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Calories’ epiphany

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Calories’ epiphany: a small cookie for a quick snack is worth than a cheesy bacony tasty greasy sandwich ….
Peppered bacon, cheddar and eggs: 390 calories. Rainbow cookie: 420 calories.
Wow ….

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Exxon profits and gallon prices ?

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Andrew Parker twitted today that Exxon made $86bn in profit last year (the correct figures are here).

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At 1st PS1 Warm Up of summer 08 !

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Twitbin and twitter’s quota ?

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Twitbin quotaI’m trying to be more “present” on Twitter. Until now, I’ve been a silent follower / spectator.

I followed mainly through the Gmail chat client, and when I’m off grid receive all the updates by email. I filter through the twitter-noise and try to get the important updates (market intelligence, benchmark, locations, …).

So I just installed Twitbin, and it didn’t last hald an hour until I got the “Unfortunately you’ve exceeded Twitter’s maximum hourly requests.“.

Yeehaa, I am off to a great start !

Well, no iPhone 3G for me, I guess !

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With that heavy pricing, and the mandatory activation, I am less and less inclined to buy the new iPhone 3G !

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Finally: Facebook mini-feed comments !!

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I’m not using FriendFeed, and maybe I should. I have a limited use of Twitter, but find it very useful to follow friends and industry news. The reason I don’t use twitter more is the limited conversation visibility and transparency: I have been frustrated by the lack of visibility I have on a thread of messages (not me to many, but external to me, so as a spectator). Of course there are third party tools that allow this, maybe like Summize but it requires an extra effort to get to them - an we all know web apps are great for limiting efforts.

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My first widget for My Life Sucks …. Big Time !!

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I eventually tried Sprout this morning, and created a basic widget that displays RSS feeds. The widget creator tool is DEAD simple, and if you need help, here is a nice quick little screen cast on how to use it.

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It’s the first cent that counts !

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I made it !! My first cent online:

 My 1st Cent Online

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Twitter API - How to send tweets from a Wordpress “Tweet this” button

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Tweet This feature - My Life Sucks … Big Time !!I just posted that I installed a new feature that I called “Tweet This” on My Life Sucks … Big Time !!!. It allows a visitor to post a twitter message directly from the website, and tweet the link to the post.

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New feature on MyLifeSucksBigTime.com: Tweet This !

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I saw a cool feature on Twitturly that allows visitors to tweet a story quickly and easily from the site itself.

So yesterday evening, I put my amateur dev gloves again and quickly put together a piece of code that allows any visitor on My Life Sucks …. Big Time !!! to tweet a story from an ad-hoc form. Continue reading ‘New feature on MyLifeSucksBigTime.com: Tweet This !’




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