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Living Room / Re: Article: The Six Sins of the Wikipedia

« Last post by housetier on July 04, 2006, 05:10 AM »

latest projections show estimates between RSN and WIR.

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Living Room / making it easier for the average person

« Last post by housetier on July 03, 2006, 06:46 PM »

for quite some time I have been planning to contribute to My Very Own CMS which will have lots and lots of features using the latest technologies (read: buzzwords such as ajax) such as:

* use drag and drop to rearrange layout
* use d'n'd for adding content
* tight, working irc integration (yes in a CMS)
* TI: total interactivity (I *love* needlessly complicated terms)
...and a few more for which I can't be bothered to look up their English terms

I plan to do this in python. I want to put the desktop into the browser, making the process of creating content the most simple and intuitive task. It will be terribly hard to code. I might not finish it... but I hope I will!

That way I hope to get even more people "into the web" to be creative, without having to struggle with "technology" that doesn't think about the type of people that make up the majority of the planet's population: average people!

(maybe this should go into its own thread by now)

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Living Room / technically inclined

« Last post by housetier on July 03, 2006, 06:10 PM »

Personally I dislike WikiSyntax and CamelCase and such. I also do not wish to code HTML. For my site I have installed a textile input filter. It provides a powerful syntax while keeping the (unrendered) source readable, HTML-code is beyond "reading" without excellent syntax highlighting.

I readily admit that textile, too, can become complicated; my users so far have been able to handle it well.

I think a drag and drop interface for symlinking or adding pictures/other media would be very nice. Dunno if it's possible to implement such features with <buzzword>AJAX</buzzword>. But that's what I find lacking from most collaborative web thingies: easy way of putting content together. I'd be happy when someone proves me wrong and shows me such an interface.

Wikipedia has had a remarkable and deserved success. It is good enough for most people; some will never be satisfied. It is not easy to get people to write. I have been trying for three years, and only recently found one person willing to regularly write something. Wikipedia seems to have had more success...


Still, it is too complicated for "noobs" to put content on the web in a proper way and that dreaded wiki syntax is one of the reasons.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Clueless Product Manager

« Last post by housetier on July 03, 2006, 04:47 PM »

Let me dream here for moment:

one day stupidity will be lethal...

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Living Room / Re: Article: The Six Sins of the Wikipedia

« Last post by housetier on July 03, 2006, 11:04 AM »

Just the excerpt contains many strong words. I am not sure if I want to read on...

I tend to say: "it's free, so why do you complain?" Of course "free" doesn't justify "bad", but "commercial" definitely implies "good". If I want super-service I pay the super-service-fee.

It's a good thing nobody is forced to exclusively rely on wikipedia.

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Living Room / Re: Blog post: PayPerPost is a great new way to lose your credibility as a blogg

« Last post by housetier on July 03, 2006, 02:19 AM »

Somehow that blogpost wasn't really persuasive... To me it sounded like "don't listen to that guy, because he is a dork" repeated several times. Maybe I was too sceptical in mind to listen to Mr. Krug's "reasoning".

But calling names in a non-humorous way disqualifies the speaker. It is so very easy to start a flame war; it's a good way to get attention. But it is also a cheap way. But maybe I am prejudiced and don't want to see his points beyond the ranting...

Point is:

Professional blogger or not, paid blogger or not: Name-calling does not carry much weight.

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Older Newsletters / Re: Newsletter for July 2, 2006 - Codename ''Summer Software"

« Last post by housetier on July 03, 2006, 01:41 AM »

One of the highlights during a month's time: the dc newsletter!

Yay for busy editors finding the good stuff for us

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Living Room / and now the truth about "sushi"

« Last post by housetier on July 02, 2006, 07:31 AM »

 

The Truth Revealed!

 

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Living Room / Re: Blog post: PayPerPost is a great new way to lose your credibility as a blogg

« Last post by housetier on July 01, 2006, 06:02 AM »

Yes HONESTY is very important. Do what you have to do, but be honest about it.

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Living Room / Re: video on sushi etiquete

« Last post by housetier on July 01, 2006, 06:01 AM »

very fascinating...

I knew some of the procedure already, but now I know how to pick up sushi properly. Eugene Ciurana also wrote a very extensive Sushi Eating Howto.

In my family I am always asked to make sushi; it is really not too difficult and it is a lot of fun! Fun to prepare und fun to eat. You should enjoy a good sushi meal every so often.

Yes, I am a big fan of Japanese (culinary) culture

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General Software Discussion / naturally, my selection is 1338

« Last post by housetier on June 27, 2006, 08:14 PM »

 
So here is my updated list of extensions and themes for firefox. I have not symlinked any of these items, you can get them all from https://addons.mozilla.org/


Extensions

• Plain Text to Link (PTTL) for opening non-hyperlinked URLs
• Forecastfox Enhanced shows me the weather, works world-wide!
• Customize Google lets me adjust appearance of the various google sites
• Feedbag to add RSS-feeds to Liferea
• Adblock Plus and Adblock Filterset.G Updater less ads, more fun. I can't use the internet without this!
• Google Browser Sync this one is new. it gives me very thourough synchronizations between browsers; I use it as means to back up my bookmarks.html

Themes

There is only one theme: miniFoxFlat! Gives you back your real estate without ruining anything. Small, compact, highly usable.
I love it! 


