Hope you had a happy

Hope everyone had a happy Thanksgivng. I enjoyed it with my daughter (her first Thanksgiving ever!), my wife and her family in our home.


We also celebrated Buy Nothing Day....the day after Thanksgiving. The local news talked about the other side of the "Black Friday" as Buy Nothing Day. We've never followed the consumer binge buying around Thanksgiving, who wants to deal with the crowds. Even with some sites offering free shipping we didn't buy anything. We enjoyed the the day at home with Fae. :-)

Now back to fixing the issues in Journals and trying to bring new features to the product before the end of the year.

Ads in Journals...still sucking

For the Anti-Ads folks.....we're trying, trying our hardest to get some options presented to the decision makers. We're also trying to get in the loop to review future responses to the press when it pertains to this product.

AntiJournalsAds

AOL Toolbar for Internet Explorer

With the release of AIM Triton came a new version of AOL Toolbar for IE

I'm plugging it here since 1. There isn't a AOL Toolbar blog yet and 2. There's support for blogging in the toolbar.

There's nifty little feature, which I used to get the previous post started,  that grabs highlighted text on a page and put it into the text area of a journal entry.....the Journal team calls this the "Blog This" functionality.

Go check it out http://downloads.channel.aol.com/toolbar

Soccer

I'm a soccer fan and player, been playing since I was 5. One of the ways I like to unwind from "the grind" is watch the nightly recap of international games on the Fox Soccer Channel. Occasionally I'll record some games on my Replay TV to watch when I have the time. I prefer the Seria A (Italy) and La Liga (Spain) games over the English Premiere League.

Anyways, on to another matter in the same subject that I felt like posting about.

"FIFA Mulls End to Anthems Before Games"

http://aolsvc.news.aol.com/sports/article.adp?id=20051122164409990003

I think FIFA has a point. How many people know their national anthems? How many people know the national anthems of other countries? IIntl soccer games are definitely emotional events so we'll see how they decide, I'm still undecided myself.

Check out this  National Anthem Fiasco

AOL in Silicon Valley

Recently I posted my location on Jason Calacanis's, CEO of Weblogs,  blog.

So I wanted to follow that up with some more info about AOL in Silicon Valley

Yes, that's right AOL does has an office in Silicon Valley. We're 3 miles from Yahoo, 2 miles from Google. We're still sitting in the same buildings that Netscape used to operate out of. We're active in the local  tech industry, hosting moblie monday and the community, like The Human Race

We're hosting tag tuesday next week so come on out!

Download AIM Triton for Windows

Go to http://www.aim.com/

Yes, please do.....regardless of what you are about to read. It's worthy of a test drive, that's for sure.

I downloaded AIM Triton today since we got the announcement that it went GM. I had previously installed some beta versions and liked what I saw but the performance was horrible.

I am using AIM Triton 1.0.2 today and started seeeing the same performance issues I did with the beta. I'm seeing a slow response in typing IM's and CPU usage for aim6.exe is really really high. After 8 IM sessions and eating 109 MB of memory I had to kill it and go back to using AOL Communicator IM

On to the good news: tabbed IM & integrated Radio.........those are my favorite features.

More to come when I have time to play and memory to spare.

the previous posting

So my last posting didn't really contain much "Content" with regards to Journals ads. It was more about  anger and frustration. I'm going to leave it up there since it makes a point.

I wasn't happy when we were told to put ads in journals and I'm still not happy. Oh well......back to work.

Ads in Journals suck

No one on the Journals team wanted them but we don't make these calls.
AntiJournalsAds 

Connect on LinkedIn?

http://www.linkedin.com/

It's a cool site, corp. networking.

hello from AOL Explorer BEta

This is a test from AOL Explorer

spell checker is nice

this is poorly spelled word

AOL.com - Welcome to America Online

"California Rejects Arnold's Ideas"

She's arrived ...

Here's a few pictures of Fae