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Like belt making machines in a belt factory, software is one of the biggest capital costs in a small, information-based business. Here is an article from Wired with some niche companies answering the call of providing tools to start-ups.
We went to London a few weeks back to visit my S-i-L. It was great: we rode the London Eye, took a tour on the Thames, saw a museum exhibit on video games, and ate my new favorite food the Cornish Pasty.
Unfortunately, when I got back I found out that half of my co-workers had been laid off and I have been in a rush to get everything done here and at school.
One downside to living in Baltimore is the lack of a shopping “district” for normal day-today things like clothes, electronics…just stuff. We always find ourselves driving to either White Marsh or some other suburb which kind of defeats living in a city. Hopefully, one of the new proposals that will enter the contest to redesign Pratt St will include a shopping area that is nice enough for a tourist area but not so upscale no one really shops there…it should be a functional part of the city.
My suggestions would be:
Ok…you don’t need that last one…but it would be cool.
A new avenue of thought - baltimoresun.com
This would be awesome if a certain yellow and black tool company got in on this.
My favorite quote from this article is below.
Children’s music rocks: Financial News - Yahoo! Finance: “‘Margins on a kids record are going to be better than a more traditional pop record,’ he said. ‘You’re not spending crazy money to have Beyonce or Gwen Stefani do all the things they need to do to be successful. In the kids music world, you can be successful without having to get your song played on the radio.’”
A funny little pictorial on the Web development process.
PingMag - The Tokyo-based magazine about “Design and Making Things” » Archive » The Website Development Process
It seems as if the future of automobiles was realized in the 70’s but squashed by the EPA. Dr Victor Wouk developed a hybrid car in the mid-70’s.
Is this that story we always heard about that said the auto manufacturers kept a car that gets 100 mpg hidden from the public? The 100 mpg could have been an exageration and the EPA could have easily been influenced by Oil/Car companies in a post oil-embargo world.
This article explores John O’Hurley and his financial successes…most tied to the J Peterman character and wise investing.
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An article I found today while doing research for my next project case study. It tells the story of how interesting the employees were at my previous employer.
It was written three weeks before I was laid off.
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I had a random thought today to start looking at old projects I’ve worked on and link to them. This site was for the Smithsonian Institute - National Museum of Natural History’s new dinosaur exhibit and was created by a former employer. It was awesome to work on a web site for a great institution and will be seen by people from around the world.
The unfortunate thing was how mismanaged this project was. Because we were trying to get our foot in the door, the project was WAY underpriced and was always low on the priority list. This means that it stayed in the prototype stage until the client called the PM too many times angry that we weren’t done. We wanted to work on it (who wouldn’t want to work with Dinosaurs??), but, management had so many other things for us to do to keep cash flow moving, we weren’t able to.
I took the exisiting proto-screen designs and chopped them up to make the pages. ALL the pages. Lots and lots of pages. Then I used Flash and the prototypes to make two of the interactives in the, um, Interactives section.
I was laid off shortly after that and it took about a year for the site to go live. I know they were waiting on the Virtual Tour section because of the client’s changing-of-the-minds. I think some of the Virtual Dig got tweaked too…I really don’t remember.
In the end, it’s a pretty cool project that lots of people will see for sometime.
Pros: Internationally know client, fun e-learning interactives to build
Cons: Foot-in-the-door mentality/low internal business need priority made execution extremely difficult.
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