Sometimes things just fall into your lap...

Other times you have to look for them!

With spring on the horizon I have been spending a lot of my time preparing for the summer. Raking old dead leaves off the lawn etc. But then there is also preparing and sending out packages from eBay and other sales sources. It seems that no matter how poor the economy is, people are always looking for a great deal on products online. Online security of course is the thing that holds most people back. I wrote a short blurb at my terminalgeek blog about how paypal and eBay have really helped to increase security with a security key fob they send to you.

Anyhow, what I really wanted to blog about was the phenomenon called "Twitter" What a socially geared toy this thing has become. Although as with most things it is fast becomming a tool for spamming. If used right though it can be used to maintain a list of followers, well I dunno exactly why but people seem to inherently want others to know what they are doing. The stars of Hollywood are perhaps justified in using this as a tool to reach out to their fans. But for common folks like me, what could we possibly want from all this? It's much easier than maintaining a web page and for people like Britney Spears she can short blog links to her photos and where abouts with only an iphone.

So if you can filter your way through all the people who want to detoxify you for free with some strange goo made in germany. You'll find twitter at least mildly amusing, and very unintrusive. I think that's the part I like the best. I can choose to just follow, or I can be a loudmouth and start commenting on conversations that I had no part in to begin with :) That's more like me I'm afraid...

Cheers!

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