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Emily Kai Bock is the filmmaker responsible for music videos for the likes of Arcade Fire, Grimes and Grizzly Bear, which explains why her eye is so well-trained at spotting the moments she captures in her photography, too. Shooting strangers in the street and yet capturing strangely warm and intimate portraits she seems to form immediate bonds with the people she spots on her travels, from a girl waiting in line to pay for her groceries to a glamorous but frustrated woman crossing the road. There's something transfixing about the vulnerable but unwavering eye contact her subjects fix on her, almost as though they are the only two people in the scene to recognise her existence. It's a rare talent, but it seems to come very naturally to Emily, and we can't help but feel grateful for it.
This weekend galleries, zines, publishing houses and rare book dealers are getting together at London's Whitechapel Gallery for the UK's biggest annual celebration of international art publishing, taking place concurrently with the New York Art Book Fair. Three solid days of events ensue, including book signings by Bridget Riley, Nadav Kander and Douglas Coupland (who is launching new publication everywhere is anywhere is anything is everything at the fair, too) and events such as Unbinding the Book challenge the tradition concept of publishing altogether.
If the pseudonym Synchrodogs calls to mind a troupe of people dressed in a trippy barrage of Cyberdog-influenced body suits sprawled across luscious green meadows, in front of waterfalls and crouching on cracked deserts, then you're on the right track. Tania Shcheglova and Roman Noven have been working under the moniker since 2010, and their unique brand of out-of-this-world fashion photography set in apocalyptic environments has earned them a reputation for making fascinating, if bizarre, imagery.
London-based brand Heresy presented its new collection this week in the guise of its Autumn Winter 2014 lookbook. Entitled Forming, the collection is a quiet amalgamation of illustration and traditional workwear, combining illustrated elements and hand-drawn type with carefully crafted structural staples made from loop-back jersey and felted wool.
Switzerland-based artist Pascale Keung makes delightfully diverse work which is inspired by her chosen country's stunning natural landscape as often as it is by wild fantasies. This series Muttsee is an example of the former, a collection of images about "a very special place in the Alps of Switzerland" where she goes to fish with her friends from time to time.
If you're concerned that your bookshelf is starting to look bit run-of-the-mill then allow us to present you with a new publication to blow the others out of the water. Eventually Everything Connects is a new publication by Loris Lora, published by Nobrow, illustrating the largely unknown but absolutely fascinating commonalities which joined many of the architects, designers, filmmakers and photographers working in southern California in the Modernist era.
John Tebbs is an English gardener who, frustrated by the fact that "many of his working days are held hostage to the weather" founded The Garden Edit in the winter of 2013. His idea was to spend his downtime as productively as possible, creating an online store of beautiful objects which he sourced and sold himself. The resulting curated collection reflects John's faultless aesthetic, selling "minimal, well-designed products from craftspeople, artists, publishing houses and family-run businesses" alongside a Journal which features short articles by some of his favourite figures about their own horticultural escapades, from rooftop gardens to illustrations of plants.
I'm all for embracing new modes of experiencing literature, but when choosing to read novels on an iPad or tablet requires that you select a dull digital alternative cover – one with a hunk of Helvetica slapped thoughtlessly over a low-res image, or similar – I can't help by find myself reaching for a paperback. Fortunately publishers like Frenchies Les Livres Mouvants are a step ahead of their game, commissioning beautiful books covers for their digital reads which will even out the playing field.
The Google robot is an odd creature. We have Marion Balac to thank for the discovery that, in a bid to maintain the anonymity of the people caught in its shots for Google Street View, the search engine blurs out every single face it comes into contact with. This includes the likes of Las Vegas' Sphinx monument and giant gold-covered Buddhas, resulting in a bunch of monuments who have been forced into anonymity by the tech giant's stringent privacy measures.
Ghent-based graphic designer Jelle Martens makes work which might be described as design with a heavy dollop of fine art added in. Working predominantly on record sleeve design since graduating two years ago, he has created projects for record labels Other People, Software and Unday Records among others, employing his unique mixture of colour, texture and manipulated imagery to create designs which are unlike anything I've ever seen before.
Women wear clothes. Men do too, actually, but they weren't the subject of this investigation into our relationships with the things we wear, started by Canadian writer Sheila Heti and brought to fruition with the help of artist Leanne Shapton and co-editor of The Believer Heidi Julavits. Between them, and with the help of 639 other women, they authored Women in Clothes, the satisfyingly chunky new tome which considers every aspect of the way women think about what they choose to put on their bodies, from tote bags and digital wristwatches to the wardrobes of their mothers and questions such as "do you ever wish you were a man?"
It's been a long old week kids, and like the Friday afternoon trip to the cornershop to buy a 20p pic 'n' mix we're here and ready to reward you for dragging yourselves through it with bucket loads of funny, cool and interesting stuff that we've uncovered this week. This way please!
The new issue of Printed Pages is fresh-ish off the press! For the Archive feature this issue we interviewed Teal Triggs, a writer, professor, educator and zine aficionado whose collection of printed matter rivals any we've seen. We were lucky enough to spend an afternoon excitedly exploring her collection of Riot Grrrl zines, which we photographer Samuel Bradley photograph en masse, so we thought it was only right that celebrate the launch of the magazine with a Riot Grrrl-themed playlist. It's by no means exhaustive, so feel free to add songs in directly, or to comment with your suggestions below!
For me, stumbling across Roger Minick's archive of photographs of sightseers at tourist destinations is akin to opening an old box in the attic and finding a heap of jewels stashed in it. The Sightseers Series began in 1976, when while teaching photography workshops in Yosemite National Park, Roger was distracted by the hordes of visitors posing for photographs in front of the views.
Illustrator Eleonora Marton's raw, bold aesthetic lends itself perfectly to large scale design, so we were happy to discover that rather than confining herself to witty, irony-soaked zines and sweet watercolour portraits, she's unleashed her talents on a huge series of A3 posters and smaller flyers too. Using recurring imagery in varying forms – legs, animals, furniture and toys all feature – she creates posters for upcoming events which tick all the boxes event posters should. They're eye-catching, interesting and incredibly informative, and what's more, she makes it look incredibly easy. Just trying spotting that record player wheat-pasted up on a street corner and not taking a step closer to find out what it was advertising.
This week marks the halfway point of Fashion Month, AKA the queen of all trade shows, with Spring Summer 2015 collections being shown in New York, London, Milan and Paris respectively from mid-September to mid-October. Exciting though it is, rummaging through the masses of fashion coverage the internet has to offer can sometimes feel like drowning in an ocean of show reports and final walks, so here's our rundown of the five best alternative places to see the best of the collections this season.
