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I’ve been doing some projects for a couple of customers and one thing always struck me as being paradoxical is the fact that the more IT-savvy one’s opinion of himself is, the more problems will result from the project. And after more than a decade in this industry, I somehow developed an instinct of being able to spot such persons within a few minutes.

“Normal” customers tend to ask questions, and of course I will answer them truthfully and at the same time try to relate it to the objectives of my proposals. “Extremely clever” customers on the other hand dictate what they want to do and often at the level of detail that’s smaller than a grain of sand.

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When it comes to software and web development, how the initial screen looks like is very important. Most users will have obtained a judgment merely by looking at what is presented on the screen. Just from the first impression, one will already make a conclusion whether a program or web site is easy to use, complicated, confusing or down right unusable. The same thing applies to presentations, books, magazines and yes, even household doors.

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Intel and OLPC finally ended their relationship to working together to provide low cost computing for children the world over, especially those in not so privileged communities. Although I’m a full blown capitalist, I find it painfully astonishing that Intel chose to further their own business gains by competing, rather than contributing to a cause that they weren’t forced to participate in the first place.

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If you visit Malaysian blogs frequently, you’d probably find yourself redirected to a domain called adbaaz.com quite often for the past few hours or so. The problems is because Advertlets (I’d link them but continue reading to find out why I won’t), an online advertising company that has its customer base mostly in Malaysia forgot to, wait for this, renew their domain registration! Therefore, all pages that has their ad serving JavaScript will redirect visitors to adbaaz.com.

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Let’s face it, the earth is not doing as well as she did a couple of decades ago. All the uncontrolled development we’ve done is taking its toll on mother nature. Although the politicians are still conducting hundreds of virtually useless talking shops each year, it’s time that we live a greener life. We should really consider swapping our wasteful products to environmentally friendlier eco products like those provided by GreenAndMore.com.

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