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The #TwitterApp stopped working on my phone - it failed to log me on for a few days, even when I put in the password. Twitter got in touch a few days later to let me know that the issue had been fixed and to try to log on again. I removed the app rather than try again. I could still log in on my browser, and on the computer. Why I removed the Twitter app: You have a limited number of characters to compose a tweet. People have been attacked for racism, misogyny, militancy, flatulence, and flatulent militancy because they can't properly articulate their positions in 140 characters or less. Here's the prahhhh-blem: If you're composing a tweet and you need to switch to another window (if you've received a text message, or you want to check your email or the InterWeb to confirm things before you tweet, or someone has called you), then, once you return to the Twitter app to finish your mini-epistle, your half-written tweet has disappeared. The aching concision involved in twe...

A round up of the year, with an anti-Spanish bias! Janyay In Janyay, Ariel Sharon died. The former Israeli Prime Minister had a stroke in 2006 and he decided to see the New Year 2014 in with his own death after years in a coma. Like Yasser Arafat, he died of renal failure. Like Yasser Arafat, he died after a coma. He woke up dead on January 1st. Apparently a former general, he wasn't very hawkish, putting him in the same league as Michael Jackson in many respects, except more overweight and less aggressively cosmetically enhanced. Febyay This year's Valentine's Day was celebrated by many. [KISSY KISSY.] March This year, St. Patrick's Day was celebrated by many. [GLUG GLUG GLUG.] April The anniversary of the death of Margaret Thatcher took place from the year before. May May Day! May Day! I can't remember any things that happened! June The World Cup was held in South America for the first time since it was supposed to be held there the last time. In 1986, Colombia w...

Muslim cartoonists are today using advanced technology - similar to that employed by forensic animators to reconstruct the death of Princess Diana - to entertain children. Umar al-Jasri is working for an Oakland animation studio on a ten episode web series for children. The cartoon will feature a talking cat named Socks who drives a wind-up car. Although the cat often crashes the car as part of a running joke throughout the series, he usually emerges unscathed.   Cat When the suggestion was put to al-Jasri that forensic experts may have used similar technology to animate reconstructions of Princess Diana's fatal car crash in a Paris tunnel over a decade ago, the Muslim animator readily admits that they probably did. “You know, techniques like [the ones I use] would be rendered from real life situations. So it is very possible that any reconstruction technology that was used in the late Lady Di re-enactments by forensic animators are probably used today by other animators. Particul...