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New app coming to Backpack, In/Out looks promising

There is a new app coming to Backpack and I am looking forward to it.  They are calling In/Out and provides a way to update your status and keep track of your accomplishments for the day.
This new application was built out of the internal workings of 37Signals and they further expanded it into Backpack where they are testing it.  So what is In/Out, I will let Jason Fried explain,

In/Out let everyone set their current status (“Working on the Affiliate Program” or “Preparing for my presentation on Friday”), plus In/Out allowed you to make journal entries for the things you’ve finished (“Updated book proposal” or “Modernized list reordering” or “Deployed Backpack calendar reminders”). People were encouraged to be as specific as they wanted to be.

I think that this is quite promising and a good addition to Backpack.  It will provide me an opportunity to keep my status up for my co-workers and let them know what I am doing.  I look forward to this deploying soon to Backpack.

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Minnesota Wild are a bunch of thugs…

The Minnesota Wild are a bunch of thugs.  If you don’t believe it, you should watch a reply of tonights game.
It has been a history in hockey, especially in the playoffs, if one team takes a big lead, the losing team tries to rough up the other team.

But tonight it went too far.  Yeah hit harder and do other things.  It is part of the game.  But the cheap shots are ridiculous.

The worst one was when Wild player Stephane Veilleux left his feet and boarded Colorado Avalanche player Paul Stastny. That is a horrible call and should have been a 5 minute penalty.

The game got worse and chippy and you know it was coming from Wild coach Jacques Lemaire.  That is the only way that would happen.

The NHL shoud review the Veilleux hit and suspend him for it.  That was uncalled for and hockey does not need that type of play.

The other thing that the NHL should do is suspend Lemaire for the next game.  What he told his players to do is uncalled for and should be punished.  Just look what Crawford did when he was with the Canucks.  It ruined a players career and life.

The NHL should send a message.  Whether it is in the playoffs or the regular season.  The rules should not change.

I guess the Avalanche won the battle tonight by blowing out the Wild 5-1.

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Fly Frontier Airlines Please!

Please fly Frontier Airlines.
This airline provides great service, to great locations, and it is a pleasant airline to fly.  I enjoy them over any other airline that flies in-and-out of Denver.

I will do whatever I can to fly them. For example, I had a conference in Maryland and instead of flying into BWI, I fly into Washington National.  I just did not want to fly United.

For those of you who don’t know, Frontier recently declared Chapter 11 bankruptcy.  Their credit card processor wanted to keep a larger percentage of money from credit card purchases that people used for advance reservations.

This would have significantly reduced their liquidity to operate in the coming months.  So to protect that liquidity, they declared Chapter 11 to reorganize.

As mentioned earlier, I fly Frontier Airlines a lot.  There is a lot of competition in Denver from United and Southwest.  But those airlines’ service does not add up to the friendly service I get at Frontier Airlines.  It is quite an experience and having TV on flights is a plus.

Fly Frontier Airlines and help out this hometown, homegrown, and pleasant airline.

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Joking students called on the carpet, The Monthly Bag deemed threatening

Joking students called on the carpet – The Denver Post
The students, staff, and leadership at Colorado College need to get a clue, a life, and a sense of humor. The students who wrote “The Monthly Bag” were just trying to raise awareness and do a parody of a publication, “The Monthly Rag.”

“The Monthly Rag” is a feminist publication by the feminist and gender studies program at Colorado College had a discussion on feminist pornography, information on gender-bending practices, and a tidbit about a myth involving male castration.

“The Monthly Bag” was the parody publication that discussed chainsaw etiquette, different sexual positions from Men’s Health Magazine, and trivia about a sniper rifle. Staff from Colorado College started removing copies of the “The Monthly Bag” soon after it was published because the received reports that it was threatening. Continue reading “Joking students called on the carpet, The Monthly Bag deemed threatening”

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Veronica Belmont Joins Revision 3 as Tekzilla Cohost

I knew something like this would happen when Veronica Belmont announced that she was leaving Mahalo Daily. She had been helping out as a co-host on Tekzilla a couple times. It is nice to see and I look forward to more from Tekzilla and Revision 3.
Watch the episode.

This show was good. But I think that it will get a lot better with Veronica co-hosting and being at Revision 3. It will be interesting to see how Mahalo Daily evolves.

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2008 Pulitzer Prize Winners Announced

The 2008 Pulitzer Prize Winners have been announced.  I don’t agree with who won, but the Idaho Statesman being named a finalist for their coverage of Larry Craig?  Give me a break.
This was neither breaking news or good coverage of the the story.  It was sensationalized with some elements of truth built in.  The Idaho Statesman has always been out to get Larry Craig.  What I find funny is that they did not break the story.

Rumors have always flown around about Larry Craig, but there hasn’t been that much of proof.  This story provided an insight and the Idaho Statesman went for the jugular.

Now this mediocre newspaper is claiming victory by being named a finalist for a Pulitzer.

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My week in Cambridge. Maryland not England.

I was fortunate to spend nearly a week in Cambridge, Maryland. For those of you who don’t know where it is located, it is located on the eastern shore of Maryland, on the southern shore of the Choptank River, about 2 hours from Washington, D.C. It is definitely a fun area and I hope to have more time to go back and explore.
Cambridge is a wonderful eastern town located amongst rolling fields of small family farms that is trying to find a way to grow its economy. It has a great history and was once a bustling hub of agriculture (Tobacco), and fishing (Oysters).

The drive out was beautiful on Sunday, March 30. I landed in Washington, D.C. about 5 P.M. and headed east through the twilight past Annapolis and over the Chesapeake on the Bay Bridge. I stopped for a quick dinner at the Harris Crab House (see my separate review) and then continued through the darkness to Cambridge. Continue reading “My week in Cambridge. Maryland not England.”

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Blogging a stressful lifestyle, people need to lighten up

Well people are starting to realize and see that blogging and trying to get the views and clicks is causing a lot of problems for people.
In a story in the New York Times, In Web World of 24/7 Stress, Writers Blog Until They Drop, the stress is getting to people who blog and try to get ahead.  It has even taken the life of two bloggers.

I just need to say no job is worth that much.  You need to have a balance so there is a break for people so that they can relax and have fun.  Sitting at a computer 24/7 is not healthy and will cause you to leave this earth a lot earlier than you should.

As an employer, they bear some of the responsibility in this.  They should be working to take care of the people that are making them loads of money.  If they don’t, they are greedy little bastards and their blogs should not be read.

That is why I don’t read Gizmodo.  The stupid stunt they pulled during CES was just wrong.  That is just plain wrong.  But they are some of the worst offenders by paying writers based upon how many views their posts get.

Some sanity needs to come into this, otherwise people will burn out, the blog owners will lose good writers, and then they will lose revenue.