• Ad hoc version control on 2 machines using thumb drives pret’near optimizes odds of self-inflicted injury. #
• 19:52?! Noooo, that can’t be right … it’s not nearly supper time yet. Or … *sigh* #
• @MParekh “In science, the most exciting expression isn’t ‘Eureka!’ It’s ‘Huh?’” heh … good R&D story that is > http://tinyurl.com/4lg5up #
• A documentary on the trial and execution of SHussein; hat is it about Republican ideology that reduces Uncle Sam to a clumsy cretin? #
• A documentary on the trial and execution of SHussein; What is it about Republican ideology that reduces Uncle Sam to a clumsy cretin? #
• #Vista Dear M$ - Are you really so smart that you can insist what size I want my Explorer to be? So I must resize it each and every time? #
• Music 1400 years old, and I found my fave! Etanraku_Japon, but there are 2 other versions: http://bentrem.sycks.net/music/ #music #gagaku #
• @dalmaer Tell me again why it isn’t just Javascript? #
• @davefleet My painfully web1.0 http://bentrem.sycks.net/gnodal/ is meant as foundation for citizen involvement in policy debate / decisions. #
• @TechCrunch Didn’t think you were the sort to fly off the handle. *shrug* #
• @MossyBlog I keyed into “nobody reads last months X, Y, Z” around ‘98. Started looking for an alt method of aggregation. #
• Oh wooops, mis-directed reply. #
• @factoryjoe Wow, you’ve got clout! Single-handedl /.’ed exploratorium: “The site could be temporarily unavailable or too busy.” *grin* #
• @jjprojects “one third” = 7. Chatted with @thomasknoll … who is still very much there. #
• @stevegillmor Does “NIGYSOB” still have currency? “Moron” and “go deface my WikiPedia page” is … well … I mean, really … #
• Dear readers - when you see me being polite / tactful / diplomatic it’s because my airborne vernacular is threatening to burst forward. #
• And then there were 3 … my bet is there’s back-channel chatter happening. #
• @ddukes Wind conditions? #
• @jjprojects Ooh … that’s getting North of 1/3. “Batten the hatches” seems the metaphor of the day/week/month … year? #
• Such a pleasant transaction … I love using my NetVibes b’marklet. *plop-plop fizz-fizz* #
• @dankeldsen #music ReTw @timoreilly: Digital Cantometrics and the Evolution of Music: http://tinyurl.com/54zwkm #
• @jjprojects If that’s the way your mind wanders I sure hope you’re a Charlie Rose regular; great guests this past week/10 days. #
• #fire #breaking Zounds, up to 2000 acres already > http://snurl.com/4b7gg < #
• heh … in 1 tab, fire; another, “solvency, not liquidity”; yet another, “new science of music” and *gasp* at 12:08 lcl re-reading Ubiquity #
• Reading the thread that gave rise to the shit-slinging; some A-list types are _snotty pricks_. And unapologetic. Is that “fucking weird?” #
• @timoreilly Doing cog-psych was more fun than a day at the circus … cognitive schema and all that. #
• @jjprojects There are _so_ many structural diffs; hard to say. That this began w/irresponsibility bodes no good … foxes / hen-house. #
• @interstar “Know” … didn’t it just search online? Oh, and “Hi there!” Long time no tweet? #
• @photomatt Long, but worth the reading? Hope you blog it. ;) #
• (Torrent’s done; I’m outta here.) Music 1400 years old, and I found my fave! Etanraku_Japon: http://bentrem.sycks.net/music/ #gagaku #
• @jjprojects What if a comment hosting solution goes under … is why I’m cautious w/such as CoComment and IntenseDebate. #
• @davedelaney Got this off kingshit frontpage > http://tinyurl.com/4dmbor < #
• /. … can’t remember the last time I visited. #
• @howardlindzon Funny, I’ve got TweetDeck sitting on the bench. “Take twitter from 9 to 11″ is how I feel about Twhirl! #
• @howardlindzon heh, nooo not one of the few remaining. Just found the interface fits the way I think / do things. My search has ended! ;) #
• #disinformation “Obama & Friends: The History of Radicalism.” … on Fox, of course. see NYTimes > http://snurl.com/4bjui < #LugNuts #
• @chrisbrogan TwitterName and URL are both no joy … typo? #
• Watch: Fox’s media tactics will work against Obama, just as CIA tactics worked against Allende in Chile. Karma … red in tooth and claw. #
