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Has anyone else noticed that they tend to blog less since becoming a Twitter addict? I sure have…

I’m planning on fixing this by first of all including my Twitter feed on the blog one way or another. And then of course, to also focus more on blogging itself.

It’s just so quick and easy to get your thoughts out using Twitter. You’re limited to 160 characters, so there’s no point or need to write a draft, then review and/or edit it before you post your +500 word rant/review/news/whatever to the world.

Also, in my case, I’ve got an iPhone, which just makes Twitter even more addictive cause you’ve always got access to it 24/7 no matter where you are.

But now I’ve also got quick and easy access to my blog here thanks to the iPhone native WordPress app. Which means I don’t have to worry about how much GPRS is gonna cost to load up my blog in Safari to post something.

I think I’m gonna start blogging more along the Twitter style, like this post I’m writing now on my iPhone using the WordPress app. So please excuse any spelling and/or grammatical errors

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• Leopard 9A466 Gallery
  a gallery of the ‘feature complete’ beta from WWDC ‘07
  (tags: macosx leopard gallery)
• About the Mac OS X 10.4.10 Update (delta)
  so… that answers the question “what comes after os x 10.4.9?”
  (tags: macosx)
• Versions - Mac Subversion Client
  this site is done well, hopefully the app will be equally awesome.
  (tags: macosx software subversion)

Here’s a quick piechart I made breaking down the bigger winners of the c-net’s webware 100

My numbers might be off… so feel free to correct them

• Ext Accordion Widget Example by Saki
  (tags: javascript webdesign)
• Opera Mini™ 4 beta
  the future of the mobile internet is gonna rock…
  (tags: mobile internet browser beta)
• Mac Rumors: iPhone Browser Capabilities and Guidelines
  The UofW page seems to have been pulled, but there was a few things republished here.
  (tags: iphone development)

As probably none of you (poor souls) who read this blog know, i’m of Swedish origin, but i’ve lived on the island of Ios in Greece the past 10 years. And today i found myself in an interesting event, namely the Greek Blogger Camp 2007.

My day job is basically being a technician for anything and everything computer related on this little island, and i was setting up a WDS wireless network today for Ios Palace, the hotel the Greek Blogger Camp was taking place at. I helped them out to get networking and some stuff working .

I found the event itself very interesting, and i met some really cool people .

Matt Mullenweg, the creator of Wordpress, Steve Smith from orderedlist.com, and a lot of Greek bloggers were there. Unfortunately i’m not to familiar with the Greek blogsphere since my Greek isn’t exactly fluent (oops).

First up to speak was Steve Smith, he held a very in-depth presentation about web-development and most specifically web standards, and how important they are. Its good to see someone more fanatic about standards and perfection than myself… hehe. What i found most interesting was the Q&A after his presentation, where he answered multiple questions about how to communicate with clients whom you’re building sites for, how you promote a new site, and more. Unfortunately i didn’t catch all of it since i was there to setup a wireless network for the hotel (the evil day job strikes again *wishes he was rich* ).

Next up was Panos Sambrakos, he talked about an interesting ad campaign he seemingly was in charge of at OgilvyInteractive for Toyota (again, i missed parts here and there, friggin day job… lol). The idea behind the ad campaign was to have the advertiser listen to the customers, rather than just feed potential customers with fixed single-sided information via tv, radio, news papers, and online banner ads. Cause the world is moving away from listening to radio, watching tv (must be one to two years ago i last watched tv myself). The idea was to let a few of the bigger greek bloggers test-drive the car, and then let them post their opinions of the car, wether positive, or negative. It worked well, and it was an interesting presentation

During the Q&A with Panos, i asked if there had been a lot of spam and general abuse of the central blog they had setup to collect all the posts from the bloggers who test drove the car. Thankfully, they hadn’t had much spam at all. I also pointed out that i thought that they had done a good job to stuck to the no censoring rule, unlike Microsoft did with their Vista laptops around February (Matt Mullenweg pointed out to me that it was the ad firm that had pulled the laptops back after first giving them away, and not Microsoft themselves, mah bad ).

I had a chance to talk to Steve for a while before it all got started this morning, it was very interesting (If you’re reading this Steve, i was stalking you for a bit ). During the coffee break and after the event i had a chance to talk some of the bloggers aswell . All in all, it was great. And i’m looking forward to the 2nd half of the event tomorrow morning.

Hopefully everybody will be able to make it, and wont be too hung over. I ran into most of the people who was there in the village tonight (its about 3am right now), out partying and drinking (Ios being a party island and all). I showed a bunch of them around to a few good bars, i would mention names, but i’m terrible with remembering names off the top of my head (sowwy ).

Overall, i think its a great event, and awesome that it took place here on Ios, and i hope it will next year too (if i’m still living here, who knows what’ll happen in a year… lol)

Anyway now i’m going to bed, and hopefully when i wake up, my ears wont be ringing, and my brain cells can hear each other from the loud music in the bars here… lol… Was my first time out this year (yeah, the day job again heh), and i guess i’d forgotten just how loud most places play their music, its all good tho (as long as its good music (or you’re drunk), and you’re not trying to talk to someone )

from: http://gizmodo.com/photogallery/intelnotebook/1929626

i just layered the two images… and… does the notebook look “0.25 inches thicker” (that translates to 50% thicker, btw) than that razr?

There is a specific HEX number which has become one hell of a hot topic lately. It was even the reason for a little scandel over at Digg. If you have no clue what i’m talking about, then i suggest you read this post over at rudd-o.com.

Anyway, to get to the point… I had a few minutes of free time last night, and oddly enough i felt restless and bored, and it was at that moment i stumbled upon loads of stuff about 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 and some random page on cafepress.com. And i suddenly got an itch to try cafepress out and be a complete uber-geek at the same time

So 10 minutes and a fancy styled hex number later, i had this: http://www.cafepress.com/zynode

And then i ordered one of them for myself, which is now on the way across the planet

Oh, and i wrote “freedom of speech” on the back in hex, i used my little converter script for the translation

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