Looking through my Twitter feed yesterday, someone retweeted to Roger Ebert’s response to an Esquire article written about him: http://www.esquire.com/features/roger-ebert-0310 . Ebert then posted his response on his blog with the Chicago Sun-Times: http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2010/02/roger_eberts_last_words_cont.html. Both articles are really really powerful to read.
I knew Ebert had gone through the removal of his jaw from the cancer he had, but had no idea to the extent he almost died when his artery burst. The articles also details how he currently communicates, using the text-to-speech on his Macbook Pro to “speak” to people around him, and doing lots of blogging and Twittering. The man does tweet all day long, and links to a number of interesting things. Needless to say, I added him.
Anyway, read the articles if you haven’t already. (Also: two posts in one day! Cats and dogs, living together, mass hysteria!)
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I’ve got a lot I’d love to say, but just can’t figure up how to say it, I guess. Writing can be very very rewarding, but difficult to get the words out right. Anything I have to “say” these days goes on Twitter. This blog’s still here, of course. I’ll always keep this domain around. I just guess the content’s become extremely few and far between.
So anyway, yea blog post. Here’s hoping I can figure out how to get words typed into a box on the screen a bit better and faster next time.
(This year’s goal: More than three posts for the year!)
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This list is basically just for my own personal use — as a reminder of what all I want to keep installed on my Blackberry. All of the links below are OTA, so you can load up this page on your BB and use these to install all of the software below.
BlackBerry Messenger – http://www.blackberry.com/bbm
Facebook – http://www.blackberry.com/facebook
MySpace – http://www.blackberry.com/myspace
UberTwitter – http://www.ubertwitter.com/bb/download.php
GTalk – http://www.blackberry.com/googletalk
AIM – http://www.blackberry.com/aim
MSN – http://www.blackberry.com/livemessenger
Accuweather – http://www.accuweather.com/blackberry/push/signup.asp
Speedtest – http://www.xtremelabs.com/assets/mobile/speedtest/speedtest.jad
Amazon.Com – http://www.amazon.com/bb
Pandora – http://www.pandora.com
Just a quick list, and I’ll add more to this as I think of them.
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This Blackberry WordPress app is kinda cool. Now, if only I’d post more often…
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Okay. So I’m a few days late with my New Year’s Resolutions. I mean, they still count even if you don’t have them posted on 1/1, right? Right? Right.
2008 was an extremely good year. We got settled into the house we’ve always dreamed of having, Anna started kindergarten, I
made some really awesome new friends, I got the opportunity I’ve been waiting on at work, and at times I’ve gained that confidence in myself I’ve been looking for . . . well, all my life, really. So, what do I want to accomplish in 2009?
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That’s really kinda scary. Guess it’s time to try and reboot the site again. Making a quick post to recheck the LJ plugin, then I may see about getting things cleaned up around here.
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Details here.
Looks like a part-owner of Absolute Poker gave insider info (i.e. everyone’s hole cards) to one of the players in a tournament. I think you could safely say no one will play on that site for quite some time. The online poker community should be having a field day with this one.
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Here’s hoping I’ll do better than my donkalicious entry last year.
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