I’m going to geek out for a bit here and tell you all about a site that some of you may never use. I spent the majority of my day today troubleshooting a problem I was experiencing trying to get some reports to work on a website I’m working on for a client.

In searching for the answer to my problem online, I uncovered the Stack Overflow website. It’s completely free to join and there are questions and answers to just about any question the geeks around us might have to ask.

You can use the easy tagging functionality to quickly jump to questions that have already been asked by the site’s users. You can even take advantage of the “recent” tag cloud in the sidebar to see what topics are getting talking about lately.

Users have the ability to earn badges for their participation in the site as well. Badges are earned for asking questions, answering questions and just being a good community member.

The Stack Overflow website will now be one of the first places I visit when I’m looking for a quick answer.

Uncover some answers yourself at Stack Overflow.

I’ll bet you’ve not seen girls jump-roping like this before in your life. They’re doing more than just jumping and spinning the rope multiple times on one jump. These girls are fantastic!

Thanks to my friend William Lehman over at Decloned for sharing the video on his blog. I’ve never heard of the Firecrackers before, but not I’m checking out their schedule so I can go see them perform at another event for half-time.

Have you ever had something you needed to get off your chest but you couldn’t really share it with anyone? Sometimes there’s just something cathartic about letting something go verbally.

The truu confessions website, currently in beta, lets you share stuff anonymously. If you told somebody you knew, and it was a secret, it probably wouldn’t be a secret for long. Chances are the person you’d share with would know the people you’re talking about, then they’d feel the need to share it someone and eventually it would get back to the original person.
No good usually comes from spreading rumors and …read more

Let’s hope your Monday starts a little bit better than this today. It’s always tough to get your week started, but hopefully this little video will give you some perspective that your day can’t start off this badly.

Hat tip to Eric Clark on twitter for sharing this video.

I just heard about a new online tool recently called Springpad. It allows you to quickly organize and share a variety of bits and pieces of information that you collect throughout the day that are important to you and put them into defined structure and places.

The other benefit of Springpad is that it harnesses the power of the social networking world and allows you to interact with and share your collections of data with those that are important to you too.
I would say the power of Springpad doesn’t rely in it’s ability to collect your information though, it’s more …read more

Prior to getting into consulting and technology development, I spent about a decade in the travel industry. I quickly moved into a technology role within travel so I became quickly interested in any new travel related technologies. To this day I still enjoy keeping tabs on some of the travel tools that are now available online.

The Dopplr website is a very interesting travel tool that doesn’t serve as a reservations assisting application, but is used more for sharing and interacting with your reservation after they’re booked. In addition, it also lets you share your travel plans easily with your …read more

Are you color blind? Maybe you just design like it. Color can really pull emotions out of us that we maybe didn’t expect. When you’re designing a new graphic, website, or some other piece of art, getting the colors right can be pretty important.

The Color Scheme Designer website is now in it’s third major iteration and version for users and it will give you quite a bit of information to make sure your next color palette for that project will be exactly what you needed.
The site let’s you select your color preferences on a color wheel and then depending on …read more

2009 will go down in history as the year everything at least seemed to change if it didn’t really change completely. It’s become a new world for many people with lots of change in a variety of areas. Perhaps the one thing that still remained the same is that the web is still almost central to much of what we do.

MediaWeek has released their 2009 Digital Hotlist that covers just what has been happening in the world of the web and technology.

Facebook – up from #2 on the list in 2008. This site is larger in population than most …read more

I see more and more efforts and opportunities to try and get smaller as the world around us gets overwhelmed with more and more information. For some reason as the world appears to get smaller in front of us, there’s a desire to get more in touch with what’s happening around us locally as well.

Outside.in is working on putting it all together for you. They want to let you know what’s happening, right where you are, right at this moment. It’s being all collected and packaged together in this "hyperlocal" goal.
If you’re a visitor to the site, you …read more

If I say "Mr. PC" most people would know who I’m talking about immediately. If you don’t know who I’m talking about then you probably don’t watch TV or keep in touch with the Apple vs. PC. commercials.

Mr. John Hodgman is more than just the PC guy in the commercials. He’s actually quite the intellectual and comedy writer. If you visit his site you can read lots of his opinions on everything you can imagine.
Before he went on television, JOHN HODGMAN was a humble writer, expert, and Former Professional Literary Agent living in New York City. In this capacity, …read more