@uberfuzzy monospace is the fallback; I want to use the nicest possible monospace fonts on each platform. For my coding homies, man!

@carnage4life "reading TechCrunch will only break your heart. Then rip it out and eat it while it's still beating."

@betsyphd scientist, alchemist, what's the diff. You both work with bubbling liquids of various colors in different shaped glass flasks!

@cammerman it's hard to sync up the talking independently thing, particularly when there's a bit of latency. CB: OVER! GO AHEAD! BREAKER!

@betsyphd reagents! Are you using Aether? Or perhaps Earth, Wind & Fire? Can you turn metal to gold? Why am I asking so many questions?

@stevenharman you should know that @jongalloway has an unwarranted love of SVN. I think he'd have sex with it if he could figure out how to.

@timbray @lobrien @alanstevens stillllllll annoying! I just checked!

@encosia I'm not so sure. Teeth: do we *really* need 'em? A diet of tapioca pudding, ice cream, and smoothies sounds fine to me..

@alanstevens oh, but I have heard someone "master the ukelele". His name was Tiny Tim. 'NUFF SAID

@skrenta link to latest WordPress exploit?

@shanselman I didn't think you liked travelling (being away from family). Are you doing more international gigs? Or is fam coming with?

@kookybot you seem to be achieving consciousness at a rapid pace

@wilshipley ok, but you should I know I have enormous pockets. Or so I've been told.

@migueldeicaza sushi racist.

@hotdogsladies why hast thou forsaken us?

@gilesgoatboy Who can I pay to beat the Disneyphilia out of Cory Doctorow?

@garethky I logged out of Google and I'm the #2 result for "Pontiac Aztek" now. Phew.

@anandiyer @dsifry thank you. This is why I keep trying to tell Joel Spolsky Twitter is *useful*. But does he listen? Pff.

@lazycoder if you use Notepad (or TextMate, same thing EPIC LOLZ) as your IDE, you won't have the "phantom edit" problem. Guaranteed.

@lazycoder ever noticed how the IDE changes files on your behalf? It's crazy like that!

@lazycoder I agree, they should offer a "clean up pending changes" btn that removes non-actual-edits. Resolved at checkin, of course, but..

@lazycoder sometimes it's nice to see "intent to edit" expressed in the IDE. In other words, if 5 people are editing a file.. uh.. stay away

@lazycoder checkout doesn't mean what you think it does http://blogs.vertigosoftware.com/teamsystem/archive/2006/01/27/2051.aspx

@jongalloway this will horrify you, but sometimes I switch to IE7 for viewing something and forget which browser is which. You'd cry.

@timbray ANOTHER WEB BROWSER, YOU SAY? GOOD GOD MAN! WHERE DO I SIGN UP!!!1!

@asbjornu I agree, the emerging standard GPU APIs are very exciting! Much more promising than "oh, yet another n-core x86 CPU."

@jongalloway I wrote about fiddler here. http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000590.html dunno, I prefer sniffers.

@jongalloway I think I'll stick with etherdetect for now. Seems to hit the easy / simple / understands HTML sweet spot.

@dssstrkl 44w at idle after I went to fanless cooling on the CPU. Typical video playback, 50-60w, hi-def 75-80w.

@wilshipley that is a crime against graphics! @kevindente laptop battery limitations means it'll be a 5 year slog, but on desktop, sure!

@pkaler unless you have a desktop replacement laptop (Apple doesn't make these), you get low-end video. Power consumption issue.

@wilshipley yeah, but the fastest quad-core encodes a video in 8 minutes, whereas the latest GPUs do it in 45 *seconds*. Just sayin'.

@kevindente Apple work on a standard GPU API is a good thing. But since most Macs are laptops (VERY low end video), how powerful will it be?

@y0mbo "dying alone from clown-induced injuries." just... wow.

@gilesgoatboy Talented Mr. Ripley is an underrated film, very dark

@timbray per Clay Shirky's book (which you should read if you haven't, it's amazing), those tweets aren't for us.

@haacked did you ever finish Portal? I felt Rainbow Six: Vegas was a much better "duck n' cover" game than Gears of War

@bradwilson I agree with you there, I only use a handful of extensions, but the few I do use are rather-fight-than-switch essential.

@demondo safari is almost 2x as fast as Firefox 3.0 latest-ver on my box, for that particular benchmark. IE7 is 1.5x slower than FF3.

@kevindente I think firefox's single .exe model is kind of a downer for a person who regularly runs 6+ browser windows + tabs :(

@secretgeek the retro encabulator is great http://youtube.com/watch?v=PtuqjFf7-N4

@bradwilson that's WITH flashblock going, my friend. I never browse without a flashblocker. To me, FF = IE7 with good flash and ad blocking

@jongalloway my condolences

@wilshipley every day is guy-living-alone day! huzzah for loneliness and desperation! :)

@timbray the fatal flaw of deletionism is the mindset of deciding what someone else *should* find interesting http://is.gd/xGH

@timbray what deletionist is ruffling your feathers? Also, I think republicans tend to be deletionists. See: gay marriage.

@frohman yeah, IE7 is now one release cycle behind.. Opera 9.5, FF 3 (soon), Safari all have new revs.

@jongalloway I *could* switch back to IE7 in a heartbeat, if it wasn't for the lack of good ad/flash blocking solutions (IE7pro is wonky)

@jongalloway I dunno, I just think the websites you visit are far more relevant than the browser you use to render said websites.

