Whew, what a whirlwind the last 5 days have been.

I finally got *all* my business and personal taxes done as of yesterday. For once I in quite a while I actually got them all completed before the deadline. I will have to say this year I had less problems. Of course becoming addicted to Twitter didn't help.

Ah, Twitter. To me Twitter is a combination Instant Messenger (IM), Forums, IRC and Usenet all rolled into one extremely simple way of doing things. I have met and twitted (chat) with some of the greatest minds in the technology and social media industries. I read more than I tweet (post) however the ideas I have come away with will make for great future blog posts.

I wish had the time right now to pen some of the ideas into posts. I am keeping track of these ideas in Microsoft OneNote (a blogger and researchers wet dream). Rest assured they will be forthcoming shortly.

Using Twitter is akin to wading through a small stream and watching everything spin around your legs. Sometimes it is difficult to keep up with the many ongoing conversations. It's also fun. I find a lot of levity and humor among the serious and thoughtful posts on Twitter. Good stuff, feel free to follow me on Twitter and I will do my best to reciprocate.

If you are finding it difficult to find people to follow, there is an web application called Twubble that will help you boost your "Following" and "Followers". Twubble helps you find friends of friends and even fellow twitters in a geographic area. It is quite nice, so be sure to have a look.

I've been playing around with several Adobe Air based applications and finally installed Twhirl. Twhirl is a free desktop application for Twitter. Not a lot to write about it other than it works well and the UI reminds me a bit of IM clients. Good stuff.

Oh and FedEx Express of Statesboro Georgia SUCKS. More on this rant in the next day or so. I have a large client project to finish before I start in on FedEx. I did send a good many FedEx executives a EECB (Executive Email Carpet Bomb) about my  consistently poor service from the company. I guess I will give them a chance to fix it before I unload on them and stir up a lot of bad press. I just Googled FedEx Sucks, I am not surprised at all the complaints I found based on the crappy service I have received for the last 5 years.

April 17, 2008 - Update on the FedEx problem - I got a call from FedEx corporate on April 15th, they are "taking measures" to ensure this sort of poor service doesn't happen again and they are cutting me a check for two hours of my lost time and for a gallon of gas (i had to drive to the FedEx facility to get my Next Day package at 7pm).

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