I'm sitting at my spouse's job site because it's time to do payroll and one thing I learned early on, you never ever mess with peoples money. Normally I come with Boo on Sunday because afterwards we go to dinner in the San Fernando Valley, which is a good 30 miles from home. I usually bide my time by surfing the Net or logging in to Twitter, Brightkite or an alternate desktop application. Today we arrived to realize the I.T. department had blocked these sites and more! I saw my day becoming quite long and arduous as I contemplated having nothing to occupy my time with.
I Googled Twitter apps and reviewed several sites. Clicking on links resulted in the dreaded Web Sense message "This Websense category is filtered: Social Networking and Personal Sites." Not one to easily despair I continued researching different Google results and happened upon two sites that worked:
iTweet was functional and aesthetic enough to work with. It was intuitive and most important gave me access to Twitter so that I could read tweets and replies.
Tweenky's interface was bare bones and boring but I could read tweets and post so it will do in an absolute emergency.
I have an old notebook computer running WXP that used to connect to the home network with no problem. As of yesterday it stopped connecting and I've been troubleshooting ever since. Twitter has been a resource in determining what's causing the connection failure and since I desired to be productive, I thought I would continue exploring solutions from Boo's work. Thanks to iTweet and Tweenky the day was interesting and fun even if I haven't fixed problem yet.
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