Twitter Twaddle

...is the fact that your connections between Twitter, Facebook, and your Blog, etcetera can just fall off of the face of the Earth for a week and you'll never know it unless you just happen to check on your activity stream in the various channels!! Why should we Have to do that?? Why aren't these service connections more 'self-healing' enabled? It's frustrating!

When one or more of the services undergoes a big system upgrade or update and all of a sudden you've got to go and literally 'disconnect' and then 'reconnect' the services to each other through that virtual 'handshaking' that they all do in order to get things running smoothly again!

There should be some kind of notification system from the Internet System 'bots' that sends you an email that says "FYI: Hey! Your Twitter updates are no longer posting to your Facebook profile stream!" I mean, that wouldn't be The Solution, but it would sure as hell help the situation.
In this day of 'Post Once = Letting All Your Friends and Family Know' needs to be more solid!! Perhaps we shouldn't be so dependent on the stability of these services and the Internet? But what 'should be' and 'what is' happening are sometimes vastly different, and the point is mute anyhow. All you have to do is wake up and look around to see that our lives have this ever growing parallel digital aspect to them. Will that lessen as time goes along? NO, it will only increase in interconnectedness. That answer is obvious in it's resounding clarity. So what's the upshot??
To pull it together to make the 'SuperNet'--a highly functioning, polished, smart, privacy-savvy, ultra-customizable, Always Fast, Always Reliable, Digital Lifeform and Instantaneous Information Highway with nodes of connection embedded in all of our activities for activating whenever we so choose, whenever and wherever we are. "Don't we already have that?", you might ask. Nope, not really. What we have is hit or miss. It'd be nice if the system were self-healing and self-correcting: a SmartNet.

*I know that the above is sci-fi interweb balderdash, but seriously, we need to make the system much better than it is. I know this all takes time, effort, money, talent, and insight, all of which are governed by some cosmic law of allowed-rate evolution of species or some such, but still, some things are simply 'no-brainers'. How hard would it be to put system 'bots' in place to monitor current Internet connection threads (that were made/authorized by you) that would send you a notification email when one of the threads were broken telling you when, where, and nature of disconnection? It seems like a small thing that could make a huge difference.

I'm here at school, waiting for Shayla to get out of her class. This is the second of 2 four hr. days. Tomorrow is the 1st 6.5 hr. day. We'll see how that goes. Hopefully well.

This is a very interesting little book (circa 1951) replete with quotes and reports from as early as the 15th century onward from tobacconists, connoisseurs, and industry experts of the time. This book follows the 'tobacco trail'. If you enjoy tobacco in any form you may find this book on it's introduction to Europe and The West very interesting.

Funny Kid Stuff: ...we're at a local playground and my 4 year old daughter is trying to direct another kid. She says "I want you to stop playing on that ride and play with me now!" I'm thinking "wouldn't it be something if that would help you make friends"? It can help you garner something, but I'm not sure you could call it 'friendship'. :)

I just captured this shot at my house! Nice, I thought! #iphonephotos #phonepics

I am here in Houston about to go to a surprise brunch to celebrate my Grandmother's Birthday on my mom's side of the family. Our Matriarch will be 81 today. It's really good to be here for this and spend time with my family! Long Live the Queen!!

RT @jerrydaniels: webdoc: if you've never tried it, read Mike Cane's article and give it a shot! It's really nice. - Riding the Horse - http://bit.ly/qk6pCQ [This is awesome folks!]

I wish all the gestures in iOS apps were consistent from one app 2 another. Instead, you fumble around figuring out what works in each app. I guess that's part of the game.

http://www.splashtop.com/remote This app solves that computer access debacle that many wannabe iPad users face! Check it out!

If you're one of these halfway techie kind of people like myself that know a little about the emerging mainstream tech world, but not enough to hurt yourself or anyone else, then you might find this information useful. Perhaps this tidbit will save you a little of that hoarded, precious commodity---Time.
Today I learned of a possibly revolutionary new mail service from a close friend of mine Jerry Daniels (Find him on Twitter @jerrydaniels) who happened to tweet about it. I read the article and checked Shortmail out at shortmail.com. Suffice it to say that it's a simple mail service centered around people and relationships: 500 character or less emails with no attachments, folders, and all the head pounding chicanery that goes along with the usual sifting, sorting, and weeding of your email inbox on a daily basis. It looks to be bye-bye to spam and hello to basic, simple emails from your family and friends. Hey, what a thought?!!

....Now back to the reason that I wrote this post in the first place--

Since I have always just used gmail on all my Apple devices, I never had to fill in the IMAP/SMTP info that's required in the Mail App's settings. Although this is easy, if you're not sure what to put there it can be frustrating, as well as the subsequent hunt and peck. In case you are one of the ones that requires this information, it is located on the accounts page under advanced settings once you have set up a mail account with Shortmail.com. Setting up an account is free, quick, and easy and If you have a Twitter account, then you're mail address for Shortmail can be the same as your Twitter name if you like. Check it out.