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• 07.01.08
  Lessons Learned on a Project in Paradise, Part 2: Traveling 100% is Good Up to a Certain Point   Personal, Professional (0)

  St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands was the destination for my last assignment. A company for which we did work for wanted our help, and I was staffed to assist with User Experience work. On the surface, this was fantastic for a number of reasons: despite living in the warmer, central Texas climate, I [...]

• 06.30.08
  Lessons Learned on a Project in Paradise, Part 1: An Introduction & Summary   Personal, Professional (0)

  The last five months have proven to be the most interesting and challenging, both personally and professionally, in my life. Not only did I have to deal with personal relationship issues, but also the project on which I was staffed was wrought with many problems that tested me in a number of ways. Could I [...]

• 05.07.08
  A Good Mixtape Website, Like Breaking Up, is Hard to Do   Personal (1)

  John Cusack, as Rob Gordon in “High Fidelity,” came up with some rules for putting together a proper mixtape. Just as well, since you are using someone else’s work to express your own feelings. Such is the case with coming up with a web application that facilitates the creation and distribution of your own mixtape [...]

• 04.29.08
  Killing the Earth, One Flight at a Time   Personal (0)

  A colleague of mine recently posted about how Dopplr now keeps track of your carbon profile, based on the trips you have scheduled in the past and in the future. In the spirit of sharing, I’m already at 7,596 8,418kg — and counting — for the year. In my defense, the flights were [...]

• 04.25.08
  Between Posts   Personal, Professional (0)

  The last blog entry I posted had to do with some networking event in Boston that I didn’t even bother to attend. That was when I lived in Boston, over a year ago. A lot has happened since then. One relationship, one move, and three clients later, I find myself working on a project in [...]

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