Posted on 03 September 2008
Not really, but this would easily be the single best invention ever to hit the Internet since ethernet:
YouTube Comment Snob
Basically, YCS blocks comments that are too stupid to live. I’m not talking about comments that you may or may not disagree with; I’m talking about comments that should’ve been aborted long before they ever came [...]
Posted on 28 August 2008
It’s 8:30pm. I’m sleeping because all the overtime I work to pay down my student loans nine years early has the unfortunate side effect of occasionally requiring me to live on four hours of sleep. My phone rings with a phone number I don’t recognize.
717-469-2211.
That’s Grantville. I don’t know anyone in Grantville, let alone anyone [...]
Tags: Consumerism, Hollywood Casino
Posted on 28 August 2008
@sarabozich gave us the local blogging & Twitter community a writeup in today’s Patriot News. Specifically, it touched on the phenomenon that the blogHarrisburg Tweetups have become:
“Before I met the Harrisburg Tweeters, they weren’t much different from the people I followed [on Twitter] all around the country,” Danielson said. “But once I met some of [...]
Tags: blogHarrisburg, Harrisburg, Tweetup
Posted on 25 August 2008
How did I miss this? Mike Rowe of Dirty Jobs fame is touring the Lebanon Bologna factory for a future episode. No word on whether or not he stopped by the puppy mills since he was in the area.
Tags: Lebanon, Mike Rowe
Posted on 24 August 2008
GREAT times at this past week’s tweetup! Thanks to everyone — whether you tweeted about it, blogged about it, offered words of support, or just plain showed up — who made it happen. I noticed a LOT of new faces (yay) and a few missing regulars (boo), but it seems like everyone in attendance had a [...]
Tags: blogHarrisburg Tweetup, Central PA
Posted on 24 August 2008
When: Thursday, 09/18/08, 7pm until 9pm
Where: The Abbey Bar (upstairs at ABC Harrisburg)
What: A meetup of the blogHarrisburg contributors + Central PA Twitter users
The third Thursday of every month, us bloggers and Twitter users (Twitterers? Tweeps? Twits?) get together on the second floor of Appalachian Brewing Company on Cameron Street to get together and share [...]
Tags: blogHarrisburg Tweetup, New Media, Twitter
Posted on 22 August 2008
One of the reasons I love Gmail (as if you needed another) is that since day one, Google has allowed you to encrypt your entire session. Gmail has always encrypted your login information, but typically turns off SSL afterwards. This has the unpleasant side effect of allowing anyone to view your mail (and calendar, and [...]
Tags: GMail, Privacy, Technology