BrianJarrett.com

This is my first new post in the bBlog [now replaced with WordPress]. I didn’t even know what a blog was until last night; that’s when I did a Google search to find out. After reading the definition I realized that my “Site News” section was actually a rudamentary blog. I then did another search to see if I could find a free blog for my site in order to eliminate the amount of manual work …read more »

I don’t watch the news too much; it either depresses me or pisses me off. Local news is boring and the national news, well, I can only hear about so many American soldiers dying in Iraq in one day. Between the suicide bombers, kidnappings, beheadings, and just plain killing in the name of Allah I’ve had my fill of the whole, messy thing. But, every so often, I hear a story that catches my attention, one that makes me smile even. There’s something about a gay-bashing gay Republican mayor to make me believe that there is actually some ironic justice in the world.

In other news, Cookie Monster is

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So, I did it; I bought Orson his own domain: OrsonJarrett.com. [This has now been replaced by a subdomain on the family website] I know, I know, it’s nerdy. I want to use it to keep my family and friends up to date on Orson’s progress and achievements,at least at first. After he gets older it can be a bonding opportunity with his dad; we can work together to build his very own website. He’ll be the envy of other little nerds when he tells them ‘I’ve got my own website’. Hell, he’ll even have his own e-mail address @orsonjarrett.com. How many other brats have that? At $8.00 a year per domain (Dynonames.com) it’s hard to find a reason not to do it. I set up a little page for the time being that just redirects back to his photo gallery and to my web page. Now that I finally have named virtual hosts working under Apache (which took about six hours of frustration to accomplish) I can host multiple websites …read more »