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The internet is full of crap, but not everything on the internet is crap is what has been coming across my monitor these past few hours. I recently was updating a Wikipedia page with a link to a well written review from Examiner.com when I found out that Examiner.com is on Wikipedia’s blacklist. This lead me to check out what other sites may be blocked and eventually I stumbled upon ...

If you’re graphic designer or web designer interested in switching to Linux to save on costs or maybe get more hands on experience administrating a LAMP, here is what I recommend for your base setup. Please note, these are my suggestions for Design applications on Linux only, I'll tackle the LAMP software in my next post. My Linux Flavor Choice: Fedora running Gnome3 Why Fedora? I come from a dabbler of Red ...

There was a time, a little more than a decade ago, when I believed that job loyalty meant job security. This was something my parents had instilled in me, as they worked for IBM for 30 years and retired happily. However, in today’s world of companies things have changed. Loyalty is rewarded with over barring job responsibilities, pay cuts, furloughs and layoffs. If you’re lucky, or very competent, you’ll hopefully ...

For those who are unaware I recently left my Overlord position at Team San Jose and have began contracting for Stanford.edu as one of their webmasters. The reasons were…my own…and while I find myself beginning to settle into the new position I am excited to have an opportunity to be more hands on with Drupal, HTML5, CSS2 and PHP. While I can continue to stay current with social media outlets ...

Time management is something I find I do well often enough, but it’s always something I feel is worth improving. I say this because I find myself at times being overwhelmed with activities, though after taking a step back and breathing, I’m able to facilitate things back into a manageable work flow. However, I find lately that it might be worthwhile to look into acquiring a personal assistant, which oddly enough, ...

So unless you’ve been living under a rock you have probably heard by now that Bing is copying Google search results. Ok, so not exactly copying them, but the user data that Microsoft collects is essentially making Bing give the same level of value to websites as Google does and as a direct result many sites that rank on the first page of Google will have these same rankings on ...

I feel like I have to apologize to those who frequent my blog as I’ve been very behind with posts for 2011. My hope is that now with the dust settled and my primary focus is again shifting at work I’ll once again be able to get back behind the keyboard to jot down some interesting and sometimes useful information. After my icon pack for NugoUgo, I recently completed the new ...

Sorry for the lack of updates this year. As a midway point for Team San Jose, I’ve been putting to rest many of the finished projects, creating and distributing a new web survey and planning the next major updates for SanJose.org. In addition, I’ve also officially began working with iPhone hospitality application developer NugoUgo crafting some new UI designs and icon packs. You can see a sample of the demo ...

As 2011 approaches I’m looking back on my accomplishments this past year… In 2010 I began helping my local Coldwell Banker’s office break into Social Media, at the same time as I took on Project Managing the developing SanJose.org website. Along with this began my consistent writing efforts on Yelp as well as my personal blogs. Writing was a key focus this year, as the majority of my tasks centered on this ...