{"id":180,"date":"2010-01-03T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-03T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.passarella.com\/blog\/180\/twitter-weekly-updates-for-2010-01-03\/"},"modified":"2010-01-03T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-03T16:00:00","slug":"twitter-weekly-updates-for-2010-01-03","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.passarella.com\/blog\/180\/twitter-weekly-updates-for-2010-01-03\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-01-03"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"aktt_tweet_digest\">\n<li>Eagles did their best to give me a heart attack today. Whew! <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/JohnPassarella\/statuses\/7106457880\">#<\/a><\/li>\n<li>@<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/twignest\">twignest<\/a> It was kind of disjointed and odd. Not as good as Water\/Mars. Hoping PT2 salvages it; hate to see DT &amp; RTD go out on a down note. <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/JohnPassarella\/statuses\/7114336083\">#<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Anybody interested in buying a BlackBerry Curve 8310 (w Car Charger) out of contract? My eBay Listing:  <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/JohnPassarella\/statuses\/7133998382\">#<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Wow! That was fast. My BlackBerry eBay listing was up for less than an hour when I got a BUY NOW sale. <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/JohnPassarella\/statuses\/7138717485\">#<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Received a $100 Amazon gift cert for Xmas, so I took the plunge &amp; applied it to a Kindle 2. Hope I can embrace the new reading paradigm. <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/JohnPassarella\/statuses\/7138756375\">#<\/a><\/li>\n<li>@<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/MikeAbrams\">MikeAbrams<\/a> The BB Curve 8310 (GPS) that I bought in DEC 07. When my 2 yr contract was up, I bought the BB Bold 9700. <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/MikeAbrams\/statuses\/7138735967\">in reply to MikeAbrams<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/JohnPassarella\/statuses\/7139742353\">#<\/a><\/li>\n<li>@<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/angiebatgirl\">angiebatgirl<\/a> I bought a lot of books lately&#8230; &amp; I can use the Kindle in my web business &#8211; Kindle ebook conversions. Now I can test them! <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/angiebatgirl\/statuses\/7138793625\">in reply to angiebatgirl<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/JohnPassarella\/statuses\/7139810487\">#<\/a><\/li>\n<li>@<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/MikeAbrams\">MikeAbrams<\/a> Thanks, Mike. <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/MikeAbrams\/statuses\/7142973364\">in reply to MikeAbrams<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/JohnPassarella\/statuses\/7166148504\">#<\/a><\/li>\n<li>@<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/DarkWoofer\">DarkWoofer<\/a> That definitely appeals to my wife; she&#39;s needed reading glasses this past year. I have the opposite vision problem. <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/DarkWoofer\/statuses\/7148993596\">in reply to DarkWoofer<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/JohnPassarella\/statuses\/7166161612\">#<\/a><\/li>\n<li>@<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/jacobhaddon\">jacobhaddon<\/a> Glad you&#39;re enjoying your Nook! Hope I can adjust. I&#39;m a book person. Save every book I read, but they&#39;re overrunning my house. <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/jacobhaddon\/statuses\/7140338180\">in reply to jacobhaddon<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/JohnPassarella\/statuses\/7166190198\">#<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Any problem with the NE Blackberry AT&amp;T G3 network? I&#39;m getting EDGE instead of the usual G3 on my BB at this location. <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/JohnPassarella\/statuses\/7174622362\">#<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Naturally, I meant 3G not G3! Looks like it&#39;s back already. There had been 2 BB outages since I got my new Blackberry, assumed this was one. <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/JohnPassarella\/statuses\/7174844172\">#<\/a><\/li>\n<li>@<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/twignest\">twignest<\/a> Hope so. It won&#39;t be cold turkey because I still have about 150+ PHYSICAL books in my TBR pile. <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/twignest\/statuses\/7176657682\">in reply to twignest<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/JohnPassarella\/statuses\/7177860617\">#<\/a><\/li>\n<li>I&#39;m going to assume that Paranormal Activity was scarier in a darkened theater than it is at home on the DVD player. Didn&#39;t = hype, for me. <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/JohnPassarella\/statuses\/7186301598\">#<\/a><\/li>\n<li>@<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/twignest\">twignest<\/a> Any rhyme or reason to what is or isn&#39;t available for Kindle? Certain publishers or authors? Or recent releases only? <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/twignest\/statuses\/7176657682\">in reply to twignest<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/JohnPassarella\/statuses\/7186320829\">#<\/a><\/li>\n<li>@<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/twignest\">twignest<\/a> Interesting. Wonder if that&#39;s JKR&#39;s call. Sure she has total control. Publishers aren&#39;t happy re: