Alexandar Tzanov ~ The Titan

Twitter Digest for 2008-05-15

Alexandar Tzanov — Fri, 16 May 2008 04:59:59 +0000

@randaclay Unless you are coding for IE6, you should try IE7. Having tabs makes things so much easier. #
It’s 1AM once again. Yesterday I configed Postfix to use a bunch of RBLs. I just resolved my ProFTPd/WeBuilder2007 issue. Next is open relay #
@splitbrain Interesting… I wonder how much this data would be worth to a marketing company. My guess - A LOT - http://twurl.nl/zc68hn LoL #
Looks like it is wake up late day today! Everyone in my house woke up late, and many in my friends list are reporting the same. I wonder why #
@gar_cia me too. Well I had a small sandwich and lots of Pringles. Must have big lunch!!! #
Sweet, I want one. It will make getting to work so much easier http://tinyurl.com/6e3rac Fusion Man #
@gar_cia I usually have a beagle with lots of meat and cream cheese. #
@gar_cia BTW, Amanda and I might be able to come to your birth day party and knock some pins down. #
@gar_cia I told you I have a lot of meat with my http://tinyurl.com/5pm5tz #
@Fitz http://terraminds.com http://twittermap.com http://twittersearch.com http://www.twittertroll.com/ #
@Fitz TweetWheel is also really cool http://tinyurl.com/6zw6km #
New challenge @tweetsplay http://tinyurl.com/4lxb9r #
Keep in mind that @tweetplay is now @tweetsplay #
@gar_cia you have to submit your guess to @tweetsplay #
G.W. Bush Interview http://tinyurl.com/3tzapj #
Just heard a radio interview. Growing playing games is not wrong!! http://tinyurl.com/4gs9d2 It helps you with social development. #
@ev what are you using? Are the icons alike? #
@Scobleizer First it was Digg, not it’s Twitter. Everything’s in waves. With tools like twitturly.com the big T is a nice social supplement. #
@Scobleizer nice plug. But you are right. #
Very unhappy Twitter. It would be nice if when I reply the link actually points to what I replied to @twitter @ev #
I am removing TwitterFox. I am going to try a different tool for work, or just post directly from the web. #
Summize is a sweet tool - http://summize.com/search?q=thetitan #
Are the Twitter staff developing new features for the system or just fixing bugs and trying to coop with reliability issues? @ev @twitter #
This will be lots of fun once it is out. http://www.gametrailers.com/player/33893.html LEGO Star Wars was. #
This video confuses me. It makes me feel that they are both dissing and promoting their game at the same time. http://is.gd/h5y #
Today’s @tweetsplay winner is @gar_cia The answer was donkey, hoping that it’ll be the end of the donkey guesses, but @fitz proved otherwise #
just got a call from 705-999-6835. Don’t answer! It’s another SPAM number http://tinyurl.com/5gfely #
@gar_cia tweetwheel takes a long time to compile, but the nice thing is that once it is done it saves the map. #
@gar_cia Yeah, it froze for me too on your 59th friend. #
@egspoony not when I looked at it!! @gar_cia #
I’m listening to http://www.technobase.fm/ Good ol’ Euro techno. I love it. #
@Fitz Uhh, yeah, LoL You should probably have a look at this http://is.gd/h9q @gar_cia #

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Twitter Digest for 2008-05-14

Alexandar Tzanov — Thu, 15 May 2008 04:59:59 +0000

JAVA, I hate you. Your environment SUCKS. Crash and terminate ALREADY.!!!! #
I’ve been dealing with WeBuilder FTP issues for the past 2 hours or so. I think it is time for bed, seeing that it is quarter after 1 AM. #
This video is awesome MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU http://vimeo.com/993998 #
@thetitan cool think is each still shot was actually painted on the walls not just generated digitally. #
Today’s riddle has been posted on TweetPlay http://tinyurl.com/5xam9q #
@aaronforgue Not always, but it is necessary, because people mighty try to skip on the tip or give very little. #
@gar_cia and @fitz you guys are being quiet about today’s riddle @tweetplay http://tinyurl.com/5xam9q #
@egspoony HAHA, @Fitz and @gar_cia LoL, ROFL, http://tinyurl.com/ysd49j … OK, this is over the top … I will chill now. #
@splitbrain sweet, I will have to try this. #

