Awake and spinning...

Have you ever fallen asleep on the couch? 10 years ago I would have just woken up and went to bed and been fine the next morning. This happened to me last night. My girlfriend got home from work and I was sitting/laying on on couch. I thought I was comfortable but obviously I was not. I awoke this morning to a nasty headache and awful neck pain. It's amazing how resillient our bodies are at a young age and how not-so-resllient they become.

I have also been twittering lately. Twittering? What is that? It's another one of those Social Networking, or Web 2.0, type sites/devices. It was created by a guy named Evan Williams. I read about this service in Inc Magazine last month and I had to check it out. This guy takes practical things and makes them varitable necessities. Evan is also the creator of Blogger which, I believe, sold for $30m. This program is totally web based and allows peolpe to communicate via a large amount of user supported and created applications and, most importantly, via SMS messages. I can see the usefulness and overall practicality of a service like this and so do hundreds of thousands of others. Twitter's job is to answer the ever present question, "So, what are you doing?" People can sign up and "follow" other users and their updates are delivered via SMS right to their phone. Have you ever tried to coordinate by phone what you're doing with a group of friends? How much time does that take? If you're me and my friends, too damn long. Deciding dinner can take 30 minutes. All one person would have to do is get it started with, "Home from work, what are we doing for dinner?" and all of their followers would receive that message. From there they could post responses and all members would receive them. Very cool stuff. I think it's a pretty neat part of the whole Web 2.0 concept and I think I'll be sticking with it. See me here: http://www.twitter.com/mrwebguy or my workplace at http://www.twitter.com/daytonalagoon.

More later,
Joe