new technology – the threat to our information

**wild applause**

(with hat-tip to Luis, who wrote a much more thoughtful blog post about this topic over here.)

smarter work: why social networks matter

from the totally awesome Sacha Chua:

would you believe…?

kitty in the window, originally uploaded by kellypuffs.

I just uploaded my 3700th photo to flickr.

Most are just as meaningful as this one.

Yay!

Ruint, I tell you. RUINT.

I’d tell you how I feel about this, but I’m speechless.

Cheese and rice, people.

off to see the wizard!

ONE of the many reasons I’ve been rather silent here lately is the upcoming Rational Software Conference in Orlando, Florida.

Yours truly will be live-blogging, live-twittering, and taking photos of all the festivities … the food, the fashion, the gossip, and, oh yeah, maybe some technical, geeky stuff too.

You can follow all the action at my developerWorks blog on ibm.com: Notes from Rational Support.

Also I’ll be live-tweeting, mostly from my @RationalSupport twitter account.

Check out all the photos on our Flickr pool.

Geekishly excited about The Mythbusters keynote on Wednesday morning, and the “special event” this year will be at Disney’s Animal Kingdom. I don’t know what the Big Rides are there, but you can COUNT on me finding them.

I’m flying down tomorrow and will return on Thursday.

oh, and check out this year’s Limited Edition, sure-to-become-a-collector’s-item, Rational Support moo cards:

All together now…

Ooooooooh! Aaaaaaaaah!

all kellypuffs, all the time

Just when I thought my social software dance card was full….

I twitter and I blog. I bookmark neat stuff on del.icio.us. My resume is on LinkedIn. I post my pictures on flickr. I try to remember to keep my reading list updated on GoodReads. I swap books on PaperbackSwap.com. Every once in a while, I remember to go to Facebook. (If you, too, are on any of these, and we haven’t yet connected, please do!)

With so much going on, I made the active decision to stop blogging and twittering behind the IBM firewall (sorry, Ben!), just because it was all just too too much to keep up with.

Faced with an overload of social networking, what do I do? MORE, of course!

I’ve launched the Notes from Rational Support developerWorks blog. And a few weeks ago, I created a twitter account for Rational Client Support – @RationalSupport, of course, where I try to share useful support content and information. I volunteer to help with our Rational developerWorks community forums.

And I’m loving it all!

And then there’s the Rational Software Conference, where I will be blogging, twittering, and flickring my brains out. Looks like this year, most of my content for that will be on the dW blog, but I’ll be sure to share some fun stuff here as well.

But (and it’s an important But) let it be known that I am NOT @keppyluffs.

panic, in 140 chars or fewer

xkcd.com

David Letterman on Twitter

Via @wfavero. On Twitter, of course

in which I guest on dogear nation!

I have been remiss in not announcing that the very kind folks over at Dogear Nation had a momentary lapse in judgment and invited me to be a guest on last week’s podcast.

I’m afraid I didn’t provide much value, but am too scared to find out. (If I were a movie star (*snort*), I’d be one of those who has never seen her own films.)

Here’s a synopsis of the episode:

Michael, Michael, and Andy welcome special guest Kelly Drahzal, who doesn’t have a twitter weather station at home. Our 3D Internet section is all about augmented reality videos, ads and design. Michael R. is positive that we’ve seen the Mini cooper ad before; however, our bad show notes don’t help him find the prior episode – perhaps our listeners can help. We once again dig into Twitter and it’s impact on current culture thanks to The Daily Show – with Jon Stewart. And then wrap up the show discussing the new Kindle and the new Kindle App for the iPhone, while Andy gripes about it’s availability in the UK. Has Amazon finally gotten the Kindle right by moving to multiple platforms?

Thanks to Michael, Michael and Andy for letting me play.

I’d love to do it again!

Wordle rocking the house… again.

This time, it appears in the Wall Street Journal!