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goodbye livejournal
08 November 2000, first post ( Read more... ) -
the legacy of freedom
i heard a beautiful quote/sound-clip on the stereo system while at chance of rain cafe. i looked up more of the quote and found this ( Read more... ) -
sunny day
its the first sunny day in portland for weeks ( Read more... ) -
Obama Visit
i made it to the coliseum this morning. see photo. the stadium was almost full by the time he started. people were generally calm and orderly. the security at the door was pretty much the same as getting on an airplane ( Read more... ) -
Obama
Obama is coming to Portland to speak tomorrow. I'm going to try and get in to listen to him. I figure it'll be the last time I'll have that chance. Once he is elected, he probably isnt coming back to Oregon to give a speech. -
twitter
having a twitter account has definitely had an impact on my blogging frequency. -
shamrock results
Bib 1665, me, has the following stats:
8k second wave
50 minutes 30 seconds
place in gender: 1117/1521
place in division: 209/282
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financial collapse of Bear Stearns
some amazing quotes from this story"Bear Stearns, founded in 1923, survived the Great Depression and first sold shares to the public in 1985 ( Read more... ) -
rel=me and rel=contact go a long long way
Chris Messina made a great point about simplifying XFN usage. rel=me by itself has a lot of untapped potential. Using a single URL as the entry point to a cluster of URLs that describe me, a detailed profile can be built from a diverse set of profile pages/services.
Each profile page can list friends, usually of the same service, with rel=contact. ( Read more... ) -
XFN -> OPML -> Activity Stream
I was just playing with liferea. It imported the OPML I exported from my 'brief' firefox feed reader. If you click on a folder, you get the entries from all the contained feeds. Thats largely what jaiku/friendfeed do.
I'm going to extend the XFN Friend Lister to spider the XFN links from a given starting page, and generate an OPML file. The ( Read more... )