Do You Twitter?

Amy Unger — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 17:16:00 GMT

If you like to keep in touch with the random, sometimes mundane, side of your friends and family, you must check out Twitter.com. It's too much fun to log in from any internet-compatible device to find out someone is cutting their toenails, listening to George Michael, or standing in line at Starbucks. Sounds silly, and, well, it is! The wittier your friends, the better.

You can follow my random thoughts here (which is even more random than my blog, believe it or not), entries of which have multiplied 10 fold since my acquisition of an iTouch. Makes a great diversionary tool when sitting through "Honey I Shrunk the Kids" for the 10th time, or patiently waiting for Steven to finish that one...last...potato chip from McAlister's Deli.

I've noticed that some business owners use it for announcements or trivia about their companies to their loyal fans. I'm thinking they might be on to something...

Kids these days....

Amy Unger — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 15:37:00 GMT

I was in high school before I saw my first home computer, which history would tell me most likely ran MS-DOS. My best friend's dad was a V.P. at Eli Lilly, so he always had the latest and greatest. Along with his dot matrix printer. We made a lot of cool banners on that green and white striped paper.

Fast forward 3 years... my college roommate had a brand new Mac II, and I was finally exposed to the wonders of a mouse (not the furry rodent). I discovered email somewhere around 1993--my first ever email went to my cousin at the University of Illinois from a computer lab at Indiana U.....and that was sooo cool. Of course I had to keep calling her to make sure she got it. When 1997 rolled around, I was finally able to surf the mysterious internet that everyone had been buzzing about at my brand new job with a computer software company.

Steven was 2 when he mastered the "point and click" and became fairly proficient in Windows Paint. Much more so than my mother, anyway, although that's not really a fair gauge. He was also 2 when he discovered games on The Wiggles website. He can now find various children's websites saved in his Favorites file, navigate through multiple windows, print pages for coloring, turn on/off the computer correctly, and adjust the speaker volume with hardware and software.

I'm thinking about getting a copy of Quickbooks Pro so he can do my taxes online next year.

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Do You Twitter?

Kids these days....