jake olsen

I would say so:

Internet + Internet2 + new Internet = Internets

Credit to my father who made this observation.

When I’m browsing, I often double-click to select a word for a clipboard, another search, whatever.

My surprise tonight when I noticed NYT had hijacked my double clicks to open their reference search, which is powered by Answers.com, and is mostly useless and non-contextual.

Which is how I was taught that Gibson only means Mel Gibson.

Guess they need the pageviews.

UPDATE: It actually looks like they are trying to be contextual, as the double click on “Gibson” from this article passes “say, Fender and Gibson” onto Answers.

–jake

Somehow, I friended myself on Twitter.

It’s bugs like this, that I wonder:

1) How in the hell did I do that?
2) How the hell do I un-friend myself?
3) Am I an idiot?

I had Twitter updating from my now listening bot, but Huslage said that was going to cost him a fortune in SMS fees. Makes you wonder, what kind of person wants Twitter updates all day long?

–jake

With Windows Vista released, I’ve been wondering if I would upgrade.

I’m quite satisfied with my Ubuntu install on my laptop, and the idea of embracing a FOSS operating system on my dev box makes me feel good. I am running FreeBSD, Linux, and all other sorts of open source software on my servers, but am I ready to use it ALL THE TIME…. AS A USER???

There are a few apps on Windows which are very nice, which I always run, or that I’m simply familiar with:

• Tortoise SVN client rules any GUI I’ve seen for SVN on other OS’es.
• Trillian Pro is excellent for all chat + IRC.
• KeePass password safe, neat little open source app for password management.
• WinSCP, using directory sync makes development painless.
• Internet Explorer, just to see what 80% of the world is looking at.
• Windows Media Player, hahah! Not.
• Ultramon, for multi-monitor setup.
• All the Office applications I have come to rely on, though I’ve been getting by with Open Office another machine.
• Outlook, meh, yeah, I know. Been using it for 10 years, so I’m used to it.

And that’s it. The replacements I’m looking at are:

• gSVN RapidSVN for Tortoise.
• Gaim for Trillian Pro.
• Revelation for KeePass.
• rsync + rsyncd for WinSCP.
• Multiple monitors, this will be a little harder.
• Open Office for Microsoft Office.
• Thunderbird for Outlook.

I have a friend who’s made the switch from Ubuntu to Mac… he said he “just needed it to work.” I’ve heard this from many a Mac user. I don’t know what their PC experience is, but I can tell you, most of my systems have always “just worked.”

Also, there is a MacBook sitting right next to me. I only use it to test sites in Safari. You Mac folks will cry “BLASHPHEMY, THE ANSWER IS RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOUR FACE!”

But, IMHO, the Kool-Aid is way too strong.

–jake

I’ve moved this blog permanently to jakeo.org since it more reflects me and my thoughts rather than Urbanverb as a whole.

–jake

PS: for those of you moving Wordpress blogs to a new domain, this .htaccess is all you’ll need:

Redirect permanent /blog http://jakeo.org/blog

My attempt to go consumerist crazy and buy the XBOX special on Amazon failed miserably.

Amazon went down. Yes, down. They can’t handle people wanting $100 Xboxes.

With this, and the recent Alexa problems, how does Amazon expect people to trust EC2 and S3? It seems THEY should be able to turn on extra machines when they have a special that millions of people are scrambling for.

I’m off to be thankful, my consumerism is done for the day.

Happy Thanksgiving!

–jake

I heard about this great deal on an Xbox 360 through Techcrunch last week.

So, I’m trying out ChangeDetection to monitor the deal on Amazon.

I’ve never used this service, but I find idea useful and presented simply, as it should be.

I will report the results here.

–jake

UPDATE: First change detect came in next day at 7:04 AM, but it wasn’t the price and the change detection service doesn’t tell you what changed.

UPDATE: 11/18/2006 - Hmm, that was stupid, it seems that I have to sit at my computer on Thursday at 11am to get this. Am I that hungry for an XBOX? No, I’d rather eat turkey. Yes, I’ve played into the game crazy hype going on this Christmas season.

Like the default skin?

Back to the basics.

–jake

You heard it here first, because I did it. The Department of Skateboarding is your newest WIFI hotspot in Portland.

New trick combos are bound to pop up.

“Finger flip IM”

“SSHuttle Air”

“SmithVN grind”

–jake