Tuesday, 6th March, 2007

naughtyangel23

myspace photothief

[UPDATE] From where I'm looking, she's changed her picture to a bit of futanari NSFW

Hello. You look a bit familiar — I don't have a myspace account, so I'm not really sure what I can do about that. Far be it from me, though, to stop anyone else who does have one leaving little hint-type comments that I might know she's nicked my picture, and might not be impressed...

Why is it, BTW, that they always nick my shit pictures? I mean, if you're going to pretend to be me, at least pick one where I look pretty, and not like a half-asleep knob who's just been punched in the face

(Thanks to Ms Marsh for spotting that one )

Why I Hate Twitter

twitter blog

(Or, "How Twitter Killed My Blog!")

I don't really, I just thought I'd use an inflamatory title to a post in that time-honoured tradition of Deliberately Trying To Get More Bloglines People To Read Me For A Change™

I was puzzled when I first started sending random messages to Twitter, just how to integrate the thing into this weblog. I mean, Jon suggested it could act as "basically a text version of 'Currantly..'", which I quite liked — but the formatting thing always bothered me.

How best to pull content in from it, without causing a conversational-flow-disruptive glitch? The Currantly pictures work, I feel, because they're few (mostly) and far between — and there's always a passing of time between me writing and me snapping away like a loon at glasses of wine with my cameraphone.

But I send updates to Twitter all the bloody time — and I just thought they didn't warrant brand new <h1>s of their own.

I toyed with the idea of pulling them in as comments from myself — giving me the rather lovely opportunity to distinguish between Siobhan's tweets and Kisa's — but it still didn't feel right. The things I post there are usually random — with no bearing on what's going on in this conversation whatsoever.

But I figured it out on the way home this evening, and as soon as I get some time (ie. never) I'll write the code. No-one's going to notice, but it will make sense in my head when I do it

But anyway, why I hate Twitter (or not)...

I took great pride a few weeks ago, when I noted down some stats for my fifth 'trannieversary' (sorry) and included the fact that up until then I'd written 1,260,603 words. I know most of it is usually random shite — and you have to wade through a lot of gumpf to get to the interesting posts — but that's partly my point.

See, in the past, I'd have a quick thought about something, then over-elaborate on it and come out with five thousand words on the subject. "Hmm, I'm driving to Leeds", I'd think, then go off and write a bucket-load on the ins and outs of the A65.

But now? Now I just send a quick "is driving to Leeds" on my mobile, and that's that.

The immediacy and triviality of Twitter has sucked-out the immediacy and triviality of my blog, and even though I'm loving some of the links that have come here recently because of my hacked-up SL -> Twitter code thing (and am also loving that I managed to make the first¹ post from Second Life to Twitter, evah), I'm wishing that I hadn't forked the ephemeral side of my writing off into a 140-character space.

But, like I said, I figured out how I want to use it. So I don't hate it any more

¹ Do, please, correct me if I'm wrong there.

Thanks Clarissa. I might resort to that, but it's a shade dull going through official channels. I'd much rather an all-out slagging match that leaves whoever-she-is emotionally crippled. To be honest.

Andrex

charity WTF worthless-tat

Right, so let me get this straight ... if I spend money on loo roll, and send five pounds to Andrex, they'll send me a cuddily puppy and donate £1.70 to Comic Relief, yeah?

Now I have to admit, I'm not one for organised charity. To put my ultra-lefty hat on for a second, I tend to feel that any society that needs to resort to charitable donations from the people within it has been failed by its government ... but hey. Who am I to deny the right of people to sit in baths of baked beans?

But, and forgive me if I'm wrong here, wouldn't it be better to just send the fiver to Comic Relief rather than piss about with some crappy piece of cutesy shite?

"Hmm, if I send Andrex five pounds, they'll give 34% of that to charity"

What saddens me, is I bet people will.

She took one of boy-me?! FFS

And don't pretend you weren't a little pleased he's using your pics to represent a 25-year-old

Have I ever mentioned the time I got asked for ID in Sainsburys?

(That's a lot funnier if you're one of the people I keep forgetting I've told that story to )

But yeah, generally shit when that happens

It's not that it's shit (which it is). It's that the felt they could get away with it. As I think someone commented on your blog when you wrote about someone stealing your picture...

"I know, I'll use someone else's picture. I'll use someone with a whole bunch of traffic who gets read a lot. No-one will ever know"

and "macs"

This is how you know I haven't just invented a fourth self on myspace

I like you

Trust me Tiffy, I can deal with flaming. Feeding the trolls is one of my favourite hobbies (until they annoy me, at which point I just block them)

"The big hands of the Law" (etc)

Last year, as it happens