The e-mail that I received from them said:

Dear Ben,

You spoke, and we listened. We are keeping Profiles. Thank you for all the calls and emails telling us how important Profiles are.

We are sorry for any inconvenience we may have caused. We hope the next time you hear from us we will delight, and not disappoint, you.

-Your friends at Netflix

I’ll post the 6/9 episode of each and see when they disappear.

The instructions are easy enough.  You can read along with them here.  The problem that I ran into with it is that I just uploaded a bunch of pictures to the old site from my sister’s wedding.  You can see them here – http://pictures.bcsmithinc.com/v/laurachris/.  I did this after reading the instructions that make it seem like you will break everything at the first site.  I’ll wait a week or so to try again

So it looks like I need to change the size of the window to make this work. I just use 450×260, instead of the default 510×295. The video is a little small-ish, but still works for me…

Now the question is, do I post the pics and then migrate, or migrate then post?

So what is /wsj?  The project serves a couple of purposes for me.  One, I’ve always wanted to use an API and Google seemed to be as good as any provider to play with.  Two, I get the Wall Street Journal delivered to my house on a daily basis.  A couple of months ago, they added mailing labels to the paper.  At first I thought this was annoying – because it covered up the leftmost item on the front page.  Then I switched over to it being comical.  I noticed that I wasn’t getting “my” paper.  The label was crossed out with black marker and tried to conceal the name and address on the label.  The black marker doesn’t conceal anything.

I figured that I could log all of the address and then throw pins in a Google Map to show where the WSJ subscribers in my neighborhood lived.

The project has been started and I have a page right now that draws a map and puts pins in there.  The next few to do’s are to:

• make the enter page a little more user friendly
• check the entered address against the others in the database already
• tag the address to a date
• make the pins “clickable” for additional information
• switch over to using an xml document instead of a long java script loop

I’ll keep this updated as I make progress towards those ends.

This site will be the home of my side projects that I do and I’ll use this as a development log for each of those projects – plus some personal stuff as I do them.

This won’t be me complaining about my life or telling you every single detail of my life – my life bores me, imagine what it would do to you.

So, here it is.