I don't think it'd be an exaggeration to claim that we were bowled over when Toni Halonen dropped a bunch of new work made in a radically different direction earlier on this year. What's more, being the dutiful deliverers of all things exciting in the art and design world it only seemed fair to let you know that he's made even more in the aforementioned bright, blocky aesthetic since then, and it's still top notch. Alongside commissions for Bloomberg Businessweek and Trendi Magazine Toni has also been working on a huge A-Z project for commissioning kings KENZO Defying the tried and tested solutions to such a brief, however, he's put together a series of offbeat and brilliantly weird images, from cuddly punks and stair-sets to a sideways wheelie in a red sports car. Toni, we're really into what you're doing. Can we be friends yet?
Lotta Nieminen is one of those graphic designers who is able to creating a lasting impression with her work in spite of it often being incredibly subtle in its approach. In my opinion this goes above and beyond her colour palettes, though they often combine pastel shades with serene muted tones; rather her projects seem to be finished with a kind of nuanced subtlety that resonates long after you first see it.
Imagine for a moment that the shoebox under your bed was filled not with photos of your Great Aunt June snoozing on the sofa last Christmas, but with photographs taken in space by astronauts on Apollo 14. For a lucky few at NASA this is (almost) true, and fortunately they're more than happy to share their treasures with us proles in the form of a new exhibition at London's BREESE Little Gallery.
If you've not yet heard of Jungles in Paris, allow me to introduce you to the best means of procrastination you'll come across all week. The brainchild of brothers Oliver and Darrell Hartman, Jungles in Paris is an online archive of travel documentaries and short films made by the pair to document "unfamiliar ways of living and extreme natural environments" the world over – from the swimming horses of Jamaica to Borneo's last remaining blowpipe experts. Their archive is a testament to beautiful and unintrusive documentary filmmaking, so we had a chat with the pair to find out what qualities they look for in music videos. The results are insightful and surprising!
A moment please to stop and admire the beautiful graduate collection of fashion designer Saskia Roberts, who designed a range entitled Potter, Painter, Poet inspired by ceramics, and the textures, colours, and patterns produced during the process. The result is a timeless palette of neutral creams, browns and terracottas interspersed with highlights of green and turquoise. She's artfully employed crumpled starchy cotton to build garments which maintain their form, standing away from the body in an apron-like fashion, decorated with prints which replicate the marbled texture of fabric imprinted with clay. Perhaps the most exciting element is the sparse employment of fingerprints to decorate hemlines, giving the looks a playful, tactile feel backed up with soft linens. As concepts go it could have fallen on its face, but this one works beautifully.
20 years ago in 1994, little known designer Eike König set up his "graphic design playground" Hort, creating a community in the centre of Berlin where creatives could collaborate on ideas and client briefs side by side. Nowadays, the playground is slightly bigger, undertaking work for Nike, The New York Times and Walt Disney among others, but the underlying emphasis on collaboration and experimentation remains exactly the same.
It's the little things that make a difference, as the expression goes, and the creative brains behind memobottle have taken this sentiment very much to heart. In a pledge to reduce the consumption of single-use plastic water bottles and to get rid of annoying clutter in your bag,they've invented memobottle, a drinks container the same size and shape as a notebook, or laptop.
Tokyo-based illustrator Hisashi Okawa is a veritable model of wide-eyed joy that we should all aspire to replicate. His charismatic illustration, rendered in painstakingly-applied felt tip and finished with his trademark Opie-esque dot eyes, is succinct and charming, securing him commissions from the likes of Bayerische Straatsballett, the Debrief, and Apartamento. Just see if you can scroll through his admirable portfolio without being drawn into the alternative universe he has constructed, full of artfully recreated street style shots, fantasy landscapes and sartorially sharp dogs.
Rachel Levit's understated illustration lends itself perfectly to ending the week; it's understated, oddly enamouring and full of the kind of humour which carefully treads the tightrope between sweet and sinister. The Brooklyn-based artist has perfected the simple line drawing, conjuring up figures with the vaguest impression of an outline. Don't let that fool you into thinking it's all she can do though; she's just as happy creating fully fledged editorial illustration for The New Yorker website, communicating obscure and complicated ideas through the careful placement of an object or a witty observation.
It's one thing to bring up the issue of the gender gap in the technology industry in casual conversation, but it's quite another to do anything about it. Andy Gonzales and Sophie Houser are high school students in NYC who met at a summer camp called Girls Who Code, and decided to use their opportunity there for the greater good, generating discussion around the taboo subject of periods and the distinct lack of women in the tech industries, and learning to code at the same time.
GIFs are usually reserved for that corner of the internet preoccupied with getting a quick laugh out of an easy audience (us included) so it's surprisingly poignant to see the popular form employed not to show how funny a dog walking on its hind legs can be but to express a more powerful idea. This is exactly what Sofia Niazi has done with her new project Women of WOT. She wanted to utilise the medium to tell the unheard stories of the women forgotten by the War on Terror, but soon found that her project took a unexpected turn.
There's not an amateur photographer alive who hasn't got a roll of film back from the developing booth of their local supermarket to find that almost every picture is clouded over by a giant fleshy finger. Usually it obstructs most if not all of the image and sends the photograph itself catapulting straight into the nearest bin in a fit of frustration.
With 25 years experience in magazine design, not to mention eight years of covering the extensive subject under the title magCulture, it's a wonder we haven't already metaphorically burst into Jeremy Leslie's house and insisted he share his five favourite examples of printed matter right then and there. Instead, we caught him in the build up to The Modern Magazine 2014, the conference which takes place annually in the midst of London Design Festival to shine a torch on the current state of editorial creativity, as well as new directions for the industry.
A year on since we first covered George Osodi's work on the site he continues to astound us. The Lagos-based photographer produces some of the most incredible photojournalism I've ever seen; this series Nigeria Monarchs: The Custodians of Peace and Cultural Heritage documents the figures across Nigeria who, in spite of having no constitutional rule since the monarchy was officially abolished in 1963, remain key personalities in the country's political landscape. The travelling exhibition had a stint in London last year and is about to open in Budapest, Hungary, serving as further proof (if any was needed) of the curiosity which exists worldwide about these majestic and exotic figures. What's more George hopes to photograph 100 of the monarchs, so the collection is not due to stop growing any time soon.
Creating a visual identity to capture an aural experience seems like a near impossible task, let alone when the music is as lustrous and strange as Amy Kohn's, but Non-Format have succeeded gracefully with their work for her new album PlexiLusso. The USA and Oslo-based team manipulated original photography by Merri Cyr to recreate the ethereal quality of her music, conjuring up a glass-like aesthetic with a hint of abstract surrealism in the form of floating boulders and rippling waves. Don't be fooled into thinking this is all conceptual nonsense though; they've also made an original typeface to mimic the sonorous melodies, using disconnected arcs which resemble the notation of quavers and clefs laid out on the stave, as in sheet music. It's an oddly alluring combination which creates an impression of Amy's music before you've even pressed play.
