Netflix is keeping Profiles.

So there you go. They freaked me out for a bit. However, in the end they listened. They did what the customer wanted. I am happily sticking with Netflix for some time.

Netflix threatening to discontinue profiles.

So Netflix sent me an email today explaining that they are going to shut down my profiles in September. That was a bit frustrating. We have the 3 unlimited plan. We also have 3 profiles, one for me, one for my wife, and one for the kids. It works great. The kids just queue up what they want, and they get a new one when they send the old one back. If they loose a movie, which they have, it doesn't screw up our stuff. Whenever they ask for a new movie, we just tell them to look for the old one.

At any rate, this stinks. Here is an online petition to sign if you are a Netflix user and are as disappointed as I am. If this goes through, I can't see us not switching to Blockbuster.

PDF thoughts

So today I spent some time looking for a new restaurant to take my wife to. I solicited suggestions from my friends via my gChat status. I received many wonderful suggestions. Thank you.

The trouble that I encountered was PDFs. When I am on the web, and I click a link, I expect to go to another website. What I don't expect is to have a PDF thrown at me. I don't think its that hard to put the content of your menu on a web page. And once its there, its searchable, indexable, accessible, and way less annoying. PDFs were not created for the web. They were created to transport documents for printing.

So if you have any say in any restaurants website, please encourage them to translate their menu into html. Its just better for us all.

And please, don't get me started on bus schedules.