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Archive for March, 2008

I Didn’t Invent the Internet, but I Predicted it

March 24th, 2008

Well I didn’t exactly predict it, but I uncovered a bunch of people who did. And they didn’t call it the Internet either. Back in 1983, I was working on my Master’s thesis, “Zapping: Toward a More Discretionary Television Audience.” Basically, I investigated the phenomenon of avoiding television commercials with the use of a remote [...]

Web Leftovers - 3/21/2008

March 21st, 2008

Take five minutes out of your Friday to visit some of the sites, blogs and videos we’ve been stumbling across in the past few weeks.

Renault Megane ‘Everything is Sport’ CommercialFrench vehicle manufacturer, Renault, shows us just how desirable their cars are. Even the moving parts will do whatever it takes to get in one.
TweenLite: AS3 [...]

Martino Flynn wins Best of Broadcast ADDY

March 18th, 2008

Last Friday night, Martino Flynn was honored with the Post Central Best of Broadcast ADDY at the 17th Annual ADDY Awards for our work with Dick’s Sporting Goods on a 30-second TV spot titled, “Waging Battle”. The spot kicked off the 2007 golf season for the nation’s largest sporting goods retailer and let avid golfers [...]

PHP Version 6.0 Coming This Year

March 10th, 2008

Three years have passed since the release of PHP 5, which was a monumental release by the PHP group because it offered improved support for object oriented programming. Now that PHP 5 is production ready and stable, PHP 4 will be discontinued sometime this year (rumor is July). If web hosts are not transitioning to [...]

Gonna Miss this Place

March 5th, 2008

I always figured I’d be a helluva retiree. Kind of have the temperament for it. Plenty of interests, but not a type-A personality. Don’t have to do something every second. As my wife will attest, I can make a five-minute Saturday task take a good hour and a half, whether or not by design.
So, [...]