Cody Nolden
Does the Lion City Still Roar?
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Internet News Has Come a Long Way
Posted on May 4th, 2009 No commentsTechnology has come a long way: watch this 1981 video that described the future of the “Online Newspaper”:
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Goat Mowers
Posted on May 1st, 2009 No commentsToday, Google posted to their blog how they’ve hired goats to mow the grass around their corporate headquarters. Every so often, a herder will bring 200 goats to the field and allow the goats to graze for approximately a week. Google says that the goats will cost nearly the same as their previous lawnmowing counterparts [...]
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Tech Support Tip
Posted on November 11th, 2008 No commentsWhen searching on the internet for a solution to a problem, search in past tense! For example, don’t search for “my computer doesn’t start up” but rather, “my computer didn’t start up”! Wouldn’t it make sense to find someone who has the answer, instead of someone else who is asking the question?
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Deleted Folder Kept Reappearing
Posted on November 11th, 2008 No commentsStrangest thing — an empty folder on my desktop kept reappearing after I deleted it. I had no idea why, no matter how many times I deleted it, it kept reappearing as an empty folder!
I’ve found the culprit: Windows Media Player. Yeah.
My roommate ripped a CD into that folder on the desktop, and left that [...] -
Connecting with the Audience
Posted on November 9th, 2008 No commentsOne (of the many) differences between a good presenter and a bad presenter has to do with the connection the presenter has with the audience.
If the audience doesn’t feel like the presenter understands them, or the presenter doesn’t know how the audience thinks and behaves, it’s impossible to be a good presenter.
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Separation of Code and Design
Posted on November 9th, 2008 No commentsThe separation of code and design will always result in larger amounts of more complex code.
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Full Stack of Papers
Posted on September 24th, 2008 No commentsDr. Liddle made a good comment today. If we are always worried that our stack of things to do isn’t getting any smaller, we’ll always be stressed and burnt out. The first thing we have to do is find out how much we can do in a productive day. Then, taking that amount, make sure [...]