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Yay! Orlando finally has a soccer team!

Today I am 27 and it makes me want to share a little story with you.

A few months ago I traveled to DC for an "off-site". Basically these are events where managers of a division get together and "press the flesh" (aka bond) so that when someone needs something they can drop a personal email to someone instead of going through all the red tape.

To start the night off everyone was sitting around a large wood table with a glass of wine and we started an ice breaker. The ice breaker was simple, and I'm sure fairly common, but it was the first time I had heard it.

You were to say your name, first concert and something life changing that will happen to you this year.

I was close to the last person to go. Most people talked about either selling their company, switching to come work for AOL, moving or having children. As the youngest in the room my response wasn't typical.

"My name is Gavin Hall, the Eagles and I'm 26...every day is life changing".

I think during your early twenties you figure out who you are and in your late twenties you finally have the means to put those findings into action.

I am now in my late twenties and it's my time to put those findings in to action.

And I couldn't be more excited.

Well this is just about the worst video I've ever seen. I rather just see that UF guy get tased over and over again.

Ever since Brian posted the link about the press button, get bacon I am unable to go to a public bathroom without laughing. I won't lie to you it's a tad awkward sometimes. Damn you Brian!

Show em if you got them! (Thanks Mike!)

Robin Sparkles is awesome ;)

When CodeJam LA came in March of last year they flew us out to Santa Monica and we stayed in a hotel called the Viceroy. I think I have talked about that before so I won't go into detail on it.

However a few weeks ago I was at AOL as they were going through the expense report for Brian and someone noted that he can't get reimbursed for personal items that he bought.

Then it hit me...oh crap that was me and Alex.

You see when we got into the hotel it was very strange. Mirrors on all the walls (except none in the bathroom) and when we went up to the hotel room there was free stuff in the bathroom! Alex dug into the bath salt by pouring it in the sink while I lathered myself up with some of their fancy pants shaving cream. We threw on two robes and walked over to where everyone was meeting when someone said..."you guys know that costs money right?".

...We do now...

So Thanks Brian! Sorry about that ;)

Point taken.

As much as I love transportation this industry is heading in completely the wrong direction. We need to stop bailing out all the airlines and just let the market decide who stays.

Yes, I know that about 80% of US Mail flies on commercial airlines and if they went bankrupt then the US Postal service would come to a halt as would commerce and blah blah blah. If FedEx and UPS can do...I'm pretty sure the second oldest government agency in this country can figure it out.

More importantly businesses need to learn that consumers have choices and that they work for us. From the CEO on down.

Also that "reply to all" is a bitch of a feature.

Now the only question left is why is Alex wearing a wig?!

Alex and I are working on a little project when we invited Celly in to come help us. Before I disconnected I took a screenshot and have this image. You can see Alex and I working and then Celly is just...who knows what the hell he is doing.

I can't imagine a single picture representing us any better.

Google went ahead and added StreetView to maps.google.com in Orlando which is just great to see. They have all of downtown and them some of the major roads through Orlando. What I find strange is the two things they left out. They didn't make it to UCF and they didn't go through Disney. I mean if you are here might as well do these two big areas.

Anyway I am glad to see them bringing Orlando in and hopefully they keep extending the coverage.

This is so much fun! Every time I push "fire" I laugh a little.

I went in to the eye doctor today. Talk about an unholy unnatural experience. I think it is the first time I went to a "real" eye doctor.

Good news? I have 20/20 vision and everything is looking good.

Bad news? They tried to touch my freaking eye ball with a machine. What sick bastard thought of that?!

Then came GoDaddy with their blogging CEO and fake booby girl on their commercials and screwed it all up. Sure they made a metric fuckton of money (yes, that is the technical term) but they ruined it for all of us.

Now that domains are 7 bucks (or cheaper by using an affiliate code) people are able to buy and hold on to any domain name forever. Sprinkle a little AdSense in and now every domain you own will actually make more then it costs to register and host it. Yay!

Because of that every known domain name worth buying has been taken unless you get creative, drop some letters or go super long.

It put's me in a spot where now I just look at domains I have registered in the past to think of new company ideas....

I won't lie to you though...www.rhinorape.com is just very limiting.

Someone needs to raise prices back up to get rid of all these spammers. Damn it have you learned nothing from the Oil Crises? Are you even trying anymore Internet?!

Create some other TLD to let people have their 7 dollar domains with but stop messing with the dot com!

And yes thats News with an N. Don't go all Mel Gibson on me.

It has gotten worse for me recently. I can't stand the news. I think it's because "the news" is no longer relaying information to viewers but instead they sensationalize it.

I think this defeats the entire purpose of why the spectrum was originally given to major news networks. Do we really need to put up teasers telling you about poison water and more details at 11? Isn't it supposed to inform the public no matter what the ratings are?

I would suggest a change. If a show wants to be classified as a news program then it can not have any advertisements. If they want to have advertisements then they have to mark them as entertainment.

I might just be bitter, but man I hate what the "news" has become.

Fix this already Internet! Sheesh!