Thursday, 31 January 2008

Twitter Updates for 2008-01-31

  • Guiliani’s presidential campaign was a manifestation of New York City arrogance. #
  • is looking for people w/ blogs that they can add javascript widgets onto to test a new feature of @cullect. DM me. kthxbye. #
  • proving the future is already here: "policy changes begin to affect the economy as soon as they are anticipated" cullect/53: http://cull#
  • @timelliott -re: @Scobleizer I was thinking the same thing. If being deleted from FB is your biggest problem… #
  • is spending the morning working on the benefits of @cullect for _feed publishers_. Stunned that so few aggregators consider the publisher. #

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Wednesday, 30 January 2008

Twitter Updates for 2008-01-30

  • after forgetting about it for ~2 years, one of the very 1st features for ‘feedseeder’ came back to me this morning. It now awaits deployment #
  • @geniodiabolico – as both listener and a publisher I’ve found it overly complex and fragile. #
  • http://tinyurl.com/34tcx3 confirms my feelings that the economy is only bad because it’s an election year. #
  • @geniodiabolico, to follow up, the forthcoming version of @cullect is nicknamed ‘Fear of an Evil Genius’. It’ll be in the user-agent string. #
  • @tweet140 I don’t think you should expect all tweets to be 140. :p #

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Tuesday, 29 January 2008

Monday, 28 January 2008

Twitter Updates for 2008-01-28

  • @geniodiabolico inspired by one of your tweets, I heavily refactored @cullect all weekend. So heavily, I need a new MC. Who’s your favorite? #
  • @gapingvoid, "hey, they’re Parisian literary purists – they’re going to bitch and moan anyway." Brilliant! cullect/1: http://culld.us/641081 #
  • @geniodiabolico – Chuck D is works. I’m versioning w/ ‘MC’ or ‘Mc’ or ‘Mac’ s. tweet is http://twitter.com/geniodiabolico/statuses/611605172 #
  • has reached inbox 0. #
  • @croncast – I played w/ Joost prolly 6mn ago. New ways to get Big Media don’t excite me, so I uninstalled shortly there after. #
  • asks: anyone know of something like FlickrFan, but for Twitter? #
  • @stefanhartwig – something I can put on my mac mini + tv. #
  • @stefanhartwig – Apple’s RSS Headline screensaver is close. Thanks. #

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Sunday, 27 January 2008

Saturday, 26 January 2008

Twitter Updates for 2008-01-26

  • watching season 1 of Torchwood via Netflix. Pretty good. Needs to either get darker or more humorous to be enjoyable long term. #
  • @jwynia, Top # lists are useless and why any on-demand/streaming service won’t beat Netflix for a while. J’s Top 100 is far more interesting #
  • a nice reminder that in more places than conventional wisdom allows, Wal-Mart is hope. cullect/53: http://culld.us/622283 #
  • 97.8% of Americans make more than minimum wage. cullect/53: http://culld.us/588983 #
  • Me: "Granola." Him: "Cooper, says it’s ‘granona’." #
  • @sborsch, last time I rented a place (~5 yrs ago) – we found it sitting in a coffee shop browsing the bulletin board. #

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Friday, 25 January 2008

Twitter Updates for 2008-01-25

  • http://everyblock.com is about to launch. I’m interested, even it if involves newspapers. cullect/1: http://culld.us/619110 #
  • my initial impressions when seeing the opening shots of GigaOm TV http://tinyurl.com/2ywmga : ‘boring’ or ‘porn’. Neither sound interesting. #
  • spent his morning alternating between business taxes and potty training. The former is in the mail. The later is maybe 25% of the way there. #
  • "given where the economy is right now and the best forecasts of where it is heading, the fiscal package seems unnecessary as a short-run … #

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Thursday, 24 January 2008

Twitter Updates for 2008-01-24

  • @timelliott – I’m real anxious to listen to them (and some Talk Shows, and @gapingvoid’s latest, and an EconTalk). #
  • "may", "might", "could" are words that belong in fear-mongering propaganda….not Public Radio news reports. #
  • @timelliott – 65 feeds may not be as arbitrary as you think, @cullect reading lists feel best in that area http://culld.us/590301#
  • The Law of Unintended Consequences – something I’ve been thinking about his election season – cullect/53: http://culld.us/599103 #
  • catching up on twitter….missing that I can’t hide tweets I’m done with @ twitter.com like I can elsewhere. 😉 #
  • @croncast – re: new theme. Thanks! #
  • posits 2 things; 1. things (news, invites, memes) move faster on twitter than on facebook. 2. things move faster on email than either. #
  • @misc – your feed import is complete: http://cullect.com/68 #
  • @pfhyper, @swirlspice – something I got in email 2 days ago is just hitting facebook now (actually it hasn’t hit twitter yet). #
  • @truetone – interesting. I have twitter, facebook, etc – email me all direct messages, so does that make email the best way to reach me? #

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Restarting Rails with ‘Address Already in Use’

iTerm crashed on my this morning taking down my development Rails process. Now, I’m busy tailing cullect.com‘s production.log and listening to some podcasts so I didn’t want to restart1

A little Googling found John Nunemaker’s year-old, “Oops I did it again” post.

His tips worked. An I’m rewriting the following for Future Reference2:

$ ps aux | grep script/server

To get the process id you need to kill

$ kill [PID #]

1. My standard way of restarting Rails in this situation.
2. If memory serves, this was the name of the first inhouse blog I started .