Project Junction

Recently, I was asked if I could recommend for parental control software. I thought I’d share my response with a larger community.
From: John
To: Concerned Parent
I installed Optenet web filtering software two years ago. Click Here for more info My daughter took great pride in circumventing every other program I installed prior to this application. She [...]

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I’ve been buried by a blizzard of emails from a manager who always requests that the task/deliverable be completed “Today.” The “today” prompt shows up in variety of amusing ways. The funniest variant was the note written at 10:00 pm requesting that a trivial assignment be completed “tomorrow.” Of course, when I [...]

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At Shorpy you can meet people who worked hard, built things, and died anonymously long before you and I entered the world scene. Shorpy knew the difference between a want and a need.  Can you imagine telling him that you had a tough day at work?
The long forgotten faces at Shorpy would marvel at our [...]

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I’m fielding calls from family and friends this week: “Are you still employed … I heard IBM is laying everyone off.”
The short answer:  Yes … I’m stilling working for the man.
I do appreciate everyone’s concern.  I’m a little mad at Lee Conrad, however, for whipping up the media to disrupt my life and scare my [...]

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I’ve completed my lesson plans for the Econ 201 class that I’ll begin teaching in a few weeks.
I’m particularly excited to teach a theory I’ve developed around the “conditioned consumer.” Buyers, particularly in the consumer space, have been conditioned to expect lower prices:

Sale!
Buy one get one free
More for less
Always low prices
We pass the savings to [...]

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I played this Carling Black Label Beer commercial for my wife and casually commented, “Those were the days.” She said I could make myself cereal for dinner tonight.
I’m an idiot … a hungry idiot.

Carling Black Label Beer

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I’m using my vacation sabbatical to consolidate my thoughts about web design. Here’s a link to my draft report.  Click Here
The wordle below visually depicts the concepts I’m exploring.

This report is open to collaboration. I consider it a work-in-process so if you have any thoughts or opinions of your own, please share them with [...]

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Class,
Your final exam may include questions on any of our lessons to date. You have all of the information you need in the Computer Apps Class link above. There you will find every lesson plan, tutorials, cheat sheets …  In addition, here’s a memory jogger wordle that includes every word in the final exam test.  Click [...]

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Class,
Here’s your homework for this week. Finish your Indesign projects (Resume and Magazine Spread).  See Lesson 7 for details. Click Here
Spend more time on LinkedIn spiffing up your profile than you spend on Facebook.
Perform system maintenance on your home computer:  Run disk cleanup, disk defrag and your antivirus program (or equivalent maintenance programs on your [...]

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Let’s practice our HTML by commenting to this post
Your post should include a highlighted word and three things you’ve learned expressed as an ordered list.  Example:
The top things I’ve learned so far:

Web pages are written with a common language called HTML
A CD holds about 640 MB of data

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