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Apparently privacy is the big issue this year, what with people losing their jobs via their Facebook profiles.

I'm working at an open-messaging/social-networking start-up which is trying to tackle this issue in an intuitive way.

When it comes to privacy, I'm very liberal with what I put on my Facebook page, but when it comes to writing a message, I often put a lot of thought into what I write.

Firefox

I also am in the UK and recently switched to a US web host (DreamHost). This was mainly because my previous provider (1&1) didn't do Ruby on Rails, and also because of the 69DOLLARHOSTING deal which got me smiling.

I haven't been a user for a long time, so I can't say much for the user experience.

"-your childhood adventures with food"

hmm, what like tea parties?

I'd love to share your enthusiasm for Superman Peanut Butter, but I have an allergy to peanut butter. There you go, one of my adventures with food. Boom Boom!

Suggestions:

"a jarred can of awesome (or canned jar of awesome)"

"sex with laserbeams"

"once you have acquired a taste for mango juice freshly squeezed from between the buttocks of a female bodybuilder, the art of bullshittidum is non-consequential"

*Oli "-I'm happy to entertain bots."

A spot of robo-p0rn perhaps? or 'bayesian filters do amazing things'?

I'm with ya, writer's block is so annoying. I have in recent weeks though had moments of sheer genius, where my mind wouldn't shut up and I was just writing pages of material at night; it was bizarre.

I think that the reason it happened was because of a small change in my diet. I tend to drink a lot of tea, but when I'm ill I switch to Camomile or Rosehip (mainly to avoid the caffeine) and I did this until I got well. When I went back to normal tea, my mind became pretty fired up. I was on smoking form...

But unfortunately I've been a bit dead of recent. Hopefully it will return soon.

There is no alternative text to the image-based links in the top navigation bar. It improves your site's accessibility and your Google rankings too (though slightly)

"I just sit down and start hitting at the keys...getting them in the right order though, that's the trick-"

Garth Marenghi's Darkplace

eternalsword : beautifully put, Descartes would be happy, but he's dead.

What I hate is when someone likes to impose their view as gospel, whichever side it comes from.

Unfortunately though, that's the nature of humans. We have a high intolerance of uncertainty... as least in my opinion anyway.

Ministry of Sound Chillout sessions... makes me feel cool like one of those of trendy London types ;)

Very, very nice.

You think this is a big deal. just check out this debate at the Guardian's 'comment is free'. This one takes the biscuit.

I would love to publish my "Faggot Bang" poster, but I just know that would earn me a red card here.

PS - It's a twisted take on the Cillit Bang adverts

I agree with publicenergy about the Smugness too.

Charlie Brooker is brilliant. Check this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zq-jK8JjLcs

Oli - if you haven't seen it, there's a tv program called "the root of all evil". It's presented by Richard Dawkins (the guy who wrote 'the blind watchmaker' and 'the God delusion'.

He posed the same question you asked to Ted Haggard (well before the whole gay prostitute scandal), and Ted Haggard went that carbon dating was a version of 'the truth' that was believed in the scientific community.

Make of that what you will, but it's bound to be on YouTube or Google Video. The thing about it is though that Dawkins specifically picks the nutjobs to make his case against religion; for example he found a Jewish guy from NY who converted to Islam and lives in the West Bank. RD didn't like what the guy had to say about 'when are you going to teach your women to dress properly?'

As a Lazy Linux Luva, I have 2 recommendations:

Bluefish (Linux) - my web dev code editor of choice. It's the biz!

RadRails (Cross-platform) - What I use for Ruby on Rails

oh f### it, you asked for it:

Religious people, which one of your religions is right?

Once I get a sufficient answer I'll hop off the fence and become a member of the God squad, but up until then, I'm assuming that Scientology has about as much claim to being 'the truth' as the rest of them.

That said, I have a sneaking suspicion that Ron L. Hubbard created Scientology in order to parody all other religions, because quite possibly a couple of thousand years from now, the majority of humans will espouse that Scientology is the real deal, whilst a small minority will argue that a SF writer made it all up. Point is, how do we know that all the other religions weren't just stories made up by ancient Ron L. Hubbard's?

I'm currently scoring this forum to the gay marriage side!

Another question on the matter; coming back to that woman who married a Dophin in Israel, if that dolphin's gender is female, does that make her a Lesbian?

"Bush Gay Marriage" [google bombardiers unite!]

Here's your daily dose of bushism:

"There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again."

Ryanarrowsmith:

"- equal amounts of God's love."

You make God sound like a pimp...nice one

Another Bushism for the record (and let's not forget to include the words "bush", "dubya", and "gay marriage". Cmon people, we've got a Google to bomb!

"Families is where our nation finds hope, where wings take dream."

Ahh, ya got me in a vendetta kinda mood....

Bush and Gay marriage - continue this note for long enough and it'll be the 1st result you get when you Google those keywords.

I see where you're coming from Michael, but I think the definition of marriage is flexible enough to accommodate homosexuals. Here's the thing, if a woman can marry a dolphin, why can't gays marry?

As for the Bush... on a less serious note, his infamous collection of Bushisms are just sheer hilarity.

"I understand there's a suspicion that we—we're too security-conscience."—Washington D.C., April 14, 2005

Cooper speaks for me!

I'm a fellow agnostic. I know it's wrong to sum up religion as being either good or bad, but I'll always take note of Marx's view on religion:

"Religion is the Opium of the masses"

Karl Marx

Colbert's speech at the White House Press Association Dinner last year was my favourite religious joke.

I'd replace the tables-based layout with CSS, and separate it from the styling of the content.

I'd also try and un-clutter the interface for the admin, much like Facebooks in my opinion.

I could do his job, just not very well ; )

"there needs to be more "uglyness" portrayed in popular entertainment."

You mean more realism - I prefer shows you can relate to, rather than perfect looking shows like the OC and Desperate Housewives. Then again I could just just turn over to Celebrity Big Brother and watch a one-armed Lesbian with her grown-up daughter in the same house, though I don't think that's going to reflect reality any better somehow

We're all adults, but swearing is a contextual thing. See 'Fuck Bush' to get my drift.

Why not impose a carbon neutal tax on all air flights and other transport?

I think it was a gay conversation all along, it just took a while for it to come out of the closet.

What is it with US presidents and fucking?

frotzed, I know exactly what you mean.

I've been using Linux since late 2002 (in the days of SuSE Linux 8.0), and it has come a long way in that time. It's the only OS running on my desktop, but unfortunately I'm not yet capable of ditching Windows completely (I have it installed on the laptop).

As a hobbying web/graphic monkey, the applications that have impressed me the most are Inkscape and Bluefish. They're well worth having a look at.

My favourite one of recent has to be Garth Marenghi's Darkplace

Teleporters so we don't have to commute to work.

I'm learning both PHP and ROR, so I know a few bits but not the whole shebang.

PHP is pretty solid stuff and quite easy to get to grips with. ROR is a bit of a learning curve (for newbies like me) with things like MVC, but has a wonderful approach to creating web apps in a structured and concise manner. The other good thing about ROR is that it's got the Prototype Javascript library built-in, and AJAX is lovely stuff.

I'm particularly keen to learn ROR in order to build web apps as quickly as possible, so for me the choice between ROR and PHP is about speed, but if my priority was ease of understanding and use, then it would be PHP.

Although I use firefox for browsing, Opera is a worthwhile browser if you're a web developer. It's complance with ACID2 is why I use it to test my web work.