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Their Collective Might
Somewhat in the vein of an office drive by is the opportunist These are people you see throughout your work day, might even exchange pleasantries. But the only time they ever stop by your office, or engage in a conversation is to complain about some form of malfiesence Some grand wrong that they have suffered.…
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Just Checking
Ever have someone stop by your office look in, stare then move along? After returning from a 2.5 week vacation / day spa otherwise know as the birth of our first child i get back to the daily grind. Only to find that I hadn’t been a bitter self deluded cranky young man. People were…
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A Featureette if you will.
Everyone loves the all in wonder. The Swiss army knife of programs, gadgets and do dads. But what very few things do is concentrate on improving the user experience on their primary function instead of just simply adding features. Take a PDA or a cell phone both are very useful and functional pieces of hardware…
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Terminology: extended rant
Ok so we have talked a little about terminology in the past, specifically about LCD’s in relation to tech or geek minded people. An LCD is the least common denominator, or the stupidest tech Luddite you can imagine when relating how to do something to someone else. A Mental stenographer helps. Sample conversation An example…
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Compassion
I may have glossed over this subject in the podcast, www.caffination.com. But the lack of compassion that some people show during the course of their duties as a nurse astounds me. You see people at the lowest point in their existence. when they are brought to their knees in pain. and you gruffly respond to…
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Proper Diction
Now I’m not a stickler for grammar, pronunciation or very much when it comes to conversation. But i thought i would let non technical people in on a few secrets. The way to talk tech so that we understand. First off wipe the following terms from your lexicon, as i have discussed in my Podcast,…
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Every Intent
When starting this post, or even starting to think about this post, as my traditional post episode doughnut for the mind I was hell bent on complaining loudly about the evils of the phone company, the disconnect between customers and the misconceptions about service, and how it does not mean to screw you customers, despite…
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The Sameness of Innovation
In my Podcast found at www.caffination.com i spoke for a short time concerning the problems now facing the Apple Computers design team. When the iPod was first introduced in 2001 it was a major paradigm shift in music. it was as if a new continent previously undiscovered in the musical topology had surfaced. The iPod,…
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The Slippery Slope of Jurice Prudence
Perhaps its just me but the older i get the more concerned i become with the state of law in our country. Laws are no longer put in place merely to keep order, and protect citizens but they are also put into place to placate corporations, ie the Mickey Mouse Copyright saga. Or they can…
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Concerning Progress
in any endeavor I would like my ultimate goal to be progress. Even the slightest glacial progress would do. Some positive motion forward on any plane, if you catch my drift. So in some respects any motion is good it does not always mean that a lot of motion is better. Take a project i…