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Re: Maximizing Facebook’s Live Feed

PaulOFlaherty — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 12:31:20 -0000

Thanks for this great tip :) Have no idea why they would want to limit the number, it doesn't really make any sense.

Re: The Evolution of Americans

PaulOFlaherty — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 12:04:30 -0000

I don't think they did. In fact I think they were making a point, first by alluding to the old German spelling and secondly introducing the K into America is a satirical reference to racism and the KKK. Much the same way as people spell Microsoft as "Micro$oft" sometimes.

Re: Owning your mistakes and other screw ups

PaulOFlaherty — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:21:15 -0000

Great post Steven and one something that we all need to remeber and be aware of from time to time.

BTW, as a point of clarification - Were you a "hot" tar roofer, or a "hot tar roofer"? ROFL

Just kidding :)

Re: The FCC, TSA, @MyBottlesUp And Why Bloggers Can’t Be Trusted

PaulOFlaherty — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 11:52:15 -0000

LOL.. The jury is no where near out on that one. First off ask yourself why would they doctor it? Nic is a woman with apparent substance abuse problems which in itself would be enough to begin to discredit her story if they wanted to go down the road of bashing her in a PR sense.

The TSA have no need to take the time, or effort, to put out doctored footage. They've dealt with worse accusations before and in all likelihood, if they had done something wrong they would have taken the standard line of "this is our policy blah blah blah.. but we are investigating any possible breach of policy"... and then swept the entire thing under the carpet. It would have been far easier to just ignore it that to risk releasing doctored footage which, if it was, would surely come back to bite them in the ass at some point.

It simply doesn't make sense from a public relations view to doctor the footage. The potential ramifications would be far to damaging. In a case of "put up or shut up" they put up because, for once, they knew they were right.

Also, Nic admits in her rebutal post that it is her in the video but she can't explain how her son is mysterious beside he in the stroller. She'll have to look into it???

in the video, it looks as though my son is playing happily in his stroller while i am being searched with a wand. obviously this is the big discrepancy with my story, since he was not in my sight at that time, and one that i too am thoroughly looking into.

Nah, I have to cry foul on this one. She wanted attention and she obviously got it.

Re: The FCC, TSA, @MyBottlesUp And Why Bloggers Can’t Be Trusted

PaulOFlaherty — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 20:28:45 -0000

I never claimed that you know her, nor do I care. The fact of the matter is that whether you want to believe it ot not, actions like this do reflect on all of us especially in term of our credibility as a community.

You don't believe she fabricated it for attention! Hmm.. well then how about all the mentions in her twitter stream about selling her story? Not exactly the thing someone who is traumatized and suffering from anxiety cares about now is it?

And I never claimed that you can't think on your own. I was merely pointing out that if this was, say, a man lying about the actions of a TSA and saying that he was beaten up, and then the video evidence proved that he wasn't, he would be torn to shreds by bloggers.

And lets be truly honest. Watch the video. Now if anxiety is truly affecting her that bad that she has such a sense of distorted of reality, should she even be alone with the child? What if she attacks the next TSA agent she *believes* has run off with her child?

I have and I am calling bullshit on this.

Re: The FCC, TSA, @MyBottlesUp And Why Bloggers Can’t Be Trusted

PaulOFlaherty — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 19:53:16 -0000

My only response here is that you either didn't watch the video and/or are refusing to accept the reality that it disproves 99% of what she claimed happened... or that you are protecting her because she is part of the mommyblogger community and now is considered "not well".

I am sure that if it were someone form outside the community they would be vilified for such behavior.

Re: The FCC, TSA, @MyBottlesUp And Why Bloggers Can’t Be Trusted

PaulOFlaherty — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 18:14:19 -0000

I believe I said exactly that in my post Alex!

Re: What a difference a fan makes

PaulOFlaherty — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 15:36:37 -0000

Sorry Kevin, it's been a ling time since I had that machine and it has been relegated to a recycling bin somewhere.

Sorry I can't be of further help.

Re: Screw love – write about something you hate

PaulOFlaherty — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 22:32:27 -0000

Steven my old flower, this is the internet man! You know as well as I do, that if you write about the things you hate, write about the things that make your foreskin run screaming for the hairy protection of your armpits leaving a trail of blood in it's wake, if you express any negative opinion whatsoever you will be ostracized and forever doomed to an existence of online mediocrity.

The only way to become super popular is to pop excessive amounts of Valium and write over the top lovey dovey shite expounding the wonders of the universe and the pubic hair you found in your cornflakes. Don't dare express an opinion that may piss somebody off... As many a social media guru has proven... the path to popularity lies in being the town bicycle.. er I mean, loved by everybody...

Re: FTC Guidelines : They’re Not About YOUR Blog!

PaulOFlaherty — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 23:54:59 -0000

Yep Steven and I have history :) LOL And a good one at that :) There's very few people I respect more in the tech blogging world than that cranky git! :)

Re: The Fall, and fall of Internet Explorer.

PaulOFlaherty — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 16:00:00 -0000

LOL, you couldn't have picked an older post to comment on? It's almost 5 years old at this point.

