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Thursday
Jan262012

The Benefits of the Negative Experience

Humans share two common experiences; good ones and bad ones. We are fraught with the desire to achieve greatness, and from that greatness, acquire happiness and wealth. However, such things are not always achievable. As with everything good in life, a balance must be struck…

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Saturday
Jan212012

The Pareto Principal, or the 80/20 Rule


The year is 1906. The place, Switzerland. The man, Vilfredo Pareto. Vilfredo was a smart guy with some mad skills in economics and sociology, who also happened to be a lecturer at the University of Lausanne. One day while observing society and working out some mathematical figures in his head, he came to the following realization

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Wednesday
Dec072011

Taking Control of Your Website with Content Management Systems

I have written a three-part series about Content Management Systems (CMS). They are featured on the Devlin blog. Part one discusses the two main types of CMS, open source and proprietary. 

Wednesday
Nov162011

Analog Life

I recently decided to purchase a camera at the Lomography store in my home city. It's one of many that are part of a unique chain of Lomography stores that are located throughout the world, promoting their brand of "toy" cameras and getting people to embrace film on their shooting adventures. For those of us that once used film and appreciated the light-sensitive emulsions, we knew the characteristics well, the abilities, and of course, the drawbacks. For those who never had the opportunity to shoot with film, the Lomography brand and their art movement now hope to take digital nomads and turn them into emulsion-loving bonafide converts.

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