Quickly Open Websites

I don’t remember where I stumbled upon these little tricks but I’ve found myself quite the nifty habit:

Whenever I want to pull up a website (ie, www.devinreams.com) I just type ‘devinreams’ in the address bar and hit Ctrl-Enter. Both Firefox and IE fill in the http://www. and .com for you!
Think of all the time saved!

Bonus: Firefox does the same for .net and .org with Shift-Enter and Alt-Enter, respectively! Reason #1837 why Firefox is so much better!

…ah, who am I kidding? I can’t think of one top-level site I visit daily that isn’t .com.

Oops! Deleted Everything

Hahah, I’m such an idiot. In the process of cleaning up my site today I decided to remove some old databases I don’t use anymore. WordPress just happened to be one of them. I had my site open in a browser window so I’ve just been copy/pasting anything I could find. Sorry to all my RSS readers for the content over-load.

Chipotle on Evans

I felt some history in my veins today. I visited the Chipotle on Evans and Gilpin (in Denver) today. For those of you not ?up? on your burrito facts, this was the original Chipotle and its a few blocks away from the DU Campus. First off, its very small. Second, the lady making your burrito isn?t right in front of you like the newer restaurants. You have to shout to her back in the kitchen, essentially. Third, the line is always out the door. Fourth, almost nobody stays and eats in the restaurant. Fifth, their storage room is under the restaurant; there?s a trap door/stairs to it right in front of the bathroom. Basically, the restaurant has definitely evolved a bit away from the original.

Facebook’s Social Timeline

?Meh.?

But seriously, if I had known this was coming I would have spent the extra 2 seconds (times 300 friends) to go through and append the ?date? that I met everyone. Now all that time spent has been almost for no reason. On the good side, I was able to filter out like 10-20 people that I didn?t really have as friends.

Now this new feature requires me to go back and add the date to each person. In my honest opinion, Facebook should do a little bit of math to figure out when high/middle/elementary school was for me. That way I don?t have to go through dozens of contacts and add the years. You guys already know I graduated from Lakewood High School in ?04. Let?s put all those ?high school friends? somewhere near 2004?

Also, why does it assume that when I put ?met in an organization? that it was in the past? We?re still in that organization. So, unless I put a year in (the past) how about you a) assume it was this year and b) put ?You and ____ are (not were) members of _____??

The idea is pretty neat but right now it all seems a bit? cluttered. Since I have so many friends from only one or two years can we make it an iframe or something? Something that I could scroll if wanted but it?s so obnoxious. Perhaps making a ?wall? of friends above the categorization of them? That would look a bit neater I think. You could easily quadruple the number of people on each line then (thus saving precious scrolling time).

Can we start adding previous classes to this timeline? Like a new page on our profile to put all semesters of college? Then maybe it can start highlighting people that were simultaniously in those classes? This way I don?t have to manually think about who did what with me. They can add it to their own profile and then Facebook will do the dirty match-up work. Come on, make it easier for me, please? Plus, I feel I could start to trend how I met people (friends of friends from class last semester, etc). Can our current previous jobs and activites be included in this timeline profile (for the same reasons)? That way I don?t even have to pick a year (mentioned two paragraphs ago), Facebook figures it out for me, again.
Also, can you announce this to people the same way you announced the high school version of Facebook? (A message at the top to be ?hidden?) People will not find this very easily. In fact, I showed a few people today and they admitted they would never have noticed it in the first place.

Okay, thats enough stream of consciousness for now.

the yopos network announced

Today Noah and I decided to launch the yopos network and I?m excited for the potential it has. The direction of the network is to be decided by our founding members but the two Noahs (Kagan/Brier) and I have some thoughts on what to do with it. Our intention is to essentialy create a group of smart and capable yopos (young professionals). We?ve invited a number of individuals and I?m looking forward to working with our members.But wait, what is our purpose? Well first, it?s to create relationships among yopos such as ourselves. Second, its to spotlight our members and their blogs. Finally, it?s to create an environment for collaboration. The Noahs and I, as I mentioned, have some great ideas and I look forward to seeing what we can do.

Anyway, we sent out our first wave of invites and are starting to receive confirmations back. Be sure to check out yopos.com, bookmark it, subscribe, do whatever, because we?re gonna be big?

WSJ Returns Less

From PaidContent.org, ?Since Kann became CEO in 1991, Dow Jones?s total return to shareholders has been 109 percent. By comparison, the New York Times Co. and the Washington Post Co. delivered returns of about 228 percent and 368 percent, respectively.? I would never have guessed. My lesson learned? Sometimes the percieved quality of a publication says nothing about the company.