a brief history of inane drivel
Mark Krynsky posted a interesting post on Twitter (sorry, I simply can't bring myself to call them 'Tweets') inviting readers to share their first ever Twitter post.
Trawling through my own Twitter archives, I noted my first ever post was: 'just signed up. never thought I would' on 9 November 2007 although I had eariler aired my disdain on this blog way back on 12 March 2007.
Perusing the archives of my own continuous stream of inance drivel did unearth the odd gem - well OK then - the occaisional notable one-liner in a continuous stream of inance drivel.
- 'giving twitter yet another chance. After all, 3 Oracle bloggers can't be wrong !' - 23 January 2008
- 'The 140 limit is already imposing limits. When I hit it, the text box behaves strangely. You can cut text but DEL and BS don't work. Weird' - 23 January 2008
- 'I see txt spk is an obvious way to save characters but I despise it as I tend to write in English with proper sentence construction and gram' - 23 January 2008
- 'I once saw The Smiths on 3 successive nights in Warwick, Leicester and Coventry. It was the happiest time of my life - marriage, kids excepted. - 23 January 2008
- 'twhirl has search and shortening of URL's - nice' - 24 January 2008
- 'Want twitter id of 'stalker' so emails read 'Stalker is now following you'' - 24 January 2008
- PHP upgraded on Bluehost to 5.2.5 (from 5.1.6) so can use latest Habari. Only PDO mySQL driver no longer installed. Opened ticket with BH - 26 January 2008
- 'Just gave @michaeltwofish several sensible reasons why I won't be going to Habari (yet). Now importing WP blog to perform 'gap analysis' - 11 February 2008
- 'Finished tweaks to Habari Whitespace theme for XHTML compliance. Now fighting obsessive theme porting disorder' - 21 February 2008
- 'I am seriously wondering whether I will ever blog again. I am stuck in this 140 character mode of thinking' - 22 February 2008
- 'Email to colleague: 'Keegan worries me. He seems to have completely lost the passion. He seems a broken man' - 26 February 2008
- 'Is it just me or does everyone think 'Prophylactic' (medicine, condom) whenever they hear about Profilactic (FriendFeed competitor) ?' - 19 March 2008
- 'Disqus is an outsourced commenting system for blogs.Good: one-stop shop for all commenting. Bad: Every single blog needs to adopt:-)' - 25 March 2008
- 'Whoopee Doo ! Today is 'Dress down Friday'. So I am dressed and I am down.' - 28 March 2008
- 'Utd-Villa. Gatecrashing a bikers bday in a dodgy pub in Hull.' - 29 March 2008
- 'Wishing I had continued to use the alias 'RomanTotaleXVII' for longer because it simply was brilliant.' - 31 March 2008
- 'Bemused tourists at T5 gawping at 12 Englishmen dressed from head to toe in yellow lycra - http://tinyurl.com/ypkdgk ' - 31 March 2008
- 'I have uncovered the true meaning of blogging - an innate desire 'to be loved' - 1 April 2008
- 'This writing desk smells of beer. This writing desk smells of beer. You come to me with excuses. You wear me out. R.E.M Country Feedback' - 2 April 2008
- ''I'm not sure all these people understand' Once again, Michael Stipe nails the world's probems in just 8 words. Don't you just feel humble ?' - 2 April 2008
- 'This is why FriendFeed is truly 'disruptive'. It just keeps on probing, nagging away, posing difficult thought-provoking, questions' - 2 April 2008
- '@mathewbutler Accelerate, well it's R.E.M - the upbeat version. Obvious singles 'S-natural S-serious', 'Living Well', usual brilliant lyrics' - 6 April 2008
- '@michaeltwofish Hacienda now has mythical status. When you grew up in Manchester, it was just another music venue (and not even the best)' - 10 April 2008
- 'Just had a fantastic blowjob in men's toilets at LHR T5 - gate A2. The hand dryers in there are absolutely fantastic !' - 14 April 2008
- 'Wondering, if I should pre-decease Michael Stipe, whether my estate could afford R.E.M to attend my funeral and perform 'Country Feedback' - 20 April 2008
- 'Idea dump - Habari branded lingerie. Guaranteed to make $$$, capture large user base and catapult us over WP and Drupal' - 22 April 2008
- 'The prospect of ironing five shirts (in this state of mind) for my jaunt to Berne is not a pleasant one.' - 26 April 2008
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