I got an email a few minutes ago from twitter telling me that Osen Komura was now following me. Great, so I wanted to see who this Osen was. Turns out, Osen is following 21,735 people.
Curious, I did some research on Osen and found that this person is trying to calculate the rate of following/followee on Twitter. What I mean by that is, if I follow someone, how likely is that person to follow me? Following someone on Twitter is basically like giving that person a direct-line of communication to you (remember, I said basically, not exactly). It turns out, there is around a 10% ->F<- Rate (that’s a craftee little thing I made of up for Following/Followee ration).
Discovering this little ratio is why Osen is following you. I hope this blog post doesn’t ruin the Osen experiment. I myself chose not to follow Osen, but hey, I’m socially anti-social.
I know it’s Wednesday, but it feels like the weekend just ended. I remember Monday morning thinking, “thank God it’s Monday.” What could possibly make me feel that way, well I was working all weekend. Besides attending PopRally at MoMa, all I did was work on the new version of Designer Pages.
There was a huge bug with our search engine and finally, at 11am Monday morning, I fixed it.Bugs with software sort of work in this weird way, the bigger they are, the less code the fix finally involves. So after getting only about 5 hours of sleep the entire weekend, 8 little lines of code fixed over 80% of the functionality on Designer Pages, namely, search.Along with some new features, like clippings, which are social bookmarks in architecture and design, we launched a 3rings, a product blog in architecture and design. We’re super excited by this blog, we love the design (props Rus), and have a team of witty writers who think about products in space 24 hours a day. Check it out if you get a chance.
Otherwise, things are beginning to slow down, something I imagine I’ll only be able to enjoy for a few days till they get crazy again. I’m reading a great book called Weaving the Web and want to dedicate all the hyperlinks in this post to Tim Berners-Lee, a living legend.So that’s a quick update on my doings. Any questions?
In case you were wondering how I spent my 24th birthday (which was last Tuesday, January 29th, 2008), here is a video of it - my talk on Naked Functionality. I’ll probably embed these videos on this site eventually, but since David said such nice things about me, I thought I’d link to his post.
My apologies if this post seems like a copout, it’s been a long day of meetings and running around the city and hanging out with Grace and running Designer Pages and I’m just very tired. Goodnight moon.
I’m at a friend’s house and was trying to connect to their wifi network. I’m on my macbook running OS X 10.5.1 (Leopard) with all the apple updates. When I tried connecting to their network, I received this message from my Airport, “Incompatible Security” on the lower right of the login box. I searched around how to fix this on my iphone and read a few solutions that suggested owning the keychain item. I wasn’t sure what that meant, but have since figured it out and thought I would share.
Fix Incompatible Security Errors
1. Open Keychains and Create a New Password Item (Apple+N)
Fill in all your information. This seems to be more common with WEP Hex keys. Use the network’s name as the account name and keychain item name.
2. Edit the Keychain Item and Turn It Into an Airport Password
The thing here is that you have to edit this item to make it into an airport keychain item. Double click on the newly created keychain password to edit it. Make the Kind a Airport Network password and the Where a Airport Network. Hit save and then reconnect to the network. Keychain will ask you to allow the use if you did everything correctly.
Later that day, at a nearby machine, Jonathan Flombaum, a Yale graduate student who lives on the Upper East Side, bought a $20 pay-per-ride card.
“I wouldn’t do it, but I have a lot of friends I know who would do it for sure,” Mr. Flombaum said of hoarding, before mentioning the name of one such friend with an amused grin. Mr. Flombaum himself had a practical reason for not joining the ranks of his more parsimonious peers. “I would lose my MetroCard,” he said.
This is the first part in a series called, “My Favorite Episode.” Basically, I’ll just be giving you the ability to watch some of my favorite episodes. Pretty self explanatory. Enjoy.
via Jon Miller
