If you are a programmer, or someone in a small business, I highly recommend not only their products, but their book as well.

Here is a brief talk by David Heinemeier Hansson with a brief glimpse into how 37signals does it:

Every year I run a NHL Playoff Pool. This year is no different. Its a free pool open to anyone that wants to join. Last year we had about 30 people from around the internet signed up.

So if you are a hockey fan, point your web browsers over to nhl.usrlocal.com.

Best of all, its FREE!!!

I used to work and live in the Green Bay Wisconsin area. Loved it up there but it was a little too far from family. One of the events that I miss (besides getting to see every Packer game) is the Annual Green Bay Gambler Teddy Bear toss. This year, they gathered over 5600 bears for pediatric patients at the local hospitals.

Great work Green Bay and Shopko for donating 600 more bears on top of it all!

Recently CNN ran an article called Air marshals missing from almost all flights.

In it they have stated that:

Of the 28,000 commercial airline flights that take to the skies on an average day in the United States, fewer than 1 percent are protected by on-board, armed federal air marshals, a nationwide CNN investigation has found.

SO WHAT?!?

Honestly, do we really think that our airport security has gotten that much better after 9/11. Its all show. It really is. They may catch some of the goofy stuff, but I’m willing to bet that if you wanted to you could get a weapon of some sort on board and attempt to take a plane.

Well, its time for me to take the dive and actually do something useful with http://matt.usrlocal.com.

Sure, I’ll still keep updating usrlocal.com, but this will be a place for more personal stuff as well as various crazy rants that have nothing to do with technology.

I hope you enjoy it.