Category Archives: General

Valour-IT – Laptops for Wounded Soldiers

Posted on December 13, 2006 by Kevin

(via Boing Boing) Valour-IT is a non-profit that is providing wounded U.S. soldiers with laptops loaded with voice recognition software. These laptops help soldiers who are struggling to cope with new disabilities to communicate with family and friends and empowers … Continue reading →

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Being Interesting

Posted on November 9, 2006 by Kevin

Russel Davies writes about how to be interesting (unrelated to the recent brouhaha surrounding the Flickr interestingness patent). This seems to be related to the phenomenon of homophily (the tendency to associate with people like yourself). By stepping outside of … Continue reading →

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Tis the Season

Posted on October 23, 2006 by Kevin

Pass a law that says if 75% of eligible voters don’t go to the polls, the election is invalid and will have to be held again in one month. This will mean another 30 days of condescending, mind-eroding, profoundly annoying … Continue reading →

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Firefox 2.0 RC2 Portable

Posted on October 15, 2006 by Kevin

I downloaded Firefox 2.0 RC2 Portable and I’m really pleased with the experience. It’s everything I liked about Firefox 1.5 with some subtle improvements. The upgrade only took about 5 minutes and went smoothly. A few things helped out with … Continue reading →

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World Series Bound

Posted on October 14, 2006 by Kevin

Congratulations to the Detroit Tigers who are headed to the World Series for the first time since their 1984 Championship (when I was just 4 years old). It’s great to see the team doing well again after near historic lows … Continue reading →

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“Stupidity Has Its Own Rewards”

Posted on October 5, 2006 by Kevin

(via Boing Boing) That’s my Dad’s favorite saying, oft repeated after seeing a particular appalling example of human stupidity. Today I’d like to highlight a prime example of stupidity and weak minds at work that rears its head again and … Continue reading →

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Small Business Tips

Posted on September 28, 2006 by Kevin

Brad and I have been working together for a while now running Infinite Web Design and we’ve learned a few things about how to and how not to run a small business. The life of an entrepreneur is not for … Continue reading →

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Macromedia and Adobe

Posted on December 9, 2005 by Kevin

Let’s try a little word association… Macromedia – pretty good software, responsive to customers, innovative web products, creative, good company, “gets” the web Adobe – stiff corporate culture, used to be a good software company, used to be innovative, used … Continue reading →

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Credit Due

Posted on June 4, 2005 by Kevin

Back in April I wrote about “Lock-In” and mentioned Microsoft as a company that locks customers in using proprietary data formats. Well, sure enough they go ahead and announce a major change in the data formats for the next generation … Continue reading →

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Processes are for…

Posted on April 13, 2005 by Kevin

Processes are so people who don’t know how to do anything can get something done… and they usually still screw it up. UPDATE 4/25/05: There is a post over at Asterisk that follows this one rather nicely. So why do … Continue reading →

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