Stephen Pickering - Latest Comments

Re: Why Oolong is the Best Tasting Chinese Tea

denver tea rooms — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 07:58:54 -0000

The highest grades of Green, White and Black tea are often handpicked from tender buds or tea shoots and tender unfurled leaves during the early spring. Many Oolongs are produced from plump large tender leaves with high oil content.

Re: New Song: “Union Street (Hold On)”

Judith_orchid — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 09:04:26 -0000

your songs getting more means and more and more attarctive.I like it very much , Judith

Re: The Web Ain’t Dead. Blekko.com Has Come to Save It.

Jessie Reynolds — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 09:32:02 -0000

Blekko is definitely a cool new search engine. The slash tag feature is unique and gives it an edge that people will be interested in. However, I do not think it will ever reach the popularity of Google due to it’s complicated nature. I think Google’s greatest strengths is it’s simplicity; it’s so easy anyone can use it to it’s full potential. Blekko is not like that.

Coming from someone who doesn’t have a lot of time on her hands, having to learn how to use a search engine does not appeal to me when I have Google available. Of course I took the time to learn about Blekko, but I’m in the industry. I don’t think the average person will want to do that.

I’ve done some research and I think the best new search engine is Bweezy. Similar name, but very different from Blekko. Bweezy offers Google results, which I love. It also lets you open search results in the same window as the search, which eliminates the need to open a ton of tabs! I’d check it out if you’re into new search engines.

Re: Why Oolong is the Best Tasting Chinese Tea

StephenPickering — Sat, 02 Oct 2010 15:22:56 -0000

Oh nice, I'd love to hear your experience! :-)

Re: Why Oolong is the Best Tasting Chinese Tea

Suzy Lounge Bar — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 14:34:00 -0000

Great review, Hope i can taste the teas in Oolong next month.

Re: The iPhone Could not be restored. An unknown error occurred (9).

StephenPickering — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 01:01:15 -0000

Oh heck, another update Wed? I guarantee you this will happen again. Well, I'll video the process this time. Well, maybe I take that back. If it was simply switching the USB ports, maybe it won't happen again. That HDR feature is cool though. Can't wait to get it.

Here's the tweet last week of the Apple employee who reached out to me, when I tweeted my problem.
http://twitter.com/jtjdt/st...
I was pleasantly surprised by that, at least.

Re: The iPhone Could not be restored. An unknown error occurred (9).

Vinko — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 00:49:49 -0000

Hum... that's strange. May be Apple is falling short on testing their upgrades throughly due to the pressure to release the interim updates. Not trying to make excuse for Apple.

Yes, I had used the RecBoot application in the past when helping friends who really wanted to jailbreak their iPhone prior to the Jailbreakme 2.0 was released. It's function is to allow you to "kick" the iPhone out of the recovery mode, which I suppose your iPhone was in.

I have been reluctant to upgrade to 4.0.2, because I didn't want to eliminate my option of jailbreaking my iPhone. Although given 4.1 is coming on Wed. I may as well upgrade. I particularly want the HDR feature in 4.1.

Re: The iPhone Could not be restored. An unknown error occurred (9).

StephenPickering — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 00:41:40 -0000

Hey Vinko, no, I've got a iMac. iTunes was up to date. Googling a month ago, for the 4.01 update, I found that solution above, which is some utility called recboot. A lot of other people were experiencing this problem as well. Last week, simply changing which USB port the phone's cord was hooked up to solved it, which I assume would have solved it the first time.

Re: The iPhone Could not be restored. An unknown error occurred (9).

Vinko — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 00:13:08 -0000

Sorry to hear of your troubles. Are you using a Windows computer to connect your iPhone to? Unfortunately the user experience with a Windows computer is not as good as with a Mac. Or is iTunes for Windows is bug free.

One way to alleviate the problem is to ensure both Windows and iTunes are both up to date before you synchronize or upgrade the iPhone.

Re: The Web Ain’t Dead. Blekko.com Has Come to Save It.

StephenPickering — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 23:27:29 -0000

I agree. Just like Android giving iOS competition, it spurs innovation and benefits everyone, including the players competing. Silicon Valley companies have a catch 22: If they go public, they are under pressures to focus on things they might not otherwise like to do. Yet if they don't go public they can't get the talent they may like to have through stock options. So they extend themselves. The almighty quarterly results dominate the priorities, sometimes at the expense of the thing that brought them to the table to begin with. But Google's going to keep doing great. I love their products, but I'm also glad Blekko has come along.

Re: The Web Ain’t Dead. Blekko.com Has Come to Save It.

