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libpurple-facebook-0.47.tar.bz2

I'm considering releasing my libpurple-facebook package in tar.bz2 form so that people using any Linux (or *nix with Pidgin/libpurple/GTK) distro can install. It's basically pidgin-facebook chat with a modified build system that makes sense (read: it uses autoconf).  Look out for it!

I'm having a lovely vacation, spending time with the love of my life, Shelley

I have updated libpurple-facebook (openSUSE 11.0, 11.1, Factory package for pidgin-facebookchat) to 1.46, which includes a fix to make it load in openSUSE's default Pidgin.

• openSUSE 11.1: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home://jhaygood/openSUSE_11.1


• openSUSE 11.0: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home://jhaygood/openSUSE_11.0


• openSUSE Factory: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home://jhaygood/openSUSE_Factory

A lot of people I know have some common misconceptions about display advertising online. Here's a few myths about display advertising:

So what if I block ads? Not like I click on them anyway.... Except for Google Ads and a few others, most advertisers pay using a "CPM" model. They pay so much money per 1,000 impressions. So even if you don't click on the ad, the website makes money.

But ads use up so much bandwidth, etc... You must not have ever dealt with site specs? Most web publishers (websites) are very anal retentive about their 30 KB file size limit. Your ad is 30.1 KB? To damn bad.

Ads track me uniquely. Now some companies do this, but not all of them. I work for one of the largest rich media companies in terms of traffic (EyeWonder), and I can tell you, we don't track users uniquely. We do however aggregate alot of information about what users do with the ad, but its aggregated and each logfile is deleted immediately after processing.

I have my "Georgia Peach". For people not from Georgia, that means I got the little sticker with a Georgia peach on it that says "I'm a Georgia voter". BTW, I voted Libertarian, except for when there wasn't one, then I voted Republican.

[1]Who was your FIRST prom date?
Didn't go to prom

[2] Do you still talk to your FIRST love?
Yes.. currently engaged to her

[3] What was your FIRST alcoholic drink?
A sip of Shelley's wine cooler.. gross

[4] What was your FIRST job?
Assistant to the IT guy at MHS, didn't get paid though. First paid job is the current one.. EyeWonder, Inc.

[5] What was your FIRST car?
a 1992 Ford Taurus GL

[6] Who was the FIRST person to text you today?
Noone.. boo

[7] Who is the FIRST person you thought of this morning?
Shelley

[8] Who was your FIRST grade teacher?
My memory no longer possesses the knowledge.

[9] Where did you go on your FIRST ride on an airplane?
Kansas City, MO

[10] Who was your FIRST best friend and are you still friends with them?
"John John" Hodges. Haven't seen him in a few years

[11] What was your FIRST sport played?
Never played one.

[12] Where was your FIRST sleep over?
John John's house when I was little.

[13] Who was the FIRST person you talked to today?
Wes Brennan when I came into work.

[14] Whose wedding were you in the FIRST time?
I have yet to be to a wedding. It'll probably be my own.

[15] What was the FIRST thing you did this morning?
Put clothes on

[16] What was the FIRST concert you ever went to?
The Bravery in ATL with Jenny.

[17] FIRST tattoo or piercing?
None.

[18] FIRST foreign country you went to?
Canada

[19] What was your FIRST run in with the law?
Never had one, but I've fought with customs/immigration before....

[20] When was your FIRST detention?
Never.

[21] What was the FIRST state you lived in?
Florida, but lived in Georgia for as long as I can remember.

[23] Who was your FIRST roommate?
James Morgan

[24) When was your FIRST limo ride?
Never.

[25] Who will be the FIRST to repost this?
Probably noone.

Cajun country is getting hit by yet another hurricane. It's expected to cause at least as much physical damage as Katrina. but no where near the amount of damage in lives. New Orleans has had 95% of its population evacuated, quite impressive.

I wish the people of the Gulf Coast the best of luck in this act of God and the fury of nature that will be unleashed on to you soon.

The following 10 words will give away your accent:

• Forever


• Out


• Pecan


• Right Here


• Washing


• Barbecue


• Picture


• You Guys


• Roof


• House

So, at work, we had an internal application written in ColdFusion (a Java-based scripting language). It took a few hours, and several hundred megabytes of memory to run. Same app in .NET takes about 10 minutes, and only 40 MB of RAM!

.NET rules!