2008.05.01 – 18.11 UTC+08 (Singapore Time)
If you’ve got lots of studying to do and you’d rather not be distracted, don’t make your way over to JustSayHi.com, and definitely don’t do any of their addictive quizzes!
Try them out for yourself, and post a comment here if you do well at them, I’d be fascinated to see how people with actual lives do on them! I really should have done better in these myself, guess I hadn’t had enough coffee first :-).
- Geek Test
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96% Geek
Not impressed with my result, they didn’t ask any questions about how few girlfriends/boyfriends you’ve had, or how much coffee you drink, or how many shirts with UNIX commands on them you have. I would have kicked arse with those!
- Apple Addiction Test
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89%How Addicted to Apple Are You?
This is probably an accurate result! As much as I really, really love Apple computers and other devices, I’m not completely addicted to them. Well, almost!
- Internet Quiz
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Dang, if only they didn’t have questions about social networks, the protocol questions were easy!
2007.11.18 – 21.22 UTC+08 (Singapore Time)
AFTERWORD (is that a word?): After submitting this post I got a very helpful comment from Gedeon at the IconFactory who helped to explain why I was getting these errors and possible remedies.
As it turns out the cynical conclusion I came to about my computer preventing me from becoming too addicted to Twitter by forcing me not to use it as much… was ironically accurate! As it turns out Twitter itself has a limit to the number of accesses to their site you can make in a given period of time, and obviously with Twitterrific running on my Mac, TwitBin running on Firefox on FreeBSD and m.twitter.com on my phone I consistently overshoot my allowed number.
Twitterrific is a native Mac OS X application that displays tweets you and your friends have posted on Twitter, the microblogging site that I am hopelessly addicted to and post to almost every hour of every day.
Well I was having no end of trouble with the 2.x series of it on Mac OS X Leopard which is understandable considering it was written originally for Tiger, the latest version seems only to have added advertising and not fixed the endless stream of Twitter Errors
that seem to always sit as the first post:
ASIDE: That advertisement for Camino popped up just before I took the screenshot. As you might have already read, Camino is my favourite web browser on Mac… how ironic!
I’ve tried allowing the Twitterrific app in the new Leopard firewall settings panel and have checked all my other networking settings but it still shows these errors constantly. To get a version without advertisements you have to pay $20.00, but I want to know that what I pay for actually works :(.
Anyone else had problems running Twitterrific on Leopard? I tried running Snitter as an alternative, but uninstalled it because it was giving me even more problems. Does my beloved MacBook Pro think I’m wasting too much time on Twitter and is trying to stop me posting to it? Is it an intervention on my computer’s part? That’s probably the reason!
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