- Working today from city library. Cool, comfortable, and cwiet [sic] (quiet) – Trying to keep alliteration skills up. #
- RT @JohnPiper: Devious people don't lie. They deceive with the truth. "Go call your husband." "I have no husband" (John 4:17). #
- RT @Zeerow17: "Sigh….my dad has jumped the shark" – Age brings its own rewards and…I can't remember the rest… #
- iPhone 3G owners: Is the iPhone 3GS a compelling enough upgrade for you at US $399 and $499? #
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- Anyone else having problems with newest version of iPhone app #Things crashing instantly on OS 3.0? #
- My #followfriday choices: @ThomRainer, @mattperman, @albertmohler, @JohnPiper, @RickMelson, @Forehand, and @Poiemacad #
- Another good link showing and explaining in detail the new iPhone 3.0 features…http://bit.ly/fIbPi #
- If you use an iPhone, are you enjoying the OS 3.0 features? Here is a good web post on what to look for. http://bit.ly/Gzbwp #
- Raining again…the gutters will never get cleaned out and small maple trees will sprout and growl. #fb #
- Want a chance to win iPhone 3GS? @ScanCafe and @scottbourne r giving 1 away Pls RT. More info here: http://bit.ly/36fiC #
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Earlier this week, Carrie and I were able to get away for a few days to celebrate our 25th wedding anniversary. We chose an interesting Bed and Breakfast in an equally interesting small town in southeastern Minnesota. The B & B is the Historic Scanlon House and the town is Lanesboro. We stayed in a beautiful and spacious suite known as the Steeple Suite complete with whirlpool tub, full bathroom, queen size bed, multiple sitting chairs, a comfortable love seat sofa, and a modest TV with VCR and DVD player. In addition, we chose to have breakfast both mornings delivered to our room which gave us the flexibility of not rushing around in the morning.
We spent our first day driving around the community and exploring what was available to us during our stay. We took a modest excursion into the countryside to enjoy the beautiful rolling hills and farms in this Amish community between Lanesboro and Harmony.
Day two led us out on an adventure which included a self-paced tour by CD of many Amish homes and shops. We indulged ourselves in many of the baked treats and canned goods available for sale by Amish families. I purchased a desk organizer made out of basket material. I hope I can make good use of it, but it also serves as a souvenir of this wonderful trip and a reminder of the one I love!
Later in the day, we stopped at a cafe in downtown Lanesboro and enjoyed a homemade chocolate malt made from hand dipped ice cream. Then we pulled our bicycles out of the van and went for a two plus hour ride along the state bike trail which runs along the Root River. We made it as far as Whalan, home of the famous pie shop – we were too full still to stop and enjoy. We stopped and rested and then headed back to Laneboro – a total trip of about 9 miles. Admittedly, we were both a bit sore from the ride since we have seldom if never done any biking over the last ten years, but we both enjoyed it.
The day finished with a simple evening of supper, a movie, a walk in the light rain, and a few hours of reading enjoyment. We both slept well and awoke to a second overcast day with the birds singing a full chorus outside accompanied by the several cats roaming along the premises.
Internet access has been sufficient but not great. Our cell phones have both been unusable. Fortunately, my iPhone has Skype and I have outbound calling credits available so we called home and family several times to see how things were going.
It has been a wonderful opportunity to get away and “change gears” for a little while. Nothing helps a person think better and more clearly than a change of scenery and routine. I have been blessed to spend this little time away with my best friend and wife and I am motivated to make this a more regular activity in our lives!
Tags: anniversary, bed and breakfast, Historic Scanlon Inn, Lanesboro
- Grabbed facebook.com/daveschlottman. Like it was in big demand
. #fb # - Starbucks Carmel Macchiato – Its what happens when you come in for a plain coffee and stare at the menu too long. #fb #
- Follow http://www.twitter.com/scottbourne for a chance to win cool prizes for photographers. Details here: http://bit.ly/cnWXt #
- Anybody love the Pilot Varsity disposable fountain pen? I ordered some online from Sam’s – http://bit.ly/SDdUf – getting hard to find. #fb #
- I’m longing for the new 13″ MBP but still very happy with my late 2007 15″ MBP #
- Hunter had a great baseball game in the field tonight, but struggled at the plate – they won 11-10! #fb #
- I rest my case regarding Father’s Day… http://twitpic.com/6z9f3 #
- Checking out #squarespace for website #
- 25th anniversary 1 week from tomorrow. Where should we go? Maui, Fiji, Acapulco? Bob’s Diner and Motor Inn in New Market? #
- Got the “hammer drop” while wrestling with my 6 year old. Where does he learn these moves? #
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I found an excellent blog post that was identical to my situation with regard to using Selective Twitter application for selectively choosing which tweets are sent to Facebook. As I posted earlier, I had issues with not being able to send blog post notifications to Facebook after making the change. I tried a number of new plugins and nothing seemed to work quite right. The following post nailed the solution for me – not quite perfect but as close as I could hope to get. Thanks Len Flack!
