Twitter users have grumbled about ‘missing’ tweets or messages that don’t appear in their timelines after it’s been sent. And the noise about Twitter’s frequent downtimes is getting louder with users frustrated at not being able to use Twitter’s services. Hence the ever increasing cases of micro-blogging platform migration from Twitter to Plurk and other services.
Despite the lack of reliability of Twitter, especially over the past few weeks, users are still keeping faith with it, myself included. Call us addicts? Maybe. That’s why a service such as Twiddict could come in handy for those times when Twitter is down.
It’s like a holding place for your tweets when Twitter is broken. Twiddict will constantly ping the Twitter API to see if the service is up again and sends your messages as soon as it’s ok.
I’ve yet to try it. Usually when Twitter goes down, I’d 1) give up and stay quiet until it’s back up again, or 2) Plurk!, but as Mashable reports, it’s worrying when an application or service capitalizes on Twitter’s frequent service disruptions.
In a similar vein to my drawings, I was creating larger forms from small segments. Toddlerpedes evolved over the years to imitate insects and mythological creatures. These days I am surrounded by them. They are my children, mini me’s that I find irresistibly cute. The Toddlerpede has demanded much more attention than my drawings. The popularity of my little friends has been a pleasant surprise.
As freaky as they may be, I kind of like them. I like freaky stuff like this!
After lots of trying and grunting, Maya’s finally gotten the hang of crawling. All that push-up training we’ve put her through must have done lots of good for her upper body strength. She looks cute trying to grab toys or whatever she can get her chubby hands on, even if it’s gone under her body.
No tumbles so far, unlike her brothers’ fondness for tumbling and falling off the bed. It won’t be long now before she starts to walk, judging from her incessant need to stand whenever she’s in the car.
Update: 6/6/08 07:00 : I spoke too soon. Maya was on our bed. I fell asleep while waiting for my turn in the shower. Apparently she rolled/climbed over the pillow that was supposed to stop her from falling over the edge. I immediately got up and found her on the floor next to our bed, crying. Took her a while, but she calmed down in the end. Must have been a fright for her. Her first major fall.
Young and old, men and women, all around the world have seen, heard or even gotten on board the still popular Facebook bandwagon, including these two elderly ladies.
It seems that the web and all these micro-blogging platforms are making sending messages easier, but at the same time, impose a limit on the number of words that can be used. Case in point, Twitter and Plurk.
Now comes something even more succinct - one word blogging, a.k.a nano-blogging, introduced by Adocu. It’s a microblogging service like Twitter, but you can only send one word, no spaces, dashes, underscores, etc., but there’s no limit to the number of letters you can use in your posts.
So it’ll come out like: thisisatestpostonadocu.
As if Twitter and Plurk aren’t confusing or overwhelming enough for some people, they have to come up with this?? I think I’ll pass.
This blogger is swimming in a relentless tide of headless dogs and other weird creatures that is Plurk. Will be back as soon as he’s stopped being dizzy.
Because Sarah Jessica Parker looks like a horse. Well, according to this site she does.
You know when you’re in the upper stratosphere of fame when a parody site says you look like a horse, it’s actually a tribute and is hugely popular on the internet.
Angelina Jolie says she has real versions of the guns used by Lara Croft in the Tomb Raider movies in her home and she’s not afraid to use them on an intruder should one tries to trespass one of her and Brad Pitt’s homes.
Hot MILF with guns. Yummmm!
Lara Croft’s guns would be a nice prop to have actually. That and maybe the One Ring from Lord of the Rings and the Sorting Hat from Harry Potter.
