nomaded's little corner

Twitter-enabled

I've been considering setting up a Twitter account for a little while now, but I haven't because I hadn't figured out a good way to tweet from work, without it it being in the clear. I'd rather not have work be able to capture and track what I'm doing, even if it's just reading my RSS feeds (through the https version of Google Reader). I'm not doing anything illegal, but I want to keep my work-life and private-life separate.

So, my gf offhandedly mentioned that she can tweet and follow with Google talk. I realized that was the easiest solution to my "problem". So, now I have a Twitter account.

I had been considering setting up one of the CLI-based Twitter clients on my linux box from home, but I couldn't decide if I wanted to go with one of the various scripts to tweet and follow from the shell prompt, or if I wanted to try out an Emacs module to do this, like I did for posting to this blog. As an aside, I still can't say I'm totally happy with the Emacs webblogger module. (See the previous post about the wonky timestamp.)

Of course, I just noticed that the Twitter page for tweeting is an https page. Oh well. I would not be surprised if Twitter is something that gets blocked by the work webproxy.