Twine
I've just been given a beta invite to Twine. I'm not sure I quite understand it, to be honest. They talk about the Semantic Web a lot. I think it's sort of like a combination of blogging and sharing links del.icio.us-style in a highly-searchable fashion. I tried joining a few "twines", which seem to be common threads for posts, but just feel a bit overloaded by the barrage of information that lays on you. I already have a hard enough time keeping up with all the rss feeds I subscribe to without watching Twines as well. Maybe it'll click for me, like Twitter did recently, but I'm unconvinced.
Drop me a line if you'd like an invite to try it out yourself.
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We Got The Love
It feels like summer is actually starting at last. Yesterday was warm enough to dispense with a jacket, even in the evening when coming back from the Arches. We were at the "last-ever" Triptych party performing with the choir. What an odd, but amazing evening it was. Originally we were supposed to be the first act on. This would have seen us performing to about five people, probably, but we were still excited to be playing such a high-profile gig, and The Arches is one of my favourite venues - favourite places, even - in Glasgow. For whatever reason, however, the organizers decided to shuffle us to a much later slot, and we found ourselves sandwiched between Four Tet and Candi Staton. How cool is that! It also meant that we had a large crowd to sing to, whose drugs of choice (mostly alcohol I'm sure, but the lass with the saucer-pupils who lunged at me and wanted to scratch my beard because "it looked itchy" sure wasn't in the grip of Tennants lager) made them pretty appreciative. At one point a guy down the front loudly announced that he wanted to shag the entire choir. This was nice of him to say so and I look forward to my turn. Sound-checking at 4 and playing at 10 made for a long day, but what an exciting one.
We got home exhausted, but pretty happy. Unfortunately, some time during the night I managed to get my head into a bad place, woke up, and couldn't settle down again. We recently bought Super Mario Galaxy for the Wii, which is a delight on a par with SM64 so far, so a bit of time spent running around tiny planets and collecting stars helped sort me out, but I'm absolutely knackered today.
Wiggles, and by extension his mum, is getting pretty big now, and kicking really hard. The other night I was resting my hand on R's belly when he gave me quite a whack. Hope this isn't the beginning of a lifetime of parent-son conflict.
Thursday, April 10, 2008
Twittering
I signed up for Twitter aages ago, but only because I had a vague notion of writing a Poster plugin for it. I never really got the point of it, oddly enough, until I started using Facebook, and enjoyed watching my friend's status updates and wished that I had a little app that would let me see them all at once and update my own. Which is basically what Twitter is. D'oh. And I only made that connection today after mar-c basically said the same thing. I'll probably get bored with it within a week, but at least I can sort-of see the point of it now. I've added a widget to the left sidebar there to show my latest updates. Well, it's quicker than actually blogging.
Baby-wise, R is getting pretty big and the little fella is kicking harder and harder, which is uncomfortable for her, but does allow those of us out here to feel him sometimes. It really brings home the fact that there's a little person in there, and we really can't wait to see him, even though we're both stressed out of our minds. We really need to get out of this flat, but we still haven't put it on the market, though we're getting close to having it in a sellable state, I think.
Flat-improvement will be put on hold this weekend, however, since we're going to a friend's wedding. I will be kilted and everythink. Not as some statement of nationalistic pride, but because it's a bit of a laugh, to be honest.
I haven't abandonded Poster, though updates have slowed due the inevitable encroachment of real life and responsibility and that. Version 0.2 will see the light of day soon, however.
Anyway, just dashing this off in a few stolen minutes before I go back and finish the dishes. Such excitement!
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