Archive for: August, 2009

Aug. 28, the fast food question

Aug 28 2009 Published by under iMommyTalk

Vlogged about those dang Golden Arches and the whole fast food question on iMommyTalk.

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Aug. 28, #FollowFriday

Aug 28 2009 Published by under FollowFriday, Twitter

I thought I’d do kind of a different Follow Friday this week, inasmuch as I don’t actually know the people behind any of these accounts.

But there are some very funny people on Twitter and they’re making me laugh out loud in 14 characters or less.

The idea for this week’s theme of frakkin’ funny Twitterers came about when my husband showed me the first one on the list below. After sharing that account with many others, I thought I’d see what other accounts out there were laugh-out-loud funny. I got recommendations from iamwritebrained, mikafilm, TomChivers, cougarclaws, kalichan, annaliseb and Twisty58 (sorry if I missed listing anyone here).

Got lots of good recommendations, but I stick to just five a week, and didn’t want to make an exception just because these folks are funny.

So, let’s start, first with the one that started the idea for doing funny people this week:

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Aug. 26, college faculty are using Twitter

Aug 26 2009 Published by under Hot Hardware, Twitter

Though most of them still don’t, a growing number of college faculty and staff members are using Twitter, both in and out of class. Read about the study on Hot Hardware.

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Aug. 25, broadband speeds

Aug 25 2009 Published by under Hot Hardware

Broadband speeds in the U.S. lag far behind other industrialized nations. But that’s nothin’! I used the speed test widget included with my article on Hot Hardware, and the broadband speed I get in my house are far below that of the rest of New Jersey! Go me!

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Aug. 24, Snow Leopard ships this week

Aug 24 2009 Published by under Hot Hardware

Apple’s Snow Leopard ships on Friday, and I rounded up the details for Hot Hardware.

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Aug. 23, shape up for Microsoft

Aug 23 2009 Published by under Hot Hardware

Microsoft wants its sales associates to be able to lift 75 pounds; marshmallow puffs need not apply, I guess. Wrote about it for Hot Hardware.

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Aug. 21, Internet addiction

Aug 21 2009 Published by under Hot Hardware

There’s a rehab center for this. Really. Read about it on Hot Hardware.

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Aug. 21, #FollowFriday

Aug 21 2009 Published by under FollowFriday, Twitter

I’ve had a lot of fun doing my themed #FollowFriday posts the last few weeks, so I thought I’d do some of my green friends. I apparently know too many, though, so I might do more next week. Damn hippies. ;-)

Fortunately, I already did @socialpyramid a few weeks ago, so that made it a little easier to narrow my list down to five for this week.

@greenbiztweets: Hugh Byrne is a great guy. Knows his stuff and comes at the whole environmental news thing from an interesting angle – business. It’s an important topic, too, because industry, as a whole, isn’t going to find being green to be a priority until it makes sense for their bottom line. Interesting tweets, diggs, stumbles, the whole shebang.

@stephhicks: Steph is an environmental lawyer who now manages five blogs (is that all? C’mon, Steph, you can do better than that!), takes care of her passel of kidlets and still finds time to run. And cook. Stop it, Steph, you’re making the rest of us look bad. I keep an eye out for her tweets, because I always know I’ll find something interesting about environmental issues.

@jerryjamesstone: Jerry blogs here, there and everywhere, including a site called TreeHugger.com. And he lives in San Francisco. I think all that means he’s legally required to hover 3 inches above the grass when he walks, so he doesn’t kill even a single blade. If you follow him, you’ll find cool green stuff, plus some really odd, news of the weird-type things he’s come across.

@thewordisberry: Sara Ost is one cool mama. Editor-in-chief of ecosalon.com, she’s a sassy little frassy (OK, I cribbed that from her Twitter bio, and admit that I have only a vague idea what that means, but it sounds great). Her tweets are imbued with a wry humor while still managing to be informative. For example, did you know that mascara could smell like crushed aspirin tastes? Me neither.

@derekmarkham: I pretty much know when I see Derek’s avatar in my Twitter stream that it’s going to be a tidbit about the environment, a retweet of someone else’s tweet about the environment or some cool photos relating to the environment. He can also tweet one-handed, which can be quite difficult.

As usual, if you have any suggestions for folks I should be following, please tell me your recommendations in the comments below. Thanks!

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Aug. 19, cool mice, Windows 7 pricing, Supernatural and school uniforms

Aug 19 2009 Published by under Hot Hardware, iMommyTalk, TV Tyrant

Logitech has two new spiffy mice that work even on a clear glass tabletop – so long as it’s at least 4 mm thick; check out my story on Hot Hardware.

Also over on HH, I wrote about the fact that Microsoft Windows users in Britain will pay less than Americans to upgrade to 7.

And then for something completely different — over at TV Tyrant, I brought folks up to date on the goings-on in the Supernatural universe, in advance of Season 5, which begins Sept. 10.

Finally, I vlogged about how great school uniforms are, at least now that I’m a parent, at iMommyTalk.

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Aug. 18, Internet security and legal music downloading

Aug 18 2009 Published by under Hot Hardware

Internet Explorer 8 is found to be the most secure web browser, according to a study – funded by Microsoft. Read Hot Hardware for the details.

Qtrax, the ad-supported, fully legal music downloading site, is ready for its global rollout. Again, over at Hot Hardware.

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