switchAbit

You may or may not have read that last post that briefly mentioned a website called Swurl. If you have not check it out here or simply click on this link and you will get the hang of it. 

Something else that I would like to highlight that makes Swurl even cooler and simplifies my own life is a site called switchAbit. Basically it allows you to enter the login information for Twitter, Tumblr, facebook, Wordpress, Blogger and a bunch of others into different configurations called switches. This is why there were several posts over the last week or so that were just a post title. I posted those from my Twitter client on my dashboard.

I really like the idea of this because I think that it is useful to have a presence in a bunch of different places but I do not like keeping them all up to date. So I now have my switch set to take any posts from twitter or wordpress and put them on Facebook, Blogger or Tumblr. Handy for me, useful for those of you who actually read anything about me.

When combined with Swurl, socializing and keeping track of friends running around in Web 2.0 is way easier. Let me know what you think of Swurl and I just might make that page my new destination for www.danieldezago.com.

new way to post

So I am back from Jamaica and I have not posted about it. Pretty much it is because of a variety of things:

1. I am still tired from the trip since I went right back to work and then have been scheduled for things since then.


2. I suck at posting


3. I have a bunch of pictures and video waiting to be gone through that I would like to incorporate into this post so that it can be something besides just a bunch of text


4. I have been distracted from fully posting here because I found a new way to post to a whole bunch of places and track a whole bunch of places at once.

On that last note, the site to track everything about me is at Swurl.com. I think that this is a sweet tool for those of us who have profiles in a bunch of different places. Head on over there and join. It is entirely free, and you may realize that you are a member of more things that you realize. It is also a way to share different aspects of your life automatically ie your Blockbuster or Netflicks rental que, digg, tumblr etc. can be added and it all forms one giant running stream of what you are all about.

Go on over and check it out and if nothing else check up on me over there since it will be way more detailed about what I am doing that I could ever be.

working on work stuff

back from Jamaica

maybe i will work on animating the logo to some music first

so im going to edit now for real

maybe i will work on animating the logo to some music first

so now i am twittering via twitterlex in my dashboard

posting to all of my sites at once...hopefully

Triumph

So I have been playing a game in Facebook. Something that I said that I would never do because it would suck up my time and I would probably like it. Well I do. Triumph is basically everything that I love about a real time strategy game. I am hoping that as I progress through the game the battles get a little larger or that maybe they scale with the size of your army but it is pretty detailed for an off the cuff online game. My economy is going well, I have huge tracts of land, I can attack most people at will and get away with it...good times.

Governmentium

So I was reading an article about the stalled road construction projects around here and all of the political tactics that keep on going on. Pretty straight forward and it mostly makes sense to me. I think that mostly liberal hippies are the ones who do not understand what it takes to get a major project done, but they are also usually the ones who comment. So I read the comments and sometimes strike gold.

Here is the comment from a user that I only know as Beer30. This is one of the best summaries of the way government works I have ever read:

Research has led to the discovery of the heaviest element yet known to science. The new element, Governmentium (Gv), has one neutron, 25 assistant neutrons, 88 deputy neutrons, and 198 assistant deputy neutrons, giving it an atomic mass of 312. 

These 312 particles are held together by forces called morons, which are surrounded by vast quantities of lepton-like particles called peons. Since Governmentium has no electrons, it is inert; however, it can be detected, because it impedes every action with which it comes into contact. 
A minute amount of Governmentium can cause a reaction that would normally take less than a second to take from four days to four years to complete. Governmentium has a normal half-life of 2-6 years; it does not decay, but instead undergoes a reorganization in which a portion of the assistant neutrons and deputy neutrons exchange places. 

In fact, Governmentium's mass will actually increase over time, since each reorganization will cause more morons to become neutrons, forming isodopes. This characteristic of moron promotion leads some scientists to believe that Governmentium is formed whenever morons reach a critical concentration. This hypothetical quantity is referred to as critical morass. 

When catalyzed with money, Governmentium becomes Administratium, an element that radiates just as much energy as Governmentium since it has half as many peons but twice as many morons.

Anyway, I thought that some of you might enjoy that if you keep up with politics or read your local news or just enjoy kind of weird stuff. Also, lets see if throwing in a random tag like greaser affects my hits on this post.

You guys are weird

So I was looking through my stats like all obsessive wordpress bloggers do and I noticed something odd or at least unusual in my eyes. Take a look at which post of mine has the most clicks.



Now as a dirty Italian myself, I am not entirely sure why everyone out there is searching for this particular phrase but I think that it is interesting that that post has more than six times the number of hits than the next post on the list. Who would have thought?

It also makes me wonder if I should just start putting dirty italian as a tag on all of my posts. Maybe all of you out there would then start reading my regular posts not just the one about something random I found on the internet. 

Alright I'm going to get back to work now.