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Make Blogging 33% Better

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 [...]

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Hollywood Casino & The Action Card Spam

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 [...]

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blogHarrisburg in the Patriot

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 [...]

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Mike Rowe Comes to Lebanon

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.

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Last Thursday’s Central PA Tweetup

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 [...]

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Central PA Tweetup: September 2008

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 [...]

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Gmail Encryption

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 [...]

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To The Soldiers...Clock towerDC FlowerBella Rocks!Lone LeafMust keep noming..

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blogHarrisburg is the central rallying point for Central PA's independent bloggers, podcasters, Twitterers, and news-gatherers. Got a site you'd like to see syndicated? Use the contact link above! If you'd like to join in the community, follow floor9 on Twitter, or drop by our monthly meetups / Tweetups every third Thursday from 7-9pm at The Abbey Bar in Harrisburg.