Terrapin Station

Twitter is...

"Twitter is stressing out a bit right now."

That's what it told me when I tried to add a new person (someone I want to follow tomorrow who'll be @ the Inauguration).

Of course it is.  Of the 2 million people watching live tomorrow, don't you know that 1.8 million will be Twittering it? 

I think poor ole Twitter is gonna be a lot more stressed before it is less so. 

The sad life of a social networking facility!

Laffin'

Life Would be Very Strange if Facebook Interaction Was Real World

Breathless

Our campus powers that be are in the midst of "migrating us" from Novell Groupwise to Microsoft Outlook.

This means that:

• I haven't been able to get to my e-mail since Sunday
• I have no idea what I am supposed to be doing timewise; where, or with whom (my calendar is on there!)
• Had I known it would be taking this long, I'd have jolly well printed out my calendar...but I didn't...
• I came back from lunch and was told that my account was ready and I could log in
• When I did so, I had nothing in the account except for 24 new messages received today.  None of the hundreds of messages I have filed in folders, to say nothing of the weeks' worth of appointments...
• Then I had a little breakdown
• Now they tell me they were working on MY account at that very time so it shouldn't be a problem. 

HAHAHAHA

Fiber Optics

WOWEE...

We just got Verizon FiOS yesterday.  It's a package that includes our phones (which were already on Verizon) plus TV and internet. 

Our growing expectations of technology and its incremental growth mean that it's rare anymore for me to say WOW.  (I can remember the first time I saw a fax machine work - I thought it was MAGIC!)  I can remember when we had to use Telexes, before faxes were available.  Yes, kids, I can remember when there were 3 TV stations and you had to get up to change the channel!

Back to the changes...Internet speed has gone from 3 meg to 15 meg.  Ken is over at his computer watching YouTube and saying, "This is just unbelievable!"  It appears lightning fast!  Videos load before they play - not as and after.  Sites load instantly (or what seems that way). 

We also have HDTV on two of our TV's and now we can see...umm...more than you wanted to, in some cases!  We saw a guy on a sports show yesterday who looked EMBALMED, he was so made up.  Older guy.  Not flattering. 

An amazing amount of channels, and free on-demand shows.  Wonder how long it will be before Ken is fussing that there is "nothing on TV"?

I'm off to church now, to remember what I already knew.  When I come home - zippo - back into the information age! 

Technology Hell

Here are some weird technology observations:

1)  my hotel room key kept blanking out.  Today when I got it re-coded for the 3rd time, the man at the front desk mentioned I ought to keep it away from my cell phone.  Uhhhh.....good info since I had been keeping them together in the same little pocket!

2)  I am using a UNT laptop.  The time is not set correctly on it.  Here in Miami it is 5:20 p.m.; at home in Texas it is 4:20 p.m.; on the clock of the laptop, it is 2:22 p.m.  That's okay.  What is weird is that on my GroupWise calendar, every single one of my appointments has shifted itself TWO hours early.  So 6:30 p.m. Weds. night choir rehearsal now shows as 4:30.  Student meetings at 8:30 a.m. come out at 6:30 a.m.  (NOT!)  Wonder if it will all go back to normal later?

3)  I am desperately trying to get Ken's company paid for two BIG jobs that we did for Big Ole Contractor.  The bigger they are, the harder they are to get $$ from.  Well, these folks take the prize:  they have their own online payment application system, and you have to login there and fill out the payment app.  Apparently everyone in the construction industry can do this with no trouble, but Ken and I with our master's degrees and decent computer exposure CANNOT.  We may never see this money.  Sigh.