Archive for 2008

I built the site using Django and Google Maps API

In summation of an earlier post, advertisements for gay social networks appearing on my profile led me to believe that Facebook thinks I’m gay.  But new information has arrived. In an article by techcrunch, it is reported that on Facebook,

If you click on an ad…then the same ad will be shown to all of your friends, who supposedly are two to ten times more likely to click on the ad than other people.

I therefore conclude that facebook does not think I’m gay, but rather facebook thinks all of you are gay.

When Facebook released the News Feed they didn’t decrease anyone’s privacy.  They simply showed everyone exactly what they were revealing.  Facebook made sharing data so easy that people didn’t realize what they were sharing.  But micromanaging data online makes people less likely to share.  So where’s the balance?
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Problem:

You can only sync your default Google calendar to Outlook calendar using Google Calendar Sync, but you want to sync ALL your calendars.

The Not-quite Solution:

The easiest way is to merge all your Google calendars into your default Google calendar, but then you lose the pretty colors and Google is likely to release an update in the future that will make this entire article moot. The goal here is a temporary solution that is completely reversible and merging your calendars is not reversible.

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Problem:

I may be the only person who has ever had this problem, but if you use ZoneAlarm as a firewall, it can prevent your iPhone from syncing with iTunes. It can even prevent iTunes from recognizing that your iPhone is plugged in.

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Well, that’s that. I was officially release from Jury Duty today. I feel cheated. What promised to be a great adventure turned out to be rather tedious. I wish I could tell you some great story of how I decided the fate of another human being, but alas I cannot. I can tell you that watching 5 hrs of movies on an iPod Nano can give you a serious crick in the neck.

My favorite quote from Jury Duty:

( in response to his name being called for placement on a Jury panel ) “Hang’em high!”

Waited for 3 hours for the judge to notify us that the defendant had taken the plea bargain of 1 year jail time. Which means that, although I sat in the jurors box, I wasn’t actually involved in a court case. Maybe tomorrow will be more court time and less waiting. But just in case I’m putting the original Die Hard trilogy on my iPod.

• “Stand in line.”
• “Sign here.”
• “Sit anywhere you like.”
• “Mr. Kuert, you need to be in the line for L-Z”, “but Kuert starts with…yes ma’am.”
• “Stand on the bricks.”
• “Be back at 3.”
• “Don’t stand on the bricks.”
• “Sorry for the wait…wait here.”
• “Quiet please.”
• “Wait here.”
• “Take a seat.”
• “All rise. You may be seated. Stand and raise your right hand. Please be seated.”
• “Be back at 9. If you’re late, you’ll be arrested and fined.”