@ronniebarker silverlight, hah. It is to laugh. Maybe if we had video, other than that I have no real use for Flash / Silverlight.

@mbuckbee Following up on your "store tags as full-text index" tip -- can you email me a bit more detail on that?

@timbray Pere Ubu's Final Solution is one of my favorite songs http://tinyurl.com/5ubhod

@alanstevens but it's a completely specious comparison; Call of Duty 4 doesn't train you to be a solider, either. http://is.gd/tft

@randyjensen as if I needed another reason to hate John Mayer besides his sucktastic music.

@hotdogsladies : all hail the world's premier email organizer! I order my incoming email by whether it is animal, vegetable, or mineral.

@jongalloway new versions of vOptimizer are *horrible* badware; the old "mount the ISO and it just works" versions were great.

@demondo that was our college textbook for the algorithms class back in the early 90's, too. http://is.gd/bVg

@demondo excellent point -- order matters too. I still think naming is the hardest part, though http://is.gd/sTY

@timalmond I have the spanish language version of "MIckey" if you want it. Makes just about as much sense, which is to say, none.

@isaacschlueter I love that the comment ends with "it's hard to define, really." You said it brother! That's one for the hall of fame.

@timbray Clyde Broadway's "Trinity" http://tinyurl.com/5n5zhx

@danlarkin life is pain! well, life with computers, anyway.

@betsyphd my condolences. The boom and bust cycle of biotech appears to be the "norm" for better or worse.

@allgood2 good design is a property of software as well. Shrug. The current status quo just favors increased OS X piracy.

@rtpeat but Macs aren't that expensive any more, nor are iPods. It's a small premium for superior design. And again: idiot competition.

@nevali looks like "unscrew connectors" or "buy extenders". There are unused sata ports on the Mac Pro mobo: http://is.gd/rjd

@voidspace what kind of crazy build is the Mac Pro where the damn SATA / power cables can't extend an extra 2 inches? Bah.

@voidspace the Velociraptor connectors ARE standard, apparently the Mac Pro cables can't *reposition* at all. The drive is shorter.

@joelsantiago 44-watt HTPC wonder machine specs here http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001107.html note: you *must* use 2.5" drives

@wilshipley also, as I recall, you're the programmeriest programmer who ever programmed a program. Yes. Yes you are.

@timbray my mind cannot accept any HTML page with the words "second life" on it.

@psychlist1972 Married with children: "I regret to inform you that I no longer have any time for or interest in humping."

@darkbulb well, sometimes I'm not sure if the problem is GMail or just.. Mail. Knowwhutimean?

@wilshipley I don't mind you coming here, and wasting all my time http://tinyurl.com/6g3ltp

@jongalloway thanks for the tip on listening to the podcasts at accelerated non-chipmunk speeds (View | Enhancements | Play Speed Settings)

@xpaulbettsx I always remove the SP1 spoor, my winsxs folder is still 8+gb. Doesn't matter (except on SSDs), but it feels sloppy as hell.

@kevindente no idea what that is, I can clone any HDD to another HDD easily using Acronis True Image (among other things) -- it rocks!

@kevindente still waiting for my Firefox add-in that tells me which of the 12 Firefox windows is using 100% of the CPU.

@kcorax real world apps are pretty random, hence the observation. http://tinyurl.com/6y54kx

@wilshipley are you kidding me, man? I buy every single DLC for Rock Band, ever, on the day of release. ps cars is seriously awesome

@dgurock I liked Windows ME, never had a single problem with it. Booted crazy fast + used processor HLT commands.

@secretgeek naming is hard. Seriously.

@jongalloway to be fair, I think everyone sees the world through the specific experiences they've had. True objectivity is tough.

@anandiyer yelpwhore

@kevindente and kevin dente is prounounced key-vane dan-tay, right?

@kevindente nice, thx for link to the pronounce add-on for firefox http://tinyurl.com/6g55hj

@secretgeek your avatar is really disturbing. Vandalized Grace Hopper, I guess? Unpleasant.

@rverlind is it common to commute 30-60 miles each way to work in Belgium like it is here in the US?

@carnage4life agree, Twitter has had a full calendar year to work on this, so the lack of progress is disappointing.

@isaiah ask me again when you see how many of them immediately buy iPhone v2 on day one of release :) And what to do with all those v1s?

@chrispirillo hmm, I wonder what would happen if we scanned some Iron Maiden into DL2. Hmm. Mmm.

@kebernet Foot Fist Way looks hilarious http://tinyurl.com/yso9ru

@betsyphd oh you meant girlfriends/wives in their UNDERPANTS playing Wii Fit hula hoop. I see. http://tinyurl.com/6454ls So wrong. So right.

@betsyphd tells me there is some trend to put videos of your wife/girlfriend playing WiiFit hula hoop on YouTube. Note to self: investigate.

@kevindente I've seen some longer term weirndess with Firefox 3 -- instance-wide "pausing" where it's doing some kind of GC or something

@anandiyer a great scarf? is it greater than mine? http://lendorff.kaywa.com/ (sorry, flash site, but scarf++)

@bvs dunno, never seen stackoverflow.org before. Maybe it's just not .commercial like we are? :)

@theadoguy I know! I always rag on @betsyphd about this. So Emo before its time! Happy Prom, You're All Gonna Die Like the Rest of Us!

@theadoguy too mainstream. "seasons in the sun" was my wife's HS prom theme 15+ yrs after the fact, which I consider hilariously morbid.