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Twitter Digest for 2008-05-13

Alexandar Tzanov — Wed, 14 May 2008 04:59:59 +0000

New riddle @tweetplay. Do you know what the answer is? #
Forgot to mention that the Postfix issue was resolved http://twurl.nl/vx1qj8 with some help from Joe. Now I have to config the mail relay. #
@Fitz are you a weapons dealer http://tinyurl.com/54as5k #
Today’s TweetPlay winner http://twitter.com/tweetplay/statuses/810364473 with some help from http://twitter.com/tweetplay/statuses/810366101 #
http://twitpic.com/11as <- Why is Mountain Dew (sugar jolt ) not represented in this picture??? It’s pretty much all that I drink!! #
@gar_cia not really, but I agree t-moble, iffi service. #
@egspoony I always thought that this really sucked. #
I am listening to BCN comedy radio. Space Balls clip. HAHA Mel Brooks movies are always awesome. #
@gar_cia Verizon, I suppose. I have had them for years and have not had any problems with any media communications through them. #
@aaronforgue I would like to hear how you like it. I was considering using it, but decided against. #
@egspoony I find VZW’s plans more affordable/suited to my needs. #
How did they even come up with some of these http://twictionary.pbwiki.com/ #
@Fitz but then how are you going to text to twitter?? #
@gar_cia bowling is always fun. Especially when you slip on the lain … like me. haha #
I want this luggage tag http://tinyurl.com/68m2w2 #
@Fitz yeah, pretty soon it will be bigger than a laptop. LoL #
@warcormc that can’t be real. But I guess they need money. Hey here is the local AdPD!! #
Getting security logs from the server to get the service the dumby probing my server terminated. #

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Twitter Digest for 2008-05-12

Alexandar Tzanov — Tue, 13 May 2008 04:59:59 +0000

Google is Malware!!! Go figure. I knew that it was evil and wanted info from and about everyone, but in this way? http://twurl.nl/5wxzlx LoL #
@gar_cia thanks for link back. BTW, how’s your eye? #
sdrawkcab - What does that spell? Hint !<= #
@gar_cia How did it happen? #
@gar_cia well, that blows …. uhh, I mean - sucks! #
I have started @tweetplay I will try to come up with different word games to tweet there. Feel free to send me your suggestions and ideas #
@Fitz that’s right #
@gar_cia I will come up with more. #
@aaronforgue Yes ‘n no. The thinktank will be bigger, also more production hours to fewer physical hours. Organizing this will be nightmare #
@aaronforgue depending on the ideas, the world would be a wonderful place. But then comes monopoly - too few ideas; boredom - nothing to do. #
@warcormc Yeah, that’s not going to fly today, at least no in the US. BTW, it doesn’t make any sense to me. I don’t see how head <-&g … #

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Invites - Tripwolf

Alexandar Tzanov — Mon, 12 May 2008 17:11:58 +0000

Tripwolf is a traveling journal/social network that service as you guide and trip planner. The information is provided by other travelers, as well as local guides and experts.

They are only letting few hundred people at a time. So get in while you can.
http://www.tripwolf.com/invite/backdoor

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Twitter Digest for 2008-05-11

Alexandar Tzanov — Mon, 12 May 2008 04:59:59 +0000

It appears that FriendFeed is down. I can’t load the site. http://friendfeed.com/thetitan #
@aaronforgue HAHA, nice, I like this one http://snipr.com/28cge #
Well, I have been up to a while, now. It is time to get back to the GD touchy Postfix config. #
Bed time. Postfix is a pain in the ass, it is 2:35AM, I can’t see straight. I keep nodding off at the desk. I’ll see more solutions tomorrow #
If Postfix was a derivative of SendMail and it was supposed to improve functionality, then why is it so difficult? Why doesn’t it like the @ #
its 1AM, for the past hour I have been wrestling with Postfix. It is a pain. #
Happy Mother’s Day to all the moms out there, and all the ones in my family. #

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Twitter Digest for 2008-05-09

Alexandar Tzanov — Sat, 10 May 2008 04:59:59 +0000

Do you want your site or product promoted? Then visit here: http://alexandartzanov.com/advertise #

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Advertise here

Alexandar Tzanov — Fri, 09 May 2008 14:04:10 +0000

I have made advertising on my blog available to anyone interested. To find out your available options go here.

