This week I started my Twitter purge. I have pretty much just stopped using Twitter because the noise levels were so high that it was no longer useful. When I ran the podcast at Alternageek.com I followed anyone who seemed to be a fan or had anything even remotely interesting to say back. It wasn’t [...]
Here are some of my favorite links this week, in case you missed them: Awk, Nawk, and GNU Awk Cheet Sheet – Skip the man pages and Google by keeping around this handy cheat sheet. Make a Custom iPod Cover – Dollar Store Crafts blog has a post on how to take those cheap clear [...]
I asked my Twitter friends today “What computing tech/hardware/software apps are the bane of your existence & make your life *harder*?” Here are the results: lucidquiet “I hate Windows and I hate Java and I hate all programs that FORCE me to use Windows” — @linuxchic (“ditto” — @lucidquiet, me). feedback87 @linuxchic lol oh man [...]
I posted a few Tweets today in reference to video games, specifically: It’s funny to say ouch when you get hit in a video game since it doesn’t really *hurt* ~and~ Show of hands, who else yells or such in the *heat* of video game play? This is when you see how entertaining Twitter can [...]
In episode 19 of the Alternageek podcast we talked about a new early beta of a service called SnapFoo.com. SnapFoo allows you to post pictures to an account much like text to Twitter. I have written a more robust writeup at Alternageek. If you would like to get an invite to SnapFoo.com’s early beta, send [...]
Of all the practical purposes for web 2.0 that have popped up, I am finding that the health industry utilizing it is one of the more interesting of markets lately. As an extreme Twitter fiend with my text messaging totaling over 10,000 SMS messages last month third party Twitter tools is nothing new to me. [...]
After becoming infected with the Harry Potter excitement contagion I decided to wait in line with a friend of mine last night even though I ordered my book online to be delivered on Saturday (he was leaving for vacation at 4am the next day and wanted to have it to take with him). I don’t [...]
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