Sure It's as good as any other to describe the behavior.

@Paul Taylor , I am VERY technical (in a very challenged sort of way)

I have thoroughly confused myself. Happens easily when having multiple accounts, lol. And no, I do not know ANY german, haha. Yes, diasp0ra is very slow right now,this started happening after many people suddenly started to join it to check out @Pistos features. I am also at friendika.hipatia.net as well.

This is so funny, to see my friendika.hipatia conversation with you here at diasp.org while discussing diasp0ra.ca . ahhhhh federation!

Wow, double rainbows. Even though I live in a tropical country, seeing double, triple, or quadruple rainbows is sooooo rare. I've only witnessed it once - double then turned triple. It was supposed to go quadruple but the 4th one only formed half way, and it was not as bright as the other three.

Thanks for the add

You're welcome! Thanks for the request!

Good idea! Thanks for reminding us.

here is the pic in big size:http://frndk.de/photo/2a8a0c03fc072dea9b9a56a85b0c7592-0.jpg seems to be a travel place of some sort.
A lot of Vancouver is like that,the poverty ridden and drug addicted walk amongst Gucci adorned socialites. It's beautiful and sad, all at the same time.

I see now. You'll find shops like this in San Francisco Bay Area cities as well. Entrepreneurs of non-dominant heritage who dabble in multiple enterprises, trying to prosper in an intensely capitalistic society. In a way it makes sense; such shops typically appeal to immigrant communities, so the more services the proprietor can provide to a market with a shared language, the more opportunities (s)he has to turn a buck.

The shop also sells ice cream, [soda] pop (soft drinks), snacks, and (of course) beer. In the Bay Area, one would expect such proprietors to also offer phone cards, cell phones, money orders, and money wire services (money sent to countries of origin is often a significant portion of their economies).

The sign says, PLAYGROUND: STOP WHEN OCCUPIED.

Is the playground in the street? Or are drivers supposed to crane their necks to look into a playground that located along the street to see if they should stop?

The playground was down the street. To the right of the man in the image. Creating status update with todays image.

That's nasty of the extensions. That's one more reason why I prefer Opera then - no need for me for extra addons in the browser

I am getting persistent nasty lag in #uzbl [different web engine and no addons]. I don't think this problem is a browser one.

The challenge I'm seeing here is to respond to what is said, to what is not said, and to the deeper implications of all of this.

First, I notice some self-deprecation about education and intelligence. Being a Ph.D. student in Human Science, I think I'm in a position to say something about this.

Intelligence is a social construction. The various measuring instruments (like IQ tests) measure a particular kind of literacy and most people I encounter discount them. Mostly you are considered intelligent because the people around you consider you intelligent. Yes, that's circular. It's also how social constructions work (they actually make no sense whatsoever outside a social context).

Which means that when we speak of intelligence, we are really speaking of other people's judgments of us.

Which brings me to the principal expression in this posting, a concern both that one is seeking approval and that one might not truly merit it. There are a lot of self-righteous folks who will tell you that you shouldn't be concerned by this. But the fact is that we are human and we are social animals. Honestly, that means that other people's judgments matter a great deal.

But since you are a woman, I'm guessing you know what it is to be judged superficially. Intelligence, as a social construction, is really another one of those superficial judgments.

Even though it might sound trite, @Mike is right to say what he says. The explanation for this involves a bit of a detour. Hopefully it will become clear soon enough.

One of the concepts I've been having to synthesize recently appears in books both by the Dalai Lama and by Erich Fromm. Both of these authors write of love as a necessary foundation for human relations, not just with those close to us, but also with those who are not so close.

The trouble is that there are many kinds of love and so it is difficult to really know what Fromm and the Dalai Lama mean when they use the term. I'm now having to read a work principally by Bill Moyer.

Though I am not in accord with Moyer's approach to activism (not that he's wrong, but I have to consider a broader view), Moyer exemplifies a moral standpoint (bolstered by his seminary training and the speaking style of an old Baptist preacher) grounded not in right wing evangelism but in a sense that as a human, you are not just deserving, not just entitled, but you are due a respect and decency from me as a human. And vice versa. I think that that's on the way to what Fromm and the Dalai Lama are talking about when then write about love.

And I'm guessing that's really what most of us are here for.

Our limitations provide plenty of fodder for self-deprecation, but even significant accomplishments won't chase away the niggling thoughts in the dark of the night that we're just not up to what we were meant to be.

So we search out affirmations from others. But we know they're in the same boat as we are, so their approbation doesn't ultimately satisfy. Our value then doesn't depend upon whether others approve of (and by that approval, praise) us.

Both as creatures who were brought into being by God, as his ultimate creation, and who in Christ were given the opportunity of redemption, have we been given value that we may recognize in ourselves and in others.

With that, we may both respect one another as creatures who are loved by God and invested with importance because he desires us, as well as seek his approval, while at the same time we seek to call attention, not to our nor to others' qualities or defects, but to his character, which has been summed up in his glory. This, too, is our glory.

Ok so if twitter is enabled for your posts no worries, if not you have to remember to check the twitter box when trying to send a message or reply there (obviously)

if you follow the twitter contact at friendica:
*you can retweet by hitting the recycle symbol on the post and adding an @ symbol infront of her username
*you can reply @blahblah

essentially any @ that doesn't match a friendica user name will go through to sn and twitter as @users there.

It's just post the first 140 characters of my posting (stripped from formatation and multimedia stuff) and add an link to the ~friendica posting to Twitter

And sometimes the big T. decides it does like to accept the note we send them for publishing, in a similar manner it decides it does not want to accept notices from StatusNet, but I haven't found a pattern in it's behaviour :-/

**waves** hello taha

Hello to you too charles #friendika #federation #yay

I'm trying to think of just the right snarky comment on this.

It's always been a problem. In my day, we complained about "spaghetti code".

On friendica, I notice that if the post is a repeat, it takes you to your own copy, which probably will not have the original link.

That's why when I repeat posts with links in them, I preface with something from my URL shortener, which alas, is now not working. (In the process of fixing Friendica on the Linode, I broke it, and I don't know how.)

It's working now, but earlier it wasn't working at all. If I clicked on the 'link to source' nothing opened, nothing happened etc. Often when a diaspora friend post something, I chose to click the link to source so that i can post directly on D... today it didn't feel like working for me.