Too busy to blog.

I haven’t posted much, or even been watching Twitter, for the last couple of weeks. I’ve been busy. Hopefully, in the next few days, I’ll be posting about new site launches. I’m quiet, but not gone — got my head down getting stuff done for clients.

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-03-06

• Reading "Blue Like Jazz" by Donald Miller — he articulates well many things I've thought or felt over the years http://bit.ly/922g7U #
• "It's a great thing when you realize you still have the ability to surprise yourself." (Lester Burnham, American Beauty) #
• Finally saw "Twilight" last night. Boy did that suck. At least "New Moon" had werewolves! #
• Designing a new client website, struggling with questionable color combinations their print designer used. :-\ #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-27

• Two thumbs up for "Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief" — a well done, fun adventure worth seeing. http://bit.ly/2lzSvy #
• "If you can't say something nice, don't say nothin' at all. " — Thumper #
• Amused that Foursquare hasn't penetrated in Alhambra or Pasadena. I'm the mayor of a couple places I've only checked into a couple times. #
• headed into Pasadena for a book group discussion on Karen Armstrong's "The Case for God" #
• meditating on the nature of god #
• Happy National Pancake Day http://www.ihoppancakeday.com/ #
• It's a trap! http://bit.ly/dyS6Gk #
• Death panel for Tripp? He has socialized medicine (aka federally funded health care) and that can kill you! http://bit.ly/a4wd7O #
• "Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than standing in a garage makes you a car." (Anon.) #
• New client website now live at http://www.southernhand.com — project notes blogged here: http://bit.ly/aPrFtj #
• Doubletwist: iTunes-like media sync for non-Apple devices like Android and Blackberry phones, PSP, and more http://www.doubletwist.com #
• Question for my fellow Mac users: Songbird or Doubletwist for non-iPhone sync? #
• RT @petesantilli: @Restoration Bio: "Love Jesus with all my heart" Do you think Jesus would side w/Insurance companies, GOP & exclude poor #
• Continuing education day today — adding new tricks to my web development toolbox. #

New Site Launch: SouthernHand.com

I’m very excited to announce the launch of a new client website at www.southernhand.com

Southern Hand Centers provides hand and upper extremity rehabilitation services through their 7 locations in Tennessee and Mississipi. This is the client’s first appearance on the web, and provides basic information about their services, staff, and locations.

Built on the Joomla 1.5.15 platform, this site uses the following plugins:

• ChronoForms to power the Contact Us form,
• Title Manager for better TITLE tag SEO,
• Joomla Content Editor for a better WYSIWYG interface than TinyMCE offers,
• Joomap for automatic XML sitemap generation

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-20

• "Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends." (I Cor. 13:7-8) #
• Republicans: if you are for something UNTIL the President is for it, then you are a hypocrite #
• RIM buys Torch Mobile… Blackberry web browsing to suck less. Webkit slowly taking over the total browser market. http://bit.ly/y4KpR #
• "Happy Birthday, Dear Stimulus!" One year later, great success with more to come. http://bit.ly/bBBB68 #
• I'm totally not paranoid, but reconsidering use of Foursquare, Brightkite, Loopt, etc. after @pleaserobme hit the news http://bit.ly/bzUeqV #
• That people use God's word to justify their hatred and bigotry isn't reason enough to give up on God. #
• Wordpress 2.9.2 is out: your automatic upgrade is ready now http://wordpress.org/ #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-13

• RT @Chillami: Be content to act, and leave the talking to others. Baltasar Gracian #quote #
• Checking out the Newseum's "Today's Front Pages" http://bit.ly/nPaKi #
• Do I get partial credit if I get one of my several e-mail inboxes down to zero? #inboxzero #
• Frightened, clueless or uninformed? (Seth Godin) http://bit.ly/ce9NIJ #
• Slate's Culture Gabfest is great this week: Super Bowl ads, Temple Grandin biopic, and more. Funny and thoughtful. http://bit.ly/aqJtsl #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-06

