Scrapbook Josh

One that I need to make now, that I should have already decided earlier but didn’t give up. Last night, around nine thirty, Twitter went offline for a few brief moments. I could say that I have gotten used to that, and the fact that if I stay any longer on it, I would have to do something else for my time, and update later. Fortunately, I don’t update very much, and I try to keep my profile page as clean as possible. I’ve made quite a bit of friends there just by liking or commenting on their FriendFeed content. More specifically, I have over thirty followers on Twitter, and nine people subscribed to me on FriendFeed.

I’m doing fairly well so far, even though my goal is not to increase my popularity, but to interest my readers on this blog. I am very, very sorry to say that, I must make a decision. I’ve waited as long as I could for Twitter, to get their act together, and well, they did. But anymore of the downtime, be it even a few minutes, will disrupt the flow for many using it. And anything that would happen to Twitter’s user stats, would really hurt them, and I would definitely hate to see that. But as opposed to staying a while more, my other choice is to move any further updates of me to another source.

Right now, I can assume you are thinking “Pownce” or “Jaiku”. First of all, I already have used Pownce, they work fine, they are less sociable, and I don’t know as many people on there. I might use it again in the future, but it was still missing something that I needed. Secondly, Jaiku may not be anymore popular than Pownce, and while updates aren’t as proportioned like Twitter, they embed ads on the page and include other annoying content as opposed to just adding snippets of user information. Not that it’s bad to have that, but I’m going for simplicity now, anything that will help my readers.

Twitter is by far, the most used micro-blogging service that most people use (on FriendFeed). But now it’s just another site that I need to contribute to for my schedule. The last update utility that I have had my eye on is Gmail/Google Talk. I have used it before, and I couldn’t tell you how easier it is. The very first thing I do when I connect to the internet, is check my email. And, thanks to Google, the IM chat window is right below the navigation. I can switch status anytime I need to. However, there wont be a site profile that I use for updates, that you will be able to view. If you are following my FriendFeed, you will only see what the status is. Nothing more.

Take this status message, for an example. It says exactly what my current status is, and gives you a link to the Google Talk signup page, obviously telling you that I used Google Talk to make that status. Believe me, that is all that’s necessary for me. Even though I may want to, I can’t leave Twitter just yet. I’ve done a lot on there already, but if I see anymore downtime gaps, I’ll have to move once and for all.

It feels a bit weird since, I’m not really graduating. Not in the same place of my peers back at stone-age middle school. I was homeschooled all this time, and let me just say, it felt good. I got a lot of vent and peace in rewards, and certainly redeemed my grades to the ace score. So, in a way, I did accomplish a lot the last few months, but now that my intelligence has got me this far, will it serve me the same way in high school? One may never know until he is experiencing it. I still wonder if anyone back at the middle school changed.

Now that I left, it should have done them quite a bit of good. Not that I was a big problem, even though it was really their tempers that explained their true colors. I shouldn’t be rambling about this, since I’m what, three hundred miles from them, now that I’ve moved? Well, there’s my full taste in middle school. It was a completely odd two years, and I’m surprised I made it through the way I did. A lot of fights, disruptions, stupidity, incompetent students/teachers, and all the more you can think of. Yes, I had made some mistakes there, but that’s just the general way of life before you get into high school…

High school, yes. There is a hope for these last set of years. Now that I’m thinking about it, I would expect everyone to have changed and/or have some humane sense in themselves. But still, it’s only the 9th Grade. Kids these days still need about a year to get readjusted and evolve into their mature and intellectual state. But that probably wont be until my second or third year, depending on how things go this next one.

But what am I worried about? I just got out there and now am awaiting the three full months off. And as a Graduation consolation, I’ll be going out to the mall to eat with my parents sometime this week, and hopefully be getting a domain for the blog. And last but most certainly not least, some money to add to my ever saving wallet bank for one new computer. Which is going to be a tough one to choose: whether to switch to a Mac permanently or just use Ubuntu and Linux as is. Or maybe should I see what Windows 7 has to offer? I’ll need a lot of feedback on this.