February 2008
BlackBerry was down in the Southeast on AT&T? →
InfoWorld:
San Francisco - AT&T’s wireless data networks in the Southeast and Midwest U.S. were down for several hours on Thursday, causing BlackBerry and iPhone users to be without data services.
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The EDGE (Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution) and UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunications System) services in those regions began having problems around 6:30 a.m. EST, said...
Ideas for a person-on-the-street interview? I’m thinking “Now that South Carolina’s primaries are over, do you still follow the races?”
Howdy at the new folks in my Twittersphere. :)
roflcopter. that’s all I can say.
January 2008
Less women than normal at cheap pitcher night. (Not that I’d talk to any of them anyway. Liquid courage does nothing for me)
Yes! Judge Judy! Interesting norm’s fodder. Wonder if they show Obama v. Clinton?
These guys who appear to be an acoustic Complete - the def of dirty old men - are hitting on a girl in here like crazy.
Finally. Norm(s) for the first time in two weeks.
Training Akismet a bit more. Damn spammers. I need to install the plugin to close old posts.
This George Howard CD is the epitome of The Weather Channel in the early ’90s. All I need to do is run a WeatherStar 4000 emulator.
Hitting the phones again. Back to the twittersphere in a few. One hour until pitchers and pizza.
I’ve lost a total of five and a half days to nonsense in the last two weeks. Depressing. My todo list is growing exponentially.
The isobars are tight over Charleston. 25-35 MPH winds expected. Stay safe if you’re crossing The Bridge later!
Rumors of a Twitter acquisition. Google seems to easy. Microsoft could buy it and rename it “Microsoft Short Message Server 2008”
OMG. This day is becoming more and more epic by the minute.
I DEFINITELY deserve Norm’s tonight.
Planning out the day. Hoping for it to not be as psychotic as yesterday. All it takes is one faux emergency, though…
That CMS/blog tool I wrote for my site in my senior year of HS was pretty effective, if not ghetto as hell. And with that, good night, all!
Oh, and I ceased blogging for a while shortly after the 2004 elections, so I only lost roughly a year and three quarters or so.
Looking through the wayback machine. My site sucked shortly after I got a girlfriend. Perhaps losing all that data isn’t so bad after all.
At least my senior year of high school isn’t lost.
Found a backup going to February 18, 2003. Not bad. Not good either.
Why I Blog →
Yesterday’s Wednesday Why at Lowcountry Blogs asks “Why do you have a blog?”
For me, it simply starts with the ability to have some sort of voice. I feel as if I can get whatever message I want out much more effectively through this medium than, say, if I stood at a street corner shouting my lungs out. I’ll sound less hoarse and blogging is generally far less obnoxious (unless I started tYpInG...
I am really, really, really frustrated with myself for not having a backup of my website from, oh, 2002-2005. Three years of blogs, gone. :(
Twitter as a news tool →
ReadWriteWeb has a great article about how Twitter is being more seriously used as a news and discussion tool, rather than just status — in other words, an article about something most of us Twitter folk already do.
Looks like Twitter’s back…cool. :) Good article about it: http://tinyurl.com/2adtf6
I once again saw today that Windows Vista is the most horrendous OS on the planet.
This should put the “L.T. punked out of the AFC Championship” screaming to rest. http://tinyurl.com/2fu74h
Ron Paul is amazing. For a minute I thought he was going to start screaming “PLAYOFFS?”
McCain is flopping bigtime.
That’s 1.5 times Paul has been able to speak (he was cut off in the middle, hence the .5)
Wondering if they’ll let Ron Paul speak for the rest of the night.
What a brutal day. At least tomorrow is payday.
And with all this equipment, I still won’t be able to take 720p video like my little point-and-shoot can. :P
The goal with some of these classes for me is to teach myself better reporting skills so I could do more multimedia features on my own site.
Tomorrow’s forecast for Charleston: See average weather in Seattle. 55 degrees and rain. Ick.
Plus, the people in my news team have access to professional-grade equipment, which is always a plus, and I’ll bring the After Effects magic
I am completely geeked to be getting video equipment for my television news class today. It’s the full shebang: Camera, tripod, light kit!
Listening to Default. I don’t know why I like their music so much. Their first album was definitely their best.
Sigh, my tweet about my 386 didn’t get through. It was a good one, too. Working lunch continues.
When it rains, it pours. Yikes.
And thus begins a psychotic day.
Looks like a working lunch today.
The last four hours: Margaritas, Johan to the Mets, Hillary gloats over a totally useless victory, and McCain wins Florida. Eventful!
Tuesday margaritas have a good ring to them.
Any opinions out there on Amaya?
I don’t like the idea of using LinkedIn. it’s just not as intuitive, IMO.
Oh, I have a “When Will You Get Married” request. That’s even funnier. I’m about to give up using Facebook as a reasonably businessy tool.
it’s hilarious and ironic that one of the new Web servers will be named Ackerman. That’s still the last name of the first girl I asked out.
Facebook is absolutely out of control. I have a “is tiffany sexy request.” Time to bring out the dreaded “Facebook is now FaceSpace” blog.