• RT @BarackObama David Plouffe's @WashingtonPost op-ed today reminds us why November doesn't need to be a nightmare for Democrats: http://bi #
• What the Web of Tomorrow Will Look Like: 4 Big Trends to Watch (Mashable) http://bit.ly/5QDePL #
• "Pass the Senate Bill, Please" (Paul Begala) http://bit.ly/5pnYwM #
• RT @RandombyteCom: MyClientBase | Free and Open Source Web Based Invoice Management http://www.myclientbase.com/ #
• Too big to fail is too big. http://bit.ly/6uwif6 #
• Are the Twitter tags to watch for tonight #potus #sotu and what? #
• @its_rene You get out of it what you put into it: it's your #education in reply to its_rene #
• Hulu to live stream SOTU and allow embedding in other sites — nice http://bit.ly/aHzbWf #
• @chetyeary if I had the spare cash lying around, I'd be tempted to go Dell Mini and hackintosh it in reply to chetyeary #
• Apple iPad looks interesting. AT&T wireless still sucks. #
• @chetyeary you decided against an iPad, then? For an internet enabled reading device, I would want to leverage either ITMS or Android Market in reply to chetyeary #
• @chetyeary you're making me want to go toy shopping! whichever you decide to get, be sure you blog your experiences for the rest of us in reply to chetyeary #
• Cuddling up with TweetDeck and CNN for the #SOTU from #barackobama — so nice to hear from a President I actually voted for! #
• Ouch, I agree, too… RT @richweiser: 8 Things That Suck About the iPad: http://bit.ly/dyoLly, I agree with most of this… #
• Bank bailouts were/are unpopular, but have been profitable for the taxpayers http://bit.ly/3fpUKT #sotu #
• Any healthcare reform is better than the status quo. Alan Grayson had it right. http://bit.ly/CpN9l #
• Amen. RT @ealvarezgibson: It still blows my mind to have a president I can listen to without shame, anger or threat of vomiting. #sotu #
• Satisfied with #SOTU and with my President. Now I want to see #barackobama kick some butt and pull off some real progressive change. #
• @Theobinomy IMO #barackobama is trying too hard to be bi-partisan while the Republicans are blocking and filibustering EVERYTHING in reply to Theobinomy #
• If you must use Internet Explorer, please upgrade to the latest version! http://bit.ly/92H9cO #
• "We have got to close the gap a little bit between the rhetoric and the reality." #barackobama AMEN! http://bit.ly/9C3Fss #
• Google Pulls IE6 Support From Docs And Sites (TechCrunch) http://tcrn.ch/azuMSk) #
• RT @NathanFillion: Watching @MoTancharoen, @elizadushku, and @feliciaday in the Dollhouse finale. Whole lotta pretty going on there! #
• To be completely honest, I don't want bipartisanship. I want @barackobama to get done the things I voted him into office to get done. #
• Keep Flash off the iPhone and iPad. Flash was always a workaround, not a solution. #
• "The problem for Flash is just like the problem for IE — the web has already moved on." (John Gruber) http://bit.ly/9mRkif #
• "I can protect myself from my enemies, may God protect me from my friends." (Italian proverb) #
• "No good deed goes unpunished." — Clare Boothe Luce #
• @ModernInnovate welcome to Twitter #ff #
• "Don't drive angry!" Happy Groundhog Day! http://bit.ly/9vh6eR #
• "Flash is cilantro: you don't want to eat a bowl of it or live in a house made of it." (Merlin Mann) #
• @chetyeary do you want to eat a whole bowl of just cilantro? in reply to chetyeary #
• Sometimes Flash is just the right tool. And Adobe is working on making it run faster and more reliably. http://bit.ly/c6V6DD #
• wondering what percent of the "tea party" is evangelical Christian vs the Republican party #

Steve Jobs introduces the God Tablet

In case you missed it, watch the Apple iPad product announcement here.

More ways to help Haiti

I just saw on Facebook that PBS has created a widget (below) to help website managers and social media users to promote donating to Haiti relief.

Get it now.

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-01-24

• I ran 570m before hitting a wall and tumbling to my death on my iPhone. http://www.canabalt.com/ #
• Core i5 MacBook Pro rumor… WANT! #
• Drupal 7.0 Alpha 1 released… Put investigate Drupal on my 2010 "to do" list. http://bit.ly/6xmdyX #
• RT @biblepsychology: To become spiritual it's not enough to read the Bible but you also, have to meditate on it. #
• @JessicaGottlieb IMO, most bloggers are posting opinion pieces, not ethically reported fact finding with context in reply to JessicaGottlieb #
• RT @FreeRangeKids: Should grown men be forbidden to sit next to kids on airplanes? Because… you know…? http://bit.ly/8czah6 #
• How long? http://bit.ly/1UsjAC #
• In a competitive market, customers benefit. Apple vs. Google (Business Week) http://bit.ly/7fhxJZ? #
• RT @revision3: Conan O'Brien (@nbcconan): We want to offer you a job! Bring your show to the Internet … http://ow.ly/XImQ #
• RT @farahato: "The time is always right to do what is right." Martin Luther King #
• RT @Liturgy: "Some of my best friends are atheists…." http://bit.ly/8eDJsn #
• RT @TechCrunch: With Mobile Giving To Haiti Passing $20 Million, Text Fundraising Comes Of Age http://tcrn.ch/4TUrjT by @erickschonfeld #
• Great list of charitable organizations accepting donations for Haiti relief http://bit.ly/5FwAms #
• Don't fall in love at the Jersey Shore, hop on the W-train! (Thank you, Jersey Shore nickname generator!) http://bit.ly/8uprs1 #
• RT @37svn Small by Choice, Whether Clients Like It or Not http://bit.ly/6hE7oC #
• "Small is a weapon, not an excuse." http://bit.ly/7CC8u4 #
• Just received approval on a website design from a new client — the hard part is done, time to produce. #
• Firefox 3.6 released http://www.getfirefox.com #
• For web developers: Web Open Font Format (WOFF) for Firefox 3.6 http://bit.ly/FDLQV #
• Giving the new SugarCRM 5.5.0 community edition another look — need good, free project management #
• Reading "Lessons from America's Lost Decade" at http://bit.ly/7rnGJt #
• In appropriately minimalist fashion, Google Labs offers Listen app for podcast subscribe/listen on Android http://listen.googlelabs.com/ #
• RT @Astro_TJ: Hello Twitterverse! We r now LIVE tweeting from the International Space Station — the 1st live tweet from Space! … #
• "A lesson from two lemonade stands." (Seth Godin) http://bit.ly/8W0hUQ #