Seth Godin explains how important your profile picture is, because it *is* important:
Mar 05 2009
Why Twitter trumps IMs
Just a few thoughts I had as to why using Twitter is better than Instant Messaging:
- It encourages brevity, so wastes little time, and makes you think before you write.
- It makes it easy to see at a glance if something is relevant.
- It can produce some priceless quotes.
- It’s social - everyone can read your public feed.
- It’s private - direct messaging allows private exchanges.
- You never miss anything - if you log in after 2 hours offline you can scroll back and read what you weren’t around for.
- It’s simple - effective, efficient and no-nonsense.
- You can use it on the web, on the desktop, on your phone, and it never loses any value as a result.
Just a few things…
Mar 03 2009
The Twitter House Rules
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:
- Don’t be offended. It’s probably no slight against you, I just don’t find yout tweets relvant.
- 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.
- I’m not a serial follower. I pick and choose carefully.
- 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
Mar 03 2009
It’s a big Universe, you might need a guide…
Your source for up-to-the-minute news, views and stories about Space, the Final Frontier.
You can also follow @astroengine on Twitter for up to the minute updates and good banter.
Mar 02 2009
Barclays Bank advert… a true Classic
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 saidI can’t repeat what I said…
So just remember, sometimes you’ve already sold something and don’t need to keep talking it up.
Feb 16 2009
SW:TOR Bio/Story Intro rewiritten
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.
Feb 13 2009
Install Windows 7 BETA from USB Memory Stick
via kurtsh
This simple tutorial allows you to copy Windows 7 BETA onto a bootable USB stick and install it from USB. Really handy if, like me, you run a notebook with no DVD drive.
My HP 2133 Mini-note is currently in the process of happily installing Windows 7 BETA.
Feb 12 2009
Ubuntu weird keyboard issue
Just wanted to mention that I had a weird issue on my HP 2133 Mini-note with Ubuntu 8.10 locking the numeric keypad (which uses the Fn key and part of the main keyboard) in numeric mode. I found out it’s an easy fix, just press Fn + NumLock.
Apparently it happens on most laptop keyboards.
Feb 02 2009
Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid - Empty ‘Add/Remove…’ list
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.
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