Now that the tool I use to manage S3 is available for Firefox 3, I have been able to switch to it, and I have. But there’s a real problem with how search works in this browser. It could be there’s a simple solution if so, let me know what it is. But right now, it’s broken.
Here’s the problem — I go to the search box in the upper right corner of the window and enter a phrase, and click Return. What I expect to happen is that Google opens with results for that search term. What actually happens is that cuil.com opens with results for that search term. Okay, I figure it’s a matter of switching the default, when I go to the popup I expect to see the same choices as in Firefox 2, with Amazon, Yahoo, AOL, Google, etc. But Cuil is the only choice, and there’s no way to delete it. Okay, there’s a link to Get More Search Engines, but Google is not on the list. Huh? WTF is going on here?
The answer better be realllly good. I’m pissed. I don’t want to use cuil.com, sorry.
Update: I got hacked. Re-installed Firefox. Fixed. Better.
This is really ignorant and crude. There’s a misunderstanding that bloggers somehow must have the same politics or even standards as the party who’s throwing the convention. I think we should have the Catholic League nixed for being ignorant and crude, and offensive.
Thank G-d no one listens to me!
It’s so obvious it’s almost mathematical.
After eight years of Bush — if Obama is elected, everything will be different.
Instead of a President who shoots from the hip and trusts his untrustworthy gut, you’ll have a President who gets educated, and chooses teachers who really know their stuff. That’s the change Obama will bring to Washington. The rest of it, if you were thinking that all of a sudden one day Washington would work in a fundamentally different way, we can argue over whether it’s desirable (I’d say it’s not) but we wouldn’t have much argument over whether it’s possible — it’s not.
And by the way — when Bush shoots from the hip, he’s probably actually doing what the defense and oil industries tell him to do. He’s like Columbo, it’s easier for them if we think he’s a bumbler, no need to look any deeper.
So the first change you’ll get from Obama is that he’s not Bush. That alone is a lot of change. Now let’s stop worrying about it and get on with making sure he wins. (And we, like the Republicans, should do everything and anything we have to do to win. Sorry if you don’t like it, but it’s too important, too much depends on it.)
Think of it like this. One day you’re using Windows and wake up the next day and all your computers are running Mac OS X. It’s still a computer. It’s still fundamentally the same experience. But it works a bit more logically, and you don’t get in trouble as often. It’s not foolproof, but it’s a bit better.
If you prefer Windows to Mac, switch them around.
McCain, even if he hadn’t changed his tune and started acting just like Bush, saying the same nonsensical things that make you think he’s now working for the same people Bush is (defense contractors and the oil indiustry), would still be a poor choice re Obama. On the other hand, want to have your eyes opened? Watch the movie Why We Fight and then ask yourself if Obama might not be owned by the same people. If he can prove he’s not, then we really might be getting some substantial change.
There are truths to the way our country works that are never talked about on the national stage. Change is possible at that level, but those industries will still have a seat at the table when Obama is President. Eisenhower warned of it in his farewell speech. It’s serious stuff.
Bush gave into these people because he is one of them. His VP is a defense contractor. We know at least that Obama is not one of them. Change? Big change.
I wish the leading icons of the Democratic blogosphere would listen to this and stop worrying about the superficial distinctions. This piece was prompted by a Josh Marshall piece on the subject of change. Marshall is great when he doesn’t ponder impossibilities. Let’s focus on who owns the Presidency and be happy if we’ve been able to introduce a little pushback to the defense and oil industries, this will make change, if we in fact are able to.
Good morning everybody!
This is Dave coming to you from Salt Lake City, UT.
I’m on my Summer 2008 road trip. Started yesterday at 4AM, and got me into SLC at about 4PM.
Stops include Laramie, WY; Boulder CO and on to Denver on Sunday for the Democratic National Convention. Then four days of watching, listening, talking, and thinking and then back on the road to do it all again!
I tried to set up a LAN in my car, to no avail. There isn’t much Sprint EVDO on the road between Reno and Salt Lake. No matter, as it turns out there isn’t much I want to say to or hear from the net while on the road.
I listened to an excellent Gillmor Gang podcast with Marc Canter and Evan Prodromou of identi.ca. I agree with Steve that identi.ca must do what Twitter does, and the things Twitter stopped doing (like the hugely important XMPP gateway) but no more. If a user has to stop and think whether they should use 140 characters or 250 because this micro-message might go through a gateway to Twitter, well, that’s the end of identi.ca right there. Doesn’t make it through most people’s annoyance filter. Maybe later, when and if identi.ca takes over the world, but it hasn’t happened yet, so for now, do what Twitter does — and no more.
Also, Twitter does have a hard limit of 140 characters per message. Here’s an example. I wrote a script to send a 250 character tweet to Twitter. Here’s what showed up on Twitter. 140 characters and no URL linking to an addendum.
Let’s try the same on identi.ca. Good, it works identically. (Hence its name.) Keep it that way!
To Steve, there have been URIs for individual twits for a long time. That’s not something new with the threading features in Twitter.
I loved that Kevin Marks always has one more half-baked BigCo replacement for something we’ve in the LittleGuy world have had working for years. Evan does an excellent job of taking it up the butt (I mean that as a compliment) — BOGU is the way of the software world esp when you’re being evangelized by IBM (in the 80s), Microsoft (in the 90s) or Google (in the 00s).
Marc and Steve have great rapport, wonderful listening, as good as anything I’ve heard in podcasting. And Marc, I left a voicemail for you, but given the way the phone company works, you probably won’t get it for a few days. Say hi to Doc for me!
There’s something really spooky about listening to a podcast with these guys interspersed with doing Bluetooth cellphone calls to them at the same time! Oh man, technology is amazing.
Anyway, I am posting pics to Flickr (and Twitter) fairly regularly.
Today I hang out with NakedJen in Salt Lake and might have a meal with Phil Windley and then tomorrow it’s back on the road heading into Wyoming.