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Simple programmers logic to happiness:

happiness

24 Jul 2010

Public Function Happiness()

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Guilty….

internetaddiction

19 May 2010

Ya, so what

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Perhaps the storyboard didn’t help convey the impact.

turkish-air-ground

19 Feb 2010

Staying grounded

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high-five

From goats to lions, high five, Greenwood. Here are some of the links I mentioned:

North Korean Propaganda Posters

World’s Worst Jobs


Enterpreneur & Business Inspiration

www.inc.com
http://sethgodin.typepad.com
www.documentaryheaven.com
www.ted.com

(also see the links in the right sidebar of the blog)

Design Inspiration


http://www.notcot.org
http://www.designobserver.com

Web Inspiration

www.mashable.com
http://www.webbyawards.com/webbys/current.php?season=13  (the best of the Web 2009)

3 Feb 2010

Goats to Lions

Author: admin | Filed under: Lessons Learned

Thanks for the caution,

Sincerely,

The Earth

environy

15 Oct 2009

Environy

Author: admin | Filed under: Lessons Learned

Totally innocent skit from a British kid’s show, a long time ago…(if you think otherwise, surely its YOUR mind in the gutter).

15 Sep 2009

Innuendo

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you-tube-comment-snob

Youtube’s comment section. Where the least intelligent internet trolls usually congregate to trade witticisms like “OMG! U R SO GAYYYY!!!!” and “LOLOL”.

Until Chris Finke’s genius Firefox add-on: YouTube Comment Snob.

The elitist filter works like this: comments aren’t displayed, if they show any of the following symptoms of illiteracy:

* More than # spelling mistakes: The number of mistakes is customizable, and the extension uses Firefox’s built-in spell checker.
* All capital letters
* No capital letters
* Doesn’t start with a capital letter
* Excessive punctuation (!!!! ????)
* Excessive capitalization
* Profanity

7 Sep 2009

Not on MY tube

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From hasmanythrough, a vicious cycle I’m sure many programmers are familiar with…

(read the first comment for a poignant addendum).

circle-of-death

4 Sep 2009

The gift that keeps on giving

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friday_the_12th1

“Managing Expectations” - cliched business consultancy buzzword with some inarguable philosophical merit.

The Wall Street Journal reviews the book “The Management Myth” which amongst other criticisms, eschews the culture of freshly graduated consultants thrust into the position of formulaic hyper-analysis of large corporations with only academic experience in their tool belt.
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7 Aug 2009

Managing expectations

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Seth Godin touches upon the importance of what you convey online, by way of how you write.

Poor (/lazy) spelling and grammar is especially annoying when the writer is trying to speak authoritatively or in an impassioned form. Two of my personal faves:

rediculous

rediculous

and

definately.

(Check out www.d-e-f-i-n-i-t-e-l-y.com)

27 Jul 2009

Definately rediculous

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