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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-07-26

Jul 26

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• http://ping.fm/Y0p3q finally found another band kind of like Sieges even! #
• posted new blog: Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-07-19:
  Just ran: 7-12-09 Walk:
  Got out for a g.. http://bit.ly/T7dHr #
• dontcha hate it when you actually wake up early for a run but your kids have somehow lost your iPod and you waste all your time looking … #
• AHA! Nathan was the culprit who took my running iPod! I knew I wasn't going crazy! #
• posted new blog: My Love (I’ll Always Show): To keep the tradition alive, Stryper goes back to t.. http://bit.ly/LDcde #
• just locked down my twitter account…to many spammers!! #
• lookin' at friendfeed, maybe less spam there… #
• so far I'm digging the friendfeed interface and web services integration way better than twitter! http://ff.im/5wrhu #
• http://foxyurl.com/peI New Blog Post Up! #
• posted new blog: Murder By Pride: Happy Anniversary Stryper! 25 years ago today, they released t.. http://bit.ly/eLGPa #
• http://bit.ly/VV0Vi
  Trillion is the new Billion! http://ff.im/5wSVO #
• In honor of their 25th anniversary, I'm having a Stryper Music Marathon as I do the dishes! (the kids love it!) #
• Nacho Libre got shut down….tis The Sandlot instead! #
• I uploaded a YouTube video — iTunes Visualizer Walkthrough http://bit.ly/jMqOp #
• ran 5.26 km on 7/22/2009 at 5:38 AM with a pace of 7'49"/km
  http://bit.ly/cZmJ #
• STRYPER – Upcoming Tour To Feature Original Bassist TIM GAINES For Set Of Classics – http://foxyurl.com/pl3 #
• Just ran: 7-22-09 Run: Everything seemed to fall into place today. Had a great playlist – not.. http://bit.ly/33pNVh
  #nikeplus #
• Woman Found Dead at McDonald's Food Processing Plant – http://foxyurl.com/pkO – OK, never ever eating there again! http://ff.im/5zId2 #
• Woman Found Dead at McDonald's Food Processing Plant – http://foxyurl.com/pkO – OK, never ever eating there again! #
• grillin' some burgers! #
• I uploaded a YouTube video — iTunes Visualizer Walkthrough http://bit.ly/FvLwS #
• ran 5.74 km on 7/23/2009 at 5:39 AM with a pace of 7'39"/km
  http://bit.ly/aGHBd #
• I wish I was at Comic-con… #
• Just ran: 7-23-09 Run: Had an AWESOME run this morning. I ran all 5k, with no walking break! http://bit.ly/15Jo46
  #nikeplus #
• 10 Things The 'iPod Generation' Will Never Experience…: http://digg.com/d3yBco?t #
• metalman777 gave 5 stars to: Murder by Pride: metalman777 reviewed:Murder by Pride ~ Stryper   Best Stryper.. http://bit.ly/3qJXIY #
• posted new blog: Run In You: This song is slower pace than most of the other tracks that compris.. http://bit.ly/u8YH2 #
• Lost University – new Lost ARG? http://ping.fm/hcvuv #
• I uploaded a YouTube video — theelectronicas[dot]com http://bit.ly/WC8mQ #
• Still listening to The Complete Collection of The Crucified – everything remastered and remixed! Crap it sounds frakkin' AWESOME! #
• The Crucified boxset previously mentioned is $14 on amazon.com vs $24 on iTunes. http://foxyurl.com/pzx #
• metalman777 gave 5 stars to: The Complete Collection: metalman777 reviewed:The Complete Collection by The Crucif.. http://bit.ly/11Qr8U #
• now listening to the newest Tooth & Nail podcast and hearing the new Project 86 album! I need to get this soon! #
• posted new blog: The Best Day (Happy 16 Years Cindy!): Sixteen years ago today was one of the be.. http://bit.ly/yRF0T #
• RT: @comicconlive: Confirmed: Dom Monaghan in flashforward! He was the surprise guest at the panel! in reply to comicconlive #
• posted new blog: The Dharma Initiative Conspiracy: The following video was released today. Is th.. http://bit.ly/29sseo #
• ran 5.56 km on 7/26/2009 at 7:54 AM with a pace of 7'57"/km
  http://bit.ly/kJGKy #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-07-19

