08/17/07 09:19 - 71ºF - ID#40601

Social Graph

Brad Fitzpatrick (of LiveJournal

and memcached

fame) is starting an intriguing attempt at freeing your social life from the clutches of MySpace and Facebook. White paper:

He wants to take your network of friendships that you've defined on the web, and instead of tying that in to a particular website, make it open for any website to use. If you signed up to MyCoolNewSite.com (for example), and plugged in your access token or whatever, it would tell you which of your friends from other sites are on this new one, and you could instantly get going.

Instead of being tied to just the huge social sites, you could participate in a world of targeted, rich, local and interest sites. Estrip would know about your friends (if you let it), and you could always count on not missing anyone or having to reenter all your info everywhere, or bugging your friends to sign up for every new thing.

It would all just happen, decentralized and under your control.

I love Flickr

but I hate that my photography network of contacts is bound up in it and I can't spill that over to other places. I love Estrip, but feel like it's maybe tucked away from the rest of my online life instead of being the center of my personal presence on the web.

Facebook (Flickr, MySpace, etc) right now is a walled off corner of the Internet, like AOL used to be. It's nice and clean and usable - but who wants to be living inside AOL 2.0? It is pulling everything in like a black hole.

The internet is meant to be messy and glorious. Why shouldn't you or I set the boundaries as we see fit?

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Category: music

08/16/07 11:57 - 75ºF - ID#40587

Electric Six

Oh man oh man I can't wait to go see these guys live some day.

Make sure to at least watch until the special effects start.

Too bad their tour doesn't come close to here:

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Category: geek

08/15/07 06:10 - 76ºF - ID#40563

Compiling

Too bad we use dynamic languages at work now...

used by CC license, credit:

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Words: 19
Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: politics

08/14/07 09:32 - 73ºF - ID#40545

BOMBS ZOMG ZOMG TERRISTS

image copyright by Cory Doctrow

Used under license via CC

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: video

08/14/07 06:54 - 76ºF - ID#40542

Bush vs Zombies

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: internet

08/10/07 03:58 - 80ºF - ID#40477

Denial of Service

So, I've been working on and frustrated by this site that I've been working on, and I thought it was ready to launch last weekend, but it's been under a constant denial of service attack for three days now, I only noticed that that was the reason for the slowness and glitches last night.

I've never had this happen before so I didn't think to look for it sooner. Someone apparently really hates my client.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

08/09/07 07:06 - 71ºF - ID#40460

Albany

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Location: Buffalo, NY

08/09/07 07:06 - 71ºF - ID#40459

Vacation

Well, as much as visiting family can be a vacation.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: estrip

08/08/07 11:14 - 75ºF - ID#40449

Estrip India Buffet

We had a great time, hope you all did too!

jbeatty writes at 08:22:39 08/11/07 - Comment #22065: I had a great time. The food was great and the company was even better. It was nice finally meeting some of you. I would have posted sooner but my pilfered internet service has been sketchy at best.

jim writes at 10:11:13 08/11/07 - Comment #22055: I'm so glad everyone had a good time!

paul writes at 02:19:35 08/10/07 - Comment #22026: Ya, thanks (e:jim) for setting this up - you are awesome. P.S. everyone her name is mya, no r

tinypliny writes at 08:36:22 08/09/07 - Comment #21963: If that little princess is Myra, I think I couldn't agree more with (e:James). :)

hodown writes at 02:23:46 08/09/07 - Comment #21944: That looks like soo much fun!!

james writes at 11:21:43 08/09/07 - Comment #21937: Thank you for setting this up Jim. It was a great time.

I am sure I have met scores of estrippers but can't remember because it was at an estrip party and I was too drunk to convert short term to long term memory. This was nice and sober.

And that Myra! I shall never love another woman as long as that sweet temptress walks this earth.

mrdeadlier writes at 10:39:53 08/09/07 - Comment #21934: Next time...

mrmike writes at 07:19:53 08/09/07 - Comment #21923: Looks like a hoot. Kinda wishing number one son and I weren't enscounced at the Fair at the same time.

drew writes at 12:37:38 08/09/07 - Comment #21920: I wish I was there. Stupid work! After reading your lives I would like to actually meet some people face to face!

leetee writes at 12:00:05 08/09/07 - Comment #21919: glad ya'll had fun! :O) maybe next time we can get our shit together enough so we can be part of a reservation...

jim writes at 11:31:55 08/08/07 - Comment #21918: Sorry to cut some people of you out of the photo, I wanted to get everyone in but didn't aim very well.

theecarey writes at 11:27:06 08/08/07 - Comment #21917: fun! so dying to eat Indian cuisine and hang with epeeps!! *kicks stupid car*

this is a must do, more often. Get more activities going..

fellyconnelly writes at 11:21:37 08/08/07 - Comment #21916: you forgot the picture of me passed out under the bar after winning that six pack of toasted ale. or maybe you were just being nice.

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08/08/07 04:55 - 83ºF - ID#40445

MADNESS

I just made reservations for India Gate, I think 14 people are coming. Yikes, I am looking forward to seeing you all!

And once again I beg of you to bring cash, to make life easier when splitting the bill.

7pm tonight, see you there...

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Location: Buffalo, NY

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