Patrick Jarrett is web developer with a main focus on building online communities and connecting people. He also happens to be a big man working a desk job, he's reached a point where he's got to change, or else face the serious repercussions for being obese.
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In an effort to further a webmaster’s control over their domain, it seems only fitting that Digg should offer such control. Sure doing something nifty and getting noticed for it is grand, but Digg and Slashdot are both known for their ability to render servers helpless and leave them huddled on the ground holding their head in pain.
In the beginning, there were .com, .net, .org, .gov and .edu. And then we went fully global and created country TLDs. So now there’s .us, .uk, .jp, .cn, .de and more. Well, that world is about to explode. Read the rest of this entry »
What would it be like to be the man who couldn’t hit anything but a homerun? Every time you stepped up to the plate you knocked the ball out of the park and got to take a saunter around the bases. It’d be pretty rad right? Read the rest of this entry »
Word has spread that Universal Studios Orlando will be filming a return of GUTS, American Gladiators for kids, this Summer. The catch? It’s ‘Family’ Guts. So we’ll see the athletic son pumping the bike around the track navigating through the quasi-obstacles. The cute daughter trying to make as many basketball shots as possible. The mom will have to score the best time around the 90 degree track and the dads will go all Mike Tyson on each other as they try to reach the top of the ‘Crag.
(As if being the dad who loses to Fifth graders wasn’t bad enough.)
I can only hope they bring Mike O’Malley and the hot British chick back to host the show again.
Twitter has become an increasingly important tool in my everyday life. I’m on Twitter constantly reading the latest news from friends. I have friends around the world and it has allowed me to easily keep them in the loop about where I am, what I’m doing, and what I think or need at that time. That is, If their system will ever stay up.
Reaper is the best show on TV that you’re not watching, hands down. It reminds me of the early Buffy with enough camp to make you laugh out loud at it, and enough drama to make you worried they might actually kill the main character. Read the rest of this entry »
If you search the Internet, there are millions and millions of pages about weight loss. I suspect that only pages containing scantily clad women exceed the number of fat loss pages, scams and ad laden sites out there.
It blows my mind what people will believe. What fads or “flushes” they’ll try. It’s like being the only sane one in the planet. Right? I’m not trying to insult people, sure the (insert single food here) diet will cause you to lose weight, but that’s because you’re usually starving yourself.
Word has spread that Universal Studios Orlando will be filming a return of GUTS, American Gladiators for kids, this Summer. The catch? It’s ‘Family’ Guts. So we’ll see the athletic son pumping the bike around the track navigating through the quasi-obstacles. The cute daughter trying to make as many basketball shots as possible. The mom will have to score the best time around the 90 degree track and the dads will go all Mike Tyson on each other as they try to reach the top of the ‘Crag.
