Posts categorized 'Intar Social Commentary'

Today was the O'Reilly Web 2.0 Expo at the Javits Center in Manhattan. Today was "Workshop Day" and that's what I thought looked the most applicable for me, I have a feeling the expo will be filled with things like this so I would be more productive at work. The conference was cool, there were...

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I'm not here to tell you who to vote for, however if you're going to vote based on what some girl on the internet tells you you may as well listen to me. Why? Because I'm funny, that's why. It can be argued that there isn't much difference between the two parties. This is very true, and I myself don...

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So, the collaboration between Atwood and Spolsky titled StackOverflow has come to (beta) fruition. The buzz is finally starting to come in. I have seen both good and bad and decided to see for myself what the hype was about. I'm going to walk you through my experience and give you some of my reactions...

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Now wait, before you say anything, I want you to do me a favor, I want you to pretend we're just having a chat. It's you and me, we were just at a conference, or an expo, or a workshop or something. I noticed your tee shirt on the street, whatever, something happened and now we're talking tech, it's...

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So I got this movie on Demand tonight and I found it highly entertaining. On one hand, it was a little sick. I'm not big on horror/slasher type things, I was never allowed to watch those types of movies as a kid, so now movies like that really freak me out. This wasn't as much horror as gory thriller...

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Yesterday I was completely dead in the water. My mobile phone is my only phone (a clear indicator that I’m part of generation 2.0…. if you have a house line get off the internet immediately Prodigy called, you’re over your bandwidth limit this month and they’re going to charge...

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David Lightman, Neo, The Lone Gunmen, Dave Bowman, Stanly Jobson, you boys have always had programmers, hackers and computer engineers on TV and in movies to look up to growing up. Well, though we’re in the minority I’ve been inspired by some awesome women on the big and little screen over...

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I was reading this article the other day and here is the quote that really got to me: “ Rather than telling girls that IT is trendy and fashionable, we should be telling both girls and boys what we really believe to be true: that focusing on being trendy and fashionable is hollow and irrelevant...

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First of all, before anything else, am I the only one that's noticed that gmail is still in beta? Man those guys are thorough. I can't wait for RC1 I hear it's going to be really awesome. So, tonight I was on the intar looking for some blogspiration (yeah, ok you can use that, but you gotta give me the...

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Seriously, I am still loving this social networking crap. I like feeling closer to people with little to no effort. I like being able to see what my friends are doing. I like taking inventory of the people I know, where they are. MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, now my blogtastic goodness. I always know everyone’s...

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