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Twitter Haters Who Text Me What They Are Doing

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The top 2 reasons I hear for why people don’t use Twitter are:

  1. I don’t get it.
  2. I don’t care what people are doing, and I don’t want people to know what I’m doing.

I can understand the first reason, but it’s the second reason I take issue with. If you are the person who tells me you don’t care what other people are doing, and you also don’t want people to know what you’re doing, then you need to stop texting me everything you’re doing throughout the day!

  • Stop texting me that you had the best burrito ever.
  • Stop texting me that you found a great deal on shoes at Payless.
  • Stop texting me how tired you are because you didn’t sleep well last night.
  • Stop texting me to tell me you’re going to bed now.
  • Stop texting me what your mom/dad/brother/sister just said to you.
  • Stop texting me asking what I’m doing.

These are all the sort of things Twitter was made for. You bash on the service, yet you do it on a smaller scale by individually texting all your friends the same message. Knock it off, and start Twittering!

WordPress Footer Spam

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I’ve had a ton of spam links for drugs of various kinds showing up in my header and footer for a long time. I keep deleting them and they keep coming back. They aren’t visible, but they have caused Google to no longer list my site in results even when searching for my specific domain name. I finally hunted down the code that was causing the problem. I don’t claim to know everything about php or WordPress, but maybe my experience will help you.

In my footer.php file, I found the code <?php do_action('get footer'); ?> at the bottom of the file just before the </body> tag. This seemed to be retrieving the spam links in the footer.

I found some help on the WordPress forums, so I guess it’s a known problem.

Christmas Wish List

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Just in case you were wondering what to get me for Christmas, I’ve compiled a list of the items that I really, really want. I know no one will get these for me, so I don’t feel bad asking for them. I think the main point is just to have a wish list that people can see the items that I really would like to have. I think everyone should have a wish list. Not because it is materialistic, but more so to keep something in mind that you could buy if you win the lottery. I don’t want to be the idiot that says, “That’s so much money, I don’t know what I would do with it!”

Anyway, here’s the list with links to where someone might buy them from. I have ordered it so that the item I most want is number one, and then down from there.

1. Nikon D70s Digital SLR Camera
2. Acer Video Projector
3. Mac Mini
4. 1 GB Ultra RAM
5. Backpack with Solar Panels

I know it’s titled “Christmas” wish list, but I will gladly accept any of the above items at any time of the year. :-)

Update 1:

I have crossed out a couple of the items because I no longer need them. The camera was not a direct gift, but I used a monitary Christmas gift from my grandparents to purchase it. I love it and I’m sure you’ll notice the amount of pictures in my Gallery increasing at a much higher rate.

I didn’t actually get the solar backpack either, but I did get a Solio that recharges portable electronics. That’s pretty much what I was going for, so I crossed it off the list, too.

Rach, I’m still waiting on that RAM! Ha Ha! Just kidding. ;-)

Update 2:

I took a step down and instead of getting the 1 GB Ultra RAM, I settled for 512 MB Ultra RAM. There was a really good deal on it, and I couldn’t pass it up. Since I have two RAM slots, and I already have 512 MB in one slot, the addition of the new 512 MB will double me up to 1 GB total RAM, so that should make a noticable difference in performance.