Sierra Kilo

• E sick this morning. Mom’s watching her while I do a little work from their place. Dr appt at 1230. Prolly bronchitis/cold cuz she’s coffing #
• Steven E sick this morning. Mom’s watching her while I do a little work from their place. Dr appt at 1230. Prolly… http://ff.im/-2nZK #
• wow…friendfeed is double/triple posting everything…looks like that feature gets turned off… #
• Waiting to drop off rx for E. #
• E is running around screaming, so it seems she’s feeling much better. Still has lots of congestion in her chest, but I’d say she’s better #
• updated my WordPress install…that was a beating, but I also fixed some admin stuff so I can now edit pre-2.x posts! Also, permalinks work #
• Foot, Nov 13, 2008 http://ff.im/-2wYP #
• Walking the dog, my bi-daily ritual unwind. Listening to some David gilmour. Good stuff. E is doing well enough to go to school tomorrow #
• Shiny Cat in Sauce! Yummy! I love FailBlog.org http://ff.im/-2Ams #

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I want DiceWars (single and/or multi-player) for the iPhone! Multi-player aside, this is a great casual game. I’d also like to see some kind of turn-based multi-player game for the iPhone. Something that would email/text you when it’s your turn and skip your turn if you haven’t taken it in a certain amount of time (4-6 hours?).

A few friends and I play on the web once in a while, which is great, but it might work better with shorter turns on a mobile platform. If your turn could be played in about 60 seconds and you were notified on your device that it’s your turn, it might work better for my friends and I.

We played a lot of Risk (aka “Rikks”) in college, but now that we’ve all got our own thing going on (work, wife, kids, etc), it’s difficult to get everyone together. A turn-based “play-when-you-can-but-don’t-hold-everyone-else-up” game is what could work for us.

So I was doing some website housecleaning (upgrading wordpress, plugins, etc.) and ended up nearly hosing the works. In the end, I actually fixed a year-long problem I had with a previous upgrade and cleaning up the whole site. Basically, I fell into a big pile of it and came out smelling fresh and clean That’s rare.

I’m not sure what the deal is in the past few weeks, but a metric ton of my old classmates have finally discovered Facebook, so we’ve been “friending up”. I’m not a huge social networking web guy, but I usually get an account at the new flavor-of-the-day just to check it out. I’ve been on Facebook for years. One problem I’ve had is that I don’t really want to give up Twitter. SMS mobile notifications are a great way to keep up with people and few other social networking sites use it. Plus, I hate having 18 different places to have to update. Well, I figured out a way to update everything with my very latest status. It’s pretty convoluted, but works:

1. Set up TwitterTools plugin on my website. This updates Twitter with new posts from my website.
2. Set up FriendFeed.com with all of my websites (blog, flickr, twitter, netflix, etc).
3. Add the FriendFeed application on Facebook.
4. Add the Twitter application on Facebook. Set the Twitter app to set my Facebook status.
5. Set FriendFeed to update Twitter (under Account->Feed Publishing) with everything except Twitter, Facebook, my website, and Brightkite (since those post to Twitter automatically anyway).

With those things set up, I can post to Twitter (using Twinkle on iPhone), take mobile photos and upload to Flickr (using AirMe on iPhone), check in at a location (using Brightkite on iPhone), write a post, clip a picture from the web (using Asaph bookmarklet), add a Netflix, or whatever, and my status is always up-to-date (FriendFeed does most of the heavy-lifting). Of course, I still have to check Facebook to see what my friends are doing, since most of them don’t use Twitter, but at least it’s only one site. Oh, and if anyone still uses MySpace, you’re out-of-luck because I’ll never see your site. I had a login for all of 5 minutes before the site drove me crazy.