Our pal Duane is always tinkering with applications. He’s made a couple Facebook apps and numerous WordPress Plugins. His latest works hand-in-hand with WordPress to post alerts of your blog entries directly to Twitter.

I was talking to a friend the other day about how it would be cool to have something like Twitter that would basically give you real-time updates on blog entries from WordPress. While talking about it, I realized basically what I wanted was the abilily for Twitter to show new blog entries. [Duane Storey – Download here]

Seems pretty cool since I for one usually Twitter if I’ve made a recent blog post, this could save some time… as long as I take advantage of personalizing, to keep it interesting.

Blogathon: Post #32 – Sponsor me to keep going for the Surrey Food Bank

Somewhere, somehow, we ended up with some bubble gum on our coffee table. I decided to open up the pack and chew for a while, since it keeps my mouth busy while the rest of me is busy typing all these dang blog posts. I turned the gum pack around and saw the nutritional information. Huh, interesting – 1g Carbs, 0 Sugars, 1 gram ‘Sugar Alcohols’. I decided to find out if I could really get drunk off this…

A sugar alcohol (also known as a polyol, polyhydric alcohol, or polyalcohol) is a hydrogenated form of carbohydrate, whose carbonyl group (aldehyde or ketone, reducing sugar) has been reduced to a primary or secondary hydroxyl group. They are commonly used for replacing sucrose in foodstuffs, often in combination with high intensity artificial sweeteners to counter the low sweetness. [wiki]

Oh, yeah I don’t think it’ll get me drunk. Looks like the rum in the freezer will have to do.

as for many other incompletely digestible substances (such as dietary fiber), overconsumption of sugar alcohols can lead to bloating, diarrhea and flatulence because they are not absorbed in the small intestine. Some individuals experience such symptoms even in a single-serving quantity. [wiki]

/me spits out gum.

Blogathon: Post #31

A reader just sent along this link, which contains a grouping of local webcams that is beyond compare. It features updating webcams covering various locations between Seattle, WA and Whitehorse, Yukon. Gulf Islands, Blackcomb and the Shuswap all are available as well. Thanks for the tip!

Blogathon: Post #30

Dave is blogger, podcaster and grassroots media enthusiast who also has time for a day job. My fellow Surrey-ite has SO many projects on the go, I’ll make a list here and see if I can get them all.

Yes, those are all his projects. He’s also a cohort on The Crazy Canucks podcast. Where he finds the time to produce all this content, I haven’t the foggiest but it certainly is good stuff.

Blogathon: Post #29

Contributed by Alanah

It’s the early evening on a lovely Vancouver Island Saturday, and I think to myself, “What could be more fun than reading Rebecca’s Blogathon posts as she struggles through 24 hours of charitable goodness?” And then it occurred to me… “I know what would be more fun: giving Rebecca a hard time while having a nice cold beer!”

Unfortunately, I’m not a “planner” (to put it mildly) so the beers were still sitting at comfortable room temperature, and me without a plan beyond “stick ’em in the freezer and thank God for electricity.” That accomplished, I wasn’t sure what to do with myself, and since Miss604 didn’t seem bothered to entertain me with more than a post every 30 minutes (slacker!) I decided to find out more about my beer.

See, I’m a hockey blogger and editor and podcaster (with Miss604 herself). So I spend an alarming amount of time considering issues related to both hockey and beer. If I’m not talking about hockey, I’m thinking about beer. Or sometimes I’m thinking about hockey while having a beer. Or maybe talking about hockey while thinking about beer? Or…

Well, you get the idea. Hockey is important. Beer is important. Even when I’m on a diet and not allowed to have one. (Which I’m not right now, even though I should be. So hurry up and chill in the freezer!)

Anyway, the beer on my menu tonight is a Vancouver staple: the illustrious lager of the Granville Island Brewing Company (don’t click that link if you’re underage, now). I realize there are far more glamorous choices… honey ales and the like. But those are for sophisticated types. I know I probably seem like the most elegant lady ever (ha!) but really? Not so much. Here’s the proof.

As I looked around the internet, I discovered something quite fantastic about my upcoming beer: it provides tourist benefits! Seriously. A check through the Find Family Fun in Vancouver website (don’t you love that beer tours are listed as “family fun”?!) unearthed the fact that there are tours of the brewery 7 days a week (children get soda pop, if you’re concerned). You can find the brewery at 1441 Cartwright Street on Granville Island, or call them at 604.685.0504 for more information.

Mmmm. How fun would that be? Anyway, that’s enough tourism for me. Now I’m going to crack open my beer and send the photo to Rebecca along with this blog post. That way Miss604 knows exactly what she’s missing as she drowns herself in caffeine.

But hey, I’m not the meanest girl in the world. Shall we do the brewery tour sometime before hockey season, Rebecca? Say “yes” and it’ll be my treat. 🙂

Blogathon: Post #28