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Climate Change – Blog Action Day ‘09

nicholas — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 12:08:16 +0000

There are plenty of people around taking the climate change issue very seriously. I dare say most of them can write more eloquently, passionately and intelligently on the subject and have more patience for researching their talking points than I.

For example Alan Long, Research Director @ Hitwise Asia Pacific, writes about the online perspective of climate change

You can read about Efficiency Vs Sustainability in climate change at Ross Hill’s Blog, but if you’re after a hard hitting list of actionables to tackle climate change, check out Eman’s article “enough lecturing: here are the real solutions! “ .

From me, i did what most curious cubicle warriors do when they’re procrastinating and i went youtubing:

If you’re funny and you know it : Tweet it

nicholas — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 15:42:23 +0000

Every now and again, someone in their moment of annoyance, good humour or frustration, will let out a pearl of wisdom or two into the twitterverse (the universe that is twitter for those who havent a clue what im talking about).

So a salute if you will, to those who help break up the day and provide a few chuckles Here’s a quick collection of the some my faves for 2008 (and one from 2007):

“you know you are using too much trackpad when your index finger gets too smooth to work properly” – 3:03 PM May 13th, 2008 via @nedwin

“Looking around the office I wonder who would get eaten first if we get snowed in and run out of food.” – 7:42 AM Feb 2nd, 2008 via @freshbooks

“okay. my parents’ understanding of twitter now is that it’s a cult. this is progress.” – 7:18 AM Apr 5th, 2008 via @echuckles

“@shelisrael I hate talking at conferences. Audiences in Australia are 93% dumber than US audiences. It’s been clinically tested.” – 3:33 PM Apr 14th, 2008 via @cameronreilly

“60 minutes on the bus there, 75 back? This meeting better have blowjobs. Blowjobs and cake.” – 10:17 AM Jan 24th, 2008 via @cleversimon

“eBay could really take it to the next level if they charged a premium for exclamation points and CAPS.” – 2:39 AM Jan 9th, 2008 via @hotdogsladies

“It’s always nice to craft an error message: “The internetz have pwned your rqst within this adaptrix”" – 3:23 PM Apr 16th via @samotage

“Light travels faster than sound. That’s why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.” – 4:18 AM Jun 23rd, 2007 via @christingom