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Twitter Digest for 2008-05-08

Alexandar Tzanov — Fri, 09 May 2008 04:59:59 +0000

http://twurl.nl/jbk4o4 - "I told someone I had 30 followers the other day and they asked me if I ran a cult," - Twitterers are all cultists. #
@aaronforgue http://friendfeed.com/thetitan #

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Twitter Digest for 2008-05-07

Alexandar Tzanov — Thu, 08 May 2008 04:59:59 +0000

@Scobleizer Nice, this will help me at my job. #
@ev please free twitter accounts associated with pleasantcreature@GMail.com. All have one post. This person is holding valuable accounts. #
@gar_cia dang, how about some pics >.< !!! #
What the … http://tinyurl.com/3r5en8 #
This video ROCKSSS!!! http://www.gametrailers.com/player/usermovies/212653.html #
Maybe I just did not notice it before, but @brightkite can now interact with Twitter. Everything always comes around back to Twitter. #
@gar_cia if you are mobile junky then it is for you. But it only makes sense for travelers not for people who’s daily schedule is the same. #
@Fitz then you are not a true fan. LoL just kidding. #
http://brightkite.com/ is down. That’s not good if they are to compete with Twitter. #
@splitbrain some of the law that Germany is passing are very obstructive to tech growth and development. H.O.P.E. is dead, long live H.O.P.E #
@splitbrain it is a big time promo tool in the US. Personally, I think it is dumb, just use the good ol’ website/domain. #
@splitbrain that is pathetic and I would love to see that letter. #
At home working on my blog, because some of the plugins are not functioning right. AND reposting tweets on Twitter due to its issues tonight #
http://twitpic.com/ucv <- What the heck is up with Twitter tonight. Seems like the system is on the fritz again. I’m getting the fix … #
I am blocking @Mortg39, because the account looks like a spammer/web SEO/someone’s affiliate/totally useless. #
@rumford http://twitpic.com/uck <- I keep receiving the same page. #
@Fitz I know that someone has to cover the data center bill, but there have to be other alternatives. Kevin Rose did it for Pownce. #

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Twitter Digest for 2008-05-06

Alexandar Tzanov — Wed, 07 May 2008 04:59:59 +0000

This http://twurl.nl/6v0n6t doesn’t even encrypt the session. It just redirects U through their ads, sorry, secure and private portal page?! #
This is a LOAD of CRAP http://twurl.nl/l7lfo8 People, TOR is good, but PuTTY is better. Use IT. #
I would love to use twitbin IF it could also function as a POP out, not just a sidebar. #
http://twitpic.com/tud <- Yeah me too, and more… #
@splitbrain cool, my profile ID is thetitan #
I have 3 BrightKite invites. Anyone interested? I know @splitbrain you might be interested. #
At work, working away. #
I need a Navigon traffic update card on the cheap. The cheapest I have been able to find it for is $70. #

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Twitter Digest for 2008-05-05

Alexandar Tzanov — Tue, 06 May 2008 04:59:59 +0000

So, I’m jotting down on 1994 and I talked Peter(?) I think he’s(?) like the zebra.
http://tinyurl.com/42jy3j #
The @battlelog begins - http://tinyurl.com/3msz9w BBG action reports. My experiment of using Twitter to its full potential. #
@splitbrain perfect! This will save me a lot of time. #
Domaining works ONLY, ONLY if you have the time to promote the domains. Money is not an issue. Having the time to develop the traffic is!! #
Why has no one written a Google Finance Wordpress plugin, yet?! #
Eye Gaze - the future of motion tracking and computer interaction http://twurl.nl/h1gcbx #
Why do I see more colors, and pages are more usable, at higher res, when I am still using 32 Bit color quality at a lower res settings? #
@warcormc no, not really, not with all the cables you are always puling "on" #

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There once was a woman

Alexandar Tzanov — Mon, 05 May 2008 23:25:37 +0000

Today’s massmail joke is:

One day, long, long ago…….
there lived a woman who did not nag or bitch.

But this was a long time ago…….
and it was just that one day.

