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Archive for May, 2005

Ing Direct

Monday, May 30th, 2005

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First Night Free

Monday, May 30th, 2005

Today ended my career as a Coca-Cola merchandiser and my long-standing career in the grocery industry. After just shy of ten years, I’m moving full-throttle into my field of choice—visual design, primarily for digital media. What an exciting transition. Yes, I’ve been running my own web design shop for about two years now, and it’s [...]

iStockphoto

Thursday, May 19th, 2005

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Sad News for the Designer in All of Us

Thursday, May 19th, 2005

Maybe I’m a little behind when it comes to breaking news (I don’t watch television and our newspaper subscription expired a few weeks back—yeah, I need to take care of that) so I am just now stunned by the fact that Adobe is going to buy out Macromedia. Design school was not that long ago [...]

And Another Thing

Wednesday, May 4th, 2005

I forgot one major component to my fantasy cell phone company—the customer service department would be required to speak properly accented English so that I can properly understand them when I have an inquiry. But again, I have no extra few million lying around.

For a Couple Million

Tuesday, May 3rd, 2005

If I had all the money in the world…or at least a few extra million laying around, I’d start my own cellular pone company. First of all, there would be no contracts. You’d pay for service on a month by month basis and get a discount depending on hour many months you paid for in [...]