• @KathySierra My theory for “participatory deliberation” is that, well, at least we can know our own mind … better than lead by the nose. #
• NYTimes’ web presence steps into the present: http://timespeople.nytimes.com/home #
• @dalmaer Congrats! FWIW I went through the Ubiquity docs again yesterday … fabulous platform. #
• (bis) Watch: Fox’s media tactics will work against Obama, just as CIA tactics worked against Allende in Chile. > http://snurl.com/4bjui < #
• ReTw @gruber: [Christopher] Hitchens: http://www.slate.com/id/2202163/ [on Obama, Palin et al] #
• Seems each time I visit NYTimes columnists I come away with yet another RSS; case in point > http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/ < #
• @programwitch I just ran Check on OO2.4 … “Checking for an update failed.” Oh. Well then. Uhhh … #
• ReTw @marshallk: Mozilla Announces Developer Tools Lab for the Open Web http://lin.cr/2ij hired Almaer and Galbraith to run it! [c/w video] #
• @philcrissman Some sorta hegemony game here? “Sorry, but the user bentrem was not found on Twitter” *klik.poof!* #
• After a session catching up on Tweets I almost invariably feel “detached”. Spaced out, more precisely. (Mebbe I shudda drank the koolaid.) #
• mill.grist > https://wiki.mozilla.org/Labs/Ubiquity <> http://yubnub.org <> http://groups.csail.mit.edu/uid/projects/inky/ #
• Lest we forget: “The Gerard Depardieu Collection” > http://snurl.com/4bs7a < #
• @xxdesmus CFL double-header here … Thanksgiving indeed! #
• @lmorchard Cat here telling me it mustRPTmust come in else death by hypothermia / starvation / dehydration. I’z not fooled! #
• @chrisbrogan Something I picked up my first visit to U: “purity of concept”; it was in Phil of Aesthetics, but seems Zen/Taoist to me. #
• @dweinberger http://government.zdnet.com/?p=4103 “The Candidates on Tech” #
• ReTw @rhh: The Abridged Paulson: http://bit.ly/2BUU97 [”delightful skewering Paulson’s understanding of housing, market and credit crisis”] #
• Gotta luv field-goal kickers who score from north of 50. #
• @spiver Mebbe it takes that quality to ?what? get us to dive in. heh … memories of tong.len! #

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• http://twinfluence.com … interesting, but I suspect spammers who’ve followed throw the stats off by quite a bit. #
• Navaro’s brain falls out the back of his head, splats to the turf, and Boston ties it. *Ooooh skeery shiet.* #
• Network difficulties: 8th inning tied at 8, the station switches to join Saturday Night Poker already in progess. heh (They switched back.) #
• Baseball is phenomenal, literally. Last night a fly ball knuckled down and left and beat the fielder, tonight a fly ball sprouted wings. #
• Oooh, if that strike wasn’t low it sure was outside. Bad time for a lousy call. #
• 13 men stranded for the Sox. Dang. Clumsy way to win, but the alternative is worse. #
• A 2nd lousy call. 1st against Boston batter, now against Boston pitcher. #
• @Megan Had to love the comment about Timlin: “been in this situation often. But not recently.” *gick!* #
• Gotta hate having to throw that far … chance to be a hero, most likely to look the goat. #
• ReTw @timoreilly: ReTw @MParekh: An interesting spin on the Palin ethics violation: http://tinyurl.com/46nqhp [lovely set of comments!] #
• @JesseStay Logo? Sure, but check http://www.socialsignal.com/n2s “More Gradients and Rounded Corners” > http://snurl.com/4acco < #
• Are McCain/Palin supporters just comical / ludicrous? Nope: http://obamacrimes.com/ #
• @JesseStay No misunderstanding. I just took it as pretext to plug /n2s :-) #
• Iacocca on leadership: http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/iacocca.asp < #
• ReTw somebody #Obama http://www.techforobama.com < #
• ” A box of one’s own” > http://snurl.com/4adiz < Talking communes in the 70s, co-housing in the 90s, I’m evidently just wrong-headed? #
• @igori Ohhh nice. Funny thing? The CD I bought; far out, but I’ve listened repeatedly! see my “review” of the show > http://snurl.com/4akcw #
• @MParekh Thing with #WoW, you only get max pts when your char is “rested”. So optimal is to let it sit for a day or two between sessions. #
