October 2011
1 post
Fall Baking – Banana Bread →
May 2011
1 post
Plan to become fit bear →
January 2011
1 post
why move to mailroute.net now? →
October 2010
1 post
Testing Mobile Firefox on Android Tegra devices →
Recently I’ve been working with Joel Maher (of the autotools team at Mozilla) to get the Firefox 4 beta code to run Talos tests on the Tegra 250 development board.
Once Joel wrangled the many…
August 2010
3 posts
social media ecosystems →
A number of times in the recent past I’ve read either in a blog post or on Buzz/Twitter or via an aggregation site like Digg, that this social site has failed or that social site is dead. Sure, from…
Geek Toys – Android Version →
Not sure exactly where I found the link, but I ran across an article pointing to the artwork of Andrew Bell and his “the CREATURES in my head” site the other day and was enjoying his unusual slant…
Augen GENTouch 7″ Android Table –... →
I’m not a “pro” reviewer by anyone’s viewpoint, but I do use a number of Android devices and I use daily my N800 as a remote tablet so I was looking forward to getting a portable tablet running…
July 2010
1 post
Mozilla Summit 2010 – Schedule .ics... →
I was sitting at my desk going thru a mental checklist of things that need doing in the final couple of days before I travel to the 2010 Mozilla Summit (wow it’s like 4 days away!) and I read on…
October 2009
13 posts
The Dax Diary →
Came back into the office to what had to be the tail end of Dax doing some hacking
And here it just looks like he has spent all night reading the FriendFeed stream.
But most…
hi all, doing a sanity check →
saw some uploaded videos that were very short so I wanted to make sure all the systems were working ok
todo list anxiety →
A great quote I just heard while listening to Merlin Mann’s latest video:
A knowledge worker has to figure out his or her own job every day and then do something about it.
That really…
The Dax Diary →
I often get back to my office and find that Dax, one of the four stray cats we’ve adopted, has decided that my desk is now his.
Here is Dax:
I’ll have to find a better picture of him…
Homepage Changes →
Don’t know why I decide to change how the home page looks, but I was waiting to see if they needed my help with a bug-fix rollout (they didn’t) and I’ve been thinking about making some changes,…
testing →
Re: testing →
Google Wave clutter →
Today I started to experience the first thing that I could point to in my current Wave usage that is an actual pain to deal with — the ability for anyone to add you to a wave. The inbox is now…
Very lively XMPP Foundation Meeting →
The XMPP Foundation just finished the annual Board and Council Election Meeting where a normally simple “here’s the results, yea us!” event turned into quite a lively discussion about voting…
missed opportunity? →
Just found out that someone I know got a job that I was offered but I had turned down because I took the “onsite only” criteria at face value.
So either they made another pass thru the candidate…
Best response i’ve seen to some of the Wave... →
Saw this in Benjamin Golub’s FriendFeed thread
I think that’s a pretty important point. People are comparing Wave to “email”. They’re not comparing it to Outlook, or Thunderbird, or pine, or…
Random thoughts about including Google Wave in... →
Like every other early adopter it seems, i’ve been noodling with Google Wave once my invite appeared in my developer sandbox account and I’ve been thinking/brainstorming ideas with Chris and Ken. It…
Changes →
One of the things that had been holding me back from doing any work on the bearlog is that it was a really custom Wordpress Theme that I had hacked together a long time ago – so it was hard to do…
September 2009
6 posts
restarted recording servers →
thanks for the report of them not working - let’s see how this works
Re: hey bear! nice to see ya :) →
Re: seeing how things are in the system tonight →
seeing how things are in the system tonight →
so I figured I would do a test post - thanks!
Re: yep - recording was down →
yep - recording was down →
not sure what the issue was - restarted and i’ll look at logs to find out
August 2009
5 posts
Testing how things are going →
seeing how some of the new stuff and fixes are working. trying to get a handle on why some thumbnails don’t generate.
Re: auto-update is working now →
double checking it after it’s been running for a bit :)
auto-update is working now →
cool - that bug has been squashed - the message from the server to the pubsub server was getting, umm, lost - fixed.
Re: auto-update is working now →
testing again…
Looking into recent issues →
Loic has asked me to focus on solving some of these issues - some of which will be solved when upgrade some of the servers that Loic has approved.
July 2009
1 post
checking that the recording server restarted ok →
June 2009
11 posts
testing recording servers →
apologies - recording server was offline →
The server that runs the recording process lost it’s connection to the file server. I’ve restored the connection and i’m also running a script to recover any lost videos.
test recording →
your friendly shirtless tech guy doing a test record
Seesmic Video changed - yep →
Re: Seesmic Video changed - yep →
test →
Seesmic Read-Only for maintenance →
Re: Is Seesmic going to be shut down? →
Re: Is Seesmic going to be shut down? →
testing →
Re: testing →
May 2009
13 posts
Recording server back online →
working to recover the videos that were recorded but did not make to the file server.
One of the recording servers is offline →
Working on fixing it and recovering the videos in the timeline that have no thumbnails.
Google Wave and the Internet ID →
Google Wave may be the nail in the coffin of what to use as/for your “Internet Identifier” - your JID (aka your GMail ID or email address)
Why? How?
Because now wave does what the folks over at…
Google Wave - another thought →
I think i’m going to just start posting the one-off things I would post to identica/twitter here, and then work out a way of getting them to identica/twitter
Google Wave also appears to be…
Google Wave previewed at Google IO today →
Looks like Google is landing on the real-time messaging terrain in a big way with Google Wave. The cool thing is that it is based on XMPP !
From what I can tell it looks very much like XMPP…
Re: flash video upload test →