This morning we had a great kick-off to our annual #TeamSPS TechConnect 2025 event! Team members from four continents powering the connections that move the world of commerce forward. Bonus points for special zoom background that creates connections between everyone! πͺ
What a great POAP for SPS Tech Connect 2025!
POAP 7326383 at SPS TechConnect 2025.
We saw Suzanne Vega tonight at the Dakota. She played a variety of old and new songs and it was all very good. We even got the very first performance of a new song β Galway! πΆ
Finished 3.9 mile walk in 72.9 minutes. πΆββοΈ
Twitter Interview from 16 Years Ago
While doing my blog gardening today I noticed that it was 16 years ago today that I was a guest on MPR’s Midmorning show talking about Twitter! I decided to give it a listen, and while I was at it I ran the audio through Whisper Transcription and added a transcript to the post. Listen or read! π
It all seems very quaint in retrospect. I had been on Twitter at that time for 27 months and as John Moe shares in the intro it had 8 million users at the time. Moe quotes Joe Sucheray saying Twitter was “the end of the world.” He was maybe seeing better than Julio Ojeda-Zapata, my fellow panelist and I. I had almost forgot that John Hodgman joined us on the phone and that one of the callers “Dave” who teaches “Greek and Latin” is a friend of mine!
Hashtags weren’t a thing. Moe even says “number sign”. The word “tweet” was only just forming. I refer to the “Twitterverse” at one point.
It did give me a big warm smile at the end though when I got a plug in for using RSS! As Tammy reflected, some things never change! οΏΌοΏΌπ
We stopped into Microcenter today and they didnβt have a single Nvidia GPU in stock. Every case was empty. In fact they only had five individual GPUs of any brand!
Tylerβs first time behind the wheel with basics in a parking lot.
My post on Using AI in the Weekly Thing was highlighted in Josh Spector’s For the Interested 456 this week! Thanks to CJ Chilvers for the heads up. π