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  • Obama gives some love to Community Colleges

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    I was glad to see President Obama showing some recognition, and support, to community colleges this week. Community Colleges are an affordable way for workers and students to retool in a down economy and are a real treasure in the community. Peter Nicholas (LA Times), reports that “with unemployment continuing to climb, President Obama on…

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    Dale Rogers

  • Sinisterdesign web site redesign in progress

    I’ve been working with my step-son, Craig, on redesigning his web site with WordPress. You can see the results at http://www.sinisterdesign.net. While you’re there check out his Flash RPG games. He’s a great game designer. I’m sure you enjoy his telepath RPG series.

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    Dale Rogers

  • Hello Kitty Photo Op

    Amazing what you can do with a FlipVideo camcorder, iMovie, a vacation, and an interesting situation on a walk down  7th ave in Times Square. A little video short just jumped out at me. Enjoy.

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    Dale Rogers

  • OMG!!! May 2, 2009 Neighborhood garage Sale

      May 2, 2009 East Nashville Garage Sale Several Lockeland Springs neighbors are having garage sales on Saturday May 2, 2009. Wow!!!! There is SO MUCH STUFF. Locations: 1607 Forrest Ave. 1108 Gartland Ave. 1206 Gartland Ave. 1207 Gartland Ave. 1306 Gartland Ave. Lockeland Baptist Church – 1601 Holly St. Click here for Rain and…

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    Dale Rogers

  • Why is hypertext blue?

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    A student asked the design question, “Why is hypertext blue?” I was able to speculate why as a designer I might have chosen the color blue over another; like red. Red indicates alarm where blue is less intimidating yet still provides a strong contrast with surrounding black text and a white background. However, I could…

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    Dale Rogers

  • The history of the internet

    The following video, The History of the Internet, an animated documentary by Melih Bilgil, was featured by Youtube.com on 1/27/2009. It is a great illustration of the beginnings of the TCP/IP protocol which is the underlying communications protocol that connects computers to the internet. The HTTP protocol, a communications protocol, runs on top of the…

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    Dale Rogers