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I’ve been meaning to tell you about Flock, Flock is a relatively new browser on the huge list of available browsers out there; it is based on the same code that powers Firefox. Although I think Flock is a great browser, I prefer Firefox for my day to day web activity. In Flock I use the upload tool the most out of all the Flock features, in fact it is the only thing I’ll tell you about today.
Flickr has an uploader tool, but I don’t like it and it seems to fail whenever I try to use it. There are also other tools available, like juploadr (which I like), but out of all the tools I’ve tried, I like the uploader included with Flock the best. It is simple enough, but has a good set of features.
The Urination Iterator Strikes Again! This time on first floor UCI-ICS
Originally uploaded by Mike Mayer
My buddy David pointed out this morning the offer by Microsoft to buy Yahoo. I think Oh noes! C’mon, why do they have to go and f*ck up a perfectly good thing? I hardly use Yahoo but one of the services that is worth paying for (as I have done) is Flickr. If you don’t know, Flickr is owned by Yahoo. Yahoo is great for a few things, like their Answers service, and the messenger is good and a few other things, but I mostly don’t use it. Except for Flickr!
Flickr simply kicks any other image sharing site’s ass. Any time, up and down the block and not twice, but three times on Sunday. I am afraid that if the deal goes through, we’ll be forced to the usual Microsoft crap. I can already imagine it…
We’ll probably have to use the lame Microsoft Spaces, or one of their many other half-assed offerings just to sign in. You know they’ll botch up the great system that Flickr is. They’ll probably break the way that you upload pictures, the way that you add contacts, the tags, the slideshows, and last but not least the API for other sites to interact with your images. And surely you’ll get spammed regularly. Not to mention that you’ll need Internet Explorer to access it, or to get it to display correctly, you’ll have very little support for computers that aren’t running Windows. Ultimately users will choose the next best thing and bail, in search of a better way.
Lets hope that if Yahoo does sell out, Flickr is only marginally affected by the purchase.
The offer came yesterday, apparently after 18+ months of discussions. The offer is for 44.6 Billion. That is insane when you put the number in perspective. The offer also made Yahoo stock shoot up quite a bit. I’m sure this made Yahoo stock holders happy at least for the time being.
This weekend was awesome. After the rain the city felt fresh and crisp, like coming out of a shower. Besides my regular dose of work I got some free time to play with some of my new toys. Here’s a “quick” summary. Also, I wanted to share a bunch of sites I’ve found, I think you could find them useful.
Poweriser udpate: I took them out only on Sunday because Saturday I was mostly busy and I was afraid it would rain again rain… So far wet slick sidewalks aren’t so good for me. I’ll have a video of my latest footage compiled soon. Since I just published my other poweriser summary of the day, I don’t have much to add right now, except that I took a lot of video. But I haven’t even looked at it so I don’t know if its any good, stay tuned… Continue Reading “Weekend roundup” »
I love this bumper sticker. It reads “God was my copilot but we crashed in the mountains and I had to eat him.
I’m off to San Francisco. In a few hours I’ll be on the road, heading up north to drop off my lil sister. I got about 12-16 hours of “idle” driving time. Hopefully my newly loaded iPod will keep the beats bumpin the whole way up and down. I’m also planning to make a few photo stops. For those of you interested on a turn by turn overview of my trip, head over to twitter. I don’t know how much I’ll update on there, and I don’t think anyone would really care to see the updates anyway.
We’re planning on leaving around 2 am, get up there by 9 or before. crash for a couple hours and then I’ll drive back.
hopefully my car won’t be as dirty as this one when I get up there or come back.
This past weekend I went to Napa with my girlfriend, her sister and her boyfriend. It was a cool trip and definitely would go back. Some circumstances would certainly be different but I would like to go back sometime soon maybe even next year around springtime.
We hit a few of the big winneries, Merryvale, Domaine Chandon, V. Sattui, and a bunch of smaller ones. I took a lot of pictures so head on over to flickr to check them out. There isn’t a whole lot to do in a couple days there other than wine tasting but we managed to go to The Press, an excellent steakhouse. Continue Reading “wining and dining in Napa” »