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I don’t usually do tech on this blog, but I do want to mention my new fav mobile Twitter ap.

I have a T-Mobile Dash Windows Mobile (smartphone) cell phone. I like it OK but there aren’t many Twitter aps for the platform.  I’ve used ceTwit and and TinyTwitter and been disappointed.

Now comes Twikini (http://www.trinketsoftware.com/Twikini) with a lot of promise. Looks great. I’ve just installed and liking the increased functionality over the other WinMo Smartphone aps I’ve tried.

Here are some screenshots that got me to download and install. Will report back later after I have a little more mileage on Twikini.

(Dec. 16, 2008) – If you wanted to make a bet with me at 5:30 this evening about what was going to happen tonight, you could have made a lot of money.

I’m talking about the special Farmington School Board meeting to interview candidates and select a replacement for a coming vacancy on the Farmington board.

Tonight, the board chose Veronica Walter over Carol Kappes for that seat even though the board knew full well that Walter is not a charter member of the Brad Meeks Fan Club and has been critical of how the board has conducted some of its business.

Walter’s selection paves the way for some potentially interesting dynamics once the new board is seated in January. There will be three new board members in January–Walter, Julie Singewald and yours truly–all of whom have taken issue with how the board does business and how it kowtows to Superintendent Meeks.

With the new board seemingly split three to three, there is reason to hope that on some important issues there will have to be some real debate and movement of at least one board member.

Perhaps more important than any particular issue is that all three new board members have a lot of questions and plan to ask them in public and expect to receive those answers in public. That will be a change from the way business is done now. A big change.

All the existing board member know this and they can’t be excited about what is lilkely to come. Nor can Meeks. So why did the board vote to seat Walter over Kappes?

They really didn’t have any choice. Their own process of public interviews of both candidates made it clear to all who attended there could only be one choice. And the board made the right one. Good for them.

And good for us.

Anyone who knows Veronica and also knows me, knows there are probably precious few partisan elections for which we vote for the same candidates. But I voted for her and I’m glad she’s going to be on our school board.