It's fun when part of the Twitter community gets annoyed by something trivial. This time it's Twitter's official plans for retweet functionality. People apparently love the whole "RT @username" syntax and don't like that the official retweet functionality for Twitter.com places the original users tweet into their timelines even if they aren't following them.

Users that use the official functionality won't have the option of adding their own text to what they retweet. This really is a trivial thing people. If you don't like how Twitter implements retweets, then don't use it. Nothing is stopping you from typing "RT @username..." or "... (via @username)". At the end of the day Twitter makes the decisions on how they want to handle new functionality, not you. You can whine and cry, but if they are set on their way, they're going to do it. If you're favorite desktop app changes to support the official Twitter functionality then build your own app or copy paste, it's not a big deal.

These are some of the people I recommend you follow on twitter. I'll be updating this list periodically and actually making the names links, I've just run out of time to do it as my lunch hour is over.

CodeIgniter Developers:

    * @jamierumbelow
    * @walesmd
    * @elliothaughin
    * @dreadfullyposh
    * @adam_griffiths
    * @philsturgeon
    * @rezzz
    * @funkatron

EllisLab's:

    * @Ellislab
    * @CodeIgniter
    * @dallard

Web Shops/Firms/Freelancers:

    * @BlueTux
    * @ModalBits
    * @HeadMeetDesk (another one of my accounts)
    * @CrushLovely

People:

    * @samhowat
    * @artarmstrong
    * @rogieking
    * @cdharrison
    * @justinkendall
    * @tgpo

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The last 12 months have been filled with a few firsts for me. I joined my first user group, went to my first conference (FlashPitt), co-managed my first user group, and went to my first concert (Blink-182). But there are a few other firsts I want to do that I need to start planning for now. I want to go to my first SXSW and my first AEA (the San Francisco one in December would be 2 birds with 1 stone). However these two firsts are probably going to have to wait until the next time they come around.

SXSW is definitely not happening in 2010, besides the fact that there is no way I could get a week off to go and I don't have the extra cash to spend on it, it's kind of late to attempt such a trip. AEA, at least the SF one won't be happening at least for the one coming up, but there's a good chance that I could make one later in the year (maybe DC).

The third first is San Francisco. I've never been there and I want to. This actually leads to a fourth first, air travel. Been in a plane before, never a commercial airline going from one airport to another.

Snow Leopard is quickly becoming Annoy Leopard. I can't get Erlang or CouchDB (which requires Erlang) to install via MacPorts because some of the depencies won't build (ICU and libsdl). I guess it doesn't matter at the moment since I can't install it on my VPS because there's not RPM for it and there were some issues with things not being allowed to build on it. Thinking of getting a cheap slice over at SliceHost to install it on. Might migrate over to them, only thing is the 1GB slice is $70, wheras my current VPS gives me 1.5GB's of (burstable) Ram, 30GB of space and 1TB of bandwidth for $50.

I also tried to install MongoDB, and that didn't work too well. I followed the instructions on their site, and it didn't run. Even rebooted and still nothing.

Are you using SliceHost? Which plan? Which Linux distro?

Ok, so I have Snow Leopard (family pack) and I want to upgrade both my iMac and a my MacBook. Now my MacBook is easy, I can literally copy everything to my iMac because I have plenty of room on it. However I won't be able to copy everything from my iMac to to my MacBook because it's more than it's little hard drive can handle.

So my question is, if I have a Time Capsule setup with Time Machine and they are both backing up to it, can I simply pull everything back from their most recent backup? I do have a PC with an empty HDD that I could use, but it's a pretty big hassle to get it setup on the network and ready to roll.

Suggestions? I'd buy an external 1TB (probably this one) but that would mean waiting until next week to do it (obviously I'd rather do it right now).

 In CSSEdit It can reformat the style blocks. I get the top result when I use tabs in their preferences, I want the bottom result. Any ideas?