Archive for July, 2008

True friendship never fades!

Friday, July 11th, 2008

Wow! This one is very touching…sound on.

My first 100 Twitter followers

Thursday, July 10th, 2008

It’s pretty interesting to see how a Social Network builds up over time…yesterday I reached the ‘milestone’ of 100 people following me on Twitter.

It is interesting since most of my real-life friends are not nearly as geeky as I am ;), haven’t heard of Twitter at all, so; no followers there :(…(if only they knew/realized the power of Twitter, oh well ;)).

Next to that, I’m not the kind of Social Network Junk who just follows everyone I can find on the web (and then get a lot of followers back…the ‘I scratch your back if you scratch mine’ technique). No, most of the people I follow have been carefully selected…the rest are people who started to follow me first and, if they are interesting enough, I will follow them back.

QOTD July 9 2008

Wednesday, July 9th, 2008

Oliver Wendell Holmes: “The great thing in this world is not so much where you stand, as in what direction you are moving.”

Blogposts and Twitter Tools

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008

Finally I found a perfect way to update my blog on days that I am without a proper internet connection!

I use the Twitter functionality to send a Tweet via SMS and then congregate the tweets of a day as one blogpost in a daily digest, via the WordPress Twitter Tools plugin.

This way I make sure that people who read my blog via a RSS newsreader, like Google Reader, or via the imported blogposts on my Hyves and Facebook pages, stay up to date!

Ofcourse, people who browse to my blog directly are reading my tweets on the sidebar of the mainpage (in realtime ;))…to minimize the inconvenience of double information I will disable the Twitter Tools daily digest for days that I am (/should be) able to write a normal blogpost. πŸ˜‰

Dawn and Drew Show & Daily Source Code

Monday, July 7th, 2008

It took nearly four years, but during my vacation Dawn and Drew (finally) caught up with Adam Curry, that is, in number of podcasts of their original podcasts; the Dawn and Drew Show and the Daily Source Code.

Dawn Micelli and Drew Domkus started their podcast on September 23 2004…back in the days when a podcast wasn’t even called a podcast and just before I had my encounter with Adam Curry on the dutch A4 highway. Adam wasn’t counting at the time, but already had a number of Daily Source Code’s out, he kept this ‘lead’ until last week (even though it never has been a competition ;))…the Dawn and Drew Show is at #778 now, Adam’s Daily Source Code at #774…and I? I keep listening! πŸ˜‰

Twitter Updates for 2008-07-06

Sunday, July 6th, 2008
  • The first day at home after vacation is filled with those typical things…unpacking, washing, more washing and even more washing…;) #
  • Playing Mario Kart on the Wii…fun fun fun! πŸ˜‰ #

Twitter Updates for 2008-07-05

Saturday, July 5th, 2008
  • …on the way back…we’ve been driving through the Hardangervidda plateau (awesome!) and have a short pizza-break midway in Geilo. #
  • And we’re back…home sweet home after two awesome weeks! Norway in one word; WOW! πŸ˜‰ #

Twitter Updates for 2008-07-04

Friday, July 4th, 2008
  • It’s the last day before we’ll be heading back home, so soon!! We took it easy today, again ;)…really enjoying the vacation mode! #
  • Hmm, did I say I took it easy today? Wrong!! Just went biking up to the Hardangervidda plateau, a 10km climb with a crazy 10% average…yay! #

Twitter Updates for 2008-07-03

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
  • Bergen has a great vibe, especially when the sun’s out! The food was perfect, the Sancerre white wine amazing…what a shitty life πŸ˜‰ #
  • Today’s been a slow Twitter day, mainly cause it has been a lovely, relaxing and slow day, canoeing on the Eidfjordvatnet in 30dgr sun, yay! #

Twitter Updates for 2008-07-02

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
  • Jeez, we even paid for that shithole of a hytta…dutch and too honest?!? Good to be on the road again, Bergen here we come!! #
  • …and hytta should have been hytte, ofcourse!! #

Twitter Updates for 2008-07-01

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
  • Bunny bunny, rabbit rabbit! #
  • To shave or not to shave, that WAS the question…the answer came from a razor! πŸ˜‰ #
  • We drove down the ‘Trollstigen’ this morning…the Lonely Planet travel guide describes it as ‘a thriller of a road’, and it was! Great!! #
  • A lot of crazy fish at the Γ…lesund aquarium…I wanna swimmmm!! #
  • Oof, tonights hytte is close to aweful…the cheap price had its reason! The plan is to cook, drink shitloads of wine and fall asleep. πŸ˜‰ #