Fail. First "diaspora"? Really? Why do open source products always have such bad names? I dont even know if I spelled it right, I doubt I am saying it right, and quite frankly "diaspora" sounds like some kind of anti-depressant. Really just a wretched, depressing name.

Second--*nobody*, I mean nobody, cares if a product is open source. Selling yourself on being open source and hoping to hit the mainstream is automatic failure. Firefox, for example, doesn't sell itself as open source. It sells itself as being a fast, flexible alternative to IE. If all Firefox focused only on being open source, it wouldn't have been nearly as successful. Diaspora or whatever will *not* win facebook because it is open source--it will win only if it is a better product than facebook. If all it took was being open source, Linux would be in widespread desktop use years ago.

So my two cents -- #1, ditch the name pronto and #2, who cares if it is open source--that should be on the "developers" page only.

it isn't just bury brigades that turned me off from digg. It is the constant whack-job stories that get voted up and the horrid comments that go with them. I think I stopped visiting digg around the time I saw a highly voted article questioning the authenticity of the moon landing. Plus the constant Ron Paul idiots--it isn't bury brigades that are the problem, it is the special interest groups that spend their live getting spam voted to the front page.

Seriously, the whole site was about as mature as something out of junior high. Digg won't go mainstream until they kick out the entire swath of immature users and replace them with adults. Since that will never happen, digg will fade into obscurity.

Now if we can only get the city to fine people who dont de-ice their sidewalk. Back when I used to live a few houses down from a country club (only a few blocks from Ann Rule, actually), it was part of the covenants to do so. Now that I live out here, people never do it.

Go figure.

awesome! is it because we are sheltered from the east?

deep fried dog is so lower class though. The upper echelon prefer their rack of dog "BBQ'd" to perfection by their servants. I know I do. I wouldn't be caught dead eating deep fried dog. I might lose my country club membership.

(ps: still no wind on capitol hill)

Just make sure to cook the dog outside to avoid CO poisoning. Watch out for the coyotes though, they can smell Rack Of Dog from a mile and a half away.

west side of capitol hill, it is coming down heavy, but little flakes. I can't see the city anymore.

No wind at all. None.

I see on the radar it is heading your way, so watch out!

just started to "drizzle" snow here in Capitol Hill.

well, you have to charge your cell phone and laptop batteries too...

(funny though, if you have a beefy UPS for your desktop computer, you can usually use it to power your Cable Modem/DSL + wireless router for a good four or five hours. Your laptop battery might die before your ups does... and for some reason, you never loose phone (DSL)... dunno if you loose cable though)