Among other things, I've been pondering lately the concept of being positive. While I don't believe it's possible to be absolutely positive all the time—life has a way of eroding the resolve of even the

When I strike these keys, a message is sent in ASCII format to the BIOS of my laptop. Each letter will be represented by a string of 0's and 1's. In ASCII, they'll all start with a zero to let this machine

I read about half way through a take-down piece of a video making the rounds about Covid-19. The video has millions of views, is getting removed and reposted, and when I watched it, seemed plausible and

Well, this is late. As far as I know, it's not even Friday anywhere in the world at this point, so I don't even have that to fall back on. No excuses, really. I guess I could save it for next week, but

A Blast From The Past I decided to go looking through my earliest posts a little bit ago. The idea was to look at my original introduction post to see if I could glean anything from it for the initiative

I never write in english, it is not my mother tongue and I usually feel uncomfortable doing so even when I have to reply to a simple comment, don't ask me why, but @theycallmedan's initiative made me think

Hello Honies-- er, fellow Hivezens (is that the word?), I was on Steem for a long time. I joined on my birthday in 2016. Oh, yes, I remember. It was a great birthday gift to myself. A lot has happened

Not A Big Pork Fan I like ham quite a bit, but after that, it can be hit and miss, especially with bacon (I know—heresy. Stick with me here). But, in order to make carnitas, a favorite Mexican dish, you

Quick and Simple Facts: The Steem Alliance Foundation Steem Alliance Foundation quick notes! If you are already following this project you probably don't need to read this. Feel free either way.

Dear Community, We are nearing the end of this process and are 5 days out from the election. Please ensure you register to vote before April 8th. The following are the proposals that have been submitted

It took some effort, but in the end we succeeded! We had a couple of rainy nights. While doing chores late one night, we noticed that there were nightcrawlers all over the place on our homestead. Soon,

Does anybody else see something strange going on with this chart? Is a whale manipulating the market?

Warning—Bragging And A Shameless Plug Ahead More than a couple of weeks ago, I wrote about being within reach of a personal STEEM milestone—2,000 earned SP. I was happy to be nearing a second 1,000 earned

This is week three of character reveals for MISSES, my comic book/graphic novel series I'm in the middle of creating. So far, there are posts introducing MISS Inform and MISS Able, which can be found following

I don't have a lot of faith in the future of employment and I consider that there will be a crushing of job prospects through automation and AI in a whole host of areas. While there will be new jobs created

In case you haven't heard, Block One has announced the announcement of the announcement! Here is their tweet: Something big is going down June 1, 2019 in Washington DC! I think they will be announcing

Good Question Thank you. I'm glad I asked. Given how many people who have left the platform, presumably because their content wasn't being upvoted, or because the value of STEEM to fiat is too low, I would

Eligibility Criteria Minimum reputation: 40 Minimum account age: 40 days as of 15/03/2019 Minimum followers: 100 Must Follow, Upvote and RESTEEM Rewards Calculation R = Reputation/60 S = STEEM_POWER/50000

SteemWallet is the fast, open-source wallet for Apple and Android devices which I launched about 4 months ago. Since it's inception it had only seen one bugfix release just prior to SteemFest in November.

Stop Me If You've Heard This One... I have half a glass of water sitting on my patio table. For most of my life, I've understood that if I look at that glass and see it as half full, that means I'm an