- @shoemaker62 Happy Fourth of July Henry! Don't let the Big Booms scare you tonight! – Curious & Penny #
- Woohoo! I am the 43,481st person to download the new and improved #WordPress version 3.2, Gershwin #
Twitter Updates for 2011-07-05
Twitter Updates for 2011-07-02
- @shoemaker62 hi there! #
- testing twitter… #
- @shoemaker62 hi test2 #
Twitter Updates for 2011-07-01
- Another hyperlocal blog goes dark: http://injersey.com/2011/06/29/injersey-signing-out/ #
- Struggling to decide if I should enter the Online Journalism Awards $100 is a *lot* to a micro-site #OJA2011 #
Should I Upgrade to Windows 7
One of my friends asked me: “I’m currently running my Gateway laptop on Windows Vista OS and I’ve been advised to upgrade to Windows 7. Does anyone have thoughts on the benefits or detriments of doing this? ”
The general advice I give for upgrades is: “Does (new system/app) do something that you really need that your (current system/app) can’t do?” If the answer is no, then don’t upgrade. For operating systems, wait until you get a new computer. Why do you need the upgrade? Who is recommending you upgrade? If it’s the guys at Best Buy or some other computer store, I’d guess they are more interested in taking your money than helping fulfill a need you are having.
My primary machine is an iMac, and it is running OS X 10.5, while 10.7 is due out in July. My laptop is actually running 10.4. They do what I need then to do. The new features in 10.6 are nice, but not enough to disrupt my current working processes. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.
Spam to Old Unique Email Addresses
Over the past two weeks I’ve started getting spam that was sent to various unique email addresses I had given to sites upon account registration. These sites include:
- ShowCrew Network
- Google Groups
- Knight News Challenge
- AirplayDirect.com
- AuctionAds.com (originally an Ebay Ad System, now fallen into the clutches of an educational scammer)
- washingtoncitypaper.com
While I don’t see any immediate connection between these companies, all of my registrations took place at last two years ago. I’d guess that either the spam-spiders have been making new efforts at leeching email addresses off of old websites, or all of these services were using some central system to manage their mailing lists and that system was compromised.
Twitter Updates for 2011-06-26
- My three "free" tickets to visit the Washington Monument cost me $7.28. #
- @ONA WhyTF are you playing loud video when we visit the site? http://t.co/kHY9GVe And no way to silence or close it?!? Bad web design #
- @nacin Use the PlainText app, from Hog Bay Software. It uses Dropbox to sync text files automagically #
Twitter Updates for 2011-06-24
- @SwiftRiver where is the userguide for swiftly sweeper? The link goes to an empty directory http://t.co/N43Kaq6 #
- @crisiscamp Why is the "overview" video at http://t.co/2xn076B marked private? #
Twitter Updates for 2011-06-19
- I'm looking for recommendations for forum software, phpbb vs bbpress vs smf #
Twitter Updates for 2011-06-16
- @sarahgodfrey Did you upgrade to the newest version of iTunes? 10.3.something I think #
Twitter Updates for 2011-06-14
- I am planning to start posting reviews of various iPad apps. I've got a zillion games and other apps that need to be written about. #
- Review of Moonlight Mahjong, an iPad game by @midnightmartian http://planetmike.com/goto/1406 #
- Are sites that run Text-Link-Ads still penalized by Google? #