http://soup.navarr.me/ http://soup.navarr.me/ http://0.asset.soup.io/asset/0619/6512_2746.jpeg 1039 1386 Look at all the stuff that I do, and share!  There's so much of it, why on earth is there so much of it? {"tags":[],"type":"regular","title":"Top 5 artists this week","source":"http://www.last.fm/user/NavarrB/charts/","body":"\u003Col\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca rel=\"nofollow\"\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u00a0\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca rel=\"nofollow\"\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u00a0\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca rel=\"nofollow\"\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u00a0\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca rel=\"nofollow\"\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u00a0\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca rel=\"nofollow\"\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u00a0\u003C/li\u003E\u003C/ol\u003E"} <ol><li><a></a> </li><li><a></a> </li><li><a></a> </li><li><a></a> </li><li><a></a> </li></ol>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 12:00:00 GMThttp://soup.navarr.me/post/229430538/Top-5-artists-this-weekurn:www-soup-io:1:229430538regular {"tags":["Facebook","2012","changes","facebook"],"type":"regular","title":"\u003Ca href=\"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/navarrstech/~3/FZ_aRCawy2o/future-of-facebook.html\"\u003EFuture of Facebook?\u003C/a\u003E","source":"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/navarrstech/~3/FZ_aRCawy2o/future-of-facebook.html","body":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http://tech.navarr.me/2012/02/future-of-facebook.html/mark_on_fb\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-564\"\u003E\u003Cimg title=\"Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-564\" src=\"http://tech.navarr.me/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/mark_on_fb.png\" height=\"178\" alt=\"\" width=\"264\" /\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESo, Mark Zuckerberg posted a photo today of his desk.. and I couldn't help but notice that his Facebook is different from mine. \u00a0Some key things to note:\u003C/p\u003E\n\u003Cul\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EInstead of a tiny search bar at the top, there is now a very very large white bar. \u00a0This bar contains text in it, so I'm presuming it might be the new way to post data to Facebook, replacing the\u00a0comparatively\u00a0clunky share box we use today.\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EInstead of three icons (Adds, Notifications, Inbox) on the top bar, there is a single icon. \u00a0Perhaps these have been combined into one?\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EThe icon appears squarer than the others. \u00a0Maybe its a Facebook icon, since the logo is clearly removed in this version?\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003ETo the right of this large search box seems to be something else, but I can't make it out - and unfortunately I can't just do a CSI-esque \"enhance\" on the image.\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003C/ul\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESo maybe this is a sneak peak at what is to come in the future? \u00a0Despite that, however, it should be noted that the changes seen here on Mark's computer may never hit production servers. \u00a0This is simply some speculation on some noticeable changes.\u003C/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESource: \u003Ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10100230247154651\u0026amp;set=p.10100230247154651\u0026amp;type=1\u0026amp;theater\"\u003EPhotograph Uploaded by Mark Zuckerberg\u003C/a\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/K0kMoPZorOpJ4upPfAfL6MWt1tI/0/da\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/K0kMoPZorOpJ4upPfAfL6MWt1tI/0/di\" /\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cbr /\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/K0kMoPZorOpJ4upPfAfL6MWt1tI/1/da\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/K0kMoPZorOpJ4upPfAfL6MWt1tI/1/di\" /\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/navarrstech/~4/FZ_aRCawy2o\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" /\u003E"} <p><a href="http://tech.navarr.me/2012/02/future-of-facebook.html/mark_on_fb"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-564" title="Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook" src="http://tech.navarr.me/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/mark_on_fb.png" height="178" alt="" width="264" /></a></p> <p>So, Mark Zuckerberg posted a photo today of his desk.. and I couldn't help but notice that his Facebook is different from mine.  Some key things to note:</p> <ul> <li>Instead of a tiny search bar at the top, there is now a very very large white bar.  This bar contains text in it, so I'm presuming it might be the new way to post data to Facebook, replacing the comparatively clunky share box we use today.</li> <li>Instead of three icons (Adds, Notifications, Inbox) on the top bar, there is a single icon.  Perhaps these have been combined into one?</li> <li>The icon appears squarer than the others.  Maybe its a Facebook icon, since the logo is clearly removed in this version?</li> <li>To the right of this large search box seems to be something else, but I can't make it out - and unfortunately I can't just do a CSI-esque "enhance" on the image.</li> </ul> <p>So maybe this is a sneak peak at what is to come in the future?  Despite that, however, it should be noted that the changes seen here on Mark's computer may never hit production servers.  This is simply some speculation on some noticeable changes.</p> <p>Source: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10100230247154651&amp;set=p.10100230247154651&amp;type=1&amp;theater">Photograph Uploaded by Mark Zuckerberg</a></p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/K0kMoPZorOpJ4upPfAfL6MWt1tI/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/K0kMoPZorOpJ4upPfAfL6MWt1tI/0/di" /></a><br /> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/K0kMoPZorOpJ4upPfAfL6MWt1tI/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/K0kMoPZorOpJ4upPfAfL6MWt1tI/1/di" /></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/navarrstech/~4/FZ_aRCawy2o" height="1" width="1" />Thu, 02 Feb 2012 01:15:41 GMThttp://soup.navarr.me/post/228329410/Future-of-Facebookurn:www-soup-io:1:228329410regularfacebook2012changesfacebook {"tags":["Code"],"type":"regular","title":"\u003Ca href=\"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/navarrstech/~3/vTtmtbRNV4s/idea-code-reading-app.html\"\u003EIdea: Code Reading App\u003C/a\u003E","source":"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/navarrstech/~3/vTtmtbRNV4s/idea-code-reading-app.html","body":"\u003Cp\u003EJust jotting down an idea I had for a code reading app.\u003C/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe idea is that the application would read through the code and find all the structures, classes, etc and would combine them in such a way that it could be read as a single line-by-line piece of code, with a UI that shows the separation between elements. \u00a0Possibly using indentation to show the differences between scopes, possibly with a collapsable block that specifies what the variables in that scope are set to.\u003C/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EA good version would, of course, automatically change the values of these variables based on the code.\u003C/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/jZfEdrMU6GVgrXPgIpb-nFypizQ/0/da\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/jZfEdrMU6GVgrXPgIpb-nFypizQ/0/di\" /\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cbr /\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/jZfEdrMU6GVgrXPgIpb-nFypizQ/1/da\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/jZfEdrMU6GVgrXPgIpb-nFypizQ/1/di\" /\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/navarrstech/~4/vTtmtbRNV4s\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" /\u003E"} <p>Just jotting down an idea I had for a code reading app.</p> <p>The idea is that the application would read through the code and find all the structures, classes, etc and would combine them in such a way that it could be read as a single line-by-line piece of code, with a UI that shows the separation between elements.  Possibly using indentation to show the differences between scopes, possibly with a collapsable block that specifies what the variables in that scope are set to.</p> <p>A good version would, of course, automatically change the values of these variables based on the code.