The ultimate social app?

I've started using a lot of social websites, first because I thought they might be useful for work, but now I realize they have limited work usage, but are fun and interesting ways to get other perspectives on everything. I started on twitter, then facebook, then myspace, and then plurk. There are lots of other sites: friendster, friendfeed, pownce, bebo, jaiku, ad infinitum. LinkedIn is the most business oriented, but I haven't done any business there. But, I'm sure that is my fault.

I'm not really interested in trying them all. Oh, I signed up for them, cause I could and no one had picked my favorite user name yet, so I thought I should reserve it for the future, just in case...

What I have noticed is that I can spend all of my free time tweeting and plurking and powncing and facing and ...well you get the idea. Not a very useful way to spend the small amount of free time I have.

Ping em... ping em all !!!

Firefox has a cool trick called popout or fly out. I first saw it mentioned in regard to facebook. So, I'm trying out the ping.fm pop out to allow me to post from firefox sidebar.

Cool it works... :-) Not always the result you expect when technology is involved...

Ping.fm has a new code as of 7/31/08 beta code is pingscompany

Web 2.0 finally usable on my blog

I've spent a ton of time updating my blog using lots of fancy web 2.0 widgets, gadgets, and poodgets and it is looking good. I'm pretty happy with it, just a few more tweeks. Let me know if you know of a cool poodget I'm not using. listen

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Here are the clues...

Well, I am here enjoying our vacation and here are the clues for you to guess. Start at the bottom and work your way back up:

Clue #6 - Once known as "Faded Glory, our B&B boasts Queen Anne
architecture and award-winning gardens.

Clue #5 Decimated financially by the Great Depression, like most American cities, this city responded atypically by committing to pay back every penny of its debt, clearing the slate in 1977.

Clue #4 Our destination city has two nicknames, the first of which it shares with four other Southern cities: the Paris of the South; and the other: the Land of the Sky.

Clue #3 The city of our destination is found in a county whose name has suffered in modern times (since 1820) by giving birth to the derisive term "bunk."

Clue #2 Originally inhabited by the Cherokee, this area played host to European explorers/settlers, led by Hernando DeSoto, finally serving as an open hunting ground until the 19th century.

Clue #1 Our destination is located in a state which: was admitted to the union in 1789; claims the dogwood as its flower; and considers the cardinal to be its bird.

The vacation has started!

Every year Lynn and I head out to a different destination for our anniversary. This year Lynn planned it and I was clueless (as usual). We have a tradition of alternating years for who plans and who is clueless. It is a way to surprise the other person. She has been sending me clues all week long. I'll post them so you can guess along with me. Here we go...