Nick Uva

A little bit of everything

Facebook is blowing my mind

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I can't exactly describe to you those objects in the photo above other than to say they are "servers." I think.

Let's be honest: very few of us can describe servers on more than a surface level. So let your mind be blown by this article (click photo) from an interesting website I've never seen before. Learn about Facebook's 30,000 servers, its 80,000,000,000 stored photos - not a typo - and the fact that it serves up 600,000 photos a second.

What?

The reality of the situation is that there are only about 12 truly important websites left in the English-speaking world, and Facebook is five of them: the world's leading photo site, a leading if crummy webmail site, the leading sharing site, a leading chat site, and of course the leading microblogging site.

What I told someone who was insinuating that Obama is the Antichrist...

This is what I told a gentleman with a popular mailing list who seems to be promoting the video suggesting that President Obama is the Antichrist:

Dear ____________,

The word "bamah" means high places in the sense of high places of idolatry or elevated physical places such as mountainous areas.

A 5-minute word study would show anyone that the only place "bamah" is used to refer to the sky is in the Isa.14 passage, and he speaks about the high places of the clouds. There is no other place in the Hebrew Bible where "bamah" has any reference to the sky. The word "shemayim" is used to refer to the heavens.

This video is not helpful as it makes all of us who are premillenial look like cranks and can serve to inoculate people against seeing the actual signs of the real Antichrist.

This teaching can indeed be shot down even in five minutes by someone like myself who has no formal Hebrew education. All we need to do is simply refer to the wealth of Bible study materials available for free in 2009 on the Web.

In a world full of antichrists with a small "a," this is a supremely unhelpful video which Christians have no business helping "go viral."

All you are doing is engendering additional ill will against a segment of society that has already become marginalized and mistrusted - us!

Gmail Now Automatically Displays Images in Messages from Contacts - Gmail - Lifehacker

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About time they got rid of that annoyance. Lately it seemed not to remember your preferences besides.

Nielsen says we spend over 4.5 hours per month on Facebook

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Interesting chart and article. Talk about coming far and fast...

Ads on Twitter - here we go

So far the only two sponsored links we've seen cycle through our sidebars have been to the ad network Federated Media's Microsoft microsite ExecTweets.com (aggregating Twitter messages from corporate executives) and Universal Studios' CinemaTweets.com, promoting the allegedly offensive forthcoming gay-face movie Bruno. The ads only appear on the home page of Twitter when a user is logged in, not when looking at another user's profile page. Also included in the cycle is a link to a joint Twitter and Threadless.com microsite where visitors can buy Threadless t-shirts about Twitter. Apparently that doesn't constitute a sponsored link, but presumably money is changing hands somewhere. The whole world of Twitter is a green-field when it comes to rules of disclosure.

Perhaps these sources of revenue will help Twitter remain a viable company long enough for all kinds of questions about this brand new medium to be explored.

 

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Firefox 3.5 is out; see review from PCMag.com

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Not quite as fast as Chrome or Safari 4 but with the ability to customize and use mouse gestures (wake up, Apple!) I don't use them that much. Check out FF 3.5.