Note: the only link in this post is now broken. Left as originally published.

Been trying to use Twitter on Lynx browser, the mobile version of Twitter seems to work okay but can't login using the regular version.

Just installed the Opera 10 Release Candidate

I have been using the beta versions since they came out and it has become my browser of choice at work and at home.

Doodle's Geek Monkey by Alastair Montgomery

URL shortening is a great idea for Twitter’s 120 character limit but it does have its problems. Most annoying, you find an interesting link and click on it and get presented with the screen above. There is nothing you can do to get to the article you clicked on until the server load goes down.

Other problems include you don’t know what site you will end up on so can end up on a phishing site or something NSFW, although TinyURLs preview option kind of helps that problem.

Testing the Dev build of Chrome running on my Mint Linux VM.

Feels pretty nippy, especially scrolling through Google Reader.

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Been testing a new search engine http://www.nibbo.com/ so far I like it.

Its really a nice front end on existing search engines so you can search a number of things at the same time.

A Geek Chart is a web badge that shows where you share stuff online.
Each slice of the Geek Chart is a link to your profile on sites like Flickr, Twitter, Youtube and more.

Here is my chart.


Alastair_hm’s Geek Chart

Doodle’s Geek Monkey by Alastair Montgomery

I sat down and mapped out how all my internet feeds map together.

The main gathering point is my Twitter account.

I also seem to have a Twitter addiction which can be seen from this graph

November 2008 looks like when I discovered TwitterFeed to like my other post through to my Twitter account.




Doodle’s Geek Monkey by Alastair Montgomery

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Some cool 404 pages :)

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