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Ry Jones — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 16:54:32 +0000

An email on a mailing list I’m on was signed:

Awaiting for your pink and healthy response,

Wondering if this was some mistranslation, I bung it. Two other uses, both from the same guy. Carry on, Umesh Bhavsar. May all your responses be pink and healthy.

San Francisco’s lone gun store in fight to re-open

Ry Jones — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 20:38:23 +0000

Sigh.

“I want to know where their fear comes from”

You can’t negotiate with them. You can’t understand them. We can only defeat them.

Photo Mule adoption stats

Ry Jones — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 20:29:37 +0000

in the 18 hours or so Photo Mule and Photo Mule Free have been on the market, I’ve seen something interesting: half of the people that download Free don’t install it.

However, the developer dashboard doesn’t report any failed installs.

Furthermore, Flickr reports there are 1/10th the number of authenticated users as Google reports active installs.

Very strange.

Photo Mule has shipped: Flickr uploading for your Android handset

Ry Jones — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 04:08:54 +0000

It’s in the Flickr app garden. It’s in the Android Marketplace; use the QR below to find it:

Racism in our schools

Ry Jones — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 18:27:10 +0000

Amazing. Via PopeHat.

Cool tool: turn a running system into a virtual one

Ry Jones — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 16:58:23 +0000

So I don’t lose the link again, here is a tool from Microsoft that will turn any running, modern Windows system into a .vhd for virtualization. One could also use this as a backup tool; however, I run Windows Home Server, and if you have even one windows machine at home, I think you should run WHS, too.

Convicted rapist lectures on the dangers of gun ownership

Ry Jones — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 20:25:56 +0000

you’ll have to click to expand his comments (he’s posting as thunkmonk).

Robb? Is that you?

Ry Jones — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 18:26:48 +0000

Pantsless swordsman arrested.

Playground related shootings in San Francisco

Ry Jones — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 17:57:15 +0000

jwz took issue with police calling any shooting in the area of a club a “club related shooting” and trying to stick clubs with the cost of stepped-up enforcement. I meant, when I read his article, to start cataloging shootings in San Francisco and trying to find another nearby “cause”; today’s high-profile non-double shooting reminded me I needed to peek in. SFGate only gives an intersection, but Google Street View shows both of them to be next to playgrounds (the St Marys Playground and the Minnie and Lovie Ward Recreation Center). I was hoping to find a windmill in both; no such luck.

A film I’ll catch

Ry Jones — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 02:05:31 +0000

A Film Unfinished. Deets here.