Tue, 08 Dec 2009

Gwibber

Gwibber is a handy microblogging client, but it would be nice if it:

Could be made smaller
Allowed hiding of things like the tabs and menus and other useless bits
Retried gets without constantly moaning about things failing. It's the internet - get over it. I don't need an orange triangle to warn me that the twitter API or the internet dropped a packet or two.
Retried posts more than once - maybe even until they work - instead of logging a meaningless error and losing my post. Something more than an orange triangle would be good to say a POST failed.
Could track whether I've read tweets or not - and maybe highlight the ones I've not read?
Could get more than about 20 tweets on startup - maybe make it configurable, or even continue getting historical tweets as long as they are unread by me (up to a configurable max)

Note: See, I've been good - I've not even asked for a filter to remove all the crud that people put on twitter, particularly me ;-)

posted at: 22:05 | path: /technical | permanent link to this entry

Nightwish - Oceanborn

It's almost an old album now - at least Rachael's battered copy that I found is. Wonderful to rediscover an artist / band after a break from listening. Unfortunately, every time I listen to the flute solo in Gethsemane I cannot help but pictre Bill Bailey astride the conductor's podium demonstrating the ficticious and enchantingly aloof qualities of the transverse orchestral flute, conjuring up visions of titanic grandeur. "Iceberg! Dead ahead!"

posted at: 21:47 | path: /music | permanent link to this entry