http://www.modernworkweek.com Fresh Ideas For The Modern Workplace Fri, 03 Sep 2010 15:13:45 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en On our second to last day in Ireland, my father and I negotiated the Ireland busing system, and purchased two tickets to Ardee,  a small village about an hour and a half north of Dublin. The bus would apparently stop a five minute walk outside of the main town ... http://www.modernworkweek.com/2010/09/the-odds/ This is episode #2 of what is quickly becoming an animated series depicting real meetings with clients and the interesting requests and feedback we get on a regular basis. This episode is actually a composite of two design reviews we had over the past couple weeks. I love my clients ... http://www.modernworkweek.com/2010/08/design-review/ This past week we had a series of back-n-forth conversation with one of our favorite clients, regarding a banner ad they had already received approval for from their client.  Try as I might, I couldn't seem to convince them that what they were asking for just wasn't realistic. For the heck ... http://www.modernworkweek.com/2010/08/the-40kb-banner-ad/ On Sunday I was cleaning up my apartment, and decided the two Netflix DVDs sitting on top of the stereo had been here long enough (unwatched) - so I packaged them up and on Monday dropped them in the mailbox on my way to work.  I arrived home today to ... http://www.modernworkweek.com/2010/07/somewhere-in-between/ On the far end of the Dingle Peninsula of Ireland, out past the quaint little fishing village that is its namesake, are a series of stone bee-hive shaped dwellings in a circular formation, surrounded by a stone-wall and sitting on the side of a hillside overlooking Dingle Bay and further ... http://www.modernworkweek.com/2010/06/ireland/ It's been a rough couple weeks. A close friend lost his sister in a car accident three weeks ago - and just when I was beginning to breath regularly again and not self-reflect the incident on my own reality and my own beloved family - I received a Facebook message from ... http://www.modernworkweek.com/2010/05/death-and-social-media/ Last week I had two occurrences which made me contemplate the information revolution and how it might effect our lives in some unique ways.  Sometimes the technology comes at us so fast we forget that it hasn't been with us for very long.  I can hardly imagine myself without a ... http://www.modernworkweek.com/2010/02/strangers-on-a-bus/ When I was a freshman in high school I began making a lot of observations and conjectures about what was actually going on here.  While most boys my age had girls on the mind - I became obsessed with the nature of reality. I had become a devout atheist in ... http://www.modernworkweek.com/2010/02/curiosity-science-and-the-big-secret/ This week Apple announced their highly anticipated iPad - a revolutionary new device that creates an entirely new category someplace between the laptop and smart-phone. While the media and pundits may have been more focused on the name - my mind has been on fire the past three days ... http://www.modernworkweek.com/2010/01/the-road-ahead-apple-ipad/ As someone who spends a good deal of his time in front of a computer (that coincidentally is next to another smaller computer) I spend a lot of my time online.  While there are a whole variety of websites I might use on a semi-regular basis to manage my life, ... http://www.modernworkweek.com/2010/01/websites-i-go-to-every-day/