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I’m not sure if anyone noticed it and if they did they didn’t report it but NOSVC was having a Facebook login issue for maybe as long as a week or two. For some reason the API wasn’t communicating with the site. At least not how I wanted it to. That being said I am labeling the issue as resolved and seriously considering moving to a Twitter based authentication. I know I am not the only site to use a third-party API to allow users to use other recognized credentials for access but I am wondering if anyone that uses this site uses Facebook or Twitter for this anywhere besides here.
I started using because I hated creating a new username and password on every blog I read and it seemed like an easy way to log in (since the Facebook cookie was already there). Most people are surprised to learn that Facebook (nor Twitter) return so much as an email address. All you get it a user number, a name and verification that the account is real. Other items can be pulled from Facebook depending on your settings but nothing is transmitted. In a lot of ways you share much less using a third-party verification than you do if you were creating an account on the site (account creation requires an email address).
Feel free to give me your thoughts on Facebook/Twitter login and whether you have a preference. I’m not sure I will switch over but I might try to use both.
So most legitimate news sources are calling this one so we won’t be left out. I know there is a lot of information out there about this and our investigative team really has done no work at all so here is a 1980′s sitcom that predicted it. (Look at the date at the beginning and then jump forward to about 2:18.) My feelings?
Here’s a hint, asshat: if you sponsor and worship terrorism and bring it home, I will celebrate your capture and death. Good riddance. - BobG
Couldn’t agree more. Don’t understand? Do a little research on Flight 103 / Lockerbie, Scotland. Justice isn’t always swift but in the end things tend to shake out.
More info on the sitcom – if your day is more boring than mine. Not sure if I am ready to claim 80′s television as the next Nostradamus but I bet you want to borrow my full collection of ALF DVDs to figure out how your 401k is doing – don’t you.
May the road rise up to meet you.
May the wind always be at your back.
May the run downhill be awesome.
May you hear this in your head all day long.
Just remember -
For those who have passed you.
And for those still on your tail.
REACH FOR EXCELLENCE.
Or maybe it is the computer. Or maybe it is this headache I can’t shake (sinus infection?). Or maybe it is this new Firefox upgrade. For some reason I’ve been chasing my tail fixing websites today. I still don’t have all the Facebook icons showing up to the right. Who knows? Still waiting on the Deep Fried Blog of the NC State Fair to announce the winner of the Deep Fried Ambassador. Maybe they tried my alternate email address. Either way – I am behind on blogging. (Sorry Nick!)
So – here we are. I am going to attempt a real blog post tomorrow on something. Suggestions? Feel free to add them to the comments section.
Yes – I tried to get a photo of golf cart jesus this weekend but things just didn’t work out. I’ll scan the photos that were taken by others and see if any of them show him in all his “country western” regalia. That was unfortunately the highlight of the entire weekend. Maybe that’s why my head hurts.
Either way – stay tuned. Something is going to break soon and when it does I’ll get the call to fix it. This much I know.
Congrats to Amy Lewis from The Practical Cook blog on being the new Deep Fried Ambassador. Guess they didn’t really go on strength of resume. Oh well – maybe next year.
Based on metrics like school performance, green space, and cultural amenities, Raleigh, N.C., ranks No. 1 in Businessweek.com’s first Best Cities ranking
Oh – another award? Just put it in the shelf over there. Next to the others. Yawn…
To most residents of Raleigh, it may not come as a surprise that their city earned the title of America’s Best City. Raleigh shows the cultural graces that go along with anchoring the so-called Research Triangle, home to North Carolina State University, Duke University, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Among its many attributes the city sports 867 restaurants, 110 bars, and 51 museums, according to Onboard Informatics, as well as a thriving social scene, good schools, and 12,512 park acres, equal to several times the green space per capita in cities like New York and Los Angeles, according to the Trust for Public Land. It also offers a great deal on nights and weekends—from concerts and opera, to the NHL’s Carolina Hurricanes and college sports, to the 30,000-square-foot State Farmers Market.
Raleigh may have a population of only about 400,000 and span about 144 square miles, yet data show it still offers a lot, if only in a smaller package. True, Raleigh may not be the center of the tech universe like San Francisco, a hub of higher education on the same scale as Boston, or a vibrant 24-hour metropolis like New York, but all those cities also offered higher unemployment, a dearth of parks, worse public education, and other negative factors that weighed against them.
Other notables on the list – Winston-Salem, NC [46] home before Raleigh; Dallas, TX [42] you moved up 4 spots Travis – you should jump up another 41 and move here; Durham, NC [37] adding them so no one gets hurt; Greensboro, NC [31] nicest thing anyone ever said about G’boro; and Charlotte, NC [20] just sayin’ – we beat you by DOUBLE DIGITS – just sayin’.
With that quick run through I’d say North Carolina dominated the top 50 with 5 cities listed and by my count in a pretty good order.
Read more about Raleigh here and cruise through the cities we beat here.