Broback's Blog

I own 20 domains with “opensocial” in the name. They just expired. Do I care? # @pamslim @cliffatkinson if you are trying to find an old tweet from a specific user, searchtastic.com is awesome. @searchtastic # Powered by Twitter Tools.

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Boeing machinists didn’t get the memo: Airbus planes have been rolling off the line in Tianjin China since June 2009. http://bit.ly/3ppWNa # Dear Google (and Bing): when I search for “applescript concatenate text files” I want a script to concatenate text files! Is that so hard?? # @davidgeller can’t drag and drop to a unix […]

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Just heard Arianna Huffington say there’s no “other side” to global warming. We can ignore many scientists — they’re employed by big oil. # Watching @natalielent present at #140conf. She’s delivering for the audience, pragmatic stuff. Talking a bit about about search. # The advantage to NOT being an iPhone user — you can bypass […]

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@natalielent looking forward to seeing you at #140conf! # Powered by Twitter Tools.

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Economist on Biofuels: “widely seen as a boondoggle to agribusiness that hurts the environment and cheats taxpayers.” http://bit.ly/3sMdPL # Happy that a cached idisk no longer grinds my CPU to a halt. Wish folders would retain labels/folders like they did in 2006 though. # Powered by Twitter Tools.

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Every year, 800,000 people in the UK drop their phones in the toilet. http://bit.ly/4b4Fr4 # According to my calcs @MikeDemler was the no 1. Tweeter at CTIA. Authored 3.5% of all tweets. Good taste in wine (J Phelps) too. # Playing with MetaURI, a web service that supplies meta info for shortened URLs. Like it […]

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@techmama I love the reunion idea. # “Cascadia” the massive Pierce County ant-farm goes belly up. We Avondale drivers wish it had been Redmond Ridge. http://bit.ly/2CIwx7 # Powered by Twitter Tools.

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@GuyKawasaki: WSJ says notes from your Wharton “Art of Innovation” talk are up: http://bit.ly/2HRdR2 # Powered by Twitter Tools.

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@searchtastic rocks. My post here. http://bit.ly/47AHdd # @bing Betsy: you guys find some Tweets that other engines missed. At least the critical one I was after… http://bit.ly/47AHdd # Not at Blogworld, not with @AndruEdwards. Stuck at home with a sick dog (still!) and helping pack boxes for a charity garage sale. # @mixdev Hi Arun […]

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@Searchtastic Michael: just emailed you. Would love to talk soon. DM me? # Powered by Twitter Tools.

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