Jul 19

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• Just ran: 7-12-09 Walk:
  Got out for a good walk this morning.  My toes still hurt from these.. http://bit.ly/41ap0
  #nikeplus #
• posted new blog: Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-07-12:
  theocracy "laying the demon to rest.. http://bit.ly/1rR3Xl #
• Just ran: 07-13-09 Run: No shiny graphics today.  I’m at a hotel with some of the worst.. http://bit.ly/LZEdy
  #nikeplus #
• Just ran: 7-14-09 Run: I know you are wondering about the yellow and black….I wish I could .. http://bit.ly/3AlvvM
  #nikeplus #
• posted new blog: Murder By Pride Album Review (song by song): I'm glad to see Stryper getting ba.. http://bit.ly/poCqY #
• Just ran: 7-15-09 Run: Not such a good run today.
  I think two factors greatly impeded my awes.. http://bit.ly/rzRZJ
  #nikeplus #
• sitting in the evening coolness in San Jose whilst the valley is sweltering in heat #
• Just ran: 7-16-09: Again, I hate hate hate hate the treadmill. http://bit.ly/1a9Fuh
  #nikeplus #
• ran 5.14 km on 7/16/2009 at 4:25 PM with a pace of 9'29"/km
  http://bit.ly/HtqRr #
• back home safe and sound. Goodness gracious it's hot in the valley! #
• set a goal to burn 5000 calories in 3 weeks
  http://bit.ly/J50Qy #
• set a goal to burn 6000 calories in 3 weeks
  http://bit.ly/WAby8 #
• and into the pool I go! #
• ran 5.33 km on 7/18/2009 at 7:53 AM with a pace of 8'46"/km
  http://bit.ly/1d5Nl #
• set a goal to complete 60 km in 3 weeks
  http://bit.ly/94HpD #
• Just ran: 7-18-09 Run: I usually take a left on Parsons and go out into a nice sub developmen.. http://bit.ly/HgtG
  #nikeplus #
• had a blast playing some Anthrax and Ratt and Kansas and Rush on the Guitar Hero Classics game! #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-07-12

Jul 12

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• theocracy "laying the demon to rest" ? http://twt.fm/194654 #musicmonday #
• pleasantly surprised at the nice cool breeze we have this morning! #
• Clocking in at almost 23 minutes is the masterpiece of Theocracy's "Mirror of Souls" ? http://twt.fm/194838 #musicmonday #
• going back a few years for this one: vicious rumors "digital dictator" ? http://twt.fm/194911 #musicmonday #
• Looking for good power metal? look to Primal Fear "16.6 (Before the Devil Knows You're Dead)" ? http://twt.fm/195549 #musicmonday #
• from my favorite DT album, Train of Thought: Dream Theater "As I Am" ? http://twt.fm/195674 #musicmonday #
• ran 5.08 km on 7/6/2009 at 5:47 PM with a pace of 8'40"/km
  http://bit.ly/fkjvd #
• out at the Mayo Dairy in Planada…hoping there are no wasps in the terminal I'm about to open #
• fixed my graphics card! I took it out of the ol Powermac, cleaned off the massive Dust Bunnies, cooled it off, and now everything is pe … #
• ran 5.85 km on 7/7/2009 at 8:44 PM with a pace of 7'28"/km
  http://bit.ly/Psp4N #
• set a goal to workout 12 times in 4 weeks
  http://bit.ly/USVql #
• watching/listening to Queensryche's Mindcrime at the Moore as I work. These guys are amazing! #
• on a Jorn Lande kick: playlist includes solo albums, Ark, and Masterplan albums #
• RT: @photojojo: We're giving away an Eye-Fi Share. RT or follow @photojojo to enter! http://bit.ly/photojojoeyefi #
• as a metalhead, should I be ashamed to admit that the new Chris Daughtry album is pretty good hard rock? #
• ran 3.21 km on 7/10/2009 at 5:39 AM with a pace of 11'12"/km
  http://bit.ly/OWlej #
• going back 20+ years and listening to X-sinner's "Living On The Edge" #
• just got a text from Hannah saying that David Archuleta was AWESOME and that some fun-suckers behind them keep urging her to sit down (boo!) #
• http://foxyurl.com/o9T New blog post! #
• posted new blog: New website is live!: It has been quite a journey!  I’ve been blogging on.. http://bit.ly/rmckl #
• ran 3.31 km on 7/12/2009 at 8:06 AM with a pace of 11'27"/km
  http://bit.ly/lI7Yu #

