Alex Poole

Karen bought some little iPod speakers earlier today. To test them out I plugged them into the laptop quickly and popped on some nice heavy Drum & Bass:

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=search_playlists&search_query=andy+c+nightlife&uni=1

Karen didn’t like that, (she’s been campaigning to get Nightlife removed from the CD changer in the car for weeks,) and asked could I try them with some “proper music” instead?

First tune that leapt to mind was Tasmin Archer’s “Sleeping Satellite.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuhDDx49TTw

This was “our song” for quite a while, back in the day. I’ve still got the album on cassette!

Riding that little wave of nostalgic warmth I did something I’ve never done before: tweeted the tune:

“♫ Tasmin Archer - Sleeping Satellite (forgotten how lovely this song is, sorry..) http://bit.ly/6aV8E”

…then wandered away from the PC for a few hours.

Got back to the PC to finish off some work. Naturally I checked my @replies and nearly had a blinking heart attack:

TasminArcher: hi @alex_poole What were you sorry about?
about 2 hours ago from web

http://twitter.com/TasminArcher/status/1852585475

Gulp.

The best I could manage was the tw-quivalent of a mumbled excuse.

“Goodness @TasminArcher never the choice of tune ma’am! Just not tweeted ♫ before. “Caveat Tweetor” & 1 for the blog (& grandkids) I think :)”

Why was I “sorry”? I guess people who spend half their life tweeting their playlist are pretty tedious, unless you happen to like their playlist. Best I can do anyway \o/

So basically, just when you think you’ve got Twitter sussed, it socks you round the head with a cueball in a sock!
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Its a genuine proper game-changer in so many ways. Simple but profound.

Oh yea; the speakers were rubbish - no bass - but then they only cost £4 from the garage…

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