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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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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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Very good work Hao. I’d like to see something for some cross pollination now regarding keeping the two services in sync: Export your Tumblr blog to WordPress « Web 0.2 - Hao Chen. I’ve fiddled with Tumblr a little, but ended up giving in to WordPress, but would not mind helping some friends out who seem to appreciate Tumblr a bit more for it’s quick posts, but would like to host some more powerful features from WordPress.  Seems to be a good mix of tech.

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I really appreciated Peter Kim’s interesting blog entry from today titled “How to set an ego trap.” Peter, you hit on some important examples and your previous game mechanics post is quite insightful.

Of course these lead into seeming suppositions and hard truths on humanity. These certainly ring true for what I’ve observed and encapsulate very important points that indicate “natural” human behavior (and on a religious note: as opposed to unnatural or not ego stroking as it were). Very useful Peter, thanks!

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Good info on searching for resumes via Google from Eric Martindale.

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Woo hoo! Truly excited to see Tom and company moving forward in the promised directions for Hobo on Rails!

What a truly wonderful Christmas present!

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