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Some noteworthy sites with non-web design inspiration:Faces in PlacesBlack StorkInert Grey MatterForm Fifty FiveCool Hunter
Tired of pulling large suitcases behind you while traveling? Russian robotics company Robotronic has created Tony, a robo-suitcase that uses a combinations of a gyroscope, ultra-sound, and infra-red sensors to move around a complex environment following a sensor card in the owner’s pocket.The company is currently trying to determine if there is a market for a $2000 …
In the Installer of one of my applications, I created a a batch file with an AT command to add a task to the Windows Task Scheduler. It all installed fine, but the scheduled task never ran. The error message the task log gave was:The task completed with an exit code of (1)After a little bit of frustration, I managed to find the error code definitions for the task …
I'm thankful my God loves me, even when I turn my back to Himeven when I love His enemieseven when I break His heartI'm thankful my God never leaves meeven when I shame His nameeven when I become ashamed of HimI'm thankful my God came for meeven when I drove a nail into His handeven when I pushed thorns into his headeven when it meant to die in place of meMy Web Design Blog here
Here’s some good articles to read about link formatting:Don’t Click Here: The Art of Hyperlinking : Great (visual) article by Jeff Atwood on best practices when using hyperlinks.11 Link Usability Tips Philipp Lenssen’s post that inspired the above article. Five Types of Links: Hyperlinks from a blogger’s perspective.
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PersistenceI was listening to an interesting (as always) talk from Gary Vaynerchuk, and he mentioned what he called the "Hot Girl Rule". It goes like this: Nerd Friend: Hey Gary, how can I date a hot girl? Gary: Easy! You go and ask a 100 girls out. Eventually one of them will agree to go out with you.This was in response to someone asking how to sell their website to …
Catch up on some reading this weekend...(More Members = More Money) ?Can virtual communities make billions of dollars from their millions of connections?This article put online from the print edition of The Economist, takes a look at how social networks have been faring, and how they plan to monetize in the future.This is a good read if you are keeping tabs on the social …
The ProblemConfidential internal documents of Twitter Inc were stolen by a hacker last week. Techcrunch, considered to be a douchebag site by many, published some of those documents online.What's scary is how shockingly simple the hacking was. A recent Twitter employee used the same password for many websites, like most of us do. She also used the same for her gmail account. …
The Browser is a Search EngineRandom people were asked the question "what is a browser?" and you'll be surprised at the answers most of them gave. Maybe it's an American thing? Almost everyone I meet here in Singapore knows what a browser is.
The BingBing launched with a bang, just like any other product from The Corporates would. Bing wants to be the Google killer. The problem with a bang though, is that the noise is gone after the initial...well...bang.Google came onto the scene as a best kept secret. I still remember my high school classmate telling me to try a search engine called Google because it was much … 
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