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Working on Something Tangible

My job is in computer graphics, design and also involves some programming. For the past couple years, there’s been a recurring theme to conversations about what I do which has gradually grown to become something that really bothers me. Basically it comes down to this–what will I have to show for my work 20 or […]

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Newport News VA: Thrift Store Mecca

Where else will you find at least 8 thrift stores within a 4 mile radius? How about 20 quick cash stores? Newport News, Virginia. The one and only. I love this town…

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Flash XML Socket Servers

I’m currently trying to set up a Flash Socket Server so I can experiment with some more interactive, live updating applications. I’ve found two free XML socket servers so far – Enhydra (a general purpose, open source socket server written in Java) and Oregano (an xml socket server geared specifically towards Flash, also in Java […]

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gMail – Webmail Google Style

Google is doing webmail, called gmail as reported here. Supposably there will be a 1gb storage limit… and other goodies programmed by the google gurus in their “spare time.” I have a server and plenty of email addresses, but from the looks of it, this could become my web email address.

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Baby Thoughts

While sitting at my computer desk watching my son play the keyboard-o-rama Elmo game, I started pondering what really must go through his head. Is it possible to have complex thoughts without language? It must be; people who are born deaf and blind, like Helen Keller, obviously still have complex thoughts, but for lack of […]

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Proof that Even Bill Gates Likes Macs

Ok, so I’m making a leap of logic, but here’s how I arrived at that conclusion…. Corbis, a company owned by Bill Gates, is having a contest where the prizes are Apple Macintosh G5 computers. Either Bill Gates runs this company in a very hands-off way and is not aware of the prizes, or he […]

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Things I Almost Posted About

I had a few things in mind that I was going to post about, here’s what they were and why I’m not going to: 1. I’m not posting about Macromedia Flex, and how I am (or was) skeptical of it’s success because of the price. Then I watched the presentation on Macromedia’s site…. maybe bigger […]

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Mac vs PC – The Definitive (?) List

This is purely personal, I’m not making any recommendations here, just my observations of what’s good about each of the two after almost 6 months of using an Apple Macintosh G5 at work and a Dell Laptop at home. Some of it’s based on cold hard facts, the rest is just my perceptions. First off… […]

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Sub Pop. Good Stuff.

Lately pretty much every band on my playlist is from the label Sub Pop. What bands, you ask, are you listening to that are or were signed on Sub Pop? Ahh, here they are in order of current favoriteness. 1. The Shins. The Shins are hard to describe or compare to. Very, very creative and […]

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Quicksilver

This will change the way you use OS X forever. Thanks What Do I Know.