I’m typing this post from my desk at Microsoft. I’m an MBA intern for the summer in the OSG Live group. I’m pretty psyched to be here and hopefully will have more to say about this soon.
I’ve been in Seattle since Monday. I recently grouped my pictures of the drive up into a set on Flickr. Check-out Carrie’s pictures too. I just took a few shots with my iPhone, she had a lot more fun with her digital camera.
This Tuesday I’ll be hitting the road. Destination: Seattle, WA. I’ll be one of 50 MBA interns spending the summer at Microsoft, and I decided that it would be fun to put some miles on the Jetta and see some parts of America I’ve never seen.
The only stop that is nailed-down will be in Los Angeles where I’ll be picking up Carrie at LAX on Thursday night. We will then road trip the rest of the way up to Seattle together, and she’ll fly back to DC on Tuesday.
I’m really excited about the trip, and will be keeping a running log with my iPhone (pictures to Flickr and notes to Twitter). The best way to follow along would be to check-out my FriendFeed. Everything will get posted there!
Simmons: I still love writing my column and only re-signed last year because I really did believe that we had hashed out all the behind the scenes bullshit and come to some sort of agreement on creative lines, media criticism rules, the promotion of the column and everything else on ESPN.com. Within a few months, all of those things changed and certain promises were not kept. It’s as simple as that.
Wow, ESPN looks like they’re dicking over the Sports Guy. Don’t they realize the power he wields? Easily 50% of my time on espn.com is spent reading Simmons. If he walks, Disney/ESPN is going to have a shit storm on their hands.
I am making a temporary switch to FeedBurner as I try to untangle the issues with my RSS feed. With a simple Lighttpd redirect, all requests for /blog/feed (that are not coming from the FeedBurner bot) will be redirected to feeds.feedburner.com/cubanlinks. I have resisted handing over control of my RSS feed to a third party, but given everything else we surrender these days (links, photos, videos, etc) what’s the point of resisting?
I have no idea how long this has been going on. Maybe all way back to switching to Mephisto as my blogging tool? In any event, it seems that some feed readers (Google Reader, FriendFeed, etc) have been consuming my feed and interpreting the entries in an odd way. Because of some bizarre mis-configuration, the feed was producing entries linked to www.cubanlinks.org even though the requested domain was simply cubanlinks.org (sans www). This caused the feed readers to think there were 2 entries for every post (one for www and one for the non-prefixed domain).
I think this problem has been fixed. If it hasn’t, for goodness sake, please let me know!
I’ve integrated Disqus commenting on this site. What do you think? Disqus amongst yourselves. I’ve been impressed with what I’ve seen on other sites (Scripting News, etc) but Fred Wilson’s post pushed me over the edge.
After having some problems with Twirl and AlertThingy, I think I’m going to stick with the FriendFeed web app for now. Isn’t that strange? Shouldn’t desktop clients be so much more responsive? Shouldn’t they be able to provide a richer UI? And yet, I find the FF website to be a) more up-to-date and b) more responsive to my clicks and scrolls.
One thing that I still don’t understand is the ordering of entries. Look at my screenshot. Those were all loaded at the exact same time. Can anyone explain this ordering?
I noticed this with AlertThingy, and now I’m noticing it with Twhirl. I’m curious what other people are experiencing: are Adobe Air applications resource hogs?
Btw, I was using Twirl because I found out (belatedly) that they’ve added FriendFeed support. Thought I’d see how I liked the UI compared to AT. The jury’s still out.
