Trying this out again
So it’s been a while since I last blogged due to a me being extraordinarily busy at work combined with the fact that I don’t blog very often to begin with. After catching up on some of my blog reading I ran into an interesting post on Jeff Green’s blog (For those who don’t know he was the former EIC of Computer Gaming world and host of the funniest gaming podcast ever) about how twittering has cut down the number of posts he makes on his blog.
This is interesting to me because I find myself in the same boat as I got on the twitter bandwagon around the same time as blogging which means I caught onto one trend before it got popular and the other one I was very late to the party. I use twitter a lot because it is literally always at my finger tips on my blackberry and the 140 character limit means that everything has to be to the point and there is no room to edit or sit on your thoughts like a blog.
I also find it interesting how I use twitter, until recently I only followed people and posted updates so that I could see them updated on my websites but recently I’ve been getting into more of the conversation aspect of it with friends of mine joining combined with people commenting on facebook where I push all my twitter updates to.
Segueing into another aspect of online conversations a word of warning to not install spam filters for your blog’s comment section after getting home from the bar at 3 am. Well ok installing the filter is a good idea and would have saved me from accidentally deleting one of the two real comments I’ve ever gotten. I’m sorry aunt Irene I did read your comment and actually had approved it a few days earlier but unfortunately the UI puts all my comments in the same screen so when I went to delete the 44 spam comments yours got clicked on as well so hopefully this filter does its job and I won’t do that again.
As this point I am reminded of why I don’t do this often as I’m now sitting down for a second time to try and finish this post and it is already past 380 words and I haven’t really said anything yet and have so much more running around in my head that I could be talking about at the moment so here goes before I lose the interest of the one person reading this (Hi Mom, o wait you don’t like computers…. so you’re probably not here) .
Last night was a great time out, even if we couldn’t convince josh to go to the strippers (and before you judge me it was a bachelor party, as far as tradition goes I think you’re supposed to have them). The 67’s won and we had a good time at the bar afterwards with more yelling than my voice could handle apparently.
The first part of Battlestar Galactica’s series finale will be watched with the usual group later tonight and while the last couple of episodes have been pretty good I’m hoping they go for broke in the finale and we get to see a huge battle with the kind of payoff the series deserves.
On the gaming front I’m enjoying the DLC for Grand Theft Auto 4 and the character development hasn’t fallen flat and I think has a better chance of sustaining itself because it’s so much shorter.
Lastly my ‘playoff’ beard is coming in a lot better than expected considering every time I try to grow one I shave it off in under a week as I think it looks ridiculous but this time I am committed to keeping the it until version 3.0 is done or the wedding because even if it is growing in well I still probably looks ridiculous with it.