2009
04.09

WordPress, Twitter, and Facebook icons

For some time now, I’ve had lenflack.com (powered by WordPress) configured with Twitter Tools to automatically update my Twitter account with an announcement of any new blog posts. I’ve also had Facebook configured to pull my tweets as a status update. This essentially keeps all of my major social media outlets linked together, and requires less work on my part to keep others updated.

A month or two back, I changed how Facebook imports my tweets. I tweet quite often, so I didn’t want it to automatically use every tweet as a status update. To solve this, I began using Selective Twitter Status. This allows me to manually choose which tweets are posted to Facebook by appending the hashtag “#fb” to the tweets I’d like posted.

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2009
04.08

Livestrong Bracelet

I’ve written in the past about my health and related goals. I lost 40 pounds in 2008, and had been aiming to drop another 60 in 2009.

Unfortunately, around the first of the year I hit a brick wall. I started feeling bad. Really bad. Like crap, really. All the time. Long story short, I’ve got arthritis. It’s genetic, but my weight doesn’t help.

So, with an adequate treatment plan for that in place, I’ve been back to work on my weight loss goals.

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