Monthly Archives: September 2009

Got Reverend Vasquez?

By Alex | Published: September 29, 2009
It's true, it's true. I, Alexan­der J. Vasquez, am a reg­is­tered min­is­ter with the Uni­ver­sal Life Church. No, it's not a cult, though, in think­ing about it I sup­pose one could draw up the argu­ment… They pretty much take any­one as they are. So, yes, you, too, can be a reg­is­tered min­is­ter with the ULC, "We are all chil­dren [...]
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Everybody Should Work in Retail… At Some Point.

By Alex | Published: September 28, 2009
Cus­tomers. Clients. Guests. What­ever they may be called, they are con­sumers of some ser­vice that we pro­vide, regard­less of what we do. At my day job, my cus­tomers are those indi­vid­u­als or depart­ments that con­sume my stor­age and data pro­tec­tion ser­vices. For my web design job, I have clients who con­sume my web host­ing and/or design [...]
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Confessions of a Non-Conforming Conformist.

By Alex | Published: September 27, 2009
I can't lie. I like shiny tech toys that enhance the way you do things. That wasn't always the case though. I fought get­ting a cell phone for the longest time. Not because I'm cheap, I just didn't like the idea of peo­ple track­ing me down where ever I was. I only started using a cell phone when it was given to me for free, when I worked [...]
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Recent Projects and the Need For New Blood.

By Alex | Published: September 27, 2009
I'm going to take this moment to pimp myself and my ser­vices out to the world. Most of you already know that I do web design on the side. I've been work­ing at it for a num­ber of years now. The first site I did was hand-coded in notepad and was for a friend's old movie pro­duc­tion com­pany. That [...]
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A Cause That Doesn't Suck

By Alex | Published: September 25, 2009
Hell of a title, no? Well, I'm going to include a tid­bit about a colleague's project. It's pretty awe­some actu­ally. My col­league, Diane Beck, is doing a doc­u­men­tary about train­ing and com­pet­ing in an Iron­man triathlon. It's pretty awe­some. I've posted some infor­ma­tion about the project below. Check it out and while you're at it, donate! It's for a cause [...]
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