Technology troibles
9:15 AM 6/10/09 · Having a working PDA again is great, definitely loving it. Had noticed a small inconsistancy with my memory in that the speaker on it isn't as loud as I remembered it to be. My last one the speaker sputtered out and died a couple years back so I've been going with headphones and a mini·external speaker for games and stuff. Not a big thing but I thought I'd mention it.
Texting & tweeting with
Violet this morning I learned of a small boo boo I'd been making. Completely new to twitter I was under the impression that when you respond to a tweet of someone else's it automatically included the names of me and who I was replying to (mostly by putting my reply in their account like it does on LJ). Didn't know it all appeared on my account without names. I've been confusing the fuck outta her, & anyone else that was reading all that, and she was completely lost as to why I wasn't getting it. Lacking internet access at home, it's not like I could see what was happening.
Mom bought an MP3 player last week and helping her work it out this past weekend...I really wish she'd let me go with her when she went to buy it. Don't ask me what kind it is, thing is flat and black and tiny...which struck me funny given the massive box it came in. It's styled like an iPod, along with that idiotic control interface. Took some doing working that out and then explaining it to her. Then there's the matter of the fact Mom doesn't have any MP3's, she'd thought to take them from the massive collection of music files Sister has on her computer but I had to clear that up. While Sis does have like a thousand or so files on Mom's computer, only about 10 or 15 of them are MP3's. Mom didn't quite get that iTunes largely downloads a file format specific to the iPod. There's a way, that I don't currently know, to make MP3 files from normal music CD's...
...but in the meantime I gave her some of my stuff. A little darkwave, some ambient trance, one or two bits of industrial, a little Assemblage 23, a lot of Enya and Amethystium. Had to skim through all of my music and pick a few select things I figured she'd like.
So far...she does.
9:43 AM 6/10/09 · So far, this morning,
Violet has been hammering in how it's common sense I should've known what I obviously didn't know about twitter. Maybe she's right, maybe it is obvious to everyone but me. I figured it was just like any other journaling system I've been on, and I've been on many. When I reply to a response from someone else's LJ via my email it goes to their journal and not mine because that's where the conversation took place...
...only goes to mine when someone's replied to one of my own entries.
The big problem is that I setup my twitter to send me responses, texts to my cellphone, from a few other people who I'm 'following'. Given how it's gone since I've done this, and I've been getting nonstop texts from someone on my friendslist's twitter account while she's been dealing with a medicated case of insomnia, I'm thinking of diabling this feature. I don't need to track other twits through my phone.
Just not worth the hassle.
Texting & tweeting with
Violet this morning I learned of a small boo boo I'd been making. Completely new to twitter I was under the impression that when you respond to a tweet of someone else's it automatically included the names of me and who I was replying to (mostly by putting my reply in their account like it does on LJ). Didn't know it all appeared on my account without names. I've been confusing the fuck outta her, & anyone else that was reading all that, and she was completely lost as to why I wasn't getting it. Lacking internet access at home, it's not like I could see what was happening.
Mom bought an MP3 player last week and helping her work it out this past weekend...I really wish she'd let me go with her when she went to buy it. Don't ask me what kind it is, thing is flat and black and tiny...which struck me funny given the massive box it came in. It's styled like an iPod, along with that idiotic control interface. Took some doing working that out and then explaining it to her. Then there's the matter of the fact Mom doesn't have any MP3's, she'd thought to take them from the massive collection of music files Sister has on her computer but I had to clear that up. While Sis does have like a thousand or so files on Mom's computer, only about 10 or 15 of them are MP3's. Mom didn't quite get that iTunes largely downloads a file format specific to the iPod. There's a way, that I don't currently know, to make MP3 files from normal music CD's...
...but in the meantime I gave her some of my stuff. A little darkwave, some ambient trance, one or two bits of industrial, a little Assemblage 23, a lot of Enya and Amethystium. Had to skim through all of my music and pick a few select things I figured she'd like.
So far...she does.
9:43 AM 6/10/09 · So far, this morning,
Violet has been hammering in how it's common sense I should've known what I obviously didn't know about twitter. Maybe she's right, maybe it is obvious to everyone but me. I figured it was just like any other journaling system I've been on, and I've been on many. When I reply to a response from someone else's LJ via my email it goes to their journal and not mine because that's where the conversation took place...
...only goes to mine when someone's replied to one of my own entries.
The big problem is that I setup my twitter to send me responses, texts to my cellphone, from a few other people who I'm 'following'. Given how it's gone since I've done this, and I've been getting nonstop texts from someone on my friendslist's twitter account while she's been dealing with a medicated case of insomnia, I'm thinking of diabling this feature. I don't need to track other twits through my phone.
Just not worth the hassle.