The End

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Twitter Digest for 2008-05-04

Alexandar Tzanov — Mon, 05 May 2008 04:59:59 +0000

It’s hot, hot, hot outside, but Alexandar enjoyed his time in the park. #
@warcormc it’s same here in Illinois. What it used to cost us $40 to fill out last week, it now costs us $65, #

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Twitter Digest for 2008-05-03

Alexandar Tzanov — Sun, 04 May 2008 04:59:59 +0000

New month, new look. I have completed my blog’s theme update for this year. Something simpler, just like Twitter. #

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Twitter Digest for 2008-05-02

Alexandar Tzanov — Sat, 03 May 2008 04:59:59 +0000

I have decided to stop bothering with Pownce, Jaiku and Tumblr, and stick with what works - Twitter. #
@pingfm Where are your servers located? Are they in house? We had some storms here in Chicago. #
@splitbrain WOW, that is awesome #

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Annual theme change.

Alexandar Tzanov — Sat, 03 May 2008 04:56:23 +0000

This blog underwent the annual theme change. This year I wanted to go with something simple, something plain, but still very functional and pleasing to the eye. Seeing that Twitter is so big (popular), and as I mentioned in a tweet from earlier today, I have decided to mainly use Twitter, if I am going to use a micro-blog platform, at all. So what better than have a matching Wordpress theme - Blue Bird by Randa Clay.

I have made bunch of changes to the theme and I am pretty much done with reorganizing my blog. Just making it more user friendly.

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Twitter Digest for 2008-05-01

Alexandar Tzanov — Fri, 02 May 2008 04:59:59 +0000

@pingfm so, who is the winner? #

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Twitter Tool - I love you, I hate you!

Alexandar Tzanov — Fri, 02 May 2008 04:50:26 +0000

The Twitter Tool, a Wordpress plugin, is an awesome tool. I love that it posts to my Twitter account whenever I make a post on my blog. It also provides me with the ability to make new tweets from my blog’s sidebar and from within the Wordpress administrator menu. But the feature I find most valuable is the Twitter digest. The plugin creates a blog post with the day’s tweets, thus creating a back up of my Twitter activity. This is also the feature, which makes me HATE this plugin.

The damn thing creates the digest posts, which are scheduled to appear at midnight with the days tweets, but it generates the posts 4 to 6 hours prior to midnight, right before my active time and thus missing my tweets from the day the post is supposed to reflect. I tried contacting Alex, the creator of the plugin, weeks ago, but I never received a peep from him. I told him about the problem and asked him how can I tweak the code to compensate for this problem, but like I said - not a peep.

It is a love-hate relationship.Unfortunately there isn’t another plugin like it. I guess I will just have to spend the time looking through the source code, line by line, until I figure out how it all works and what needs to be changed to resolve this headache. It won’t be the first time I have had to improve a plugin.

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Ham Toss - most useless site. On second thought, maybe not!

Alexandar Tzanov — Fri, 02 May 2008 03:17:39 +0000

I spend massive amount of time on the Internet, partly due to my job. In that time, I have come across a wide array of websites. I have seen a lot of useless sites, but thanks to a recent mass mail email mistake by the insoshi.com project my email became available to a lot of people, and some of them turned out to be spammer. What a surprise there, right? Anyway, one of those assholes sent out this sites - hamtoss.com. Now I know I have seen the most useless site.

You know what? Thinking about it as I write this, this site is not useless. At least not for its creator(s). Its purpose is to collect emails for that spammer. It shows you, the casual surfer, a silly animation. You like, you think it is funny, and you fall in their trap - “wanna know when we toss something new?”. You read this, seemingly harmless, words and you provide your email address. Damn that’s genius.

I think I will use one of my SPAM trap emails to see how this turns out.

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Twitter Digest for 2008-04-30

Alexandar Tzanov — Thu, 01 May 2008 04:59:59 +0000

@pingfm show of interest is always good news. #
@splitbrain I read about them on techcrunch yesterday. Now I am waiting for the beta invite. #
I have decided to try digsby again. I think I might stick with it this time around. The twitter featurs are close enough to twhirl for me. #
@Scobleizer twhirl is all that and also better than alert thingy. It is more organize, especially when it comes to frindfeed. Try digsby too #
Just got back from closing on the new house. I can’t wait to move in and set up my office. #
Yeah, looks lkie I will be sticking with digsby and I will be uninstalling twhirl. #

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I very much dislike scrapers!

