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Greenpeace has accepted the viral nature of the Mr. Splashy Pants Voting and has started to promote the facebook group supporting the fun-named whale. They’ve created banners, songs, t-shirts, pins and even touted a specialized logo on the popular news site reddit. Looks like the whale is making waves across the internet.

Greenpeace is holding a naming competition for the wonderful humpback whales currently travelling on the Great Whale Trail. The best name is currently in the lead, which is of course, “Mr. Splashy Pants” — so make sure it stays there and place your vote today.

There’s one thing I’ve never understood, and that’s the appeal of Black Friday. So, while I might be able to understand the sick, twisted fascination to go out and buy holiday presents on the craziest shopping day of the year.. but who are these people that get up at 5am to hit up target [...]

I can’t believe I didn’t think of this earlier.. So, let me poll you — dear Diatribe Readers. If you were to get married in the next year, would you do your wedding registries on the Friday after Thanksgiving? Yes / No. Comments Encouraged ;)

Have I ever mentioned how much I like the Wordpress platform? It’s really a remarkable blogging / page management Content Management System. It’s so extensible that you can pretty much find some kind of plugin (or make one) to do what you want. There’s so much documentation and help available as well, that it makes [...]

There’s nothing better than a little Patriots Football on a Sunday night. Especially when the Patriots obliterate the Buffalo Bills 56 - 10 (as it stands now in the Fourth Quarter). While the weekend wasn’t extraordinary, we did manage to mail out the Save The Dates, update my Dad’s web site, beat ‘Beautiful Katamari,’ and [...]

Man, it’s been so quiet around here — you could hear a pin drop. Well, between traveling and getting a sick, everything outside of work has really taken a back seat. Can’t wait for the weekend for some time to relax, catch up, run some personal errands, and get back to my life.