tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-208038312011-07-28T23:52:19.954-07:00The place where my future employers can find a reason not to hire me before they have to fire me.Shannon Thurstonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11826386106783833410noreply@blogger.comBlogger171100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20803831.post-80966175840695157102009-08-14T15:10:00.002-07:002009-08-14T15:13:53.703-07:00

Here's a quote from the Daily Show that I really agree with."there are basically two kinds of businessperson one can choose to become. There are those who violate all rules of ethics, morality and human decency in the name of making a blood-stained buck only to have their lives shattered as they're torn away from their families and mistresses and shipped off to do decades of hard time in prison,

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It's been a while since I last blogged.  In the last few months I have been working a new job and have made the switch from PC to Mac.  I've always been against the Mac movement, but then after I tried a macbook and put windows on it I was satisfied.  I used to think that I couldn't get my daily tasks done with a Mac.  After a couple weeks I was comfortable and happy.  There is only one big

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UNDOISMThe belief that anything can be undone. Doing, without considering the consequences.The world we live in suffers from Undoism. People are unwilling to accept responsibility and are always hoping for a chance to do it again or fix it. People wish and sometimes assume that they can CTRL + Z their way out of things. That's probably why so many people are in prison and why so many

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I've been looking for a Wii for the last couple weeks and the experiences I've had have really pissed me off. The stupid capitalistic Americans that are too lazy to get a real job are waiting at Best Buy and Circuit City to buy up as many Wiis as they can so they can be "business owners" that resell what has already been resold.The results of these activities are sad. Stupid people seem to be

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Well, I just got my Bachelor of Arts from Utah State University. Several years ago someone asked me what I was going to do with my degree when I got it. I responded, "I'm going to hang it on the wall!"

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Here is a screencast about Google's translation service.I tried linking to the html file, but it just lagged and didn't show up on either firefox or IE. So, linking to the swf, it works fine.

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Though the lessons were taught out of order, I believe this is the assignment to post for today.I would have posted the other video, but I don't know if anyone else in the commercial wants to be available to the world. So I made a silly little video to meed the requirements.my video on youtube

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This is the first commercial I was in that was broadcast all over Utah. We entered a contest for the 107.5 radio station in Salt Lake City. We won the best-use-of-nudity award. It didn't pay anything, but we were aired on the WB. Show Us Your End 107.5 FM

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Here is my first podcast. It's got my "wanna-be-a-dj" juices flowing. I love farce and satire so I think maybe one day soon I'll get a podcast feed going of radio spoofs and parodies.Shannon's first podcast

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Video podcasts tend to fill up the hard drive pretty quick. In just a week I have over a Gig of podcasts. It obviously requires some maintenance or the drive will fill up fast. I subscribed to several podcasts. The one that I will mention here is the Izzy Video podcast. www.izzyvideo.comI like how his kids are always sick of being on camera. In episode 22, he finally makes an apearance but

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mapbuilder.net is where I went to create the map of all the places I've lived in the US. I thought about listing all the places I've been, but for the sake of time, I stuck with the former. Here is the link to my personalized map:Places that I've lived

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I've tried photo sharing and I have some reservations. I like taking pictures, but I don't trust the privacy of the web. I think if I get too much info out there I could end up making life really easy for an identity thief. I looked at some photo albums of different people and if you were in the business of ID theft, it would be pretty easy to steal their ID. I know a person should be safe,

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I just spent a week using del.icio.us and I have mixed reviews. Over a long period of time, it is much more useful than the "bookmarks" available in a browser. For the sake of making bookmarks of commonly visited websites, I prefer using the links toolbar and abbreviating them. It's more accessible having the links right there at the top. For the sake of being able to find popular sites the

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Well, for this weeks assignment I had to find a way to contribute to Wikipedia. I looked at a subject I knew well, Charter Schools, but then I realized it is edited by a lot of teachers and there shouldn't be any errors. Then I tried searching for words that could have been misssspelllled, but to no avail. Finally I found the Utah State University page and found a couple of miniscule grammatical

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After a week of subscribing to almost twenty RSS feeds, I have learned that there is too much information available. I like having all of the latest news available, but I need to trim the fat out of my aggregator. I don't know if I can handle more than one or two feeds per topic.On my bloglines account I found a couple of feeds that repeat stories two or three times, or the same story comes up

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After writing my first entry, I was naively hoping someone would visit. I figured at least a spambot might be interested in my opinion, but nothing. So, I decided to research a little and try to find some information about "getting traffic to your blog". There was one thing that stood out to me which seems to be true about most publicity. Make it controversial!So, in order to get traffic to this

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This happens to be the first blog entry I have ever made. That might not sound strange to some, but to people that know me, it seems a bit weird. Since I am a professional computer geek people think that I would be doing everything that involves technology. Honestly I get burned out at times and I just want to do something that doesn't require electricity. So, instead of blogging, I have taken up

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