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The Wrist is Wasted Real EstateJune 20

Nowadays most people I know don’t wear watches.  Nearly everyone has a mobile phone and those usually display the time in big huge numbers whenever you’re interested.

However, I really feel like we’re missing some opportunities by not taking full advantage of our wristerly regions.  I have two wrists that I want to adorn with something that’s stylish and useful.  But I don’t want a boring ole 20th century watch.  Yuck.

Boring!

I do not want to look at my wrist to see what time it is.  To be honest, I usually don’t give a damn what time it is.

I don’t want to use a lame tiny stylus.

Lame Stylus Watch!

I don’t want a calculator watch,

The FriendFeed Front Page GameJune 19

One of the emergent properties of FriendFeed is a new type of competitive content creation.  Only the most interesting content remains on the front page for any length of time.  All day long you can watch entries float on down the Rio del FriendFeed down, down into the tubez.  I think most people, like me, rarely look past the front page.

So, I like to play the FriendFeed Front Page Game.  It’s simply really.  Create threads or comment on threads that stay on the front page for as long as possible.  This not only helps you score imaginary points, it also helps keep the quality of front page material as high as possible.

I realize that everyone’s front page is different, but the threads that stay on your front page the longest also show up on most of your friends’ front page as well.  So, get your scorecards boys and girls.  2 points for each thread you start for each hour it remains on the front page and 1 point for each thread you comment on at least 3 times that for each hour that it stays on the front page.

So, play the FFFPG with me and help make Friend Feed the most interesting non-dump truck related site on the internets!

United American Insurance Company SUCKSJune 16

Spam Fail

There.  I put it out into the internets.  United American Insurance Company sucks.  It suck suck suckity sucks.  Jim Ford of United American Insurance Company is an evil spammer.

Recently I placed my resume on Monster.com and CareerBuilder.com because I’m looking for a new job.  A programming job.  I have 12 years experience working as a software engineer.  At least once a week I get an email like this:

I have reviewed your resume and would like to schedule a time to meet with you and discuss sales and sales management opportunities at United American Insurance Company.

Liar!  The bastard certainly didn’t review my resume.  Sigh.

United American Insurance Company sucks and Jim Ford sucks.

Seriously Jim, WTF?


FriendFeed Wish ListJune 13

Dear FriendFeed,

Please add the following features:

  1. I love how when I hover over someone’s name I can subscribe to them and see if they’re subscribed to me.  Please also let us add a few sentences to introduce ourselves.
  2. When I hover over someone I’m not subscribed to I’d love to have a link to a “Similarity Matrix” - something showing how often we’ve “Liked” the same threads and how often we’ve commented on the same thread.
  3. When I look at the list of people subscribed to me, PLEASE make it obvious for me to tell which ones I’m not subscribed to.
  4. Similarly, please give me the option to always subscribe to someone whenever they subscribe to me.  I do this anyway.  I figure that if they later turn out to be spammers I’ll be able to easily block them.
  5. I don’t like the idea of giving out kudos, brownie points or positive karma to FF users, but I do think I’d like users to be able to mark someone as an obnoxious troll.  We could each set a threshold for trolliness and once a user hits the threshold we wouldn’t see any content from them.  Can this be done without allowing a huge amount of griefing?  Maybe if the threshold only looks at your friends’ negative karma points or whatever.  Currently though, this isn’t a big problem.
  6. Let us set up new FF views - how about a tab that only shows threads with X or more Likes and X or more Comments?  I don’t want to lose the ability
Las Vegas ReviewedJune 10

My wife Lindsay and I spent the past weekend in Las Vegas for our 12th Wedding Anniversary. We had a great time. Here are some reviews of some of the stuff we did: