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Balance
I had this realization the other day that seems to have given me cause to disagree with Buddha about the meaning of enlightenment. Skillful Balance From the time that I first started longboarding, I have been on a quest to find the best spot on my board to maintain perfect balance. I have gotten pretty good at finding it. Now what? Fighting to maintain a stronghold on my balance is a great practice in skill, …
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Creating Happy Customers
In the last 20 years, Gallup has interviewed over a billion customers, trying to identify what they really want. As you would expect, they first discovered that a customer’s needs vary by industry. Surprisingly though, they found 4 sets of customer expectation that consistently spanned across various types of business and people. These expectation are what they call hierarchical, meaning that you need to accomplish 1 and 2 before 3 has any value. I was …
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Design Resources: Icons, Maps, & Photography
We use icons, images & photography all over the place within user interface, web and software design. Since we seem to spend a fair amount of time searching for them, I decided to put up a blog that keeps track of what we find. Any of the crew is welcome to add to this – in fact please do.
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The Forms
You are deciding to become (or currently are) an independent contractor. In part III we will cover forms you will need to be familiar with. Part IV will go through the basics of being in business. If you missed parts I & II, the covered the why of being in business and a business setup checklist.
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The Setup
You are deciding to become (or currently are) an independent contractor. In part II, we are going to provide a checklist to help you get started. In part III we will cover forms you will need to be familiar with. Part IV goes through the basics of being in business.
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Why I am Proud to Work with blip.tv
I was chatting with my cousin Harun (a.k.a. Haza) the other day and dropped a note about why i love working with blip.tv. After rereading it, I thought it is worth publishing.
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Printing In Flex
Flex has its own printing package (mx.printing) which adds functionality to the flash.printing package, making it easier to format output (slicing and paginating).
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Business Types
The following is a brief summary of each of the various entity choices for a operating a business in California: Make sure you check with a lawyer as you consider the proper solution for your particular case. This was put together on Jan 2007 for a California business (us) as we were deciding to change from a general partnership to an s corporation. Things always change. Make sure you get the most current information you …
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Figuring out The Why
When considering the possibilities for your life and your career, I recommend stopping and asking yourself some questions.
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We Won 2 Webby’s !!!
Early this year, we put blip.tv, studly video distribution team extraordinaire, up as a contender in the broadband category for the 2007 Webby Awards. After a little call out to the community, some funky dreams (can’t figure out why I seem to care so much) and a whole lot of compulsive stats checking, we got the news. Blip.tv is the proud winner of not one, but 2 Webby awards, both the people’s choice award and …
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