1. Groundhogs are really fast.  Don’t let those short stubby legs fool you!
2. They are frightened easily but also very curious.  I walked up to their mound and could see them poking their heads out of various holes at me.  When I got too close they darted back in.  So I slowly stepped closer and waited.  Only a few minutes later they popped their heads out again to check me out.
3. Don’t sneeze.  A sneeze ended this photo shoot.

Fill the page - help the hiders

Some of you hide a lot.  I’m starting to hide more often too.  But FF To Go was still doing just one call to the FriendFeed API for entries.  If that one call resulted in mostly hidden entries then you’re left without much data on the page.  Now FF To Go will make up to 3 additional calls in an attempt to fill the page with how many entries per page you have set (in the settings page).

Hiding and deleting

You can now hide and delete entries.  Mobile hiding was the most requested feature for FF To Go.  Deleting might be useful for those who accidentally use the share form as a search form.

And a million and one bug fixes

Everything from fixing imaginary friends to tweaks to FriendFeed’s API HTTP status codes.

FF To Go wasn’t really built for iPhone users; it was built for everyone else.  See the iPhone supports Javascript which meant the original FriendFeed interface worked decently on the iPhone.  Every other phone on the market doesn’t support Javascript and since the FriendFeed interface (both of them) rely upon Javascript for commenting/liking it won’t work on any other phone.  That’s where FF To Go comes in.  It uses zero Javascript so FriendFeed doesn’t remain a passive experience for non-iPhone mobile users like myself.

So if you were using FF To Go on an iPhone please switch over to the official version.  Don’t feel ashamed to use a superior product.

Thanks FriendFeed!

The mother said that higher education was a money making scheme and that it is pointless to buy into it; the other women at the table agreed with her.  She said that jobs were hard to find even with a college education but that there were many jobs to be had that didn’t require one.  To which the daughter replied that her work was going well (she talked of plucking eyebrows; not that there is anything wrong with that).

Megen and I were completely flabbergasted.  Both of us value education above most everything else.  Education is the most worthwhile investment you can make in our opinion.  Megen was especially amazed at their conversation seeing as she is going just about as far as you can with one’s education (medical school).  We tried to think of friends of ours that went to college and we consider “normal” socially (that is they have decent people skills and can interview well) that had trouble finding a job but couldn’t come up with a single person.  Statistics show that even attending a single college level class (you don’t even need to finish) increases one’s average salary.

We suspect that the mother was simply trying to defend her own choices in life; not once did she say “I went to college and it didn’t help me” so that leads me to believe that she did not get her degree.  Yet they spoke very highly of their husbands and boyfriends who worked for Paychex (a payroll outsourcer who largely employees CS majors).

Is this just a world I’ve never been a part of and thus never experienced?  Do the typical tea going individuals not care about education?  I don’t think that it’s for everyone but to make a statement that higher education is worthless is a pretty bold move.  Maybe it’s just because I have always been in an environment that regarded education highly but I was pretty shocked.

Recent is a tricky term.  When you create a comment I store the body in memcache; I have no way of knowing how long it will stay there (it could get pushed out to make way for other data) but it’s definitely going to be long enough for you to realize a spelling mistake.

So have no fear of being ridiculed for your mobile spelling abilities!

Update: Now all comments are editable.

Ever try to do a bzr diff in an unchanged directory?  It takes (on my system) upwards of 15 seconds just to tell you that nothing has changed; git doesn’t have this issue.  Ever try to setup a remote repository in bzr using ssh?  I tried, failed, and gave up.  But I got one up and running with git in a matter of minutes.

I know I haven’t even scratched the surface of git.  There is a lot more you can do because of it’s structure (working copy, index, local repository, remote repository) which makes it somewhat confusing at first but I’m glad to have all the options available.

So far I like git but I need more time with it before I make any decisions.  It already feels faster than bzr and I really like GitHub.

The DK-21M makes it even simpler.  The viewfinder is larger and seems brighter; making it easier and quicker to manual focus.  I’m still not perfect at it but I’m able to get my shot much quicker than I could without it.

One minor concern with the DK-21M is that it requires you to push your eye very close to the viewfinder or you will not see the edges (and thus miss the green dot that tells you when you are in focus).  This is especially problematic if you wear glasses.

Apparently the DK-21M will also fit on most Canon cameras too.  At $30 after tax and shipping I think it was a little bit pricey but worth it.  Try to buy locally if you can to save on shipping.

Megen made a creature too: