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I’ll be your friend (but I don’t want no invites)

// July 17th, 2007 // No Comments » // Personal

An open response to Up Your Ego

Not to retread stale ground, but I rather feel obliged to add to my list (which I can’t seem to find right now) of reasons why I don’t do social networks.

Those of you who happen to be in my friends list on Facebook will know just how often I update and the blog, well that rather speaks for itself. I’m loving Twitter for its ease of use and quick fix mentality (the fix being for me rather than it) but here’s my new biggest reason I can’t be bothered with the latest range of Web 2.1* apps:

The lack of integration between these disparate networks is the exact antithesis of everything I love about the Internet

Big words? And well meant! Not to labour the point but I’ve just about got my online presence lashed together with as much e-duck tape as I can find. This lash up is enforced by an obsession with APIs and a massive overlap in functionality from most of the systems I work with:

Private Short Messages: SMS, Twitter, Email, IM, etc.
Public Short Messages: SMS, Comments, Facebook Wall, Twitter, Email, IM, etc.
Status Updates: Facebook status, Twitter, blog, etc.

And for the most part these things are entirely separate – linked only by the most tenuous of API calls.

So my apologies to those banging out the next social web phenomena but we’ve got enough builders right now and more than enough buildings. You want my attention? Work on the roads, the plumbing and the infrastructure.

*What? We can’t have 2.0 for ever you know, surely we’re due a service pack … it’s Tuesday

Oh and in case you were wondering

// July 5th, 2007 // No Comments » // Personal

The main reason for the tail off in bloggage may have something to do with this rather lovely young lady who, I am happy to say, is taking up lots of my non working time

Horny, Conspiracy Series, Bombs and Marriage

// July 5th, 2007 // No Comments » // Personal

Hello World!

Just thought I’d drop by and make sure that everything is all ok. As you may have guessed, life it hectic at the moment and time for blogging (or indeed anything) has been in rather short supply.

Just to prove that I’m still alive and existing in the current phase of space time occupied by yourselves – a fact that may have been called into doubt considering the complete dearth of posts – you can have my opinions on a couple of recent events. (more…)

Can you pass me that mop

// July 4th, 2007 // No Comments » // Personal

Good mornin’ to you.

As this place is lookin’ a bit empty I thought I’d pop in and see if I can’t tidy things up a little. I’m t’caretaker by the way and since Rob is far too busy to bother writing anything other than tweets its my job to make sure things are kept running an lived in… *sigh*

You know the kind of thing caretakers do, turn the lights on at night, cycle the central heating and beat the carpets. Not fogettin’ that a certain someone left a nasty mess in the comments which yours truly will have to clean up and all that for minimum wage and a bottle of stout on Friday night.

I wouldn’t mind but there’s me with the missus at home an the allotment to tend to. Still, it beats slavin’ in t’factory or tippin’ my hat to the gents from them offices up the posh end of town.

Any road up, that’s enough gassin’ from me. I’ll see if I can’t pop back at the end of my shift but the gutters need doin’ and I’ve yet to find the step ladder in this place…