Tag Archives: 'twitter'

• If the IRS was on Twitter

  In a wide-ranging, long-winded, semi-work-related IM conversation with a coworker this afternoon, I floated the idea of the IRS on Twitter… @IRS you suck balls @IRS where’s my money? @IRS you just got fooled. thanks for the refund. #fail Be sure to follow the White House and Social Security, you know, if you have the [...]

• Impending Doom

  “[Twitter's official Facebook application is] quite useful for those of us who don’t want to have to spend all day updating multiple services with the same messages.” Or those of us unfortunate enough to read about it. Note: I am making a serious effort to break my TechCrunch habit. It’s just not going that well… [...]

• Qwitter

  Am I ashamed to quit Twitter? No, not really; it just wasn’t my thing. To effectively use my analogy, I walked into the bar, heard the conversation, and decided that the conversation was lame. (Well, the conversation was not lame; the bar was. The conversation didn’t help.) No offense to those “talking,” but the idea [...]

• Share

  One more thought on Twitter before I am shown the exit… If it helps people communicate, god bless. And I mean that for all sorts of web services that are widely available to everyone and anyone. The Facebook photo application is horrible. The best photo sharing service is clearly Flickr (and for most users, the [...]

• Twitter Haze

  I know that I just blogged that Twitter is “as substantive as a pet rock,” and although I think that that is true, Twitter nevertheless can be an effective way of communicating, albeit 140 characters (spaces included) at a time. It is akin to walking into a crowded bar and hearing what everyone is saying. [...]

• iPhone Daze

  The iPhone is a toy. I do not say that in complete disregard to its status or its potential as a platform. The iPhone is a platform, just as the laptop computer, BlackBerry and Wii are platforms. In fact, it may even be the future of Apple and possibly the entire computing world. Who knows? [...]

• Recently tweeted and/or twatted

  chkdsk /f # Q: Why weren’t the police called when Janice blew away Richie Aprile? In retrospect, it seems to be a rather convenient lack of citizenship. #

• A Tweet Future

  Maybe my life is meaningless. I mean, outside of my wife and dog, my house and job, my family and belongings, really what else is there? I think I need to go on hiatus, on some sort of sabbatical. I need only a few things besides my brain and hands. When I re-emerge from solidarity [...]

• Recently tweeted and/or twatted

  On the first floor to avoid the heat. # Sharks hockey. (I’m giving it a shot.) # To celebrate Earth Day, volunteers handed a green piece of paper to passengers on BART this morning. #irony # I spent two hours last night cleaning up XP in preparation for a partition. # Tom is the Skype [...]

• Newsom

  San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom announced his candidacy for governor with a tweet on Twitter, followed by a blog entry on the Huffington Post. You stay classy, Gavin. Disclaimer: I would vote for Newsom if he were the nominee.

• Recently tweeted and/or twatted

  I’m trying to explain to my wife the difference between .htaccess/.htpasswd and WordPress log-in. # YouTube will be known as the biggest mistake Google made. # The dog is sleeping; Bill Moyers on TiVo. # I’m amidst a showdown over blog attribution. #

• Piped Tweets

  The first draft of my tweet-scraping feed (using Pipes)… Now to make this work for private/protected feeds. The key will be the string and url builders. Stay tuned.

• Recently tweeted and/or twatted

  A pretty damn good Monday. # Sabres vs. Red Wings on TiVo. # House on TiVo. Thank you for spoiling, internet. # @tmrly Ahem, steroids. in reply to tmrly # @mrsjwns I know what you mean. I have thought about it too. Haiku is my friend. in reply to mrsjwns # Q: When is it [...]

• One Last Entry

  This Bizarro cartoon from May 2007 is a bit dated now… I guess it is now more likely to request one last tweet. Image: Bizarro.com

• Recently tweeted and/or twatted

  I got beat-up on Twitter. # Life Lesson No. 17: Do not tell a political reporter that you are considering a run for Congress unless you mean it. # @ryanalward I find support from both the far left and far right. in reply to ryanalward # @ryanalward Australia, dude. in reply to ryanalward # @ryanalward [...]

• A Twitter Beating

  I’ve taken a beating on Twitter, or so it seems, for whatever it is worth, regarding my controversial write-up of the Mother Jones / Rachel Maddow event. It went something like this [Note: I did not post anything to Twitter; these are other people's tweets.]… comment & photo from Mother Jones event with Rachel Maddow [...]

• Recently tweeted and/or twatted

  Day four: 5 out of 8; not the best day, but I’m still standing. # 60 Minutes on TiVo. # @ryanalward Is there an iPod dock? in reply to ryanalward # I am leaning against MacHeist for ethical reasons; it is tempting. # @mrsjwns Ahh, clearing escrow. Congratulations. in reply to mrsjwns # I just [...]

• Maddow, Live

  I just posted this to Twitter, quite literally, moments ago… I just won tickets to see Rachel Maddow speak at a Mother Jones event in San Francisco tomorrow evening. # It’s true.

• MacHeist

  I am battling temptation. I agree with the underlying context that the bundle is an overall rip-off for the individual developers of the applications included in the latest MacHeist bundle. However, I do not see it as a fair condemnation of the consumers that do purchase the bundle because the consumers are — in fact [...]

• Recently tweeted and/or twatted

  Maybe the issue is contractually-mandated bonuses. # @ryanalward The idea that AIG is contractually-mandated to hand out bonuses to individuals that performed poorly with taxpayer money. in reply to ryanalward # Q: How fast could you put a proposal together to build a privately-funded baseball stadium in downtown Oakland? # If you know anything about [...]

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