How long does it take to get boring?

When I was a teenager, IBM was going bust, a senile old man surrounded by the young turks like Intel and Microsoft. Well, except Intel had been around for an age, and Microsoft never felt young and exciting. But what do adolescents fed on overcaffeinated beverages know about anything?

Reading

I never thought that I would end today putting my fiancee in a headlock and demanding that she admitted I was more well-read than her, or else I was going to fart on her head. In my defence, she started it.

Don't Like This

Facebook is the third largest country in the world, as gurus of social media gleefully continue to point out. Which prompts me to misquote Uncle Joe:

How many divisions does Mark Zuckerburg have?

(Well, maybe there's thousands of US Marines updating their statuses in between jumping out of Humvees and shooting guns. That doesn't make Facebook itself a nation.) You don't pay anything to use Facebook. Up front. But as the axiom of the internet goes, if you're not paying for the product, you are the product.

How to lose friends and influence people

The Thursday night show enjoyed a better turnout than I expected, and everyone laughed at least once, which was a bonus.  I need to put a bit more rehearsal in before the show on Saturday though.  But that's not the main focus for the next two days.  The main thing I'll be doing, in my bid to lose friends and influence people, is to copy and paste the following phrase beneath the status update of everyone I encounter on Facebook:

do u think anyone really cares?

Recurses! Filed again!

Here's a guide to making Blogger talk to Facebook via Twitter. Those of a technical bent will be unimpressed. Those who care not for Web2.0reah will be unimpressed. The complement to those two sets might find it useful, if they haven't done it already. Apologies to the first and second sets. It may be improved for all of you if you read the next line in the voice of Johnny Cash covering 'Hurt'.