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May 26th, 2009

TweetGenius !!

There is a new BlackBerry Twitter Client in town and I’m very excited!! Longtime Twitter Friend and Rockstar Coder, @Dossy has teamed up with BoyGenius to bring the world TweetGenius!!! I got set up with an account earlier today and I have been casually kicking it’s tires.

Be advised I am running it on my pearl and visually there are a few kinks since the app is programmed for a larger screen size then my little pearl, but overall functionality is working quite nicely :)

TweetGenius

For one, I am in love with the icon. I think it looks really cute on my home screen…and as a girl cute is very important to me!

TweetGenius

These little chat bubbles expand as you type and when you send the message the explode with a poof ! Again, rates high on the cuteness scale :D

TweetGenius

The time line is clean and easy to scan which is important when you follow so many awesome people, like I do! (Props to @kspidel , @Banannie, @Bud_Caddell, @ChazFrench).

I haven’t tested all the features just yet, but I know you guys like to know about what’s hot & happening so who am I to hold you back? Check the TweetGenius Blog for the latest features and get your Download Here!! The app is priced at $9.99 but you can get it now at only $4.99 for a limited time.

Tweet Responsibly!

May 25th, 2009

The Woman in My Parent’s Bathroom.

There is a woman hanging over the toilet in my parent’s guest bathroom. When I use it I see her reflection in the vanity mirror and think about all that her life has become.

The Woman in My Parent's Bathroom

She sits in a restaurant with a glass of wine and writing paper & pen. At times she appears to be waiting, others she is reflecting over what she has written or going to write. Deep in thought.

I would not want to have to face her head on like a guy does. She does NOT look impressed and it’s gotta be a bit of a kick in the ego to stand there with her staring at you. LOL

I wish I could tell you who’s painting this is. I want to say Renoir, but I am not sure.

May 14th, 2009

Twistery: Stickin it to the Bird

If you’re on Twitter (these days who isn’t?) you would have had to be blind to not notice the uproar over some changes to @replies. I caught a bit of it Tuesday evening when a few friend posted links mentioning changes, but I didn’t stop to learn about what exactly was happening. By the time I went to turn off my Twitter nightlight all holly hashtag hell had broken lose and practically every Tweet was chanting #fixreplies.

Lucky me to have, what I consider, a very “in the know” and “on the pulse” friend list. I rely on my Tweeps to provide insight on what is happening in the world, social media and the internets in general. Since returning to a Corporate world of employment I’ve lost a lot of my networking & social time.

I’m still not entirely sure what the scope of the changes were that caused the revolt, but I get amusement out of watching my Tweeps rant & rave whenever the service changes or performs badly. Inevitably everyone feels the need to migrate to some other service, whether it be in search of a Twitter replacement or just to stick it to Twitter for jacking with us.

Over the course of the years I have followed suit with the migrations, acquiring new accounts on various Twitter like services. First it was Pounce, followed closely by Jaiku – both moves from what I can recall were based on massive Twitter service interruptions… and this was long before the days of that fancy lil Fail Whale. Then there was a bit of time where Twitter was kind of working, but many of us held on and adapted twitku – a Twitter/Jaiku hybrid.

It seemed like every few months we were jumping ship and running to some shiny new service to keep up with each other, I can’t even remember all the accounts I have out there!, but we always returned to Twitter (well most of us). There’s no denying that Twitter was the 1st of it’s kind and despite the bumps and grinds of becoming who they are today, they are the best at what they do.

So you can imagine when I saw what was happening Tues night my 1st thought was – Where are we going now? Seems like FriendFeed is the choice this time around, and has been quite a few times in the past. What cracks me up is if you look closely you will see that the majority of users are primarily aggregating their Twitters over! I’m getting a kick out of this… enough to inspire me to babble on about it here :)

So go on Twittervers! Hashtag it up & Stick it to the Bird!! He always welcomes his Tweeties back with open wings.

Ah, and I am happy to see @Biz’s recent post on the new plan of action on the way @replies are handled – Very much looking forward to kickin those tires. Hope they consider rolling it out to their beta group before public release solely for the fact that I’m in ;)

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May 11th, 2009

In Dreams…

I tend to check my horoscope pretty regularly. Actually, I check multiple resources, but just for fun. I can thank my BFF Kat for instilling this in me as she has always been one to read not only her own, but those of her close friends.

One of Today’s struck me as interesting:

“You shouldn’t be surprised if you find that your intuition is very strong today. Your dreams could end up providing you with plenty of valuable insights as well. And you might find yourself worrying about certain issues and concerns right now when there’s really no point in it.”

My first thought is back to the dream I had last night, which I woke remembering quite vividly. I don’t often remember my dreams. I used to. I also used to have reoccurring dreams and to this day I still remember those that I encountered as a child. The ones that came to me night after night – mostly those with some sort of distress involved… running, getting trapped, falling.

Last night’s dream was quite strange. I’m really not sure at all what it meant or where is came from. I was at the beach standing on a seawall built up of rocks and dirt over looking the sand and waves. My cat, Johnny, was with me and I sat him up on the wall like a baby overlooking the waves as they crashed on to the beach. In the back of my head I was fearful that he would get spooked and turn on me, clawing my face as has happened in the past, but instead he got all excited and rushed down to the shore dashing in and out of the surf like a playful puppy.

I watched him for a moment as he ran around and suddenly I became scared that he was going to run away or get swept up in the current. My instinct was to grab a frisbee and I ran down to the beach to coerce him to come back to me. I did not intend to throw the frisbee for him, instead I was thinking he would see it and want to surf with it. LOL, where do these thoughts come from!? In my mind it seemed natural to me that he would be tempted to surf and it seemed so normal almost as if he had done so in the past.

I woke before anything else occurred. I thought about it a bit as I was coming into consciousness, but it was just so odd that I didn’t even try to figure what it all meant. I know some people interpret dreams, maybe one will read this and provide some insight?

Getting back to my horoscope – I don’t believe that the mention of dreams is to be taken to mean my literal dreams, and more of my wants and aspirations, but it just made me think…. and encouraged me to do a quick little mind dump. What better place to do so then to babble on my blog?

Thanks for tuning in! :D