While catching up with a friend last night and sharing the video above to garner some last-minute votes, I had a realization. In order to build this city to be its strongest, it has to attract the type of talent and creatives isolated in other parts. Twitter had just laid off a number of experienced users out of Silicon Valley, and this friend had just opened up about her contemplating moving to a…
Finals week. Better known as Hell Week (at Georgia Tech). The series of days that stand between you and the holiday break. For many you will endure this plight just eight times during a given undergraduate career, but depending on the courses you take and how long you’re in school, it’s something that can be experienced a dozen times…or more. Attending a school who ranks last in a recent college publication’s survey of…
– Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom With the passing of former Nobel Prize winner, I wanted to reflect on…
Bitcoin is changing the way we finance things. It is just that plain and simple. More and more businesses are beginning to accept the online currency and as its value increases ($1,000 for 1 BitCoin), so does the public interest. This video created by the Bitcoin community best describes the currency and how it…
Following the long Thanksgiving weekend, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire raked in an additional $110.1 million over the Wednesday-to-Sunday period to bring it’s worldwide total to over $573 million. These record setting numbers don’t necessarily stick around only at the box office, the popularity of these blockbusters result in subsequent conversation online across all different channels – and mediums. Beloved PBS program Sesame Street recently gets my recent vote for relevance. Yes, the…
It’s true. Russian photographer Alexey Kljatov created a home-made rig to capture sensational pictures of snowflakes! I’m a believer in an individual’s ability to marry their own curiosity and exploration of the world around them with what it is they know best to inspire amazing. It happens subconsciously and is a trait developed at an early age. You learn how to learn. Like snowflakes, each individual person is unique. How you learn and subsequently,…
I’m an Atlanta native, Summerhill homeowner, and lifelong Braves fan. This is my culmination of articles and figures on the move to Cobb as well as an urgent plea to the Braves organization and City of Atlanta to rethink the ripple impact of the sudden decision. On Tuesday, November 26, 2013 Commissioners will vote to continue the plan to move to Cobb. Two weeks ago I awoke in bed to texts and “Breaking News”…
Do you remember what the browsers at the turn of the century looked like? How about the programming languages and schemes most concurrent with the web? This year’s annual installment from the Google Chrome Team is a joy to interact with and explore how far the Web as evolved. Currently using this as an interactive tool with my C-Level executives in presentations to share and justify adopting more efficient CSS in their sites and enabling…