That's the word that Twitter chose to use when it locked me out of my own account. To wit: "Locked out! We've temporarily locked your account after too many failed attempts to sign in. Please chillax for a few, then try again." Here is the (urban) dictionary definition of the word, "chillax". I did "chill out" and waited another 24 hours. I got the same message just now, which means that my main home computer appears to be permanently locked out of Twitter. In the interim, I sent a plea to one of the investors in the company in an attempt to get my account unlocked. Here is the official response of the company, forwarded by the investor: "Sounds like ...

I was so thrilled when I heard that Snow Leopard (AKA Mac OS X 10.6) would support direct integration with Microsoft Exchange! I even went so far as to force our company (and all seven email users) to suffer a migration from MS Exchange 2003 (which doesn't work with Snow Leopard) to MS Exchange 2007 (I won't comment about how thrilled I am to upgrade to software that's already more than two years old). I am the email administrator and am the decider in these matters! But now my new setup has been working for about a month and reality is setting in. And that reality is that Apple's Macintosh equivalents of MS Entourage on the Macintosh and MS Outlook on ...

I can't tell you how much it pains me to admit this (given how much fun I have razzing big cell phone operators), but Verizon was right when it constrained the design of the now-venerable Blackberry 8830, the so-called World Edition. the reason I have to confess is that I've upgraded to the next one in line, the Blackberry Tour. This is such a compromised device that it proves Verizon's original premise that wireless is hard enough to do that you have to be careful in adding features to new devices. I made fun of the 8830 because it didn't work in the very first country in the world that I took it to (Peru). Along with that, it ...