Grab Bag

via youtube.com The last few years, I’ve made an effort to manage my allocation of time better as it comes to games. I used to be a core member of a serious World of Warcraft guild. The hours spent each night is just not a commitment I’m prepared to make at the...
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I’m sure by now, you’ve read enough about the iPad to think, “oh, come on, not another article about that thing.”  Granted, the hype and rumors got completely out of hand.  Contrary to the Windows zealots around me, they weren’t all fed by Apple.  I can’t blame them too much, though.  They don’t know...
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via techcrunch.com Hopefully, this is the opening salvo in what will mean the end of plug-in driven sites using Flash and Silverlight. Flash leaks memory like a colander and Silverlight is just another means for Microsoft to try to turn the web into its own proprietary playground. ENOUGH!!! I signed up for the...
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via flickr.com Took these a while ago and recently fixed up, knowing what I know now and didn’t then. Posted via web from Mike Pulsifer’s posterous
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via flickr.com Some photos I’ve recently gotten around to uploading. Posted via web from Mike Pulsifer’s posterous
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As someone who loves competition because of the benefits to the consumer, I have not only a Twitter account, but also one on Identi.ca. However, posting to both at the same time can be a chore with Ping.fm’s web interface. Tweetie is a great Twitter app, but all it does is Twitter. Nambu’s iPhone...
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United States After looking at USA’s Drupal powered Whitehouse website, their actual government website is a huge letdown, it uses dated HTML and awful header graphics. via noupe.com Having seen the gallery of government web sites from around the world (link above), I must agree. The offerings from the United States are pretty poor. My...
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In this article, I’m going to explore how the culture of the workplace can impact the value of our creative work.  This not only applies to IT shops, but everywhere, including of course, presentation slide design.  Because of the strong civil service protections in government, and in many cases union protection, a culture develops...
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via flickr.com Here are the photos I took during and (mostly) after the “blizzard” of ‘09 from Martinsburg, WV. Posted via web from Mike Pulsifer’s posterous
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I’m on my way to get lectured by my dentist and as my lovely wife is driving, I decided to get caught up on some tech news. Much to my surprise, C|Net News is now iPhone-friendly. This is a welcome change. In my opinion, their iPhone-friendly design is second only to Ars Technica’s. See...
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If you’re like me, you like to take advantage of the power of visuals to not only get your point across, but also increase retention of that very message.  To get those visuals, you can use your own photographs for the ultimate in originality, stock photography for professional, yet expensive and unoriginal images (if...
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