Saturday 28 March 2009

When graphic artists get bored

An apology

This is the first time I haven't made an entry in this blog on a Saturday, but I've been a bit busy with a wireless router.

Normal service will be resumed as soon as possible!

Tuesday 10 March 2009

Sunday 8 March 2009

A Twitter Glossary

A
>At reply or "@reply" - a tweet that is directed to a fellow Twitter user.  Can be a statement or question.

D
>Drunktwittering - Similar to drunk dialing.
>Dweet - Tweet sent while drunk

F
>Failwhale- the whale held up by birds and string that shows that Twitter has crashed.  In danger of extinction, but still seen from time to time.
>Friendapalooza - A scheduled burst of friend-adding on Twitter and other social networks. 

H
>Hash Tag - the "#" sign which allows Twitters users to group their tweet with a particular event or conversation.  The hash tag makes it easier to search that particular conversation on TwitterSearch. The hash tag is used like this: #pbwiki

I
>Iltwitterate - not understanding Twitter (coined by @jasonmitchener on January 1, 2009)

L
>Link - Tiny URL for Twitter Glossary http://tinyurl.com/2f9pq7

M
>Mistweet - A tweet one later regrets. See here: http://urltea.com/gs7

R
>ReporTwitters - bunch of journalists publishing 'reality style' tweets in conjunction with their articles.
>ReTweet - to re-post something that someone already posted to their Twitter stream. Usually proceeded with "RT" and "@username" at the beginning of the post to give credit to the person who originally posted.

S
>SnapTweet - snapping a mobile photo, uploading to Flickr, and using http://snaptweet.com to post it to your Twitter stream

