Twittering Fool’s Updates for week of 2007-08-20

• Parents, potential lead hazard in vinyl bibs. Toys ‘R Us pulled several brands off the shelf for testing. http://tinyurl.com/25ayr9 #
• Ever wonder what it’s like in the NYC subways? This sums it up. http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/nyc/390658591.html #
• Parents: Tips to translating the cryptic messages your kids are sending: http://tinyurl.com/28vapa #
• What is ICE? Tips to add "In Case of Emergency" on your phone: http://tinyurl.com/yqjbo5 #
• Happy Monday. Wazzupp? http://tinyurl.com/ybk58n #
• Monitor your blood glucose? Enter to win a OneTouch UltraMini and/or an Apple iPod Nano. http://www.ultraminicolor.com #
• My 8 yr old son is in ‘Mommy Jail’ today for crimes against the family. If he’s good until noon, he can get out on parole. #
• Feel like mid-life crisis #4 is creeping in. Thinking about becoming a Wild Samoan. #
• Programming my birthday present: Logitech Harmony 670 Universal Remote. Controls groups of A/V devices. Now THIS is a MAN’S REMOTE! #
• Okay, took 45 min to install software, update it twice, gather all the model#s + troubleshoot. But now my Harmony 670 kicks IR ass! #
• Kids are watching "Honey I Blew Up the Kid" and marveling at the giant toddler. Ahh, movie magic. #
• Getting annoyed by cold callers. Wish unsolicited executive recruiters and IT staffing solution salespeople would leave me alone! #
• Hooray! Awesome Mom got her first haircut in a yr + it doesn’t look like ‘old lady hair.’ Very hot. But 4 yr old doesn’t like it. #
• Just caught my 8yr old son watching ‘One Life to Live.’ I said it’s not appropriate + switched TV to ‘Mr. Rogers.’ Son screams at me. #
• After just 5 min and my assurances that Daddy watched Mr. Rogers as a kid, son seems to become interested just as episode ends. #
• Friggin corporate lawyers turned my Scope of Work into legal gibberish. Been waiting 7 weeks for this? Grr! #
• Lawyer speak: "Persuant…" "Hereunder…" "Without limiting the foregoing…" WTF? Somebody is overpaid. Need Universal Translator. #
• Channeling my inner copywriter. Trying to be ‘pithy’ about financial services. Ewww #
• Yeah! Son is riding his bike confidently w/ no training wheels. Only 3 more kids to go. #
• My 6yr old teaching me how to add to his Lego.com wish list. He’s got over 60 toys added. #
• 8yr old son is wailing about how I make his life miserable. (I asked how his day was.) Grrr. #
• Kids keep blaring High School Musical from separate bed rooms. Head hurts. IT’S CLOBBERING TIME! #
• 8yr old son is wailing about how I make his life miserable. (I asked how his day was.) Grrr. #
• 8yr old mouth to his mom: "A true mom would let us stay up." (Waaaaaaaiiilll) #
• Happy Friday from New Jersey. First sunny, warm day in nearly a week. #
• Spent first three hours of the work day solving other people’s problems. Need to get on my own work now. #
• Spent two hours wordsmithing pithy financial Web site copy. Head hurts. #
• 8yr old mouth angry at me because I wouldn’t buy 2 pound bag of sugar gummy things. Now I’m a meanie and he wont let it go. #
• 8yr old mouths wailing, now in stereo. One is upstairs. One downstairs. Both annoying. #
• Reminiscing about Bob Bachlund, his ‘chicken wing’ and the ‘war ‘against pre-G.I.Joe Sgt Slaughter. Remember what I’m talking about? #

Twittering Fool’s Updates for 2007-08-12

• Wasted an hour watching the Jean Claude Van Damme movie ‘Timecop.’ Waited patiently for the movie to become clever. Brain cells dying. #
• Arguing with 8-yr olds. I need to put my nose in the corner. #

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Twittering Fool’s Updates for 2007-08-10

• Feeling green. Used Craigs List again to sell my old MacBook 1GB RAM to a local guy. So easy. #
• @LoveHouseRadio Our kids get more laughs per minute watching Tom&Jerry and Popeye than any modern show. #
• @JerseyTodd Watching the Bluto or Brutus years? #
• Exhausted! What a day. Feel like I was chewed up and spit out by an old shoe-shine guy. #
• Brought home Boston Market. Kids moaning & groaning. But the BM ads showed smiley kids. What went wrong? #
• Watched my kids eat. Yuck. Young human males are disgusting. :p #

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Twittering Fool’s Updates for 2007-08-09

• Interviewed college grad for open job. She talked A LOT yet had nothing to say. #
• Worst part of day is getting my kids wound down. So tired of this chaos. Wish I could just flip a switch like on C3PO. #
• Using Tom & Jerry cartoons to sooth my savage beastie boys. #

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Twittering Fool’s Updates for 2007-08-08

• Amazing, intense thunder/lightening storm for nearly 3 hrs last night. #
• Damn, looks like we still have to boil tap water before use. I’m feeling grungy. #
• As cool as Mac iLife ‘08 seems to be, shouldn’t we just wait for Leopard to ship in the fall? Wouldn’t iLife come bundled as in the.. #

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Twittering Fool’s Updates for 2007-08-07

• "Beauty is in the eyes of the beer holder." (Restaurant sign in Freehold) #
• Annoyed I got caught by phone solicitor selling outsource customer support. Their home page is full of English grammar typos! LOL #

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Use Technology To Stay In Touch With Friends

I really wish I could connect more with the friends I’ve known the longest. But it’s hard considering all the demands of family and work.

I’ve been experimenting for months with social/micro blogging apps Twitter, Jaiku and the newly launched Pownce. All are addictive platforms for sharing presence:
- what I’m doing
- observations
- links to useful resources

Of course, there are many other applications to use (Facebook, MySpace, etc.). But let’s focus just on the ones that communicate your “presence.”

Twitter is simple to post and view messages via Web browser, SMS, Instant Message, or desktop widget.

Jaiku expands on the idea and allows you to aggregate RSS feeds and create channels of content.

Pownce allows you to create groups of friends and push a variety of media to select users depending on the relationship. You could share audio files privately with select people you know will appreciate it. Or use the calendar feature to schedule a get-together event. Pownce definitely takes the best ideas of the existing applications and builds upon them.

Leo Laporte does a great explanation on the Net@Night podcast episode 27. (Starts at 24 minutes in)

Personally, I find it easiest to use Twitter but I’m trying to migrate to Pownce in order to create a private area to communicate with various circles of friends and colleagues. It can be used to privately share links, files and schedule events.

Pownce is currently available by invitation only. I have a few Pownce.com invites remaining. Use my contact form to send me your email address if you’d like one. I wont spam you. I’ll just email the invite to you.

Try it out. Maybe you can reconnect with someone you’re close to.

-BD

http://www.pownce.com/BadDad
http://www.twitter.com/BadDad

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