US nutter counts to one million on net

Charity marathon caught on webcam

By Lester Haines, 3rd July 2007

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A US chap is counting to one million live on the net to raise funds for the Push America disabilities charity.

Jeremy Harper, 31, reckons it will take a total of three to four months to work his way to the big total, counting 12,000-15,000 numbers during a 16 hour daily stint. He's currently at around 191,000, and will not leave his house until he's completed the task.

In cased you're wondering, Jeremy does have a job "for a local software company that gave him time off to complete this project", a "very patient" girlfriend, and an impressive tech set-up including audio/video switcher, night vision camera and, crucially, fridge.

Jeremy has to date raised a tad over $2,600 for his worthy cause, and one donor summed the whole thing up rather nicely with: "Wow man!! Your freakin' insane! Keep it up...i'll donate again if you make it all the way to a million." ®

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Posted Sunday 8th July 2007 06:43 GMT

Anonymous Coward

This guy should go out and do actual work for charity

What a waste of human resources. If he wants to raise money for charity, he should go and volunteer to work for the one of his choosing. As another comment said, this is a no-talent trying to make a buck off the web 2.0 'synergy.'

Charity should be without ego. All I see here is a self-serving play to make others think "Look how great he is."

Posted Saturday 7th July 2007 08:56 GMT

Tom Haczewski