Grab Discipline from Desperation

On most mornings, you wake up a good couple hours before the sun, long before your little family members rise. You set the coffee machine last night, knowing that you were going to make your European and East Coast calls during the hours when the neighbors are sleeping. By the time the sun cracks over the mountains, you're more than halfway through your contact list,…

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Ethics Foundations for Business

With all the recent headlines about company misconduct and ethics violations has come a significant, and long overdue, increase in the consideration of ethics among businesses. As a result of the recent bad press about lawsuits against companies' "behaving badly", there has been a rapid, almost frantic scramble among many large corporations to set themselves apart from the "wrong-doers" in the business world. Companies have…

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Crossing the Great Graphics Barrier

One of the first hurdles in learning Web design is understanding the use of graphics. The greatest of programmers can come up against the graphics barrier and sometimes just fall flat. Even professional desktop publishers when faced with a "design for the Web" task, can make critical errors.

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Braving the Rattler

My 10-year-old daughter dragged me onto our state's largest roller coaster, the Rattler at Cliff's Amusement Park this summer. She insisted on riding it, and dad wanted to support his daughter's courage. When they strapped us in, Mari turned and said, "Dad, I'm scared."

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