Seth Godin asks: Making it up as you go along. Just wondering: Is there any other way to make it up?

Well actually yeah there is Seth, making it up beforehand and sticking to your story. People just aren’t that good at it.

via Seth’s Blog

• 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…

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

AstroEngine

You can also follow @astroengine on Twitter for up to the minute updates and good banter.

“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.

NEW VERSION

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.

Apparently it happens on most laptop keyboards.