@tjw the 24" Samsung 245BW (crappy TN) models I'm using are surprisingly light. Imagine 3, not 2, in this photo: http://tinyurl.com/2f8slk

@wilshipley or, "where my bitches at?"

@kevindente I can't help it, he uses a laptop as his primary dev machine. Two 24" panels would be cheaper AND offer more desktop, tho.

@betsyphd laughing at the bush man. Another reason to <3 bay area. http://youtube.com/watch?v=aVI3Y9VT8uE

@jongalloway ie7pro flash blocker freqently screws up flash sites, even when I click to activate the flash areas. About 33% of time.

@wilshipley LOL at your response to macnn forum thread

@kevindente well, I gave Chris Wilson an earful about IE8's lack of easy (managed code) extension mechanism at the tech summit

@omarshahine MSFT corpnet isn't so much fail as a 10% blanket project productivity tax. At least that was my experience.

@marxidad I wish I could just get adblock and flashblock, that's really all I need it to do. Recommendations?

@anildash Snoop Dogg performs Sensual Seduction on The View http://tinyurl.com/5622ju

@cisellis I think of apple hardware like the Xbox 360 or Playstation 3, really. More true of the iPod and iPhone, but trend is clear

@nkohari that's incredibly naive. It is *absolutely* copy protection, with some side benefits.

@kevindente not seeing green ribbon of death in Vista. What explorer shell extensions do you have installed?

@jongalloway where was XP relative to 9x in 2002?

@justinetheredge MP3 VBR is all you need. It is the alpha and omega of audio. One format with kick-ass quality that plays *everywhere*

@shanselman 'minutes 107: 26 MB (VBR 8): 20.5 MB (VBR 9): 15.0 MB you *want* variable bit rate. http://tinyurl.com/5rq9o5

@shanselman I just transcoded hanselminutes 1071 to 64kbps -- old size: 26 MB new size: 17 MB. I just saved 1/3 of your bandwidth.. BAM!

@migueldeicaza so jealous! I have a man crush on Lessig as well! SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

@shanselman I'd go with ONE podcast format, not the seventy skadillion you offer. And reduce to 64 kbps mono. It's voice, not music!

@rjray I feel it's a slippery slope from "cute" to "10 hottest geeks", is my point. Hence the unease.

@rjray well, it's stuff like this. I always felt dudes were immune, but.. "cute"? http://tinyurl.com/2hgz44

@rjray I think mostly because it's so unusual for a man to be judged on appearance in geek circles; common for women (unfortunately)

@bradwilson I was referring to this: too many choices. http://tinyurl.com/2t37ou

@kevindente I wonder how many other plugins break due to the way Firefox 3 changed the NPRuntime object reference handling? Must not be many

@kevindente yeah, it's a rip-roaring great "conversation" right now. Allow me to summarize: we don't plugin like Safari/Opera, f**k you.

@wilshipley I demand that the official DM2 screenshots include 1. Heavy Metal soundtrack 2. Hall & Oates 3. Iron Maiden DEMAND!

@simonech @_ds oh, I see, we're playing Twitter prison rules, huh? http://tinyurl.com/3387dt

@jongalloway YOU LIE! ITUNES *IS* MUSIC! http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2008/04/03itunes.html

@kevindente yeah, future expiry header rec is a PITA sometimes. I added a ?x=1 to the end of the css file. Hopefully that helps.

@wilshipley no doubt, x64 is pure goodness-- not just address space increase, but "cruft removal mode" for x86 architecture

@damienguard x64 is working great for me. Problem is really "too many choices" in an existing world of Vista Smoky Bacon Edition.

@bradwilson PAE mode is a nasty, brutish hack. Why bother with x86 when x64 works so well? Particularly on a server OS, of all things.

@kevindente sounds like you want WinSplit Revolution. Good choice. http://reptils.free.fr/ (use ctrl+alt+numpad and ctl+alt+arrows)

@kevindente pff, that's cheating. Reinstall your OS and upgrade all your drivers to go 64-bit! Do not anger the gods of computing!

@shanselman your P6N 650i mobo supports 8 GB. 2 GB DDR2-800 DIMMs are about $50 on newegg; you'll need 4, kingston/corsair/crucial

@snitty info on OSX 32-64 hybridness http://tinyurl.com/2tl3wz I dunno, the geek in me says 32-bit kernel sux0rs

@lobrien you hate Shawshank? Do you hate motherhood, apple pie, baseball, and The Blues Brothers too?

@shanselman speaking of x64 goodness -- did you upgrade to 8 GB of memory?

@henry_maddocks the OSX kernel is still 32-bit. I guess Apple was afraid of driver pain. We LOVE driver pain in Windows! I'm kissing it now!

@shanselman that book == the show "Journeyman" starring the guy from HBO's Rome. Which was indescribably awesome. Journeyman is just OK.

@alanstevens Visual FoxPro had a tiny, decrepit little area all to itself in the back of the Microsoft Company Store. On the bottom shelf.

@superdalgas congrats on the baby! Perhaps Jan could be the godmother.. :)

@cwbrandsma I really don't think that tweet was intended for me. I put on a Ruby conference? Was I sleepwalking at the time?

@wilshipley if you owned an Xbox 360 like God intended all Rock Band players to, you'd be playing Coulton's "Still Alive" on it RIGHT NOW

@nathanbowers you should see my mp3 collection! Here's one of my favorites: http://tinyurl.com/rxky

@paultoo great meeting you

@nathanbowers I got the full AnyBots robot demo http://tinyurl.com/3e4gfb he was wearing light blue Chucks though

@josephholsten thanks for the heads up. phew. http://www.snopes.com/crime/warnings/jenkem.asp

@anildash that auto-tune video is FRIGGIN GREAT. "a butternut reduction.." http://tinyurl.com/2j4frs

@nathanbowers actually VS2008 is a suprisingly decent HTML editor now; very CSS aware in 2008

@betsyphd Scrubs safety dance http://youtube.com/watch?v=7-bIhCBSrzU

@hotdogsladies nothing says "I'm awesome" like threatening to play the blogger jackass card!

