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Category: Blatherings

Blunt Words for Design School Students

After many years of providing free advice and countless hours spent reviewing resumes and portfolios, we can honestly report that we are a very hard-to-impress lot at 16toads.  Which is a nice way of saying we don't fear for our jobs.  Why?  Well, aside from

Being a jackass will not help your bottom line

It is a rather depressing thing when you look around, everywhere, and realize how few people there are who do right by others simply because it is the right thing to do. This isn't to say that there are not plenty of good, honest people out there who

14 year old political prodigy my ass

Sarah Palin. 

Joe the Plumber. 

And, now Jonathan Krohn. A 14 year old wunderkind who wrote a book (with the help of ___ ) about what it means to be a conservative. Prodigy? I think not.

The boy can be more aptly described as a pubescent parrot whose parents

Do you understand Darwin’s Theory of Evolution?

CBS Sunday Morning broadcast a segment this morning celebrating the 200th anniversary of Darwin's Theory of Evolution. At the conclusion of the story, the results of a poll were shown.  I don't recall the exact numbers, but the results went something like

The Pink House

Last weekend, my wife and I took advantage of a rare opportunity. An opportunity that had been nothing more than a pipe dream for the past thirteen years.

Thoughts on the Inauguration Ceremony

We have a new president. Relish in that thought for a moment.

Eight years ago, I was one of very few people who saw the potential for disaster in George Bush and Dick Cheney.  Eight very long years later, like most Americans, I feel a sense of relief I can't

Magento Upgrade Relief

I had been actively avoiding upgrading a client's Magento installation since the latest release 1.2 was announced a few weeks ago.  One of the biggest knocks against this platform is that the development team didn't take standardizing function names very

Hiking with “Segvec”

Last February, my wife and I attended the wedding of a good friend of hers on the island of Puerto Rico. The day after the wedding, the bride and groom had planned to take all of their close friends on a hike to El Yunque to experience Puerto Rico's famed

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