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Happy Birthday Sis!

My little sister turns 21 today! I remember Dad announcing her. We had just moved to Germantown TN. Each of our moves was prefaced with Dad announcing at the dinner table, "boys, we’re going to move." So when the tension at the dinner table grew and Dad started in with "boys, …" I started wondering where we might be going and why so soon. When he finished with "…your mother is pregnant" I kept waiting for the punchline. Not long after that, my sister was in the nursery around the corner from my bedroom and I would wake multiple times a night to go watch her breath dreading the horrid "crib death." I really liked the new addition to the family and looked forward to being a positive influence on her. A year later I was off to college and I blink my eyes and she’s in college!

Happy Birthday Kelly! Have yourself an adult beverage or two to celebrate but keep this video in mind:

p.s. Sorry about that dirty diaper I refused to change for 45 minutes when I was babysitting you.

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Following for an audience

I am one of 3411 people The Today Show is following on Twitter. When you follow someone on Twitter, they receive an email notifying them that you are following which encourages you to follow them. Twitter spammers hope to draw audiences in this manner. Can a mere 3411 people be an asset to The Today Show’s audience? Not all will follow. Right now 563 people are following The Today Show. I suppose the viral marketing potential is very large. If a fraction of those 563 people grabbed onto one of the links in The Today Show Tweets, and moved it onto Digg or popularize it through blogs and emailing to people outside the list of 3411, then their marketing effort on Twitter would have proven itself worthwhile.

I wonder if a Today Show staffer is actually monitoring the Twitter feed of those 563 people. Could I actually post something that The Today Show finds newsworthy?

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Do you dream of blogging?

Many people dream of making money by blogging. I do not fool myself into thinking Reality Me will ever be a for profit endeavor. I simply enjoy blogging and use it as a creative outlet during breaks from my programming.

Do you enjoy blogging so much that you actually dream of blogging? Last night, in my sleep, I composed a most wonderful, Pulitzer worthy blog post. I awoke around 4am with the post vaguely in my memory. (almost stayed up to program) The next time I awoke, at 6am, it was gone. I do keep a notepad by my bed but the habit of waking and writing my thoughts down is long gone. Now, if I had a laptop by the bed, that post would have been published!