If you're finding that your Monday is lacking in mystery (don't they always?) allow me to introduce you to Nicholas Stevenson, an illustrator who practically daubs it onto his pages as he draws. Preferred subjects include long-armed humans, giant beasts, secret trapdoors and food fights, all of which are endowed with an equal measure of fantasy the likes of which doesn't often exist beyond the pages of children's books and the odd Wicca community.
If she'd been drawing back when I was consuming children's books so fast that my parents ran out of printed matter and had to give me an Argos catalogue instead, one of Mari Kanstad Johnsen's numerous children's books would undoubtedly have been in my top ten. In fact, she might still be on that esteemed list given that my chosen career path allows me to spend an inordinate amount of time flicking through books intended for kids. It doesn't even matter that I don't speak Swedish.
I'm loth to comment on summer's swift disappearance or the vague possibility that it might get warm again in the coming weeks, but how can I miss the opportunity which this series by Anaïs Boileau has so generously handed me? This brilliant photo-series examines the women who live for a tan, happily sunning themselves with foil trays pressed to their chins and eye-protectors plastered to their sockets. There's something gently teasing and kind of funny but also really well-constructed about her images – the props make for a natural frame so you're confronted with a very immediate manifestation of our society's obsession with bronzed skin, which seems more ridiculous the longer you think about it.
Latvia is one of the gems in the European crown when it comes to design communities, as Zigmunds Lapsa explained when he popped in last week. Though the community there is tiny (in accordance with the equally small population) small publishing houses there are often happy to let book designers have free rein, which tends to result in some really nice publications.
Family life can be strange, unsettling and oppressive as well as happy, funny and ridiculous, and it's this sometimes-sinister underside of the domestic sphere photographer Joanna Piotrowska seeks to elevate with her series FROWST. Her black and white images capture ambivalence and double meaning in the family home; brothers and sisters lie awkwardly across one another and pull at each other's bodies in strangely stagnant compositions, while oddly familiar environments are imbued with a quiet strangeness that's not entirely new.
To say the last year or so has been tricky for Matilda Tristram would be a bit of an understatement; the comics artist, animator and illustrator was pregnant with her first baby when she was diagnosed with cancer, and what followed was terrifying, strange and at times funny too. Matilda recorded the nine months from gruelling start to the relief-inducing finish (at the risk of ruining the ending, she's well! She has a lovely baby! He's well too!) and now the whole shebang has been made into a beautiful book called Probably Nothing, published by Penguin.
Danielle Pender is the brain at the helm of Riposte magazine, one of the most exciting new publications created to champion the women doing exciting work in the creative industries today, as well as working at KK Outlet, the London outpost of communications agency KesselsKramer, so can you blame us for wanting to have a poke about her bookshelf? Her selection gives a generous insight into the process behind putting together a magazine, from the issue of National Geographic which led her and Riposte's creative director Shaz Madani to consider a text-based front cover for the magazine ("I'm really happy we had the balls to go with it") and the all-time hero she dreams of interviewing, with a few other gems thrown in for good measure. She technically stretched her five books to seven, but we let her off because they're all so damn interesting.
Co-founders of Dastoli Digital Robert and James were huge fans of Star Wars in the late 1990s, recreating hundreds of images from comics, books and game graphics on Microsoft Paintbrush using the Windows 3.1 operating system. In the run-up to the release of Star Wars Episode VII which will come out on 18 December 2015 they're releasing an image a day from this seemingly bottomless archive, giving fellow fans a glimpse of their fantastic attention to detail and brilliantly retro colour palette.


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After reviewing the data and player feedback, we remain concerned that on-demand burst damage remains too high in PvP. After investigation, we determined that the on-use PvP trinkets are a major contributor to extremely high burst output. As a consequence, in the near future we will be applying hotfixes to smooth out the damage provided by these PvP trinkets. In the case of the Gladiator's Badges this means cutting the amount of primary stat or PvP Power provided, but also cutting their cooldown in half. For the Kor'kron and SI:7 manuals, the cooldown of those trinkets will remain unchanged, but the amount of stats provided will be reduced and the duration of the buff will be increased. The overall damage provided by these trinkets should not be affected; only the burst they are capable of providing.
For example: The Dreadful Gladiator's Badge of Victory will shortly provide 2553 Strength once every minute, instead of 5105 Strength every 2 minutes. Please note that due to limitations in hotfix technology, the item tooltips and buffs will still incorrectly display the original stat value of 5105.
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"We will brainstorm about what participants want," said Jim DeStefano, organizer of XMVSkate.
Current goals include raising about $500,000 to refurbish or rebuild the park.
"We want to build the likability for users so it will become self-policing," Destefano said.
A fully enclosed facility may be beyond the anticipated budget, but organizers say they lean toward a pole-roof sort of covering that will allow use of the park through much of the year while making sure the activities are in public view.
Destefano suggests replacing or altering the Regis Lemire Community Center, either with a new structure that allows a better view of the skate park, or by removing part of the complex used for storage.
"I've brought my kids there a number of times and have never seen problems, I've never seen the kids disrespect the park," he said.
The two firms represented at today's sessions are experienced with developing, designing and constructing skate parks in cities across the country. Designers will discuss with city engineers whether the existing park can handle an upgrade or whether years of deferred maintenance means the reconstruction needs to be more extensive.
"I think if it was a good skate park, kids would still use it," Destefano said.
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Yoga guru Baba Ramdev has been given Z class security by the BJP-led NDA government, as per reports on Monday.
Pledging to take the 'Swachhta Abhiyan' to more than 600 districts across the country, Yoga guru Baba Ramdev participated in a massive cleanliness drive here on Thursday.
Yoga enthusiasts in China paid rich tributes to world-renowned Yoga Guru B K S Iyengar who passed away in a Pune hospital early today.
Yoga guru Baba Ramdev held a meeting with the new Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu in Hyderabad and said that Andhra would be world famous in yoga.
Punjab Police here Monday booked yoga guru Ramdev for hurting religious sentiments of Sikhs.
BSP Hoshiarpur Lok Sabha candidate Bhagwan Singh Chohan has a placed a bounty of Rs 1 crore on yoga guru Baba Ramdev`s head for his alleged "anti-Dalit" remarks.
Questioning the "silence" of Narendra Modi over Ramdev`s controversial remarks against Rahul Gandhi, Congress on Wednesday wondered whether the BJP PM candidate was justifying the insult of dalits.
Hearing in the complaint case against yoga guru Baba Ramdev for his uncharitable remarks on Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi pertaining to dalits was on Tuesday put off for May 7.
Congressmen from Navi Mumbai on Wednesday burnt an effigy of yoga guru Baba Ramdev and demanded his arrest for his alleged derogatory remarks targeting Rahul Gandhi.
In the line of fire for his comments allegedly denigrating the Dalit community, Baba Ramdev released a set of photos on the social networking sites, claiming that he had respect for them.
Yoga guru Baba Ramdev, who is openly supporting the BJP in the 2014 Lok Sabha polls, may soon be arrested after he was booked under the stringent SC/ST Act for his remarks that Congress leader Rahul Gandhi goes to Dalit homes for "picnic and honeymoon".
Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee on Saturday demanded arrest of the yoga guru Baba Ramdev for his alleged remarks against the Dalit community and Rahul Gandhi.
Yoga Guru Baba Ramdev once again came out in support of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ahead of 2014 General Elections, saying that Narendra Modi wave is prevalent in the country.
A known supporter of Gujarat Chief Minister, Yoga Guru, Baba Ramdev, said on Wednesday that he would extend issue-based support to Narendra Modi.
Yoga guru Baba Ramdev has described Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi as immature and unintelligent.
Baba Ramdev said that he would urge all his followers to vote for Narendra Modi, so that the BJP can get 300 seats.
Congress on Monday launched a scathing attack on yoga guru Ramdev over his alleged remarks against Jawaharlal Nehru and asked the BJP whether it endorses them.
Yoga guru Baba Ramdev will be addressing a rally in the national capital on Sunday and has invited Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi to share the dais with him.
Ex-contestant of reality TV show Bigg Boss, Vivek Mishra, who is also friends with Armaan Kohli, has revealed some very interesting facts about Armaan`s nature to a leading daily.
With 81 cases of alleged gross violation of land laws registered against Ramdev`s Patanjali Yogpeeth Trust, main opposition BJP in Uttarakhand has termed it as a "conspiratorial move" by the state government at the behest of the Centre.
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Matthew Walker, who received his master's degree in applied behavioral science from Bastyr University in Seattle, Washington, has worked as an outdoor educator and mountain guide for the past two decades. Through his company, Inner Passage, Matt's mission is to teach and facilitate leadership development to individuals and organizations via outdoor adventure, and help people reconnect with their professional and personal potential.
Matt has led expeditions throughout all reaches of the globe; and divides his time between climbing, family, and work—seeking adventure in all. He lives with his wife, daughter, and their canine climbing partner in Tucson, Arizona.
This looked an interesting read for someone who likes the outdoors & has a spirit of adventure.
A practical guide on life & how to meet your challenges, accept where you are... Read more
The book has been really useful in working through a process of reviewing what I'm wanting to achieve with my life.Published 20 months ago by Tony Pietersen
Matt's Five Elements of Adventure create a framework for finding adventure in everything you do. It also helps you focus on what is important in life.Published 23 months ago by James A Bradley
This book is exactly what I have been looking for. As someone who was much more adventurous before settling down to start a family, I found Matt Walker's advice inspiring and... Read morePublished on October 4, 2011 by Whittier
I thoroughly enjoyed reading Adventure in Everything by Matt Walker. Often books that claim to help you improve your life just provide you with cute stories and 'how it should be'... Read morePublished on September 15, 2011 by GMac
Adventure in Everything has a lot to offer anyone who is looking to make the next big step in their life... even if they don't know what that is yet. Read morePublished on September 5, 2011 by Canuck_N7
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The story of our people
Publication Date : 02-09-2012
It becomes clearer by each new visit, of which I have had quarterly for almost five years, that Filipinos in America continue to carry the flame in their heart for their motherland. The most intense evidence of this is their active attachment to family, resulting in approximately US$8 billion of annual remittances.
I was informed that on Dec 24, 2010, Western Union and PNB recorded 1 million transactions of Filipinos in America remitting to their families in the Philippines. Although I have never been able to verify the exactness of the claimed number of transactions, the message is clear – the bonds of families are strong. And through these bonds, Filipinos and the Philippines retain their intimacy.
The challenge that faces Filipinos as one people is the conditioned divisiveness inculcated into our culture as our conquerors' favourite method of keeping us in relative weakness and preventing unified resistance. The divide-and-rule method is an art that conquering nations traditionally apply in order to pacify subjects who greatly outnumber them. Filipinos, after four centuries under Spain, America and Japan simply and most effectively became afflicted with this conditioning – and assimilated enough of it into the culture.
The physical separation of Filipinos who have migrated to America, and their taking up American citizenship, aggravates that division or gap. But the family orientation of Filipinos struggle against the odds and, so far, has remained intact. What faces their children and grandchildren is another thing. The new generations have little or no direct connection with the Philippines. Worse, the passing of history via story-telling is a fading habit and new generations of Fil-Americans know so little about the Philippines, even and especially its geography. The younger generations may hear from their parents that they come from this or that town but have no idea where these are in the map of the Philippines.
This trip, I have been to New York, New Jersey, North Carolina, Virginia, Washington DC and Tampa. Everywhere, I meet with Filipinos as part of my desire to truly understand the lifestyles, dreams and fears of our people in America. I do this because I, too, have dreams of a people united in heart and mind, in culture and evolution, and, together, in building a motherland of pride and honour. I know the immigrant generations have not forgotten, even if some memories are not all that pleasant. But their children and grandchildren have little or no direct knowledge anymore, and the old practice of storytelling is a fading habit.
It is the story of our people that has to be told – both at home and everywhere where Filipinos are. The challenge of developing that story is a major one as most Filipinos have only a faint idea of what that is. What were we before Spain, America and Japan? What happened to us when our lives were severely disrupted by foreign masters who forced us to adapt to their ways and sacrifice ours? How did we adapt, what did we give up, what did we end up to be? This story has to be told because we have to know why poverty is massive in a most abundant land, why our people are squatters by the tens of millions and why so many are hungry.
We have to know not only why the vast majority became poor and why the wealth or patrimony of our country fell into the hands of the few. We have to know why those who have more than others, including those who managed to pull themselves out of poverty, can comfortably tolerate the suffering and hunger of those left behind. If we cannot begin the journey towards accepting our being one people, then no nation can be built except one full of shame and only waiting to fall from infighting.
We cannot go on being a people cursed with the shame of a family so torn apart by the heart that we cannot care for one another. We cannot go on having millions enjoy and many millions more in constant deprivation, pain and fear. We cannot carry the same family name yet are completely unconcerned with the fate of fellow Filipinos. That way prepares us for the fall – and the scorn of the world of nations.
In the United States, Filipinos can become a potent force of change for the whole Filipino race because they have become the models of success. The success is not one of a million but grassroots more than selective. Filipino-American families have managed to succeed so much so that their incomes may be higher than mainstream Americans.
The influence, maybe more than their resources, of Fil-Ams can sway many times their numbers in the Philippines. They will be listened to, even followed to some extent. Should that influence be used for the collective good, the journey out of poverty and towards honour and progress will have found a powerful ally.
It is our history and story as a people that gives life to the common blood flowing in our veins. We must strive to know these as I hope those who know the fuller versions strive even harder to share them. Especially for the millions left behind so far that they have no way to reach us, only we can turn around, reach out, and take them with us. Then, the story of our people can move on to a new page, to a future full of hope.
