TheMadPeacock On The Sofa

This story touched me, photos affect us, they can change our lives..
How much, I wondered, did that moment — just 1/250th of a second when three lives intersected on a river bank in Iraq — contribute to the burdens he’d brought home with him? If I’d never taken his picture, would he have ended up [...]

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A moderate earthquake occurred at 11:42:15 AM (PDT) on Tuesday, July 29, 2008. The magnitude 5.8 event occurred 3 km (2 miles) SW of Chino Hills, CA. The hypocentral depth is 12 km ( 8 miles).
We even felt it over here in Calabasas over 50 miles away as the crow fly’s. It [...]

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It was probably the launch of MobileMe and a comment from a friend about how she uses it to run her business that got me thinking about this..
IT has evolved, has your business evolved with it?
More and more of the IT services a business needs to function are moving to SAAS (Software As A Service). [...]

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Over on Gamasutra they have an interview with Mel Guymon, Google’s 3D operations director and in it he is kind enough to give us a shout out… thanks Mel!
He suggested the application, which runs in a webpage plugin using elements of Emergent’s Gamebryo game engine, could be compared to existing applications such as Second Life [...]

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Over on the Emergent Asia blog there is a fun post and video on a recent event we sponsored.
A Hoot of a Fun Time in Shanghai
Hooters in China! does anyone else find that amusing? Or is it just a symptom of the global economy?

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As fun speculation/rumors go this is a dusey!

Image from Bagelturf.
Over on Bagelturf there is a post that Apple is (should be) interested in purchasing Tesla Motors. Bagelturf - Apple To Buy Tesla Motors
I am propagating the rumor simply because perhaps wishing will make it so…
Pass this on, link to it, digg it, whatever you need [...]

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So I have a week at home with my new baby and between feeds I am getting some time to sleep and catch up on some of my hobbies.
Music is something I love, I played violin as a kid, (I wanted to play electric guitar but my parents made me play violin; don’t know why) [...]

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I get asked that question a lot, and I have tried to explain it… a lot…
Over on GameCareerGuide.com Jeff Ward from Orbus Gameworks as taken a stab at answering the question What is a Game Engine?
I find it interesting that he categorizes Gamebryo as a Mostly-ready game engine, its an interesting categorization, definitely food for [...]

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Mike Cohen has an interesting blog I have just started reading, in a recent post (SmugMug vs. Flickr)he talked about his move to smugmug and that got me thinking about why I use and recommend both smugmug and Flickr..
I have been using Flickr for some years, I was turned on to it after a friends [...]

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I am a big LinkedIn pusher.
I see tangible benefits of membership every day and the more I put into my network the more I get out. If after listening to me babble on about LinkedIn time and time again you still are not using it (you know who you are) then perhaps this post on [...]

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