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So, I was a dumbass and I deleted my twitter. Boo me, I know. It was in a fit of drama lama and wasn’t very thought through, to the point where I guess I didn’t 100% realise that there was no undelete. And I miss my old username and my normal email address. Your help pages says that the username and email address are only blocked for 30 days, and it’s been more than that now, so can I please be krazycat again?
I fully recognise that I was a total dumbass and that you don’t need to do nuthin’ for me, I clicked okay after all, twice. But imagine me looking a bit like this: http://pics.livejournal.com/cleolinda/pic/001t79ff – that’s my sad little face. Don’t you want to make my sad little face into a happy face instead?
See, I’m trying to win you over with humour. Is it working? Please twitter, we’ve been buds for a while. I just don’t know how to quit you. Let me have back my username, so that I can mourn my lost @replies from michael sheen and john hodgman under my real internet nick that’s been with me since 1997.
Still not convinced? Okay twitter, I understand. I’m not gonna cry. Have a lovely fourth of July weekend, one and all. Me, I’m Norwegian (UK Resident) so for me, it’s just “weekend”.
Thanks for reading!
Love, Tinkertake
(actual support request submitted to twitter)
Did I just manage to get Semagic to work with thisspaceblank?
ETA: YESSSSSS
Do you remember back in the day, when we told each other everything and social media didn’t exist? When our journals were public and no one knew where to look for them? Where entries were frequent, and long, and we read them?
Do you remember how we used to write, before the limitations of status updates and 140 characters? Do you remember when we were younger and sharing wasn’t so scary? When the Internet wasn’t somewhere your boss would look for you? And the Internet was a different place entirely, separate from the Real World? Do you remember how free it felt? Do you remember finding each other, complete strangers, and creating bonds that by now have lasted 5, 10, 12 years?
Do you remember when it was all new and exciting? It’s not that Internet any longer. It’s information overload and comments – comments everywhere that make me lose faith in humanity’s ability to not only comprehend the written word, but more importantly the lack of empathy leaves me cold and worried. The Internet – which I loved for the joy and adventure we shared, more than ever it’s gut reaction and taking great pleasure in condemning complete strangers who may have made a mistake. The Internet takes the worst of humanity and combines it with news articles, as if allowing the Great Public to lower the tone is furthering the conversation.
Maybe it was always like this. Maybe I’m becoming bitter and old. Maybe I’ve changed more than the Internet. But it’s not my Internet any longer, it’s not my playground like it used to be. And it feels like I’ve lost something.
This was a widget, but both wordpress and LJ stripped the code out, so that was pretty useless.
Probably.
True story. Twitter suddenly refused to post my tweet! And I couldn’t access twitter.com! I figured my internet was down, but then it turned out to be just twitter. I was distraught in my inability to tweet about my inability to tweet in general. Or something. So instead I sent some IMs to sep. Then I realised twitter wasn’t down anymore. The whole thing took roughly three minutes.
[10:28 PM] Self: I R TWITTER ADDICT
[10:28 PM] Self: I DUNNO HOW TO DEAL WITH TWITTERDOWN
[10:28 PM] Self: I CAN’T EVEN TWEET ABOUT IT
[10:28 PM] Self: IT IS NO LONGER DOWN
[10:28 PM] Self: AS YOU WERE
[10:28 PM] sep: >.>
I probably need help.
I have been a happy user of BookMooch for the last several months. I’ve given away twice as many books as I have requested and I’ve happily spent quite a lot of money on the postage, to get books to people who really want them. I recently stopped mooching as I am moving over to digital books as much as possible, and re-listed several books that I’d just received, most of which where picked up quickly. I got quite the surly email from someone who received a book today:
Thanks for sending me the book. I’m a bit disappointed about the state of the book, though. It is really rather bad which I do not remember in your condition description. The covers are stained, creased, yellowed and dog-eared; the spine is badly broken falling open on a particular page with that section about to come loose; and the whole book is yellowed with a large water stain at the top extending through about half of it.
I suggest that you donate my point back to me as this book is meant for permanent collection and I would like to get a better copy than this.
…..you suggest what now? Your free book wasn’t good enough for you, so you want your point back? For the uninitiated, you “pay” for books with points and get a point for each book you send out.
I gave the person 5 points with the following message:
Here, have five. Now you have enough to get however many more books you want. Word of advice – if you care so much about the condition, ask the people you mooch from. Or buy the book second hand on Amazon, rather than complaining about free books.
Honestly, some people. It’s a book exchange site, not a shop. You get what you pay for, and that book was free. It was actually in the same condition when I received it, and I had no problem with it whatsoever.
I think I’m going to start giving my books to charity shops again instead, especially as bookmooch is only an expense for me now – I’m not requesting any books as I am trying to de-clutter.
I happily accept this offering from hip-hop to the nerdy girls of the world. Awesome.
Wow. NiN have seriously raised the bar for how bands use technology to interact with fans and promote their music. I’m really, really impressed. It doesn’t hurt that this is one of my favourite bands, of course. I’m a proud little fangirl today!!
[Terminator Salvation]
If you go to the Skynet Research website now, you hear an audio disturbance. This is of course a clue, and I was sure the sound was just sped up, so I recorded it, and changed the speed. Here’s the result:
Can you make out what he’s saying? I can’t! Send help – I’ll update the post with the best guesses.
ETA: Viral marketing is already way ahead of us. But that blog post wasn’t there when I checked the site earlier!
This is Recon Team 17 to Base. Base, do you read? Requesting extraction. Say again, we’re overdue by three days and are stationed here and are ready to debriefed. Say again, we’ve completed reconnaissance. We’re prepared to prep all tech com units on standby attack. Current coordinates [garbled]. Repeat, units [garbled] four man team. 1 injured. We’ll attempt next contact at 0900 hours.
Woo! Now, what on earth are they talking about? And is the movie out yet? I’m looking forward to this!
Fujitsu Flepia is slow, expensive, but heralds a color e-paper age – Boing Boing Gadgets.
I have an iRex iLiad myself and love it to bits. To me, this is the most exciting thing happening in gadget world right now. My hope is that e-book readers will revolutionise the book industry in the same way the iPod has changed how we buy music. The Kindle is a good step in the right direction – especially when it comes to availability of titles – but I can’t wait to see what happens next.
My main concern with e-books so far is that they’re difficult to find, every online store for e-books I’ve seen have been a nightmare to navigate. And as many smart people, including Jakob Nielsen have pointed out, the e-book readers are great for fiction, but horrible for non-fiction. I have attempted to read manuals on the iLiad, and it’s an absolute nightmare.
Will the technology move to a point where you can quickly scroll through the pages of the book, like you can with a hard copy? Here’s hoping.