From my childhood

2009 July 11

I was raised south of Nashville, TN so I got a lot of country music & old 60’s & 70’s rock growing up. This is a video of a song I remember from my childhood. Ode to Billy Joe. I have my own theories about what/why Billy Joe jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge for, but the songwriter herself never wrote the reason that he jumped.

From Twitter 07-10-2009

2009 July 11
by Tanya Book

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I was born a traveling (wo)man

2009 July 9

Traveling this year. I’ve already had 6 trips. Yes some of these were quick jaunts to my parents.

One was a weekend trip to the Bahamas. A few were with S in Memphis. Last year 13 of my trips were work related (travel nurse) when I was booking a hotel every week.

Hard to believe I’ve spent 17 days on the road this year. And I found out all this from TripIt. Hadn’t really payed attention to it until last night.

Wal-Mart’s Twitter Account Comes with a 3,379-word Terms of Use Agreement

2009 July 9
by Tanya Book

I find this absolutely hilarious

Sent to you by Tanya via Google Reader:

Wal-Mart’s Twitter Account Comes with a 3,379-word Terms of Use Agreement

via Boing Boing by Xeni Jardin on 7/8/09

tou.jpgOnly lawyers, EULA collectors and legal obsessives will find this funny, but it cracked me up: care to access the 140-character pearls of wisdom streaming forth from Wal-Mart’s Twitter account? Well, first you have to agree to the 3,379-word Terms of Use agreement that comes with it. I know, I know, a lot of big corporate entities on social networking sites likely put forth equally verbose TOUs, but — a “Twitter Discussion Policy“? Awesome overkill. It all starts here. (via @zephoria)

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Things you can do from here:

Flickr adds Twitter support

2009 July 8
A screenshot of hot tags on Flickr.
Image via Wikipedia

A little behind the times, Flickr just added Twitter support. I am waiting for the day I can use it with Tweetie. I’ve got lots of photos stored on my Flickr account. And I have used it since before Yahoo! bought the service. I have so many photos there that I paid for the service.

Right now I am using TwitPic service because with Tweetie you have a choice of either TwitPic or yfrog. While I’d love to keep all my photos together in the same location, convince wins. It is more convenient to snap a photo using Tweetie & upload directly to TwitPic than to take a photo, copy into an email then type the Twitter into the subject line & hope it is less than 160 characters.

App store turns 1

2009 July 8

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Has it been that long? Sometimes it seems longer. And when getting Heather’s phone set up we found ourselves going “There’s an app for that!” often. I am working on compling a list of stuff I actually still use frequently.

Official Google Blog: Google Voice invites on their way

2009 July 6
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Image by adria.richards via Flickr

Official Google Blog: Google Voice invites on their way

I have been using GrandCentral (now Google Voice) for over a year now. L has been on the invite list for about a year and she just got her invite. It does have a mobile app. And this is an application that still could use some serious upgrades. But it is invaluable to me as a traveler. Right now I have several recruiters over about 6 companies.  Some of them get annoying & pushy. That’s when they get put on voicemail only for a little while. That’s right. I don’t even know they called until I get a voicemail alert. It’s handy. Plus if I have a second home phone. I can make it ring that only and not use up my mobile minutes. Or I can get a new phone number. And not have to tell anyone. I can have a different answering messages for my friends than I do business contacts. That “Whazzzzup chicas?” is great for your friends, but you don’t want an employeer or a coworker to get the wrong impression. Plus if you work in an office it can ring your office phone. Video kinda explains some of the features.

I have written about them before so I’ll just link to the previous posts.

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TomTom for iPhone en route | Software | iPhone Central | Macworld

2009 July 6
my iPhone may have GPS but I still love my TomTom
Image by ~C4Chaos via Flickr

TomTom for iPhone en route | Software | iPhone Central | Macworld

More info on the iPhone TomTom offical app. I am looking forward to this….

AMC – Blogs – SciFi Scanner – John Scalzi Rates SciFi Movies by Their EXPLOSIONS!

2009 July 6
by Tanya Book

A 40 man Raid (level 1’s) on Hogger

2009 July 6
by Tanya Book

A 40 Man raid on Hogger. It’s with Level 1 gnomes….. Some NSFW language.