Saturday, October 8, 2011

The History of Digital Storage [INFOGRAPHIC]

February 3, 2012. 1.

The History of Digital Storage [INFOGRAPHIC]:

The whirring hard drives that once occupied entire university labs held but a fraction of the data we carry in our pockets every day — and that’s only 50 years of progress.


Today, as we move further into the cloud, and witness the latest and greatest pocket media devices, we thought it fitting to take a look back at how far we’ve come on our quest to store as much information in as little space as possible.

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Friday, October 7, 2011

LinkedIn Lets Companies Post Status Updates [VIDEO]

LinkedIn Lets Companies Post Status Updates [VIDEO]:

LinkedIn has long let users follow companies, but Thursday the professional networking service is finally allowing the more than two million businesses with company pages to post status updates to their followers.

Company Status Updates will enable assigned administrators of company pages to post updates, up to 500 characters in length, to the “Overview” tab of their pages.


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Find a Job in Social Media, Communications or Design

February 3, 2012. 1.

Find a Job in Social Media, Communications or Design:

If you’re seeking a job in social media, we’d like to help out. For starters, Mashable‘s Job Lists gather all our resource lists, how-tos and expert guides to help you get hired. In particular, you might want to see our articles, How to Leverage Social Media for Career Success and How to Find a Job on Twitter.

But we’d like to help in a more direct way, too. Mashable‘s job boards are a place for socially savvy companies to find people like you. This week and every week, Mashable features its coveted job board listings for a variety of positions on the web, social media space and beyond. Have a look at what’s good and new on our job boards:

 

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Wednesday, October 5, 2011

The Little One Turns Nine: A Big Reaction

The Little One gets a Wii for his 9th birthday.  I think he likes it.  October 4, 2011.  Holly Ridge, Gresham, Oregon.


Another article on suburban opiate junkies

Democracy In Distress: "Suburbia's Now the Opioid Front Line | The Fix: "Rates of opioid abuse and overdoses are skyrocketing in southwest Pennsylvania, particularly in the suburbs, as people who become addicted to strong painkillers turn to cheaper heroin and mix it with benzos. The suburbanization of Pennsylvania's problem echoes what's been noted in other areas of the country like Chicago. “The trend is unbelievable with what we’ve seen here,” Holly Martin, a psychologist and COO of Greenbriar Treatment Center in Washington, Pa., told The Fix. “We have more heroin and opioid addicts in treatment than ever before. Ten years ago, about three percent were opioid admissions, and now it’s almost 50 percent.” ""

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Tuesday, October 4, 2011

The Little One Turns Nine: 10 Years, 10 Pictures

With Mom and The Big One. Portland, Oregon. October 5, 2002.
From 2002

The blue house. Portland, Oregon. Christmas 2003.
From 2003

Hartline, Washington. Memorial Day Weekend, 2004.
From 2004

Columbia River Gorge, Washington. September 5, 2005.
From 2005

Horsetail Falls. Columbia River Gorge, Oregon. Summer 2006.
From 2006

The Portland Boat Show. Portland, Oregon. January 13, 2007.
From 2007

Berry Ridge. Gresham, Oregon. August 2, 2008.
From 2008-08 (Aug)

Berry Ridge. December 2009.
From 2009-12 (Dec)

Beaverton, Oregon. September 19, 2010.
From 2010-09 (Sep)

Columbia Park, Troutdale, Oregon. March 24, 2011.
From 2011-03 (Mar)

Why men are in trouble - CNN.com

Why men are in trouble - CNN.com: "So what's wrong? Increasingly, the messages to boys about what it means to be a man are confusing. The machismo of the street gang calls out with a swagger. Video games, television and music offer dubious lessons to boys who have been abandoned by their fathers. Some coaches and drill sergeants bark, "What kind of man are you?" but don't explain.

