Here's a post targeted specifically to blogspot or Google or whoever manages this blog app. First of all, it is a great app. It more or less rounds out the latest generation of software development. Granted it doesn't work so great on my Pre (too much panning required to create this post), but that is a fine point to dispute.

While filling out my personal profile for the blog, I noticed an interesting question: what is my wishlist URL? There was a "create new wishlist" link adjacent to the entry field, so I tried it and discovered what appeared to be a somewhat quarter-baked feature. First I was taken to a Google shopping beta site, but I could not actually add any items to my wish list, or for that matter, figure out how to use the feature at all.

Wish Lists are hard. They need to reach into the entire product community. They need to show pictures. They need to support advanced "go-in-on" functionality. List items need to have optional privacy features so prying ex-husbands (or for that matter anybody in the family) can't see them. They can't show the user who has bought or reserved stuff for them, but they need to show what others have bought or reserved to avoid double gifting. They need to have "send email" capabilities to each member of the group for gift clarification requests. They need proxy capabilities so I can enter or clean up entries by my 8-year old. And they need to remind the owners to keep up their lists by sending reminders just after a gift-giving event passes. And there's more. Gift-giving is complicated and intensely personal...get any of this too wrong, and the app won't be accepted by the community.

Google/Blogspot staff, shoot me an email or post a reply and I will lead you through the solution I created, on http://www.heathcock.com/.

Welcome to Steven Wayne's World!

I was once one of the first, and now I am one of the last...in 1997 I had a primitive blog of sorts that I updated during a month-long US road trip and now, about 12-1/2 years later, I have stumbled onto a free blog that most of the world is probably already using. It was advertised on my IE blank page and took about 3 min to set up. Plus, "Steven Wayne's World" was available!!! How cool is that.

Bored already? Don't worry, I will either post interesting content or nothing at all in the future.

I am officially ON THE BOARD BABY!