Just a little helpful tip for anyone out there looking to save themselves all kinds of time: Don’t crash Windows when there’s an entire document stored only in your clipboard (Ctrl-C). You won’t get that sucker back… believe me.
Yes, Facebook is offering ‘Facebook Valentines‘. Cute idea, but there are some problems. Don’t get me wrong, I love Facebook and everything those hard working individuals produce… I guess they’ve spoiled me: I expect the absolute best.
First, the annoucement box is not pink! Sure the text is red but it really should stand out a bit more. Second, the picture shown to the right is obviously not zooming in on a Facebook Valentine. Lazy lazy… Third, I can’t wait to see the “Hey Jon, your Mom isn’t on Facebook so would you mind telling her ‘thanks’ for me?” Valentine. Ehh, is it worth the $5? I wish Facebook would provide more statistics on Annoucements (number shown, number of impressions/clicks, etc). That’d be neat.
Being a Denver fan (and resident) I felt it was only necessary to root for the guys who beat us (Steelers). My logic brings me to the conclusion that we were #3 this season. Way to grab the bronze, Broncos! Anyway, I was simultanously doing other things during the game tonight but luckily I can download all the commercials into iTunes. PS: How cute was that clydesdale one?
Scoble points us to a cool new website called coComment; it makes so much sense! I thought I was the only idiot wandering around blogs, posting comments and then having to manually go back and see if there was a response. Apparently not…
coComment is a new (beta) service to track your comments on other blogs. I installed a little bookmarklet and tested it out earlier today. What you do is type in your comment on someone’s website, click the ‘coComment’ bookmarklet then hit submit. It will then track your comment and any subsequent replies. Unfortunately only Blogger, MSN Spaces, myspace, Typepad, WordPress and Xanga blogs are supported.
..and yes, it is in beta so theres some things to be worked on. The FAQ says that soon you’ll be able to “integrate cocomment in your comment form so all comments are entered into Your Conversations page”. It’ll be pretty easy to make a WordPress plugin for this and once this process is automated I’ll be in heaven. Now that I think about this, the process of clicking a bookmarklet everytime I make a comment seems a bit absurd. Thank goodness Brian has already created a Greasemonkey script.
But… why can’t Technorati or somebody else just scan blog comments and look for people who put in the same name/URL combination?
In any case, I like the ‘Blog box’. Essentially you can put a box on your site that shows your visitors where you’ve been commenting lately (because it’ll obviously be more insight and another look at our genius musings around the web).
Shivani is a member of Work Anon. I’m looking to join:
Hi my name is Devin and I’m a workaholic.
I think it all started when I arrived at college (last year). I had only worked two jobs in my life (a lifeguard and retail sales) and I realized there had to be something better. Once I found stuff I really liked I did a lot of it. Now I’m a workaholic. I’ve even changed my entire sleep schedule to try and get the most out of every hour in the day.
In fact, even though I have all kinds of stuff on my plate (school, three jobs, life) I wish there were more. I guess I get bored easily. I want to move quickly from one thing to the next. I think I want to do everything I can until I find something worth ‘settling down’.
Unlike Shivani’s point (society, jobs, raises) I think my workaholism is driven primarily by my own self-motivation (not to say she isn’t driven). I’m saying that I don’t necessairly work a lot becuase society has told me to be that way. I didn’t play the whole 4.0-in-high-school game nor do I play it now. No, I didn’t apply to 37 different schools. I simply did (and still do) what I want(ed) to do.
Now that I sit and think about it, I don’t know exactly what ‘self-motivates’ me. It’s clearly not the pay. It can’t be any perks or benefits. I think I just like to synthesize. I like to create things or do things that I can later point to with pride. People think I’m crazy but, hell, I like doing it.
This may be (one of many reasons) why I don’t have a girlfriend, though…
I called to cancel my Sears Card and heard this message while waiting: “Fall is here and Sears has everything you need…” Hmm..
I found another new (and useful) feature on Facebook today. When adding Melody I noticed you can add a ‘personal message’ to your friend request. (That way I don’t look as random when adding random friends). Nifty.
I watched Crash last weekend and it was fantastic. Today I noticed that it was nominated for a few Acadamy Awards.
Rightfully so.
This movie is a ‘simultanious drama’ where many peoples’ lives are intertwined. In short, Crash is an awesome look at racism and how it motivates people’s behavior. As Malcolm Gladwell has said, we can’t just ignore race. Our mind constantly ‘thin slices’ the world around us. Unfortunately, we have little to no control over this process…
The characters in the movie demonstrate this point through some of society’s most extreme sterotypes, beliefs, and their respective actions (and reactions). Crash is, as IMDB describes it, a “no-nonsense look at the way life is for so many”. I especially liked this opening quote:
“It’s the sense of touch. In any real city, you walk, you know? You brush past people, people bump into you. In L.A., nobody touches you. We’re always behind this metal and glass. I think we miss that touch so much, that we crash into each other, just so we can feel something.”
I’d give this movie a 10/10. If you haven’t seen it yet, you know what you need to do now…
I may regret saying this but: what the fuck, myspace? I tried to log in to it today for the second time and it was down. You either hate me, your users, or some mixture of both. “Login is temporarily disabled while we fix some database problems. We’ll be back shortly. 2/2/2006” So many questions flow through my mind at this point. What happens to the people already logged in? Why can I see every other part of the site except the one page that says ‘processing login’? What can really be wrong with the database that this one function has to be disabled? Why is this site so damn ugly? So on and so forth… why don’t people demand better service from one of the largest websites in the world? Teenagers are the last people I’d expect to be so complacent…
It looks like Google has done what teleflip set out to do: free text messages sent online. Unfortunately you do need to know your recepient’s provider. There’s another catch: “we might also log the text of the message you send, in order to investigate and correct technical problems with the service”. Uh oh.. has anyone called this evil yet?