I was asked recently…
Do you twitter?
To which i responded that was NONE of their business. Twitter, Twotter, What?
I feel like I’m drowning in all of these new social networking/bookmarking/hanging out sites. A new one is launched almost daily and how on Earth am I supposed to keep up with these? How can I tell what will be worth spending my time on? I don’t have a ton of free time to just hang out and write about what I like to do like on 43 Things. Twitter just doesn’t interest me right now. So, as a website owner, which would be the best to spend my time on. Right now the only two I really have found useful are StumbleUpon and MyBlogLog, both personally and professionally.
I am really curious as to what people are using and why. I want to know is there something I’m not doing that I should be doing.
Since implementing the new theme, there have been things that haven’t been quite right; I just didn’t take the time to fix them. My Ask Me page was a complete mess without any formatting, but should be cleaned up a bit now.
After 2 years of not having one, I finally added a links page. I added people and sites off the top of my head so it’s a work in progress. If you aren’t on there but think you SHOULD be, I’ll get to it. A few months ago I saw Dan Grossman’s links page and I really liked the layout so I used a similar format. I didn’t want long vertical lists of items so this seemed to be a nice solution.
I also activated the Do Follow plugin and am considering putting a contact form up. I still have a few things to do but you have to start somewhere.
I have some pressure put on me to find a dress for a semi-formal event at the end of the month. I have it narrowed down to two different dresses but I am in an all-around crap mood so I can’t decide and I need to decide by tomorrow as I am ordering it from the US and it may take a few weeks to arrive. At this event people will wear anything from a teeny tiny cocktail dress (not my style) to a full blown ball gown (also not my style). I tried to pick out a couple of dresses that I thought were pretty and I would be comfortable in. Comfort is the real key word here. I am a tomboy and would much prefer to hang out in a t-shirt, pair of umbros, and some flip flops. But I guess we all need to get dolled up every once in a while. So, please help me decide which dress to get.
About six weeks ago I purchased a TomTom GO 910 GPS. Most people over here in Belgium seem to have GPSs , but I have fought off buying one for a couple of reasons:
- Lack of money to put towards a GPS.
- I wanted to learn my way around. When I talked to people here I would reference a place and they had no clue where it was, even though they had been there 10 times because they simply did what the GPS told them and never bothered to really get situated with the area themselves. I wanted to make sure I knew how to get around here.
So what prompted me to buy one? Well, there are a few things really. In the part of the country I live in, it is only required that a street sign be posted once on the street and it is usually on the side of someone’s house. So the street could be 5 miles along, with 10 intersections and as long as a street sign is somewhere on the street; then that is fine…according to them! It makes it very hard to figure out what street you are on and when you are following directions and looking for a streetname.. it is a major PITA.
After months and months of research and comparison shopping (yes I’m THAT person), I decided the time had come to buy one. I wanted to start taking road trips around Europe and make the most of my time here as it is limited! The nice thing about the 910 is it is preloaded with maps of the US and Europe. So when we do go back to the states, we can actually use it. My only experience with GPS systems is one of the Garmin eTrex handhelds for backwoods hiking and camping. So seeing this thing was pretty cool. It mounts on my windshield with a suction cup that so far seems to work fine. What’s really cool about it is it has a 20 GB hard drive and 12gb is dedicated to MOI! I usually take my iPod nano in my car with an FM Transmitter. So now I have 12 GB to work with. Excellent. I can even movies or pictures on it if I want; although that would be a little bit distracting. I have no loaded it up with my favorite tunes yet as I don’t have an FM transmitter for it. it comes with a wire that I can apparently plug into my car’s audio system somewhere, but after 5 minutes of looking I gave up. I decided to just buy the mount with an FM transmitter built in.
I got to try it out last week when I flew to Austria. When we landed in Salzburg we rented a car and headed into the bavarian alps. Alot of the roads are very small backroad mountain roads and it was good at identifying those and letting us avoid them if we wanted to…we didn’t! Those are usually the roads with the best views. I’m very happy with the GPS so far. It talks to me and tells me where to go. I can even choose if I want to hear a man’s voice or a woman’s voice. I’ve always enjoyed the sound of british accents so i am listening to Simon from the UK tell me what to do. It could get interesting 
When I get bored with Simon, I can change to Kate just to change things up! I may just go french and choose Bernard or Juliette. That will show me if my French lessons are paying off or not. If I feel like I’m letting the word “dude” slip from my casual vocabulary too much, I can download Bodie..dude.
All in all, i like it. I can’t wait to get my music on it and see how that goes.
If you do, here is a great badge you can put on your website! Seriously though, who thinks of things like this? I laughed hard when I saw this website. Read more »
