Alright, I have to credit a frequent reader of this site, MissMaryMac with this idea. In a posting on her own blog entitled I Am Not a Kangaroo! she mentioned naming her pouch.

I found the idea intriguing, and decided to steal.. er.. run with it as well.

She named her pouch Simon… cause what Simon sez, goes. I’m not quite that creative, and have settled on the simple name of “Joe”.

Joe and I are going to be together the rest of my life… yea, a sort of life-partner, but not THAT kind. (not that there’s anything wrong with that.)

Sure, I’d rather spend the rest of my life with a Rachel, or Suzy… but I don’t think my pouch has any sort of female tendencies… so Joe it is. I kind of get images of Snoopy as Joe Cool when I think about it… and Snoopy is sort of a picky eater at times as well, so it’s all good. Also, he’s a much better mental picture than my pouch is.

So yea… in the weeks, months, even years to come… when you hear/see me talk about Joe, you’ll know who… or rather what… I’m talking about.

The micro-blogging site, Twitter, has been around for awhile.  And the concept is fairly simple…

Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing?

To that end, you are able to post a short (140 character max) message that folks have come to refer to as “tweets”. These messages lets others know what you are doing at any given time. I get the whole concept, but I never really got in to it… just never found much of a use for it, though I have tried on a few occasions.

Maybe I just don’t have enough friends? Well, friends that also use Twitter. Or that are even in to the whole social networking concept. Which is actually rather odd since just about all the friends I have these days I can pretty much trace back to having gotten connected through some sort of online means. Most from back in my AOL days. But I suppose as I have slowly delved more and more in to the world of putting content on the web via various blogs, I was bound to drift towards the micro-blogging here and there.

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I can’t seem to make up my mind, can I?

I have so many sites out there these days that I need to maintain that I really don’t know what I want to do with my own stuff. I’ve bounded around trying to decide how I want to maintain this, what I want to use it for, etc.

So… at least for now, I’m going with this.