From Twitter 07-24-2009

• 09:42:08: @soveren i have an iPhone too but i guarantee you won't want to see me at that site...
  
• 10:49:25: @nakedboy i thought you'd like that pic...perhaps we'll see it in another blog somewhere... ??
  
• 10:53:02: @thatsam OK, I won't deny it. I know _exactly_ what you were talking about.
  
• 12:57:47: Tories beat Labour in Norwich North by-election with a majority of 7,000 http://bit.ly/VWMUG
  
• 13:03:12: @skallott unsubscribe from the service that is sending them, i suppose. worth a try. thousands of followers mean 0 in marketing terms...
  
• 14:20:27: @nakedboy hi there...
  
• 14:46:22: @gelodelacruz sounds nice...do they make Diet Nutella??
  
• 18:00:15: According to Towleroad, E. Lynn Harris, the author, has died. RIP.
  
• 18:57:25: @soveren Camelot has rules about found lottery tickets-you turn them in and if no one claims them in 30 days Camelot pays you.
  
• 20:58:15: @jonk the word is "dongle"
  
• 20:59:10: @jonk oh, and it's a word that sounds really dirty but actually isn't. Kind of like the UK dessert "spotted dick"
  
• 21:00:06: @kevjumba i don't suppose you'll be eating much plant matter from now on. it certainly wasn't the most appetising thing to say at lunch.
  
• 21:01:54: @jonk i've never heard them called anything except "dongles".
  
• 21:02:32: when i worked for a market research co the plug used to unlock the DOS version of the SW was called a "dongle" too.
  
• 21:06:03: @jonk i think you're right...the only dongle most people will now encounter is the broadband modem, tho a thumb drive is also a "dongle"...
  
• 21:06:48: @jonk ...but, of course, we have a phrase for a "thumb drive" while we have no name for the USB CC modem, so "dongle" is useful.
  
• 21:07:28: @jonk "CC" should have been "BB" for "broadband". sorry--just had dinner so am a bit logy.
  
• 21:09:29: @jonk oh dear. i think "thumb drive" is very descriptive and quite useful. You should lie back and think of England in this respect.
  
• 21:11:25: @danvesma yes, iTunes is pretty non-user-friendly. an exception to Apple's usual good sense when it comes to user interfaces.
  
• 21:17:47: @danvesma yeah...the iPhone is a great design (and iPod too) but iTunes is crap.
  
• 22:18:55: @pedroissexy me too. i'll light a candle for you in church.
  
• 22:21:46: i wonder if "feeding trolls" in Twitter by having a 140-char contretemps with them is a brilliant idea...
  
• 23:29:11: well, all, about to hit the hay. see y'all tomorrow, god willing and the crick don't rise. play nice now.
  
• 23:30:36: @JoexEd if i had any hot stuff i'd give it to you. but, i'm fresh out. sorry...
  

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Today's Sad, Sad URL

I have heard of similar stories from other parts of the world—a woman is raped or sexually assaulted, and her family wants nothing to do with her, as she is now "damaged goods" or in some way responsible for the monstrous things done to her.

When people from other cultures come to live in the West, we assume that, in time, they will adopt our values of freedom, acceptance of difference, and caring for others (as much as we honour those values, sometimes in the breach rather than in actual practice). Thus, this story of a Liberian family living in Arizona who disowned their eight-year-old daughter after she was raped by four young boys is absolutely the saddest thing I have read this week, perhaps this year.

The fact that people from all over the country (the world, even) have offered to help the girl, or even adopt her cannot disguise the fact that this young girl who has been assaulted in the most horrifying way is now being rejected by the very people who should be comforting and protecting her.

I hope and pray that she will be offered the love, care, and protection that she needs.