Today’s Alter Ego comes from Katie. She writes:  “In all honesty, I realize ‘Kitty’ is not as bad as a lot of the submissions you get. I was just very excited because I thought I had a name that was impossible for people to mess up.”
Rookie mistake, Katie.

Yesterday, I chewed out the New York Post on-air for burying its Murdoch coverage. Judging by the response I got, a lot viewers felt the same way. Editors at the Daily Beast certainly did. They asked me to weigh in on the fact that we have come to expect that News Corp. media outlets will bury a story about the boss.

Today’s Starbucks Alter Ego comes from Ellen. She writes: “I can’t lie—usually I do well in the Starbucks name game. But today, for whatever reason, a barista decided that I was a man. On the bright side, I had a good laugh with the guy at the hand-off counter as I nervously waited for a real Eli to come up and claim his Frappuccino.”

Today’s Starbucks Alter Egos are a two-for-one deal, from Brian and Hinedy, excuse me—I mean Heidi. It’s a rare moment—or is it—when the barista hands you not one but two misspellings. I’m sure Brian figured it out though—seems like his brain is so big it makes an impression.

Your colleagues don’t want to see your feet. None of them. Gleaned from answers given during a recent phone survey, the human resources company Adecco determined that when it comes to inappropriate office attire, wearing flip-flops were the biggest sin one could commit. Miniskirts were number two.

On July 1st, I celebrated Canada Day listening to the annual “Great Canadian Songbook” show at Joe’s Pub in Manhattan. And I led the mostly Canadian crowd in a rendition of O Canada.

Today’s Starbucks Alter Ego comes from my NY1 colleague Tara Lynn Wagner, who says she’s used to getting Sara, Kara and even Tiara once in a while. But this time, she’s not exactly sure what the barista had in mind. Chev? Cherl? Neither do we.

Our apologies for the long disappearance today. There was a power problem at our hosting company that took our servers online. We’re back up now but weren’t able to update our content this morning.

Bay Gross, a Harvard computer science major, wanted a way to keep in touch with a friend who was spending the summer at a government internship. But like many corporate warriors, the friend was forbidden from using Facebook while at the office. Undeterred, Gross spent fifteen hours creating a program that turns anyone’s Facebook page into an Excel spreadsheet, innocuously titled, Daily Cash Reconciliation. Genius.