I have the good fortune of living in a city that is hosting an Olympics!! I’ll be posting more pictures in the coming days in this set on flickr.

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Every time, anyone, replied to that thread (which incidently has been at the top of scoble’s buzz list all day), it would become the top post on my buzz view as well.  Now you are thinking, “Well, Buzz was not meant for long conversations”. Go back and read the comments on that conversation .. all 350+ of them, and come back here.

Note to Google Buzz Developers: Now that truly sucks, and is such a trivial use-case that I wouldn’t be surprised if it gets fixed in a day or two … it better if you want Scoble to continue to use it (and we all know how vital that is for any social network’s success).

So here’s my humble request: PLEASE LET ME MINIMIZE HUGE-ASS THREADS

Google has already done this with Google Reader, where you can just see a list of items, or see them expanded. I don’t see any reason why this wasn’t the case, out of the box, for Buzz. In end, the only conclusion that I can think of is that, this pre-pre-alpha from a user experience perspective, and somehow all the design gurus (the ones who kept the Google page clean all these years), have disappeared into the user.

Google Buzz is by far, the clumsiest google product, with almost zero forethought to how users, will use it. It’s almost as if, none of the enigneers/designers on the Buzz have ever used twitter or facebook or friendfeed. Somehow I find that hard to believe. I’m hoping they’ll fix some, if not all the usability issues very soon.

Iterate guys! Iterate! Fast and hard.

Here’s a conversation that @Thomashawk started

Here’s the feed for that entry

Here’s the feed for the owner’s entries

Theoretically, one could build a service that aggregates only specific conversations (and keep them updated), or only a small group etc… No more reading data from a firehose!!

That is very nice.

P.S: also this could be a way to aggregate all your webservices into one super feed, that can then be posted elsewhere (comments and all!!)

The power is endless, so be cautious when exercising it

If you think that the iPad is promoting DRM of apps that will lead computing in a direction that will undermine the freedom that we currently are enjoying, freedom the seeds of which have been sown over the last few decades, the visit the link above and sign the petition.

There mainly 3 kinds of responses to the iPad

1. grumbling about the lack of features/hardware/standards

2. Its v2.0 of the tablet that moses used

3. It’s evil. It’s the end of computing as we know it

I’m not going to bother to classify the links below into the above categories ( some overlap ).

http://stevenf.tumblr.com/post/359224392/i-need-to-talk-to-you-about-computers-ive-been

http://www.zeldman.com/2010/02/01/flash-ipad-standards/

http://lifehacker.com/5458690/the-problem-with-the-apple-ipad

http://www.techcrunch.com/2010/02/02/apple-stanza-usb

http://www.scripting.com/stories/2010/01/29/attnJoeShouldWeTrustIpad.html

http://www.scripting.com/stories/2010/01/30/moreIpadThoughts.html

http://al3x.net/2010/01/28/ipad.html

http://blog.louisgray.com/2010/01/ipad-wins-with-casual-computing-and.html

http://inessential.com/2010/01/27/bad_gravity

http://joehewitt.com/post/ipad/

http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2010/Jan-29.html

t3rmin4t0r, had something interesting to say, about censorship in Australia. I think it applies quite a bit to what Apple is doing to all those who enjoy the freedom of tinkering with our computers.

Any country attempting to close its internet borders in the name of censorship should be defeated, for the fear of setting a precedent. Censorship anywhere is a threat to freedom everywhere.

I don’t believe Apple is evil. Well, at least, they are not the only company that is “evil”. I do know that they are a teeny bit hypocirtical.

Oh yeah, about the iPad .. I’ve decided not to lease buy the iPad until

• There is a way other than Apple controlled store,
• Or, Apple open-sources its OS
• Or, Apple stops rejecting apps (any app – even the crappy kinds)

I was but 4 years old when Steve Jobs said

It appears IBM wants it all. Apple is perceived to be the only hope to offer IBM a run for its money. Dealers initially welcoming IBM with open arms now fear an IBM-dominated and -controlled future. They are increasingly turning back to Apple as the only force that can ensure their future freedom. IBM wants it all and is aiming its guns on its last obstacle to industry control: Apple. Will Big Bluedominate the entire computer industry? The entire information age? Was George Orwell right?

It’s been 25 years, and I fear that George Orwell might have been right after all!

– peace out –

Here’s what I’ve been doing since the last time I updated:

• work
• worry
• work
• procrastinate
• gain weight
• work
• quit smoking
• go to India
• fail miserably at quitting smoking
• took a lot of pictures
• return to vancouver
• work

In the end, here’s what I have to show for the last month

P.S: This post is edited to remove some things I said that I shouldn’t have. I eat my words

Here’s what I get when I checked to see if it available in India

Isn’t that amazing!! The Kindle is finally available in India!! Yay!

And then, I see this

GAAAAAAA!!! Why? Why? Why?!!!!!

If you are in the UK or India, you can still buy the Kindle, using the link below.

It turns out there’s an API call that retrieves the timeline for a list, and it works exactly like the API call that retrieves the timeline for an account. So much so that I didn’t even have to change the glue script, I pass in a different URL and it just worked > orig link

I wonder if there can be a better award?! Dave Winer applauding twitter?! I never thought I’d see the day (Just kidding Dave). Dave’s right though. There is a certain high that you get when something just works (as it was intended). That is the high that we programmers live for. It’s like a runner’s high.

It doesn’t happen very often though. When you work on large enterprise applications where several hundred bugs invariably creep in. Decades of dragging along old code and scars from several re-designs is a norm. But, once every so often, you change a complex module, with nothing but your own understanding of how the code works (it most cases, the understanding itself is small miracle), and the change that you make, works in several of the cases at once — that moment is pure happiness. It completely makes up for all the months of slogging, and the bug-hunting

You cannot be a programmer, if you don’t live for that!

http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=327375467&mt=8

You need to check this out. Trust it is really cool and loads of fun

I’ve been waiting for this for a while now! Gary I hope it is all that I expect it to be. If I don’t read this the day I get it, and jump up from my bed at 2 AM crying “crush it” … well … I bet I will.