I've changed my profile picture on twitter to reflect my discontent with their new elitist Verified Accounts beta program. Apparently you and I are not popular enough to be verified.

Seriously… Why don't they fork the verification process over to a third party (Lord knows there are dozens of them); charge $9.99 to be verified; keep half. There you go, there's a revenue model for you.

Nah, that would actually make sense.

• Username set… I was so afraid someone was going to steal it. www.facebook.com/ethauvin #
• RT @JohnChow: Less than an hour till the Facebook land rush. Hope you're ready! #
• My iPhone blog layout looks pretty crappy on the G1. Just tried it on someone else's phone. #
• Looking for a big enclosed trailer / car hauler in the Lake Havasu area? A friend of mine is selling his. is.gd/10cO4 #
• Erik's Tumbles - Linkin Park - “New Divide” from “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” tinyurl.com/nd8y5w #
• Good read: Eberhard vs. Musk/Tesla. Can't wait for a response, esp. as it relates to Musk's 'misrepresentations'. is.gd/ZZzG #
• Facebook gotta be nuts (or maybe just cocky) to release their new 'username' functionality on a weekend. #
• That Wolfram Alpha is scaring me. I can't help but think of the Wolf and the Ram… is.gd/ZUG4 #
• @paulyeo They could have an audible clue, hold until your hear the beep. #
• Another missing iPhone feature; hold the mic button for 2 secs during a call to enable/disable mute. How hard would that be? #
• Erik's Tumbles - Chickenfoot - “Oh Yeah” Music Video tinyurl.com/n6xygk #
• RT @rickross: @DZone " The First Few Milliseconds of an HTTPS Connection" dzone.com/uYL #
• Erik's Tumbles - Trim the bush to make the tree look taller! tinyurl.com/kvqffn #
• New with the iPhone 3GS, tangling-proof headphones… See, I can make stuff up too. :-) #
• Having a (Mexican) Coke and a smile. #
• One of my monitor is completely taken over by twhirl, pidgin/irc and Skype. Kinda pathetic. #
• RT @vero: If you're designing apps for the iPhone, @mholgate published a useful glossy icons mockup kit on @taptu blog: cli.gs/U5dg2W #
• Petition: AT&T to offer reasonable iPhone 3GS upgrade prices twitition.com/f96aq @ryanbarr #

• I just upgraded a neighbor's PC to IE8… Default search engine? You guessed it, bing. #bing #
• Just re-installed DenyHosts on my server, one of the services that fell on the floor after the OS upgrade. ping.fm/pnutm #
• RT @dalmaer: #Java ME licensing is 55% of revenue…. it will be hard for Oracle to do the right thing :( blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=19537 #

I just finished an iPhone-optimized mobile version of my weblog. I've been wondering what it would take for while now.

I used the iUI framework, which made the whole process quite simple. iUI is pretty limited, but it does provide the basics.

I probably spent way too much time on it, but I was experimenting a lot. At least that's my story, and I'm sticking to it.

I still like the regular mobile version better, as it really matches the look & feel of my blog, but it is not really iPhone friendly.

• RT @jimh: Last.fm founders leave. Sinking ship? bit.ly/dD02s #
• RT @rickross: @DZone "Programmers: Before you turn 40, get a plan B" dzone.com/nsq #

I've just completed transferring my wiki from Confluence to dokuwiki.

I've been using Confluence since 2004. Thanks to a free open source license provided by Mike at Atalassian.

Reasons, you ask?

I believe that my little server is no longer tailored to run an Enterprise-Level Wiki. Confluence is providing a lot of functionality nowadays, but is also very taxing on memory and startup time. To put it nicely, I had to downgrade.

So, after a minimal amount of research, I decided to give dokuwiki a try.

So far, so good… Knock on wood.

• Erik's Tumbles - websnapr: Website Thumbnails For Your Website tinyurl.com/mnrxce #
• Erik's Tumbles - S.H.Y.N.E.S.S. - Internet Explorer 8 - w/ Dean Cain tinyurl.com/ndntwa #