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• Think I’ve refined some figures a bit more to my sanity. Feeling good. #
• Seriously, if the creek behind my house flooded every yr, would I live here? Of course not. Why don’t ppl move out of harm’s way? #
• I hate Microsoft products. With all their resources, why can they not mobilize decent efforts to innovate similar to companies such as Apple #

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• Wow, I feel like I’m eating sawdust. This current task is *so* dry. #
• LOL @yolee quote re me always taking more work on: “You’re like a hog at a buffet shoving more onto your plate. EEEEeeechale!” #
• WOW, FBI won’t investigate a friend’s rooted box (that he currently can’ access to fix) because they need evidence of illegal actions 1st. #
• /me wishes our nation would practice preventive maintenance on *ALL* fronts. #
• Hmmm. First a dog, now Mrs. Clause following me. This is getting weird. Uh, hi Mrs. Claus… #

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• Thanks for your help @jenaelee. I have one of the best daughters in the world. #
• How much more blessed can you be than to have your own trustworthy children working by your side in business endeavors and ventures? #
• Boy, going to be up late again trying to catch up. Seems that that has been the rule for the past couple years now. #
• @usermac hmm. Not entirely safety, more convenience for driver, children and parents. I guess it could be slanted towards safety. Hmm. #
• @usermac actually it might be able to be bent significantly towards that as well as wrapped into another big invention of mine. HMM. #
• Up early whacking away at the tasks I couldn’t get finished last night… #
• Preparing for our most exciting investor meeting yet in about a week and a half. Things are heating up! #
• Review: 247workspace.com != service. Not only taken a week longer to deliver than stated also shipped wrong items & poor customer svc skills #
• Morning @giannii #
• Wow, still not in favor of either candidate for president. Both are exceedingly poor choices for our nation. Romney would have helped offset #
• @chrisabraham envy envy envy Now, wish I could actually find time to read his book. #
• @xfreemarko indeed, I was thinking the exact same things. #
• Hmm. Some good remarks on a section of our business plan, reworking somewhat. Man, you don’t learn this stuff in any business school! #
• It’s amazing that we have so much at our fingertips in the way of convenience and information… and how little we *truly* appreciate it. #
• @danieljohnsonjr happens to me too… #
• @chrisabraham heh, I know, being an alpha geek, I guess it’s particularly a requirement. #

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Throughout the course of starting our new company I’ve learned quite a bit about “tech” culture over the last few years.  As I continue to listen and to associate with folks from tech centers of our own nation and around the world I do not cease to be amazed at the way in which people communicate.

Rudeness is the singular hallmark and keystone of the majority of communication. It seems that no one can, with respect, kindness and soberness, share their feelings or thoughts anymore. Much of thought seems void of depth and meaning and often when it is meaningful, it is salted with vulgarity or rudeness that obliterate it’s real depth and appeal to the audience.

As leaders and members of the human family, we used to speak with more thought and paced ourselves versus throwing out vulgar rants and crudeness. Can we please try to get back to these roots and raise the bar a bit for society as a whole? I believe that if we can do this that we will all be able to work better together, appreciate deeper thinking and have a more productive society.

There’s a quote that I will paraphrase that has always lingered in my heart and that is that course language is the attempts of a feeble mind to express itself forcibly. How true this is and what a poor shortcut it has become in our society. We need to bring civility and charity back to our world or we have no hope of really progressing together. If we cannot progress together in unity, then, as a nation, we will certainly fully fail.

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This article is excellent news for those of us who live in this climate region. I was very excited to see this and have already started spreading the word to those who may be able to take advantage of such things in order to make our lives a bit more efficient in such uncertain times.

I’m grateful to see people sharing this information and as you browse this and other sites you can find a lot more information on energy efficient home building. One that really caught my eye a couple years ago was straw bale building. Some of these techniques can bring you close to underground home building efficiency.

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• @techcrunch @JasonCalacanis Question: Mark, what is your favorite dance move and will you demonstrate it to us here on stage? #
• My children sure do love AlphaBaby… and of course keyboards… and mice… and everything else. #
• NBC won’t air this: http://twurl.nl/uesh3s #
• @usermac wow, yes, we’ll certainly have to do that! Tight schedule atm, but keep us posted. It’s about a 4 hour drive. #
• Got a great invention for school buses. Hmm… Should I share it? #
• Weather has cooled down, a pretty grey day today in southern Ohio. Kind of a nice change. #

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Excellent list and as I mentioned in the comments:

I’m so happy to see this! I’ve been explaining to associates for years that Fireworks, for the most part, is so much more useful than Photoshop (by this I mean for designs that combine bitmap and vector elements). Others who are very experienced with both Photoshop AND Fireworks have always concurred as we know when to use each.

I’ve been using Photoshop since 2.5.1 and certainly understand its depth, but Fireworks obliterates Photoshop and Illustrator for SO many tasks that it makes me really laugh when I see people dedicating so much time to doing the same things that could be done in a fraction of the time in Fireworks. Thanks so much for sharing!

And yes, I’ve known about 90% of these plugins and use them myself. Bravo for compiling the list!

By the way, I’d love to see Adobe get *smart* and integrate Photshop and Illustrator INTO Fireworks or at least have all three apps living under one unified roof with a selectable user interface and/or command set so that you could flip between them if you’re more familiar with one or the other and then also we’d have the very powerful bitmap editing of Photoshop and the very powerful vector illustrating of Illustrator merged at the perfect intersection of Fireworks.

75 Powerful Adobe Fireworks Extensions - It really can be as Great as Photoshop : Speckyboy - Web Design, Web Development and Graphic Design Resources.

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• Chopping down my todo list… playing catch up a little more today. #
• @usermac Interesting. Where are you in KY? Might have to catch sometime in the future. #
• @usermac :D, yes. Been here much longer than seesmic. Should never have told @jenaelee abt seesmic. #
• @usermac backups usually do always bring those sorts of feelings at some point… dataloss/bad HDs are probably the #2 problem we deal with. #
• @azaaza good work on ubiquitiy. I’ve been a big fan of your father for a long time. He had some great ideas and articulation thereof. #
• @jicksta yeah, it’s not bad. Wish contacts would save vs. refreshing at restart. #
• Finishing up tearing apart, repairing and reassembling a customer’s dropped/propelled MacBook Pro. Yeeow. +too many screws Apple… #

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• Gee, been a long day. Exhausted. Put up about 2/3 of new office & should have the rest arrive tomorrow. Feels great to have it together. #

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• The mild rain was nice last night. We sure need it. Hope it was enough to do some good. #
• Don’t you hate it when everything seems to go wrong and the small tasks just keep piling up? It’s been one of those quarters… or year. . . #

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