@siracusa I am definitely a Yegge fan, but the "I love languages! That's why we should only have one of 'em!" is a little weird.

@kevindente yeah, as much as I appreciate the stackoverflow transcriptions, they do it so literally.. every "um" and verbal tic reproduced.

@wilshipley Pontiac Vibe GT? Pffff. C'mon man. Cars are like women. The best ones are the always the ones you can't have / afford!

@shanselman I used to pronounce "URL" as "Earl", too, but I got tired of people mocking me. Stay strong, my brother!

@shanselman someone just told me you say "Earl" instead of "Yew-Are-Ell", and it "sends shocks through his brain". True?

@kevindente dunno, MAYBE YOU SHOULD BLOG IT.

@aditya thx, you can email me directly on stuff like that

@a7an thanks for the RSS tip to add the author field; I didn't realize my RSS feed had been author-less all these years.

@jongalloway the jpeg 2000 patent minefield sucks, it's WAY higher quality than jpeg at a fraction of the size. Bummer.

@lazycoder perhaps, but Mark Pilgrim is also actually *funny* and one of the best tech writers on the 'net.

@garthk ITConversations just realized our podcast may be too "commercial" for their venue. Fair point, they are a non-profit. Stay tuned.

@timbray seconding mod_failgracefully http://bramcohen.livejournal.com/52896.html

@aanttila that's a shame, because users won't see or benefit from that peculiar brand of rabies you have.

@kookybot how are you better than Eliza?

@carnage4life welcome back http://youtube.com/watch?v=QVS3WNt7yRU

@parsifal yeah, livin' in the city doesn't seem so hot, either http://tinyurl.com/5ua7r5

@dehora quite the identity crisis your twitter avatar is going through; the blank one was my favorite. Get slack!

@rmccue Australia? Isn't that where they filmed Lord of the Rings? (obligatory Conchords joke)

@wilshipley did not know that. @betsyphd reads lots of blogs of TV comedy writers. Surprise! They're f**king incredibly funny bloggers!

@wilshipley for the umpteenth time, the dude code *clearly* specifies that no part of your body should touch mine while in this hot tub.

@dssstrkl I am very much pro-Iphone v2, just not on launch day. If you are, I recommend camping out overnight. Throughput is gonna be loow.

@jongalloway my opinion: by considering either SVN or TFS status quo "good", you're the one who is living a lie, my friend. :)

@rkitson yeah, looks like email challenge/response fell out of favor. Good thing because it was a truly terrible "solution" to spam.

@segy crap, you're right. VisualSVN is a wrapper around TortoiseSVN. Talk about a house of cards.

@kvanh SyncroSVN looks interesting http://www.syncrosvnclient.com/

@innismir LOL, I had totally forgotten about American McGee's Strawberry Shortcake. http://is.gd/vw9 that got a C&D big time.

@al3x still, it's mindboggling to me that Kawasaki and Godin can't see that putting their imprimatur on these crap sites devalues their msg

@accordionguy omg THOSE AREN'T GUMMI LIGHTHOUSES! http://tinyurl.com/6nhmmq

@kevindente @cwoodruff I might attend, perhaps

@accordionguy the clipboard issue isn't Vista specific; see Raymond Chen here: http://is.gd/vdn

@kookybot you rock my world

@mdcore dude, I know EXACTLY what you're talking about. "<-- this will make you unbored" AND HOW

@booboojeebies not seeing any service problems. Have you tried http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/

@wilshipley for a macinista you suuuure know a lot about games that only run on Satan's Own Evil Operating System. IM JUST SAYIN

@IDisposable the Amen Break drum sample history is way cool http://tinyurl.com/mo8ow

@segy not so much SQL as "a set-oriented language", I think..

@timbray I was surprised so many people had a knee-jerk negative reaction to the ruby sample. How much can you hate a TINY SAMPLE? Jeez.

@haacked "peanut butter repave time!" why not use VMs? For XP SP3 at least, the sysreqs are comically low. Vista, not so much.

@wilshipley lol. true, I guess you "forget" about that part once you've been married long enough. since '99 in my case.

@wilshipley oh -- you mean this iJustine? http://is.gd/ugA I remember seeing you, uh, sprint towards her. Bros before hos, man. C'mon.

@jongalloway those snake photos are nuts. super-hot snake on snake multiplexing action.

@LaTtEX (teeth snap)

@jongalloway I tried to install Opera Mini and it was epic fail: obscure Java runtime environment error when I launch, every time

@kevindente lack of tethering is a minus, but as you said they've filled in all the other holes. Dunno, tethering is a big ask, tho it rocks

@saosin I'll encourage @betsyphd to buy iPhone v2, she's due for a good phone. Mine is "good enough" 4 now, though I pine for Mobile Safari

@timbray love Canada, but the data plan rates there are scandalous. My bill for a few days was almost $400; @shanselman was $1500 for a week

@betsyphd is unsure she's cool enough to own iphone v2

@teifion Behold WordPress, Destroyer of CPUs http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001105.html

@isaacschlueter "user agents besides IE and FF" sure there are! Safari and Opera! (runs away)

@kebernet +1 stuffit then. Good on yer.

@wilshipley I AM SO PUMPED FOR MINNA G%B PARTY TONITE 7PM!!! ALSO, I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT G%B IS!