The first version of Tweetie for iPhone was a great Twitter client, best of class at the time. Other Twitter apps have been improved beyond what version 1 offered in various ways, but Tweetie was still best overall. It was so good I preferred using the iPhone over my computer for reading and tweeting. The iPhone version of Tweetie was better than the Mac version.
Tweetie version 2 blows version 1 and everything else away! There’s so much they got right it’s hard to explain. I have a couple of quibbles with the new version that are so minor, so deep, deep under what most users would ever notice, that I’d look like the anal retentive I must surely be.
Suffice it to say, if you’ve got an iPhone, pay the damn $2.99 for Tweetie. It’s fantastic!
often I sing when I’m all alone,
and no one can see me but me.
i think and wonder what i am
and how i came to be.
i can swim the ocean,
and it’s deep and wide,
and in the house above me
abide.
maybe one day i’ll fly like an eagle,
fly like a bird and go and go.
soar like an eagle,
walk like a lion,
although it won’t be i know.
but i can swim the ocean,
and it’s deep and wide,
and in the house above me
abide.
i guess the time has come for me to go.
and look around for something, oh,
just moving in my house you know.
moving slowly is not really bad,
moving slowly you see
the wonders of the deep,
just waiting there for me.
and i can swim the ocean,
and it’s deep and wide,
and in the house above me
abide.
One day I’d like to do a gig where every song we play is a woman’s name. “Simone”, “Jeannine”, “Dolores”, you get the idea. The first (or last) tune would have to be Sam River’s “Beatrice.” Here’s a version by the Jason Parker Quartet:
Nice NBC segment about an effort to remember and honor black veterans who served in World War II in segregated units, and whose service has largely been ignored.
My 35mm camera has been unused for at least ten years, and i haven’t joined the DSLR age just yet. I miss the smell of darkroom chemicals, dodging, burning in.
OTOH, I carry a camera everywhere I go. Well, it’s really an iPhone. I think of it as a phone, a hand-held computer. Rarely as a camera. But I came across a portfolio of iPhone photography recently, so I’ll have to focus a bit more. Focus, get it? Oh yeah, can’t really focus the camera. But it can handle a bit of onboard processing.
So here’s a photo of the daisies currently abloom in my yard. Surreal cool…
January 12th 2010 Conan O’Brien Says He Won’t Do ‘Tonight Show’ Following Leno on twitter, conan is god. everyone loves this statement. everyone except, that is, me. conan seems high-minded, resolute, principled. except he's sticking the shiv into leno. twisting it. drawing blood. hitting bone.simply publishing this ("people of the world") is a power play. he steals the ground from leno, casting him as the villain. casts his team against leno's. blames leno more than nbc.leno is in an untenable position. he can't win the p.r. game against conan at this point. or if he can, i'm not sure how he does it. nbc if frakked. otoh this is all their doing. they had choices to make and they tried to avoid them. choices have consequences. by not choosing, they've damaged leno, conan, fallon, and the tonight show franchise. which, was, of course, a choice, albeit a demonstrably bad one.
January 2nd 2010 The Health Care System Should Give People Good Advice About Health after watching half of food, inc., it's clear frum doesn't go far enough. and as a committed conservative, it's pretty clear he wouldn't want to go far enough. feed that guy some high fructose corn syrup, will ya?
The first version of Tweetie for iPhone was a great Twitter client, best of class at the time. Other Twitter apps have been improved beyond what version 1 offered in various ways, but Tweetie was still best overall. It was so good I preferred using the iPhone over my computer for reading and tweeting. The iPhone version of Tweetie was better than the Mac version.
