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I want everyone to go to http://www.twitter.com/ so I can see what all the hype is about. Twitter is like the little status updates in Facebook, but you don’t have to be confined to Facebook to use it. You have to be confined to Twitter.

Actually you can send status updates through your phone, email, IM, or using the Twitter website itself. Then you can choose to get your friend’s updates using Twitter, phone (don’t do this), or RSS feeds. It’s like a micro-blogging tool. You don’t need to write paragraphs and paragraphs of your life, you can just write a phrase or 2 to show what’s up in your world.

It sound stupid, but it has gotten a lot of press and lot of high profile people use it too. Since no one I know has Twitter, I would like to see if it does become addicting. It’s also an excuse for me to keep up with my industry’s fads and trends.

So back in January, I decided to read the entire Bible in a year. I haven’t finished yet because I still have a few days left. I have a few chapters left in Job, Revelations and some of the Minor prophet books. Overall, the entire venture was an okay experience.

Even though it took max 30 minutes a day, it was still an ordeal. There were a lot of books in the Old Testament that were incredibly boring to read. It was hard to pay attention and stay awake when reading some of these books. Some of the stuff I read just flew by my head.

Interestingly, some of my favorite books were in the Old Testament. I thought Proverbs were great. It was the most practical book ever. Also the entire book of Genesis was incredible and fascinating. I also liked Jonah and some of the stuff in Judges. Of course the Old Testament also had the coolest woman ever: Jezebel. I wonder if I should feel guilty that one of my favorite character in the Bible was evil.

The year long Bible reading plan is a great tool to keep you disciplined. It also gave some sort of pressure too. I don’t like pressure. So I got stressed out when I skipped a few nights on December due to holiday stuff. But I’m at the home stretch, and I have a few more chapters left.

I’m going to do this again next year because I only remember like 5% of what I read. I’m going use a different year long Bible reading plan just to mix it up. But hey, at the end of this year, I get to be in “elite” company because only a small population has actually read the Bible in its entirety. Yay.

I normally don’t need gifts. Besides a Playstation 3 + HDTV, this is what I want:

Aren’t those the coolest shoes you’ve seen? These are called Vibram Five Fingers shoes. Not only do they look cool, but I heard they’re very comfortable as well. Christmas is nearly over, but my birthday is coming up. So when that time comes, I’ll tell you my shoe size.

Since I owned Google stock since it’s IPO, I’ve been a lot more invested in Google products. I use google docs, google reader, gmail, google analytics, google adsense, google maps, and so on. I’m all about putting money into Google’s pocket. I was actually disappointed that The Weather Channel didn’t use Google maps for their interactive maps. But it’s okay since we’ve worked with google to offer something similiar called Interactive Weather Layers for Google maps.

It’s not like I’m selling out because I own 0.000000001% of their company. They make very nice and innovative products. Not only that, they’re free to use.

Of course I don’t do this with all the stocks I own. I own Pepsi (PEP) stock and I don’t even drink Pepsi. But I believe in their brand (Mountain Dew, 7-Up, Dr. Pepper, Gatorade, etc.).

I’ve been reading my billions of RSS feeds I subscribe to in google reader, and I noticed that they added a new feature. They have a top recommendation section. This helps you to find more blogs that relate to what you’re into. That’s pretty cool. More things to help me waste my time.

I changed from textpattern to wordpress. I also got a new theme for my blog. Why did I do this? Because Wordpress is more powerful. Also, there’s a huge community for Wordpress.

All of my previous blogs were hand-coded, I never used a blog engine before. I thought I did the correct research to choose the correct blog engine, but I was wrong. I used Wordpress and typepad, but never textpattern. I should’ve tried out textpattern before I committed to wordpress.

So now I’m on wordpress and I’m happy.

I have another blog. This one focuses on the restaurants in Atlanta. I thought about doing this for a long time because of my love of food. (wei^2, whatever happened to “Bitch Who Loves Food” blog?)

It’s funny, a few of my hobbies now are sleeping and eating. I’m surprised that I’m not fat yet. Maybe I’ll see if I’m still skinny at age 40. Maybe I’ll have super high blood pressure and cholesterol levels.

Anyway, go to http://atlanta-foodie.com/ to check out the site.

Check out this site I discovered called updown.

It’s one of those stock trading sites that you can practice your investing or trading skills. This site is different because you can actually earn money. All you have to do is outperform the S&P500.

The site is ad-driven and it’s backed by a hedge fund–according to their web site. So you don’t have to pay a dime to them. It’s completely free.

So if you think you have the skills to outperform the S&P500, try it out. Also, if you’re going to sign up, please use this link and help me out.