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Archive for September, 2003

More from the Offshoring Desk:">More from the Offshoring Desk:

Tuesday, September 30th, 2003

“One fact that’s being overlooked here is that there are losers in this equation. There’s no free lunch in free trade. You can be principled about free trade, but if you don’t say how do we compensate and retool the losers you miss part of the equation,” says Hira.
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“I hear a lot of […]

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Vote for the Unqualified, Crush Your Enemies:">Vote for the Unqualified, Crush Your Enemies:

Monday, September 29th, 2003

“As Cruz is beginning to look like Gray Davis-lite, voters are looking around saying that they really don’t like politicians,” said Englander. “And the only non-politician with a chance of winning is Arnold.”

Increasingly, people want the un-political person in office. Politics — and, perhaps, Business — is one of the only jobs in which being […]

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Professionalism

Monday, September 29th, 2003

Rereading some discussion on our development wiki, I noticed I used the term “bad-ass” to describe an option, e.g., “That feature would be bad-ass.”
That display of my finely tuned professional diction deserves nothing short of a “Yuh!”

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DVD Everywhere!

Sunday, September 28th, 2003

I’m truly amazed at how many obscure shows get released on DVD. It must be so cheap to make DVDs that, no matter how small the market of buyers for them, it’s worth it to release ‘em. (There are, however, 64 Amazon reviews for it, suggesting quite a fan-base I’d guess; in comparison, The Simpson’s […]

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Web Colors from Nature:">Web Colors from Nature:

Saturday, September 27th, 2003

The strongest visual elements are the most useful ones: navigation menus and featured content, not background colors. Perhaps this occurs because of our familiarity with nature’s color combinations. We are used to backdrops composed of blues, yellows, and grays because we see them every day.
This phenomenon becomes especially important in web-based applications where users can […]

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