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Two new talks I gave recently. The first was as a guest speaker at an AWS 101 conference:
And the second one was one of my better talks on how to use some freely available tools for quick startup validation:
Two new talks I gave recently. The first was as a guest speaker at an AWS 101 conference:
And the second one was one of my better talks on how to use some freely available tools for quick startup validation:
This is a talk that I gave at an event organised by the Department of Technical Education in Thiruvananthapuram a couple of days ago. The audience was campus placement officers, and it was interesting talking to them about campus hiring & letting them know the startup viewpoint.
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A startup job interview isn't too different from that of a bigger company, so a lot of the tips you'll find around the Internet apply without reservations. Startups however have a different culture, and focus on the combo of individual productivity and team fit a lot more than on processes and guidelines. Here's a few pointers I've noted in candidates who have aced interviews at MobME:
Be comfortably dressed & not too formal. Inspired by the Google formula of "You don't have to wear a suit to be serious", most startups dress down. Wear a comfortable shirt, and perhaps put on some pants or a dress skirt, but even a jeans and T-Shirt is A-OK. This is not a license to come unwashed, unkempt or in mini-skirts though: most great startups ask their employees to look smart.
Open the conversation with smiles, be affable and open in your responses. Most good startups have a Don't be an Asshole policy & tools to detect this early and often. When working in a close-knit team, it's better to be around positive people who contribute than around energy drainers. Note that when I explain this to some people, they take it as an insult & a bias against introverts. Introverts are some of the best people on earth (and some of the greatest programmers), but you can be quiet and unassuming, and yet pleasant and positive.
Be confident. A better word would be assertive. Talk in short, brisk sentences. Communicate precisely. Try not to uhm and aah instead think a bit before speaking. Ask for clarifications when you don't understand the question. When you don't know stuff, just say that you don't. Don't ramble & distract the attention of the questioner away into areas that you have expertise in. If you have confidence in your skills, that really comes across, and it's the biggest "gut factor" when I hire folks.
Brush up on what they seem to be looking for. This is a no-brainer, but most often even when you are good, you don't get hired because it's been a long while since you worked with the stack. It's okay to explain that you'll need a few weeks on the job to get up-to-speed, but it's better to brush up before going in. Most startups hire immediately and don't have scheduled yearly hiring rounds.
Stress that you are a generalist. Ideally, you should be. Startups value specialists when they are consultants. When you're on the team, you are expected to pitch in everywhere required. A small team that follows an Agile development model like SCRUM always will have slack for non-core contributors to pitch in. Show them a broad spectrum of expertise.
Show them code that you've written. For a programming interview, this is a must. Ideally you have some uploaded to GitHub already. If not, start contributing to open source today. It isn't as hard as you think and there are events dedicated to lesser-represented groups.
Understand the question before answering. This is such a common problem that I've put it in a separate bullet point. Wait for the interviewer to complete the question before starting up. When needed, ask for clarifications, and make sure you understand the question properly. Don't shoot from the hip.
Don't appear too eager to get the job. Be interested and earnest but don't compromise too much for e.g if you have a target salary.
Show an interest in their business. This is last, but this is perhaps the most overlooked and most important bit. Ask them questions about how the company is run, what the team size will be, ask if you can meet the team, et. al. Remember that an interview always goes both ways. At MobME, we've asked a few people who were interested but didn't seem qualified enough to apply for an internship.
This was adapted from a mail I sent to a past colleague who is looking for a new job. Pitch in below if you have more tips!
I picked up my reading habit from my mum. I read everything from Sheldon, Christie, King and the like to Yeats, Whitman, Neruda, Donne, Dickens, et. al. It sure helped that mum had a huge library of her favourites (yes, that's the picture above) and I read most of them twice over before I left school.
It was also in school that I started to write myself. When you're an amateur author at that age, you really like having somebody read your work. These other people more often that not turn out to be amateur authors themselves, and then of course there's a quid pro quo. That's how I started started to read unpublished writing, and while over the years I've lost the muse, I still read a ton.
When I say this to other readers, they often look at me mystified. Amateur writing, seriously? Is that like fan fiction? Where do I get to read them? Don't most of them require a spell check & a good editor? To the last: well, yes. But amateur writing is in an electronic format, and that brings about with it some unusual advantages. Let's banish the negatives from our mind, and take a look at the upside:
Having said that, the proof of the pudding is in the reading: these are five good stories written by unpublished authors that I've read over the years:
Delenda Est: a Harry Potter and Bellatrix Lestrange (!?) alternate timeline story, an incredible pairing that somehow Lord Silvere manages to turn into an amazing story. Lots of plucky Bella here. This could have the Bella all of you panted over.
The Book: a mind control story: what happens when a middle-aged guy picks up a book that has symbols in it that gives him the power to control other people's minds? Blackie weaves a tale that has the usual vagaries that come with mind-control, but also a surprisingly intelligent & coherent story behind it.
The Adventures of Me and Martha Jane: probably one of the books that has influenced me the most with its ideas of love, longing and blurred relationships, SJR's Martha will stay with me forever. Forget the warnings on the page and dig through the story, worth it.
HPMOR: who says Harry Potter has to be irrational? LONG, good Harry Potter fan-fiction.
Sennadar: this should have been published. It's as good, or if not better than a lot of what goes for fantasy now. A classic coming-of-age fantasy novel, but with a were-cat twist.
And that's just the tip of the iceberg. I'm both excited & worried about the future of amateur writing. Excited, because efforts such as Amazon's Kindle platform have provided a level playing field for a lot of budding writers out there. And worried because while the platform is egalitarian, it's also commercial, which means a ton of potential authors will write stories in genres that are more popular & more acceptable. Amateur fiction until now has never been about making money, it's about an author slogging away at a computer somewhere writing something that just needs to be written. But maybe that's just the old-man in me speaking. There has never been such a time where there's been such a low distinction between a "published" author and an amateur one. That, in my books, can only be a good thing.
A big loss as a movie enthusiast was that when I was growing up, the Malayalam movie industry was in a formulaic rut. While local movies still used to bag critical awards, most "popular" & "commercial" films casted Mammooty, Mohanlal (please don't click that link) or other A-list stars and had the usual Dhamaka Dishoom fare. The movie revolved around the actor, who always had labels that were prefixed with Super, Mega, Ultra & so on, and the films resembled caricatures of superhero movies.
It's only much later & very recently, when Uma & her friends introduced me to an older generation of movies that I… simply lost my breath. Padmarajan & his colleagues' movies were stunning in its breath & simplicity and casted real people who portrayed everyday situations but in a fashion that elevated the craft to art. These movies didn't shy away from controversial topics: pre-marital sex, rape (not the dastardly erotic treatment of it that came later, but a serious examination), family trouble, relationships that didn't have labels, what not. Even if you don't understand Malayalam, I urge you if you are a movie enthusiast to watch subtitled versions of some of Padmarajan's classics: perhaps Thoovanathumbikal (Dragonflies in the Rain), or Namukku Parkkan Munthiri Thoppukal (Vineyards for Us to Live). And this in the 80s! What happened to Malayalam cinema in the 90s, in contrast, can only be described by one word: tragedy.