And here I wonder why my firefox uses so much virtual memory ;-)

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Living Room / Re: When you make your 100'th Post

« Last post by housetier on June 27, 2006, 07:01 PM »

I wanted to post about my 100th post as well. So I kept eyeing the counter: 96, 97, 98, 99, oh wow soon! but then I just posted a regular post and forgot it was my 100th!

I missed a great opportunity to say something free of consequences. Oh well, life goes on and some day I'll have the chance to talk about my 1000th post... ;-)

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Living Room / Re: Free blog hosting for members at DonationCoder - might be a good idea?

« Last post by housetier on June 27, 2006, 06:56 PM »

I already have my own blog system, however I wouldn't mind at all if it became syndicated on housetier.dc.com or something like that.

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Living Room / Re: I don't think I read this properly

« Last post by housetier on June 27, 2006, 06:20 PM »

All right!

The world is a weird place... Those things never happen to me; I only always get "super friendly" customer support when I want something I paid money for, but that is another story.

I also get lot of calls from companies that want to sell me lottery tickets and other dubious "deals". But I don't answer the phone if I don't see the callerID. So far, I don't seem to have missed any important calls.

Well... I used to get these calls, cannot say I still "get" them since I no longer answer... too weird, too pAraN0iD?

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Living Room / Re: msn adcenter demographic prediction for donationcoder... 67% female?

« Last post by housetier on June 27, 2006, 06:27 AM »

MS has too little sample data, they admit that.

Somehow I am reminded of the (German) saying "don't trust statistics that you didn't forge yourself" (something like that). Anyway, I actually wish they were more accurate...

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Living Room / Re: msn adcenter demographic prediction for donationcoder... 67% female?

« Last post by housetier on June 27, 2006, 06:04 AM »

100% female users for google...

It means google managed to appeal to my feminine side 

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Living Room / Re: msn adcenter demographic prediction for donationcoder... 67% female?

« Last post by housetier on June 27, 2006, 05:14 AM »

On a part of my site its predictions are very close to the truth: 98% male

On another part its predictions are different; but I cannot verify it: I only know a few of the members personally. Time shall tell...

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Living Room / I don't think I read this properly

« Last post by housetier on June 24, 2006, 09:07 PM »

ohmygawd here he comes drama king again

Well, actually the story is very funny.

Ok, so what's the big deal about it?

In my current condition ("fresh" from the party ) this story here is just too unbelivable!

Do things like these really happen? Is that blog entry really funny or am I imagining¹ things (again)?

If it's true, this world has just become a little bit weirder 
¹How do I spell that word?

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Living Room / Re: There is something 'sinister' going on here

« Last post by housetier on June 24, 2006, 09:25 AM »

I can see mine and everybody else's avatar just fine. This is the only avatar picture I have, I don't change it. So, I have no idea what the cause might have been.

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Living Room / from Futurama to Airwolf to psychos

« Last post by housetier on June 24, 2006, 04:33 AM »

Futurama is cool and dandy and new, but there also is...

...
 And then Airwolf.

-JavaJones (June 24, 2006, 01:33 AM)

Hahahahaha I used to watch Airwolf when I was a kid, which is quite a many years ago. Oh man I loved that show, I thought it was supercool. Haven't heard of it for the past 10 or 15 years.

Speaking of which, I used to watch a tv show with a really psychopathic main character. He grew up in a carton box on the streets and somehow managed to become very successful as I don't know. He is a real psycho and manipulates and murders his collegues to hasten his own career. In his house he has a secret room filled with trash and a carton box; I think every episodes ends with him crawling into that box and wishing the viewer "Good Night". Does anybody the name of this series?

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Living Room / Re: Maillardet’s Automaton

« Last post by housetier on June 23, 2006, 05:12 PM »

 

This is amazing! Even today it is amazing to see a mere "clockwork" producing writing and pictures...

Is that for real?

mouser you find the strangest things

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Living Room / Re: War is a nasty business - a business nontheless

« Last post by housetier on June 23, 2006, 03:35 PM »

People seem to be less surprised than I anticipated. I think they heard the term "war" much too often during the last couple of years. One can get excited about such things so often, then it tends to wear out...

WAKE UP PEOPLE!

If you fight, you might lose - if you do not fight, you already lost.

ok, enough drama: I think in the end linux will be strongah than evah! ;-)

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Living Room / Re: new Futurama series! finally!

« Last post by housetier on June 23, 2006, 03:30 PM »

I never "felt" The Simpson as much as I felt Futurama.

I have seen every single episode at least twice can't say if I even saw every Simpsons episode. I will make sure to see all the new episodes of Futurama!

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Living Room / Re: new Futurama series! finally!

« Last post by housetier on June 23, 2006, 01:06 PM »

Have I missed something?

-Carol Haynes (June 23, 2006, 12:52 PM)

Yeah you missed out, like, totally.

IMHO Futurama is one of the greatest American cartoon series. It has a science-fiction flair, and is really funny; at the same time it hits right on top of certain political topics. But also the story really develops.

Well naturally there are hordes of ignorantsother people who disagree, but who cares about those anyway ;-)

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Living Room / new Futurama series! finally!

« Last post by housetier on June 23, 2006, 02:59 AM »

Here are a lot of Smileys or the Excitement

  














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So you can read it yourself!