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Experimenting with the Blackbird Pie Plugin . What should appear is Sally’s latest tweet! [blackbirdpie id=”15314138607652864″] Worked very well indeed! Just some confusion initially as there are no setup options: Just click on the Blackbird in the WordPress editor. Clicking on the Blackbird enables you to search for Twitter by Username, URL or tweet ID […]
Many thanks to Sally, Em, Sarah, Caroline, Ray, Liz, Chester, Karen, Roberto, Ellee, Tony & Lorraine for coming to my little birthday party organised by Sally to see Romeo & Juliet tonight at Downing College. It was a great performance and had the big audience totally spell bound. All 13 of us enjoyed Emily’s freshly […]
Sat update Cambridge, Hills Road, Domino’s Pizza place has just been forced to close because of a complaint from Rebecca Jane B? which the council inspectors upheld:- “An infestation of rats in the premises resulting in a significant risk of contamination to foodstuffs and a risk to public health. In addition, there is an accumulation […]
Twitter is just so useful. I noticed that my gmail wasn’t working online at all. In these cases its usual for me to start kicking the computer/firefox/router 🙁 But now with Twitscoop in my sidebar all is revealed:- and looking at the time line of twitters mentioning ‘gmail’ is quite cool:- This Twitter just made […]
Followcost is a great little application which works out the cost of following celebrities on Twitter. Here is the cost of following @stephenfry It strikes me that celebrities are caught in a cleft stick, someone as popular as Stephen Fry has over 208,000 followers(The old Radio Luxenbourg radio frequency for us nerds 🙂 and is […]
Now Twitter have raised an additional $35 million maybe they will re-instate texting updates here in the UK. If you are on O2 here in the UK then Facebook already allows this to happen on your status updates. Here is a snippet between Emily and I from today. Powered by ScribeFire.
After reading the history of Twitter over at @Dom‘s blog 140 characters and how it was conceived “We happened to be on top of the slide on the north end of South Park. It was sunny and brisk. We were eating Mexican food. His idea made us stop eating and start talking.” Thought I would […]
Interesting wordle of all my twitters, compiled at tweetstats, over the past 26 months at the rate of 3.9 tweets per day 🙂 Thanks to Sally for the heads up! Powered by ScribeFire.
The little eager stream Originally uploaded by geofones Sally and I passed this little bridge on the way home from seeing cloudgazer. It immediately reminded me of my Uncle Les’s humanist funeral. Where his eulogy made reference to life being like a stream. Starting out as a tiny spring then playfully growing into a larger […]
Very bad news from Twitter,. Twitters USP here in the UK was the ability to send & receive tweets by SMS (Text messaging) as of today, with no warning whatsoever, they have cut of receiving updates here in the UK by text. Their so called UK number, actually its a number based in the Isle […]