In the last few years, I’ve seen several people turn to the internet for dating, marriage, even donations toward college education and boob jobs, but this one surprised me — and these days, not much on the internet surprises me.
The hottie shown below is looking to the internet to help her find a sperm donor so that she can get pregnant. Any takers?
This past weekend John P, Aaron Phillips, and I had the opportunity to visit the BlogWorld 2008 Expo at the Las Vegas Convention Center, so that we could promote the Grid Virtual Private Server offerings and enterprise migration services to the thousands of bloggers present at the conference.
It was a great opportunity to present our server offerings not only to those bloggers who are preparing to leave their shared hosting provider in favor of the Grid, but also to those who are currently on multi-server clustered environments with other providers, looking for better offerings and support on a more scalable platform.
We also shared a booth with two of our clients, Woopra and Automattic (Wordpress).
After getting settled into the hotel, John P, Elie, Jad, and I headed out toward Fremont Street, which is what is referred to as “old school” Vegas. Most of the casinos and hotels in the area are from the 1960’s, but what I found really cool was the canopy covering the entire street. What I didn’t realize though is that they do an audio/video presentation every hour on Vida Vision, the equivalent of 1,200 plasma tv monitors.
After the conference, I spent Saturday and Sunday with the LT and Woopra crews casino-hopping. Highlights included MGM, Caesar’s Palace, Harrah’s Piano Bar and the Bellagio light and water show, which I recorded on my Powershot digital camera.
Tomorrow afternoon, One Man, Another Man, and yours truly will depart for Blog World in Las Vegas, NV. So here I sit, the day before I attend the largest gathering of bloggers and social media experts in the world, and I reflect on how I’ve not been so dedicated to keeping my blog updated. I’m going to Blog World, not so much a blogger, but rather assisting AP and John P at the convention, and making myself available to anyone who has questions about LayeredTech and FastServers Managed Hosting services, and our enterprise migration services.
I do hope, however, that interacting with Blog World attendees will spark a fire under my behind, with motivation to make more time to write on my blog. I couldn’t be more excited about this weekend — not only do I get to visit Las Vegas, but I get to interact with some of our enterprise clients, like WordPress and Woopra.
Well, it’s late, and I must start packing. In the off-chance that anyone reading this is going to BlogWorld this weekend, keep an eye out for our crew, and stop by to introduce yourself!
For the latest version of Firefox, the Mozilla team has announced that they’ll be attempting to set a world record for the most software downloaded in one day. They haven’t set a date yet, but it sounds like it will be happening sometime in June.
Update (albeit from a few months ago):
Thanks to the support of the always amazing Mozilla community, we now hold a Guinness World Record for the most software downloaded in 24 hours. From 18:16 UTC on June 17, 2008 to 18:16 UTC on June 18, 2008, 8,002,530 people downloaded Firefox 3 and are now enjoying a safer, smarter and better Web.
The ATTIGO TT was created by Scott Hobbs, a student at Dundee University studying innovative product design. For his final year project he’s created a touch screen turntable that lets DJ’s loop, sample and scratch wave forms just as you would a record. The size of the touchtable is approximately the same as a standard turntable, making the physical interaction nearly the same. Where this takes off is in the flexibility and features included right at your fingertips, no longer locked up on a computer screen. The ATTIGO TT is currently a working prototype, and Scott is looking for manufacturers to partner with.
Final Product // ATTIGO TT from Scott Hobbs on Vimeo.
The Chicagoland area now has the most expensive gas in the nation at an average of $4.07 a gallon, and the price increases aren’t over yet, according to the Chicago Tribune. They say that gas could reach $7 per gallon because more drivers in India and China will continue to consume as much gas as normal, as American oil consumption decreases. Uggggghh!!
I try to take public transportation whenever possible, but living out the suburbs, it’s not always an option. I really love my Jeep, but I’m really starting to wonder if I should look into trading it in for a Civic or something with similar gas mileage.
Update: According to Channel 2 (CBS) the reason the prices are so high in Chicago is due to the awesome 20% tax on gas! — Link
What to have for lunch today? It’s a common question in our office, which is full of people whose lives revolve around food. My friend Eli turned me on to Menumap, a site that lists restaurants in all neighborhoods of NYC, Boston, SanFran, Chicago, LA, Washington DC, and Philadelphia. There are actually quite a few restaurants around the office here that I never knew existed…
I found out today that I was selected to go to the cPanel conference next month. I’ll be flying to New York City the 9th of next month, then the 10th I fly to Houston to meet the rest of the FastServers/LayeredTech team for the conference.
I’m definitely looking forward to putting names to faces with both the cPanel and LT staffs. Should be a great time!
How cool is this? Great videography and audio by Blu.
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