Tomorrow is November 1st, which marks the beginning of NoBloPoMo, aka, National Blog Posting Month. The idea is to write a blog entry a day for the entire month of November. It’s a little nutsy, but I did this last year and really enjoyed it.

So, the warning. A blog entry a day means a lot of writing. I did write some pretty good, substantial blog entries during November last year, but I also wrote a lot of, well, junk. I’m sure I’ll end up doing the same this year. I do, however, want topic suggestions, which I didn’t do last year. Any topic, no matter how random, feel free to suggest it, either by emailing me or in the comments (or dm on twitter).

I’m going to have a lot of fun, and I hope everyone reading will too – talk to you all tomorrow!

I’m always being asked for links to people to follow on Twitter. This is often phrased as “gimme some things to follow, because I don’t understand why I should bother.” So, here you have it – my list of fun Twitter stuff.

First, learn all about twitter here:  A Newbies Guide to Twitter (http://twitter.zappos.com/start ) – this was written by the CEO of Zappos, (who you should also follow http://twitter.com/zappos ) and is still to date the best explanation I’ve seen.

Now that Tony’s taught you all about twitter, add these “people” who I find really entertaining:

Sockamillion http://twitter.com/sockington – Yes, this is a cat. But I think this is easily the funniest “person” on twitter – I adore seeing him update. I think my cats are jealous.

CobraCommander: http://twitter.com/CobraCommander – remember GI Joe?

SARAH http://twitter.com/_S_A_R_A_H_ – Sarah is the house in Eureka (tv show). Gotta love a twittering house.

Whole Foods http://twitter.com/wholefoods – Yummy.

Captain Hammer http://twitter.com/captainhammer – from the singalong blog, of course.

Darth Vader http://twitter.com/darthvader – needs no explanation

I Can Has Cheezburger http://twitter.com/ICHCheezburger – Cat pics, what else!

Donna Noble http://twitter.com/DonnaNoble – not so active these days, damn that amnesia

Martha Jones http://twitter.com/MarthaJones

Southwest Airlines http://twitter.com/SouthwestAir

Stop the Spam http://twitter.com/stopthespam Twitter spammer updates. Always fun to get a new follower update, then see that person reported by Stop the Spam within the same minute.

FreebieAlert http://twitter.com/FreebieAlert

TechInsider http://twitter.com/techinsider rumors, gossip. Not always correct.

The Coop http://twitter.com/andersonscooper FAKE Anderson Cooper.

Anderson Cooper http://twitter.com/andersoncooper REAL Anderson Cooper

Pirate Bay http://twitter.com/tpb News about IP and the internet

El Gato http://twitter.com/el_gato And another cat.

Twitter http://twitter.com/twitter Twitter news, status updates

CNN Breaking News http://twitter.com/cnnbrk

Mars Phoenix Lander http://twitter.com/MarsPhoenix – if you were watching this guy a few weeks back, you would have seen the “wee, we found ice!” update. Cutest thing ever.

NASA News Feed http://twitter.com/NASA

For real people…search Twitter for your friends, for celebs, for websites you like – you never know who or what you’re going to find there. Another way to find people to follow is to look at who your friends are following.

You can also reading Twitter easier by hooking up sms or getting a client ( http://twitter.com/downloads or check google to find some, there are TONS).

There ya have it – the basics of twitter. If you do decide to join in on the obsession, leave your twitter name here, or shout out to me so I can follow you – @stephaniebambam. Just remember – 140 characters or less!

Enjoy!

I have “officially” moved my blog over here, my LiveJournal blog is no more. All posts there are gone, and thanks to wordpress being awesome, all of the posts from there are now here. Yay for archiving!

Anyway, here I am. WordPress and Dreamhost. Thanks for all of the recommendations!!

I’m still working on things, but I gotta admit – WordPress is as friendly to use as people say.

It isn’t EASY, or at least, not for what I’m doing – the one-click install didn’t fly – but it is still remarkably user friendly.

And I’m posting this through ScribeFire, which I just adore, but had poor LJ support.

Hopefully will be ready to fully pull the trigger on this blog by the weekend. Woo!

I am starting the long-overdue process of moving this to dreamhost, which unfortunately is forcing me to switch the DNS before it is ready.

So, for the next few days, stephaniebambam.net is going to point to a kinda wacky page. stephaniebambam.livejournal.com will still be here and all functional until I’m ready to move over.

FINALLY!

I have a horrible tendency to only write blog entries when I have something to complain about. I was always that way with my diary as a kid as well, if I was writing in the diary, something was VERY wrong.

So, in an attempt to break that habit, here’s a few random happy fun things:

- I’ve seen tons and tons of people get pulled over for talking on their cellphones without a headset, which is entertaining. It’s always the people on the phone who drive the worst.

- I drove past the Hills (MTV) crew filming a certain blonde on my way to work this morning, which made me think about another blonde I knew that I hadn’t talked to in a few weeks. Two hours later, that person IM’d me.

- I finished watching John Adams, and it was fantastic. I spent a few years living in Mt Vernon (Virginia) when I was a kid, and from then on loooved the colonial period. My perspective on it was always very skewed towards virginia, though, all George Washington and Thomas Jefferson and James Madison and stuff. I knew very little about John Adams by comparison, so the movie covered a lot of new ground for me. Really interesting.

- The Doctor Who season finale was fantabulous. I need to write up a whole big Dr Who rant, but I’m gonna save that until after the finale airs in the US.

- I recently learned to play Blackjack counting cards. It’s really cool, and I’m getting pretty decent at it!

- I will be at two conferences coming up – BlogHer ’08 next weekend, and Casual Connect the week after. I’m on a panel at Casual Connect, and reading an entry from this blog at BlogHer.

- I think my cat just locked himself in my bathroom. He’s done that far too many times now, you think he’d learn. (ok, maybe that’s not “happy” per se, but entertaining nontheless) The other cat is inside my bookcase, staring out at me from behind a pane of glass. Dunno why she loves it so much in there.

And on that note, I’m off to rescue the cat. Or just taunt him from the other side of the door. I haven’t decided which yet.

I’ve been working and playing online for a long time now (well over ten years), and have wonderful memories of my life (or, you could say lives) online. I met some of my best friends online, and also had my heart broken more than once due to either relationships or situations that evolved online. I can truly say that the Internet has changed my life, and I only expect that to contnue happening.

Currently, I am between jobs – I recently left my previous position, and am in the process of moving to California to start a new one. This blog focuses on my life – my personal life – and touches very little on specifics involving my work. So if you’re interested in the random blabberings of an internet addicted�single girl moving to California – you’ve come to the right place. But technology and industry analysis…you won’t find that here. That’s my job. This is my fun place.