Winter is officially here in downstate New York. I can tell you that because yesterday I dug out from our first snow storm which dumped about 8″ on us Friday. Today, Sunday we got another 6″ luckily I didn’t have to shovel out of that. After I dug our car out from the first storm, [...]
Archive for December, 2008
Marketing
I’ve always been fascinated by marketing and advertising. Generally, I’m always amazed at what people base their purchasing decisions on and how marketers get people to buy their stuff by selling illusions rather than the product itself. For example Coca cola must taste great because they got polar bears and Santa Claus in their commercials. [...]
Open Source
Open source means what? If you’ve spent any amount surfing the net, I’m sure you’ve heard the term. Open source in essence means free for you and everyone else. You can download X open source program and use it 100% free of charge. You may also copy (send to friends) or modify the program (if [...]
Words on paper
You know I never really liked writing when I was younger. Heck in school I would do practically anything to get out of writing an essay, book report, or a term paper. Nowadays I write more than ever did through blogs, forum, and other web endeavors some days I write more code then words. Other [...]