T
>Twactor - someone who pretends to be a real life identity on Twitter.
>Twittcrastination - avoiding action while Twittering, procrastination enabled by Twitter use
>Twadd - To add someone as a friend - mutual followers.
>Twaggle - A gaggle of followers.
>Twals- people you become pals with via twitter (coined by @collmiller)
>Twaigslist - To sell something via twitter. Also Twebay.
>Twaiting - Twittering while waiting
>Twaffic - Twitter traffic.
>Twardware - Twitter hardware.
>Twashdot - News for twitterers. Stuff that doesn't matter.
>Twaunt - To taunt someone over twitter.
>Twead - To read a twitter.
>Twebay - To offer something for sale via twitter. Also Twaigslist.
>Tweekend - Spending your entire Saturday and Sunday reading and posting via Twitter. (coined by Kim M. Bayne )
>Tweeple - Twitter people, Twitter members, Twitter users
>Tweepish - Feeling sheepish or regretful about something you tweeted.
>Tweeps - Twitterites that follow each other from one social media/network to another.
>Twease - A person who teases people over Twitter.
>Tweet-back - Bringing a previous tweet conversation or reference back into the current conversation.
>Tweet-dropping - Eavesdropping on someone's else's Home Page in With Friends mode.
>Tweetaholism - the continued use of Twitter as an addiction that is difficult to control
>Tweeter - A user of Twitter (compare: Twitterer).
>Tweet - Not only a message on Twitter but another term for a Twitter user (often jokingly >mistaken for a Twit).
>Tweet Pushers - Writers (guest bloggers) whose ideas and suggestions that will be featured at The Wall Tweet Journal www.walltweetjournal.com
>Tweeterboxes - Twitterers who tweet too much
>Tweetheart - that special someone who makes your heart skip a beat
>Tweether - Where lost tweets go to die. coined by Damon Clinkscales
>TweetIn - When a group of twitterers agree to get together at a set time to twitter
>Tweet(ing) - The act of posting to Twitter
>Tweetard - A twitter retard.
>Tweets - Posts on Twitter by twitterers.
>Tweetsulted, Tweetsult - What do you think it means, you dumb twitterer?
>TweetUp - When twitterers meet in person in one's home nest. Example: Denver TweetUp in May. TweetUps - The meeting place for all Twitterers to TweetUp!.
>Tweory - Twitter as applied to theory.  Seehttp://tweory.pbwiki.com
>Twexplanation - Sending a nebulous tweet and having to explain it while offline from twitter.
>Twhepherd - The Twitter employee that finds and restores lost followers to your twaggle.
>Twittercal mass- A community that has achieved a critical mass of twitterers.
>Twibute - To pay tribute to s.o. on Twitter; to give praise, to make a compliment etc. (Example)
>Twideo-cronicity - When you're watching someone's videos and they are simultaneously leaving a comment or tweet for/at/about you.
>Twike - To ride a bike with twitter.
>TwinkedIn - Inviting friends made on Twitter to "connect with you on LinkedIn"
>Twis - To dis a fellow twitterer. Bad form.
>Twisticuffs - Fighting with a fellow twitterer over twitter.
>Twitch - When you tweet a typo causing you to tweet a correction before getting a load of replies. (coined by @MattPenner)
>Twiterature - Quotes from literature on twitter. Marked by #twiterature. It's a Thing.
>Twitosphere - Community of twitterers
>Twittastic - Fantastic, wonderful, superb; coined by the folks at Twitterholic when referring to their robots
>Twittcrastination - Twittering as a form of procrastination
>Twittduit - If you need to Tweet a friend that does not follow you, post a Twittduit asking your followers to pass a message.
>Twitter-Light Zone - Where you are when you return to Twitter after any time away and feel disoriented and lost.
>Twitterati - The glamorous A-List twitterer's everyone wants to follow.
>Twitterbate - To masturbate to another user's tweets.
>Twitterer - A user of Twitter (compare: Tweeter).
>Twittectomy - unfollowing friends
>Twittering - To send a Twitter message.
>Twitterish - Erractic behavior with short outbursts.
>Twitteritas - Women who play with their twitters.
>Twittfeinated, Twigged Out, Twired - To be so hyped up on twittering that you cannot sleep
>Twitterfly - Being a social butterfly on Twitter evidenced by extreme usage of @ signs.
>Twitterject - Interject your tweet into an existing tweet stream of conversation.
>Twitter-ku - Those who either post on both Twitter and Jaiku or load their Twitter feed into Jaiku.
>Twitterlibrium - The amount of following_me and followers_you is equal. Coined by @20sth . It's a Thing.
>TwitterLinkr - A service collecting the best links posted trough Twitter
>Twitterlooing - Twittering from a bathroom.
>Twitterloop - To be caught up with friend tweets and up on the conversation.
>Twittermob - An unruly and ragtag horde of people who descend on an ill-prepared location after a provocative Twitter message.
>Twittermaps - A mashup technology that lets Twitter users find each other using Google maps.
>Twitterpated - To be overwhelmed with Twitter messages.  Or to have a brief, but intense crush on another Twitter user.
>Twitterphoria - The elation you feel when the person you've added as a friend adds you back.
>Twitterrhea - The act of sending too many Twitter messages.
>Twitterrific and Twitteroo - Two services that let users post to Twitter using a Mac or PC.
>Twitterrific (2) - a really good Twitter thing
>Twitterstream - the twitter timeline (public or friends)
>Twittertories - Clusters of twittererers that follow and friend each other with little overlap with other clusters.
>Twittonary - dictionary of twitter terminology
Twittertude - Bad Twitter attitude. Or a state of being, like solitude only with other people present.
>Twittfessional - A confession made on Twitter
>Twitticisms - Witty tweets
>Twittilate - To arouse with tweets.
>Twittish - Too skittish to twitter.
>Twittsomnia - Twittering due to inability to sleep, thus compounding inability to sleep.
>Twittworking - Networking with Twitterites using Twitter
>Twixt and tween - Can't decide who or what to tweet
>Twhiner - A twitterer who only ever posts whiney, negative tweets
>Twode - To hack on the twitter API.
>Twofor - Replying to two unrelated twitter msgs with a single tweet
>TwoingTwoing - To twitter about wonderful things.
>Twlocked - To be twitter blocked - similar to writers block but with more stress
>Twoogle - Twitter as the human Google. Pose a question, get near-instantaneous results. The Wall Tweet Journal
>Tword - Words formed by appending "Tw" to the original word (like most words in this list).
>Twoops - When you accidentally send a private sms to Twitter
>Twoosh - A full 140 character twitter.
>Twopsies - When you drop things because you are twittering.
>Twouche - Someone acting like a big fat jerk via twitter.
>Twurvey - A survey sent out over Twitter
>Twype - To type a twitter

Saturday 7 March 2009

Mathemagic

This is not one of those waste of time things, it’s fun.

1. First of all, pick the number of times a week that you would like to go out to eat (more than once but less than 10)

2. Multiply this number by 2 (just to be bold)

3. Add 5

4. Multiply it by 50

5. If you have already had your birthday this year add 1759 1 …If you haven’t, add 1758. 2

6. Now subtract the four digit year that you were born.

You should have a three digit number

The first digit of this was your original number. (I.e., How many times you want to go out to restaurants in a week.)

The next two numbers are YOUR AGE ! —— (Oh YES, it is!)

THIS IS THE ONLY YEAR (2009) IT WILL EVER WORK, SO SPREAD IT AROUND WHILE IT LASTS.

1 (Current year-250)
2 (Current year-251)