Alexandar Tzanov — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:52:59 +0000

I just spend 15 minutes blocking splogs and scraper IPs for jutiagroup.com. It is a pain in the rear. I have to spend time sorting through comments, that are marked as SPAM, to make sure there aren’t any good ones. Almost always they are bad, and 99% of the time they are trackbacks from scraper sites, that steal content and place it on their ads bloated sites. Do they really believe that having a trackback link makes it OK to steal the content?

Ahh, it is so annoying!!! That is the problem when you have a real site that allows commenting. You have to deal with this kind of crap. This doesn’t happen as often on this site, though. But I had one last week on my post about Alerth Thingy, now that douche doesn’t have a Google Adsense account any more. I hate this loozers.

By the way, I ended up blocking freehostia all together from being able to read content on Jutia Group. There were a lot of trackabcks from blogs hosted by them this time around. So more no longer!

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Twitter Digest for 2008-04-26

Alexandar Tzanov — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 04:59:59 +0000

I removed my friendfeed from twhirl. It was too annoying and messy. And quit frankly I did not care much for the service any way. #
I want to choose who to follow, not just everyone. The service needs to allow users to customize the feed they pull through RSS clients. #
I am going to eat you. Darn, this is so funny. It reminds me of Aliens – the movie.http://twitpic.com/l07 #

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Twitter Digest for 2008-04-25

Alexandar Tzanov — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 04:59:59 +0000

I hate IE’s ignorance toward .ico and other graphical formats, as well as text styling. M$ take a page from Ff’s book when it comes to this! #
Sweet!! The new EyeOS 1.6 is out. A lot of new features and plenty of updates. It’s time to install http://eyeos.org/ #

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Twitter Digest for 2008-04-24

Alexandar Tzanov — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 04:59:59 +0000

I installed Alert Thingy. I am not impressed. Now I am going to uninstall it. #
SlideShare gets pumled http://twurl.nl/3avbg7 But not for long. I am glad to see that they are looking after their customers. #
@splitbrain I hope you are not using Colgate. They are the worst. I stopped using it years ago, and switched to Aquafresh Extreme Clean. #
@splitbrain PayPal fees are a killer. In some cases it is better using the good ol’ checks. #
I have socialthing.com invites if anyone is interested. It is like friendfeed but with fewer features … at the moment!!! #

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Helicopter birthday cake

Alexandar Tzanov — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 02:00:55 +0000

Now that’s a cool birthday cake. A cake shaped like a helicopter with a functioning rotor. Sweeet!!!!

You can find the instruction on how to make your own here on Instructables, an awesome do-it-yourself site.

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Alert Thingy - maybe not!

Alexandar Tzanov — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 04:03:23 +0000

Lately I have been hearing a lot of noise about the Alert Thingy. A desktop client, build on Adobe AIR, which allows you to monitor updates on your FriendFeed, and as a side bonus of its latest release you can also post to Twitter and Flickr. FriendsFeed, for which Alert Thingy was build, is profile activity aggregator. You sign up with FriendFeed and add the usernames to a number of web services like Twitter, Pownce, Jaiku and number of other others. Then when there is any activity on the linked profiles, it is distributed to FriendFeed and any other site via API or a RSS feed. FriendFeed takes those feeds and mashes them up into one.

Image via WikipediaBut back to Alert Thingy. The app has been hyped up so much by Michael Arrington, the founder of TechCrunch, in the last two weeks that I decided to turn off my Twhirl and try it out. As I finished installing it, Twhirl had an update, so I installed it, too. Looking through Alert Thingy I found myself with very limited options and customization choices. I mean Alert Thingy counterpart, MySocial 24×7, which is a Firefox plugin, offers more options. Yes Twhirl requires two different windows for each service, but I will stick with it. Especially after tonight’s update, which added few new features, and now I can get my FriendFeed through it as well. Not that I care much about FriendFeed, at least at this time. If anyone is interested in adding me as a friend on FriendFeed, this is my profile.

So Michael, why all the hype? Other than freeing desktop space, I just don’t see how Alert Thingy is better than Twhirl.

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Invites - UGame network

Alexandar Tzanov — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 20:15:18 +0000

I have 5 invites for the Facebook for gamers community site UGame Network.

UGame is a community site, currently in its beta, which functions like Facebook, but for gamers. The site allows you to upload pictures, share your achievements, rate games and create groups (private and public). In my opinion, the site is nothing special. If you are a Facebook addict, there are apps that you can install if you want to connect with other gamers.

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