@markzero exactly, though maybe IE8 will address multi-instance recovery. Not normal to crash, having some sketchy hardware issues ATM

@shanselman This salsa was made in Noo Yawk Citah! GET A ROPE!

@a7an have you tried clean install of Vista SP1, no Lenovo "craplets"? Usually that's the problem. Third parties suck, as Apple knows.

@jrowett seriously, I was like "aw, how bad can it be" which quickly transformed into "OH MY GOD, THIS IS THE UI FROM HELL'S SUB-BASEMENT"

@hotdogsladies Priceless? Could be worth millions. Attend my webinar for more information!

@wilshipley So I guess cute overload is about boobs now. Double plus lame, man.

@josephgrossberg it is what it is! http://tinyurl.com/27hsre

@jongalloway http://www.someecards.com is not the same without the 18th century woodcut illustrations, somehow.

@cwoodruff you can't help @rosscode he is beyond help

@wilshipley is quite good at medium drums, when the singer isn't screeching like a banshee directly in his one remaining good ear

@wilshipley also has "Medieval Madness" and "Addams Family" pinball machines in his boom boom room. I hate him! I HATE HIM!

@wilshipley don't forget to finish downloading those Boston tracks, yo!

@haacked poor @jongalloway , what happened to his blog posting schedule? Still better than it was (1/month), I don't mean to be critical.

@screwtheman mostly I was surprised it's being discounted so much, considering you now get game/drums/mic/guitar (shipped) for $142 vs $170

@hotdogsladies is right. we should be starring our favorite responses. I will go through my backlog and do this

@davebost and I have a shared love of the obscure, incredibly defunct 80s TV show "Whiz Kids". Who's with us?! http://tinyurl.com/26dtvd

@davebost yep, still at seatac. partially my fault for scheduling flight so light. standby didn't work..

@kevindente a portion of the proceeds go to @jongalloway who designed the WoMM logo. Well, when I feel like giving it to him, eg, never!

@kevindente you want a Works on My Machine(tm) sticker and/or shirt and/or mug and/or lederhosen http://www.cafepress.com/codinghorror/

@ev if you don't like twitter, you *are* a bitch. I mean that in the nicest possible way of course :) http://tinyurl.com/3yavpp

@john_lam sorry I didn't get to say hi after your DLR pres yesterday: <3 to you, dlr rocks!

@engtech I'll mail him about partial feeds. Bugs me too.

@wfs just wait until you see our boom boom room! (title taken from MTV's "cribs", and no, I'm not referring to "where the magic happens")

@cwoodruff take him to... detroit! http://tinyurl.com/yultn5

@jessieshmessie we need to get that damn 2nd guitar and five star some songs as a 4 person band! http://youtube.com/watch?v=6mPApgUhdtE

@bmf @djlemur you didn't tell me the wall-punching part of the story. That sucks man. Condolences. http://tinyurl.com/2mo82l

@jessieshmessie on expert guitar (and quite good) @wilshipley on medium drums @fakeellen on medium vocals .. fake plastic rock ftw

@wilshipley Fitt's Law means the "scroll-ball" will always suck compared to a wheel. Honestly, who scrolls LEFT or RIGHT?

@kevindente still waiting for your blog post on "productivity and effectiveness" w/r/t Firefox extensions

@wilshipley the middle button is really a side-effect of having a wheel, but might as well have a good convention for it-- and close is!

@jongalloway but stuff like resizable textboxes should be built in, that was the point of this post http://tinyurl.com/2gkgeb

@rits *modal* middle-click auto-scroll is a crime against humanity. can be disabled in Firefox 2 (adv options), can't in IE7 so far..

@kevindente it's about the content, not the browser. Developers just love twiddling knobs and option dialogs. Firefox is a great dev env.

@kevindente it scrolls better than Firefox 2 in a triple-browser test I just did, but nothing scrolls as smoothly as IE7 IMHO

@jongalloway Conclusion? IE8 is cancelled; MS will ship Firefox 3 instead. Yeah. Actually, I think Safari is the best browser these days.

@robzelt agree. competition is good, except when it's Microsoft? does not compute. Flash is too dominant.

@kevindente ask K. Scott Allen; he's an expert in Workflow Foundation. The power of "K" compels you.

@betsyphd what you said is wrong and I am desperately trying to erase it from my mind

@smalljones listening is hard. talking is easy. unfortunately.

@laptopheaven please. CodeProject doesn't scale without source control.

@betsyphd @anildash "I'm pro-fisting" LOL (for context this IS about the hand surgery recovery process, I swear)

@hotdogsladies on Amazon people rate the reviews; perhaps that could be percolated down to the reviewer if enough are good/bad

@engtech quotably is nice. http://quotably.com/codinghorror why doesn't twitter web UI do this by default? hint hint HINT

@danwoolston lol, "perform ant". I'm with @paulvick on this one. Use it if you want, but some of us will laugh at you. What else is new?

@kevindente Godgle decides everything.

@kevindente http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/blog versus http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/performant

@jrzyshr after hearing it again, it's actually Pac-Man level start sound, but both are very cool as ringtones and I heartily approve!

@shanselman cricket cola, neat, I'll have to try that http://tinyurl.com/m9e9x right now it's diet pepsi max all the way