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    Posted by kolin.rait on Sun 26 of Apr, 2009 10:19 GMT posts: 34

    Hi all,

    I have a small project that I believe will be of interest
    to the lojban community. I'm following the philosophy of
    "Launch Early, Launch Often" and I currently have an
    unattractive, bug-ridden version running that's guaranteed
    to lose your meticulously entered data.

    If you are interested in helping me to get this debugged
    and ready for "prime-time" then please email me. I only
    have a small number of places, but I'm looking for a wide
    spread of abilities and interests. The lojban community,
    in which I've been a lurker for 20 years, seems ideal,
    both for intelligent testers to give good feedback, and
    for people who will quickly find the service to be of use.

    In effect it is a system to facilitate serendipitous
    meetings between people of similar interests. It's not
    a competitor for things like MySpace or FaceBook - it
    serves a different purpose.

    If you're interested then Google for my name and send me
    an email via the link on my web site. Please include the
    word "lojban" in the subject so you are guaranteed to get
    through my spam filters.

    Thanks.

    Colin Wright

    PS: For the avoidance of doubt, I am married to Rachel.


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    Posted by rlpowell on Sun 26 of Apr, 2009 17:07 GMT posts: 14214

    On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 11:16:03AM +0100, Colin Wright wrote:
    > If you're interested then Google for my name and send me an email
    > via the link on my web site. Please include the word "lojban" in
    > the subject so you are guaranteed to get through my spam filters.

    The first hit is a c2.com bio. The second hit is the site of a
    professional photographer who says "Finding the hand of God in
    images of His astounding creations is what I strive for with every
    image.", which doesn't sound like a Lojbanic computer programmer.

    So if you want us to find you that way, you're going to have to
    give us more detail or a middle name or something. Is there some
    reason we can't just send mail to the address you posted your
    message with? Why the indirection?

    -Robin

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    Posted by kolin.rait on Sun 26 of Apr, 2009 22:37 GMT posts: 34

    > On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 11:16:03AM +0100, Colin Wright wrote:
    >> If you're interested then Google for my name and send me an email
    >> via the link on my web site. Please include the word "lojban" in
    >> the subject so you are guaranteed to get through my spam filters.
    >
    > The first hit is a c2.com bio. The second hit is the site of a
    > professional photographer who says "Finding the hand of God in
    > images of His astounding creations is what I strive for with every
    > image.", which doesn't sound like a Lojbanic computer programmer.

    Astonishing. When I try it from four different machines in three
    different countries I get the same top link every time, which is
    my home site. You're right, the two links you mention are not
    the ones I intended, although the first is me. I'm now extremely
    curious as to how and why you get something different. I wonder
    how we can track that down. Not that I have the time.

    > So if you want us to find you that way, you're going to have to
    > give us more detail or a middle name or something.

    There are things we can add, but now I no longer trust the
    method at all, although it has worked many times in the past.

    I wonder if it's just you? Most curious.

    > Is there some reason we can't just send mail to the address
    > you posted your message with? Why the indirection?

    I'm way too accustomed to dealing with interactions other than
    mailing lists, and finding an explicit email address in those
    contexts is harder. So <fx: slaps forehead> of *course* you
    can reply to this email address. Sorry I'm such a dolt.

    Doesn't inspire confidence, does it ...

    cdw.


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    Posted by rlpowell on Sun 26 of Apr, 2009 22:54 GMT posts: 14214

    On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 11:32:42PM +0100, Colin Wright wrote:
    > > On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 11:16:03AM +0100, Colin Wright wrote:
    > >> If you're interested then Google for my name and send me an
    > >> email via the link on my web site. Please include the word
    > >> "lojban" in the subject so you are guaranteed to get through my
    > >> spam filters.
    > >
    > > The first hit is a c2.com bio. The second hit is the site of a
    > > professional photographer who says "Finding the hand of God in
    > > images of His astounding creations is what I strive for with
    > > every image.", which doesn't sound like a Lojbanic computer
    > > programmer.
    >
    > Astonishing. When I try it from four different machines in three
    > different countries I get the same top link every time, which is
    > my home site. You're right, the two links you mention are not the
    > ones I intended, although the first is me. I'm now extremely
    > curious as to how and why you get something different. I wonder
    > how we can track that down. Not that I have the time.

    My top five, in IE, from California, in order:

    http://www.colin-wright.com/

    http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ColinWright

    http://justcreativedesign.com/2008/12/14/designer-in-the-spotlight-colin-wright/

    http://colinismy.name/

    http://www.linkedin.com/in/colinwright

    > > So if you want us to find you that way, you're going to have to
    > > give us more detail or a middle name or something.
    >
    > There are things we can add, but now I no longer trust the method
    > at all, although it has worked many times in the past.
    >
    > I wonder if it's just you? Most curious.

    Dunno. Other people? Maybe send to Colin directly and he can
    summarize, to save list traffic?

    -Robin

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    Posted by slobin on Mon 27 of Apr, 2009 01:22 GMT posts: 40

    On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 2:53 AM, Robin Lee Powell
    <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:

    >> I wonder if it's just you?  Most curious.
    > Dunno.  Other people?

    Works for me (Russia, Firefox):

    > Colin is married to Rachel Wright, and is a co-founder of Solipsys Limited along with
    > Andrew Lipson. Colin plays the Game Of Go (badly), piano (worse) and ...

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    Posted by stevo on Mon 27 of Apr, 2009 03:11 GMT posts: 381

    In a message dated 4/26/2009 18:34:30 Eastern Daylight Time,
    colin.wright@denbridgemarine.com writes:


    > > So if you want us to find you that way, you're going to have to
    > > give us more detail or a middle name or something.
    >
    > There are things we can add, but now I no longer trust the
    > method at all, although it has worked many times in the past.
    >
    > I wonder if it's just you? Most curious.
    >

    It's me too.

    stevo

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    Posted by lagejyspa on Mon 27 of Apr, 2009 20:28 GMT posts: 350

    On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 6:32 PM, Colin Wright
    <colin.wright@denbridgemarine.com> wrote:

    > Astonishing.  When I try it from four different machines in three
    > different countries I get the same top link every time, which is
    > my home site.  You're right, the two links you mention are not
    > the ones I intended, although the first is me.  I'm now extremely
    > curious as to how and why you get something different.  I wonder
    > how we can track that down.  Not that I have the time.
    >

    Don't forget that Google uses your search history to tailor your
    results to those things most likely to be of interest to you. It's no
    wonder that your website is more likely to come up for you. That's
    why it pays to have a name like "Michael Turniansky". I absolutely
    guarantee that all of the 532+ hits you get on Google for "Michael
    Turniansky" or "Mike Turniansky" is a reference to me.

    --gejyspa


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    Posted by kolin.rait on Mon 27 of Apr, 2009 20:41 GMT posts: 34

    >> When I try it from four different machines in three
    >> different countries I get the same top link every time,
    >> which is my home site.

    > ... Google uses your search history to tailor your results
    > to those things most likely to be of interest to you

    Possibly true, although google had no history for two of the
    tests I did.

    The correlation seems to be "Europe vs North America" Perhaps
    not surprising, since Google can deduce that my pages are not
    in North America, and hence are less likely to be of interest.

    Something to note for the future. Thank you to all who have
    been assisting.


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