A couple weeks ago I ordered a couple combos at the Arby’s drive-thru. I was almost home when I took my first sip of soda and noticed it was bad. I didn’t feel like going all the way back for a new one. So I filled out a complaint on Arby’s corporate website and today in the mail received a voucher for a free combo.
On Facebook and Google+ we can make Lists or Circles to organize our friends. We can then adjust our privacy settings for post and photos based on those groupings. By default we do the suggest groupings like Family, Friends, Coworkers, etc, but what if you want to give photo viewing access to only some of the people in one of these groups?
My suggestion is to throw out these standard groupings and instead name groups based on the privileges you want the users to have and then configure the various privacy settings based on those.
Example: Photos
Make a list called ViewPhotos. Change all your album permissions to be viewable only by the list ViewPhotos. Then add the people you want to be able to view photos to that list. Simple.
If you do it right you should no longer have to mess with crazy settings like ‘allow this list but block person A and person B’.
I upgraded to the HTC Droid Incredible 2 a little while back and I am very pleased with it. It is a great upgrade from the Droid 1. The UI is snappier, web seems quicker, screen is slightly larger, camera is better. That’s all I was looking for. It has a front-facing cam and ability to video chat with Skype but I haven’t used that much yet.
Unless you are living under a rock, you know that iPhone 4S came out recently as well. It is also a great phone, but I think I am happy with my I2. One huge bump in the road for me with iPhone is that they still have not corrected their mail program to display send messages as part of a mail thread like google does. I need to see the full conversation of emails and I simply will not settle for less.
For a while now I’ve been feeling blah about bowling. I go once a week to league, maybe I bowl avg, maybe I bowl great, maybe I bowl like crap. There aren’t many local tournaments to bowl in, and the ones available are mostly handicap. Then one day my friend Keith finally talked me into going golfing with him. I hadn’t played in over 10 years. I felt sooo good out there on the course. Since then I have been obsessed with golf, favoring golf over bowling. The problem is, I rarely have time to go play golf for 4 hours. I was stuck with the desire to play something a lot, once again, but unable to do so.
Last week I bowled my best night ever; new high game of 290, new consecutive strike count of 17, and new high series of 773. So that got me feeling good about bowling again. LOL.
I think that I must accept that I don’t have the extra time to golf now and will have to wait until my kids are ready to start on a Par 3 course. Then I can go with them and play, eventually getting to the regular courses.
Until then I need to try and bowl more tournaments.
I have struggled back and forth for months maybe years about my development platform for work and its affects on my whole computing experience. At my job, all of our apps are dot.net and run on windows servers. So my whole day I am stuck in Microsoft. I miss mac and wish I could be on a mac again, all the time. I would try to figure out ways to change the way things are done at work so I can be back on mac; like, developing in ruby, php or java, etc. Whenever I explore the tools for those other languages though, I am always disappointed because they are lacking in the features I have come to be dependent on with Visual Studio.
So in the past few days I have decided to accept that I am stuck in a Microsoft Development world, and THAT IS OKAY. Now I can move forward and explore and learn everything I need to be better at what I do. So I won’t be on a fancy macbook and all that comes with it, oh well. Windows 7 is a pretty great OS I must say. I’ve not had problems with it.
Just wanted to share about the lifting of the burden off my shoulders. Ahhh, relax.
I’m off to learn about MVC3 on asp.net
