Dec
16
Mr. and Mrs. Brown had only one son. They called him Leroy, and so did all his teachers.
The downtown ladies, however, called him tree top lover.
Everyone else in the town of Idaville called him Wikipedia.
Mar
1
Amazon.com has a deal on a SimpleTech 500GB external hard drive. $169. There’s also a Western Digital for the same price, but down from $329, if you like to get the best deal.
Feb
19
Well, after Leo and Merlin didn’t stop talking about it on MacBreak Weekly a few weeks ago, I decided to give Twitter a whirl. I have to say, it’s pretty fun. As Scoble said, it’s kind of like mini-blogging: just a short little blurb about what you’re doing.
What makes the service even better are all the different options you have for updating your status (and recieving your friends’ updates). You can use the website, of course; there’s a nice big text box to use. They also let you use Twitter from a mobile phone via SMS, which is great for keeping up with your friends on the go. If, like me, you’ve always got your IM program open, you can add Twitter to your AIM or Jabber (including Google Talk) list and keep up to date like you would with any other buddy. If all this wasn’t enough, there’s an extensive API which lets you do anything with your own aplications, using simple XML calls, which lets me keep the list of my last “tweets” on my status page. There are also a lot of programs available for all platforms that let you update straight from your desktop, including my current favorite, twitterrific from the icon factory.
So why not give twitter a try? There are tonnes of people on it (including Leo Laporte and Merlin Mann, and even Bill Clinton, Condeliza Rice and Borat) and you can get your friends to sign up, too. And why not see what I’m up to, while you’re at it?
Jan
31
“Follow your dreams. Do what you love. Dance like nobody’s watching, sing like nobody’s listening. When accused of wrongdoing, clam up and point the finger at the people underneath you.”
Thanks for the good times, Steve.