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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 [...]

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 in [...]

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 [...]