Archive for 30 July, 2007
totally changing my mind, sort of…
I’ve changed my mind and signed up to facebook. Not because I was desperate to connect to everyone I worked with in 1998 or did my GCSEs with, but because I couldn’t get to all the brand facebook pages, plannery things and blogs without signing up.
So thats a dormant facebook account to add to the dormant myspace, second life, vox, plannersphere and god knows what else that I’ve forgotten about. I keep forgetting to twitter and then there is the three email adresses, this blog and my flickr that I actually manage to keep up to date with.
Surely someone is going to have to come up with a better way of accessing and monitoring all this social networking malarky? Or the entire economy is going to grind to a halt. How about an RSS-style single page that pulls all your social networking sites together? Has anyone heard of one? Please?
Fluffy Jones
I helped my (very pregnant) friend take her rabbit to the vet last week (I was on heavy-rabbit-travelling-cage carrying duty). It reminded me that vets tend to refer to their patients by (pet name + owner’s surname). Hence Fluffy Jones. Or Spotty Hughes.
One horse vet I know takes this to extremes, referring to a patient that has been sold as “oh yes, hes gone to live with Axel Clough”. I suppose it keeps things simple for databases and case notes, but it does produce some entertaining porn-star names. Like Rhapsody Reed and Opal Moody…
