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According to the FaceBook quiz “What 70’s t.v. show character are you?” I am Gilligan Island’s Professor. The quiz offers me some advice that I suspect would get me slapped with a protective order (thanks, all the same, though; it’s been fun). via AlertThingy

On FaceBook, I saw a friend had taken the Inner Nationality Quiz, so I decided to take it, too. Ever laughed so hard you couldn’t type? Japanese? Everybody knows I’m Korean ;)

Do I really have to add a FaceBook Relative? I mean, really really? I can find them; I don’t need your help.

Well, there’s ONE reporter I’d like to add to my LinkedIn connections. Now, can I find her guy?…

IMI Mobility & Web 2.0 Conference - Dion Hinchcliffe speaking on Web 2.0 Trends in the Mobile World

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FriendFeed blog widget: <sarcasm> because a shirtless Arnold Schwarzenegger is what I want visitors to my tech blog seeing.</sarcasm>

Looks like I have a choice to make. I can:

remove the FriendFeed widget from my blog,
be more conscientious about posting content to FriendFeed (honestly, I feel I do not post enough, so the thought of having to restrict myself really rankles),
make sure that I post five techie things immediately after a goofy post, so that the fluff doesn’t stay on the widget long, or
get over it and just have fun.

I’m not sure what to do. I’m leaning toward all three. Pushing down the fluff posts might work, but if someone marks an older post as liked or comments on it, I think it will just pop back onto the blog. That means I’m going to have to be behave and hope that the two or three people who visit my blog in given month will forgive me when I decide to let my hair down a little. At this point, I’m really not considering removing the widget.

Life teaches us so many lessons, don’t you agree?

Because of the controversy on FriendFeed about Robert Scoble’s posting of an Amazon Affiliate link (and because I’ve often wondered if I should), I have updated my tech blog with a disclosure widget. I’ve never gotten a check from any advertising from either Google or Amazon, but I have this dream that I might one day get assistance buying my beloved technology. Hope that’s alright by you.

iPowerFAIL

Like countless others, I have been known to say that I learn something new every day. Today was only minutes old when I learned what not to do when installing an iPhone update via iTunes in a 40 yr-old house that’s not been updated to meet modern power demands.

One should not use a PC; one should use a portable device (laptop or MacBook) with a well-charged battery, or at least one shouldn’t use a desktop connected to a UPS that one hasn’t verified can handle the power load of one’s new LCD. One should not have a portable heater cranked up and connected to the outlet below the UPS. And lastly, but the most important, ONE SHOULD NOT BE ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE ROOM DRYING ONE’S WET HAIR ON THE HIGH SETTING!

I think it was Wednesday that I learned that I should not mess with my iPhone’s master.passwd file, which caused me to have to start from scratch in the first place. The saying goes that we can never learn too much, but I’m starting to disagree. Now, please excuse me while I start restoring my apps, email, contacts, and joy. Yeah, for all my iStupidity, all I lost was a few minutes of my life re-starting the install process. The phone wasn’t hosed entirely, thank Jobs.

Who’s being Loren Feldman today on Twitter? Who would be making positive comments and admitting to being wrong? and claiming to love his followers?

Sadly, I’ve only just discovered how to search my Gmail Inbox (or for any other labels) without being shown archived mail. Why did it take me so long to figure it out?