Just a tad slow on this for this month! What can I say… I’ve been incredibly busy!
I took this shot from my balcony at home just as I got home from work at the beginning of March… The moon looked huge in the sky so this shot doesn’t really do it justice!
Today, 20th March 2009, its the start of Spring! Woohoo.
It’s not like we couldn’t tell – it’s been fantastically sunny and we’ve had record temperatures for March, plus we’ve always got Google to remind us:
MIX09, the Web Design and Development Conference starts today, March 18th until 20th over in LA! Millions of designers and developers will be turning their attention to the keynote speech by Scott Guthrie, Corporate Vice President, .NET Developer Platform, which is taking place today at 4pm GMT. Watch it on MIX09 Website @ http://live.visitmix.com/
A future date for your diaries is Microsoft Tech·Ed EMEA 2009, this year it will be taking place in Berlin in November – check out the poster:
At the beginning of the year I decided I’d try out Twitter to see what it’s all about, and I quickly got engrossed with it, not as much as some people I might add! I firstly started “following” celebrities just for the sheer hell of it, and surprisingly, they are actually quite interesting, the reason why is that Twitter’ers get an insight into their daily lives and realise that they are no different to the rest of us, a regime to be getting on with etc! Though none the less, its even more interesting when these celebrities post pictures using the TwitPic, for example, Philip Schofield (@Schofe) posted pictures of himself and other celebrities at the National Television Awards, and Chris Moyles (@CHRISDJMOYLES) regularly posts pictures of himself and the Radio 1 breakfast team mucking about… the same goes for others as well – fascinating! Or is it just me, am I sad?!
Anyway apart from the celebrities there are also people I know, companies I like, and the best part, influential people I like – for me that’s fellow software and web developers, these people obviously twitter away with what they are up to, but they also share some really great resources that I wouldn’t of otherwise found. So, big up Twitter!
As Twitter is now picking up some serious pace, as in popularity, there are several Twitter clients, these are applications that you can use either on your phone or on your computer, and one of my favourites is blu (see screenshot), and TwitterFox for Firefox (BTW - if you are not using Firefox you really should consider it – it will make your life better! – and if you don’t know that tune, its Tampera - If You Buy This Record), these applications make the whole twittering tweeting a lot more exciting and easy to use, so go right ahead and sign up and see who follows you!
Finally, I’ll leave you with a few celebrity twitterers:
@Wossy – Jonathan Ross (TV Presenter)
@CHRISDJMOYLES – Chris Moyles (Radio DJ)
@Schofe – Philip Schofield (TV Presenter)
@RealJudgeJules – Judge Jules (DJ)
@MayorOfLondon – Boris Johnson (Mayor of London)
@richardbranson – Richard Branson (entrepreneur)
@JohnCleese – John Cleese (comedian)
@jimmycarr – Jimmy Carr (comedian)
@AlanCarr – Alan Carr (comedian)
@britneyspears – Britney Spears (singer)
@snoopdogg – Snoop Dogg (rapper/singer)
@rustyrockets – Russell Brand (comedian)
Please feel free to comment with more!