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I’m trying out a new wordpress plugin called “Tweet This” on both of my blogs. The idea is that it makes it easier for people to tweet your blog posts by setting up the tweet for them automatically.

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This weekend I setup a new DirectTV DVR for my in-laws. After spending some time with it, I think the Dish Network DVR (which I have) is much easier to use and more intuitive. The one thing on DirectTV that I was impressed with was how easy it was to setup the remote to control the TV. It was all done with onscreen menu and instructions.

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So twitter’s password reset is still broken more than a week after they acknowledged the problem. Can it really be that hard to fix?

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For about a week I have been locked out of my newly created twitter account. I have been trying to use the password reset function, but every time I did I ended up on a login page. I posted to their support forum, and after a few days with no response emailed the partnership email address. Still no response.

Today I started looking at the URL they sent to me in the email:

http://twitter.com/account/password_reset?email=myemail addres@
domain.com=p20jbqkxx58argliji58pxlgms10kr4tk74ewmdq

It popped out to me that a there was only an equals sign between my email address and the hash (the p20jbp… thing). I thought there should be an &something= then the hash.

Sure enough that was the problem. I figured out the magic word is token, so the url should look like this:

http://twitter.com/account/password_reset?email=myemail addres@
domain.com&token=p20jbqkxx58argliji58pxlgms10kr4tk74ewmdq

But here is the sad thing, at least for twitter. This has been broken for at least a week. I have tried to tell them multiple times that it is broken, but there is no one listening.

Follow me on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/aaronkenny/

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I got this in my email this morning. I guess this is how the banks got their $700 billion bailout. They probably got this software. There is no mention of how much the software costs on the site, but might be a good investment, I figure it can’t cost $700 billion.

Next up, the auto industry. If you can’t compete why not just live off the government?

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So I signed up for Twitter (Aaron Kenny on Twitter) last week and have been playing with it a little. I don’t really get what I should twitter about. Seems a lot like updating my facebook status, but just another place to do it. If you have some ideas on things I should twitter about let me know.

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If you have followed this blog for some time you will probably remember my brother in-law had a serious car accident in June of 2006. The accident left him disabled, and requiring constant care, which his mother has provided for the last 2 and a half years. On Monday he began having some seizures which led to a series of events which caused him to go into cardiac arrest twice and his brain to shutdown completely. We will miss him.

His obituary and funeral plans can be accessed online, along with a guest book for people to leave comments:
http://www.legacy.com/salisburypost/Obituaries.asp?Page=Lifestory&PersonId=119483526

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Generally I would lump a lot of the work I do into two general categories.

1. Stuff that has been done before, but we do it somehow different, some might even say better.
2. Stuff that is original, never done before. In a word, innovative.

The innovative stuff is the stuff that gets me up in the morning. I am excited because today falls into the second category. I get to pull the covers off of something totally new.

A couple months back a customer asked me over lunch “Why can’t you just block the bad videos on YouTube?” I started into a technical explanation of how difficult filtering video streams is. Part way through the answer an idea sprang to life. I could barely wait to get back to the office and pound out a proof of concept.

Well, the long story short, my idea worked. Typically Internet filters have given you the option to either block or allow YouTube as a whole. But today that changes and we are announcing a new enhancement to Safe Eyes which provides clip-by-clip filtering on YouTube. Now you can enjoy watching Fred or being Rick Rolled (Rick Rolling filter still in development) without having to be exposed to objectionable content.

You can learn more about our YouTube filtering on the Internet Safety website.

Press Release: Keep YouTube ‘Clean’ for Your Kids with Safe Eyes

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My Friend Ron was quoted in an AJC article this morning about Saxby Chambliss being in the “fight of his life” after voting for the “rescue” (read bailout) bill. Read it here:
http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/stories/2008/10/13/election_chambliss_senate.html

He started the website FireSaxby.com just about a week ago.

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I found this while looking through tech news today:
http://blogs.zdnet.com/gadgetreviews/?p=403

It poses the question, has Apple topped out? Can they really come up with the type of revolutionary products they used too? I actually discussed some of these points with one of my co-workers while we were at WWDC this year. Most of the announcements from the Steve-Note were not new, they had been leaked days before he gave the talk. The Apple rumor sites are amazing accurate these days. But the bigger question is can they continue to one up themselves as they have before. That is a very hard thing to do. In some ways I feel like the bar has been set so high for them, they are sure to begin to deliver products that we think are less than they should be.

But I thought there was a nice paradox in this article though. Basically the author was saying, I have lowered my expectation of being surprised by Apple. But by doing so is he setting himself up for that very thing, a suprise from Apple?

Personally, I am the innovative type. I always want something that is one or two steps more than anyone has delivered. I think there are still many opportunities for Apple to innovate and surprise the world. What do you think?

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