I discovered Twitter a few weeks ago.

It seems far easier and much quicker to keep updated, as (unlike with a blog) I don’t feel I have to write a long post about whatever it is I’m writing about - in fact it limits each "tweet" (the act of sending an update to Twitter) to 140 characters. If your friends/colleagues use Twitter as well, you can "follow" them, which puts all their "tweets" (as well as yours) on one central page for you to keep track of all of them at once.

There are also a vast amount of ways to "tweet" to Twitter - there are huge numbers of GUI clients for Windows, Mac OS (MoodBlast is a good one, and can also update various other sites/statuses at the same time) and Linux, as well as CLI clients for Mac and Linux, add-on/plugin clients for Firefox (my personal favourite is TwitterFox) and other similar apps, and iPhone/iPod Touch (I use Twinkle) applications too. You can also "tweet" on the actual Twitter website, or even using an SMS from your mobile phone!

I’ve added a link to my Twitter to the sidebar, and I may add a small widget to the sidebar as well to show my latest "tweets" at some point.

Fedora 9 was released a yesterday!

I jumped on the downloads (Installer DVDs of 32bit and 64bit) as soon as I could, burnt the 64bit DVD, and rebooted, hoping to have it installed within half an hour.

I already had 10GB of empty space at the start of one of my 750GB drives in preparation - all I had to do was tell the BIOS to boot the DVD and install it!

Well, that was the idea… If only it was that easy… Linux is never (at least in my experience) that obedient :(

I have finally upgraded my ageing socket 939-based computer to a new quad-everything (quad-core, 4GB ram, 4TB HDD… I’m sure you get the idea) :D

Some of the basic specs:

• Intel Core 2 Quad Q9450
• OCZ 2×2GB 1066MHz DDR2
• Gigabyte X48-DQ6 Motherboard
• 4×750GB, 3×500GB, 1×250GB Samsung Spinpoint F1
• Antec Quattro 850W PSU
• Windows Vista Ultimate 64bit SP1

For the complete specs list, see the systems page. Thanks to Scan, eBuyer and CCL for selling all the components I wanted :)

I will be putting Fedora 9 on it (in 64bit of course) once it’s released.

I’ve just finished upgrading to WordPress 2.5 - a very smooth and easy upgrade, thanks to SVN

The entire dashboard has been redesigned and is far easier to navigate, looks nicer, and is much less buggy or “quirky” than before. Ozh’s drop-down menu plugin is a nice addition to it though.

There are some pretty screenshots on the 2.5 Sneak Peak post on the official WordPress blog.

It’s February 29th - leap year day :D

Happy New Year to everyone :D

Yes I know the Fireworks image wasn’t taken at/for New Year’s, but it looks good in the post and suits the occasion :P

Edit: I just noticed that the last few posts I’d posted weren’t showing up to everyone else! They should be showing now :)

Happy Christmas to all those who celebrate it :D

I pre-ordered Crysis a couple of weeks ago, and it arrived yesterday :D

I’ve played it for a few hours, and so far it’s been amazing - great story, graphics and gameplay. I look forward to playing bits of it again once I’ve upgraded my ageing computer - when I tried it at 1920×1080 and “High” settings I got between 1 and 2 FPS! Playing at 1280×800 wasn’t much better, but was (mostly) playable :)

It’s no Half-Life (2) beater, but it comes pretty close. Of course, I might change my opinion once I play it through again on a better PC, but that’s unlikely, especially after how good HL2:Episode 2 was. However, it’s still one of the best games I’ve played in a long time, and I highly recommend it :)

As I said back in September, I wanted an iPod Touch.

I have now finally got one after the Apple Store got them back in stock! And, so far, it’s been amazing. My InvisibleShield hasn’t quite arrived yet, so I’m going to keep the temporary plastic cover on it until it does.

The interface is amazing… Coverflow has absolutely no lag or delay, unlike in iTunes on my PC - it’s not everyday you can say your mp3 player performs better than your computer!

Hopefully I’ll be able to hack it soon to get some of the iPhone applications on it, such as Mail, Weather and Google Maps.

I bought myself the new Dell 2407WFP-HC, a 24" widescreen monitor with a native resolution of 1920×1200 - 120 pixels more than a 1080p HD video has :D

The extra 5 inches make a pretty big difference in pretty much everything - working, chatting or browsing web pages :D

Gaming at 1920×1200 is also a big change, once I had configured the games to run at that resolution - newer games, such as Command and Conquer 3 and Counter-Strike: Source were easy, you just select the resolution in a dropdown list. In others, such as Battlefield 1942 and Battlefield Vietnam, it takes a bit of config file editing - but once that’s done, it works really well. Being able to see further to the left and the right helps a bit too :)

If I had the money, I’d definitely buy another one, but I’m saving for my new PC and about to buy an iPod Touch, so I won’t be getting another one for quite a while.

If you’re looking for a new monitor, and can stretch to the price for this one, I highly recommend it!