• @rands The flip of 80/20 rule … that last 20% always involves some infinite regress. #
• ReTw @ZDNetBlogs: Response to financial crisis may mean more IT work ahead - http://tinyurl.com/4ogh53 [”Regulation” new boom domain.] #
• 15) “If somebody says ’services orient-en-ta-ted,’ it’s not only SOA, but you need to fire that person. ” > http://snurl.com/4akpf < #
• Parlez-vous SOA? 34min ‘cast > http://snurl.com/4akya < Also http://snurl.com/4akyh [blogs_zdnet_com] #
• @jowyang But looking at racial background of such as UN SecGen, perhaps less problematic foreign than domestically. #
• @spiver “and communicate to a partner what has occurred” … shades of “co-counselling”. Sounds fabulous! (color me green/envious *grin*) #
• Just got an invite for http://grouply.com … leveraging Yahoo!Groups. Slightly spamish, but seems pretty good. #
• Just got an invite for http://grouply.com … slightly spamish, but woa, it aggregates recent msgs from all my Yahoo!Groups. Sweet! #
• @spin I bet AI would have alerted the fact that valuations were entirely fictitious … a variable with nul value assigned. #
• OverHeard: “Obama has persistently misrepresented McCain’s positions on issues. ” Yaa … pinko commie Muslim terrorist-lover that he is. #
• @nelson Take pics! :-) #

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• So, as Governor Palin improperly pressured “several subordinates” to screw her sister’s soon to be X. She makes Cheney look classy. #
• @technosailor Man on 3rd … 1 out. Dandy. Oh … ok, 2 out. But still. #
• @loiclemeur Noblesse oblige … I didn’t want to dishonor Seesmic by replying in video. #
• “There is no bubble in technology” video online at TechCrunch (good eye @arrington!) > http://snurl.com/49c3l < c/w heh catchy lyrics. #
• @technosailor Cojones to play Right that shallow, nae? #
• Jason Goss, Edmonton Eskimo, still down … serious face-mask … they’re examining his neck. Trash play w/intent to injure. #
• @nejsnave There’s something in that about the stock market … years of profit does not equal real value or real production. #
• New for me > http://www.socialsignal.com/n2s < nothing like a cartoon to kick the day off. #
• Usage, “twit”? “I didn’t like the tone of his comment so replied just to _twit_ him.” #
• @RobCottingham me, minutes ago: ” New for me > http://www.socialsignal.com/n2s < nothing like a cartoon to kick the day off” cheers! #
• ReReading @awsamuel’s “Five ways to shape the soul of the Internet” > http://snurl.com/49vhd < #
• Zen paradox: the reductionist materialist attitude that so blights our society causes folk to have that same approach to buddhadharma. Frab! #
• @igori OMG - never thot my first video clips would have any reach! cheers #
• Sequoia survival tips: “Profitability Covers a Multitude of Sins” > http://snurl.com/49vvk [news_cnet_com] < #
• @tommorris “Older” on webpage DMs has been frabbed quite a while now … not sure why / what to do. #
• @dahowlett Economist walks past a $100 on the sidwalk. Someone asks him why. “If it was really worth something, someone else wudda taken it” #
• Even divided into Tweeters, Pols, Prime, and Friends, my blog b’marks still overflows. #
• @lizsilberg Or ?what? the actual unreality of what has so long been standard practice, CDOs and “shadow banking”. *Zounds!* greets #
• “During Tough Times … Can Be Your Best Friend” could be “Keep your head while others lose theirs. > http://snurl.com/49z5a < @briansolis? #
• “Mashable Monthly SF Interviews” > http://snurl.com/49z99 < such a nice buncha people! #
• Someone light the smoking lamp; I need a drink. *Garcon, a pitcher of Fail Whale Pale Ale!” #
• 1) record Seesmic. No audio. Check Recording Devices. Unmute mic. 2) Record. No audio. Check again. Unmute. Again. 3) repeat #Vista M$!!!!! #
• #PalinSyndrome Republicans at a rally booed McCain when he described Obama as “a decent person” > http://snurl.com/49zz4 < #
• @philcampbell Any way to create a pub? Like, a SecondLife room for Seesmic? ;) #
• @ourmaninside Re: Dog Beer. http://seesmic.com/videos/n50MczbbIR #
• Future. Here. Now. “VMware Workstation 6.5 consolidates the best of desktop virtualization” > http://www.linux.com/feature/150084 < #
