Posted June 30th, 2009 by Patrick Curl in category
Life Hacks
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I'm certain that I'm not the first person to complain that there's just not enough time in the day to get things done. In fact I know of at least one other blogger who tipped me off on the polyphasic sleep cycle which he got from another blog on How to Hack Your Brain. This advanced sleep re-patterning is called:
Posted June 26th, 2009 by Patrick Curl in category
General News
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RIP Michael ... Just don't come back as a Zombie!
Of course the death of Michael Jackson is on everyone's lips today. Michael Jackson was an odd fellow in his later years. A part of me was always pulling for him that he might have one day gone back to his roots.
Oddly enough I made a tribute to Michael Jackson's
Posted June 23rd, 2009 by Patrick Curl in category
Green Tech
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Carbon Offsets a new Business idea worth checking out!
Carbon Offsets work like this. We have a company that puts out 100 tons of carbon per month. They then purchase carbon offsets to balance out their negative impact on the environment. Carbon offsets go for anywhere between $5-$15 per 1 ton of co2.
There are a
Posted June 22nd, 2009 by Patrick Curl in category
Sponsored
WearYourBeer.com Because it's just so much fun to WearYourBeer!
If you love your Beer, and you love crazy funky T Shirts then WearYourBeer.com may be just the site for you. They feature a whole plethora of shirts, and souvenirs featuring your favorite beers, comic book heroes, sitcoms, political sayings, etc..
If you're a comic book fan they
Posted June 22nd, 2009 by Patrick Curl in category
Technology
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According to Techcrunch, Apple has been apologizing for their iphone partner, ATT - again.
The iphone launched 48 hours ago, and still there are many who've bought their phones - waited in long lines to do so, and still have not been able to activate their phone.
As someone who's worked for cingular when att bought
Posted June 17th, 2009 by Patrick Curl in category
Social Media
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I'm going to make this short. Many of us want or have wanted to reach out and become the social media superstar that we know is hiding inside. It's scary though to become a consultant without being sure that you have the mad-skills needed to succeed as a consultant.
If you're unsure if you know enough to
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Everyone is all a flutter today about Twitter's value to the Iranians who are revolting against the latest Iranian Election.
I've been excited about twitter for quite awhile, even enough to program my own twitter app: TwtFollow.
I've also noticed twitter being used for many social changes, but think
TwtFollow.com is a twitter app that adds a multilevel approach to building followers on twitter.
TwtFollow.com allows you to refer people down 10 levels. Each person you refer then refer people who follow their referrer, and their referrer's referrers up ten levels.
But that's not where twtFollow ends. TwtFollow is working hard to bring
I was just listening to a video on MSNBC Brian Williams talking to a reporter who had been reporting in Iran.
He has since been kicked out - unable to renew his press visa. He has said that people are using twitter and other social media networks to organize in Iran. Apparently Iran has locked down much of the internet but some have been able
Posted June 6th, 2009 by Patrick Curl in category
Social Media
It has been a few weeks since my last confession...errr blog post. Don't know where that came from, I'm not even Catholic.
I have been silent because I have been busy working on my first major php development project. It's not huge but for me it was quite an undertaking and I must say I'm quite happy with what I've accomplished so far.
I'm