Tuesday, March 4, 2008

Robot High School

A coworker's son did this video for school. "Welcome to Robot High School, a modern day high school in which every student is a robot. Everyone obeys the dictating Principal and hopes that they don’t become scrap metal. But there is one Robot who stands out and is determined to escape from this communistic type society and be free."

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Monday, March 3, 2008

Crossroads Realty

Recently, my partner and I worked on a new web site for Crossroads Realty in Columbia, SC

"All About" Real Estate

My wife is working on a program for her Real Estate Clients where she is putting on a whole series of workshops and seminars so that all of her clients and anyone in the community can learn about how the real estate process works.

All About Real Estate

Sunday, March 2, 2008

Buy a Tivo

The answer to your question is easy.

They don’t care. DVRs are killing the existing model, even for Cable Companies who make a ton of cash selling advertising that they then play OVER THE TOP of time already sold to other advertisers.

Buy a TIVO, and send a REAL paper letter to your cable company, telling them that their business model will fail, eventually.





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New Nine Inch Nails record available for download RIGHT NOW!

NIN surprises us with an unexpected self-released album: almost 2 hours / 36 instrumental tracks described as "music for daydreams." Available as a $5 download, or a FREE album-length download, as well as a variety of physical configurations. The new business model done right? If they can keep the servers up.

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Coldfusion Community Site

I found this site a few months ago, it is a very nice setup based on ning.com.

Coldfusion Community

Bill Gates 'Innovation by Immigration' plan DOES NOT Hurt US workers

True, "we must demand strong schools so that young Americans enter the workforce with the math, science and problem-solving skills they need to succeed in the knowledge economy."

ALSO true: "We must also make it easier for foreign-born scientists and engineers to work for U.S. companies."

What hurts US workers is letting US companies pay these immigrant workers LESS than US born engineers and scientists.

WHY?

Because the world is flat.

Our economy MUST continue to be strong, and to do that, we need the best minds here.

This was also in a LinkedIn Question that Bill posed this week.

I didn't know then that he had tied his question about US education with immigration. In my answer I basically said that "lab" or hands-on project based education was the way to go, which is what he said in this OP-ED piece... weird.

In our work at the department, we are looking for ways to innovate the educational process, in our daily work, and as a regulatory agency for schools in our state.

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