Tweeting my Christmas letter

dion — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 17:24:58 +0000

It is the season where you actually get snail mail other than bills that don’t let you say “only electronic please”, and junk coupons for crap you don’t need. The thought of doing a holiday letter didn’t do anything for me this year. The only people that don’t know what I have been up to at a high level…. well…. if they don’t know, why do we care so much to tell them? They are the people we never see!

What would be a more modern holiday letter? I was going to do a video montage of the years events, but that is going to be too much work for now. Maybe a roundup of my blog posts? So 2006.

I know. A dump of my tweets! They are a little sporadic, as there were times where I came and went from Twitter, but this surely tells you what kind of year I had:

December

I am tempted to create a web based Wii game called “The Wee Game” that involves urination. The more you drink, the harder it is to aim? about 10 hours ago
@tobiaspeggs your mouth feels like Ghandi’s flip flops huh 03:21 PM December 19, 2007
Ning has got some really nice offices. Oh, and the people are nice too. Catching up with BrianM was a lot of fun. 02:59 PM December 19, 2007
“Standards are the a key foundation for innovation”. I think you can at least take out the “the” :) 02:35 PM December 19, 2007
It was fun walking through passport control and having the guy look at my “viva la stewart” t-shirt and think it was Che. Then he laughed. 11:19 AM December 19, 2007
Feeling some partners http://tinyurl.com/2gweb2 02:03 PM December 18, 2007
I love hearing the first thing that comes out of Sam’s mouth in the morning. This morning = “Green dinosaur cookie?” (he had one yesterday). 04:27 PM December 17, 2007
Should Twitter change: “Foo Bar is twittering: …” to “Foo Bar twitters: …” or twittered. Or, just get rid of the thing! 04:07 PM December 17, 2007
It is fun watching people on FB not quite learning that the ‘is’ is gone yet. “Bob total git” 03:27 PM December 17, 2007
It looks like Salesforce is going to announce something big in January. The platform keeps growing. 01:38 PM December 17, 2007
It is strange to look at LinkedIn and see “people who have looked at your profile”, and know based on the metadata that your exgf is looking 01:17 PM December 17, 2007
I hate it when you have a 7 letter word with nowhere to put it on Scrabulous. It makes me not want to go :) 10:59 AM December 17, 2007
“After using AS3 going back to JavaScript just seems so hacky. I don’t get the joy.” Poor Ryan. Butch up my friend, and Functional zen time. 09:21 AM December 17, 2007
Extras was more sad and painful than funny, although not in a bad way. It felt very similar to Ben Elton’s Dead Famous showing we r screwed. 08:49 AM December 17, 2007
can’t wait to see the Extra special xmas season finale on HBO tonight! 07:29 PM December 16, 2007
I have been asked to become a birth videographer (HD of course). 07:28 PM December 16, 2007
going to be a lot happier when GWT-Ext supports Ext 2.0 03:35 PM December 13, 2007
drinking an “Atlassian” belgium beer, watching the Posse 06:38 AM December 13, 2007
It is funny to read between the lines as Tim talks around Android and Eclipse 02:45 AM December 13, 2007
Oh man, I really dislike SYS-CON. They are so greasy. 01:34 PM December 12, 2007
The “2G Experience”? That sounds like a legacy mobile conference. 09:25 AM December 11, 2007
Did Microsoft really use the term “browser remodulating” in their Volta docs? Wow. 11:02 AM December 10, 2007
When everyone buys, you sell. Maybe I should create a product that goes out of its way to be “closed”. A “Proud to be closed” button, etc et 10:04 AM December 06, 2007
Go on, make a chart http://tinyurl.com/ypb583 09:39 AM December 06, 2007
Many remote Googlers seem to be flying to Mountain View at this time of year… I am sure it isn’t the weather ;) 02:20 PM December 05, 2007
@ryanstewart with the OAuth spec you will get some nice sleep on the flight ;) 02:18 PM December 05, 2007in reply to ryanstewart
launching the new Google Mac open source page http://urltea.com/2aeg 08:34 PM December 04, 2007
so happy that the Spice Girls are back in business and wishes he could have gone to their first concert today 12:19 PM December 03, 2007

November

checking the new nasa.gov Web 2.0 relaunch 11:04 PM November 30, 2007
Ads in PDF too? (http://online.wsj.com/publi…) 11:08 PM November 28, 2007
getting high school kids to write open source code (http://urltea.com/27vb 11:15 PM November 27, 2007
getting high school kids to write open source code 05:12 PM November 27, 2007
finally back in the office with a huge sleep deficit 08:42 AM November 27, 2007
talking to the new Almaer’s that we found in Belgium. I am known as the “ubiquitous” one since I have a few hits on Google 12:59 PM November 23, 2007
sad that Soccer A.M. just isn’t the same, even with an Essex boy. 01:50 AM November 17, 2007
building a microformat for transcriptions 02:51 PM November 15, 2007
going to visit Danny boy as he tries to woo the California babes with his Anglo-Israeli accent 02:11 PM November 14, 2007
hosting Steve Souders of Yahoo! as he gives a tech talk at Google. 03:10 PM November 13, 2007
pricing out a trip to Dalvik 10:18 AM November 13, 2007
wondering if he could create an application for Android that is so good that it wins the entire $10 million dollar fund? :) 09:16 AM November 12, 2007
devphone.com 03:28 AM November 12, 2007
editing a video of Joe 10:54 PM November 11, 2007
getting DOS’d by 202.75.33.249 (deny from 202.75.33.249) 12:54 PM November 10, 2007
putting the finishing touches on devphone.com. 12:22 PM November 10, 2007
laughing at how Emily Almaer is being recruited by Microsoft. 08:40 AM November 09, 2007
impressed at how classy the dreamforce team is 04:26 PM November 08, 2007
impressed at how classy the dreamforce team is. 03:11 PM November 08, 2007
walking like an open, social, Android with well oiled Gears. 12:45 PM November 07, 2007
is well aware that y = mx + c is much better than y = mx + b. I mean. _C_onstant. 09:00 PM November 06, 2007
enjoying Opera 9.5 alpha. Man it is fast. 02:07 PM November 06, 2007
sure that he has travelled too much when he thought that his 4 hour flight today felt like it went by too quickly 11:28 PM November 05, 2007
amazing how good Sam was travelling today, even with United trying their hardest 09:40 PM November 05, 2007
finally back in San Francisco 08:26 PM November 05, 2007
excited about Android, but wants the SDK to get out right away! I guess November 12th is soon ;) 10:44 AM November 05, 2007
watching his sister-in-law have make up texts with her new iPhone 08:36 PM November 04, 2007
using one of his three Gillete Mach Super Power Fusions razors. 3 at 3 locations so he doesn’t have to travel with them 10:45 PM November 03, 2007
using the convenient madisonpay.com to pay for his “citation” 09:46 PM November 02, 2007
watching his car get towed. 03:20 PM November 02, 2007
OpenlySocial 11:49 PM November 01, 2007

