Or my family.  Or my daughter’s videos.  So now you have a choice.  Fire up your unsubcribers and stop reading andyerickson.  Then head on over to the blog’s home and subscribe to the content that actually matters to you.  The subscribe section breaks out the feeds by category.  If the stuff here does actually matter to you, you can read the IT stuff specifically, or the Life stuff, the family stuff, or whatever.

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Cuil launched Monday with muted fanfare.  I visited, searched for myself, and laughed when the picture of Emily Baker appeared next to my LinkedIn profile - which was number 1 on the list.  So in terms of finding some reasonable facsimile of me to stroke my ego-test, it did in text terms.  In graphical terms, well, not so much.

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Another awesome CINNUG Tuesday as Joe Wirtley provided an enthusiasts overview of WPF and Parag Joshi showed us how to debug for the XBox with XNA.  Although Joe sees himself as an enthusiast, he did a great job pointing out many of the deep and technical issues involved.  WPF is one of the three pillars of .NET, the other two including WF and WCF. [...]

I ranted on Twitter for a couple of days as I worked on a resolution to my podcasting needs.  I use the Podango podcast hosting service, a free service supported by advertising.  I have not dug into their model and don’t quite understand how advertising supports the service because I don’t have any advertising on my podcasts.  But, hey, it’s free, and they believe they’re making money, so I’m good. [...]

Okay, so the title’s a bit dramatic. The pair of “Un’s” make the title work a bit better.

This is Elizabeth talking with me for about 3 hours on her historical context of what brought about InOneWeekend.  She said there was nothing in here that could not be published.  So, Elizabeth, after listening, if you find something you’d like me to take down, just let me know. [...]

Elizabeth Ann Edwards is one of the most in-touch people I’ve ever met.  And having blazed her way through a Michigan undergrad in three years, and a UC MBA in one, she’s also one of the smartest.

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InOneWeekend’s first company, lifespoke, launched today!  To be part of this process is to turn everything you know about starting a company on its head.  This group of 100 driven and focused individuals put in $400,000 of sweat equity in the course of a weekend to produce a concept that makes documenting and sharing your personal history with your closest friends and family as easy as a few mouse clicks.  Okay, the tech team is getting there

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