A piece ‘a Me

Seth Godin explains how important your profile picture is, because it *is* important:

via Seth’s Blog

I decided to outline what makes me follow or not follow people on Twitter. I control and moderate my follow list pretty closely in order to keep my twitter feed both rich and relevant to me.

Here’s what makes me follow someone/thing on Twitter:

• I actually know you, in the ‘real’ world
• You live locally and share common interest with me
• You discuss something I’m actively intereted in
• You reply and/or make conversation on Twitter when I direct a comment at you
• You direct a comment at me about something I said, then discuss it with me
• You regularely post ammusing or relevant Tweets
• You are famous and I am a fan (although some of the above still apply)

Here’s some things that get you taken off my follow list:

• You haven’t said anything relevant to me in a while or that’s caught my interest or funnybone
• You haven’t tweeted in a while
• You tweet too much and the majority of it is of no interest to me

This will get you blocked ad infiinitum:

• You insult or defame me, racially, sexually or just plain verbally abuse me or friends, collegues or people or things I’m a fan and/or supporter of.
• You constantly try and waste my time with political or religious arguments or rhetoric
• You tweet offensive or lewd material or horrible jokes (horrible as in graphic or disgusting)
• You spam me with commerical crap all the time

Here’s a few things to consider if you follow me and I don’t follow you back, or I stop following you:

1. Don’t be offended. It’s probably no slight against you, I just don’t find yout tweets relvant.
2. What you are ‘all about’ isn’t relevant to me. I get followed by a lot of people promoting events and websites that I am not interested in.
3. I’m not a serial follower. I pick and choose carefully.
4. Your profile looks spammy, or I can’t tell from it what your MO is.

So there you go, I can’t really make it much clearer

I’ve always loved this advert, partly because it was performed by Samuel L Jackson and partly because it’s very clever. It says a lot…

“Can I help you” he said
“Nice shoes” I said
“You bet” he said
“How much” I said
“You can’t put a price on the stars” he said
“Talk straight” I said
“Or the moon” he said
“These shoes” he said “are almost like something being said”
“Cat sure aint got your tongue, so say it” I said “as you see it” I said
“I could talk about these shoes forever” he said
“You have” I said, “so how much” I said
“Hundred bucks” he said
“I’ll take them” I said
“Too late” he said
“Shop’s closed” he said

I can’t repeat what I said…

So just remember, sometimes you’ve already sold something and don’t need to keep talking it up.

 Because of the Threat of Peace comic establishing a 10-year gap betwee nthe Sacking of Coruscant and the start of the Star Wars: The OId Republic game, I have had to rewrite my Bio/Story for my characters. I left the old version up as I preferred it, but this version fits the canon.

NEW VERSION

Had a weird old problem with Ubuntu this morning. I opened the ‘Add/Remove…’ application to install Wine and Flickr Uploader only to be presented with a blank page. No applications listed, not even those that were installed.

After a lot of swearing and a quick Google I found the solution:

Enter the terminal (at your own risk) and enter:

sudo apt-get --reinstall install gnome-app-install

You’ll need to enter the password for your account and have permission to run stuff as root, but it’ll sit and re-install the package. When it’s all done it’ll drop you back to the prompt. Mine worked just fine after that.