Jacksonville NAS, FL- Man the lifeboats! It’s been raining in St. Augustine for 6 straight days and looks like another 4-5 ahead. LOTS of flooding around. #
- Have a great weekend y’all! Headed out to an Irish Pub for some nearly authentic fish & chips. Will diet tomorrow … or the next day. #
- Use Photoshop to give yourself a digital diet: http://is.gd/CrvZ (via @thepioneerwoman) Quick & easy! #
- 19 Excellent Twitter Plugins For WordPress http://tinyurl.com/dcp9kn (RT @pimpmywordpress) #
- RT @barrybain Make sure you thank a Military Vet for their service to our country. Without them there would not be a Memorial Day. #
- Taking an extra long Memorial Day weekend to celebrate our 36th anniversary on Tuesday! Just going to chill, and it’s about time. #
- Why do I ALWAYS get a Network Timeout when I’m trying to check out folks’ urls shortened by ow.ly (Using FireFox 3.0) #
- Excellent advice on how to deal with someone who’s angry: http://is.gd/C8OE #
- Whew, just added my pantry’s ingredients & have 2,000 recipes to make for dinner tonight. Yoiks! Now can Supercook decide for me? #
- Don’t know what to make for dinner? Type in ingredients you have on hand & SuperCook comes up with ideas: http://is.gd/BLK2 #
- Important retired brass plead for action on climate change: http://bit.ly/9Ofmi (RT @bittman) #
- Lemmings? Why does someone with 2 updates have over 2000 followers??? Are they all holding their breath for the next update? #
- Just posted a beautiful little video: http://is.gd/B7lz – hope it makes you feel peace! #
- Reading: 9 Practices for Process-Oriented Creativity http://is.gd/B6oJ – less intention is more, it would seem. #
- Interview with “Dancing with the Stars” costume designer: http://is.gd/B4ng They do a phenomenal job every week. I’m a sewing amateur! #
- Shoot, I tweeted that the words “internet marketing expert” turn me off and instantly got auto-followed by a bunch of IME’s promising $$ #
- #3turnoffwords Internet Marketing Expert #
- Hey Tweeps, my technology-savvy 80-year-old Mom just joined twitter! Say hi to @lckb – stands for her daughters, Linda, Carol, Karen, Bev #
- Urban Land Institute conducting visioning session on Florida’s First Coast on Thursday: http://is.gd/B2v0 #
- The #wolframalpha tip was courtesy of my Niagara College @kotlnc sister, THANKS Karen! #
- If you haven’t checked out #wolframalpha – do yourself a favor, watch his video. KUDOS to the visual designers too – minimalist cool. #
- Happy Victoria Day, Canada! Fond childhood memories of fireworks, hot chocolate and buttery toast fingers. #
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This is an inspiring, beautiful little video that I simply couldn’t resist sharing. It exemplifies the spirit of peace and friendship straight from Mother Nature, accompanied by Louis Armstrong.
I can’t help but wonder how someone was there to record these precious moments but I’m glad they were. Enjoy!
For several weeks now I’ve been enjoying the online resources I’ve learned about through the interesting people I’ve been following on Twitter. While it can be time-consuming if you let it, Twitter can also save time when you are directed to resources it probably would have taken you more time to find on your own. Or might not even have thought of looking for. That’s the fun of it for me, the discovery of new stuff to learn. Down the rabbit hole! Currently the Twitter folks who interest me the most personally are fellow WordPress enthusiasts from theme designers to plugin programmers; folks who share their knowledge and experience in the fascinating world of search engine optimization (SEO) and web design; and to a degree, folks who are into the programming end of the web world. Those resources I can only understand so far, my programming language skills are not deep – I only know enough to get me into trouble, and sometimes out of it. But I persist on knocking on that particular door because I always learn something new. I’ve also learned there are many Twitterati who apparently sit poised with their favorite book of quotations and as fast as their little fingers can type they give forth with inspirational quotes. While I appreciate their desire to share their enthusiasm, no way can I read all that stuff – I begin to feel harangued. And anyway, who the heck has that kind of time to spend? Too many things I want to learn. However, I digress from my intended topic … in the short period of time I’ve been using Twitter, I’ve developed some serious pet peeves. And it turns out I’m not alone! Twitter is also just as susceptible to spam-spammers-spamming as any other electronic medium, and these guys sneak in your Twitter stream. They cleverly follow you just to get you to click on their link once, so they can lead you to riches overnight. Yah, right. Not following. Not now, not ever. And so, if people don’t follow you back, make sure this list of reasons why from Mashable (“FOLLOW FAIL: The Top 10 Reasons I Will Not Follow You in Return on Twitter”) does not apply to you:
While Atherton Bartelby’s reasons are personal – visit the link to read his explanation of each, and read more peeves in the comments – and I haven’t experienced #3 or #9 (thankfully), he covers my major pet peeves. And from what I’ve seen, there certainly appears to be no shortage of #5′s out there. (They’re usually so modest too. </sarcasm>) What’s been your experience? Leave a comment below to let me know! Related Articles:Today I thought I’d post a tip on how to get one of those cute little square pictures of yourself that show up with your comment in any blog or forum. Because it’s really easy to do, and it’s so much nicer to see a face instead of a computer-generated icon or a blank spot alongside your comment.
Here’s all you do:
Twitter Gravatar TipNote that this gravatar service does not apply to Twitter. In Twitter, you simply go to your account Settings link, then click on the Picture tab. Then use the “Browse” button to search your hard drive and locate the image you want to use for your Twitter account. Best to use a 72 dpi image or Twitter seems to get confused. Hope this tip helps! Cheers, and expect good things. Recommended Reading: Twitter 101: Getting Started and How to Tweet
One of my regular activities is to track the editorial staff comings and goings at print publications to which I submit news releases (pu-leeese don’t call them press releases) thus I’m sure to send our clients’ news to the right person. So today I was updating my contacts at Diesel & Gas Turbine Worldwide to add the recent change of Publisher & Editor, to Sheila Gailloreto. And thanks to her “Publisher’s Column” in the March 2009 issue, I learned about the Baltic Dry Index.
As Ms. Gailloreto points out in her column, there is no speculation involved in this index. It bears repeating that it’s considered one of the purest leading indicators of economic activity. Continue reading … »
Like many others, I recently started an account on Twitter and have a lot of questions about how Twitter works. Over the last couple of weeks I’ve been researching everything Twitter and I have some resources I’d like to share with my family and friends (old and new). Continue reading … » Thanks to a recent article in the print edition of The Wall Street Journal, I learned about Xobni, a great new plugin for Outlook that enables you to “find people, email and attachments instantly”. According to a quote from Newsweek on Xobni’s home page, “Bill Gates called Xobni the next generation of social networking.” Curious, I HAD to give it a go. Inbox spelled backwards, Xobni (pronounced “zob-nee” in their videos) downloads quickly and once installed the first thing it does is analyze all your email folders. That can take a few minutes, depending on how many emails you have filed there, but while you wait the installer entertains you with interesting facts. Such as, the average user has 30,000 emails in their Outlook. Yikes. Then Xobni adds a sidebar panel on the right side of your Outlook window. And here’s what’s in the sidebar: Xobni has analyzed all your communications and sorted them by correspondent.  Xobni Sidebar in Microsoft Outlook |
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