Twitter

As you might have noticed from the new box at the upper left, I've joined Twitter, and even managed to get my tweets automatically posted to the blog--a level of technical accomplishment that astonishes me. Things never work that easily.

I still don't really have any clear idea what, if anything, I will use the thing for. But there have been many technological things that I have brought into my life which at the time I thought would have rather limited use, but which turned out to be tools useful for much more than I would have guessed. These include fax machines, a home computer, the internet, a scanner, a cell phone, etc. So maybe in a year or two I'll be saying that I can't imagine life before Twitter. Or, alternatively, a year from now perhaps those same four initial messages will be sitting there with time stamps "A year ago." We'll see.

I think that I will occasionally post a note about where I'm playing, in case anybody feels like joining me at a table to take my money. For a variety of reasons, I'm already sure I won't do that every time I'm out playing (for example, I'm sure to forget a large part of the time), but at least sometimes I'll announce it.

I suppose that on the rare occasions I enter tournaments I might post updates on my progress (as if anybody cares). Heck, I might even use it during tonight's readers' tournament.

At the very least, now I can be sure that I'm not absolutely the last blogger to adopt the fad.