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I don't think I've ever heard tack used as a verb. Now I know I can do it...

I agree that this should be a great feature--not least of all because my avatar looks so fugly.

After a little looking, I found some articles from April that suggest it should be released in November. Don't know if that's still accurate though.

I'm not 100% clear on what you're asking, but I'm assuming you're wondering how you come up with something to write about.

This certainly depends on what I'm writing. A paper for class about 1930s in Germany and America has a much simpler topic generation process--usually meaning I just regurgitate something from class--than a blog on which I can write whatever I want.

Generally, I'll just have an idea in my head that I want to explore. Today, I was thinking about how insecurity often causes people to strike out at others. After playing with that idea, I ended up writing about how most disturbances to world peace are a result of feelings of insecurity. Tomorrow, I'll write about something else that pops into my head.

That's generally how I work. I just find something that's interesting and it becomes the topic.

If nothing pops into my head, I usually struggle. I try traditional brainstorming approaches (word association, free writing, mind maps) but they never seem to work very well. If you're completely starved for ideas, though, they're worth a try.

I have a lot of favorites, but I think this one may be the best. It's called "Any Morning" by William Stafford.

Just lying on the couch and being happy.
Only humming a little, the quiet sound in the head.
Trouble is busy elsewhere at the moment, it has
so much to do in the world.

People who might judge are mostly asleep; they can’t
monitor you all the time, and sometimes they forget.
When dawn flows over the hedge you can
get up and act busy.

Little corners like this, pieces of Heaven
left lying around, can be picked up and saved.
People won't even see that you have them,
they are so light and easy to hide.

Later in the day you can act like the others.
You can shake your head. You can frown.

hthth,
You said it as well as I think anyone else could. I think if this note has a meaning, it should be that.

Oh, and josh's answer is good too.

I tried Notepad++ but was pretty disappointed. I've been using PSPad for a while. Very nice little program.

I second what Scrivs said, but would add that usage base probably isn't a big concern for Google. Rebrand Jaiku with the Google name and you'd suddenly double the user base. OK, maybe it's not that magical, but I'm guessing Googles counting on some variant of that.

I just ate some of the best red grapes of my life. They were very firm and sweet--just how I like them.

My thoughts exactly, Ozone.

I used Blogger for a number of years. But when I decided to start blogging again this summer, I opted for WordPress. It's worked very well for me, does just about everything I want to do, as well as better than it should.

A few weeks ago, on a whim, I went back and played around with Blogger and found it really lacking. It has some new and interesting features--I was surprised how easy it was to set up and customize sidebar elements, for example. But overall, as Josh suggested, it felt constrictive, and not nearly as customizable as WordPress.

WordPress's customizability can be daunting at first. Sometimes you want to make a seemingly minor change and you'll have to find install a plugin to mimic something that's easier done on Blogger. I don't really mind that, so I still like WordPress. If you find that really daunting--and don't mind Blogger's issues, I could definitely see why you regret the switch.

I believe the answer is a cookie. A really good cookie.

I'm not sure this is a new story, but I do think it's interesting.

And though I wouldn't call the move unexpected--no one defends piracy like The Pirate Bay--I do agree that its a good thing to see a countersuit after all the your-grandma's-a-thief suits the record companies/RIAA have pressed (and settled out of court).

@JPhill
There's a very narrow line between greedy and smart though. If he gets a million, most people would probably say he was smart to hold-out, if 700k was the last offer, he'll probably be looked at as too greedy.

It primarily works because readers of other blogs--or at least their owners--will probably visit your blog, and may become regular readers.

I would hardly call going into the military (or re-enlisting) tantamount to signing a document affirming your belief in the righteousness of all the battles you'll be asked to fight. For many people (I know nothing about Casey Sheehan) the military is the best job they can get, or the way out of a bad situation. I think it's a bold overstatement to say that all (or any) servicemen necessarily believe in the wars they fight while enlisted.

@alisa
That one is so brilliantly dirty. That's also probably the reason that I'd never heard it before.

I've gotten sick of this question, so I've taken to calling it "Poda."