What I see now, perhaps starting 2010, is a revival. Talented new directors have emerged who have broken the deadlock an older generation of actors had on the industry. Perhaps, more importantly, there have been several good movies, and dare I say, a few great ones. These directors are courageous as well, and have tackled contemporary topics head on: 22FK was the first movie that I saw in a Kerala theatre where a female lead received a standing ovation (regardless of its contentious conclusion, the movie can't be faulted for not having courage); other movies such as Manjadikuru & Philips and the Monkey Pen give a serious treatment to a previously unexplored genre.
I'm cautiously optimistic about this "new wave" of Malayalam cinema, more so because unlike Padmarajan and his coterie, there seems to be a broader cross-section of directors, producers and artists this time around:
Instead of more reviews & critiques, let me leave you with a list of movies you can watch yourselves & decide. Here's to a great future for Mallu cinema!
Download plain text Wikipedia links to these movies here.
[For people in Hindi-land who are reading this and becoming bewildered, yes, there's a better movie industry outside Bollywood, and no, for a lot of us Indian cinema doesn't revolve around SRKs, ABs, PCs and their tribe. This is your opportunity to upgrade to a better experience, take it!]
Yesterday at WWDC, Apple unveiled a mission statement that reads more like a poem. There's a wonderful video as well, but just look at these words:
If everyone is busy making everything
how can anyone perfect anything?
we start to confuse convenience with joy
abundance with choice.
designing something requires
the first thing we ask is
what do we want people to feel?
then we begin to craft around our intention
it takes time…
there are a thousand no's
for every yes.
we simplify
we perfect
we start over.
until every thing we touch
enhances each life it touches
only then do we sign our work:
Designed by Apple in California.
It's a wonderful & sincere expression of why we need Apple to exist. And why I love this company so much. I'm beginning to think that the Apple under Jony Ive & Tim Cook might become far better than under Jobs.
Apple has FaceTime, and it has been very successful in introducing simple video calling to a ton of Apple users. That success—as Apple's usually are—can be attributed to clear directed marketing and unparalleled ease of use. If the person on the other end of the line has an Apple device too, the only thing you need to do is press a FaceTime button and then seconds later, be talking to them via a video call.
I know a friend of mine who was super surprised when he pressed the button and it worked first time. He expected more of a setup process, perhaps creating an account or entering user credentials. Or heck, maybe being taken through a wizard. It's the same user flow with their SMS counterpart—iMessage: you text a person and if the other end is an Apple device, the text is delivered via the iMessage IP network. It's not just Apple who is doing this of course: a classic example is iMessage's cross-platform and much more successful rival: Whatsapp. If you have anybody's mobile number and if they have Whatsapp installed, you can text them. Works amazingly well!
So with FaceTime, Apple has video over IP. With iMessage, they have a simple texting solution over IP. What if Apple makes a dead-simple, works over the same mobile number, voice calling service?
First off: some historic background:
In short, in a span of less than six years, Apple has steadily worked to decrease the control carriers had over mobile phone user experience. It has reduced the importance of core apps (text messaging), and provided a better experience for premium apps (video calling, mobile internet, apps, et. al.). What if the next milestone is to do to voice what it did to video and texting?
Let's explore another tangent. Why is Apple best placed to do this first? Android for example looks on the surface like a much better candidate. Android is an open environment and there are tons of apps that provide deep hooks into the platform to provide free (or close to free) Voice over IP. Tango is a great example of such an app. There are several reasons:
What is the bare minimum experience that Apple needs to provide to make VoiceTime a success?
The third is the most technically intractable problem. But like every open problem, somebody more intelligent has probably thought of solutions. In this case, IEEE 802.21, specifically describes this problem. And several workable solutions.
Why hasn't anybody done this yet? Simply because mobile operators don't want to lose the last bastion of money making they have. In India, despite have the lowest call rates in the world, voice calls contribute the most to subscriber ARPU. Nobody is looking for a blue ocean strategy when their existing business is doing just fine, thank you!
But why do you, as a subscriber want VoiceTime or an equivalent solution? There are so many reasons:
Would you be willing to pay Apple for such a technology? Let's say Apple charged something like $10 a year for VoiceTime & let carriers have 70% of it (Voice is just another app of course), would you pay?
Literate Coffeescript is sweet. It's a great implementation of something that I've always thought is fundamental to good programming: we write code for ourselves and other humans, not for a computer. We're no longer dealing with slow-as-molasses computers that demand efficiency, but we have a lot of additional complexity to handle, a ton of language feature creep, concurrency nightmares and multiple service architectures. By making explanation the fundamental purpose of a programming language and giving it first-class status—and equally important—running indented code seemingly as an afterthought, Literate Coffeescript gives importance where it's due. Think before you code, write down what your intent is. And make programming seem a lot more like crystal clear writing.
I think it's popular now to criticise Apple, and particularly Macs, but there's one simple reason that I switched to Macs and have been using them ever since:
I was tired of spending time on my computer working on my operating system instead of working on my projects.
Do read: 25 Years to Mac – How Ubuntu Pushed Me Away from the PC. I do go back to Ubuntu every now and then in Virtual Machines, but it doesn't come close. And Windows is not *nix, so that's never an option.
I think what Google should have done was build their own version of Linux, just like they built Android inspired from iOS. I bet lots and lots of folks would have paid money for a stable, usable, friendly & Googley Linux. And stuff like their Pixel laptop could've done more than just run a browser.
There's always a tradeoff between time, money and quality in software development. More often that not nowadays, product managers are asked to deliver excellent products on a tight schedule and on a budget. Agile processes and the trendy idea of the minimum viable product only confuse things further because they seem to prioritise quick iterative development and a tight rein on features. How does one build a good product on time and keeping startup thriftiness in mind? I have six clear steps for you to follow:
One: Before building anything, dig to the roots and find product goals. Ask your client (or yourself) "Why do you need this product built?". Answers like "We need to run a twitter campaign" or "We want a CRM for our sales team" are not clear enough. "We need to run a twitter campaign to promote our new startup" & "We need a CRM that tracks and updates senior managers about daily sales" are better answers, but ideally what you'll dig for and get is the true reason behind the product's existence. For the twitter campaign, it could be "reaching out to potential customers who are likely to purchase our startup's product". For the CRM, it could be "improving sales performance and making our sales team more accountable". You are digging for goals—the why—not features—the what—that comes later, and that's less important.
Two: Minimum viable product is a great idea. But when choosing what to whet down, keep the goals in mind. I have little patience for managers who come back and tell me, "But isn't this what we decided to build?". If you can't deliver what your clients need, then you aren't doing a good job. Keep product goals in mind, and prioritise features that will provide the most bang for the buck. Only then will Agile and MVP work well for you.
