I confess I’ve been sucked in to the world of Twitter. It’s kind of addictive, watching what folks like John Gruber, the Iconfactory boys, Maury McCown, and even Darth Vader, are up to.
I’d love to know if my friends have accounts, so I can add you as a friend to mine, and please feel free to add me as a friend to yours. Ping me via IM, drop me an e-mail, or leave a comment.
One cool thing Twitter did last week was they created a Macworld account. By adding this account as a friend, you could follow the postings of those at Macworld Expo as Steve announced the latest and greatest tech from our favorite fruit company. There were so many messages coming in to Twitter through AOL Instant Messenger that Twitter exceeded its allowable AIM traffic, and that service was unavailable for about a day. (To clarify, you couldn’t post to Twitter via AIM; Twitter and AIM were each unaffected.)
You can post to Twitter via your Twitter page, by instant message (Jabber or AIM), or by text message from your mobile phone. (Text message charges from your mobile provider apply, but there’s no charge from Twitter.) If you’re a Mac user, you can also use Maury McCown’s TwitterPost, or the just-released-today Twitterrific from those aforementioned boys at the Iconfactory. Both apps are freeware.
So the question remains, what are you doing?
Tag: fun
Why does my artificial tree shed?
Does that not defeat the point–or at least one of the points–of the artificial tree?
(Yes, I’m just now putting the artificial tree back in the box and storing it away for next year.)
There are few words I can think of at the moment which are scarier than “First Officer Chris Lawson”.
Except, of course, “Captain Chris Lawson”.
Seriously, Chris, congratulations on the job. Our Mr. Lawson will be flying the skies on behalf of American Eagle in the very near future.
If you’ve ever wondered what Panic co-founder Cabel Sasser sounds like when he’s singing, you can find out from viewing the hilarious Buggy Saints Row: The Musical. (Caution: Some adult language in the songs.)
[Wave of the phin to John.]
Cleaning out my wallet, I discovered the fortune from the last fortune cookie I had:
“You add an aesthetic quality to everything you do.”
Alright, alright, keep the laughter to a minimum.
You’ve all heard the adage (wrongly attributed lately, online, to Oprah): “Duct tape is a lot like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it binds the galaxy together.” You may have seen the various offerings of the duct tape wallet.
Now, that amazing greyness has been used to create: The Duct Tape Shopping Bag.
It’s not really important how we got to this point of the discussion, just that we got to it.
Today’s Gmail phishing (as opposing to phisching, which is the attempt to hook a phisch) spam is more humorous than most. A lot of phishing emails one receives are for non-location-specific entities: Citi, Bank of America, eBay, PayPal, etc. This one is highly location-specific: Hawaii.
I live in the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex.
It amused me.
Briefly.
It was a beautiful fall day here in DFW. The inside of the house was a pleasant 75 degrees Fahrenheit all day, the AC not running at all. We don’t get too many opportunities to throw open all the windows here in the metroplex, so I took advantage.
Few clouds in the sky, the sun shining bright, and I was treated to lunch by a friend, as thanks for a favor I was happy to do and expected no recompense for. Some good family time at dinner helped to wrap up a beautiful day.
How was yours?
- For you baseball aficionados, Tiff has a great story on what happened when she gave tickets to some coworkers, and how they thanked her.
- Microsoft’s Macintosh Business Unit, affectionately known as the MacBU, has its own blog.Via The Iconfactory
- Someone took the house I, and I’m sure thousands of others, would love to live in–Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater–and put it in Half Life 2.Via del.icio.us