My Side of the Fence

The danger isn't going too far. It's that we don't go far enough.

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Twitter

Alright, I’ve tried twitter once for a couple of days and I don’t see the point.  I’m in the tech business and I just don’t get it.  I suppose that if you’re a famous person and you want to connect with your fans on a regular basis, it’s a good idea but on the more pedestrian level that I operate on, it seems a shade much. I don’t have “fans”.  Heck, my daughter doesn’t really think I’m cool anymore.

I tied my twitter account into my facebook account and I was updating my status like 20 times a day.  I quit doing that as I noticed when other people did it I found it annoying so it seemed idiotic for me to bombard the world with my status updates.  I find it hard to believe that people are at all interested in the everyday workings of my life anyways.

So, I don’t really know what to do with all of this.  I still like facebook but I don’t update as often as I used to.  My friends do comment on my updates and I have fun doing it but I can’t really imagine going much past that.  One thing that seems kind of appealing would be to twitter in real-time as we go through the budget.  I like that as an alternative to updating the blog all the time with endless budget updates.  The only problem with that, of course, is that I need to pay attention while those meetings are going on!….:)

Something really cool – once in a lifetime.

Stay with me here, this is kind of a long story:  One of the things that Manassas has never been able to generate is a serious tourism industry.  In theory, we should be able to capitalize on the stunning amount of history that put Manassas on the map.  When I was a kid the City went so far as to setup a trolley that ran from OTM to the battlefield!   Other things have been tried but they’ve never worked.  The canyon of strip malls and retail between here and the battlefield makes it difficult to get people to make the transition.

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