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This is just one of fun search terms via which people got to this website recently:

• "names of all the houston rocket players on a sheet of paper from bst to worst with their ages on"

P.S. You know you are in the U.S. when a pilot of the plane announces progress and results of a sports game together with all the essential flight information.

Twitter is addictive as you can see.

Earlier: "Twitter - let's try it!" [March 14, 2007]

Lat: laiks dzimšanas dienas svinībām

It is my birthday today.
And this is a traditional blog post on March 19th complete with a picture of a hot anime girl.

Celebration began early this year with St.Patrick's Day Parade on March 17th. Today is a bit quieter, we'll have some cake and champagne. It's gonna be fun!

Happy Birthday to all who are celebrating it today!

Previous years:
- March 19, 2006
- March 19, 2005
- March 19, 2004

Was surprised to see that there already is a history of birthday posts on this blog. One thing to notice is that the 2004 post talks more about wishes and things to do. Does that mean that events fly by too fast now to think and write about what I want?

Things that happened recently:
- discovered Twitter
- enjoyed WebCamp: Social Networks workshop

Near future plans:
- go to ICWSM'2007 - International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media

Picture of the anime girl from "Anime Desho Desho Rwar! (August)"

One of my favorite business model suggestions for entrepreneurs is, find an old UNIX command that hasn't yet been implemented on the web, and fix that. talk and finger became ICQ, LISTSERV became Yahoo! Groups, ls became (the original) Yahoo!, find and grep became Google, rn became Bloglines, pine became Gmail, mount is becoming S3, and bash is becoming Yahoo! Pipes.

I didn't get until tonight that Twitter is wall for the web. I love that.

... writes Marc Hedlund in "'sfearthquakes' on Twitter" on O'Reilly Radar. I like his approach.

What UNIX commands are role-models for Semantic Web applications?

Conway's Game of Life in SVG - an implementation by Kevin Lindsey. It's fun to see dynamic things like this implemented in SVG. Follow the link to see it in action.

Update: "Faster SVG Game of Life"

A local copy of one of examples: life_2_0_bw.svg

We went to the parade, it was rainy but fun. Enjoyed it. Poor souls who were walking in the parade though.

Enjoy St. Patrick's day!

Twitter is the latest thing in social networks and attention economy.

You can publish your status (what are you doing), share that with the world and follow "twitters" from you friends. Add to this "soup" RSS feeds and support for IM and mobile phone texts, and you get a pretty addictive thing. "Twitters" soon start to form conversation threads turning into a way of communication.

One more thing: you are limited to 140 chars. Having to keep within this limit adds a different feel to it. Probably that's your text messages for the web, for those who do not spend all of their time sending mobile phone texts.

Here's my Twitter: CaptSolo.

Trying it out now. First read about it at "How can we capitalise on Twitter’s addictiveness?" by Tom Raftery. Will write more when I get a feel of it.

Update 1: "All of a Twitter" - an interesting article by Ian Delaney.

Update 2: Twitter channel, which I added to blog's sidebar, shows up empty for me. The other Twitter badge/widget which is a part of this blog post shows up ok. Do you also experience the same problem?

"Links from my Twitter Followers" by Chris Pirillo - use your Twitter network to collect cool links and interesting information from your fans.

WebCamp: Social Networks, an open day-long event on social networking took place in Galway last week and was a success.

There were 6 talks on a wide range of topics and 50-60 people attending the event. Any more and the largest meeting room in DERI would have been too small.

The two presentations I will look at in particular are "Social Network Analysis 1987-2007" by Valdis Krebs and "Topics, Tags and Trends in the Blogosphere" by Conor Hayes.

Keynote talk by a social and organisational network analysis expert Valdis Krebs about various projects he has worked on in this arena during last 20 years covering experience in almost 500 SNA/ONA projects. This talk is for anyone interested in social networks and social network analysis. See also his blog post "Can it really be 20 years?".

A talk by Conor Hayes about topic clustering in blog networks. It would be interesting to combine a rich data model of SIOC-enabled sites with a topic clustering analysis Conor is working on.

All the presentations were good and you can see them at Slideshows tagged: WebCamp. Or see a blog entry "After the WebCamp workshop on social networks" by John Breslin who organised this WebCamp.

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Translation to English:

A programmer was asked:
- How did you manage to learn English so quickly?
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"Lunar eclipse wows sky watchers" [BBC News]

About this shot:

Taken with a Canon SLR and a zoom lens at 300mm, then cropped to show a close-up view.

Hope you like it. This is the moon during a total eclipse.

A short line in the center of the photo is a star - you can see how far it has moved through the sky during an 8 sec exposure. Would have been happy to get a sharper picture, but this was the best I could. The moon also moves through the sky and one would need a shorter exposure and maybe a better lens to get a sharper photo.

"Lunar Eclipse" - the same photo on Flickr.

We apologise again for the fault in the subtitles.

Those responsible for sacking the people who have just been sacked have been sacked.

[ a quote from the starting titles of film "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" (link to the screenplay) ]