Brian wins Mountains to Sound Race

Last Updated on Monday, 30 June 2008 10:44 Written by Steve Monday, 30 June 2008 10:44

The 100-mile Mountains to Sound relay race was run yesterday in 90 degree heat. 25% of the proceeds of the race go to ONW/Northwest client Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust.

The race has 5 stages starting at Snoqualmie Pass at 3000′ and ending in Ballard, at sea level, a mile from my house. Most competitors are part of 5 person teams, but a few hardy souls attempt the race solo.

My friend Brian Bruininks was one of those people who ran it solo. I had the pleasure of running along with him for moral support the last 6 miles of the race, and watching as he won it all! It was truly an inspiring performance and I’m going to try to take some of his ability to “suffer well” into my next few races this summer.

Incredible work, Brian!

Also congrats to Pat Shaw who’s relay team broke the top 10 overall! Nice work Pat!

Out of range?

Last Updated on Wednesday, 25 June 2008 11:10 Written by Steve Wednesday, 25 June 2008 11:10

Is it really fair to go on vacation 1.5 miles from the iphone data coverage boundary? The wrong side of the boundary?

Anyone know where I can buy iphone methadone?

Mystery Contact Id field on Opportunity

Last Updated on Thursday, 26 June 2008 06:28 Written by Steve Wednesday, 25 June 2008 09:28

Matthew noticed that when you create an advanced formula on an Opportunity, you see a field called ContactId:

It doesn’t show up in the Admin interface, though. And when Matthew tried to use it, it didn’t have anything in it.

Does anyone know what this lookup field is?

Here’s my optimistic speculation: they are building functionality that will automatically put the Primary Contact Role’s Contact Id in this field. Having that field on the opp would let us do more things more easily using cross-object formulas. Maybe the field made it through QA for Summer ’08 but the rest of the functionality didn’t make the schedule.

Another speculation is that this field would work the other way–if you create an Opp with a Contact Id in this field they will get a contact role.

Another speculation? It’s neither and I’m just making stuff up. But if that’s the case, why is this field semi-visible? Where did it come from?

Update: This doesn’t appear to be related to the relatively new functionality to connect a new opportunity from a contact to the most recent campaign that contact is member of.