[clug] [OT] Broadband clangers

Daniel Pittman daniel at rimspace.net
Mon Aug 16 22:49:07 MDT 2010


Ivan Lazar Miljenovic <ivan.miljenovic at gmail.com> writes:
> On 17 August 2010 14:18, Stephen Rothwell <sfr at canb.auug.org.au> wrote:
>> On Tue, 17 Aug 2010 14:06:57 +1000 Carlo Hamalainen <carlo.hamalainen at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 1:05 PM, Stephen Rothwell <sfr at canb.auug.org.au> wrote:
>>> >> I'm uncomfortable about where this is going - clearly others aren't so.
>>> >
>>> > I just call people who use Twitter twits :-)
>>>
>>> What's wrong with twitter? Or maybe I missed a <joke> tag?...
>>
>> So even smileys are old hat now :-)
>>
>> Seriously, Twitter encourages sound bites and people telling us the
>> trivia of their lives.  My daughter has made two postings to twitter:
>>
>> "This is boring" and then a couple of months later "still boring".  :-)
>
> In which case, do I dare ask why she bothered to get a twitter account?

I bet it was for the same reason that I thought about it: everyone else was
doing it, so maybe there was something you were missing.

        Daniel

Turns out there wasn't, so I didn't. ;)

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