Dougal Campbell's geek ramblings

WordPress, web development, and world domination.

International Delete Your MySpace Account Day

Jan222008

I just found out that January 30th is International Delete Your MySpace Account Day. What an awesome birthday present — I’m there, dude!

I’ve been thinking about deleting my Myspace account almost since the day I got it but always opted out of doing so because of the few friends I have who don’t have Facebook accounts. But by remaining on Myspace, I realize, I’m becoming an enabler. I’m giving those friends no reason to switch over from Myspace by giving them access to my Myspace profile.

The only reason I even have a MySpace account in the first place is because at my last job, we needed to test how to format our video player embed code on MySpace. I did find one actual friend on MySpace, but since my wife and I now have email addresses for her and her husband…

The sole remaining reason for me to visit MySpace anymore would be to catch up on news about Weird Al. And really, there’s not much reason to visit it for that, because that’s not the official Weird Al website, anyhow (though, it is really his account).

I’m adding a reminder on my calendar to delete my MySpace account on January 30. How about you?

No more daily Twitter posts

Jan152008

Just as with my daily del.icio.us link posting experiment in the past, I have decided to discontinue my automated daily Twitter summary. I will continue posting to Twitter, and the most recent of my tweets will be displayed in my sidebar here. But think they should remain separate from my main blog content. I just feel like they “clutter” things up here, and the things I post on Twitter are different in scope from what I normally post in my blog.

I will likely continue to post mostly technical observations here in my blog (with the occasional side-track into non-technical areas). More personal, everyday, short thoughts will go to Twitter (with the occasional technical note). I’ve got a couple of WordPress-related posts coalescing in the back of my brain, and I hope to find time to write them up and post them soon. Stay tuned!

Twitter Updates for 2008-01-14

Jan142008
  • Crud. The micro-SD card I planned to put DSLinux on is only 32MB. DSLinux needs 40MB. Guess I’ll have to buy a bigger one next time I’m out. #
  • Wrestling with health insurance companies. What a freaking racket. #
  • The COBRA administrator cashed our (not-small) check on 12/31. But the doctor told us on 01/12 that our coverage wasn’t active. #
  • I want my money back. #
  • Just finished conference call. Time for coffee… #
  • Finished 2nd conf call. Time to eat some lunch while I ponder new project. Never did get coffee. #
  • Kids are all home from school. Time to take a short break to dish out snacks, get homework rolling, etc. #

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Twitter Updates for 2008-01-11

Jan112008
  • Still tuning my work-from-home toolchain. Trying #Tomboy as a note-keeping tool. It’s like a wiki without the web server. #
  • I think I’m going to un-follow a few people soon. If it turns out to be you, it’s nothing personal. Trying to raise the s/n ratio. #

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Twitter Updates for 2008-01-10

Jan102008
  • @zeldman Trivia: pound-for-pound, lemons contain more sugar than strawberries. #
  • Knocked out some work-related email and IM this morning while I ate some fruit salad. Now to go run a couple of errands before I dig in. #

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Twitter Updates for 2008-01-09

Jan092008
  • Kids are all at school, and I have breakfast and coffee. Now it’s quiet work time. Other than the noise of the cat chasing our dog around. #
  • Power out at home. Going to store for a new printer cartridge. #
  • Back @ home. Power is back. Working again. Yay me. #
  • The patch I did several months ago for "Reactivate All Plugins" after you "Deactivate All" will be in the next release. Yay me! #
  • Unexpected side-effect of working from home: I snack less than when I was in an office, despite the availability of snacks. Why? Too busy! #
  • Hmm… Might have to try Wine + FeedDemon later. Been using Liferea and Google Reader, but just haven’t been keeping up with feeds lately. #

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Twitter Updates for 2008-01-08

Jan082008
  • Just finishing up the first cup of coffee. Time for seconds… Today will be better than yesterday. Today will be better. Today will be… #
  • @photomatt "position: obsolete" … It *should* be a valid CSS property 🙂 #
  • @jwestfall Did you ever find a linux twitter client that you liked? #
  • Browser tab reaping complete. Time to restart Firefox 2 to get some memory back. Or run FF3 again, with no useful add-ons. #

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