Thinking Different

A random thought that came to me while reading…
“All people are the same. It’s the mental models we adhere to that set us apart.”

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Help Fight Cancer and Provide Hope to Those Fighting the Disease

Today and tomorrow (August 14 & 15) WEEI, NESN, and the Red Sox are trying to raise $4 million for the Jimmy Fund. For those of you who are unaware of what the Jimmy Fund is, it is a cause setup to support children and adults with their battle against cancer. The Jimmy Fund and [...]

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Shocking hit and run video from the Hartford Police Department

This is shocking and sad. Words can’t even describe how pathetic we are as a society for something like this to happen on a busy street in the US. I’d like to think this an isolated incident but seeing how many people saw this event happen and watched this man lie in the road without [...]

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Any JSON experts out there?

I’m looking for someone who can help with retrieving a JSON file created by Rails and using JavaScrtipt to parse the information into a web page. I have been searching everywhere on the web on how to do this but I can’t seem to get it to work which is very frustrating considering each tutorial [...]

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Deployed my new web application!

The web application I’ve been building, Marketing for Mavens, has taken another giant step forward as it is now up and running on the hosting server. I’ve noticed some additional bugs after the migration that need to be resolved but overall it is looking very good. By the end of the week, I should have [...]

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Don’t waste your time seeing Doomsday

Blogging to wordpress on the iPhone is a huge pain but I’m doing so in hope that I can save at least one person two hours of their life. On Friday, I ent to see Doomsday and it is by far the worst movie I have ever seen in my life. The plot falls apart [...]

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iPhone 1.1.4, No Flash Support

Ever since I first heard the rumors that iPhone update 1.1.4 would have flash support, I’ve been anxiously awaiting for it to come out. Unfortunately, 1.1.4 came out today without such support, at least not that I’ve been able to find. I guess I’ll continue to hope that it makes the next release. Oh, well.

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Problems with Firefox 2.0.0.12

Is anyone else having problems with Firefox 2.0.0.12? I have to say that with each new point release, I’m getting more and more disappointed with this browser. The .12 release has been the most unstable so far, crashing several times a day on my MacBook Pro. If it wasn’t for some of the great extensions [...]

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Google Spreadsheets

This week I started using Google spreadsheets so I can share information at my company without worrying about version control and emailing separate files to everyone. So far, this has worked great. If I’m logged into the spreadsheet at the same time as someone else, we’re able to see updates happen instantaneously which makes it [...]

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Where have all the great thinkers gone?

Yesterday, I was reading “Discover your genius: how to think like history’s ten
most revolutionary minds” by Michael Gelb when I got to the end of the chapter
on Thomas Jefferson, I couldn’t help but wonder where all the great thinkers are
in today’s society. Jefferson, Washington, Adams, Franklin, and many others
came together at one point in time, [...]

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