Saturday, January 31, 2009

Twittering

It's a lazy Saturday and I'm finally getting around to doing things I don't have time to do on weekdays, like making coffee at home, updating various online profiles and linking them all together so that I don't feel like I have seven different online identities. I was beginning to feel like Ellen Page in "The Tracey Fragments".

I added the Twitter widget to this blog because it's easier and faster to update my Twitter status than doing an entire blog entry, so I do it far more often. Case in point: my last blog entry was April 2008. Side-note: is there ANY greater word in the English language than 'widget'? Sub-question: is 'widget' really part of the English language, since it's primarily used in a web context, which presumably transcends oral language? Is there a French word for 'widget'?

For those of you who used to follow this blog back when I was posting mostly news articles or features, I haven't written much in the way of journalism in awhile so I haven't quite decided what to do with this blog yet. It may become a hodge-podge of my actual work, links to interesting things I find on the web, and other passing thoughts. And maybe -- if you're lucky -- the occasional old-school rant, harking back to my glory days of blogging on my now-defunct MSN space, when I would rant about everything related to university life. Possible new topic: why Twitter won't let me upload a new picture, telling me there was "something wrong with your picture. Probably too big." ... except the last one I had up there was the same size. Twitter gods, wtf?