Social Networking Apathy

May 18

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I’m not quite sure when it happened.  Maybe it was the week I was on vacation and didn’t have Internet access for most of the time.  Maybe it’s just been building up un-noticed for the past few months.  I have Social Networking Apathy.

Which is very unlike me.  I’ve been twittering for quite a while, even using a ping.fm chat bot in Google Talk to update my statuses on Facebook, Twitter, and Myspace all at the same time.

But some how my interests have changed.  I no longer want to tell everyone what I’m doing all the time, and  I don’t want to know what everyone is doing at any given time.  I love technology and web 2.0 and all that it gives us, but I think I’m getting information overkill.

I like to follow people I know on Twitter.  Following businesses or tech gurus has been enlightening as well.  The instantaneous access to information is very nice.  The question I must ask is this:  how in the world could you follow over 1000 people?  Do you really need to know that much stuff?  I have people starting to follow me that are following over 3000 other Twitter users.  What the frak?  Why add me to your list when you don’t know me?  Sigh…

So, I’m not tweeting so much anymore.  I might tweet once in a while, but for the most part, I think I’m done.

I almost feel the same way in regards to Facebook.  Almost, but not quite.  I like the fact that I’ve reconnected with a bunch of old high school friends.  I like seeing everybody’s pictures and shared items and links.   I just don’t want to spend so much time on it as I used to.  Life is too short to be on the computer so much (says the Mac Addict!)

Firefoxtunestwitterfied (trust me, it really does make sense)

Apr 10

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I have finally joined to legions of devoted Twitter users to micro-blog and micro-text my way to insanity.  If you’d like to read a very good article on how to use Twitter, follow this link.

In order to take advantage of my newfound compulsion, I switched back to Firefox so I could use some very cool extensions for Twitter.

In switching back to Firefox, I was able to take advantage of Foxytunes, a plug-in for Firefox that let’s you control iTunes or Last.fm or Pandora right from your browser.

This is what the Foxytunes toolbar looks like.  It sits at the bottom of Firefox.  It isn’t in the least bit distracting. Clicking on the little orange music note produces the following:
Like I said, you can control all your different media players right from your web browser!  To the left, a scrolling text box announces what is playing (not seen in the above screenshot)

Now this is where Twittytunes comes in.  It is a plug-in for Foxytunes.  It will send a “tweet” to all your followers of what you are listening to.
You can let everyone know how cool you are by showing them what you are listening to; everyone know that people who listen to Whitecross are cooler than most, eh?

There are a few different options to send to your followers from Twittytunes.

You can keep everyone informed to the websites you are browsing, what you are reading; well, you can read the list from up above.  If you are using Twitter, than this is a fabulous tool.

One other extenstion I found is Twitterfox.  It lets you see all your tweets right from Firefox.  You can post and reply to all of your fellow Twitterers!

So, if you do join the Twitter community, send me a tweet at metalman777!