• McCain tries to put the toothpaste back into the tube > http://tinyurl.com/3my9jf < *Credit to him but too little too late* #
• “I can calculate the motions of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.” — Isaac Newton > http://snurl.com/4a0xt [nytimes_com] #
• CheckMyWork - http://www.myspace.com/triotarana … saw them / met them this week. Bought the CD. It’s in heavy rotation. #music #
• @gruber Point being … that his maverick nature is biting his ass? (FWIW IMNSHO he _cudda_ been a good PoTS. “Cudda” as in alt history. ) #
• @buddhamagnet Re: Re: Dog Beer. http://seesmic.com/videos/8XzrPnjuXZ #
• Watching Euro Pacific Capital’s Peter Schiff pisses me off. He and his ilk profit from what me and mine have been saying for decades. #

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• #SortaKindaHistory Create a desktop folder. Wanna save a page “for later consideration”? Drag it there. B’mark that folder in ToolBar. #
• @ambermacarthur Dunno about being the owner, but heh that was me & pals working OT on Saturday/Sundays. *shhhhh!* ;) #
• @jimwhimpey Thanks for the plug. I sorta enjoy WorldOfWarcraft but $15/mnth … only $5 less than GameCenter! #
• @colbypalmer If you’re considering cheese, I’d suggest mayo … you know, oily. ;) #
• Do I still have my chops? It’s been years (decades?!) since I’ve written a review of anything > http://tinyurl.com/3jd74n #
• Good little camera; dim light; active band; slow exposure; high sensitivity = http://bentrem.sycks.net/images/tarana/ #
• @Documentally Only in dreams? Mine transmogrified in the form of a world/jazz fusion band! see http://hfx-ben.livejournal.com :-) #
• @dankeldsen How’s trix? Interesting: a story fleshing out the material in your modules: http://snurl.com/48qeo < #
• Chris Carlsson on radio talking Nowtopia > http://snurl.com/48r94 < And I thot it was just me! #
• #Vista Total amateur crap. What’s Destop.ini doing on my desktop? Why does Winamp require permission? Why is it playing but not on taskbar? #
• M$ … proof positive that cash rich means nothing about ability to actually generate value. Crap, M$ … amateurish crap. #Vista #
• #Vista - M$ you are pathetically ignorant. Know what? When I open Vlume Mixer, I want to access internal/external mics. Too comple for you? #
• #Vista - M$, you are pathologically ignorant. When I Customize Folder to view as Documents, I want to see FileTypes, not Genres. Pathetic. #
• #Vista - M$, you are amazingly ham fisted. 1st you insist WinAmp reqs perms, then hide it from task bar, then sprinkle desktop.ini all over. #
• @DonRiep Yup. I’m so POd my eyes cross. Thot I’d disabled UAC on day 1. Mebbe I had; I now trust this OS 0. thanks (Wrong task for Friday!) #
• #Vista Brill. With UAC disabled, I can run WinAmp “normally”. But when it’s minimized it disappears entirely. Entirely. RPT entirely. Crap! #
• #Vista Too funny: I copied Dell manual to Documents and renamed it. Vista changed view to Pictures. Just cuz. M$? You’re uber lame. #
• #Vista Dear M$ - On ToolBar RightClick gets me “Volume Mixer”. (Contradistinct to cocktail? fools) No mic lvls. Win98 was better. Pathetic. #
• OMfreakin’God. Sometime as I slept Vista blew away all my WinSCP sessions. All gone. Zero cfg. All have to be recreated. Shit sticks! #
• #EccentricJoy - After repeated searches over ?what? months/years, I found (part of) my fave gagaku: http://snurl.com/49623 [MP3] #
• Sad to see John McCain ramp up the cracker bait. Reminds me of Colin Powell at the Security Council. Republican Party is some pwfull mojo. #
• @chrisbrogan 100% duty cycle? You iz some SuperMan! ;) #

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• @rustyk Rusty, I’d like you to meet @spiver … Susan, Rusty. :-) #
• #BedFellows From AOL “AOL® Journals will permanently shut down on Oct. 31″ to google “partnered with Blogger.com for a smooth transition” #
• @xxdesmus I find myself using Twhirl i.e. active in my 1st monitor and then TwDeck maximized as sort of desktop in monitor #2. #
• Take 2 @dahowlett: How da f$ck did IBM do that? http://hex.io/19f #