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/jZfEdrMU6GVgrXPgIpb-nFypizQ/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/jZfEdrMU6GVgrXPgIpb-nFypizQ/0/di" /></a><br /> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/jZfEdrMU6GVgrXPgIpb-nFypizQ/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/jZfEdrMU6GVgrXPgIpb-nFypizQ/1/di" /></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/navarrstech/~4/vTtmtbRNV4s" height="1" width="1" />Sun, 29 Jan 2012 23:53:55 GMThttp://soup.navarr.me/post/227577306/Idea-Code-Reading-Appurn:www-soup-io:1:227577306regularcode {"tags":[],"type":"regular","title":"Top 5 artists this week","source":"http://www.last.fm/user/NavarrB/charts/","body":"\u003Col\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http://www.last.fm/music/C418\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003EC418\u003C/a\u003E\u00a0\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca rel=\"nofollow\"\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u00a0\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca rel=\"nofollow\"\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u00a0\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca rel=\"nofollow\"\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u00a0\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca rel=\"nofollow\"\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u00a0\u003C/li\u003E\u003C/ol\u003E"} <ol><li><a href="http://www.last.fm/music/C418">C418</a> </li><li><a></a> </li><li><a></a> </li><li><a></a> </li><li><a></a> </li></ol>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 12:00:00 GMThttp://soup.navarr.me/post/227877697/Top-5-artists-this-weekurn:www-soup-io:1:227877697regular {"tags":[],"type":"regular","title":"Top 5 artists this week","source":"http://www.last.fm/user/NavarrB/charts/","body":"\u003Col\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca rel=\"nofollow\"\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u00a0\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca rel=\"nofollow\"\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u00a0\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca rel=\"nofollow\"\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u00a0\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca rel=\"nofollow\"\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u00a0\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca rel=\"nofollow\"\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u00a0\u003C/li\u003E\u003C/ol\u003E"} <ol><li><a></a> </li><li><a></a> </li><li><a></a> </li><li><a></a> </li><li><a></a> </li></ol>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 12:00:00 GMThttp://soup.navarr.me/post/226001775/Top-5-artists-this-weekurn:www-soup-io:1:226001775regular {"tags":[],"type":"regular","title":"Top 5 artists this week","source":"http://www.last.fm/user/NavarrB/charts/","body":"\u003Col\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca rel=\"nofollow\"\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u00a0\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca rel=\"nofollow\"\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u00a0\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca rel=\"nofollow\"\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u00a0\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca rel=\"nofollow\"\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u00a0\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca rel=\"nofollow\"\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u00a0\u003C/li\u003E\u003C/ol\u003E"} <ol><li><a></a> </li><li><a></a> </li><li><a></a> </li><li><a></a> </li><li><a></a> </li></ol>Sun, 15 Jan 2012 12:00:00 GMThttp://soup.navarr.me/post/221411696/Top-5-artists-this-weekurn:www-soup-io:1:221411696regular {"tags":[],"type":"regular","title":"Top 5 artists this week","source":"http://www.last.fm/user/NavarrB/charts/","body":"\u003Col\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca rel=\"nofollow\"\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u00a0\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca rel=\"nofollow\"\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u00a0\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca rel=\"nofollow\"\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u00a0\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca rel=\"nofollow\"\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u00a0\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca rel=\"nofollow\"\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u00a0\u003C/li\u003E\u003C/ol\u003E"} <ol><li><a></a> </li><li><a></a> </li><li><a></a> </li><li><a></a> </li><li><a></a> </li></ol>Sun, 08 Jan 2012 12:00:00 GMThttp://soup.navarr.me/post/216732297/Top-5-artists-this-weekurn:www-soup-io:1:216732297regular {"tags":[],"type":"regular","title":"Top 5 artists this week","source":"http://www.last.fm/user/NavarrB/charts/","body":"\u003Col\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http://www.last.fm/music/Homestuck\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003EHomestuck\u003C/a\u003E\u00a0\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http://www.last.fm/music/Marble\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003EMarble\u003C/a\u003E\u00a0\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http://www.last.fm/music/Level+99\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ELevel 99\u003C/a\u003E\u00a0\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http://www.last.fm/music/ORANGE+RANGE\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003EORANGE RANGE\u003C/a\u003E\u00a0\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http://www.last.fm/music/Hello+Seahorse%21\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003EHello Seahorse!\u003C/a\u003E\u00a0\u003C/li\u003E\u003C/ol\u003E"} <ol><li><a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Homestuck">Homestuck</a> </li><li><a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Marble">Marble</a> </li><li><a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Level+99">Level 99</a> </li><li><a href="http://www.last.fm/music/ORANGE+RANGE">ORANGE RANGE</a> </li><li><a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Hello+Seahorse%21">Hello Seahorse!</a> </li></ol>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 12:00:00 GMThttp://soup.navarr.me/post/211676032/Top-5-artists-this-weekurn:www-soup-io:1:211676032regular {"tags":[],"type":"regular","title":"Top 5 artists this week","source":"http://www.last.fm/user/NavarrB/charts/","body":"\u003Col\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http://www.last.fm/music/Owl+City\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003EOwl City\u003C/a\u003E\u00a0\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca rel=\"nofollow\"\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u00a0\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca rel=\"nofollow\"\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u00a0\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca rel=\"nofollow\"\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u00a0\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca rel=\"nofollow\"\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u00a0\u003C/li\u003E\u003C/ol\u003E"} <ol><li><a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Owl+City">Owl City</a> </li><li><a></a> </li><li><a></a> </li><li><a></a> </li><li><a></a> </li></ol>Sun, 25 Dec 2011 12:00:00 GMThttp://soup.navarr.me/post/203392654/Top-5-artists-this-weekurn:www-soup-io:1:203392654regular {"tags":[],"type":"regular","title":"Top 5 artists this week","source":"http://www.last.fm/user/NavarrB/charts/","body":"\u003Col\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http://www.last.fm/music/Cascada\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ECascada\u003C/a\u003E\u00a0\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca rel=\"nofollow\"\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u00a0\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca rel=\"nofollow\"\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u00a0\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca rel=\"nofollow\"\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u00a0\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca rel=\"nofollow\"\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u00a0\u003C/li\u003E\u003C/ol\u003E"} <ol><li><a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Cascada">Cascada</a> </li><li><a></a> </li><li><a></a> </li><li><a></a> </li><li><a></a> </li></ol>Sun, 18 Dec 2011 12:00:00 GMThttp://soup.navarr.me/post/200824400/Top-5-artists-this-weekurn:www-soup-io:1:200824400regular {"tags":[],"type":"regular","title":"Top 5 artists this week","source":"http://www.last.fm/user/NavarrB/charts/","body":"\u003Col\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca rel=\"nofollow\"\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u00a0\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca rel=\"nofollow\"\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u00a0\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca rel=\"nofollow\"\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u00a0\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca rel=\"nofollow\"\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u00a0\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca rel=\"nofollow\"\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u00a0\u003C/li\u003E\u003C/ol\u003E"} <ol><li><a></a> </li><li><a></a> </li><li><a></a> </li><li><a></a> </li><li><a></a> </li></ol>Sun, 11 Dec 2011 12:00:00 GMThttp://soup.navarr.me/post/199028765/Top-5-artists-this-weekurn:www-soup-io:1:199028765regular {"tags":[],"type":"regular","title":"Top 5 artists this week","source":"http://www.last.fm/user/NavarrB/charts/","body":"\u003Col\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http://www.last.fm/music/C418\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003EC418\u003C/a\u003E\u00a0\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http://www.last.fm/music/anosou\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003Eanosou\u003C/a\u003E\u00a0\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http://www.last.fm/music/Homestuck\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003EHomestuck\u003C/a\u003E\u00a0\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http://www.last.fm/music/Marin+Rukavina\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003EMarin Rukavina\u003C/a\u003E\u00a0\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http://www.last.fm/music/Jim+Sturgess\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003EJim Sturgess\u003C/a\u003E\u00a0\u003C/li\u003E\u003C/ol\u003E"} <ol><li><a href="http://www.last.fm/music/C418">C418</a> </li><li><a href="http://www.last.fm/music/anosou">anosou</a> </li><li><a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Homestuck">Homestuck</a> </li><li><a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Marin+Rukavina">Marin Rukavina</a> </li><li><a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Jim+Sturgess">Jim Sturgess</a> </li></ol>Sun, 04 Dec 2011 12:00:00 GMThttp://soup.navarr.me/post/196957374/Top-5-artists-this-weekurn:www-soup-io:1:196957374regular {"tags":[],"type":"regular","title":"Top 5 artists this week","source":"http://www.last.fm/user/NavarrB/charts/","body":"\u003Col\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http://www.last.fm/music/C418\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003EC418\u003C/a\u003E\u00a0\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http://www.last.fm/music/angela\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003Eangela\u003C/a\u003E\u00a0\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http://www.last.fm/music/Homestuck\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003EHomestuck\u003C/a\u003E\u00a0\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http://www.last.fm/music/7%21%21\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003E7!!