One Thousand Tweets

A link to this blog post, a post about a thousand tweets, will become the thousandth tweet on my twitter account. So I thought I’d take a moment and reminisce.

Grow up!

Everything it seems is born, grows old and then it dies. Interesting then to compare humanity to a human lifetime.

☑ Choose a todo application

I’ve been looking for a way to manage my tasks for a few years now. I’ve tried web based approaches as well as desktop apps. After years of misery here is the current state of affairs.

Flying high

Traveling is great fun. Flying is a step up from that. Or at least it used to be.

Signs of (material) love

There are many ways to mark a wedding anniversary. One might have a nice dinner, go on a holiday getaway, have heaps of sex or simply get a divorce. But in our consumer society that we are still trying to keep afloat, giving gifts is usually the best way to go. What to give of course depends on how long one has been together. After all, those expensive gifts need to be earned.

Microsoft’s Acid Reflux

Microsoft recently claimed, among other things, that they follow browser standards and that indications otherwise are only myths. Below are results from the ACID 3 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid_3) tests I conducted with all browsers I happened to have, including Internet Explorer 8. I was surprised by the results, but I really should not have been.

The king is dead

Yes it is true. The king is dead. The king of pop that is. It was his ticker. It went pop. And the media has gone into meltdown. They are interviewing everyone. The guy who saw MJ cross the street in ‘84. The guy who cleaned the toilet when Mike went for a pee in ‘87. Also, the dog who sniffed the pavement that Jacko walked on in ‘93. The most exciting part of the media coverage for me are the words “and in other news…”

The Happy Grand Adventure

It has been a while since the last set of trip posts. So here is one straight from the plane on the way to happy San Francisco. More will follow from Phoenix as well as the Grand Canyon.

ArseTech: With support like that, I’d rather be on my own

After more than a decade, I bought a new computer game. I unpacked it. I installed it. The game didn’t start. I was able to fix the game, but the IT support at EA Games is permanently kaputt.

Lost for tweets II – Gone completely

Well there you have it. I was just trying to inform my large following about further exciting things in my exciting life, when twitter.com died completely.