VICTORY ~ facebook.com/georgie

Victory is mine!

For the past week facebook, and we geeks, have been counting down to the release of facebook user names! I know, I know; what’s the big deal? I’ve got user names on other sites like my twitter account; @pandapoo for example, but facebook uses real names so why do facebook user names matter so much? Well like it or not, for most of us facebook is our ‘home on the web’ and it’s an important part of both social and casual-business networking too. The problem for a long time has been the question of how to give out your facebook URL; do you give out the whole thing; numbers and all? Create a tinyurl or just don’t give it out at all? I often opted for the latter. I’m lucky in having an uncommon name; ‘Georgie Hammerton’ shows up just me on facebook so I stuck with letting people find me by name, but what about ‘John Smith’; how are his friends meant to find him? The answer is a username!

From 5:01AM (GMT) this morning we were able to jump on facebook.com/username and register the user name of our choice, in the first 3 minutes 200,000 user names were registered. And I, Georgie Hammerton, fastest fingers in the west, was up at 4:30am, counting down with my fellows on twitter, and at 5:01AM managed to snag facebook.com/georgie I’m a very proud man. My girlfriend, with whom I’m on holiday with at the moment, was not as impressed when I woke her up to ask if she wanted to get her username after some persuasion she managed ‘cat.bebb’ and is a happy lady (not as happy as me with ‘georgie’ *grin*.

I briefly spoke to the guy who got facebook.com/usernames, after a tip from Eddie, but he wasn’t happy 5 minutes later when facebook had decided to make that URL redirect to facebook.com/username, he’s stuck with his own name now; so old fashioned.

If you got yours already then please share them in the comments and if you haven’t then GET A MOVE ON!

I can finally say good-bye to http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=272701731, and hello to facebook.com/georgie hmm.. time to order some new contact cards me thinks!

Ciao!

Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No Keyboard

While we all have to wait a few more hours until the real Apple Keynote, you just have to love The Onion sometimes; I am SO the customer in this video lol.

Mac Geek note; in the video the spotlight icon in the top right and the blue hint in the top left show that the MacBook Wheel is running OSX 10.4 Tiger and Apple ships all new machines with OSX 10.5 Leopard which has black icons now.. *geek snort* lol. Note to self; get a life! :)

NB. For the easily confused; this is a joke video made by The Onion who make fake news articles for the funnies. To clarify; THIS IS NOT REAL! Glad we got that cleared up lol.

All My Internet Friends

I heard this song at the end of BOL yesterday and I thought it was so sweet, geeky and charming that I had to share it with All My Internet Friends too; guys, this one’s for you! :)

Lyrics:

All My Internet Friends

Monday afternoon I gave a presentation to the staff
Kicked off with a knock-knock joke to liven up the charts and graphs
That crowd
Never laughs out loud

But all my internet friends were tickled pink
They put animated smileys when they passed around the link
They said Hey, girl, here’s another awesome thing we found
Sarah Palin getting smacked down
With a Prince song in the background
Better watch it quick before they take it down

Wednesday night I figured I’d go out and buy a DVD
Walked into a store and walked right out again immediately
This sucks
They want thirty bucks

But all my internet friends give things away
They just really like to make stuff even when it doesn’t pay
They say, Hey, girl, here’s a picture, here’s a poem too
Here’s a blog post, here’s a podcast
Here’s a song and here’s a lolcat
And an iPhone application all for you

Saturday I had a date with Dave the software engineer
Told him bout the time I got my headphones wrapped around my ear
I swear
He just didn’t care

But all my internet friends they listen well
They make sympathetic comments when I say that I’m in hell
They say Hey, girl, what’s your status? I say, Omigod,
I’m not sleeping, I’m not eating
I can’t take another meeting
With the clean, well-meaning morons at my job

There are those who say I spend a little too much time online
Sometimes I agree, but on the whole I think I’m doing fine
Click, buzz
I feel strong because
All my internet friends are here with me
Saying Love and information want only to be free
And we’ll take no crap from anyone who says that they know better
We won’t stand for that because we all came here together
We’re remaining interwoven
We’re a net, and we have chosen
To be knotted tightly to each other
You be client, I’ll be server
We won’t ever have to be alone

QR-Codes are so Cool!

Okay, I have a new ‘cool thing’.. If you have some QR-Code software on your phone you can scan these special barcodes and they’ll take you to a webpage which is programmed into the code itself. I’ve been making mine using this site. You can get your own software for your own phone, I think pretty much every phone with a camera has the software for them somewhere; you just have to download it. I’m using Barcodes for the iPhone and it works great! It seems like now is the time to get these apps on your phones too because they’re appearing everywhere; I saw a code on a Pepsi bottle earlier and they’re hidden all over the place!

Have a go with these ones; it’s SUPER fun (in a geeky way), I’ve even linked my facebook profile picture to another one via a QR-Code; yes, I am THAT cool!

Above: My Facebook Profile

My Bloggywog, PandaPoo, The Nat & Georgie Show! (click above for larger).

Face Your Manga

It’s the craze that’s been sweeping the internets over the last 24 hours (as far as I can tell) Face Your Manga is a new avatar creation website. It offers a high-resolution version for €1.50 or a low-resolution version for free. I’ve seen some good ones floating arround the web today, though there are some some very bad ones too which isn’t a suprise as the tool-set is rather limited. While restricted options will frustrate some people, for me half of the fun was doing the best I could with the tools I had was a fun challenge.

If you’ve made your own I’d love to see them; post your links in the comments!