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Say what? You don’t know what a "twanker" is these days? I’ll bet you can guess that it has something to do with twitter because every word that starts with "tw…" these days has to be related to twitter somehow right?

The word "twanker" was conceived as a result of some crowdsourcing by Jeffrey Hayzlett, Chief Marketing Officer at Kodak, during the 140 Characters Conference in New York last month. He shared about the origins in on his 1000 words blog.

The combination comes from being a "wanker" on twitter. Wanker of course comes from the popular term from merry ol’ England and other British areas. It basically means a jerk, idiot, moron or stupid person.

Combining it with twitter gives you someone being like that on the micro-blogging social network.

I like the term, now I’ll be on the lookout and call people out. Join me and we can just go ahead and start using the hashtag of #twanker so people can see examples of other usage.

Image: Custom image created by Jason Bean from stock photo on sxc.hu

I upgraded my Firefox installation to the latest version, which is 3.5 if you’re counting. I got the warning saying that some of my add-ons/extensions wouldn’t work with the upgrade. I thought I’d take the chance it wasn’t any of them I was really addicted to and proceeded with the install.

The four extensions that were dead with the upgrade were the following:

• coComment
• Google Gears
• Google Notebook
• New Tab to Window

The tab function was okay to lose as moving tabs around was a specific feature added in the new version of Firefox 3.5. coComment I enjoyed using, but figured I could do without it if necessary. I’m kind of surprised that Google Gears wasn’t prepped for the upgrade and I no longer use Google Notebook, having ditched it for Evernote instead.