discounts, but they make sense! <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/twignest\/statuses\/7210121997\">in reply to twignest<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/JohnPassarella\/statuses\/7211387987\">#<\/a><\/li>\n<li>@<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/twignest\">twignest<\/a> I had Mote in God&#39;s Eye &amp; Lucifer&#39;s Hammer in my TBR pile about 20 years before I read them. When no &quot;hope&quot;, I donate to library. <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/twignest\/statuses\/7210358955\">in reply to twignest<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/JohnPassarella\/statuses\/7211458259\">#<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Wondering if I can finish UNWIND by midnight tomorrow to break my 27-year-old personal reading record. Probably should go for it. <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/JohnPassarella\/statuses\/7212768557\">#<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Broke my 27-year-old personal reading record today by finishing UNWIND. Great book if you like YA dystopian SF:  <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/JohnPassarella\/statuses\/7240005813\">#<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Ordered Kindle 2 MON w\/ Free S&amp;H (S&amp;H savings = 1 kindle book cost!) &amp; it arrived today! New Year, new reading paradigm  <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/JohnPassarella\/statuses\/7243768313\">#<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Kindle Q: Guide say Amzn charges a fee to xfer your docs thru kindle email acct via Whispernet. Anyone know HOW MUCH they charge for this? <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/JohnPassarella\/statuses\/7246795013\">#<\/a><\/li>\n<li>@<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/jacobhaddon\">jacobhaddon<\/a> Yeah, I just saw that &#8211; if you download to your pc it&#39;s free, to the kindle, you pay. <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/jacobhaddon\/statuses\/7247531592\">in reply to jacobhaddon<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/JohnPassarella\/statuses\/7249643503\">#<\/a><\/li>\n<li>@<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/twignest\">twignest<\/a> Someone on Facebook (confirmed by another) says $0.15 per PDF conversion. <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/twignest\/statuses\/7254221354\">in reply to twignest<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/JohnPassarella\/statuses\/7255161023\">#<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Happy New Year everyone (a little early). If you&#39;re celebrating away from home, be sure you designate a driver. Stay safe out there! <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/JohnPassarella\/statuses\/7255556318\">#<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Didn&#39;t want to buy Kindle cover until I had travel plans, but it&#39;s so sleek I worried about dropping it down stairs. Ordered black mEdge GO. <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/JohnPassarella\/statuses\/7263120694\">#<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Kindle Q: sent file for conversion to my free kindle addr. Get an email w\/ link to D\/L file. Takes me to login, but won&#39;t accept my login?? <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/JohnPassarella\/statuses\/7292581762\">#<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Kindle free-conversion problem I was having might have been Firefox or NoScript. I open the same link in IE7 and it opened a download box. <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/JohnPassarella\/statuses\/7303611716\">#<\/a><\/li>\n<li>@<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/twignest\">twignest<\/a> Firefox took me to login then nohting; IE7 took me to login; I click it brings up the d\/l box. Maybe NoScript blocks it in FF..? <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/twignest\/statuses\/7302852099\">in reply to twignest<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/JohnPassarella\/statuses\/7305784178\">#<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Gearing up for client&#39;s weekly podcast &amp; mass mailing. Trying to overcome holiday haze. Planned to see Avatar today, but now 1\/9 likely. <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/JohnPassarella\/statuses\/7306782738\">#<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Kindle conversion (from ZIP w\/ rejected CSS file) didn&#39;t work; HTML interspersed with text; sent a mobi version &amp; that converted correctly. <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/JohnPassarella\/statuses\/7310431011\">#<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Bid farewell to David Tennant&#39;s DR WHO tonight. BBC-A&#39;s Demons? Mixed feelings&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/JohnPassarella\/statuses\/7321380557\">#<\/a><\/li>\n<li>@<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/jenwiehl\">jenwiehl<\/a> I think it was Tennant&#39;s call to leave. My wife &amp; daughter don&#39;t like what they&#39;ve seen of the new doctor. <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/jenwiehl\/statuses\/7323705959\">in reply to jenwiehl<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/JohnPassarella\/statuses\/7324428914\">#<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"aktt_credit\">Powered by <a href=\"http:\/\/alexking.org\/projects\/wordpress\">Twitter Tools<\/a>.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eagles did their best to give me a heart attack today. Whew! # @twignest It was kind of disjointed and odd. Not as good as Water\/Mars. 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