After a dismal week in which I only made it to the gym one day out of seven, I'm redoubling my efforts to do better this week. I'm shooting to get to the gym five days this week, partly to make up for last week, partly because vacation's coming up and I need to get in as much exercise as I can before gorging on beer and steak at GenCon, and partly because I bought my first pair of waist 36 jeans in 10 years ... and I'm hyper-motivated.

Steve Eley of Escape Pod lays down his Ten Laws of Twitter. #1 is probably the best:

RESPECT. Every message consumes people's time. Don't twitter what you wouldn't be happy to spend 10 seconds of your own life reading.

But they're all worth reading, and are applicable to more than just Twitter -- Facebook wall updates, Pownce, whatever -- short, sweet and meaningful is the best way to go.

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