\u003C/a\u003E\u00a0\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http://www.last.fm/music/Hellogoodbye\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003EHellogoodbye\u003C/a\u003E\u00a0\u003C/li\u003E\u003C/ol\u003E"} <ol><li><a href="http://www.last.fm/music/C418">C418</a> </li><li><a href="http://www.last.fm/music/angela">angela</a> </li><li><a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Homestuck">Homestuck</a> </li><li><a href="http://www.last.fm/music/7%21%21">7!!</a> </li><li><a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Hellogoodbye">Hellogoodbye</a> </li></ol>Sun, 27 Nov 2011 12:00:00 GMThttp://soup.navarr.me/post/195457359/Top-5-artists-this-weekurn:www-soup-io:1:195457359regular {"tags":["Software"],"type":"regular","title":"\u003Ca href=\"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/navarrstech/~3/8SwwVwvMpHw/how-software-ruins-ratings.html\"\u003EHow Software Ruins Ratings\u003C/a\u003E","source":"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/navarrstech/~3/8SwwVwvMpHw/how-software-ruins-ratings.html","body":"\u003Cp\u003EI'm a long time Harry Potter fan. \u00a0It's part of my childhood like most people my age. \u00a0I'd gone to the\u00a0theaters\u00a0to see every single movie, except for 7P2. \u00a0I read today that Amazon was having a rental sale on the movie (apparently\u00a0it normally costs more than $1.99 to rent it on Amazon?). \u00a0Either way, I went to the page and I was absolutely surprised to see the rating for the movie was only 2 and a half stars!\u003C/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EEven if the movie was terrible, there would clearly be such a massive amount of fans rating the thing that it'd probably hit four stars.. but two and a half? \u00a0Not even a full three? \u00a0What was going on here?\u003C/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EA quick glance at the \"customer reviews\" told me everything I needed to know. \u00a0The full copy included some software called \u00a0\"Ultraviolet,\" the main cause of over 200 1 star reviews.\u003C/p\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003EUltraviolet is another feeble, doomed attempt by some dinosaur brain Hollywood execs to restrict the use of your legally bought digital purchase. Ultraviolet is NOT a digital copy that resides on a device of your choice to be used on a device of your choice. It is a streaming service, for which you have to sign up and maintain an account, at the expense of your bandwidth, compatible with some but not all mobile devices. If you're willing to wait another 4 weeks, order this disc set from Amazon's UK website you can do this with your current US account). Not only are you getting a REAL digital copy, but the Blu-ray disc is region free too!! Price + shipping is the same as the price in USD with free shipping.\u003C/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E- \u003Ca href=\"http://www.amazon.com/review/R3UIUNTBP6BE8Z/ref=cm_cr_pr_viewpnt#R3UIUNTBP6BE8Z\"\u003EJohn Dettingmeijer\u003C/a\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003C/blockquote\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESo, that wrapped up that mystery. \u00a0Horrible software is murdering ratings. \u00a0A damn shame.\u003C/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/cUOSmUpWs3biWlNiHxjxOQgn5Iw/0/da\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/cUOSmUpWs3biWlNiHxjxOQgn5Iw/0/di\" /\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cbr /\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/cUOSmUpWs3biWlNiHxjxOQgn5Iw/1/da\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/cUOSmUpWs3biWlNiHxjxOQgn5Iw/1/di\" /\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/navarrstech/~4/8SwwVwvMpHw\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" /\u003E"} <p>I'm a long time Harry Potter fan.  It's part of my childhood like most people my age.  I'd gone to the theaters to see every single movie, except for 7P2.  I read today that Amazon was having a rental sale on the movie (apparently it normally costs more than $1.99 to rent it on Amazon?).  Either way, I went to the page and I was absolutely surprised to see the rating for the movie was only 2 and a half stars!</p> <p>Even if the movie was terrible, there would clearly be such a massive amount of fans rating the thing that it'd probably hit four stars.. but two and a half?  Not even a full three?  What was going on here?</p> <p>A quick glance at the "customer reviews" told me everything I needed to know.  The full copy included some software called  "Ultraviolet," the main cause of over 200 1 star reviews.</p> <blockquote><p>Ultraviolet is another feeble, doomed attempt by some dinosaur brain Hollywood execs to restrict the use of your legally bought digital purchase. Ultraviolet is NOT a digital copy that resides on a device of your choice to be used on a device of your choice. It is a streaming service, for which you have to sign up and maintain an account, at the expense of your bandwidth, compatible with some but not all mobile devices. If you're willing to wait another 4 weeks, order this disc set from Amazon's UK website you can do this with your current US account). Not only are you getting a REAL digital copy, but the Blu-ray disc is region free too!! Price + shipping is the same as the price in USD with free shipping.</p> <p>- <a href="http://www.amazon.com/review/R3UIUNTBP6BE8Z/ref=cm_cr_pr_viewpnt#R3UIUNTBP6BE8Z">John Dettingmeijer</a></p></blockquote> <p>So, that wrapped up that mystery.  Horrible software is murdering ratings.  A damn shame.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/cUOSmUpWs3biWlNiHxjxOQgn5Iw/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/cUOSmUpWs3biWlNiHxjxOQgn5Iw/0/di" /></a><br /> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/cUOSmUpWs3biWlNiHxjxOQgn5Iw/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/cUOSmUpWs3biWlNiHxjxOQgn5Iw/1/di" /></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/navarrstech/~4/8SwwVwvMpHw" height="1" width="1" />Fri, 25 Nov 2011 03:39:36 GMThttp://soup.navarr.me/post/194858055/How-Software-Ruins-Ratingsurn:www-soup-io:1:194858055regularsoftware {"tags":[],"type":"regular","title":"Top 5 artists this week","source":"http://www.last.fm/user/NavarrB/charts/","body":"\u003Col\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http://www.last.fm/music/Homestuck\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003EHomestuck\u003C/a\u003E\u00a0\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http://www.last.fm/music/Sherwood\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ESherwood\u003C/a\u003E\u00a0\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http://www.last.fm/music/PUFFY\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003EPUFFY\u003C/a\u003E\u00a0\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http://www.last.fm/music/PoK%C3%A9QuesT\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003EPoK\u00e9QuesT\u003C/a\u003E\u00a0\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http://www.last.fm/music/12012\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003E12012\u003C/a\u003E\u00a0\u003C/li\u003E\u003C/ol\u003E"} <ol><li><a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Homestuck">Homestuck</a> </li><li><a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Sherwood">Sherwood</a> </li><li><a href="http://www.last.fm/music/PUFFY">PUFFY</a> </li><li><a href="http://www.last.fm/music/PoK%C3%A9QuesT">PoKéQuesT</a> </li><li><a href="http://www.last.fm/music/12012">12012</a> </li></ol>Sun, 20 Nov 2011 12:00:00 GMThttp://soup.navarr.me/post/194844616/Top-5-artists-this-weekurn:www-soup-io:1:194844616regular {"tags":[],"type":"regular","title":"Top 5 artists this week","source":"http://www.last.fm/user/NavarrB/charts/","body":"\u003Col\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca rel=\"nofollow\"\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u00a0\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca rel=\"nofollow\"\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u00a0\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca rel=\"nofollow\"\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u00a0\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca rel=\"nofollow\"\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u00a0\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca rel=\"nofollow\"\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u00a0\u003C/li\u003E\u003C/ol\u003E"} <ol><li><a></a> </li><li><a></a> </li><li><a></a> </li><li><a></a> </li><li><a></a> </li></ol>Sun, 13 Nov 2011 12:00:00 GMThttp://soup.navarr.me/post/193000541/Top-5-artists-this-weekurn:www-soup-io:1:193000541regular {"tags":[],"type":"video","source":"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPFD2PVtKQE\u0026feature=youtube_gdata","body":"Minecraft Massacre","embedcode_or_url":"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPFD2PVtKQE\u0026feature=youtube_gdata"} <object height="350" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/uPFD2PVtKQE" /><param