Twitter for Week of 29 June 2008
These are my lightly edited tweets for the week of 29 June 2008. Follow me at http://twitter.com/conrad_halling.
- 2008-06-29: My brother couldn’t find Vista or XP drivers for his old Canon digital camera, so I used my Mac OS X laptop to download his photos.
- 2008-06-30: My next audible.com book is The Pillars of the Earth, by Ken Follett. Unfortunately, after five hours, I don’t think the book is very good.
- 2008-06-30: Lots of hysteria, ill-founded rumors, and trolls about Pfizer cutbacks on the rumor mill at biofind.com this weekend — none of them true.
- 2008-07-01: I have many friends who work at Pfizer, so I wish them the best during uncertain times. I received Pfizer paychecks until we were spun off.
- 2008-07-01: On the fluidinfo blog today: “Minor mischief: create redirect loops from predictable short URLs.”
- 2008-07-02: A demonstration of Auto-Tune, the pitch-correction software used to fix recorded music, from the New Yorker: http://tinyurl.com/5m3vcr
- 2008-07-03: I had dinner last night with a good friend who is now working for BIOBASE at their Beverly, Mass. office.
- 2008-07-03: amazon.com emptied my shopping cart, which had 52 items saved for later. That’s not good business: I really was planning to buy that stuff.
- 2008-07-04: I have to work two of three days this long weekend. And I’m having so much “fun” that I forgot to read Slashdot for three days.
- 2008-07-04: I watched the fireworks in Boston this evening. They were truly spectacular, and the view is excellent from the MIT campus.
- 2008-07-05: I’m 9 hours into the audiobook of The Pillars of the Earth, by Ken Follet, and no one has started building a cathedral yet — not good.
- 2008-07-05: This PHD Comics strip summarizes my life on three-day weekends, except it was more fun when I was in grad school.
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