Myself along with the rest of the Tactical FLEX team will descend upon Vegas sometime around Thursday afternoon for DEF CON® 19.

TACTICAL FLEX, DEF CON EDITION SWAG

This year we put together a little custom / limited edition t-shirt and other bits of swag specifically for DEF CON and will be giving it away to those we meet and greet.

I WANT SOME!

If you would like something, follow @aanval or myself (@loyalmoses) on Twitter, find us or let us know where you’re at and if we cross paths we’ll give you some. That easy.

We’ll be updating twitter often as we move about, so this will be the most efficient manner of communicating with us.

Come meet with us, hang out, swap stories, trade biz cards and pick up some swag.

See you there,

Enjoy.

~moses

@umAndy (Andy Powell) dropped a tweet a few weeks ago with my name selected as the winner for a free ticket to Flash Camp Atlanta 2009.

Flash Camp Atlanta is a one day event focusing on the Flash platform, Flex and Actionscript. The camp provides tracks for both beginners and experienced developers.

Flash Camp Atlanta 2009 – Speakers and Sessions

Flash Camp Atlanta 2009 – Tickets

These surprises are always nice, and I do very much appreciate it. I hadn’t planned on attending, due only to my schedule being so full for the end of the month, however I’ll give moving things around a shot and see if I can’t get away for the day.

For those who might not know who Andy is (you should), drop by his blog and get familiar.

http://www.infoaccelerator.net/blog/

Thanks again for the ticket!

~moses

If you hadn’t guessed, this isn’t a posting on how to actually make any money, but more my personal rantings on the topic.

Here we go…

If you were honestly working 4 hours a week and making money as an Internet marketing entrepreneur then why would you be diluting your market by giving your ‘secrets’ away?

The truth being that “make money” schemes and lazy work ethics are super hot right now, especially while the economy is as unstable as it is and it’s quite easy to convince a few hundred suckers to follow you down this road.

The reason SPAM continues to be a problem is because it works. Regardless of whether it ends up in our inbox or Twitter client you ultimately wish for certain destruction to fall upon these evil-doers… I do.

I absolutely have no doubt that one or even possibly two people have actually made $300 a day on Twitter and have successfully migrated their lifestyle to the ominous 4-hour work week. Great, good for you… well, good for the both of you.

The cheesy videos, the followers whose bio includes “Internet marketer”, the direct messages about 4-hour work… you get the point. It’s all a bit silly and I am hoping this is just one giant phase that will disappear like Tupperware parties. Oh — they didn’t disappear. Crap.

Why is it working? Simple, someone is clicking on their stinking’ links!

How do we stop it / them? Stop clicking the pathetic make $$$ tweet links, their Google Analytics will begin to suffer and they’ll eventually go back to their day job and give up on Twitter dreams and this lazy lifestyle concept that seems to have taken over our generation.

Long blog short. If we all ignore them, they’ll go away. But it takes all of us to do it. Just curious clicking is enough to bump their tracking statistics enough to keep them salivating.

~moses

My particular prize showed up this morning via FedEx.

The Pocket Guide – “Getting Started with Flex 3″ by Jack D Herrington & Emily Kim

Pocket guide may be a little bit of a stretch… It doesn’t fit in any of mine, but still makes a great prize.

However, if you are tired of being a loser, follow Edward Sullivan on Twitter @esulliva

Thanks Ed.

~moses

Of course, as expected Twitter was not affected — after all, this is their game and they were well prepared. However, considering that the majority of Twitter users are using 3rd party tools to interact with Twitter, it is no surprise that problems have and will arise.

I awoke this morning and found zero new tweets to read as well as noticed the search functionality of my main desktop twitter client  (Tweetie) was dead. This must be a complete coincidence and nothing more right?

Now I was speculating, that it just must be a beautiful Saturday morning throughout our little planet and the twittersphere was out enjoying the day away from the more than 2,147,483,647 (maximum value for a 32-bit signed integer) total tweets which are now part of history.

Tweetie search… confirmed dead.

Loren Brichter from atebits (@atebits / http://www.atebits.com), the creator of Tweetie confirmed this morning that Tweetie is in-fact suffering from twitpocalypse related injuries.

atebits: “Busted searches in Tweetie are Twitpocalypse-related. Hoping to find some Internet tonight so I can get an update out. Mea culpa.”

Tweetie’s broken search is a minor casualty, but I do speculate that this mornings eerie tweet silence is due to a few more Twitter clients dropping like flies in the face of integer overflows.

Visit http://www.twitpocalypse.com/ for the current total of Twitter tweets. As of this post the total was running through 2,153,991,662 tweets and growing at an average of 131 tweets per second. — surely it should be higher than 131 tweets per second…

This new age Twitter crowd is calling this the Y2K of their time and the buzz surrounding the newly coined term ‘twitpocalypse’ is getting rather fervent. Well, if by Y2K of their kind, they mean an over-hyped and exaggerated nothing… then yes, I will agree and folks this is like Y2K all over again!

UPDATE: Twitterific for the iPhone and iPod Touch are confirmed to be failing due to the signed integer trouble as well. The desktop version of the application is unaffected (so it seems).

UPDATE: Nambu is reporting they have replies showing up next to every tweet. They admit they did not make a wise integer selection and will have it resolved as quickly as possible.

UPDATE: Tweetie for the desktop has been updated (1.2.2) and Tweetie for the iPhone has been updated and sent for App Store approval; Thanks @atebits!

For me, I think I will go enjoy this rare but beautiful Saturday with my family.

Oh, and I think I should probably drop a link and an invitation to follow me on Twitter: @loyalmoses

~moses