Something Works

Wow, a strange morning on the internet, as it seems everything I try to do involves a failed website. Twitter is down. Who'd have thought we'd become so dependent in such a short time. Like probably a million other people I googled "twitter competitors" to see what else there is.

Plurk is another option, I think I even registered a few months back, but it seemed to be a sad convoluted attempt at the same game, without much success. My login attempt was even less successful. Entering my credentials as they should look if I had in fact registered, didn't bring me a failure to log on, but rather to a 404 page for the Plurk site. Have they been hit with the same alien death ray?

I google within Google news to find that Facebook is also having some problems. I spend very little time on Facebook, as it seems a bit irrelevant to me now that I've been on Twitter for almost 2years.

Well, at least Blogger is working just now. I'm cumulatively posting this entry paragraph by paragraph in case it is next to crash.

Finding out when Twitter is really down is a bit of a challenge. There is the Twitter Blog, but that seems to be strangely idle, with the last entry over a week old. There is also the Twitter status page. That one, at least is up to date, and not taken out when the service packs it in.

Meanwhile I have real work to do I guess. First phase of my sideline consulting gig is in the bag, and so I have a bit of breathing room for two weeks or so. I've also lined up a meeting with university folk to discuss some project research to move things along.

The big thing on my plate though, is to ensure my house is in order, and do some intensive shopping around, cold calling of VC's and angel groups. This is a push to see if there's anything out there... though my sense is that there isn't.

The other thing is a chain of stuff that has to happen. I have to sell or otherwise dispose of some junk from my garage so that I can get my office contents moved into there. I'm going to give up the office and conserve that money, as I shift to a three way press: look for salary paying work, scan for funding opportunities, and incrementally continue the advancement of the venture's core software.

As that evolves, and my patent bakes towards granting, I will at some point perhaps entertain shopping the patent around for licensing or sale as well.

Such is my plan moving forward. Not the optimal path that I had hoped for, but certainly not expected given the current economy.

Researchinator thinks it's about time to check Twitter again, and if still dead, turn back to some Javascript work...