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...and in whatever he does, he prospers. - τorƍue

The wicked are not so, but they are like chaff which the wind drives away. Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgement, nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous. For the Lord knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish. - τorƍue

"> So: make it easy now. Round off all the corners, then grease them. > Optimize for the common case. Cut corners. Without success now, > in the present, there is no glorious OpenID future." - τorƍue

"USA Today’s free, solely ad-supported iPad app will switch to subscription in July when the app’s exclusive sponsorship deal with Courtyard by Marriott concludes, Gannett (NYSE: GCI) CEO Craig Dubow said during the company’s Q1 earnings call. The app, which hit Apple’s iTunes App Store just before the iPad launched nearly two weeks ago, has been downloaded 175,000 since then, Dubow said. It is currently number one among iPad news apps, while USAT’s iPhone app, which launched in December 2008, currently ranks the number four in the same category. The company is still in the process of determining the pricing structure for the iPad app subscription, such as whether existing print subs would get a discounted rate or have free access." - τorƍue

Would you subscribe to an app? - τorƍue

"While I’d been tracking with great interest the progress of OAuth 2.0, Facebook lit off the powderkeg yesterday by announcing that their entire API was moving to the protocol (as well as to RESTful JSON). As a developer who had been constantly confounded by the relentlessly hostile environment that Facebook seemed to present to developers, yesterday was a sudden and welcome about-face. The acquisition of FriendFeed, it seems, gave Facebook the talent they needed to do it right this time." - τorƍue

"This specification was authored with the participation and based on the work of Allen Tom (Yahoo!), Brian Eaton (Google), Brent Goldman (Facebook), Luke Shepard (Facebook), Raffi Krikorian (Twitter), and Yaron Goland (Microsoft)." - τorƍue

"As an MSDN subscriber or BizSpark member, your membership provides you 750 hours of Windows Azure compute time per month for 8 consecutive months at no-extra cost! That’s a total of 6000 compute hours! An estimated retail-value of $1,264!" - τorƍue

Note that MSFT's compute hour <> CPU hour. Instead, compute hour = deployed hour. No problem for huge apps that are scaling to many many instances. Not for small apps. Note that you even get charged if you suspend the app (but leave it deployed). - τorƍue

Facebook? - τorƍue

RIP. - τorƍue

:( - Anne Bouey

"Airstream, the proud manufacturer of the world's finest travel trailers, has combined creative forces with Victorinox Swiss Army to produce the Victorinox 125th Anniversary Special Edition Airstream." - τorƍue

"Here is how this technology works: cylinder-shaped large-area nanopattern lithography equipment, which combines magnetic levitation technology and electronic beams, and cylindrical nano-etching equipment, which is supported by plasma technology. This creates nanostructures on the surfaces of cylindrical nano molds." - τorƍue

No takers? - τorƍue

@surf guitar - Fortunately for my wallet, the change machine was broken that day ;) - τorƍue

Whoa - fantanstic! - τorƍue

Where? - Paul Buchheit

Must be in northern Nevada. - Andrew David

California, 2 hrs west of Nevada. :) - τorƍue

"According to the study by Reis, Inc., 17.2% of U.S. office space is unleased; it hasn't been that bad in 16 years. It's also a 2% increase from the same quarter last year." - τorƍue

"In a thorough report that is well-worth reading, the Detroit Free Press indicates Moroun owns at least 625 parcels in the city, many purchased at Wayne County's annual tax foreclosure sale for as little as $500." - τorƍue