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So, I've been copping some grief for the nature of my status updates on Facebook (email me for deets if you want to add me). Translations have been required more than once so I thought it politic to post a glossary of symbols and TLAs* you may notice in my Status Updates (or in the twitter column to your right)... oh, and while we're on the subject my status updates are fed directly from twitter. So most of the quizzical looks I get are because some twitterism or other has crept in...

Twitterisms - http://www.twitter.com

For the record twitter is the current buzz in social networking. basically a site built on people's short status update like messages colloquially known as tweets.

Tweet - a twitter message
Tweeps - your twitter friends contraction of twitter peeps.
Twitterverse - the Twitter universe
Tweeple - twitter people less personal than tweeps.
Twit - singular twitter user
Twas - former twitter user (i made this one up, but I like it the best)

Twitter lingo in the context of tweets (and by extension fb status updates) may come out looking like this...
@weirdname. In twitter the @ symbol is universally used to reply, and thereby create a link back to the person you're mentioning.
#followfriday or any other #thing. the hash tags the tweet so it's searchable and other people can follow along. It also links back to a search page of other #hashtags
RT is to 're-tweet' it's a copy of someone's tweet and an effort to spread the word via your own network and hopefully the networks of your followers

Some of the geek speak universally recognized in the circles I move in in the www may also creep into my status updates.

FTW - For the Win. Expression of joy, happiness or general all round good cheer and glee.
WTF - What the #@%% - well, you get the idea, basically the opposite of the above.
O_o - expression of confusion, weirded out etc.
OMG - Oh.My.Goodness ;)
WTH - What the Heck
BTW - By The Way

Full of Win - great, awesome, fabulous,
Fail - well, kind of speaks for itself but has become a noun as well as a verb.
Epic Fail - Proportionately huge fail.
Great Big Bucket of Fail - instant death, basically.
Fail Whale - is a twitter thing actually, speaks of the image that appears when twitter is down http://images.google.com/images?hl=EN&q=fail+whale&btnG=Search+Images&gbv=2 has also become a noun in many geek circles.

I'll add to these if I find other translations required, or you could contribute below if you feel so inclined!!

*Three Letter Acronyms

I went for a drive today to catch up with Mrs and Mr Tasmania. No, not to Tasmania, but to the Southern Highlands where they were having a wee bit of a holiday.  On the way there I happened to notice my car was about to hit this particular milestone...

Not bad for an 11 year old car, really... Dolly the Starlet hasn't had to work too hard over the years!! 

You'll be pleased to note that for my own safety the picture was captured while Dolly and I were stationary...  Not for lack of trying actually but I couldn't take the pic with the camera phone... the bloody thing kept focusing on the filthy plastic NOT on the Speedo... So to catch the picture I had to pull over on the M5 and pull out the Nikon -  a bit dicey given how busy a road it is and how many rather large trucks whizzed past a little too close for comfort...

I sincerely hope you appreciate the lengths I go to to bring you such riveting news...

It's a delight to me that one of my favourite jazz musicians is an old friend, and better still, that she's made the trek 'across the ditch' to set up in my little corner of the world. 

Charmaine and her husband have been here since the beginning of the year and last Friday night was her first official gig in Sydney.  So I bundled up a bunch of the girls to go and hear her support Kristin Berardi at the Stamford Plaza in Double Bay.

It amused me to hear a bunch of Northern Beaches people get excited about going across 'the bridge'... The harbour is a definite geographic divide, but it's also a cultural one...  it really isn't a long distance trip but we really do get excited about getting out of our neighbourhood and going somewhere different... and I don't mean Manly to Dee Why... people we went to Double Bay!!! (oooh lah,di, dah...).

So what's the cultural divide in your neck of the woods?  And what does it take to get you across it?

I entered into correspondence and remarked upon Kerrianne's rather fetching new do last week the end result of which is a promised entry including my very own rather fetching new do...  Didn't think I could go home to NZ this weekend without some kind of 'revamp.'

Bless me hairdresser for I have sinned... it's been
6months since my last haircut...

Dear Lord but that I could get it to look like this myself...