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Good Morning, Mrs. President

Tuesday, November 18th, 2008

I used to have aspirations of becoming a president of the United States.  I was crushed in 8th grade when I found out that foreign-born American citizens need not apply.  Then my hopes were raised when I was told that foreign-born American citizens could become president…as long as both parents were citizens of the US at time of birth.  Awww, drat!

Congrats to Barack Obama and all, but I think I have finally reached the end of my presidential aspirations (or delusions, at least).  After reading this article in the New York Times, I will never again want to become president…ever.  I cringe when I think of what Obama is going to have to go through once he’s sworn in.

I know you’re all about change, Mr. President-to-Be.  But I think this is definitely one rule you should get changed ASAP, for your sake and for those of us techies who dream (or used to dream) of holding the highest office in the nation.

Maybe I should txt him…

her new toy by you.


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This is a test of Windows Live Writer (Beta)

Saturday, October 11th, 2008

My husband told me to try this out, and so far, it’s alright…

Let’s try a picture:

bloom

It resized my picture to something more manageable.  That’s pretty cool.

Now let’s see if it can handle video:

 

And now…to post!

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Twitter

Friday, June 13th, 2008

A few months ago, my husband introduced me to Twitter. To my immense amusement, I signed up for an account and began “tweeting”. I must confess – anything that has birds or is bird-themed will catch my attention, and it didn’t help that Twitter’s website has the same bird as my blog. Yeah, I was hooked.

It was fun for a few weeks, and then the honeymoon phase was over. Twitter is down a lot! Features will stop working, the site will be over capacity, etc. In their defense, however, I must say that they have the best “site is down go away” page ever – absolutely adorable, in my humble opinion.

Now how could anyone get mad at a whale being transported by little birdies? How?!

Needless to say, I have gained a few more friends since joining, mainly in the categories of techies, future internet billionaires, and random stalkers. The random stalkers aren’t so bad. Their “friend” count goes up by automatically adding me. If it makes them feel a little better about their life, that’s fine with me. It’s those future internet billionaires you’ve got to watch out for… (just kidding).

A classmate in my grad class recommended using Twitter as a means of notifying students and parents of homework that was due. Sounded like an interesting idea, but with how much Twitter is down, it might not work out too well. Hmmm…

Do you use Twitter? How do you like it?

-CT

P.S. – Not to be superstitious or anything, but I find it ironic that I post about Twitter’s woes on Friday the 13th. No correlation whatsoever…ever…

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