I was tweeting away tonight as I tend to do and all of a sudden I start getting forbidden messages. I thought for a moment I may have been blocked. After digging a bit, it turns out Twitter has suspended Ubertwitter for privacy violations. This was the statement issued by the Twitter help centre tonight:

Regardless of how you access Twitter, we are dedicated to making Twitter better, faster and more reliable for you. As part of this effort, we ask applications that work with Twitter to abide by a simple set of rules that we believe are in the interests of our users, and the health and vitality of the Twitter platform as a whole. We often take actions to enforce these rules.

We have suspended UberTwitter and twidroyd for violating our policies.

Every day, we suspend hundreds of applications that are in violation of our policies. Generally, these apps are used by a small number of users. We are taking the unusual step of sharing this with you because today’s suspension may affect a larger number of users.

We are committed to helping you continue to use Twitter during the disruption of these applications. You can download Twitter for Blackberry, Twitter for Android and other official Twitter apps here. You can also try our mobile web site or apps from other third-party developers.

As February starts to wrap up and Comrades training is in full swing the Comrades Marathon Association is putting on another round of the Bonitas Novice Project Seminars. In 2010 these talks proved to be extremely popular and this year they promise to be the same.

These seminars are an invaluable source of information for first-time Comrades Marathon Runners. The following topics will be covered in detail at these seminars:

• The importance of recovery
• Nutrition
• Qualifying
• The final long run
• Tapering
• Race day – Getting to the start, the profile, strategy.

Speakers this year include the Official Comrades Coach, Lindsey Parry, Bruce Fordyce and myself to name just a few. All the speakers will be on hand to answer all questions from the audience. Entrance to these seminars is free and bookings are not necessary but it is advisable to get to the seminars early.

This year they will be hosted at the following venues on the following dates:

22 February 2011
19h00
Sunninghill Striders Running Club
The Auditorium, Eskom Megawatt Park, No 1 Maxwell Drive Sunninghill Sandton

23 February 2011
19h00
Boksburg Athletic Club
Baseball Clubhouse  Boksburg City Stadium Cnr Dudley Smith and Jubilee Roads Boksburg

01 March 2011
19h00
acsis VOB Running Club
The Alphen Centre, Main Road,
Constantia, Cape Town

05 March 2011
09h00
Nedbank Head Office, 90 Ordnance Road, Durban

08 March 2011
19h00
L.C de VIlliers Sports Grounds
Pretoria University Sport Centre – Lecture hall 1 ; South Street, Hatfield, Pretoria

The last 18 months have been a serious rollercoaster ride in my life. I have been lucky enough to transform myself from a morbidly obese couch potato to a pretty fit triathlete. I have been able to achieve some things I never thought possible but have also had a few lows along the way.

I’ve been working on a few projects outside of radio over the last few months and I have been lucky enough to share my story with audiences around the country and even though there is a lot more I’d like to achieve I have realised that a lot of people can relate to my background and have gotten fired up by my journey.

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