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Risk Taker

July 19th, 2010 · No Comments

I drink club soda and I ride a motorcycle. I’m considering taking up hangliding and skydiving as well as alligator wrestling and a few other bold activities. How about this: WARNING! READING WARNING LABELS AND TAKING THEM SERIOUSLY CAN CAUSE EXTREME PARANOIA AND IN SOME CASES MAY LEAD TO INSTITUTIONALIZATION. UPON ENCOUNTERING ANY WARNING LABEL [...]

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Tags: Miscellaneous

Save Time With a FREE Blog Reader

July 11th, 2010 · No Comments

What are blog readers? They’re simple programs that bring all your online content into one place. They make it easy for you to read the newest and latest stuff from your favorite sites. In short, they’re great organization tools. Since blog readers help you organize, they save time! You won’t have to go from website [...]

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Tags: Miscellaneous · Movies · Tech

Who Else Wants to Write 1000 Words a Day

July 2nd, 2010 · No Comments

You… do you want to do write 1000 words a day? I thought you might. Let me let you in on a little secret I discovered called Copyblogger. I found the site a little over a year ago and I haven’t told too many people about it so, you’re getting in on the ground level… [...]

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Tags: Marketing · Miscellaneous · writing

2nd Draft of my novel — Complete!

June 30th, 2010 · 1 Comment

My wife and I celebrated the completion of the 2nd draft of my novel last week. We went out to dinner and toasted to my small victory. Actually, calling it a small victory may not be the best choice of words, since it felt like a pretty significant victory. It was tough to stay committed [...]

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Tags: Miscellaneous · Motivation · writing

Where is “The Fold” in Web Design Today?

June 26th, 2010 · No Comments

I recently needed to find out the optimal height to design for when building a website. This is sometimes called “the fold” height, a term borrowed from newspaper displays. Basically, the fold refers to anything seen on screen without the user scrolling. Ideally, keeping important content “above the fold” will allow the user to understand [...]

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Tags: Design · Miscellaneous · Tech