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And just as people who run technical companies are reaching an apex of confidence in their ability to invent new forms of community based on sharing everything, craigslist still treats social life as dangerously complex, deserving the most jaded caution. Corporate isolation, user anonymity, refusal of excessive profit, glacial adoption of new features: These all signal Newmark and Buckmaster’s wariness about what humans, including themselves, might do if given the chance. There may be a peace sign on every page, but the implicit political philosophy of craigslist has a deeply conservative, even a tragic cast. Every day the choristers of the social web chirp their advice about openness and trust; craigslist follows none of it, and every day it grows.

http://www.wired.com/entertainment/theweb/magazine/17-09/ff_craigslist

Did Charlie write these?

How to go from Intercourse to Climax in under 4 hours

Heading too far south could end you up in Crab Orchard

And you know you have gone way too far west if you wake up in Sisterville

http://www.ff0000.com/

The answer to the question, is lady gaga a man?

We love watching pro’s doing their thing on the track or circuit… but there certainly is a fair bit of… less quality footage present on youtube.

Now you can get just the good stuff on RideVids.com:

Road Bikes
Trail Riding
Downhill
Moto-X

Or Watch Adam Riemann training for the Erzberg Enduro and Sam Hill Downhilling. If Trials is more your thing, there’s a category for that also.

RideVids.com – accepts a Youtube link submission from anyone that’s found a noteworthy video relating to bikes / riding / racing… if its quality, it gets posted.

So register an account soon before all the cool names are gone

A lot is said about PHP and MySQL time storage and formatting. I don’t want to say any of it.

What worked for me was using the DATETIME field in MySQL – which will give me the benefit of running server side time-aware queries.

And converting to a nicely formatted time within PHP.

date('F j, Y, g:i a',strtotime($mysqFieldValue))

Obvious isn’t it….

Struggling to see the value of Twitter, it occurred to me how useful can be to anyone wanting or needing regular status updates on a disastrous event like the recent problems at social bookmarker Ma.gnolia. Any members or anyone wanting to get an update on how recovery or status is going, can simply check Ma.gnolia’s Twitter Page to satisfy their urge for up-to-date information.

So perhaps the infamous Miki ticketing system roll out in Melbourne which has hundreds of thousands of punters watching and waiting for the next phase, or a general update on the latest delay… in the absence of promised or expected service, i suppose people appreciate even the most basic information on the issues at hand.

While logged into gmail:

http://mail.google.com/mail/rc?a=af&c=fff1a8&w=30&h=30

Adjust the color width and height of the circle on the fly… fruity.