EricaJoy

What happens in a month

My last post was a month and 5 days ago. Shameful really. Lots of stuff has happened in that month so lets do a little rundown.

Blog wise, I started futzing with my feed. I used Yahoo Pipes to mashup my Twitter and Blogger feeds and subsequently annoyed the people subscribed to my blog. I apologize for that and have since un-mashed my Twitter feed.

That being said, I’ve become a Twitter fiend which is probably why I haven’t been blogging much lately. Writing small blurbs as they come to me is more my style. I think I may try to find a way to make a blog post out of all my Twitter entries (tweets?) for the day.

So back from Italy, that was an interesting trip. I’m glad to be back in a place where I speak the language and generally know what to expect when I order food in a restaurant. Photographic evidence of my trip exists if you care to partake.

I’ve acquired a new toy and have been posting the products of my playing over on flickr. Someone asked me why I use Flickr vs. Picasaweb and my answer was that I use both. I use Flickr for the community features and I use Picasaweb for sharing pictures with my family. While I love Flickr’s openness and community interaction (really where else will you find a group dedicated to people posting pics of themselves in the 80’s?), it’s a little disconcerting to have a picture get hundreds of views in a day and not know where they came from. Flickr could stand to incorporate a little analytics goodness or better yet, allow folks with Pro accounts to use the tracking tool of their choice.

I bought a Wii and won an Xbox 360 so I’ve been playing a few video games here in there. The Halo 3 beta == love. I can’t wait until the full release. Wii tennis is crazy addictive. Shame I’m never home enough to play against real people.

Since being back from Italy, I’ve gone to California for a few days. It seems I always end up in the Bay Area when there is a crazy heat wave going on. Luckily this time I had an AC to cozy up to when it got too hot. During my trip there I learned a little Python and had dinner with one of my years long online friends.

Web wise, aside from being in love with Twitter, I find Facebooks apps to be quite dope. Good show Facebook. I love iGoogle’s new themes, but I am not so much in love with the name change. To each their own I guess. The new autosave feature in Blogger is awesome, doubly so because I accidentally closed the lid of my laptop during the composition of this post.

I think I’ll stop typing now as my heart is not in this post. I’ve been spoiled by the brevity required by Twitter. Have a good holiday weekend all!