The name of the Desktop Tower Defense game says it all. Little enemy dots will try to cross the screen to safety. To stop them, you have to build different kinds of towers. You’ve got slow, long-range missile towers, rapid-fire towers, towers that slow enemy movement, and so on. You can’t really win the Desktop [...]
Whenever I hear this song, I think back to my high school days. I was in a pretty intensive pre-college program and my personal motto had become, “More weight.” This was an allusion to Giles Corey, a man who got crushed to death during the Salem Witch Trials. It’s pretty bad when your schoolwork is [...]
I was setting up a feed reader for my CEO the other day, sifting through page after page of syndicated resources in search of the diamond in the rough. Naturally, there were more than a few flashy search engine optimization blogs to consider. Having long ago subscribed to their more reputable cousins, it surprised me [...]
For my friends and family following my employment progress, I’ve got bad news and good news. The bad news is that it turns out I hate contract work. There’s just something about the inconsistent pay and poor project management that I couldn’t stand in the long term. Thus, I chose not to renew the contract [...]
There’s a debate in web development circles that has been going on for years. On one side, you have the traditionalists who prefer tables for layout purposes. On the other, you have the CSS purists who prefer to separate display from content completely. I’d say the latter group has been winning the debate lately, although [...]
…if done correctly. Those were the words spoken to me by a former supervisor and marketing guru. At the time, I had been running AdWords campaigns and assisting in other forms of paid advertising. I saw the bill, and her statement seemed absolutely ludicrous. Being the marketing novice I was, I stared at her with [...]
Considering how prevalent interactive marketing has become in the past few years, it’s actually surprising how many self-proclaimed marketing experts don’t know the difference between SEM (Search Engine Marketing) and SEO (Search Engine Optimization). It’s not entirely without cause, I suppose, considering the inconsistent usage of the two terms. Still, I think it worthwhile to [...]