Movies are filled with stories of men who refuse to grow up and refuse to take responsibility in relationships. Men, some obsessed with sex, treat women as toys to be discarded when things get complicated. Through all these different and conflicting signals, our boys must decipher what it means to be a man, and for many of them it is harder to figure out.

For boys to become men, they need to be guided through advice, habit, instruction, example and correction."

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Sunday, October 2, 2011

Comic: Very happy I do not have daughters...



My boys still accuse me of being Darth Vader.

A few years ago the little one found the big one's Darth Vader helmet in the closet where it was hiding neglected...

He came running out to the living room holding the helmet and screaming, "I knew it!  You are Darth Vader.  You wear all black and now I found THIS!"

Wedding photos from 2002

Severe weather alert? Really?

From 000-FB Photo of the Day

Yahoo and the Weather Channel posted this as a Severe Weather Alert.  Okay, I get the mountain climbing thing here, but thank God they warned us about the "breezy" conditions out at the coast...  A closer look reveals that the National Weather Service issued this statement as a "Special Weather Statement."  That makes more sense.

From the National Weather Service...


SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORTLAND OR
513 AM PDT SUN OCT 2 2011

ORZ001>014-WAZ019>023-039-040-022300-
NORTH OREGON COAST-CENTRAL OREGON COAST-
COAST RANGE OF NORTHWEST OREGON-
CENTRAL COAST RANGE OF WESTERN OREGON-LOWER COLUMBIA-
GREATER PORTLAND METRO AREA-CENTRAL WILLAMETTE VALLEY-
SOUTH WILLAMETTE VALLEY-WESTERN COLUMBIA RIVER GORGE-
NORTHERN OREGON CASCADE FOOTHILLS-NORTHERN OREGON CASCADES-
CASCADE FOOTHILLS IN LANE COUNTY-CASCADES IN LANE COUNTY-
UPPER HOOD RIVER VALLEY-SOUTH WASHINGTON CASCADES-WILLAPA HILLS-
SOUTH WASHINGTON COAST-I-5 CORRIDOR IN COWLITZ COUNTY-
GREATER VANCOUVER AREA-SOUTH WASHINGTON CASCADE FOOTHILLS-
513 AM PDT SUN OCT 2 2011

...TURNING WET AND COOLER OVER THE NEXT FEW DAYS IN SOUTHWEST
WASHINGTON AND NORTHWEST OREGON..

THE CHANGE TO A COOLER AND WETTER WEATHER PATTERN WILL CONTINUE
THROUGH MUCH OF THE COMING WEEK AS A SERIES OF PROGRESSIVELY
STRONGER PACIFIC WEATHER SYSTEMS AFFECTS THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST.
THIS WILL BRING MORE CLOUDS...RAIN AND COOL TEMPERATURES TO THE
REGION.

A STRONG EARLY FALL WEATHER SYSTEM WILL APPROACH THE COAST LATE
TODAY AND MOVE THROUGH SOUTHWEST WASHINGTON AND NORTHWEST OREGON
TONIGHT AND MONDAY. ANOTHER STRONGER FRONT WILL MOVE THROUGH TUESDAY
NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY.

LOOK FOR RAIN...WITH BREEZY CONDITIONS AT TIMES NEAR THE COAST...AND
TEMPERATURES BELOW SEASONAL NORMALS. SNOW LEVELS IN THE CASCADES
WILL INITIALLY BE AROUND 8000 FEET...BUT LIKELY FALL TO BETWEEN 5000
AND 6000 FEET IN THE CASCADES WEDNESDAY.

THE DOWNTURN IN THE WEATHER WILL GREATLY AFFECT THOSE WITH OUTDOOR
ACTIVITIES PLANNED...AS WELL AS MAKE CLIMBING MOUNTAIN PEAKS IN
THE AREA VERY DANGEROUS.

BE SURE TO LISTEN TO YOUR FAVORITE WEATHER NEWS SOURCE OR THE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FOR THE LATEST UPDATES TO THIS DOWNTURN IN
THE WEATHER THIS WEEK.