Three: Find great developers. What's more important than your process are people. Great developers can manage themselves, figure out their own deadlines and do a lot more than a mediocre developer. Give them great tools too: a good working space, the editor that they want, and their operating system of choice. It's also much better when you have a good team to split work into spheres of responsibility rather than into discrete chunks where many developers work on the same piece of code. Adopt practices like pair programming & SCRUM and promote discussion within the group. If at all possible, guide every discussion to a consensus and make sure every developer is aware of potential tradeoffs.
Four: Try as much as possible to not build engineering debt. This is easier said than done, but few rules go a long way: adopt a good source control system and practices, a development, staging and production deployment for every product, a continuous integration and deployment server, and have a system in place to code-review every commit before it gets merged back into the main tree. Make your developers police each other.
Five: Have an independent team to do security audits & quality assurance. This is a "manual testing" team, and while they might use several different tools, their mandate is to make sure the product has the features necessary, doesn't have bugs, and is secure from a security standpoint. This team can be external to the company as well, but it needs to build a good rapport with the engineering division so that they don't work at odds.
Six: Have regular deployments or sprints. Nothing focuses a developer more than a predictable schedule of deployment. Divide chunks of work into sprints and have staging deployments between them. Make sure that developers are responsible for successful deployments and pour woe to the person who breaks the build.
Well, those are the rules. Sticking to them is hard, and at times impossible, but my experience is that any deviation has always resulted in a loss of quality. While that might be acceptable in the short-term, in the long-term, it always comes to bite you on your ass. However, being a product manager is one of the best jobs out there! Figuring out the nitty gritty details of product construction, overcoming obstacles, finding consensus within the team and outside, and finally, building a product that meets the requirement is a very rewarding job. I've done a few stints here at MobME building good products and I've loved every challenge.
Update: I've started a Github repo that has completed assignments.
I've mentioned this before countless times to friends: the Stanford course on iOS Development is really mind-blowing. It's the best way to learn iOS and Objective-C: Paul Hegarty is a wonderful teacher, the content & density of the slides is excellent and the complex Cocoa Touch framework and the Xcode 4 development environment is brought out very well through hands-on coding sessions.
Just to take one example, take a look at this slide above detailing MVC in iOS. I can point out dozens of developers who wouldn't have this condensed understanding even after months with the ecosystem. In this small slide, you have:
And this is just one slide in the introductory lecture. It's a wonderful time to be a self-taught app developer. The Stanford course is right now ongoing and lectures are being updated on iTunes U. There's a Piazza discussion forum as well for the course.
So I recently got a bunch of calls from an NGO calling itself Relief India Trust. The calls themselves were a bit odd and over zealous with the volunteers flinging themselves at me and describing the plight of children in gory detail, but it was the frequency of the calls that first gave me a clue that something wasn't right. Then, when I finally decide to put in some money, there's a volunteer who calls me up, takes me through the donation process and then offers to stay on line until I give her a Transaction ID for the bank transfer.
I did up a Google search and found tons of consumer complaints about the organisation. And if you notice their NGO registration number in the link above, it's just a plain four digit number: 3696. The Indian Government has an NGO search site where you can search for voluntary organisations by name or their unique registration ID. 3696 doesn't turn up Relief India Trust. Neither does a search for their name. These are a bunch of scam artists.
Real NGOs probably needn't be this aggressive. I donate every year to SOS Children's Village India, which has been my charity of choice since forever. They have a unique take on bringing up disadvantaged children, a personal dialogue (if you wish it) between your kid and you, and I've visited their centre in Kerala too.
Update: I've receive a legal notice from Relief India Trust. Further developments in a new blog post: Relief India Trust, the Scam NGO, Files a Legal Notice Against my Blog Post for Defamation
Silver Linings Playbook is a really good movie. I'm a complete sucker for good romantic flicks, so this was no surprise, but the story around two psychotic folks finding each other was well done. It could've been better slightly, a little bit more edgier perhaps, but it's still really good. And oh, Jennifer Lawrence is hawt!
So it needn't be said that IRCTC is sluggish at the best of times and at the worst, darn unusable. Is it because of astronomical load? Bandwidth issues? Technology mismanagement? Resource exhaustion? Let's take a look and try to guess.
This news article from July 2012 mentions that IRCTC did 4.47 lakh bookings in a day. Doubling that figure to get current estimates makes it 10 lakh bookings a day. To get the number of folks accessing the site trying to reserve tickets, let's multiply that figure 10x. That makes it 100 lakh folks (i.e. 10 million) as a guesstimate who will try to reserve tickets using IRCTC in just a single day.
The first question to ask is are those many tickets available? The answer is an emphatic no. The Centre for Railway Information Systems that develop CONCERT, the backend engine behind web bookings only does around 2.2 million reservations a day. So there's no way IRCTC can satisfy 10 million users. We don't have that many seats to reserve.
The second: is 10 million visits a huge number? This is a tough question to answer because it depends quite a bit on what those folks are doing. On most days, the IRCTC website homepage is accessible and loads up reasonably quick, but when you try to login, search or book, it falls down flat. So most likely bandwidth exhaustion is not the root cause, because 10 million visits is just about 11 visits a second. That shouldn't translate to a lot of bandwidth. Besides, even 100Mbps+ pipes are cost-effective for an organisation the size of IRCTC.
My theory is that the problem likely is the CONCERT backend. That's not built to handle this kind of a consistent load, especially at peak Tatkal hours when traffic per second could be much more than what I've estimated above. And CONCERT was probably never built with online reservation in mind; it was built for a world where people queued up physically, talked to a railway official and booked tickets. And neither CRIS nor the Railways would want an immediate revamp. So what can IRCTC do about it?
There is a very simple solution: decouple the user experience from the backend booking system. I'll explain what I mean in screenshots:
Step 1: User goes to IRCTC website, logs in and is taken to a page that has a queue number and an approximate wait time on it. This queue number is the position in the queue and is alloted on a first-come first-serve basis and resembles a physical queue where folks wait to book tickets via CONCERT. The page auto-refreshes and updates this information periodically.
Step 2: When the user reaches the front of the queue, he's taken to the search & booking page. IRCTC perhaps takes up around 500 customers in a minute this way (or however much CONCERT can reliably handle) & booking proceeds as usual.
As I see it, if there's no way to work around limitations of older software, the only thing you can do is remove customer frustration. And it's high time they did something to improve the Tatkal madness.
Hat-tip to Anoop for making me dig deeper into this.
So if you're like me and have a ton of different passwords to manage but don't know how to securely store them, here's a neat trick: first off, don't use password managers that store your data in proprietary formats; god forbid if you ever someday need to change platforms or store something more than just "passwords". Use a simple plain text file and pick Markdown to organize data. Here's how mine looks:
Now, use a little known facility in OSX to create encrypted disks. Type ⌘+space & open Disk Utility. Now, File > New > Blank Disk Image. Under Encryption, choose 256-bit (why not?) and for image format, choose sparse disk image. Choose a place to save and you've got your own secure storage.