The Sifu — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 23:07:33 -0000

Now that Yahoo is powered by Bing
It's good to see there is a new Search engine to take it's place.
Now it is: Google Vs Bing Vs Blekko

Re: The Web Ain’t Dead. Blekko.com Has Come to Save It.

Boris Raskin — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 16:53:56 -0000

I want one please!! Thank you!

Re: Back at the Lake House

Naira Pires — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 10:18:09 -0000

Reading your lately poems I notice that your writing way became more heartfelt, in my humble opinion I believe that you are getting more into your soul and listenig less your ego, perfect!!! for my taste your poems are more interesting and has much more meanings. What is the real purpose of a poem??? Is it for the writer just speak out his ideas and feelings or has something more involve ????
Good job, your poems are really enthralling!!!

Re: Customize Your WordPress Page Tab Links

gheo — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:28:28 -0000

great one,and well doen.keep up

Re: Why Privacy is So Important to Social Harmony

Stephen Pickering — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 14:17:02 -0000

Heeeey, yes, the important point is I think a lot of violent action and other terrible things in society can come from people suppressing their "shadow" and then it always comes out one way or another. So if people would honor their shadow privately, safely, in a socially acceptable way, theirs less chance they will be violent or other bad things in public.
It's funny, I've read this book several times over the last many years, and I practice it in many ways, but you know its easy to forget. It's seems everything in society preaches you to be ashamed of your thoughts and feelings when they are bad so I can easily fall back into that kind of thinking and get into arguments and such.
There's different ways of dealing with it. For instance, if you have negative emotions, or are mad at someone, you can say these things out loud in the privacy of your own home. Don't hold back! Cuss them out, whatever you feel. Express yourself, get your body into it, and then it like releases it, and you feel good, and then the next time you talk to them you might actually find you are happy and whatever it is that bothered you has gone away. It's really an exhilarating experience. Try it sometime! heheheheheheheheheh. But make sure you're alone!!!! hehehehehehhe
Btw, we never talked. How was your trip to Vienna?

Re: Why Privacy is So Important to Social Harmony

Sweet Sunshine — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 19:54:04 -0000

Very interesting this subject I couldnt agree more with your words, would be great if most of the human beings realize and control them dark side (Shadow). I believe the world would be a place more pleasent to live. By the way how are you dealing with your dark side?? is it in control???

Re: Customize Your WordPress Page Tab Links

Stephen Pickering — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 14:58:39 -0000

Yes, I've done that now. Thank you. I was just fiddling around with the Zemanta image I was inserting. I'm having trouble with them. When I align them for the text to wrap around the text hugs too close. I gave up and just inserted an image from flickr. Thanks again so much for your help finding this plug-in.

Re: Customize Your WordPress Page Tab Links

WPBeginner — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 14:24:25 -0000

Its always nice to add a live link rather than just pasting the link. It helps the user

http://txfx.net/code/wordpr... <<

You might want to make it a live link in your article :)

Re: Sonnet #1

Cams — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 19:47:58 -0000

Wow :O I thought it was so deep. Really deep. Feels like a whole life - whole lives, actually.

Loved it *-*

Re: The Cross

Sweet Sunshine — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 18:54:56 -0000

I think is perfect, really beautiful!!! :-)))))

Re: 1938media: My Mother, My Wife, Kirstie Alley, And Jenny Craig

Loren Feldman — Sun, 31 May 2009 10:36:08 -0000

Thanks for the kind words. Christ she's a nightmare.

Re: Did Flickr Just Kill Itself?

Kathleen Buckley — Sat, 02 May 2009 07:06:01 -0000

Just testing the availablility of twitter updates. Mine seem to be intact on the twitter site going back...I stopped at March 31st.

Re: Did Flickr Just Kill Itself?

Gordon — Sat, 02 May 2009 04:58:40 -0000

Twitter are doing a similar thing with your tweets, if you don't have them stored in some external service and no-one favorited them then you cannot currently access them. For example, at the time of posting your last accessible tweet is 6:34 AM Apr 10th 2009 http://bit.ly/Uo8t8 but if you look at this in a few days time, it will no longer be visible.

At least Flickr offer a paid upgrade path to let you access your content.

The biggest problem here is the expectations set during the years when the state of the economy permitted the Freemium business model to proliferate. As soon as the economic situation tightened and capital was no longer easily available, many services found they were no longer viable and had to slash costs fast.

Re: What May Stop Twitter? Itself.

Nobilis — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 08:54:46 -0000

So what you're saying, is that what will bring down Twitter is the fact that it's down too much?

Isn't that just a little tautologous?

Re: Poetic Fragment (Version 1.3)

lily — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 03:34:34 -0000

hi Stephen (landed here via Poetry at FF)

i like the idea that a song will not be just penned, but sung too (and fully realised) ~lily