http://sean.lyn.ch Mon, 12 Oct 2009 03:21:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en My annual Flickr pro account renewal came up last month.  Looking at my renewal history, I can see that every time I've renewed it, I've never done it proactively.  I've always a month or so after my previous year's subscription had expired.  This year was no different.  I let it ... http://sean.lyn.ch/2009/10/saying-so-long-to-flickr/ This week I've been taking a look at the recently announced pubsubhubbub by Brad Fitzpatrick and Brett Slatkin of Google. The duo proposed and implemented a protocol for implementing near-realtime notifications on top of RSS and Atom. The protocol describes three roles: A publisher, a subscriber, and a ... http://sean.lyn.ch/2009/07/playing-with-pubsubhubbub/ To be fair, the problem isn't so much one of the Kindle's. It's more of a problem with books. I've had PDF books for years. PDFs were the cheaper method of getting textbooks for classes that were not always useful and they were often the only source ... http://sean.lyn.ch/2009/04/my-kindles-biggest-problem/ If I were to write a review, the title of this post would be the eventual conclusion. That said, let me bullet point out the pros and cons: Things I really like Great Customer Service: My first one was defective when received (Back button was broken). A call to customer ... http://sean.lyn.ch/2009/04/i-love-my-new-kindle/ When Facebook first added the "Friends You May Know" section on their homepage, I was relatively impressed. It did a good job of finding people in my social group. In the end though, I only found one or two people I had not yet added myself. After that, it ... http://sean.lyn.ch/2009/02/dear-facebook-ive-got-all-the-friends-i-want-thanks/ I've always been a bit confused about the reckless amount of hyper surrounding Twitter. The functionality it provides is nothing more than 90s era IRC with cute animated birds and a 140 character limit. I was convinced the people who live and breath Twitter were making general assumptions ... http://sean.lyn.ch/2008/12/i-actually-agree-with-vallywag-no-one-uses-twitter/ When I started writing this review, I was half way through my fifth flight on Virgin America in three weeks time.  I felt knowledgeable enough to write an informed review on the entire VA experience.  But as I started to flesh out my mental notes into something more concrete, I ... http://sean.lyn.ch/2008/10/review-virgin-america/ Without having to use Saft either! (Though I think this will only work on Safari 3.1) Here's the magic, just pump this into your terminal, restart Safari and you'll be ready to go: defaults write com.apple.Safari TargetedClicksCreateTabs -bool true http://sean.lyn.ch/2008/09/open-new-window-links-in-safari-as-tabs/ Another year, another reluctant Pro upgrade of my Flickr account. I've been taking less and less photos over the years (I partially blamed my camera: a DSLR which I recently sold). Despite Flickr adding a number of cool features, I just haven't been compelled to keep up. ... http://sean.lyn.ch/2008/09/photog-predicament/ Leopard (OSX 10.5.4 but it looks like earlier versions were affected) seems to have some sort of bug that causes easy_install or setup.py install to crap out with an error like this: No eggs found in /var/folders/Ev/Evg2gG5nFyKz5eSgYhyKuk+++TI/-Tmp-/easy_install-Qm7ReE/simplejson-1.9.2/egg-dist-tmp-9qR_OW (setup script problem?) I ran into this on a number of different packages: simplejson (above), ... http://sean.lyn.ch/2008/08/easy_install-bug-in-leopard/