Regarding Twitter

Twitter is kind of fun. Like a mini blog.

I've been using it for about a month now and it's interesting to see what people are up to.

I've been using the website lately since Twhirl seems to not always want to work. And I don't really like a bunch of apps running on my machine, even if they're small. I tend to run into problems after a while and end up not using them. (a learned behavior?)

I don't plan on getting an iPhone or the like for quite a while but I'd like to be able to get the tweets on my cell phone. I guess I can - I can put in my phone number and it'll send me a text msg.... I'll have to try that.

I guess I have two complaints about Twitter - one is most of the url's are hidden behind a tinyurl link. When I'm at work, I can't get to YouTube or FaceBook, etc. I probably get 'Access Denied' kind of messages on about half the links I try to follow. Tinyurl has the preview link that seems pretty cool but I don't see how to change my settings to use it.

The other thing that bugs me is the 140 character limit. I guess that's the limit on text messages sent via phones (SMS).

There are some things I don't understand yet - what the heck are the # and RT things in the text? The RT ones look like forwarded msgs and the # are infront of TV show names and other stuff.

I fall down, go boom

Monday, January 26, 2009 I fall down and go boom. I stepped on some invisible ice on my front porch and part of me landed on the little fence around the flower garden.

The bruises didn't really hurt or bother me - good thing I was wearing a coat. It was my right knee being contorted in an unnatural way that hurt.

Left arm

Left side

That Cern thing explained

I got this from my brother who teaches high-energy physics at Vanderbilt.

I love taskkill!

For years now I have been fighting virus scan and other programs.

My employer forces our machines to run certain tasks and they really slow everything down.

My solution to this point has been to run Task Manager and kill these processes. They seem to start up again intermittently during the day so I have to keep going back to Task Manager whenever my machine seems to be running slow.

A friend at work told me about "taskkill". It does the same thing I've been doing manually. He created a .bat file and put in a few taskkill commands to kill the unwanted tasks. Now we just run the .bat file and the evil, harddrive sucking programs die.

taskkill /f /im vulscan.exe

Project Euler - programming riddles - Level 1

Yahoo!!! I am now at level 1 on Project Euler!!!

300 baud acoustic coupler

I finally brought my old modem from home to show and tell here at work.

I think it's 300 baud and has a switch on the back to go between full and half duplex.

Remember when ear pieces on phones were round?

I used this at my first DP job to get orders from Wal-mart and Kmart. (This isn't the modem I talked about in the previous blog)

Ex boxers becoming makeup artists for crime survivor ads

I saw a billboard for the Oklahoma Crime Victim Services yesterday and was wondering what that photo shoot was like.

"Bruno here is an ex-feather weight champion from Tulsa, he'll be your makeup artist today, Miss Whatever. He'll be using Speed Boxing gloves today".

Bruno throws a few punches at Miss Whatever, bam bam bam - a few pictures are taken and the director says "I think we need a little touch up on her right eye" bam bam bam again.... maybe he pulls out a knife and make a few cuts...

later, Miss Whatever says, "I hate these shoots! Now I can't work for 3 weeks"


It sounded funny in my head.