July 2008
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Smoking Nurses in the Parking Lot
Where I work there is a healthcare company that occupies a floor of our office building. Within that company there has to be at least 40 nurses that come to work everyday in their scrubs. I am not exactly sure what they do, but it must be stressful because they smoke a lot.
From the looks of things, they need a smoke. Today it was 95 degrees out, not exactly “I think I will go out and enjoy...
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I Finally Got an iPhone
After refraining to cave into the hype that surrounded the original iPhone, I finally gave in and got one. As a pure programmer and technology junkie, I always stay away from first releases. Whether it is iPhone, Windows Vista or the next generation Blackberry, I always take a wait and see approach. After exercising that philosophy on the first generation iPhone, I sit here today with the 3G...
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American Television has Gone to Hell
In the past day I have seen commericals for three different new television shows that feature a nanny coming into homes with undisciplined children and saving the day.
These nannies are all caricatures of Mary Poppins or something. They all have British accents and as you can tell from the getup on the lady above, they have taken this stereotype to ridiculous levels. Anyone living in the UK...
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Internet Addiction & How We Combat It
As the chief architect for a social networking website that caters to recovering alcoholics and addicts, I understand the power of addiction pretty well. I see its effects everyday. Addiction can tear its way through the lives of those addicted and close relatives and friends. It is a disease that really doesn’t care who you are, where you live, what shape you’re in or what economic class...
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Social networking deviants
As many of you know, I am a co-founder of the social networking website SoberCircle.com. SoberCircle is a community that caters to recovering alcoholics and addicts, a population that general websites do a poor job in delivering a service that allows them to communicate comfortably about their recovery. This is where we come in.
Recently, an incident occurred on SoberCircle where another...
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Our little baby boy has a name…
On May 5th, Jessica and I found out that we would be having a baby boy. Leading up to this day, we had discussed various names but never came to any conclusions. Shortly after this, we began having serious discussions about names. I threw the name of my grandfather out there. His name is Reed Brown and my wife just adores him because of the similarities between him and her grandpa who passed...