Twitter Tourette's

True to form it took me a while to come around to the benefits of the social network phenomenon that is Twitter. I joined Myspace just as everyone was jumping ship and joining Facebook. I eventually followed them onto Facebook which I was happy to do as Myspace was and advertising board from which you would receive constant spam from. No I don’t want to see your band play tonight as I live on the other side of the world to Wellington New Zealand.

Then Twitter came along and celebrity’s were doing this thing called tweeting, which consisted of minute by minute updates about being stuck in a lift or something. So naturally I held back for a while.
Then I joined up and realised that its great to get up to date news and opinions about stuff I’m into. That and I don’t get status updates from someone that I hardly new at school about what their kid is doing.

So I’m a convert but I’ve had to have a massive cull of people who spam too much or have tweet tourettes.
So now I don’t follow any comedians. You would think they would be good to follow but it seems like they don’t have anything to do all day apart from tweet every ten minutes and self publicise. Following Ricky Gervais was the tipping point.
It should be140 characters, not 640 characters split over ten tweets.

Throw Away Your Stuff As The icloud Is Here

Burn all your records and Compact Discs, and it you still for some reason have any mini discs and tapes well burn them too. Why? Because the icloud is here stupid. Get with it, don’t you know that there’s no need for stuff anymore. Stuff is clutter, even mp3s are clutter, they’re clutter on the hard drive so send them up to the icloud. And when you've done that then burn your iPad. I mean the original one as its so 2010. Get with it, its 2011 now so buy get the iPad 2. So what if its virtually the same as the first one, it’s a bit thinner and has a better processor. Surely they are good enough reasons to spend the best part of five hundred quid. No, don’t wait until next year when they bring out the iPad 3, just buy that as well.
In theory the icloud does sound like a good idea. My hard drive and external hard drive is mainly full up with music so it would make sense to upload them onto icloud and then delete the files from my computer. But not when to access icloud you have to be connected to the internet. I don’t want my music listening to be reliant on my internet connection.
I’m going to hold out on throwing all my stuff and deleting mp3s. And as for the iPad, I may well get a first generation one in a year or two when its gone down to a reasonable price.

The Functions On Your Phone Don't Impress Me

Phone calls, text messages, alarm clock, the time, calendar, the odd picture every so often and that’s all that I really need from a phone.

Yesterday this bloke at work was taking the piss out of mine. He couldn’t believe that I’m on a contract as it looks like a cheep pay as you go one. My mobile phone is basic but slim line in shape and I took the basic one over one the ones I was offered that had more functions but were bulky. When I’m next due an upgrade I will take a better phone, but only if it isn’t a bulge in the pocket type.
So he pulls out his bulky phone and shows me that it’s got internet and can download videos and whatnot. It didn’t impress me.

I don’t think that I would want internet on my phone anyway as I spend way too much time on the internet as it is and really don’t need Facebook, Youtube, Wikipedia and access to porn whoever I go.

By the way, having the internet on mobile phones is killing the pub argument.