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Comment on The Hollow Men - T.S. Eliot by Sun

Sun — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 11:57:05 +0000

The HOLLOW place is where the Fear Festers,
and where Pain turns into Danger.

Comment on The Hollow Men - T.S. Eliot by Senshi

Senshi — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 12:22:54 +0000

Thanks for posting this Jeff, it’s always good to see it again. It is more apposite now than it was when Eliot wrote it. There is even less room for poetry in our lives nowadays than there was then — only tiny scraps of it manage to find their way through the narrowing crevices in a growing glacier of mindless verbiage that is enveloping our lives. As Ted Hughes wrote: “A pen is too light. Take a chisel to write.”

Comment on Project Friday by Jeff Hester

Jeff Hester — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 13:29:59 +0000

Thanks for the comment, John. I’ve looked at Nozbe before and it looks like a solid app. I’m not 100% sold on Things yet, and though they have a desktop app for OS X (for additional $$), I haven’t installed that. But I do like the simplicity of it. Very easy to pickup.

Once I’ve run Things through its paces, I may give Nozbe a closer look.

Comment on Project Friday by John B. Kendrick

John B. Kendrick — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 12:34:42 +0000

I found an application that allows me to view my entire GTD at work on my Win machine, at home on my Macs and even on my cell phone. And another app lets me call in tasks to my GTD without any writing or typing, great for those thoughts that hit me while driving. I’ve written about my experiences with GTD in a blog post at http://johnkendrick.wordpress.com/2008/03/27/more-getting-things-done/ John

Comment on The Hollow Men - T.S. Eliot by Jeff Hester

Jeff Hester — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 04:15:13 +0000

Thanks for the comment, Goethe. It’s frightening the way we are so readily handing over our rights these days. These are “interesting” times…

And welcome to all the people who stumbled across the site from Stumbled Upon. I saw a flurry of traffic today, mostly to this very same post. Hope you’ll poke around and maybe leave a comment.

Comment on Project Friday by Jeff Hester

Jeff Hester — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 04:12:38 +0000

Thanks Philip! As you can tell, there are still a number of things here that still need work, particularly in the right column.

As an update, I’ve just finished updating vBulletin on GetGamer, installing vBSEO and the site map generator. BigBlueBall is next!

Comment on The Hollow Men - T.S. Eliot by Goethe

Goethe — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 03:58:35 +0000

Listen carefully… I hear a whimper now.

Comment on Project Friday by Philip Yeoh

Philip Yeoh — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 02:51:54 +0000

Hi Jeff,

I, for one, am anxiously looking forward to the design changes in BBB. And btw, your blog looks good in this new design.

Comment on Dropcard takes business cards digital by Tigerblade

Tigerblade — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 23:13:27 +0000

It seems like this wouldn’t be too hard to do yourself given some clever coding and a dedicated Twitter account. Set up an extraneous Twitter account and use the API to check for new direct messages on a periodic basis - you could have the message include a number/letter/code (for whatever “profile” you want to send) and an e-mail, and a server-side script does the rest.

Now that I think of it, I might actually try that out.

Comment on Community Server: Initial Impressions by Sean

Sean — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 14:12:48 +0000

Don’t misunderstand me. CS does have a lot to offer and really the product is put together quite well and once you get the hang of it its really fairly simple to work with. I don’t mind rolling up my sleeves but I figure if I’m paying $2000 for something I should only have to roll my sleeves half way not completely disrobe and put on a greco roman outfit to get what I want ….my point was if you’re someone who like me figures a thousand other people must have asked this question before and probably know the solution and would prefer just ask than wait a day or two to wrestle with it on your own don’t expect to go the CS forums or support and get what you’re looking for….and while I’m pissing and moaning I know forum etiquette says search first but frankly I gave up on theirs and think they should consider likewise. I just never get what I expect from it. On our own site I replaced it with the more reliable google site search.

As an example try this go to the communityserver.com web site click community then click forums then in the little search box type “siteurls_override.config” this is their way of building urls/url rewriting and I understand a large component of the navigational functionality and that search returns “Sorry, we were unable to find any results using your search terms. Please change your search terms and try again.” You would think and I know for a fact having used their site that there are at least 100+ posts related to this file.

Now if you change it to “siteurls override config” you get 147 results the first of which is about meta tag robots and doesn’t even mention “siteurls_override.config” clicking through to page 4 of 15 or so and the thing just returns “Not Found: Resource Not Found”. Heck just going to google.com and searching for “siteurls_override.config” produces better results of the community server web site.

I’m a developer and know what it feels like for someone to sit and criticize and its a lot easier to criticize than compliment and like I said there are a ton of great features in community sever but these nuisances can tend to overpower the benefits when you’re trying to solve a problem in as short a time as possible and its very easy to get irritated when you have a deadline to meet.

I can tell you for a fact if I’m using open source its alot easier to say ‘get what you pay for’ ….. when you spend roughly $2000 and don’t feel like you’re getting what you paid for …..very irritating.

Comment on Google Chrome: After One Week by Mike O.

Mike O. — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 18:49:54 +0000

I like it!

Comment on Google Chrome: After One Week by Google's "Chrome" Browser Launches Tuesday - Page 2 - BigBlueBall Forums

Google's "Chrome" Browser Launches Tuesday - Page 2 - BigBlueBall Forums — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 04:53:10 +0000

[...] stats, Fanatic. I did some checking of our recent visits using Google Analytics and found that over 4% of all visitors were already using Google Chrome. Pretty amazing for a browser that’s still in beta and barely a week [...]

Comment on What is Office 2.0? by Steve

Steve — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 23:46:13 +0000

Looking forward to a debriefing over a brewsky.

Comment on What is Office 2.0? by Jeff Hester

Jeff Hester — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 06:52:23 +0000

Steve, so far Office 2.0 hasn’t quite been an orgasmic experience. A lot of flirting but no so much satisfaction.

It has held true to their promise of being an experiment, and as with all experiments, you never really know what you’re going to get until the experiment is over. Some of the sessions have been great, especially the case studies. Others have been heavily skewed with vendors rather than practitioners; a major flaw in my opinion, probably due to the fact that there are far more vendors than practitioners in attendance.

Comment on What is Office 2.0? by Steve

Steve — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 01:19:59 +0000

Enjoy your three-day orgasm.