You know who you are.  I like to call you blog stalkers.  You look at everything, everyday, methodically.  Don’t get me wrong – I love that we have an audience.  Really, I do.  I blog for the attention.  I can’t deny it.  BUT!  Something I have always loved about blogging is the interaction.  You don’t interact.  You read, you read some more, and then you read again and then you click links and read even more.  Clearly – you are interested in what we have to say….so why not interact?  You know who you are.  Mr. (or Ms.) Cambridge Entrepreneurial Network, I am calling you out.  Comment for Pete’s sake.  Well – for mine too….because frankly….the googling of my name all the time is creeping me out.

As if I wasn’t already addicted to my iPhone (my wife wants to throw it against the wall), ESPN released their Streak for Cash iPhone app late last year and I can’t seem to put it down.

ESPN Streak for Cash is a game that originated on the ESPN website. Each day, they post of series of scenarios in sports ranging anywhere from who will win a certain soccer match to which player will score the most first-half points in an NBA basketball game. I even saw a curling matchup the other day. You choose who will win the scenario and your goal is to put together the longest winning streak possible. There are around 7 scenarios posted each day. You are able to choose as many or as few matchups as you want, but you can only choose one scenario at a time. You are locked into your choice when the game starts and you have to wait until your first game is over before you can choose your next matchup.

Seems fairly easy, but this is probably one of the most difficult sports-related games that I’ve ever played. For the entire month of January, I had a record of 60-42-1 with my longest win streak going 8 matchups. The participant with the longest streak for the month scored $100,000 for a 20 wins in a row. So far this month, I’m 18-28-1 with a 3 win streak. The leader has 21 wins in a row.

No matter what kind of strategy I employ or how much research I do on certain matchups, I can’t seem to find a system that works for me. That’s what is so great about this game. I don’t think that any person, no matter how knowledgeable, has an advantage. It’s a guessing game. You can look up every wacky statistic in the book, but the simple fact is that anything can happen in sports.

I recommend this game for everyone that loves sports. It is so addicting. The iPhone app is extremely buggy and crashes quite often, but I am able to look past that simply because I enjoy playing the game so much. If the app becomes frustrating, take a look at the version on ESPN’s website.

While the vast majority of Facebook users are up in arms about the new layout, I’m finding it to be a pleasant upgrade.  All of the portions of the site that I use are now in the same general area.  Previously, I would have to venture all over the place to get where I needed to go.  I like the fact that notifications for posts, friend requests and messages have been separated into 3 small icons in the top-left corner.  There’s easier access to your groups and applications now that they’ve been posted on the main page.  I’m also finding portions of the site that I never used before because they’ve been uncovered by the new layout.  Twitter integration is still horribly slow, but can you really blame them for making it difficult for you to use a competitor’s product?  Overall, it’s a faster, cleaner interface.

All that I’ve been seeing are complaints for the last 2 weeks about the site, but no one can seem to elaborate on what their issue is with the new Facebook.  From where I sit, the only explanation that makes sense is that it is different from the last version.  Having a strong background in technology and working in the field that I do, you are forced to embrace change.  If you can’t find the benefits of an upgrade and learn to adapt to new technology, you become as obsolete as the last version of the product you were working with.

The masses seem to fear change when it comes to technology.  If something is in a different place or a certain function is not exactly as it was the day before, it automatically “sucks”.  Change means having to learn something new and most people refuse to take the time to do so, even if the end result will benefit them.  I originally thought that the fear of technology itself was partly to blame for the fear of change in technology.  However, disgust in new versions of things seems to span generational gaps.

Needless to say, I’m looking forward to upgrading my user base to Windows 7 and Office 2007.  My phone will be ringing off the hook!!

In another effort to improve the MLD experience, we’re excited to introduce a new mobile edition of the site.  You may be looking at it right now.

The navigation is streamlined allowing easy browsing of posts on your phone.  The downside is some of the graphics and category functions are lost, but that streamlining is sort of the point of a mobile site.  A link to switch back to the standard browser version of the site appears at the bottom of each page.  Check it out, and please let us know what you think.

I’ve never been one for new years resolutions.  Overall, I suck at committing to anything.  Pete, Trouble, and Sammy are the longest I have stuck with anything.  Ever.  Well….I may have had a relationship with coffee longer.  And chocolate even longer than that.  Anyway…This year I decided to return to a blog that I attempted before, and then a second time, and now a third time.  A blog that continually was abandoned.  To make it easy, all I am requiring of myself is to post one picture a day.  Something to remember a little bit about the day.  Something to get me to post.  Luckily, WordPress has made it quite easy.  All I have to do is snap a picture with my phone, and email it to my blog.  Posting shouldn’t take much effort.  So, this is my experiment for the year.  I invited Pete to join me, because I thought it would be a fun place for the odd things we stumble upon.  Like the dead fish he saw on the sidewalk in University City one time.  And what’s more fun – you can rate the photos on the blog.  So check it out: www.angeliquebuckley.com And rate some images.  And visit often.  AND totally give me a hard time if I don’t keep up.  HERE WE GO!!!!!

Have you made any resolutions this year?