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September 23, 2005
Thinking Outside the Fox

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18 Responses to “Thinking Outside the Fox”

  1. Peter Lairo Says:
    September 24th, 2005 at 9:46 am

    The “Tell Me When” button doesn’t seem to be working. It just stays grayed-out. :-\

  2. Johnnie Manzari Says:
    September 24th, 2005 at 3:07 pm

    I added my name to the list.

  3. Berger Says:
    September 24th, 2005 at 4:16 pm

    The add name thing doesn’t work in Opera 8.5 (the button is always greyed out)

  4. cameron Says:
    September 25th, 2005 at 5:59 am

    When are updating your blog skin???

  5. Judd Volino Says:
    September 25th, 2005 at 6:39 pm

    Thanks for letting us get the low-down as soon as it happens. Can you even hint at a timeline?

    Thanks,
    Judd Volino

  6. Matthew McManus Says:
    September 27th, 2005 at 6:30 am

    Can you even hint at what you are working on? Im so confused!

  7. john Says:
    September 30th, 2005 at 3:36 pm

    regardless of timelines etc.
    what the hell is it?

  8. Corey Farwell Says:
    October 2nd, 2005 at 10:04 pm

    I think it’d be a great idea to make an open source media player or alternate Windows Explorer Shell

  9. Carlo 'Carcarlo' Carmagnini Says:
    October 3rd, 2005 at 7:33 am

    What happened to Spreadfirefox.com? My cat is really worried about it and refuses to eat. ;-)

  10. Rockchild Says:
    October 4th, 2005 at 1:26 am

    I think the thing I hate the most is when you delete something from your computer with the recycle bin, but it’s not really deleted! I used a program to see if the files was deleted, but it was able to find the deleted files. Is Microsoft doing this on purpose to make it easy for someone to find deleted files, or is it another one of there bugs?

    Maybe Bill Gates wants to get hit with another pie, because the first one must have tasted good!

  11. christopher baus Says:
    October 9th, 2005 at 4:55 pm

    Blake,

    This entry in your RSS feed could be used as a smoke test for Feed readers. Do you realize it changes with every request? Although the actual content doesn’t change, only some PHP session meta data for handling the form.

    If you are actually starting a PHP session everytime somebody requests your RSS feed, you are probably wasting a bunch of resources, if that matters. Plus what does it mean on sites where one feed request is shared by multiple users like Bloglines?

  12. Michael Says:
    October 12th, 2005 at 1:21 pm

    What I hate about computers?

    I hate the dozens of running processes and subprocesses that are spawned by every piece of software. I hate how every program everytime it’s executed tries to make itself the default for everything and boot up automatically. I hate it when everything keeps hanging or crashing, and there’s no way for Windows to just KILL it. I also hate the clutter and unorganization of my file system, but that’s partly my own fault, and partly not.

  13. Jim Siemons Says:
    November 3rd, 2005 at 12:37 pm

    What happened to Spreadfirefox.com? As much Carcarlo’s cat is really worried about it and refuses to eat, my dog has been in an even more nervous and apprehensive state of mind. That’s the bad news. The good news is he’s no longer hungry. He ate Carcarlo’s cat.

    Please keep me updated as to the release date. And please hurry, there aren’t that many more cats in the neighborhood.

    Thank you

    Jim Siemons
    Tarpon Springs, FL

  14. Alan Says:
    November 10th, 2005 at 7:12 pm

    Any hints as to what the software project *is*?

  15. Gary King Says:
    December 7th, 2005 at 6:24 pm

    Nothing has been sent out yet, sadly.

  16. Captkidd Says:
    December 28th, 2005 at 3:43 pm

    Berger Says:
    September 24th, 2005 at 4:16 pm

    The add name thing doesn’t work in Opera 8.5 (the button is
    always greyed out)

    Terrible, only works in Firefox for me, not Opera 8.5 (Preferred choice), and not even in IE!

  17. Zain Jaffer Says:
    January 21st, 2006 at 2:08 pm

    My guess:

    Blake’s vague hint: “While you’re at it, tell me what you hate about computers so we can better focus our efforts. ” leaves me to speculate that the project might be:

    1) A complete “pack”, such as the free software starter pack Google unveiled recently (pack.google.com): Everything will be either coded from scratch or customized rather than offering an assembly of popular software products.

    2) A substitute to MS Antipspyware but with extendable capabilities

    3) Something similar Google Desktop

  18. RobO Says:
    June 27th, 2006 at 8:52 pm

    Since you asked, it is annoying when hitting the “tell me when” button that one is directed to a different page, in the middle of reading the previous page’s text….I am enjoying the way digg.com has implemented click commentary that doesn’t redirect the source page. so you can multi task like we are all being incresingly trained to do, and respond to content while continuing to absorb content.

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