Great little tool to help get familiar with color theory concept. It’s also useful if you like to manually choose colors schemes and need ideas:
http://wellstyled.com/tools/colorscheme2/index-en.html
Adobe has a very impressive color theme generator:
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/kuler/
1 Million Stock Photos:
http://www.everystockphoto.com/index.php
The study demonstrates the importance of comparing cost-of-living differences between two markets.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16545234/
All figures used in the study were collected last year by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The bureau’s occupational profiles can be accessed at http://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_stru.htm.
There are many things you can do even before you pick up the phone to increase your chances of success.
My Favorites:
One: Make sure you have a decent speakerphone. Nothing makes those 22 minutes pass more slowly than a strained neck from pressing the phone against your ear. If you can move around while you’re waiting — say if you can fold the laundry — the time won’t feel quite as wasted.
Seven: Know your enemy. Picture this: You’re a college student earning extra money at night dealing with a steady stream of manic customers upset about cell phone text message rates. And you must take 50 to 100 calls a shift. To give you an idea of their perspective, here’s what one cell phone customer service representative wrote to the Red Tape Chronicles recently: “I say ‘no’ because its fun,” he said (picture David Spade in the Capital One credit card commercials). “If somebody wants to be rude with me, I’ll step down to their level because my company allows it as long as I don’t use profanity.”
Now, imagine you as the one friendly call this agent receives on a given night. You are warm, you are even keeled, you are reasonable. You say “please” and “thank you.” You will have a leg up on every other caller that night.
11: Run out the clock on call centers, which are often paid per call.
“The strongest tool a customer has is call length,” he wrote. “They pay these companies a very small amount for each call taken, so the call center wants to have the shortest call length possible, and take as many calls in a given period of time as possible. They want to see 3 to 5 minutes per call. … If your call goes 10 minutes, you (or the rep you’re talking to) have the attention of a supervisor. The supervisors have computerized call monitors that alert them to long calls.”
A former Oracle Corp. senior vice-president, Garnett spent the early 1990s traveling around the world with Ellison, Oracle’s CEO.
Within weeks of their return from Japan, Ellison summoned Garnett to his office. He scrapped the interactive-TV startup the two were planning and, Garnett claims, fired him without giving a clear reason. “It was pretty clinical,” he recalls. “I tried to keep composed.”
“The simplest way to create a culture is to pick an enemy,” says Garnett. “We have an enemy: It’s Oracle.”
Telecommunications Relay Service, also known as TRS, Relay Service, or IP-Relay, is an operator service that allows Deaf, Hard-of-Hearing, Speech-Disabled persons to place calls to standard telephone users via TDD (TTY), personal computer or other assistive telephone device. Most TRS operators use regular keyboards to transcribe spoken voice as text for relaying.
An anonymous poster writes:
“I saw the dot.com fiasco falling apart in 1998.. i went short in 1999 and 2000 and made a mini-fortune.
“I saw the housing bubble collapsing last year… and i shorted the homebuilders.. made a slightly larger mini-fortune
“and each time, people who i thought were intelligent were ABSOLUTELY UNABLE TO COMPREHEND that there was an asset bubble. they literally thought I was crazy. they’d say those exact words at dinner parties.
“and the same [idiots] who got destroyed in the dot.com stocks are now trying to tell me that there’s no housing bubble, and that I should buy a house and jump on the train to unlimited wealth.
“I just have one question- is everyone on this planet brain dead? i don’t consider myself to be any sort of financial genius, but even a 5 year old child should have been able to connect the dots and see both of these busts coming. why can’t 99.999999999% of americans see it?
“not only are they unable to see it, they get absolutely pissed if you even discuss the issue, as if you are attacking their very soul. i remember taking a flight from charlotte to SF back in early 2000 and the chick sitting next to me was talking to her broker checking the price of Yahoo. I told her if she didn’t sell now she was going to lose everything.
“Within 8 months the stock had lost 95% of its value.
“There are only two conclusions:
1) I’m a super-genius and can see things nobody else can
2) Most of humanity is so fucking retarded that it makes me want to cry
“I can’t decide which is the answer.”
And another one responds:
“Being early is the same thing as being wrong.
“LOTS of people saw the stock crash of 2001 coming. LOTS. In fact, in the financial industry, pretty much everyone knew it would be coming sometime, and this knowledge was mainstream by 1997. But here’s the thing…if you move real money rather than being an FC sockfucker who spends all day jizzing over financialsenseonline.com or prudentbear.com, this knowledge means nothing unless it translates into more money for your clients or yourself. It’s all well and good to know that things are overvalued in, say, spring of 1998, but if you sit back and do nothing at a big company, when the quarterly numbers come in, your co-workers have all made a shitload on a rising market while you have passed up the chance for double-digit gains. Guess who gets the bonus and who gets the boot?
“In finance you are judged quarterly. Next year, 2 years…nobody gives a ripe fuck. Your clients and your boss want quarterly results, and they want them NOW. So you grit your teeth, jump into a rising market, and make a shitload of money, hoping you can grab a seat when the musical-chair tunes eventually stop. If you don’t play the game, you flatline while others make money, and you are soon out of a job. When millions of people and trillions of dollars play this game, markets become bubbles…until suddenly they don’t. And that’s how the story goes, son.
And another one notes:
“Lots of people knew the dotcom thing was a bubble.
“I knew it.
“I bought puts on Amazon.
“Then the fucking thing went up 25%
“I bought more puts
“The fucking thing went up another 25%
“I bought more puts
“[Darn] thing went up another 25%
“I gave up. It was irrational.
“Took another year before that [stock] collapsed.
“So, you can be right and wrong at the same time.
Equipped with a powerful blend of features, Drupal can support a variety of websites ranging from personal weblogs to large community-driven websites.
Drupal.org is the official website of Drupal, an open source content management platform.
This paper reviews nine search engine software packages −Alkaline, Fluid Dynamic, ht://Dig, Juggernautsearch, mnoGoSearch, Perlfect, SWISH-E, Webinator, and Webglimpse− which are free to users. Their features and functionalities are compared and contrasted with emphasis on searching mechanisms, crawler and indexer features, and searching features.
http://www.searchtools.com/analysis/free-search-engine-comparison.html
Keyword Density Optimization and Calculations:
http://www.e-marketing-news.co.uk/Mar05/garcia.html
According to the ECPA, after 180 days it becomes possible to demand email from a server without a warrant, and for non-criminal matters. This means all that has to happen is a civil attorney decides they want to see your email because they might have a reason to sue you, so they write a subpoena demanding all email older than 180 days from your provider, and it is theirs.