@shanselman rejects the standard MSFT Northwind database. What next? "Hello World" isn't good enough for you? Snob!

@jongalloway regex parsing is very difficult if you have to match parens (eg, use a stack). It is possible, but painful: http://is.gd/nQD

@jongalloway balanced pairs (eg, <a></a>) are really hard in regex. Try this: http://is.gd/nQD

@wilshipley have you seen the birds of paradise? They will blow your mind hole. http://tinyurl.com/5z6uub

@wilshipley I'm guessing the massive diversity in tropical ecosystems; so many choices of mates, you gotta look prettier than the others.

@hotdogsladies re: FriendFeed, that's friggin' harsh, man.

@wilshipley approved sweetheart deal on Drobos. Those GreenPower drives are excellent, too. http://www.drobo.com/offer/

@timbray your poll is fundamentally flawed; I get the distinct impression that throwing money at the problem won't help in Twitter's case.

@siracusa I bet there's a way to rig it up so it fits in the Mac Pro somehow. It comes with a 2.5" - 3.5" adapter.. bust out that dremel!

@jdriscoll do you buy wine based on price per oz, too? I kid! I kid! Read the storage review.. er.. review http://is.gd/niU

@wilshipley read the definitive source, storagereview.com: "single-user scores .. blow away those of every other [hdd]" http://is.gd/niU

@siracusa technicalities! It is funny, though. All those (n) cent "test" deposits for online wire transfer payments..

@migueldeicaza see animated snippets demo here http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000419.html

@john_lam "ironruby running unmodified rails!" kudos! Finally, languages on the CLR that give us more than Coke vs. Pepsi..

@kevindente I'd like a windoze laptop with a HUGE touchpad like the one on the Air. The one on my M1330 is tiny; it's my single complaint.

@brysonHolland per Amazon reviewers, the 16GB Flash Voyager GT is inferior.. doesn't use same memory type as smaller capacity models

@haacked how do people tell the sea of identical Macs apart? So boring.

@kevindente firefox 2 or 3? If 2, then yes, if 3, then no.

@jongalloway have you priced RAM lately? 4 GB (2 x 2 GB) is well under $100.

@jongalloway three flavors of IE == three 256mb virtual machines running XP. Easy. Heck, that'd even work with 2 GB memory. VM FTW

@fabiobeta I have seriously considered that, but I don't want to scare my loved ones. No lie. Hate 'em.

@wilshipley I hereby revoke your pun license. Painful.

@jongalloway welcome to the prestigious triple monitor club! Of course you're probably cheating by running them across 2 computers. Cheaty.

@jongalloway ego! I am #3 "Jeff" under Jeff Dunham (achmed the dead terrorist), and Jeff the killer cat. Which is as it should be.

@wilshipley why didn't you hire someone to do html n' css months ago? seriously, wtf?

@wilshipley man crush on Dave Eggers? I admire what the foundation is doing for young writers.

@nathanbowers good theory on why In-n-Out fries taste all wrong. Ordering them "well done" helps a little.

@jongalloway Attribute Exchange is a big deal; without that, you end up keying in additional "crap" for each login like nickname, URL, etc.

@jongalloway "thanks" comments are noise in my opinion unless it's like "ZOMG HOLY CRAP THIS SAVED ME HOURS OF WORK!"

@timbray Really? Actually, I find that drafts are mostly worthless.

@uberfuzzy Pidgin Bug Ticket #4831 : Ron Paul is Not President Yet http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/4831

@stejules you'll need a punchier quote than that to succeed on Digg. It's all about the headline and intro text.

@shanselman wow, your VMWare driver bluescreen story is troubling. I guess @jongalloway was right. http://is.gd/jsK

@stammy thanks for the reminder, just went through sticker backlog -- will go out tomorrow! http://is.gd/k2I

@timbray is there anyone Giles doesn't hate, including himself? Ahh, it's all part of his endearing charm. http://is.gd/jSP

@kevindente I've never had problem one with RDP in Vista, and I use it every day.

@migueldeicaza "I have not tried Rock Band or Guitar Hero because I do not want to have a drumset on the living room" OH YES YOU DO

@wilshipley that works for donuts, too! Three donuts = delicious, four donuts = you feel sick. And I used to work at a Dunkin's so I know.

@darrenkopp my wife @betsyphd loves project runway. It is unlike most reality shows in that they CREATE stuff, which is an improvement.

@jongalloway: Using Vista Previous Versions to Restore Files You Thought You'd Lost Except Sometimes The Version You Need Isn't There. FIXED

@wilshipley awesome. It's the hair. Chicks dig the 'fro. http://tinyurl.com/6fzmtu

@mabster as much as I <4 bittorrent, it's just not mainstream enough yet

@jongalloway I'm looking for the "Second Right Answer."

@LaTtEX no, I agree with Joel; the podcast is good for different things. Hearing a conversation is easier than "reading" it.

@cnu at archive.org. our current stats would put us at the top of the "most downloaded [podcast] items" list which seems a little.. abusive

@shankargan odeo doesn't allow uploads any more @cnu isn't archive.org really slow? @avinashv AmazonS3 is a bit expensive at $0.17 per GB

@wilshipley is less than half the man wil f*#king shipley is -- @wfs

@genezys try using quotably to thread twitter conversations http://quotably.com/codinghorror/statuses/815287161

@wilshipley you're also a developer on Duke Nukem Forever, aren't you? http://duke.a-13.net/

@betsyphd I did not "make the Twitter angry" LOL