October

wondering if it is bad that the earth moved for my wife last night yet I didn’t feel a thing ;) 09:11 PM October 31, 2007
sitting through his first earthquake without apparantely noticing it. 10:18 PM October 30, 2007
looking forward to taking Sam to the Google Halloween party for kids! 03:02 PM October 30, 2007
is surprised that Spaces doesn’t allow him to set different backgrounds for each space. Are you kidding me? 02:58 PM October 29, 2007
wish he could play the harmonica as well as Vader (http://urltea.com/1×6h?yt 10:27 AM October 29, 2007
realising that Cover Flow for directories can sometimes feel like old school voice mail. Give me back random access! 07:25 PM October 28, 2007
finishing up the last day of The Ajax Experience, and flying home to a Leopard 09:13 AM October 26, 2007
is researching YouTube videos for tomorrow morning 07:35 PM October 25, 2007
watching Stu refactotum his JavaScript 06:21 AM October 25, 2007
is experiencing Ajax. 06:36 PM October 24, 2007
looking forward to Alex and Joe give their keynote tonite at TAE 11:42 AM October 24, 2007
interested in watching Stu make fun of peoples JavaScript code in his Refactoring talk 11:22 AM October 24, 2007
listening to the CTO of MapQuest talking about how beta.mapquest.com uses Dojo and DWR 07:01 AM October 24, 2007
hanging in the Seaport hotel (The Ajax Experience) with a fixed AC vent in the room… finally 07:59 PM October 23, 2007
is amazed to see a dog in a diaper, and then watching someone change it. 12:09 PM October 23, 2007
feeling pretty sad for anyone who has to play Scrabalous in “practice mode” (aka no friends mode) 09:07 PM October 22, 2007
wondering how many people watching poker on ESPN actually buy the “Faith based music” in the commercial breaks. 08:40 PM October 22, 2007
not a fan of how Twitter seems to have just added “twittering: ” to its Facebook updates, which is getting annoying 08:19 PM October 22, 2007
hoping that “API in a box” parody that he showed in his talk didn’t offend anyone! 03:35 PM October 22, 2007
done with his first talk, and is already hoarse. I also was made to sweat as my machine tanked 10 minuts before the presentation! 11:16 AM October 22, 2007
heading to the conference center to speak at the Colorado Software Summit 07:30 AM October 22, 2007
in Denver for a few days before going to Boston looking forward to Red Sox vs. Rockies 08:58 PM October 21, 2007
in Denver, looking forward to Red Sox vs. Rockies 08:57 PM October 21, 2007
never one to enjoy having to drive in the I-70 blizzard. Thank god I made it. 08:24 PM October 21, 2007
waiting to fly to Colorado from SFO… into the snow! 11:59 AM October 21, 2007
hoping that England can stay close, and that Jonny gets the ball at the end. 01:01 PM October 20, 2007
starting to worry about his body clock. 02:19 AM October 20, 2007
running to Fry’s to get a darn power supply 03:19 PM October 19, 2007
waiting on testing for a new release to go out. 11:46 AM October 19, 2007
is in a meeting at Google about TAE, which is kinda funny 09:52 AM October 19, 2007
reading a politically correct feminist nursery rythmes book. “all of the women and all of the men, happily put humpty together again” 09:00 AM October 17, 2007
finally cancelled his TiVo account. If HD was cheaper they would have a chance… 02:46 PM October 15, 2007
talking to a chick who just had a dream about Gears. We won! 09:15 AM October 15, 2007
finding pictures with hot women and where you can’t see the guy… and then tags the guy as a friend to get them in trouble! 03:03 PM October 12, 2007
done recording a kiwi on the set of a Tiki Bar with a US flag 01:59 PM October 12, 2007
in a YouTube war with Madeline. 11:21 AM October 12, 2007
watching Ajax and OSGi combine 10:40 AM October 12, 2007
flipped through the newly Rails-ed pragprog.com 09:11 AM October 12, 2007
creating lots of tasks whilst being offline 04:53 PM October 11, 2007
stopping his form from submitting. 03:55 PM October 11, 2007
wishes the database would tell him the it doesn’t support BOOL when table creation happens 02:47 PM October 11, 2007
remembering that htmlspecialchars() is a good thing. 11:48 AM October 11, 2007
loving how noone knows how the link tag works for CSS and wonders why they didn’t just

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