cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog This post was rolling around the doghouse before I left home, before Google’s play, so you can include “+1 is cheap” as well. I have little problem kicking Facebook around, I am not one to nuke my account, but my use is casual. Frankly, each experience is like opening the fridge door and smelling something funky, and I am just not sure which compartment or container is the source, but the whole thing reeks of rotten something. I’ve already railed on how Facebook is stingy with media – it uses the open API of other services like YouTube, flickr, etc to bring content in, but you never get the reciprocal ability to re-use Facebook content outside the blue walls. That still reeks like an expired bottle of milk. Maybe it is my lack of good networking in there, but my [...]
CogBlogged from ‘August, 2011’
Road Stats: Week 6
cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog (All blogging etc has been held up due to long hours behind the wheel or just enjoying the time not tethered to a computer) Number of days on the road: 42 Miles Driven: 4131 Number of States/Provinces driven in: 7 Number of US/Canadian Border Crossings: 1 Number of minutes spent while customs offices inspect items in my truck: 24 Number of Islands Slept On: 3 (Whidbey Island, WA, Wallace Island, BC, and I have to count Vancouver Island, BC) Number of former PhD advisors met: 1 (hi Sue!) NUmber of hitchhikers picked up and gotten stories recorded for StoryBox: 1 Money spent on gas: $905.85 Photos posted: 1058 (that is an average of 25.1 per day) Number of nights in hotels/B&B: 9 Number of nights camping: 11 Most Number of consecutive nights camping: 3+ (continuing into next week) Most Number [...]
