After a couple of days vacation, the FeedBurner feeds are back.
I bought the domain forwarding option from WordPress.com (http://crazycanuck.org/), and then waited. I reactivated the feed at http://feeds.feedburner.com/crazycanuck this morning, and you can start using that again.
Rick Klau from FeedBurner left a comment last night, which prompted me to try again.
Hopefully things will remain stable now.
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I do not want to host my own blog.
Even if I wanted to, WordPress.com does not make it easy to export content. This, however, is a separate discussion.
Skype and Web 2.0 (I hate the term, but I am using it) are inextricably linked.
WordPress and Web 2.0 are inextricably linked.
WordPress.com hates Skype. It’s that simple.
According to a WordPress.com forum post:
Actually in this case it’s because skype and callme are being stripped. They’re not XML recognized tags and staff has stated that they won’t be supported.
And
Fraid not. Javascripts are still removed from input for security concerns. If you really need Skype, I would suggest getting a paid host.
See here.
WordPress.com: BUILD A SKYPE WIDGET!
Thank you.
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This is a shot I took at Sweetgrass Farm Winery in November 2005.
One of my favourite places in the world.
PS: Keith Bodine, vintner and distiller at Sweetgrass Farm Winery got the last of his necessary permits and licenses this week. Wine and spirits shall start flowing from Maine soon! Well, as soon as one can expect fine wine and spirits to flow.
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After a few months using the Microsoft Live Writer, I am giving the Performancing Blogging Extension for Firefox another try. Just seems more natural that since I use Firefox as my daily work platform, I should use it for everything.
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Yesterday, I read Anne Zelenka’s post on ROWE at Best Buy. I was heartened to see that this idea was getting mentioned again, and that it was getting front-page interest from Big Media.
On a lark, I forwarded the post to my director and VP. Their responses frightened me. They were written in management-ese, and indicated that timesheets are soon to be added to my daily routine.
Hugh Mcleod — Sheep/Wolf
I can help cure the first, starting with Why Business People Speak Like Idiots, and George Orwell’s Politics and the English Language.
The second plague, timesheets, I see as more odious. It goes along with the new measurement-focused management culture in our company. Sometimes, I wonder what’s more important to the managers and executives: measurements or results.
As a person who is difficult enough to manage due to my bipolar, and my deep-rooted desire to do things that have meaning, timesheets are a problem for me. I don’t work to timesheets; I work to goals.
Structured environments have always been a serious problem for me. They trigger a deep resentment, some deep rooted need in my soul not to conform. I know that they serve a purpose, and that some people take a great deal of comfort in the process of knowing how they spent their day. My comfort comes from delivering meaningful results, not in worshipping the almighty bureaucracy.
I suppose that as the company I work for grows and has more people to manage, timesheets are inevitable. However, it’s about the time that timesheets appear that I feel the need to find more results-oriented, dynamic organizations.
Timesheets are a sign of corporate doublespeak, freeing people from the need to excel.
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Dear Skype:
I love the software. I am using it more for personal and work calls.
But I need to know when I have a voicemail. Now, not 24 hours from now.
I know you know about the problem. But it’s been over a month. I assume the voicemail notification wasn’t a problem before. So you know how to fix the problem, right?
Are you working on it?
Is anyone out there?
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| What American accent do you have?
Your Result: The Midland
“You have a Midland accent” is just another way of saying “you don’t have an accent.” You probably are from the Midland (Pennsylvania, southern Ohio, southern Indiana, southern Illinois, and Missouri) but then for all we know you could be from Florida or Charleston or one of those big southern cities like Atlanta or Dallas. You have a good voice for TV and radio. |
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This is good to know. I have been spending years trying to make my speech sound as non-descript as possible. It was interesting this summer to go home and talk to my family. They have a uniquely Southeastern BC/Southwestern Alberta accent. Hey, even Canada has unique accents.
You don’t think so? Well, the stereotypical “Canadian” accent that is portrayed in the US popular media is actually a Southern Ontario / Toronto Area accent. It is easily recognizable and immediately pegs you in the rest of Canada as someone who should be distrusted as a likely carpetbagger. 😉
The only spoken/written giveaways I have retained are:
— “a- bowt” and “owt”
— “prawcess”
— “sheduel”, although I do alternate this with “skeduel”
— I spell “theatre”, “centre”, “colour”, etc. correctly
However, if you call me American, I will be very quick to correct you.
Well, for some reason that I can’t determine, FeedBurner and my WordPress.com feed stopped playing nicely this afternoon. And they won’t reload, because WordPress.com wants to send all 1400+ articles in the database back to FeedBurner.
Sorry to do this to you all, but the FeedBurner feed is removed. Deleted.
Hope y’all switch to the WordPress.com feed.
UPDATE: The FeedBurner Feed is back.
Joe Kottke of FeedBurner sent me an e-mail to tell me that the measurement of my feed was throwing off their GrabPERF Stats.
Guess what? FeedBurner can’t find the WordPress feeds at http://crazycanuck.wordpress.com/feed/, hence the disruption.
Likely you won’t read this until it’s fixed, if it’s fixed.
I love Fridays.
Just went online and thought I would share the Yahoo TV comments so far.
Oh, and my comments.
Yahoo, please give us an opt-out on this monstrosity. Or better yet, do a complete rollback.
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