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In the last few days, Twitter messages have cracked me up. Our brother-in-law, Roy, has been Tweeting their family vacation. With his writer humor, that’s been entertaining on so many levels. Tonight, @LaniAR (a Longhorn) did shoutouts to those who started following her recently. I was lucky enough to land in the middle of that [...]

This handy dandy little piece of software nags you to take micro- and mini-break throughout the day. At real break times, it gives you stretches to do. At the end of the day, it tells you to get away from behind the computer and go do something else for a while. It also tracks your [...]

“Click Here to Enter Our Site”
No! Put your site on your domain, and let me go straight to it. Don’t make me sit through some “commercial” just so you can have another click-through in your stats.
Music That Automatically Plays
Whether it’s a MySpace page or a website, I am already using the sounds in my comptuer [...]

Private Settings on Social Media
If you use MySpace or similar sites to promote your business, please keep your site public, not set to private! How can we network businesses and potential clients if no one can see who you are or what you do? With the proliferation of spam accounts on sites like MySpace, no [...]

Fireworks Day[1]
As always, we are in Paris for Lori’s grandparents’ birthdays. (His is on the 3rd and her’s is on the 4th). Because Paris has the band concert and fireworks show are on the 3rd, we have one big party with them every year. After a nice dinner, cake & ice cream, and presents, we [...]

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Tuesday, June 17, 2008

From Legal Andrew

No more yellow pages
I keep trying to convince my wife that we can throw out the paper phone books. With Google Maps and its awesome local results, yellow pages are simply obsolete.
Why should I dig out a huge book and thumb through the pages looking for the crazy category that somebody decided to [...]

Thanks to our friend, Matt, a local web geek and freelancer,
Emil and I have been using Twitter. I have one account for me and another for As You Wish (because I immediately saw business purposes for the service). Our brother-in-law, Roy, has an account as do several of our “geekier” friends.[1]
Twitter is designed to answer [...]

“Twitter in Plain English,” by Lee LeFever from Common Craft.
http://www.youtube.com/v/ddO9idmax0o
Bryan Person points out:
The only critique I have — and it’s one that’s mentioned in some of the comments to Lee’s post — is that there’s no real mention of using Twitter beyond answering the site’s basic “What are you doing?” question. As anyone [...]

I have been sitting incorrectly at work. I lean on my right/mousing hand and then get something akin to a Tennis Elbow. It’s not huge, but I knew I needed to fix it.
As Internet luck would have it, I stumbled across the Finger Mouse.

It arrived the day of GAYla as I was cranking out printed [...]