I'm using 2.4.11 as well and never noticed any IE8 problems, but then again I've been tinkering with it for so long.. I'm not sure what's left of the original.. LOL

I'm assuming by the "link at the top to google" you mean the advert. I've actually manually inserted the code into the header.php between the "headerad" div tags that start at line 70.

If you drop me an line via my contact form and let me know what troubles you're having I'll get back to you asap and help you as best I can.

Re: FTC Guidelines : They’re Not About YOUR Blog!

PaulOFlaherty — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 15:46:47 -0000

I'm looking forward to it :) You know I'll be keeping an eye out :)

Re: Just An FYI About Email Forwards

PaulOFlaherty — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 10:58:52 -0000

Yeah, it's amazing how many people discover that button and little else.. LOL

Re: AT&T and Google Square Off Over Alleged FCC Violations

PaulOFlaherty — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 18:30:03 -0000

Can you say "Smoke screen" or "tantrum"?

Re: Hack Sociable to work with YOURLS – Quick and Dirty

PaulOFlaherty — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:10:02 -0000

Thanking you kindly, and yes, I'll get to nagging him :)

Re: How Twitter Can Reduce User Headaches

PaulOFlaherty — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 08:38:22 -0000

I see where you're coming from, but it's a vicious cycle as you gain followers you gain more spam followers and also get exposed to more people that you may want to follow :) And for those of us with more followers some of these changes would make things better :)

Re: Scoble Admits Incompetence Yet Blames WordPress

PaulOFlaherty — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 10:59:34 -0000

I agree with you, but I'd rather they ship them as quickly as they do instead of waiting and running risks :)

Re: Tech conferences and their conflicts

PaulOFlaherty — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 13:25:15 -0000

Well at least big companies making announcements won't be a problem they have to contend with next year as there will be no more Techcrunch50's. It looks like Arrington and Calacanis may have had a falling out.

The question now is will someone else take up the mantel of a similar style conference?

Re: Friendship Is More Than 140 Characters

PaulOFlaherty — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 08:45:40 -0000

I do the same thing myself in my RSS reader. I love having everything in one place instead of having to trek off all over the web to find out what's been going on :)

Re: What XP Netbook Manufactures Aren’t Telling You?

PaulOFlaherty — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 08:31:57 -0000

Jay Monster, here's a little more info. This isSymantecs breakdown of the 5 critical patches that were shipped by MS this month.

As you can see only 1 of the fixes a problem in XP and that patch was issued because of the extended support for XP Professional for business and as such worked for XP Home.

You can see more information about that particular patch here.

You'll see in the text that Microsoft is listing it as:

Critical for all supported editions of Microsoft Windows 2000 and Windows XP

If they were supporting XP Home it would have said "for all supported editions of 2000 and all editions of XP"...

This should help with explaining where some of those updates came this month :)

Re: What XP Netbook Manufactures Aren’t Telling You?

PaulOFlaherty — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 08:19:43 -0000

Microsoft have been guided by their own lifecycle supoprt schedule which existed way before the OEM's came to Microsoft asking for an extension on XP Home. I linked to the it in the post.

The simple fact of the matter that while Microsoft may choose to ship updates, especially ones that it makes for the extended business cycle that are compatible, the chances are that the majority of the "boatload" of updates you talk about are likely for other Microsoft programs on your computer rather than XP Home itself. Programs such as the windows "live" programs, office etc.. will all continue to be updated regardless fo which OS they are running on and will come through windows update.

Also it's not against precedent for Microsoft to ship patches for out of cycle software but it is a rare and exceptional circumstance.

There is no conspiracy here, at least on Microsofts part. They were very clear from the outset about when mainstream support would be ending for XP. They are not "pulling any card" as they put it. The support lifecycle for XP has been publicly available for literally years.

There is no Microsoft conspiracy in this, just consumer ignorance which the OEM's have relied on to ship their product. They knew that without XP netbooks would remain in the realm of the uber geek as they would have had to use linux or another light weight OS. They approached Microsoft and asked to be able to sell XP for longer. Microsoft agreed in 08 but also made it very clear that support would end in April of 09.

Re: Lady Gaga Imitates a Used Tampon

PaulOFlaherty — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 00:17:08 -0000

The video has been updated Chris and should be working now :)

Re: Calling out Gabe and Techmeme over favoritism and censorship

PaulOFlaherty — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 00:15:14 -0000

Thanks Duncan. I've read the posts Steven linked to and your own commentary and links on the thread and I thank you for being so forth coming and honest. For me, the greatest judge in all this is that Steven continues to work for you. I respect his judgment and that speaks volumes to me.

Again, thank you :)

Re: Why Ask A Question If People Can’t Answer?

PaulOFlaherty — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 19:31:22 -0000

And then there's also the number of photographers in the room to consider which also considerably increases the chances.

Re: Calling out Gabe and Techmeme over favoritism and censorship

PaulOFlaherty — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 18:45:00 -0000

As an after thought, wouldn't it be in Duncans and The Inquisitrs best interests to make a statement one way or the other on this and either bury the hatchet with Gabe or at least make his position known?