Buh-Bye Twitter
I’ve tweeted my last tweet.
If you’re a diligent visitor to my blog, you’ll notice that the Twitter section on the right hand side is no longer there. My iPhone is noticing that the volume of SMS messages has dropped way down. Most importantly my brain is feeling less distracted.
I’ve been a big fan of Twitter for a while now. So far I’ve created 1,281 tweets. 1,281 little 100 character updates sent who knows where. Now I think I’m done though. There are a number of reasons I decided to get off the Twitter bus.
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Twitter is addictive, at least for me. The distraction was too pronounced, and while it’s fun to keep up with a number of people you wouldn’t otherwise see that much – it also pulls you out of the experience you are having right then.
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I prefer blogging, and the complete sentences and paragraphs that surround it. While blogging is not incompatible with Twitter, I feel that I’m blogging less in part because I Twitter in between things.
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It has the potential to lessen the value of in-person discussions. When catching up with a friend I’ll think “I saw that on your Twitter” and then we move on. But really, could a 100 character SMS really sum up the richness of a trip to the zoo with your kids?
I don’t mean to condemn Twitter. Different strokes for different folks after all. And I do think it’s a great platform for mobile live blogging. I’ve kept my account active even though it’s disconnected from my phone and everything else just in case I want to use it to live blog the Folk Festival or something. But for now, I bid adieu.
If you happen to follow my robot, that account has been deleted.
Hiding in the dark having ran out of candy on Halloween!
Wiring up Mail.app with GMail/IMAP. First impression — painfully slow.
2007 Block Pumpkin Carving
The annual block gathering to carve up some Halloween pumpkins. We got a great one this year!
Ruby Users of Minnesota meeting @ Acadia Cafe.
Just grabbed thinglestad.com (e and l transposed). This is the most common mispelling of my last name. A bit surprised it was still available.
At dinner with my wonderful wife waiting for food and then going to RadioLab. Date night!
Having lunch with Mazie at Yum!
One of the tweets highlighted in my MarketWatch Farewell Video.
At the Dolphin Show with Mazie!
One of the tweets highlighted in my MarketWatch Farewell Video.
Minnedemo 3 a Wrap
Does anyone know where the reference to Mo’ started? Like, we got our mo’ in the second half. Our products really selling, we’ve got mo’. Hiring is a breeze because we have mo’! If your not following here mo’ is momentum. After leaving Minnedemo 3 a couple weeks ago, it was clear that the Minneapolis technology community is building mo'.
I’m a bit late in writing about Minnedemo 2. Graeme Thickens did a thorough job in his post. Minnedemo continued it’s template of 15-minute demo’s from a variety of people working on interesting things. Notable this time was the CrashPlan demo from Matthew Dornquast at Code42. I’ve seen CrashPlan several times and have followed it’s progression from the sidelines. The product has really expanded and I think that Code42’s recent additions focused on businesses (using the E word, enterprises) is really smart and smartly built. Fanchatter also had a cool demo, although I’d tweak the product here and there. I don’t think they are going to hit that uber-viral point as is. There were also demos from SOTAcomm, Wonderfile, Pokeware and Adaptive Avenue. I missed much of the last half chatting with people I ran into at Minnedemo.
There were approximately 300 people at Minnedemo and it was great to see so many familiar faces. Having at O’Garas Garage was great to accommodate the size of the crowd, but people need to be a bit more polite to the speakers. Shhhh…
I was surprised to hear an announcement of a Christmas Edition (December 6th! Mark your calendar!) of Minnedemo coming in just a couple of months. Yeah! See you all there!
See Minnedemo 2.
Mazie's Big Girl Bed
Monday was a big day in the Thingelstad household! A few weeks ago we ordered Mazie’s new toddler bed and it finally arrived. After dinner that night we opened everything and put it together. Mazie was very excited to see her new bed come together. She has been talking about it for a long time. When we put her mattress in it at the very end she immediately laid down and closed her eyes.
She went to bed that night in her new bed. We asked her if she wanted to sleep in her crib or her bed, the answer was clear. There was a brief moment right at the end where she got a little scared but it passed. She had no problems going to sleep. Yeah Mazie!
She’s been sleeping in her bed now every night and with every nap. She’s doing a really great job!
Leopard Has Arrived
It’s
been a busy night here. This morning Mac OS
X 10.5 “Leopard” arrived and I started
installing it on all four Macs right away. The upgrade took about an
hour on average and the iMac, MacBook Pro and Mac Pro all upgraded
flawlessly. The MacBook however didn’t fair so well. The upgrade failed
and in the process it toasted the boot partition. I ended up
reformatting and reinstalling on it.
Initial impressions of Leopard are “Wow!”. Absolutely loving Spaces! Sharing screens over the network is tremendous. I just got done playing with some of the iChat sharing with a friend and it worked great. I’m pretty pleased so far. To add to it all, I haven’t had any application compatibility issues yet. Pretty impressive.
I’ll put together some more thoughts later. I’m really happy to finally have Leopard though. If your curious about Leopard, check out the guided tour Apple posted.
Person at the counter just totally blew up at their boss while taking my order.
After using the iPhone for a few months the Blackberry can feel like you are carving on stone tablets.
I think either Tuffmail or Fastmail.fm will do all that I want from an email host.
I had a lot of fun on Jyte today.
Finished cleaning and rearranging the garage. Time for afternoon espresso.
Becoming an MPR Sustaining Member.
Finished making my Butternut Squash and Garlic Puree.