It works great, only I've had to settle for drinking a lot of water when people don't understand. ;p

Kitchen Nightmares is a great show. It's the only reason that I really wish I had BBC America. I'm excited to see what the American version will be like, but I'm not too enthused (it is Fox after all).

I also like Good Eats pretty well.

In the food & travel category, I'm a big fan of both No Reservations (and Bourdain's old show(s?) as well) and Feasting on Asphalt.

That's most of what I really like, there are many others that I watch from time to time though.

Haha, I always wondered if stuff like this happens, apparently it does.

The benefits of actually knowing the play your opponent is running before the run it is pretty obvious, and good for the Jets for showing that funny business does still happen in football.

I have 2.0.0.6 installed on Windows XP, and it does hang from time to time. But I'm thinking it has more to do with the strain I'm putting on my system and not Firefox itself. I suppose I could be mistaken about that...

Yes, and they now have ringtones. But I think pilotjohn was referring to something more interesting like a true 3G handset, the ability to display Flash, or (as he mentioned) a better chat client.

Doing my best Steve Jobs: In time young grasshopper, in time.

I did see Manos, but only on MST3K, so I guess that that would break the rules. I'm surprised anyone ever saw the not MST3K version.

After that, it's harder. I didn't like either Independence Day or Mulholland Drive much, but for very different reasons. I think I was way to old to like Independence Day, which was exciting but completely hollow. And Mulholland Drive, I didn't like because David Lynch works too hard to be confusing.

But really, I think my nominee would probably have to Star Wars Episode I. It's just so bad, and my hopes were so high.

Frankly, I think it's absurd to claim that it adversely affects the language in a long-term or problematic way.

Language had been improperly used by all kinds of people in all kinds of places and times without changing the canonical grammar. What I mean by that is that although improper grammar may be used by certain subsets of the population, it never becomes so pervasive as to overwhelm real grammar rules that will always be required in formal settings.

(I often use big words and broad concepts when I don't really know what I'm talking about--see above.)

This is an interesting question. It really really makes me think of the writings of John Locke (and other philosophers as well), as it seems that you're attempting to ask what people are like in the "state of nature."

In brief summary of those two philosophers, life in a new country with no laws and no power to enforce those laws may become "nasty brutish and short" (I may have that wrong, but it's close). Thus men create governments.

For myself, I think in general they have a point. I think it really depends how this country were created though. If we took people from preexisting countries and told them there would be no laws in this new country, they would probably go crazy and do whatever they wanted but hadn't been legally allowed to.

If, however, they'd been born there and were creating their country with no idea of what should happen in a "country," I think you could have very interesting results.

I feel like I haven't said much, but with a question this broad it's hard to say all that could be said.

I don't really know of any quality one-column designs.

In general, I would offer that a lot of things could go into the footer. For some reason I'm not sure I understand, footers keep getting bigger and bigger, and are in some case swallowing lots of things that could (should?) be higher up the page. Having said that, especially if your pages are relatively short, I do think that a footer could do you some good.

I wish you had a video...

I think Elbert Hubbard described your feelings exactly when he said:

No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.

Haven't you heard the rule that if you speak a different language all copying rules are off?

I had to respond to this because I think it's pretty obvious.

It's my name...

I think mine's an LG VX8100, something like that.

It's a pretty sturdy phone, which is great. I don't really use it for much more than talking though, so I'm probably a bad judge of how recommendable a phone is.

I totally agree with Estarla. You need more fonts. You could also probably benefit from some brighter colors and probably at least one piece of annoying scrolling text (ah, those were days). Also, the scrolling text should be rainbow-colored.

Pity that midi files are going out of style...

Gnorb, it's more like that's what (little) I get FOR watching television. Seriously, it's probably unhealthy that I knew all of that without looking it up. Besides, any of that information is just an IMDB search away whenever a person has a desire to look for it.

Ah, nicknames. I've gone by both Dave and David. More obscurely, I was Curly in college, Funny in high school, and Cheesy in elementary school. People who met me during these times still tend to use those names. I've also been referred to as D, Big D, and Ray, though none of those are used much now.