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Cognizance & Collaboration

by kartooner on June 26, 2011

My designer friend (and for­mer co-worker), Jay Moore, posted a link to his Face­book on Why devel­op­ers can­not afford to ignore design. Here was my ini­tial response: I think what’s best is each role [design and devel­oper] is cog­nizant of what (…)

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Creative Redemption

by kartooner on January 6, 2010

There are times when a design con­cept of mine fails to boil over in awe­some­ness and at that point I throw a sheet over it, shove it in a cor­ner next to the mutated Chihuahua-Goat™ and ask myself why I even attempted it. It happens (…)

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High-rise Evacuation Methods

by kartooner on January 25, 2007

There was an A&E doc­u­men­tary on the World Trade Cen­ter the other night, discussing–as well as criticizing–the early plan­ning phases and con­struc­tion of the WTC. It also focused some­what on the short­com­ings of the WTC, such as stair­wells hug­ging the core (…)

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How I came to tolerate MySpace

by kartooner on June 20, 2006

For years I’ve held off open­ing up, or rather cre­at­ing a MySpace account:“kartooner on Myspace(View my pro­file on MySpace)”:http://www.myspace.com/kartooner purely for rea­sons to pre­vent exploit­ing myself or oth­ers. How­ever, I came to the real­iza­tion that when you look past the neg­a­tive aspects (…)

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