Posted by Stephen Waits
Mon, 02 Oct 2006 22:32:00 GMT
Well, Autoblog never covers F1 results. Furthermore, I wouldn’t expect them to put any kind of motorsports results in the title of an article. Even futhermore, I wouldn’t expect them to do this at like 0’dark thirty in the morning before 99% of us wankers have had a chance to watch it on our PVRs.
Yet, this is exactly what they did this past Sunday morning. They spoiled the race for me, and, according to many or even most of the comments, for many others as well. In my case it popped up in my RSS reader, and caught me completely off guard.
I complained to them in my comment, even asking for an apology, and here’s the official response.
Alright, enough complaining. This is a news site. We report news. It’s not often you see people asking to have their news watered down, but if that’s the consensus, so be it.
Autoblog is a constantly-evolving site, and the coverage depends on the interests of the bloggers. I got up at the crack of dawn where I am to watch the race live and posted the results as soon as it was done, earlier than many dedicated racing sites had ‘em. I figured if this F1 fan could get up to see the race at 7am, the dedicated fans in the US could stay up on a Saturday night ‘till 1 or 2 to watch it live on one of the few occasions they can, and that those who hadn’t would benefit from the news as early as they could get it. What thanks do we get? A bunch of whiners crying – we’ll mail you some official Autoblog tissues. And you’ll get your censorship for next time.
What? His attitude seems to say, I got up early in the morning to watch a race, so fuck you, I can spoil it for you if I want (even if we’ve NEVER covered F1 before, and it would have been damn easy to post it with the spoilers “after the jump”).
Is Autoblog so big now they don’t care about us little people? I called the guy an ahole several times and am glad for it.
Fuck you Autoblog. You’re out of my RSS reader.
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Posted by Stephen Waits
Wed, 07 Jun 2006 03:47:18 GMT
Read the story and how you can help right here. Good luck Evan!
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Posted by Stephen Waits
Wed, 24 May 2006 17:30:00 GMT
MacZOT.com Fans want Pzizz because ‘According to the National Sleep Foundation, sleep deprivation and its effect on work performance may be costing U.S. employers some $18 billion each year in lost productivity. Another study pushes this cost to over $100 billion.’ - link to full article
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Posted by Stephen Waits
Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:22:00 GMT
SubEthaEdit from CodingMonkeys is the BLOGZOT 2.0 on MacZOT.com.
MacZOT is a pretty cool concept to begin with. I’ve bought a few things from them (AppZapper rocks!). In this case, a BLOGZOT, there’s the potential (with enough blog coverage), that the software could end up being FREE. If it succeeds, MacZOT and TheCodingMonkeys will award $105,000 in Mac software!
Update: The price is dropping quickly. It was $9.80 when I started this post and is down to $6.95 after I finished the post. I had to pull the trigger, getting SEE @ $6.95 is an absolute steal. Grab it now before the 3000th copy is gone!
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Posted by Stephen Waits
Thu, 15 Dec 2005 09:46:00 GMT
Wow, this thing is freaking sweet. With this script I should be able to cobble a script together to import my old bloxsom entries automagically! Additionally, I should be able to use it in my MoBlog scripts, if only Sprint would stop changing the format on me. To make it work with Typo, create your config like this:
[global]
default=myblog
[site-myblog]
url=http://myblog.com/backend/xmlrpc
username=USERNAME_HERE
password=PASSWORD_HERE
encoding=UTF-8
[blog-myblog]
site=myblog
blogid=1
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Posted by Stephen Waits
Thu, 15 Dec 2005 00:42:00 GMT
Thought I’d give the good boys at PlanetArgon a try with their Typo hosting. At $35 a year, I figure I can’t go wrong. They seem like good people, and are doing things in a very Ruby kinda way.
I’ll shortly transfer the articles over from my prior rendition of swaits.com, and backdate them accordingly. Particularly of interest are some of the Dan Rubel whiteboard specials.
The future of this? I don’t know, I’ll probably just use it to dump interesting links I read each day, and maybe occasionally rant about something. Or else, I’ll just let it whither away like every other blog in the world.
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