Comments for Damon Kaswell - Speculations

Comment on Cults of technology by Damon Kaswell

Damon Kaswell — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 05:17:56 +0000

Weird. I don’t have Opera and haven’t tested it. Where does the display mess up?

Comment on Burned out. Temporarily signing off. by Damon Kaswell

Damon Kaswell — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 05:16:20 +0000

I’m actually having an excellent month. Just burned out on the internets. The series of tubes will have to wait until I’m feeling like gazing back into them again. It’s sort of like gazing into the abyss, only there are lolcats in there…

Comment on Cults of technology by aparadekto

aparadekto — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 04:32:36 +0000

Hey, I can’t view your site properly within Opera, I actually hope you look into fixing this.

Comment on Burned out. Temporarily signing off. by Emily

Emily — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 21:38:05 +0000

That’s a good idea. Take a break, find what makes you happy and healthy, and do what’s right for you.

Comment on Social overload by Damon Kaswell

Damon Kaswell — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 16:42:36 +0000

ROFL! U R fny!

In all seriousness, I’m not going to start writing in lolcat and worrying about whether or not I can fit an entire thought into Twitter. I’m going to treat it as a chat program, not a blogging tool, and if I have something to say that won’t fit, it’ll go here, not there.

Comment on Social overload by Joshua

Joshua — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 15:46:18 +0000

Oh, man. This is really disappointing. You were the poster-person for the anti-twitter movement. I thought we had a strong leader. “If Damon can hold out,” I reasoned, “maybe I can hold out too. Maybe the English language in it’s current form has a chance to survive this century.”

4 U 2 do this is @betrayal. How can U liv w/ ur self? …lol…..jk

Comment on Social overload by Damon Kaswell

Damon Kaswell — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 13:46:58 +0000

Well, it would be an app on my own computer. If someone has physical access to my computer, there’s pretty much no security system that could stop them from messing with my accounts.

Comment on Social overload by John Burridge

John Burridge — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 01:10:06 +0000

Damon…

FB has some proprietary bits in it that persuaded me to post textual content to my blog (on Blogspot) and then post links from FB so that I could be sure FB wouldn’t claim it owned my content.

Currently, I have Twitter updates (and therefore Delicious links) showing up on my FB page. Twitter also feeds into Google Buzz (as does Blogspot).

Umm… Tweetdeck might do some of what you want (haven’t used it in a while) in terms of watching blogs, Twitter feeds and various other social networks.

Right… Twitter updates also show up on my blog. For a while, I was Tweeting blog updates with links.

Um… I’d like to respectfully submit that while Twitter updates can be banal, if one approaches 140 characters the same way one approaches the crafting of exquisite haiku, they don’t have to be.

I’d also want to ask the question: given that a single app would need to know the passwords of your Google account, your FB account, and your LJ account, are you sure you want that security risk?

- John

Comment on Cults of technology by Damon Kaswell

Damon Kaswell — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 23:26:38 +0000

It’s now 8 job postings, from what I hear. They also posted a public letter stating it’s a software problem, but… Let’s just say I’m skeptical.

Comment on Cults of technology by Joshua

Joshua — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 17:15:52 +0000

The ego, by its very nature, doesn’t make a whole lot of sense if you really delve into it.

I think Apple is so wrapped up in their image creation machine that the embarrassment of having hyped and sold a defective device requiring a recall is something they don’t want to consider. This isn’t some defective battery they can blame on a Chinese factory. They really failed here. It’s very uncool.

I’ve also read they posted 3 job openings for antenna engineers yesterday.