Tweets on 2008-03-26

  • Racked with indecision and not quite managing to book hotels or flights for Munich. #
  • Driving to Derby to fix the internet. #
  • Booking flights for a long weekend in Munich in July #
  • Unbelievable! Just had one of those irritating "write off your debt" public awareness messages on my MOBILE! #
  • Email from Sainsburys: "Spring is coming so time to change your fabric conditioner!" Does anyone really think like that?! #
  • Wondering why GoogleMail keeps serving me ads for "The most experienced exhumation company in the UK" #
  • On a scrutiny meeting looking at new white streetlights. #
  • Eep. 30 quid for half a tank. #

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Tweets on 2008-03-25

  • Thinking I might stop following Clinton on Twitter if she can’t keep under 140 chrs #
  • @miketd "maybe next time" – presumably you’ve already had that joke. #
  • Oh dear. Cat labouring under misapprehension that landing window is new route in. #
  • Printing the next FOCUS leaflet. And reading about Stephanie Plum mud-wrestling. #
  • @jamesgraham I’m seriously considering having some come to phone and all of them through RSS. #
  • @jamesgraham Trouble is, deciding which. Plus I get as many messages from tracks as from contacts. #
  • @jamesgraham as far as I know, you can only get the tracks from a mobile? #
  • @jamesgraham I am, however, struggling to think of owt particularly useful I’ve got from tracks. #
  • Fleeing the crazies in late nite Tesco. Buying Strongbow in a Spongebob Squarepants dressing gown. #
  • @miketd You got the mo! #

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Tweets on 2008-03-23

  • Not a whisper of snow in Nottingham. #
  • Out with my camera taking photos. #
  • Can’t find any lemons anywhere. Might have to make grapefruit drizzle cake. #
  • Making cake #
  • Shouting at radio. We do NOT need more sport on Radio 4 when they have an entire channel for that on MW! #
  • @libdemjo depends what you think of trickle-down economics #
  • Looking at both cakes I made and wondering whether six people can eat all that tomorrow. #
  • Wondering if you can count "parliamentarian" as a double dactyl, if you don’t pronounce the first a. #
  • @pinkdog you can’t go back and correct your spelling, or those of us getting texts get two. You got "preteneding" but missed "neigbours" #
  • Can’t believe I’m teaching a dog to twitter. #

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Linky linky II

I’ve been spending a scant half-hour on the Flickr blog and found several interesting things.

Mainly Photojojo, which has lots of interesting tips, tricks and tutorials.

They also have Time Capsule, an interesting gizmo that delves into your own Flickr photos from last year and emails interesting ones to you. I signed up and it sent me this, from last March when I was up to my neck in leaflets for the elections in Nottingham and Chesterfield.

30,000 leaflets

There was also a link to Postcrossing an interesting idea that has obviously grown from Bookcrossing. On Postcrossing, you register your name and address and then click a button to get addresses from other users around the world. You send a postcard to someone on the other side of the planet, and in return the website will have a postcard sent to you from somewhere else. I’ve registered, and got addresses in Finland, France, Spain, Germany and Canada. Should keep me busy for a wee while!


Postcards

Obviously, Flickr’s great for photographs, but I’ve been paying a bit of attention to the social and discussion sides too, since discovering there’s going to be a national Flickrmeet in Nottingham. We’re also having a little local meet in Newstead next Saturday.

Stuff white people like

Post of the Week this week flagged up, amongst other worthies, “Stuff white people like” which is quite entertaining.  POTW suggested #90, Dinner Parties was good, and I rather like #88, Having Gay Friends. Judging by the huge, huge numbers of comments, other people rather like it too.

It’s a rather jaundiced view of white guys, and if you’re not prepared to admit it’s you, you will at least know people like that.

I’m going to have to read it back through time, and add it to the blogroll.

Congrats to Lynne Featherstone

Lynne Featherstone thinks she has become the first MP to use Twitter. She’s not entirely right, Alan Johnson had a go during his Labour deputy leadership campaign, but stopped when he didn’t get in, so that probably doesn’t count.

I’ve written about this at length over on Lib Dem Voice, so I’m not going to duplicate it here.

In the process of writing the piece, I signed up for Barack Obama’s twitter feed, and I’ve just received an email from the Twitterbot:

Hi, Alex Foster.

Barack Obama (BarackObama) is now following your updates on Twitter.

Check out Barack Obama’s profile here:

http://twitter.com/BarackObama

Best,
Twitter

This means I can now send him direct messages. It’s nice to know I have a direct line to one of the most powerful men on the planet.

Speaking of the most powerful men on the planet, I did try and send a direct message to Iain Dale whilst writing the LDV piece, but unfortunately, unlike Barack Obama, Iain doesn’t follow me. I was trying to find out if any Tory MPs twitter, figuring if anyone knew, it would be Iain.

While I was trying to google Twitter Conservative, I did find this reaction to this post about a guy live-twittering his wife’s er, accouchement, which I found entertaining. My friends who had a baby ten days ago have blogged about it in lots of fascinating gory detail, but not quite to that extent!