Aug
24
No more excuses for malformed forms
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I found a cool web page that gives you code for great tricks on making good looking forms. I’m excited that I found it and everyone should check it out!
Collection of CSS Stylesheets
Aug
21
ESPN - ESPN The Magazine
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Ten Mil the Hard Way - The story of Earnest Graham
What a great story. I read this in ESPN the magazine and saw it on ESPN’s site, and was happy to share it with everyone. Earnest Graham, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers running back, is a great guy, and subsequently is paying back a ton [...]
Aug
19
What do you do if you are expecting failure?
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Failure is a part of life. We all are familiar with and understand this cliche way of looking at failure. There is no possible way that a person can go through life expecting to succeed at everything. There are those who got to where they are because they are lucky, and there are people who [...]
Aug
14
Open Source Software Copyright is Upheld
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The Wall Street Journal today reported that Open Source software is enforceable under copyright law. A man named Robert Jacobsen, a model-train enthusiast, put some software code online that he had written to apparently control his model train set. Someone, named Matthew Katzer, down the road took his code that he placed online and formed [...]
Aug
13
The Business of applying to Business School
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So I guess it is no secret now that I am going to be applying to business school. I have made some huge strides in life thus far in my life and I know that these strides have prepared me to begin the rigorous course load and fascinating lectures of business school.
I am going to [...]
Aug
13
Worcester Restaurants - Taste Worcester
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There’s a great new website which covers restaurants in the Worcester, MA area. It offers dining reviews, locations, maps, pictures, and user experiences for all central Massachusetts restaurants. The site is called Taste Worcester. I consulted on the back end and SEO of the site, but was not part of the initial design of the [...]
Aug
12
Duh, right? Some may find this obvious, but I found out very early in studying for my GMAT and completing my application to Business School that the GMAT test and the application have common elements. In the essays that you have to write, you have to answer questions that are asked of you, or make [...]
Aug
10
Email Marketing Failure
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So I was reading my gmail the other day and got an email from a guy’s website that I had visited a while back, that teaches about personal finance. I decided to sign up for his newsletter just to try it out. His emails were quite ineffective at first, so I just deleted them usually [...]
Aug
9
Turn Cold-Calling into a Science
Filed Under Development, Full-time Employment, Protect Yourself, Self-Employment, Side Projects | 1 Comment
I was poking around the internet and found the website FreelanceSwitch.com. The site is really interesting, and discusses different ways of being able to switch from the full-time gig to making your own money by freelancing your services. I urge you to check out the site.
The specific article I was looking at was speaking about [...]
Aug
8
So I found myself not being able to log in to a site that i had saved in my firefox browser. I simply hadn’t entered it in so long, I totally forgot what the password was. I had a good idea, but i couldn’t screw up 5 times or else my account was locked out. [...]