Talking in the 3rd person

The guy that owns this blog wants to post tonight about people who write in the 3rd person. Why in the hell do people do this? Is it supposed to sound more professional? It's like if you write in the 3rd person I'm supposed to believe or agree with what you write?

Bull. Writing about yourself in the 3rd person only makes seem a little self centered and unbelievable. Just say it like it is. Writing in the 3rd person won't make me believe you.

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Another hockey day

The Av's did pretty good today winning 3-2 over Dallas. Dallas is a tough team and I didn't think we could pull out a win.

As I was reading other hockey news I came across this story. Uh yeah, it's stupid not to be wearing a facemask in the NHL today. If you take too many objects to the head at 95 MPH you bound to have a
problem. So yeah, wear the damn thing. If I we're the owner and I had invested several million dollars in a player you can bet your ass he'd be wearing a full face mask and
helmet. I don't care how tough the guy thinks he is. It's just common sense.

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Google Reader, oh my!

I'm a bloglines user, for now. Have you seen Google Reader yet? Wow, nice. Same awesome simple interface that seems to have great usability. I'm giving it a go for a while.

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Hockey is back, my team tanks!

I'm a casual Hockey fan, not nearly as addicted as Robert, but I love to watch. I root for the Colorado Avalanche, no real reason; I just started rooting for them. Looking at the scores across the score boards, the teams are a little rusty.

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Free software isn’t really free

<soapbox>
If you're going to offer free software, just let me download it. If you want my email address to so you can make some money selling it to spammers, tell me, I'm likely to give you a throw away email address anyway. But when you want me to fill in my address, date of birth, income level, gender, and numerous other things that you obviously have no reason to have, you just piss me off and make me not want to try your software. If I like I'm going to pay. If I don't I won't. But
asking me all kinds of personal information will always make me lie or try something else.
</soapbox>

Sorry, had to get that off my chest. I really wanted to try this recommended software program called Cmap. But just as I stated above, if you want too much information just to download a program you're going to give me for free then you're not really giving it to me for free. Information isn't cheap and personal information is very expensive. Try again my friends. And for anyone else out there requiring a large amount of personal data just to download, why don't you give Sourceforge.net a try. At least I know you really support an open source or free software model.

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