Jay Def

When I played this song for my brother, he said it reminded him of a CSI Evidence Gathering montage. Now whenever I listen to it, I think he’s right.

…That’s all I ever do.

Well, not really. However, I’m in the middle of 12 days straight where I went into the office. I worked both yesterday (Saturday) and today (Sunday) for about 4 hours each. We’re trying to get one of our “projects” out to beta, so they needed some extra time working on it. At least I’m a non-exempt employee, so when I work over 40 hours, I get OT. This money will go into my “I gotta get outta here” fund.

C|NET has officially closed the doors on Consumating. In doing so, they made the mistake of redirecting the URL to another of their sites, help.com.

This was a huge mistake on their part. Many consumators went there and expressed their feelings in the way that they’re used to doing so on our mostly-unmoderated site. Since help.com is more heavily moderated, many of these comments resulted in banning. This just served to fan the flames which brought more consumators to help.com and a clash between consumating users and help.com users.

Consumating creator and former owner, Ben Brown posted on his new site Go, Team Internet a plea to simply ignore help.com. C|NET handled this poorly. Ben suggested that they simply should have created a 404 page with a picture of Consumating’s Feedback Zombie mascot and left it at that. That would have been an elegant and respectful solution. Instead they attempted to redirect us hoping to ramp their userbase there.

In related news (I always wanted to say that) a group of Bay Area consumators held a candlelight vigil for the death of Consumating at C|NET which included a bagpipe group playing Amazing Grace. It was a fitting sendoff for the website that we loved so much.

Here in a few hours, I will be brunching at Lolo’s Chicken and Waffles here in Phoenix, Arizona.  I am told that this is a terrific soul food place.

This will be the final hurrah of my first trip to Arizona.  I’ve had a wonderful time and met some very awesome people.  Thanks to all of the Phoenix Crew for welcoming me and showing me a great time.

I flew into Phoenix last night at about 11 PM.  Pagne and Nelly picked me up from the airport and we drove to Pagne’s condo and had tea and talked for a while.  Then Nelly and I drove to her place and I met Qelyn and then crashed on Nelly’s couch for the night.

So far I haven’t seen enough of the city.  Today we’re going to the Arizona Ren Faire.  It should be fun.