• @dahowlett K … what have they been upto. K, virtualization. And they’re pitching green. A zowwie combination? #
• @xxdesmus I’ve got DM backed to near zero on TwHirl, and low @s. On Deck, reverse, with AllTweets as low priority. Wallpaper. :-) #
• IMNSHO virtualization is a slow building tsunami. At some point it (and cloud?) will be the.thing.to.do and players in place will clean up. #
• J’adore le fait (l’accident?) d’etre bilingue. I’m listening to “Espace Musique” on the French service of CBC. “Radio Canada” (w/accent) #
• @Pistachio That’s when truly fine tools prove themselves. And the pretenders fall by the wayside. After you head/desk any number of times. #
• @mkrigsman Intriguing wee clip on Seesmic earlier. Young fellow about how he doesn’t use mainstream news, then seques to state of things. #
• I was gonna try “At some times it’s especially hard to be Martian. Everybody is so deeply implicated.” But http://snurl.com/4764q < #
• Economics is social: you busy yourself to death maxing your personal disposable income, causing havoc for others, and then *klik*. Bummer. #
• FWIW nothingRPTnothing narrows a person’s humanity more than fixation on tech. You may be awesome clever. But that don’t mean sane. #
• A note on fundamentals: the oligarchs’ share of GDP has risen for decades. Workin’folk have been increasingly screwed long before this. #
• ReTw @Marti_L: Jon Stewart interviewing Michelle Obama #
• Here’s the shit kicker: those who’ve profited by pimping planet earth are now positioned to profit from whatever new spin arises. #borg #
• @ourfounder “When what is said is not what is meant […] then what should be done is left undone.” –Confucius (from memory) #
• @rww Richard, struck me odd that “Mix” (para 2, in bold) isn’t a link. SNAFU? #
• @ourfounder At one point in my life (SEP73; Allende / Pinochet) I realized I knew a lot. One big hill of beans. heh cheers #
• When I opted for Span. in university I said, “Because of the growing Latino community”. Folk thot me nuts. > http://snurl.com/478lz < #
• And yes, I speak Spanish with a French accent. The one thing I share with Jackie Kennedy. #
• James Taylor in convo w/Tavis Smiley: “My 160 songs … often times it seems to me I’ve written 16 songs ten ways.” #
• @danja “King’s adviser told him the rain would be poisoned with madness, so […] and in the end King drank the water.” Know that one? #
• Now get this straight, sports fans: the oligarchs are suffering paper loss at the moment. But their years of profits are in hard assets. #
• Or, to drop the diplomatic pretense, you’ve gotten by for years kissing right-wing ass. Now the mongers are pissed off. Shit is on the menu #
• “A failure of markets”. Well of course. A buncha carpet baggers scrambling to cover their own ass distrusting other villains. #
• @loiclemeur You missed our PM’s statement that we should make some good stock purchases. And he’s in a campaign. #
• Talking with techies is like talking with crack-heads: so long as you flow with their fixation it’s almost like conversation … iff. #
• @danja Alas the full version is far more than 140 … mebbe a full 420. *grin* Dunno etiology; usta be into Nasrudin stories. heh #
• If you were to see all about you as mad … and tested that only to find it sound … what then? *Do notRPTnot drink the koolaid.* #
• I think the last time I felt truly grounded was when we intercepted a Bear bomber heading for Labrador. Since then? Yuppie BS. #
• Ok, membership test: who of us won’t crack up at the mention of “Mr. Puddles”. haaaaaaaaahaha #
• Oh. According to Evangelicals, to use the phrase “dark times” is to be anti-Christian. I don’t think Christ would like Evangelicals. #
• Now Ms. Obama showed herself another sophist: doesn’t want to ponder “the angry mob”, choosing “what’s happening on the ground”. Wellll? #
• Stewart is perpetuating a myth. IMNSHO Cindy McCain has been conspicuous by her absence. #
• Well, Michelle Obama was truly a disappointment. #
• #Vista reminds me of Win95. Deeply polluted. Deeply, deeply wrong-headed. #
• @dankeldsen Hi there - Oh, yes, for sure would. From your tweet I thought you were collecting feedback. All well? cheers #