Kingdom Quote #005
“Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.”
– Albert...
I’m pretty sure CAPTCHA is messing with me
I’ve noticed over the past few weeks that whenever I’m presented a CAPTCHA box (one of those security fields that has you type the words that you see on your screen, supposedly to make sure you’re not some kind of robot) the words in the box have been a little suspicious. As if the program was trying to tell me something.
I’d get presented with a combination of words like “lazy” and “worker” or “heavy” and “foundation“. Never anything overt, but always a combination that could have another meaning implied if you read into it. And always something slightly derogatory.
Of course I would dismiss it every time because acknowledging it as more than just coincidence would give credence to the fact that a mischievous and malicious computer program was out to get me. I have a hard enough time maintaining outward appearances of...
All Your Data Are Belong To Us
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July 28, 2010 |
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Concerned about Facebook’s use of your private data? Consider this – while a lot of attention has been given in the past year to Facebook’s aggressive push to capture more and more data about users, Google has (more or less) managed to fly under the radar as it embedded itself into the entire fabric of the entire Internet.
Google is watching you right now
The amount of information that Google collects from your web browsing session is staggering. Yet we don’t hear as much backlash against Google, largely in part because the data collection happens behind the scenes with most users unaware of how frequently they’re sending data to Google.
The guys at Free Art and Technology (F.A.T.) Lab have developed a clever browser plug-in that demonstrates this by sounding an alarm every time data is sent to Google from a web site....
Happy Second of July!!!
In my opinion, July 2nd gets the shaft. Always being overshadowed by his baby brother July 4th.
Sure, the 4th of July is a very important day in this history of our nation.
I’d argue that the 2nd of July marks far greater moments in America’s history than the anniversary of the deaths of America’s 2nd, 3rd, and 5th Presidents.
On July 2, 1776 the Lee Resolution was approved establishing America's independence
July 2nd is the birthday of some of the greatest things we call American.
The birth of America itself.
July 2nd is the day America established its independence. In 1776, the Second Continental Congress adopted the
Innovation Quote #004
“The advantages of having decisions made by groups are often lost because of powerful psychological pressures that arise when the members work closely together, share the same set of values and, above all, face a crisis situation that puts everyone under intense stress.”
– Irving...
Strategy Quote #004
“We don’t have to be out there with a lot of noise all the time. What we need to do is paint a vision for customers, promise them deliverables, and go hit at it.”
– Sanjay...
Find Your Dream Job Online
I was on WashingtonPost.com this morning and their job search feature caught my eye.
Could it really be that easy???
I figured I’d give it a try…
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Innovation Quote #003
“No great thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.”
–...
How Guatemala Welcomed Me
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May 28, 2010 |
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I’m in Guatemala (that sentence is for my benefit, I’ve been marveling at the fact that I am in Guatemala all day).
We flew in to Guatemala City Thursday evening, our plane touched down a little after 7 pm.
A little after “a little after 7 pm”, Mount Pacaya (one of Guatemala’s three active volcanoes) erupted.
Pacaya is 18 miles south of Guatemala City. The eruption threw a large amount of ash into the air and it began raining (along with the actual rain of that evening) down on the city.
We walked out of the airport to black volcano ash falling from the sky.
This isn’t what I’ve seen but apparently this is how Guatemala welcomed me: ——————————
I’m in Guatemala working with