name="wmode" value="transparent" /><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/uPFD2PVtKQE" wmode="transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" height="350" width="425" /></object>Minecraft MassacreThu, 10 Nov 2011 00:17:39 GMThttp://soup.navarr.me/post/192153884/Minecraft-Massacreurn:www-soup-io:1:192153884video {"tags":[],"type":"regular","title":"Top 5 artists this week","source":"http://www.last.fm/user/NavarrB/charts/","body":"\u003Col\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http://www.last.fm/music/Johann+Sebastian+Bach\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003EJohann Sebastian Bach\u003C/a\u003E\u00a0\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http://www.last.fm/music/Yann+Tiersen\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003EYann Tiersen\u003C/a\u003E\u00a0\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http://www.last.fm/music/Ludwig+van+Beethoven\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ELudwig van Beethoven\u003C/a\u003E\u00a0\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http://www.last.fm/music/Relaxing+Piano+Music+Consort\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ERelaxing Piano Music Consort\u003C/a\u003E\u00a0\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http://www.last.fm/music/Nikolaus+Harnoncourt\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ENikolaus Harnoncourt\u003C/a\u003E\u00a0\u003C/li\u003E\u003C/ol\u003E"} <ol><li><a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Johann+Sebastian+Bach">Johann Sebastian Bach</a> </li><li><a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Yann+Tiersen">Yann Tiersen</a> </li><li><a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Ludwig+van+Beethoven">Ludwig van Beethoven</a> </li><li><a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Relaxing+Piano+Music+Consort">Relaxing Piano Music Consort</a> </li><li><a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Nikolaus+Harnoncourt">Nikolaus Harnoncourt</a> </li></ol>Sun, 06 Nov 2011 12:00:00 GMThttp://soup.navarr.me/post/191428547/Top-5-artists-this-weekurn:www-soup-io:1:191428547regular {"tags":[],"type":"regular","title":"Top 5 artists this week","source":"http://www.last.fm/user/NavarrB/charts/","body":"\u003Col\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca rel=\"nofollow\"\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u00a0\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca rel=\"nofollow\"\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u00a0\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca rel=\"nofollow\"\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u00a0\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca rel=\"nofollow\"\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u00a0\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca rel=\"nofollow\"\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u00a0\u003C/li\u003E\u003C/ol\u003E"} <ol><li><a></a> </li><li><a></a> </li><li><a></a> </li><li><a></a> </li><li><a></a> </li></ol>Sun, 30 Oct 2011 12:00:00 GMThttp://soup.navarr.me/post/187545018/Top-5-artists-this-weekurn:www-soup-io:1:187545018regular {"tags":[],"type":"regular","title":"Top 5 artists this week","source":"http://www.last.fm/user/NavarrB/charts/","body":"\u003Col\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca rel=\"nofollow\"\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u00a0\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca rel=\"nofollow\"\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u00a0\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca rel=\"nofollow\"\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u00a0\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca rel=\"nofollow\"\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u00a0\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca rel=\"nofollow\"\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u00a0\u003C/li\u003E\u003C/ol\u003E"} <ol><li><a></a> </li><li><a></a> </li><li><a></a> </li><li><a></a> </li><li><a></a> </li></ol>Sun, 23 Oct 2011 12:00:00 GMThttp://soup.navarr.me/post/184295194/Top-5-artists-this-weekurn:www-soup-io:1:184295194regular {"tags":["squirrel","wildlife","bgsu"],"type":"video","source":"http://www.flickr.com/photos/navarr/6269627911/","body":"\u003Cstrong\u003ESquirrel!\u003C/strong\u003E","embedcode_or_url":"http://www.flickr.com/photos/navarr/6269627911/"} <object data="http://www.flickr.com/apps/video/stewart.swf?v=1.162" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" height="300" width="400"><param name="flashvars" value="intl_lang=en-us&amp;photo_secret=cc5c1e60c3&amp;photo_id=6269627911" /><param name="movie" value="http://www.flickr.com/apps/video/stewart.swf?v=1.162" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#000000" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><embed src="http://www.flickr.com/apps/video/stewart.swf?v=1.162" allowfullscreen="true" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" height="300" flashvars="intl_lang=en-us&amp;photo_secret=cc5c1e60c3&amp;photo_id=6269627911" width="400" /></object><strong>Squirrel!</strong>Sat, 22 Oct 2011 19:11:25 GMThttp://soup.navarr.me/post/183214361/Squirrelurn:www-soup-io:1:183214361videosquirrelwildlifebgsu {"tags":["squirrel","wildlife","bgsu"],"type":"image","source":"http://www.flickr.com/photos/navarr/6269627585/","body":"\u003Cstrong\u003ESquirrel!\u003C/strong\u003E","url":"http://2.asset.soup.io/asset/2479/8418_6cc0.jpeg"} <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/navarr/6269627585/"><img alt="8418_6cc0_400" height="300" src="http://2.asset.soup.io/asset/2479/8418_6cc0_400.jpeg" width="400" /></a></p> <p><strong>Squirrel!</strong></p>Sat, 22 Oct 2011 19:11:17 GMThttp://soup.navarr.me/post/183214374/Squirrelurn:www-soup-io:1:183214374imagesquirrelwildlifebgsu {"tags":[],"type":"regular","title":"Top 5 artists this week","source":"http://www.last.fm/user/NavarrB/charts/","body":"\u003Col\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http://www.last.fm/music/Ingrid+Michaelson\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003EIngrid Michaelson\u003C/a\u003E\u00a0\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http://www.last.fm/music/The+Avett+Brothers\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003EThe Avett Brothers\u003C/a\u003E\u00a0\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http://www.last.fm/music/Norah+Jones\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ENorah Jones\u003C/a\u003E\u00a0\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http://www.last.fm/music/Why%3F\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003EWhy?\u003C/a\u003E\u00a0\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http://www.last.fm/music/Tracy+Chapman\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ETracy Chapman\u003C/a\u003E\u00a0\u003C/li\u003E\u003C/ol\u003E"} <ol><li><a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Ingrid+Michaelson">Ingrid Michaelson</a> </li><li><a href="http://www.last.fm/music/The+Avett+Brothers">The Avett Brothers</a> </li><li><a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Norah+Jones">Norah Jones</a> </li><li><a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Why%3F">Why?</a> </li><li><a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Tracy+Chapman">Tracy Chapman</a> </li></ol>Sun, 16 Oct 2011 12:00:00 GMThttp://soup.navarr.me/post/180562268/Top-5-artists-this-weekurn:www-soup-io:1:180562268regular {"tags":[],"type":"video","source":"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jYcnRpsMzQ\u0026feature=youtube_gdata","body":"NavKraft - Skyblock Attempt #3, a Minecraft LP","embedcode_or_url":"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jYcnRpsMzQ\u0026feature=youtube_gdata"} <object height="350" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/9jYcnRpsMzQ" /><param name="wmode" value="transparent" /><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/9jYcnRpsMzQ" wmode="transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" height="350" width="425" /></object>NavKraft - Skyblock Attempt #3, a Minecraft LPWed, 12 Oct 2011 03:04:51 GMThttp://soup.navarr.me/post/177934935/NavKraft-Skyblock-Attempt-3-a-Minecraft-LPurn:www-soup-io:1:177934935video {"tags":[],"type":"regular","title":"Top 5 artists this week","source":"http://www.last.fm/user/NavarrB/charts/","body":"\u003Col\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http://www.last.fm/music/Relaxing+Piano+Music+Consort\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ERelaxing Piano Music Consort\u003C/a\u003E\u00a0\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http://www.last.fm/music/Josh+Groban\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003EJosh Groban\u003C/a\u003E\u00a0\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http://www.last.fm/music/Wolfgang+Amadeus+Mozart\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003EWolfgang Amadeus Mozart\u003C/a\u003E\u00a0\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http://www.last.fm/music/Ludwig+van+Beethoven\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ELudwig van Beethoven\u003C/a\u003E\u00a0\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http://www.last.fm/music/Yann+Tiersen\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003EYann Tiersen\u003C/a\u003E\u00a0\u003C/li\u003E\u003C/ol\u003E"} <ol><li><a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Relaxing+Piano+Music+Consort">Relaxing Piano Music Consort</a> </li><li><a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Josh+Groban">Josh Groban</a> </li><li><a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Wolfgang+Amadeus+Mozart">Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart</a> </li><li><a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Ludwig+van+Beethoven">Ludwig van Beethoven</a> </li><li><a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Yann+Tiersen">Yann Tiersen</a> </li></ol>Sun, 09 Oct 2011 12:00:00 GMThttp://soup.navarr.me/post/178984452/Top-5-artists-this-weekurn:www-soup-io:1:178984452regular {"tags":[],"type":"regular","title":"Top 5 artists this week","source":"http://www.last.fm/user/NavarrB/charts/","body":"\u003Col\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http://www.last.fm/music/Hellogoodbye\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003EHellogoodbye\u003C/a\u003E\u00a0\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http://www.last.fm/music/Owl+City\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003EOwl City\u003C/a\u003E\u00a0\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http://www.last.fm/music/Ludwig+van+Beethoven\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ELudwig van Beethoven\u003C/a\u003E\u00a0\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http://www.last.fm/music/Yann+Tiersen\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003EYann Tiersen\u003C/a\u003E\u00a0\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http://www.last.fm/music/Relaxing+Piano+Music+Consort\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ERelaxing Piano Music Consort\u003C/a\u003E\u00a0\u003C/li\u003E\u003C/ol\u003E"} <ol><li><a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Hellogoodbye">Hellogoodbye</a> </li><li><a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Owl+City">Owl City</a> </li><li><a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Ludwig+van+Beethoven">Ludwig van Beethoven</a> </li><li><a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Yann+Tiersen">Yann Tiersen</a> </li><li><a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Relaxing+Piano+Music+Consort">Relaxing Piano Music Consort</a> </li></ol>Sun, 02 Oct 2011 12:00:00 GMThttp://soup.navarr.me/post/172493430/Top-5-artists-this-weekurn:www-soup-io:1:172493430regular {"tags":["General"],"type":"regular","title":"\u003Ca href=\"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/navarrstech/~3/u2zhs4ayd5E/great-scott-ive-discovered-something-delicious.html\"\u003EGreat Scott, I\u2019ve discovered something delicious\u003C/a\u003E","source":"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/navarrstech/~3/u2zhs4ayd5E/great-scott-ive-discovered-something-delicious.html","body":"\u003Cp\u003ETruthfully, I've tried my best to make a difference in programming, in code, trying to learn, trying to be amazing. \u00a0I never thought I'd just randomly happen upon a chance discovery that would turn out to be amazingly delicious.\u003C/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ELate August, I went to my friend's house in Toledo. \u00a0There, we picked some pears. \u00a0I took home some for myself and placed them in my fridge, unfortunately never stopping to think to eat them.\u003C/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ELate September, I place a Sunkist can I had not had time to finish beside the pears, leaving it for later.\u003C/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EOctober 1st, I pull the pears out of the fridge, giving them up to inspection by Rebecca. \u00a0They look as if they haven't aged, possibly frozen by sitting beside the freezer inside the fridge. \u00a0I pull out the sunkist and set it on top of the fridge to deal with later. \u00a0Rebecca declares that the pears, although not yet rotten, would be as soon as they thawed as their cellular structure would not be able to survive being frozen and thawed.\u003C/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ELater that evening, I accidentally take a swig of the sunkist left on top of the fridge. \u00a0It has a delicious taste of pear to it, despite its flatness it does not taste bad. \u00a0It is delicious, but sickly sweet. \u00a0But \u003Cem\u003Eamazingly delicious\u003C/em\u003E.\u003C/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ENow that I've learned this, what should I do about it?\u003C/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/HH2rmsO-tKTWnvndEjFPKPQhZ6g/0/da\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/HH2rmsO-tKTWnvndEjFPKPQhZ6g/0/di\" /\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cbr /\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/HH2rmsO-tKTWnvndEjFPKPQhZ6g/1/da\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/HH2rmsO-tKTWnvndEjFPKPQhZ6g/1/di\" /\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/navarrstech/~4/u2zhs4ayd5E\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" /\u003E"} <p>Truthfully, I've tried my best to make a difference in programming, in code, trying to learn, trying to be amazing.  I never thought I'd just randomly happen upon a chance discovery that would turn out to be amazingly delicious.</p> <p>Late August, I went to my friend's house in Toledo.  There, we picked some pears.  I took home some for myself and placed them in my fridge, unfortunately never stopping to think to eat them.</p> <p>Late September, I place a Sunkist can I had not had time to finish beside the pears, leaving it for later.</p> <p>October 1st, I pull the pears out of the fridge, giving them up to inspection by Rebecca.  They look as if they haven't aged, possibly frozen by sitting beside the freezer inside the fridge.  I pull out the sunkist and set it on top of the fridge to deal with later.  Rebecca declares that the pears, although not yet rotten, would be as soon as they thawed as their cellular structure would not be able to survive being frozen and thawed.</p> <p>Later that evening, I accidentally take a swig of the sunkist left on top of the fridge.  It has a delicious taste of pear to it, despite its flatness it does not taste bad.  It is delicious, but sickly sweet.  But <em>amazingly delicious</em>.</p> <p>Now that I've learned this, what should I do about it?</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/HH2rmsO-tKTWnvndEjFPKPQhZ6g/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/HH2rmsO-tKTWnvndEjFPKPQhZ6g/0/di" /></a><br /> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/HH2rmsO-tKTWnvndEjFPKPQhZ6g/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/HH2rmsO-tKTWnvndEjFPKPQhZ6g/1/di" /></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/navarrstech/~4/u2zhs4ayd5E" height="1" width="1" />Sun, 02 Oct 2011 00:52:57 GMThttp://soup.navarr.me/post/171669778/Great-Scott-I-ve-discovered-something-deliciousurn:www-soup-io:1:171669778regulargeneral {"tags":[],"type":"regular","title":"Top 5 artists this week","source":"http://www.last.fm/user/NavarrB/charts/","body":"\u003Col\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http://www.last.fm/music/Hellogoodbye\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003EHellogoodbye\u003C/a\u003E\u00a0\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http://www.last.fm/music/Jim+Sturgess\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003EJim Sturgess\u003C/a\u003E\u00a0\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http://www.last.fm/music/Owl+City\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003EOwl City\u003C/a\u003E\u00a0\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http://www.last.fm/music/Rihanna\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ERihanna\u003C/a\u003E\u00a0\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http://www.last.fm/music/Mayday+Parade\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003EMayday Parade\u003C/a\u003E\u00a0\u003C/li\u003E\u003C/ol\u003E"} <ol><li><a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Hellogoodbye">Hellogoodbye</a> </li><li><a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Jim+Sturgess">Jim Sturgess</a> </li><li><a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Owl+City">Owl City</a> </li><li><a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Rihanna">Rihanna</a> </li><li><a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Mayday+Parade">Mayday Parade</a> </li></ol>Sun, 25 Sep 2011 12:00:00 GMThttp://soup.navarr.me/post/168122646/Top-5-artists-this-weekurn:www-soup-io:1:168122646regular {"tags":[],"type":"video","source":"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiW_3IH-_Ck\u0026feature=youtube_gdata","body":"AMV - Toradora! - Rough Love (Grow a Pear)","embedcode_or_url":"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiW_3IH-_Ck\u0026feature=youtube_gdata"} <object height="350" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/oiW_3IH-_Ck" /><param name="wmode" value="transparent" /><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/oiW_3IH-_Ck" wmode="transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" height="350" width="425" /></object>AMV - Toradora! - Rough Love (Grow a Pear)Wed, 07 Sep 2011 04:51:06 GMThttp://soup.navarr.me/post/158076785/AMV-Toradora-Rough-Love-Grow-a-Pearurn:www-soup-io:1:158076785video {"tags":[],"type":"image","source":"http://PokeSensei.deviantart.com/art/Badass-Samurai-257008435","body":"\u003Cstrong\u003EBadass Samurai\u003C/strong\u003E\u003Cbr /\u003EI dressed up like this for Glass City Con. I think I looked pretty damn good in this photo. What do you think?","url":"http://a.asset.soup.io/asset/2349/0202_cd33.jpeg"} <p><a href="http://PokeSensei.deviantart.com/art/Badass-Samurai-257008435"><img alt="0202_cd33_400" height="533" src="http://a.asset.soup.io/asset/2349/0202_cd33_400.jpeg" width="400" /></a></p> <p><strong>Badass Samurai</strong><br />I dressed up like this for Glass City Con. I think I looked pretty damn good in this photo. What do you think?</p>Tue, 06 Sep 2011 03:19:50 GMThttp://soup.navarr.me/post/157253080/Badass-Samuraiurn:www-soup-io:1:157253080image {"tags":["General"],"type":"regular","title":"\u003Ca href=\"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/navarrstech/~3/u5kWubkAU50/the-web-needs-a-federated-payment-protocol.html\"\u003EThe Web Needs a Federated Payment Protocol\u003C/a\u003E","source":"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/navarrstech/~3/u5kWubkAU50/the-web-needs-a-federated-payment-protocol.html","body":"\u003Cp\u003EWhen it comes to paying for good and services on the Internet, the consumer has many choices - Paypal, Amazon, Google Checkout, their respective Credit Card...