Content-Type: RST

Well that was quite a hiatus from blogging, which I'm sure my readers
are glad for. But it doesn't last forever, and I got a bunch of stuff
to talk about. So, I begin with a (meta?) post about
**microblogging**. By which I mean, yes, `Twitter`_.

.. _twitter: http://www.twitter.com

.. figure :: http://blog.opensourcenerd.com/upload/twitter-bird-small

I wrote about this `before`_, and the reader *pyh* provided some helpful
input as to how she would like to see me use Twitter, but I was too
lazy to actually take it up or code something for it. Well, that
changed. If you look in the top tags, you see a link to a `page`_ I set
up to display my tweets.

.. _before: http://blog.opensourcenerd.com/two-tweetings-to-twitter
.. _page: http://www.opensourcenerd.com/microblog

However, unlike I mentioned in that post, the plugin is not written by
me in Python. I just used the default Twitter script to generate one
using Javascript - a feature they appear to have added most
recently. Why spend extra effort, cry blood, and bleed tears if I'm
just to replicate the functionality of something that already exists?
(If someone mentions something about this blog engine I will make
*them* cry blood and bleed tears)

.. figure :: http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2007/02/tell-me-when-its-over.jpg

   "Okay okay, I won't mention how easy it would have been to just
   have a Wordpress blog!"

Now that's settled, what will I use this "microblog" for? It will
definitely not be as stringent in its topics as this blog is. However,
you will not know whether I had cereal or a banana for breakfast if
you read it. That's the wrong kind of tweeting (and I probably slept
through breakfast anyway). It will likely contain interesting quotes
by others, by me, or links to music I recommend, sites I like, bits of
news, etc etc. Plus, since I have the Facebook Twitter app, all my
Facebook friends will get their walls spammed with my useless info too!

In other words, it's like a blog, only in 250 characters! And rapid
fire! Dodge *that*.