Jared B.

Jared B.

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  • Public Wow, I thought this post on "issues" with the latest Ubuntu version was actually going to be something significant, which would have been a surprise to me since I've been running this version since early alpha. Turns out it's just total nitpicking. Oh, well.

    2 days ago Jared B. 4 Replies Forward

  • Public Linux install tip: always get the "minimal" or "network" CD image. It does take longer to install and requires a network connection, but the CD never goes "stale", and you also don't need to download updates right after installing. Plus you can put them on those cool tiny CDs.

    May 12th Jared B. Reply! Forward

  • Public Needs no introduction... don't worry about the warning - it's no big deal.

    Apr 24th Jared B. 1 Reply Forward

  • Public Are we prepared for robots taking over the world yet?

    Apr 5th Jared B. 7 Replies Forward

  • Public Jim Carrey and Steve Carell interview each other

    Apr 1st Jared B. Reply! Forward

  • Public So disgusted with politics....

    Just finished listening to Obama (re)explain his position on the Rezko house issue as well as the pastor thing. He did a perfectly fine job, and it's pretty admirable considering if it were me I'd be going off on the press for what they've become in this political system.

    It infuriates me to see reporters trying to make "news" out of total ...

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    Mar 24th Jared B. Reply! Forward

  • Public Lessons learned so far on Twitter:

    1. Don't follow Gillmor - way too many out of context conversation posts that don't make any sense unless you're seeing the whole thing.

    2. Twitterfeed (people auto-posting content from other sources like blogs into Twitter) is exceedingly annoying.

    Mar 21st Jared B. Reply! Forward

  • Public Happy to be back in my Civic after driving 3 boat-like American model rental cars in a row.

    Mar 9th Jared B. Reply! Forward

  • Public I was getting distracted driving down the 405 and watching the GPS tracking dot on Google Maps update in real time. At the default zoom level, it's basically like a 1 or 2 fps animation of me driving down the freeway.

    Add in the extreme usefullness of the color coded traffic indicators on the freeways, and this is an indispensable app for people who live in LA.

    Mar 1st Jared B. Reply! Forward

  • Public I'm about halfway through listening to the "The Gang" podcast from 2/22 and I think I may have crossed over into some sort of polar opposite parallel dimension: Steve is spewing all kinds of insanity and Jason Calacanis is the voice of reason???

    Feb 28th Jared B. Reply! Forward

  • Public Best politician's statement on net neutrality I've heard; sounds like he actually understands the issue.

    It's from Obama, from June of 2006. It looks like he did a bunch of these podcasts before he started running for pres.

    More at http://obama.senate.gov/p...

    Feb 22nd Jared B. Reply! Forward

  • Public If Steve Gillmore keeps talking about the Google Reader / GMail "scandal" on every freaking show (now daily) I think I might have to unsubscribe.

    It's not just that I disagree with him (although I do), but he makes such a big deal about it on virtually every show, while at the same time being a big fan of Facebook, who have done far worse stuff recently.

    Feb 14th Jared B. Reply! Forward

  • Public Turns out those server problems I've been having (it was down again for a bit today) have been related to a network configuration issue on their end, verified by finally talking to someone on the phone tonight who knew what they were doing.

    Hopefully that will be the end of it. It was kind of frustrating to not be able to do anything to fix it, but the flip ...

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    Feb 13th Jared B. 2 Replies Forward

  • Public In response to the Facebook status "conversation" between Nathan and Jason...

    If I understand correctly, I think the idea is that there is a certain group of people who will always attack Clinton, and most of that same group would probably move to oppose Obama as well, when/if he gets the nomination.

    The mitigating factor there, though, is that I think Obama is a much harder candidate to attack ...

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    Feb 13th Jared B. 3 Replies Forward