Randy Pausch passed away today after a bout with pancreatic cancer. Randy earned his doctorate from Carnegie Mellon (my alma mater) and later returned to become a professor at CMU. I never had the opportunity to meet this man but I wish I would have. Not only was he brilliant in the ways of computer [...]

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Aaaargh! There are two commercials making radio rotations right now that are annoying the living crap out of me. First…Corona Light. Real surfers DO NOT talk like that. Every time I hear that commercial I want to kick my radio as hard as I possibly can. Fack…even when we’d be goofing off and laying on [...]

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Getty Images and Flickr just made a deal where Getty will search Flickr’s vast library of images and if Getty finds one they think is marketable, they will contact the photographer and ask if they’d be interested in letting Getty add that image to their library of licensed photography. These photographers can then receive royalty [...]

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Is it me or is the act of positive affirmation a lost item? It seems when I look around all I hear and see is “no no no” and “you did this wrong” and “you suck at that”. At work, in relationships, all around I see a lot of that and not too much of [...]

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It’s been an interesting couple of months as most of my life revolved around looking for new work (ah, the joys of being a contractor…blehhhhh). One forgets how sucky it is looking for a new gig until they’re thrown in it and realize they have no time to do anything else in life. But alas…every [...]

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