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Up before the birds

June 27th, 2007 6:57 am —  170 views

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My basement office, if one could call it that, has a small window near the ceiling. There are a lot of birds that fly between houses and land on small trees in between and so pass this small window a lot. I was up extra early this morning for a work related virtual operation and at about 4:30ish I started hearing birds begin chirping as dawn rose eastward. Seemed strange being up before the birds were. I imagined birds propped up on branches, heads tucked in…while I’m tailing log files.

Funny thing…statistics for this blog are surprising. A blog of spewed thoughts; mostly meaningless, incomplete stream data.

Reading Wired magazine while eating lunch yesterday I read an article about a site called Twitter. I haven’t looked at it yet but the description was intriguing. As I understood it, this was an internet application with a web interface that allowed people to post and read single sentences or random thoughts from tons of people. Instant message blogging almost. Apparently when people do this in the collective, a hive mind of sorts begins to emerge.

Science fiction or evolutionary glimpses?

This picture was taken from the top of an extension ladder that was leaning against a pair of trees. Part of the BP preparation. Height: about 15 feet off the ground. We had just finished wrapping the trunks with this outdoor rope lighting. They looked cool at night.

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  1. Spike on December 7th, 2008 7:27 am

    So Twitter is a huge success and has since become wildly popular and is being used for all kinds of interesting social networking.

    Funny looking back and seeing my perspective pre-twitter like.

  2. Moonlighting Student » Blog Archive » What have I learned? on December 9th, 2008 11:07 pm

    [...] Reviewing past blathersome blog posts I came upon one wherein I first learned of Twitter (June 2007). Oh how this has changed my perception of what the Innerwebs are about and can do. Such is [...]

  3. Spike on March 30th, 2010 4:28 am

    This is still funny to me, looking back at this post before Twitter became what it is now.

    Checking my Twitter page right now, I’ve posted 1,165 status messages to Twitter.

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