Drag and drop your Credentials markdown file into your disk image and you've got your own secure password store. If you've got any backup tools like Time Machine or Backblaze installed, then it'll pick up this file too so your passwords are backed up. Have fun!
Here's a small nod to Backblaze. They've been managing my offsite backup needs for over 2 years now with no complaints. It works much like Dropbox, which is probably the biggest compliment I can give them.
Really great article from Ben Sandofsky that mirrors some of my recent thinking around Phonegap:
The difference is shell apps come from the wrong mentality. They start from, "How do we reduce effort?" instead of "How do we deliver the best product?"
Three years ago, Adobe was a desktop publishing company heavily invested in proprietary tools. It had great desktop image publishing software with Photoshop, top-of-the-line rich content creation for the web with Flash and good and accessible document sharing for the desktop with Adobe Acrobat.
And then Steve Jobs decided to wage a war on Flash. And in a testament to how fast things can change in the IT world, Adobe suddenly looked to be in trouble: an aging software company that didn't have a cloud solution, wasn't doing anything for mobile media creation and didn't have any out-of-the-box solutions for creating mobile apps. Everybody else seemed to be moving data to the cloud, writing mobile applications that were far more interactive than anything previously available and moving on from static web content on the desktop to richer desktop-like web applications.
For a while, Adobe seemed to flounder. Like any company faced with the innovator's dilemma, it tried to double down on its roots and extend its older software in ways it had never been written to do. Around three years after Adobe promised to port Flash over to mobile devices, it finally had a version that worked "well enough". But after harping on the "open" bandwagon for quite a bit (with partners who seemed to support it half-heartedly no less), somebody at Adobe finally took a long, hard look at the Steve Job's letter in which he summarizes everything that's wrong about Flash (and about Adobe).
And the new Adobe is awesome. It's a company that has woken up to what it does best: create great tools for web (and mobile) developers. Dreamweaver 5.5 significantly improves HTML5 support, works with mobile browsers and supports jQuery out-of-the-box. Adobe picked up some nifty technologies along the way too: it acquired Nitobi, makers of the top-notch Phonegap application that gives it a great foothold in mobile webapp creation (which in a stroke of genius, it then promptly submitted to the Apache foundation and ensured proper stewardship and great continuity). A similar Typekit's acquisition gave it a commanding position in the web type foundry world.
The turnaround point probably came with the announcement to ditch Flash for mobile devices. That took serious balls and it was from an Adobe coming to the realization that it had to give up the Flash empire. But John Nack puts it really well here:
"When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with its fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze."
And those acorns are starting to sprout. Adobe has great new HTML5 development tools in the works, a growing community around web standards, and software that's looking great on the mobile, desktop and on the web.
But most importantly perhaps, with today's Creative Cloud offering, Adobe has shrugged itself off its desktop software roots. A more accessible subscription model means that customers used to paying less than a buck for an app will find Adobe's pricing much more palatable now. And it's working to innovate on the cloud as well, offering a full suite of creation, storage, sharing and publishing tools.
Adobe is poised to do great stuff. Happy for them!
I took one look at the Holstee Manifesto and decided I wanted it right then & there.
Here's what it says:
This is your Life.
Do what you love, and do it often. If you don't like something, change it. If you don't like your job, quit. If you don't have enough time, stop watching TV. If you are looking for the love of your life, stop; they will be waiting for you when you start doing the things you love.
Stop over analyzing, life is simple. All emotions are beautiful. When you eat, appreciate every last bite. Open your mind, arms, and heart to new things and people, we are united in our differences. Ask the next person you see what their passion is, and share your inspiring dream with them. Travel often; getting lost will help you find yourself.
Some opportunities only come once, seize them. Life is about the people you meet, and the things you create with them so go out and start creating.
Life is short. Live your dream and share your passion.
And it says this in beautiful old school typographic print. I ordered one, had it framed in classic black and it now hangs on my wall to be the first thing I see when I wake up.


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EXO started to write each other in a chat and you can read the (I hope) funny conversations of the 12 EXO members!☺
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CNBLUE & 2NE1 CHATROOM Imagine KPOP IDOLS chatting in one room. Oh darn it! Oh well. Majorly CNBLUE and 2ne1. FTISLAND, Girl's Day, and BIGBANG are also regulars. Juniel might be a regular, too. Anyway. *usernames*
how is your feeling when your idol ask you to become his girlfriend? will you accept it? Of course, you will. Imagine your beloved idol, Nam Woohyun, asks you to become his girlfriend. But you and woohyun can't be that typical cute couple that like to go around and show the lovey dovey relationship to people. instead, you decide to keep your relationship as a secret. Why? Because you don't want your fandom t
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Seventeen joined the popular chatting app Kakao Talk! What kind of conversations will the (currently) 14 dorks have? Read yourself and try to bear the ghei. (the nicknames and dp can be changed anytime they want)
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What happen if EXO's members have twitter accounts? Will the sun stop shining? Will Tao hate Gucci?
So! This is going to be a collection of all the chat-fics that I've written! I did this because there are some subscribers that seems to have missed reading all the chats so therefor: HERE YOU GO! ALL THE FICS EVER CREATED BY ME AND MY FRIEND!
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The 2015 NFADA Ron Smith Memorial High School AutoTech Competition, an annual event sponsored by the Niagara Frontier Automobile Dealers Association and Erie Community College, will take place on Saturday, January 17th.
Students and staff at the Newfane Learning Center have made it their yearly tradition of spending some time at the Newfane Rehabilitation Center on Halloween. Students make Halloween decorations for the residents there and enjoy showing off their costumes and visiting everyone at the center. For the residents it is definitely a treat to see the happy faces of the students and get a treat!
ALBION, N.Y.- Albion Police officers found a live WWII-era grenade in the basement of a home in the village that they believe was left there by the previous homeowner.
According to Albion police, officers were sent to a home on West Park Street for a report of a possible live hand grenade found inside a home. Once on scene, officers discovered what appeared to be a live WWII-era hand grenade in the basement.
The Monroe County Sheriff's Office Bomb Squad was then called to the scene, who determined that the grenade was indeed live. The grenade was removed by the bomb squad, taken from the scene in a secure container and will later be detonated by the bomb squad.
Daemen College will honor Western New York veterans at its annual appreciation breakfast and a special Veterans Day installation ceremony that will include nearly 100 small flags being placed on campus on Nov. 11.
"On Veterans Day, all of us at Daemen will thank the men and women who have served in our armed forces and reflect on the many sacrifices they have made for our country," said Daemen President Gary A. Olson. "These events also symbolize Daemen's ongoing commitment to our student veterans, who are a vital part of our college community."
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Many of our visitors are day-trippers, who make a drive out and then head back, often choosing to stay in hotels in Batavia. That deprives Orleans County and our businesses of the full economic impact of these guests.
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