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HTML vs. Text Email Newsletters
I have recently been involved in a project at my current job (Student Assistant for the T-STEM Center at TTU – the job rocks) in coding up an email newsletter. I have been doing research on the side reading blog posts and such regarding the HTML vs. text email battle. For those who don’t know, […]
Engineers and Presentations
Engineers and Presentations don’t mix I have noticed over the past several days, and why is that. Why is the stereotypical engineer a klutz when it comes to public speaking, why does this stereotype even exist is the better question. Frankly, because it is true. I have over the past several days been seeing presentations […]
Gmail 2.0
So I am currently running the Gmail 2.0 code. The contacts are probably the best feature, it works beautifully. Here is a screenshot of it as it looks on my account. Also you can edit a contact right in the mail message. Which is awesome especially give that many people embed their information in the […]
Hey Let’s Get Smart People
Two articles today stood out in my mind today as I went through the day’s news. The first is from New Scientist, saying that access to family planning and contraception lowers the rate of abortion. The second from a feminist blog, Feministing.com, talked about the Bush administration’s appointee to the family planning office. This appointee […]
Twitter Becomes Better With More People
Robert Scoble, recently wrote an blog post responding to Phil Crissman about his Twitter behavior. Phil was basically asking him if he could actually get anything of value out of 6,000 people talking on Twitter, or was it all just “eating a sandwich” type of information. I have to say that I have been slowly […]
Football Fans
This is a post about sports, which admittedly I am neither a huge fan nor all that knowledgeable about. However last night I was having a conversation with several people and realized I needed to speak out. This person was describing different things that he saw fans of my school Texas Tech University, shout, say, […]
Twitter as a Social IM
What is twitter, social im, web 2.0 irc channel? In their own words “Twitter is a community of friends and strangers from around the world sending updates about moments in their lives.” The site basically allows you to follow any person and their updates (which range from the mundane ‘walking the dog’ to the more […]
Facebook Security
Facebook is starting to show more kinks in their armor. There have always been security issues with Facebook beyond the sex predators. That security is a user chosen action “Blocking a Person”, and is what I wish to discuss. What happens when you block someone on Facebook? In theory this means that you will no […]
How to Provide Health Care to ALL Americans
Now normally, I don’t tend to talk a whole lot beyond tech news, however this article in the New York Times caught my eye. So let’s start with the obvious, health care is a big issue now matter which side of the debate. I think everyone can agree that people should have some sort of […]
Will I get an iPhone?
Well I suppose I have to eventually post, whether or not I will get an iPhone. Reading all the numerous reviews, the positives and the negatives. I have to say I will get an iPhone though not today, I will wait for one that will work on a 3G network. Let me first off say […]
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