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.

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?

Via Rus, via the New Yorker

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 will be uploading an essay to accompany this presentation in the next few days.

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.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/06/nyregion/thecity/06fare.html

Apparently, despite his Ivy League education, my brother can’t seem to hold onto his metrocard. Well done on your first mention in the New York Times.