\u003C/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EHowever, you rarely see all of these accepted in a single place - and for very good reason: Its gorram difficult to implement so many different APIs and systems, and have to deal with tracking each of them.\u003C/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EClearly, the Web needs a way to deal with this - and having a Federated Payment Protocol would solve it.\u003C/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThink about it: A vendor website would easily communicate with a payment processor through this protocol. \u00a0They wouldn't have to know who the Payment Processor is, or even care for that matter. \u00a0The vendor would issue a request to the payment processor. \u00a0The processor would be in charge of authenticating the user, and would send back their \"terms\" (out of the requested amount, *this* much will be dispersed and *this* much will be taken as a processing fee). \u00a0The vendor will agree, disagree, or change the payment amount based on what the processor sent. \u00a0The processor would then submit this change to the user, if the user accepted the processor would send the new details and the vendor would accept or deny. \u00a0The processor would send the money through whatever system they need to, notifying the vendor how long it should take, and if its a short enough time the vendor can hold the user until the payment has cleared (or if it is a trusted source not hold at all) and provide the promised goods or services, after confirming the transaction with their receiving service.\u003C/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThis solves a few key issues:\u003C/p\u003E\n\u003Cul\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EVendors have to trust that they are receiving the money for their services.\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003ECredit Card details would never have to be provided to the vendor, as the service would be directly through their credit company's payment service.\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EVendors would not have to implement different APIs for different payment methods.\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003E\"Credit Card Fraud\" liability would be the burden of the Credit Company, of whom authenticated the user. \u00a0A vendor would no longer be required to make sure a person is who they say they are.\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EBanks could offer their own payment services (\"Debit.\" \u00a0Possibly with No Fee, resulting in a reduction of prices from vendors, hopefully).\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003C/ul\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003EClearly this is a good idea, and I wish I had the know-how to put it together myself.\u003C/div\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/L4gPnCNQJZQjNYWePI0HUY03DKc/0/da\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/L4gPnCNQJZQjNYWePI0HUY03DKc/0/di\" /\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cbr /\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/L4gPnCNQJZQjNYWePI0HUY03DKc/1/da\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/L4gPnCNQJZQjNYWePI0HUY03DKc/1/di\" /\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/navarrstech/~4/u5kWubkAU50\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" /\u003E"} <p>When it comes to paying for good and services on the Internet, the consumer has many choices - Paypal, Amazon, Google Checkout, their respective Credit Card...</p> <p>However, you rarely see all of these accepted in a single place - and for very good reason: Its gorram difficult to implement so many different APIs and systems, and have to deal with tracking each of them.</p> <p>Clearly, the Web needs a way to deal with this - and having a Federated Payment Protocol would solve it.</p> <p>Think about it: A vendor website would easily communicate with a payment processor through this protocol.  They wouldn't have to know who the Payment Processor is, or even care for that matter.  The vendor would issue a request to the payment processor.  The processor would be in charge of authenticating the user, and would send back their "terms" (out of the requested amount, *this* much will be dispersed and *this* much will be taken as a processing fee).  The vendor will agree, disagree, or change the payment amount based on what the processor sent.  The processor would then submit this change to the user, if the user accepted the processor would send the new details and the vendor would accept or deny.  The processor would send the money through whatever system they need to, notifying the vendor how long it should take, and if its a short enough time the vendor can hold the user until the payment has cleared (or if it is a trusted source not hold at all) and provide the promised goods or services, after confirming the transaction with their receiving service.</p> <p>This solves a few key issues:</p> <ul> <li>Vendors have to trust that they are receiving the money for their services.</li> <li>Credit Card details would never have to be provided to the vendor, as the service would be directly through their credit company's payment service.</li> <li>Vendors would not have to implement different APIs for different payment methods.</li> <li>"Credit Card Fraud" liability would be the burden of the Credit Company, of whom authenticated the user.  A vendor would no longer be required to make sure a person is who they say they are.</li> <li>Banks could offer their own payment services ("Debit."  Possibly with No Fee, resulting in a reduction of prices from vendors, hopefully).</li> </ul> <div>Clearly this is a good idea, and I wish I had the know-how to put it together myself.</div> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/L4gPnCNQJZQjNYWePI0HUY03DKc/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/L4gPnCNQJZQjNYWePI0HUY03DKc/0/di" /></a><br /> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/L4gPnCNQJZQjNYWePI0HUY03DKc/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/L4gPnCNQJZQjNYWePI0HUY03DKc/1/di" /></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/navarrstech/~4/u5kWubkAU50" height="1" width="1" />Tue, 30 Aug 2011 01:30:11 GMThttp://soup.navarr.me/post/155996434/The-Web-Needs-a-Federated-Payment-Protocolurn:www-soup-io:1:155996434regulargeneral {"tags":[],"type":"regular","title":"Top 5 artists this week","source":"http://www.last.fm/user/NavarrB/charts/","body":"\u0026lt;ol\u0026gt;\u0026lt;li\u0026gt;\u0026lt;a href=\"http://www.last.fm/music/My+Morning+Jacket\"\u0026gt;My Morning Jacket\u0026lt;/a\u0026gt;\u0026amp;nbsp;\u0026lt;/li\u0026gt;\u0026lt;li\u0026gt;\u0026lt;a href=\"http://www.last.fm/music/Shabazz+Palaces\"\u0026gt;Shabazz Palaces\u0026lt;/a\u0026gt;\u0026amp;nbsp;\u0026lt;/li\u0026gt;\u0026lt;li\u0026gt;\u0026lt;a href=\"http://www.last.fm/music/Johnny+Mathis\"\u0026gt;Johnny Mathis\u0026lt;/a\u0026gt;\u0026amp;nbsp;\u0026lt;/li\u0026gt;\u0026lt;li\u0026gt;\u0026lt;a href=\"http://www.last.fm/music/Frank+Sinatra\"\u0026gt;Frank Sinatra\u0026lt;/a\u0026gt;\u0026amp;nbsp;\u0026lt;/li\u0026gt;\u0026lt;li\u0026gt;\u0026lt;a href=\"http://www.last.fm/music/NEEDLESS%2BGIRLS%252B\"\u0026gt;NEEDLESS GIRLS+\u0026lt;/a\u0026gt;\u0026amp;nbsp;\u0026lt;/li\u0026gt;\u0026lt;/ol\u0026gt;"} &lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="<a href="http://www.last.fm/music/My+Morning+Jacket&quot;&gt;My">http://www.last.fm/music/My+Morning+Jacket&quot;&amp;gt;My</a> Morning Jacket&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="<a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Shabazz+Palaces&quot;&gt;Shabazz">http://www.last.fm/music/Shabazz+Palaces&quot;&amp;gt;Shabazz</a> Palaces&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="<a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Johnny+Mathis&quot;&gt;Johnny">http://www.last.fm/music/Johnny+Mathis&quot;&amp;gt;Johnny</a> Mathis&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="<a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Frank+Sinatra&quot;&gt;Frank">http://www.last.fm/music/Frank+Sinatra&quot;&amp;gt;Frank</a> Sinatra&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="<a href="http://www.last.fm/music/NEEDLESS%2BGIRLS%252B&quot;&gt;NEEDLESS">http://www.last.fm/music/NEEDLESS%2BGIRLS%252B&quot;&amp;gt;NEEDLESS</a> GIRLS+&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;Sun, 28 Aug 2011 12:00:00 GMThttp://soup.navarr.me/post/155616526/Top-5-artists-this-weekurn:www-soup-io:1:155616526regular {"tags":["Google","google","google buzz","google health","google powermeter"],"type":"regular","title":"\u003Ca href=\"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/navarrstech/~3/HwJPg1qHIPg/lack-of-security-may-hinder-future-google-adoption.html\"\u003ELack of \u201cSecurity\u201d May Hinder Future Google Adoption\u003C/a\u003E","source":"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/navarrstech/~3/HwJPg1qHIPg/lack-of-security-may-hinder-future-google-adoption.html","body":"\u003Cp\u003EI better make this clear: I am not talking about encryption, password, hashes, etc. \u00a0Not \u003Cem\u003Ethat\u003C/em\u003E\u00a0kind of security.\u003C/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ENo, I'm talking about reliability. \u00a0Something Google has had for a very long time, and one of the many reasons I'm such a Google fanatic.\u003C/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EUntil recently, at least as far as I can remember, Google products that existed did not see the end of the tunnel very often. \u00a0(The question and answer service excluded).\u003C/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ERecently, however, Google has been trying to expand into many markets. \u00a0From what I can take away, Google wants to be the hub of information exchange on the Internet. \u00a0After all, knowing all of that powers their search - and their search powers their ads.