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Still unboxing my life

Thursday, May 9th, 2013

I’m back in Vancouver at least temporarily and because my new roommate has basically no furniture mine finally comes out of storage. If you own as many books, CDs, DVDs and VHSs as me you need to assemble a lot of Ikea furniture in your life. I don’t have room for everything so much will [...]

RSS Feed from Twitter Search with PHP

Monday, March 4th, 2013

Twitter is removing support for RSS feeds in a few days. If you actually used the RSS feed feature of the original Twitter API this is disappointing. Twitter wants to know who is making every single request to their API whereas RSS is fairly anonymous. I was also using Topsy to search Twitter and then [...]

Been Building Stuff with PHP

Thursday, February 28th, 2013

Although it hasn’t helped me find a job, I’ve continued to build stuff with PHP. I’ve also been brushing up on my Objective-C. After upgrading to use Version 2 of the GData (YouTube) API I had to upgrade to Version 1.1 of the Twitter API. This took a lot more work especially trying to meet [...]

Superbowl hammers home superiority of Twitter

Monday, February 4th, 2013

I wasn’t the first to say it, but it is something I’ve noticed for a long time in my own social media usage, Twitter is #winning. Twitter has gotten a lot of credit for breaking news stories, for helping activists and rebels organize, and now it has become the favourite of marketers and sports fans. [...]

Changed how I use Twitter Lists

Sunday, February 3rd, 2013

I actually joined Twitter fairly early on, but not early enough to secure @MuskieĀ for myself or @BOBĀ for my then employer, short Twitter handles are advantageous just like short domain names. I never seem to capitalize my on my early adopter status… I actually used a work BlackBerry to tweet back when I had a full [...]

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