly designed for some strange breed of people. #

Twitter Updates for 2009-09-09

Slava — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 04:59:59 +0000

external drives making unhappy noises. I think it is time I bought new ones.. #

Twitter Updates for 2009-09-05

Slava — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 04:59:59 +0000

RT @debedb: … biographies of the First Family’s pets: http://bit.ly/FAKQO, and then, “Where did Vice President Cheney meet his wife?” #
Weirdly excited about stackoverflow becoming a platform (http://stackexchange.com/). Now to mash it with uservoice/getsatisfaction… #
ha! cheaper to print, store AND ship a book then to send a few bits over the wire? http://bit.ly/2OgzTs #

Twitter Updates for 2009-09-03

Slava — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 04:59:59 +0000

trying to find a good way to provide previews of many different document formats. iPaper/scribd is very nice, but cannot be locally hosted #

Twitter Updates for 2009-08-29

Slava — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 04:59:59 +0000

heh RT @debedb: Give a man a credit card, he’ll eat for a day.Teach a man to phish… #

Twitter Updates for 2009-08-27

Slava — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 04:59:59 +0000

very very good - http://bit.ly/i4SMJ RT @KathySierra: @bokardo, … Thanks @DHS for link to his slides: #
does twitter effectively replace delicious if I tweet about all/most links I care to save for later? less tagging, but more context? #

Twitter Updates for 2009-08-26

Slava — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 04:59:59 +0000

For years, I loved to read Slate’s “Morning Edition”. The new “Slatest Morning Edition” is what I did not like . All links, no context. #

Twitter Updates for 2009-08-25

Slava — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 04:59:59 +0000

continuing on my sick obsession with buying books facilitated by kindle. just. too. easy. #
trying to call WaMu again. 5th time to talk to someone about my mortgage tonight. #

Twitter Updates for 2009-08-19

Slava — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 04:59:59 +0000

RT @debedb: Today’s curmudgeons suck.I walked to school uphill both ways thru corpses of those who died saying”over my dead body” #
like the phrase, wish it was real - “Some are just here on a thirty-day ‘have fun storming the castle!’ visa” from (http://bit.ly/20Tmd2) #

Twitter Updates for 2009-08-13

Slava — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 04:59:59 +0000

must rem RT @fredwilson: Companies and basketball teams are the same When you let the other team/company dictate the style of play, you lose #

Twitter Updates for 2009-08-12

Slava — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 04:59:59 +0000

why would not this book be available on kindle? http://bit.ly/1a4hXi #

Twitter Updates for 2009-08-11

Slava — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 04:59:59 +0000

wow. was offline for 9 days in OBX. not sure how glad I am to be back #

Twitter Updates for 2009-08-03

Slava — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 04:59:59 +0000

AT&T network on Outer Bank islands is simply terrible. #

Twitter Updates for 2009-07-30

Slava — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 04:59:59 +0000

indeed! RT @debedb: RT @justinvincent I’m surprised there was no RT’s of “Embrace technical debt http://bit.ly/fGBFS” - Very good article! #

Twitter Updates for 2009-07-29

Slava — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 04:59:59 +0000

google voice not letting me forward 2 accounts to the same “real” number. why not? business and personal numbers must not meet? #fail #

Twitter Updates for 2009-07-24

Slava — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 04:59:59 +0000

keep reminding myself, “the plural of anecdote is not data” #

Twitter Updates for 2009-07-23

Slava — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 04:59:59 +0000

the saga continues…RT @ErikSorensen: I think my query needs a better plan… http://twitpic.com/b9ah4 #
Who do best on Twitter? People who always seem to speak “too little” #

Twitter Updates for 2009-07-21

Slava — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 04:59:59 +0000

sweet! RT @balsamiq: [Announcement] A new plugin: Mockups for FogBugz! http://is.gd/1FpSo - Yes, we are stoked about it too. :) #
wow. @esorensen just used exclamation!!! and ALL CAPS in a message. What is this world coming to? #

Twitter Updates for 2009-07-19

Slava — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 04:59:59 +0000

I have been waiting for this book, but I do not think I will wait *this* long, “Publisher: Bantam (December 31, 2035)” #

Twitter Updates for 2009-07-15

Slava — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 04:59:59 +0000

“Exxon says algae fuels project may cost billions” - don’t new fields cost billions (often tens of billions) to bring online as well? #
Sometimes you just wish Leonard Cohen song would play on the radio. Rare, but it happens #

Twitter Updates for 2009-07-14

Slava — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 04:59:59 +0000

just re-read Lier’s Poker (http://bit.ly/VQHo7) for the first time since college. The more things change… #
thank you amex for not letting me report my card stolen online and redirecting me to a non-working #. http://twitpic.com/a8vhs #

Twitter Updates for 2009-07-11

Slava — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 04:59:59 +0000

question on release day: “are you fixing something, breaking something, or adding something?” #
tried using yammer.com. Seems like good old private irc channel. #

Twitter Updates for 2009-07-09

Slava — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 04:59:59 +0000

yeah. I really did say this, “we cannot let non-existent use cases stop us from creating more complicated code”. In jest. I think. #

Twitter Updates for 2009-07-08

Slava — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 04:59:59 +0000

wow, what a blast from the past. RT @debedb: http://tinyurl.com/m24ofb ( @tweetmeme ) #

Twitter Updates for 2009-07-04

Slava — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 04:59:59 +0000

Sweet. Google voice plays messages in QuickTime, so I can listen to them on iPhone. #