I’ve been working on a few projects lately, both work and non-work related. One of them I wanted to share with you all is a Twitter-aggregation site I made that collects all the Tweets on Twitter for a recent period of time that relate to steak, different cuts of steak, the #wehavesteak or #steak hashtags, … Read more
The Associated Press (AP) has a story about Twitter users transmitting short cooking or baking recipes in 140 characters or less. (Check out the article for specific Twitterers that do this.) Why 140 characters? This is the hard limit Twitter sets on tweets so that it works in the confines of the SMS/text-messaging character limitations. … Read more
Ok, ladies and gentlemen, here it is! The contest was over at midnight last night – we still had a few entries after midnight so I decided to count them anyway, because what the heck, right? Well, it was an interesting morning today to say the least. I’ve been trying to contact winners for the … Read more
SeaWorld, the family-friendly and awesome oceanic life theme park, is opening a brand new roller coaster called Manta just 22 Days from now in May. You might remember a while back an ad that ran on this site and a contest I wrote about for “Manta Mania,” – well here it is, folks! Manta Mania … Read more
Haha. Maybe. At 6:31 (P.M., EST) and 30 seconds tomorrow Friday, UNIX time will read 1234567890 and the apocalypse may very well be upon us. Actually, probably not. We won’t even really have any cool computer glitches to speak of, since Linux has been using 64-bit time for quite some time now, which means the … Read more
There’s so many applications and web sites now that hook up to everyone’s favorite micro-blogging service, Twitter. I’ve been fooling around with a fresh Ubuntu install on my desktop at home, and with a Virtual Machine at work, and I’ve come to find there’s a plethora of applications that are both open-source and cross platform … Read more
Sears is having a “Don’t Just Give a Wish, Grant a Wish” program – they’re taking donations to send Sears gift cards to the families of military men and women overseas. There are over 30,000 families signed up for the program, and at your local Sears store you can make donations – even $1 will … Read more