The Government is watching your Twitter post.

It looks like the Library of Congress has been archiving billions of tweets over the past several years according to an article in the about.com website, "Does the Government Monitor Your Twitter Account?".  In the article it states "That means there's a permanent record of every passing thought you've broadcast to the world about what you ate for breakfast, how your crazy uncle caused another scene at the family picnic or what Beyonce did at the Super Bowl halftime show."

The question is why? Library of Congress says for the benefit of future generations. "Archiving and preserving outlets such as Twitter will enable future researchers access to a fuller picture of today's cultural norms, dialogue, trends and events to inform scholarship, the legislative process, new works of authorship, education and other purposes," the Library of Congress said. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What does The Library of Congress do? Well, The Library of Congress is the research arm of Congress and serves as the national library of the United States. It catalogs millions of books, manuscripts, films and photographs. It has now stored more than 170 billion tweets in chronological order. Wow! That's a lot of tweets, I wonder if mine is there?  According to About.com "Getting to those tweets is another story. There are certain technical limitations to sifting through all that data. The Library of Congress so far hasn't been able to grant access to the Twitter archive to researchers because executing a single search could take as long as 24 hours.". Basically the Library of Congress needs to get a lot of servers to search all those tweets, which it does not have the infrastructure at this time. 

Scary, knowing what I posted on tweeter has been archived. Hmm, going to go 
 

Toms Rule #12

Before doing your business in the restroom, check the supply of TP.

First Photos Of My El Camino Project

On my other blog, My El Camino Project, I uploaded some photos of my 1980 El Camino. These are the first photos that I have taken and were taken Saturday April 7th 2012, the day after I purchased the El Camino. To view the photos click here.

My El Camino Project

I always wanted an El Camino, well not always. In my late 20's I started to have the desire to own an El Camino. As time went by that desire came more and more stronger. I guess it must be midlife crises, now that i'm forty (showing my age) that desire became to strong. So the search begins, for many months I looked through the classified ads in newspapers, asking friends and family to keep an eye open for me, looking online and Craigslist. I looked at many El Caminos some needed to much work while others were way out of my price range. On April 4, 2012 I came across this gem on Craigslist, 1980 El Camino with a 305, 3 speed auto and it ran. The price was within my range called up the sellers went to look at it and give it a test drive. I was hooked, we negotiated on a price but before I purchased the vehicle I wanted a friend on mine to take a look it. Made arraignments the next day for my friend who happens to be a mechanic to take it for another test drive. His opinion it needs some work but for that age what doesn't need work. On Friday April 5, 2012 I purchased the El Camino from two wonderful sellers, Thank you.

Now with a big smile, I drove MY El Camino home. On my drive home I thought it would be a great idea to do a blog about the  El Camino. I figured it was going to be a big project to restore and customize this vehicle, might as well document everything that I do on a blog to share with others. So the  "My El Camino Project" blog is created. On the following day, Saturday I took many pictures and videos of the 1980 El Camino to document the progress, I'll upload them soon.

Love donut.

Yummy a love donut.

My shocked face

The best E*Trade commercial.

Sounds familiar?

Freedom Pro Bluetooth Keyboard Review.

Well I got the new Freedom Pro bluetooth keyboard for my iPad and.... Wow! So far so good. The right shift key is weird place and i tend to hit the up arrow key often. The space bar is a little small and right hand thumb tends to the hit the key right to the space bar.

Sweet paired to my iPad and now my iPhone. This is going to work great.

After a couple of days of using the Freedom Pro Keyboard, it's nice, it does need some work. Like, improved keyboard layout. I have small fingers and even still my hand feels huge and bulky on the keyboard, imagine for the person with big hands. The keyboard that i bought guess has all the bells and whistles and most of buttons don't work with my iPad.

My point of view; Apple needs to make a folding keyboard for its line of iPads and iPhones. Quality Apple products. Overall this keyboard will work for now until something better comes along.

Until next time, C'ya.





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