For the last few days, I’ve been puzzled that “Stewardesses Stripped” was the most popular link on my blog according to MyBlogLog. This was from a post I did in May on a clever calendar from some United Airlines stewardesses. So – for the hell of it – I did a Google search on Stewardesses Stripped. Voila – I’m number 1. I’m number 3 on Yahoo and number 5 on MSN (c’mon MSN – get with it!) 

I knew it would happen – it was just a matter of time. Amy’s blog finally ate her brain. It’s 4:30pm and she’s in her bathrobe continuing to work on her blog. Amy’s a writer and it’s fun to watch her get completely absorbed by something. In particular, I love it when she jumps up and down and rants at stuff. She usually does this in close proximity to something she’s reading, especially the NY Times. Today she wrote about a quote from Evelyn Husband and an editorial from Salman Rushdie. And yes – she was jumping up and down and screaming rude things when she told me about it – she moderated herself for her blog.

I’ve always had poor impulse control when it comes to buying electronic toys. Amazon hasn’t helped, as I can satisfy my cravings with a single click. While I was listening to Daily Source Code from a few days ago on my run, I heard Adam Curry talking about how the Amazon affiliate feeds from the ad on his site for a Senseo HD7810/65 Single Serve Coffee Machine was making him enough dough to buy his whole family a cup of joe each day ($300–ish / month). The combination of partially subsidized toys, daily coffee, and the idea that all my really cool toys have a story inspired me to start a “toy of the month” category on my blog. 

I’m an investor in Gold Systems. I’m an investor in Rally Software. I like both companies a lot. So – it was fun to catch a thread from Jason Groshart – one of the engineers at Gold Systems – who is working on Gold’s Password Reset product (inexpensive enterprise speech-based password reset based on Microsoft Speech Server). Gold is using Rally Software’s Agile Development Environment for running their software development process.

Joshua from del.icio.us just commented on my for:bradfeld post about tagging things in del.icio.us for me. Joshua has changed how the “for:“ prefix works and the right way to tag something for me in del.icio.us is to use for:bfeld as the tag. I’ve gotten some good stuff from folks over the past week – tag away and send me stuff you want me to look at. If you don’t know what I like or am interested in, er, um, read my blog? Or – read Amy’s – she gives plenty of hints also (plus she talks about how robots entertain her – what more could a nerd like me want in a woman??!)

One of the treasures of Homer is our local movie theater. It’s located on the corner of Pioneer and Main (how fitting) and is an old single seating theater. We get two movies a week with three showings a day (3, 6, and 8:30). The movies change every Friday so there’s a moment of excitement late Thursday night or early Friday when we drive (or run, or walk) by the marquis after the movie change. The popcorn is fresh and parmesan cheese is 25 cents extra.

Nick Bradbury put up a post earlier this week about FeedDemon going to a subscription model. FeedDemon was acquired by NewsGator several months ago and – as part of NewsGator’s effort to “normalize” (and simplify) our product sales approach, we started the process of shifting FeedDemon to subscription pricing to match up with NewsGator’s pricing model. This was in advance of a point release of FeedDemon (1.6) which will have the NewsGator synchronization engine fully integrated along with a other features. 

New West Network just started up an Aspen-based blog. If you are a fan of Aspen (and I know a bunch of you New Yorkers out there are because I can’t manage to get a reservation in any of the good restaurants there at Christmas-time without pulling strings), take a look. Aspen joins the other New West sites for Missoula, Boulder, Salt Lake City, Albuquerque / Santa Fe, and Northern Idaho. There’s nothing up for Homer Alaska yet, but maybe I can convince Jonathan to come visit.

I woke up one day (yesterday) and all of a sudden I’m using Skype all the time (including SkypeOut). What changed? First, I’m at my house in Alaska and my habits got shaken up. Second, I installed my Vonage phone so I could have a 303 area code while I’m up here (and just to play around with Vonage) so I decided that while I was at it, I should try Skype as a phone and see how it compared. But – most importantly – the Skype for Outlook plug-in hit beta.