Emmy 2011 prediction

My prediction(more like hoping) for the Emmys 2011:
(You can check all the nominees @ http://www.imdb.com/features/emmys/2011/nominations )

Outstanding Comedy Series - The Big Bang Theory

Outstanding Drama Series - Boardwalk Empire

Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series - Steve Carell(The Office)

Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series - Steve Buscemi(Boardwalk Empire)

Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series - Martha Plimpton(Raising Hope)

Get you twitter @replies on you phone

For people who are off net and would like to recieve @replies from people(on Twitter) as SMS ,so they respond back, Twe2 was one such service. But it is not functional now. You can read more here.

So an alternative would be to create one for yourself, all by yourself using Google SMS channel.

Procedure:

Create an account in Google SMS Channels or you can usee your Gmail ID(http://labs.google.co.in/smschannels/browse),

Select "Try Now" from Create you own channel on the right side.

Next page provide a name, description,category,location as you please.

In the Source select "RSS/Atom feed" and provide the following link [ search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=%40yourusername ]

Replace yourusername with your twitter handle like mine - Sumeet.

In "content" Select Body.
In "Allow publishing by" select Only me
In "Who can subscribe" select By invitation only, Since you would like the replies to be private.

And lastly agree to TOS of google and press Create channel button.


Shortcomings:
Since this was just an experiment I tried there were two shortcomings.
Firstly, I couldn't get the senders name(big problem).
Secondly, the messages arrive almost after an half an hour.(Only Airtel showed this behaviour)

Until next time.
Regards,