\u003C/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ERecently though, several Google services have announced that they will be discontinued. \u00a0Among these: Wave, PowerMeter, and Health.\u003C/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EPowerMeter and Health did not see large enough adoption for Google to continue putting forth the funds for them. \u00a0To me, this is disappointing. \u00a0Being able to get this information so easily and readily through Google was really exciting. \u00a0After all: Google has the technological know-how to keep my data secure and provide at least decent user interfaces to said data. \u00a0In fact, I used Google Health - although since I don't have many issues it was currently just to store my insurance information.\u003C/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ENow though, these services will be disappearing. \u00a0Who is to say that other less-mainstream services won't disappear in the future? \u00a0Buzz? Voice? \u00a0Google+? \u00a0Well, there's no way that last one could disappear... right?\u003C/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIf I'm going to rely on Google to provide a service, I'm going to need the security of knowing that the service is going to continue to exist. \u00a0I might be asking a bit much as a free user, but its still a very important consideration.\u003C/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIf Google loses this trust; this security; this reliability - won't it hinder future adoption of Google's services?\u003C/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/NZlJOVEBlkKYTVSPKexNo7PtWvw/0/da\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/NZlJOVEBlkKYTVSPKexNo7PtWvw/0/di\" /\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cbr /\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/NZlJOVEBlkKYTVSPKexNo7PtWvw/1/da\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/NZlJOVEBlkKYTVSPKexNo7PtWvw/1/di\" /\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/navarrstech/~4/HwJPg1qHIPg\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" /\u003E"} <p>I better make this clear: I am not talking about encryption, password, hashes, etc.  Not <em>that</em> kind of security.</p> <p>No, I'm talking about reliability.  Something Google has had for a very long time, and one of the many reasons I'm such a Google fanatic.</p> <p>Until recently, at least as far as I can remember, Google products that existed did not see the end of the tunnel very often.  (The question and answer service excluded).</p> <p>Recently, however, Google has been trying to expand into many markets.  From what I can take away, Google wants to be the hub of information exchange on the Internet.  After all, knowing all of that powers their search - and their search powers their ads.</p> <p>Recently though, several Google services have announced that they will be discontinued.  Among these: Wave, PowerMeter, and Health.</p> <p>PowerMeter and Health did not see large enough adoption for Google to continue putting forth the funds for them.  To me, this is disappointing.  Being able to get this information so easily and readily through Google was really exciting.  After all: Google has the technological know-how to keep my data secure and provide at least decent user interfaces to said data.  In fact, I used Google Health - although since I don't have many issues it was currently just to store my insurance information.</p> <p>Now though, these services will be disappearing.  Who is to say that other less-mainstream services won't disappear in the future?  Buzz? Voice?  Google+?  Well, there's no way that last one could disappear... right?</p> <p>If I'm going to rely on Google to provide a service, I'm going to need the security of knowing that the service is going to continue to exist.  I might be asking a bit much as a free user, but its still a very important consideration.</p> <p>If Google loses this trust; this security; this reliability - won't it hinder future adoption of Google's services?</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/NZlJOVEBlkKYTVSPKexNo7PtWvw/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/NZlJOVEBlkKYTVSPKexNo7PtWvw/0/di" /></a><br /> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/NZlJOVEBlkKYTVSPKexNo7PtWvw/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/NZlJOVEBlkKYTVSPKexNo7PtWvw/1/di" /></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/navarrstech/~4/HwJPg1qHIPg" height="1" width="1" />Wed, 24 Aug 2011 22:40:11 GMThttp://soup.navarr.me/post/155031091/Lack-of-Security-May-Hinder-Future-Googleurn:www-soup-io:1:155031091regulargooglegooglegoogle buzzgoogle healthgoogle powermeter {"tags":[],"type":"regular","title":"Top 5 artists this week","source":"http://www.last.fm/user/NavarrB/charts/","body":"\u0026lt;ol\u0026gt;\u0026lt;li\u0026gt;\u0026lt;a href=\"http://www.last.fm/music/Frank+Sinatra\"\u0026gt;Frank Sinatra\u0026lt;/a\u0026gt;\u0026amp;nbsp;\u0026lt;/li\u0026gt;\u0026lt;li\u0026gt;\u0026lt;a href=\"\"\u0026gt;\u0026lt;/a\u0026gt;\u0026amp;nbsp;\u0026lt;/li\u0026gt;\u0026lt;li\u0026gt;\u0026lt;a href=\"\"\u0026gt;\u0026lt;/a\u0026gt;\u0026amp;nbsp;\u0026lt;/li\u0026gt;\u0026lt;li\u0026gt;\u0026lt;a href=\"\"\u0026gt;\u0026lt;/a\u0026gt;\u0026amp;nbsp;\u0026lt;/li\u0026gt;\u0026lt;li\u0026gt;\u0026lt;a href=\"\"\u0026gt;\u0026lt;/a\u0026gt;\u0026amp;nbsp;\u0026lt;/li\u0026gt;\u0026lt;/ol\u0026gt;"} &lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="<a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Frank+Sinatra&quot;&gt;Frank">http://www.last.fm/music/Frank+Sinatra&quot;&amp;gt;Frank</a> Sinatra&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;Sun, 21 Aug 2011 12:00:00 GMThttp://soup.navarr.me/post/155366938/Top-5-artists-this-weekurn:www-soup-io:1:155366938regular {"tags":[],"type":"video","source":"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVrxTMr05iQ\u0026feature=youtube_gdata","body":"Angry Birds : The Motion Comic (fan-made)","embedcode_or_url":"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVrxTMr05iQ\u0026feature=youtube_gdata"} <object height="350" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/MVrxTMr05iQ" /><param name="wmode" value="transparent" /><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/MVrxTMr05iQ" wmode="transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" height="350" width="425" /></object>Angry Birds : The Motion Comic (fan-made)Tue, 09 Aug 2011 02:50:43 GMThttp://soup.navarr.me/post/152889015/Angry-Birds-The-Motion-Comic-fan-madeurn:www-soup-io:1:152889015video {"tags":[],"type":"regular","title":"Top 5 artists this week","source":"http://www.last.fm/user/NavarrB/charts/","body":"\u003Col\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http://www.last.fm/music/PoK%C3%A9QuesT\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003EPoK\u00e9QuesT\u003C/a\u003E\u00a0\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http://www.last.fm/music/Sherwood\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ESherwood\u003C/a\u003E\u00a0\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http://www.last.fm/music/ProtoDome\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003EProtoDome\u003C/a\u003E\u00a0\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http://www.last.fm/music/T.M.Revolution\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ET.M.Revolution\u003C/a\u003E\u00a0\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http://www.last.fm/music/The+Posies\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003EThe Posies\u003C/a\u003E\u00a0\u003C/li\u003E\u003C/ol\u003E"} <ol><li><a href="http://www.last.fm/music/PoK%C3%A9QuesT">PoKéQuesT</a> </li><li><a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Sherwood">Sherwood</a> </li><li><a href="http://www.last.fm/music/ProtoDome">ProtoDome</a> </li><li><a href="http://www.last.fm/music/T.M.Revolution">T.M.Revolution</a> </li><li><a href="http://www.last.fm/music/The+Posies">The Posies</a> </li></ol>Sun, 07 Aug 2011 12:00:00 GMThttp://soup.navarr.me/post/152888280/Top-5-artists-this-weekurn:www-soup-io:1:152888280regular {"tags":["Google","IMAP","Microsoft","MSAP","Standards","email","exchange","google","imap","microsoft","msap","openid","push","sync"],"type":"regular","title":"\u003Ca href=\"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/navarrstech/~3/AWpXKwZ3jqY/so-i-came-up-with-this-really-great-idea.html\"\u003ESo I Came Up With This Really Great Idea\u003C/a\u003E","source":"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/navarrstech/~3/AWpXKwZ3jqY/so-i-came-up-with-this-really-great-idea.html","body":"\u003Cp\u003ENot too long ago, Gabor came up with an idea - \u003Ca href=\"http://blog.gaborcselle.com/2010/02/how-to-replace-imap.html\"\u003EThrow out IMAP\u003C/a\u003E. \u00a0As anyone that has ever had to fiddle with email settings should know, IMAP is an email transfer protocol. \u00a0It allows a client to communicate with a server and keep email data synchronized between the two. \u00a0It was a good idea for its time (1994), but now its old and is no longer as well suited to email tasks as it should be.\u003C/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThink about it. \u00a0How much has email changed in the last twenty years? \u00a0Not a lot, if any. \u00a0The most revolutionary features are GMail's labels and Gmail/Outlook's server-side email rules/filter settings. \u00a0To me, this is ridiculous. \u00a0I was born in 1991, played around on the internet when it was on dialup, and had a free Juno account when I was old enough.\u003C/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESince then I'd moved through Yahoo, Hotmail, and finally rested on Gmail. \u00a0But all-in-all, everything is still pretty much the same. \u00a0It was because of this that Gabor's idea to scrap IMAP really intrigued me. \u00a0I \u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003Ewanted\u003C/em\u003E\u003C/strong\u003E\u00a0this. \u00a0Google and Microsoft had both come up with newer,\u00a0proprietary\u00a0synchronization standards, and creating a new, open protocol would be the way to usher in a new age of compatibility and extensible feature sets.