From the category archives:

Longer Than 140

Longer Than 140 #6: Do You Have Any Idea What You Sound Like?

November 25, 2009

There’s something that’s been getting on my nerves lately, and I know it shouldn’t, but it does: people who don’t think things through to the degree that they really should be. Now, I’m not one to put myself up on a pedestal and say I’m perfect – far, far from it. I’m talking about little [...]

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Bow Before Your Overlords: Longer Than 140 #5

October 30, 2009

I was struck by something that I read on Twitter a few minutes ago, and quickly realized that any reply I wanted to make would take more than 140 characters. What I read was “I want Google to make their GPS app an Android exclusive, stick it to Apple for GVMobile. iPhone users can spend [...]

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Mistrust: It’s a Christian Thing! – Longer than 140 #4

September 6, 2009

Christian couples are increasingly (supposedly) sharing an email account to aid them in resisting temptation. From The New York Post:
“There’s not a Gestapo, KGB quality to it, like I have to check in with mother before I do anything,” said Lance Maggiacomo, 40, a nurse from Beverly, Mass. “It’s what we believe as Christians.”
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Twitter Followers Follow-Up: Longer than 140 #3

July 24, 2009

A little while ago I unfollowed two people on Twitter that are here in Albuquerque because, for the past two or three days, they’ve had nothing in their Twitter streams but “WOW the best site online to gain more twitter followers for FREE <link>” or “I just become a member of this AWESOME site that [...]

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Trading Good Followers for Bad: Longer than 140 #2

July 23, 2009

I use a third-party client called Nambu to organize my Twitter stream. I put people into groups based on location, industry, family, and friends. I follow only people that I want to read. If I’m following you, I’m reading everything you write. I pretty much blindly follow anyone that’s here in Albuquerque, which means that [...]

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Linux, This is Why You Fail: Longer than 140 #1

July 20, 2009

In this inaugural Longer than 140 post, I’d like to call attention to an article that I read at MacWorld just a few minutes ago. I was happily reading along, nodding my head at all the appropriate points, when I came across the following:
The Linux camp will give it another go with a Linux variant [...]

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