Tiwtter and stuff

Twitter has its quirks, as I've discovered, but what bothers me more is the fact that many developers seem to take a "whatever" kind of approach to using the APIs. My previous post expressed disgust in the widget available through Blogspot (I'm sure there are better ones out there). I've now also discovered that the KDE "microblogging" desktop widget could use some work. My account is currently locked for an hour because I fat-fingered my password, and the widget gave no error message. I thought it had just flaked out, so I switched tabs back and forth once or twice to refresh, which attempts to log in again even though it clearly had a bad password given to it. I love the most recent versions of KDE, but come on, folks...password failure is a pretty simple thing to pop up a quick error message for.

In other news, I'm about to undertake a full-on case mod, which you can see on my other blog (link on the right). I'll post pics and info there as it progresses. Check it out if you're interested.

And finally, something music-related (!) for my music blog: I may be almost convinced that Slacker Personal Radio is even better than Pandora. Keep an eye out sometime in the next few weeks for a review, after I've given it a very thorough test-drive.