That should be what the folks at Mozilla should be saying (or thinking) today. Much of Birmingham’s blogosphere and Twitterverse is abuzz with the pending release of Firefox 3 today at 12 p.m. CDT.
So we’ll warn you that if you had any plans of surfing the web somewhere in that time frame, be prepared for [...]

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Screenshot of City Stages’ Twitter profile page.
Birmingham’s annual downtown music festival has recently introduced a Twitter profile to the mix of ways to keep track of what’s going on. The popular (and recently erratic) microblogging program allows people to follow people, places and in this case events either on the web, or using your cell [...]

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Screenshot of relaunched Health.com website.
Birmingham-based Health Magazine, part of the Southern Progress stable of publications, got some kudos from Matt Mullenweg, founding developer of WordPress (the software used to run this very site incidentally, at least this version is), for their use of the open-source software on their recently redesigned website yesterday.
So we’re thinking that [...]

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The Southern Environmental Center at Birmingham Southern College is starting to celebrate its 10th anniversary this month with its first ever online auction. Summer Splash currently has 19 items available for visitors to bid on with all proceeds going to support the organizations educational efforts. We’re pretty sure they’d appreciate you visiting (and bidding) early [...]

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Screenshot of Beaner & Ken website.
Well you can always let them know just how much Birmingham does! For those of you that didn’t know, Beaner & Ken (well, at least Ken) still maintain a website/blog tied to their former #1 morning show. The show was canceled in mid-December 2006 as part of what I still [...]

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Screenshot of potential “new” Birmingham News homepage.
Well, apparently not yet… though we were able to catch this screenshot of a revamped Birmingham News homepage about mid-morning - though it’s currently gone back to its original state. The redesign resembled the layout that is currently in use on al.com’s entertainment section.
We’re not sure if we [...]

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Speaking of computers, can you go an entire day without turning yours on? Well, we here at The Terminal are going to try to accomplish just that (with try being the operative word) …

Screenshot of ShutdownDay.org
Tomorrow is Shutdown Day, where several thousand people are participating in a great experiment - whether or not they can [...]

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