A month or two back, I changed how Facebook imports my tweets. I tweet quite often, so I didn’t want it to automatically use every tweet as a status update. To solve this, I began using Selective Twitter Status. This allows me to manually choose which tweets are posted to Facebook by appending the hashtag “#fb” to the tweets I’d like posted.
This inadvertently caused the tweets that were automatically generated by my blog posts to cease being sent to Facebook. Doh I usually generate a fair amount of traffic from my Facebook friends seeing a blog post in my status updates, so this morning I decided I wanted to fix this somehow. Here is the really simple solution I came up with, using Twitter Tools 1.6:
via LenFlack.com » WordPress and Selective Twitter Status for Facebook.
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This is a short post to see if the new Wordpress plugin – WordBook – is working fine. I had some issues with the version on PHP running on my blog. Now I am running version 5 and the plugin seems to work fine. I am not sure if I will experience other Wordpress plugin issues that are PHP 4 dependent. See my previous post regarding Publish to Facebook plugin – incidently which did not work at all – probably too old a version that hasn’t been updated for use with Wordpress 2.7x and later.
Update: It seems that Wordbook only posts entries to my profile and not a status update. I have not been too successful with any solution thus far.
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I have been using my favorite Twitter client Tweetie on both my Mac and iPhone. I really enjoy using this client even though there are many good choices for both the iPhone and the Mac (and my Windows PC). Tweetie is just simple to use, clean interface, and doesn’t get in the way of the experience. But alas, I digress. I was reading through the entries in Tweetie when I saw a tweet by Dave Hamilton of the MacObserver fame. I noticed again that he was using the Twitter hashtag #fb at the end of the tweet. I saw several tweets in the past where he did the same thing and even though Facebook came to mind, I wasn’t sure why he used them. I did a search on #fb in Tweetie and noticed that many other folks also used the hashtag and then it dawn on me that maybe it was a method of interposting between Twitter and Facebook. I used the Twitter application on Facebook that will pull in all of my tweets as Facebook status updates. I have often lamented that while I like to cross post between Twitter and Facebook, not everything I post on Twitter makes sense to those reading my Facebook entries. It would be nice to find an easy way to selectively choose which tweets I made would post on Facebook and do it “on the fly.” That is when I learned about the Facebook application, Selective Twitter. By install the application (and unistalling the Facebook Twitter application), I am now able to send selective tweets to my Facebook status by simply appending #fb at the end of my tweets. Sure I lose 4 characters, but the tradeoff is worth it.
This created a new issue however. My Quawkle blog posts are automatically sent to Twitter as a link post and previously with the Twitter app in Facebook, those blog notifications would automatically appear on my Facebook status updates. By switching to Selective Twitter, the only way to maintain Quawkle posts ending up in Facebook was to either appending my post titles with #fb (not a clean choice) or by searching for a new Wordpress plugin that would automatically publish notification of my blog posts to Facebook. For this purpose, I just installed Publish to Facebook, a Wordpress plugin for just that purpose. In fact this post will be the maiden voyage using the newly installed Wordpress plugin. Hopefully you will see this on my Facebook status if you are a Facebook friend. Fingers crossed!
Tags: Facebook, Publish to Facebook, Tweetie
After installing the GM of iPhone 3.0 OS on my iPhone, I was able to remove a number of applications that I no longer need due to Apple providing the functionality natively in the new OS. iSmashPhone blog identifies some of the now “obsolete” iPhone applications:
Chances are youve already heard about the iPhone 3G S and some of its cool new features and same goes for the iPhone OS 3.0 and its cool new features. What you might not have thought about, however, are the apps which many developers have slaved over for weeks that were entirely rendered obsolete by the new features the iPhone will include. Read on for a list of 15 apps whose days are coming to an end.
via 15 Apps Rendered Obsolete By The New iPhone 3GS : iSmashPhone.
Tags: iPhone OS 3.0
- Thanks to #squarespace for supporting #twit #
- check out the Re:Sound sampler at http://resound.org #
- Crazy morning… sick boy, worn out wife, son with contact lens problem, nothing boring anymore! #
- RT @PaulTripp: Afraid today? Fear; always attached to what you value and what y… Read More: http://is.gd/Nj6F #
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