\u003C/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESince this initial bit of intrigue, I've spent some time working on protocol documentation whenever I can get a bit motivated and have some spare time to do so. \u00a0I continue to push my creativity and find new things to throw in to the protocol, ideas that wouldn't have to be there when the first part hits, but that its extensibility would make possible. \u00a0Ideas such as receiving push notifications from web services, that could also be synced to mobile devices through the protocol, or using OpenID as a base and creating a new single-login/password system that uses your email address., or even ideas such as being able to query an email server for a person's contact information, and store/update it in a syncable address book.\u003C/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EOnce we leave the defining bounds of IMAP and proprietary protocols like Exchange, we can really start work on building something terrific that would allow a flood of innovation that email has never seen before.\u003C/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EUnfortunately, my voice is small - and is very largely unheard. \u00a0I can't even get Gabor, the original creator of this idea to @mention me on twitter regarding it anymore, and so I've been stuck working on it by myself.\u003C/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESo yes, this is a call to action, and I do so hope that you'll oblige me. \u00a0\u003Cstrong\u003EI need help revolutionizing email\u003C/strong\u003E. \u00a0I can't do it all on my own, and the protocol being open is the important part. \u00a0I need other people's ideas, not just my own. \u00a0I need their thoughts and their knowledge. \u00a0I'm only a college student after all, and as much as I'd like to do this all by myself and use it as my claim to fame - I'd much rather just be a person that helped start and organize it and get things moving.\u003C/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESo please, join me in discussing my ideas, submitting your own, and if you feel like it even work on defining the protocol!\u003C/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/msapsap\"\u003EPlease join the discussion on 'MSAP' at Google Groups\u003C/a\u003E.\u003C/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThank you for your time, and I look forward to hearing your thoughts and ideas.\u003C/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/T9smf6Zjtr5sj155Q7M-DJC-Mi4/0/da\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/T9smf6Zjtr5sj155Q7M-DJC-Mi4/0/di\" /\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cbr /\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/T9smf6Zjtr5sj155Q7M-DJC-Mi4/1/da\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/T9smf6Zjtr5sj155Q7M-DJC-Mi4/1/di\" /\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/navarrstech/~4/AWpXKwZ3jqY\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" /\u003E"} <p>Not too long ago, Gabor came up with an idea - <a href="http://blog.gaborcselle.com/2010/02/how-to-replace-imap.html">Throw out IMAP</a>.  As anyone that has ever had to fiddle with email settings should know, IMAP is an email transfer protocol.  It allows a client to communicate with a server and keep email data synchronized between the two.  It was a good idea for its time (1994), but now its old and is no longer as well suited to email tasks as it should be.</p> <p>Think about it.  How much has email changed in the last twenty years?  Not a lot, if any.  The most revolutionary features are GMail's labels and Gmail/Outlook's server-side email rules/filter settings.  To me, this is ridiculous.  I was born in 1991, played around on the internet when it was on dialup, and had a free Juno account when I was old enough.</p> <p>Since then I'd moved through Yahoo, Hotmail, and finally rested on Gmail.  But all-in-all, everything is still pretty much the same.  It was because of this that Gabor's idea to scrap IMAP really intrigued me.  I <strong><em>wanted</em></strong> this.  Google and Microsoft had both come up with newer, proprietary synchronization standards, and creating a new, open protocol would be the way to usher in a new age of compatibility and extensible feature sets.</p> <p>Since this initial bit of intrigue, I've spent some time working on protocol documentation whenever I can get a bit motivated and have some spare time to do so.  I continue to push my creativity and find new things to throw in to the protocol, ideas that wouldn't have to be there when the first part hits, but that its extensibility would make possible.  Ideas such as receiving push notifications from web services, that could also be synced to mobile devices through the protocol, or using OpenID as a base and creating a new single-login/password system that uses your email address., or even ideas such as being able to query an email server for a person's contact information, and store/update it in a syncable address book.</p> <p>Once we leave the defining bounds of IMAP and proprietary protocols like Exchange, we can really start work on building something terrific that would allow a flood of innovation that email has never seen before.</p> <p>Unfortunately, my voice is small - and is very largely unheard.  I can't even get Gabor, the original creator of this idea to @mention me on twitter regarding it anymore, and so I've been stuck working on it by myself.</p> <p>So yes, this is a call to action, and I do so hope that you'll oblige me.  <strong>I need help revolutionizing email</strong>.  I can't do it all on my own, and the protocol being open is the important part.  I need other people's ideas, not just my own.  I need their thoughts and their knowledge.  I'm only a college student after all, and as much as I'd like to do this all by myself and use it as my claim to fame - I'd much rather just be a person that helped start and organize it and get things moving.</p> <p>So please, join me in discussing my ideas, submitting your own, and if you feel like it even work on defining the protocol!</p> <p><a href="https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/msapsap">Please join the discussion on 'MSAP' at Google Groups</a>.</p> <p>Thank you for your time, and I look forward to hearing your thoughts and ideas.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/T9smf6Zjtr5sj155Q7M-DJC-Mi4/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/T9smf6Zjtr5sj155Q7M-DJC-Mi4/0/di" /></a><br /> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/T9smf6Zjtr5sj155Q7M-DJC-Mi4/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/T9smf6Zjtr5sj155Q7M-DJC-Mi4/1/di" /></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/navarrstech/~4/AWpXKwZ3jqY" height="1" width="1" />Sun, 07 Aug 2011 08:06:28 GMThttp://soup.navarr.me/post/152520652/So-I-Came-Up-With-This-Reallyurn:www-soup-io:1:152520652regulargoogleimapmicrosoftmsapstandardsemailexchangegoogleimapmicrosoftmsapopenidpushsync {"tags":["Life","kyri"],"type":"regular","title":"\u003Ca href=\"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/konekochan/~3/6PdZfD4IE3g/\"\u003EThat was quick\u2026\u003C/a\u003E","source":"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/konekochan/~3/6PdZfD4IE3g/","body":"\u003Cp\u003EWell\u2026 that was quick\u2026 #weekLate\u003C/p\u003E\n\u003Cimg src=\"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/konekochan/~4/6PdZfD4IE3g\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" /\u003E"} <p>Well… that was quick… #weekLate</p> <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/konekochan/~4/6PdZfD4IE3g" height="1" width="1" />Sat, 30 Jul 2011 07:32:17 GMThttp://soup.navarr.me/post/150602041/That-was-quickurn:www-soup-io:1:150602041regularlifekyri {"tags":["Life","kyri"],"type":"regular","title":"\u003Ca href=\"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/konekochan/~3/mItV5q9RHOo/\"\u003EIts not the end\u2026\u003C/a\u003E","source":"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/konekochan/~3/mItV5q9RHOo/","body":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/chrisopics/3758471956/in/gallery-mawas-72157624332761380/\"\u003E\u003Cimg title=\"Cracked Heart\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3503/3758471956_5b519f4cc3_o.jpg\" height=\"1067\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" /\u003E\u003C/a\u003EBut its a new crack in an already fragile heart\u2026\u003C/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u00a0\u003C/p\u003E\n\u003Cimg src=\"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/konekochan/~4/mItV5q9RHOo\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" /\u003E"} <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/chrisopics/3758471956/in/gallery-mawas-72157624332761380/"><img class="aligncenter" title="Cracked Heart" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3503/3758471956_5b519f4cc3_o.jpg" height="1067" alt="" width="1600" /></a>But its a new crack in an already fragile heart…</p> <p> </p> <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/konekochan/~4/mItV5q9RHOo" height="1" width="1" />Sun, 24 Jul 2011 18:16:41 GMThttp://soup.navarr.me/post/148974494/Its-not-the-endurn:www-soup-io:1:148974494regularlifekyri {"tags":["Life","kyri"],"type":"regular","title":"\u003Ca href=\"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/konekochan/~3/qfO1fWbfs-Q/\"\u003E\u003C/a\u003E","source":"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/konekochan/~3/qfO1fWbfs-Q/","body":"\u003Cp\u003ESo.. this is the end? :\u2019(\u003C/p\u003E\n\u003Cimg src=\"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/konekochan/~4/qfO1fWbfs-Q\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" /\u003E"} <p>So.. this is the end? :’(</p> <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/konekochan/~4/qfO1fWbfs-Q" height="1" width="1" />Sun, 24 Jul 2011 07:51:08 GMThttp://soup.navarr.me/post/148768020/urn:www-soup-io:1:148768020regularlifekyri