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Give them time. I thought that about the Google Finance charts, which are now a part of the visualization API, but they weren't for quite some time.

I love the "welcome" feature.

I just tried to contact ezl on both AOL and Gtalk. Showing online on HN Office Hours, he was offline on both networks, at least by way of Meebo.

IRC handles are pretty much a requirement for me to engage. #hnofficehours on Freenode and ops.

Latest News:

3:30am (EST): Some hosts were damaged by the power outage and we are working on moving these Linodes to hot standby equipment.

Please tell me that doesn't mean potential data loss!

True, except for that how I access IRC, server side.

Knowing the Linode team's development pathway and philosophy, it is likely this outage will force them to offer redundancy as their standard offering.

Backup was unavailable for a long time and now it is standard.

Same here.

I would, if I could ssh to my linode.

Twirrsi

When it went down, I quickly realized my addiction to Twitter via irssi.

Aliens!

Ugh: HP Pavilion DV6-2020SA

Please provide date of birth to continue?

Robert X Cringely is such a solid individual. I love every word that he says.

If you listen to the irrational speech that comes out of the mouths of teabaggers on a daily basis via all forms of media, you'll find that the phenomenon of ignorance is real.

Extremely uninspiring.

You can take a cold shower, or you can ride the momentum that the retreat gave you and keep the shower lukewarm. Sometimes it even gets hot and really nice feeling and you don't want to get out, but then after that kind of shower, even drying off feels good.

You revert back to your own habits if you stop meditating everyday after "taking refuge in the Buddha".

I prop mine up with a fan underneath the CPU all day long.

I enjoyed reading it.

I'm not sure I was prepared to actually talk to someone.

That was the first call I ever made to my congressman.

Same thing here. Got another Crucial for free and it's been going strong for about 4 months.

I agree with almost everything Bunnie says, except:

1) I use Strawberry Perl instead of Cygwin. I'm scared of Cygwin. The only Unix utility I have on my Windows XP box is wget.

http://strawberryperl.com

2) I can't get myself to jump to widescreen Thinkpad. I like reading everything as high up on the screen as I can. I'm worried about my neck!

I thought this was going to be about the Alice online store:

http://alice.com/

That is the most readable site layout I have ever seen.

Windows XP isn't long in the tooth. With a good set of registry edits, an SSD drive, Firefox and Google Chrome, I don't even notice it's there.

Ugh. That article nauseated me. Monogamy is a by product of Western Civilization and not the natural inclination of any gender, based on anthropological evidence? Give me a break.

Pasting just the good part:

* Samsung, by far has the greatest variation in terms of quality between its range of models.

* Sony TVs are artificially expensive

* Plasma TVs are ridiculously high on power consumption

* Panasonic (for me) still has the best Auto Setup and Menu Interface

* Panasonics, on the whole have the better sound quality

* Backlit LED is better than EdgeLit LED

* Samsung is most generous with its feature set

* Your choice in Manufacturer brand of TV has a real effect on what people think of you

* Manufacturers tend to (generally) optimise one type of external interface more than the other. Eg. HDMI better tuned than Component output. This is down to the way they manufacturer the circuitry, and not necessarily due to the type of technology itself